From the BBC, April 10:
The BBC is objecting to a new label describing it as "government funded media" on its main Twitter account.
The corporation has contacted the social media giant over the designation on the @BBC account to resolve the issue "as soon as possible".
"The BBC is, and always has been, independent. We are funded by the British public through the licence fee," it said.
Elon Musk said he believed the BBC was one of the "least biased" outlets.
When BBC News highlighted to the Twitter boss that the corporation was licence fee-funded, Mr Musk responded in an email, asking: "Is the Twitter label accurate?"
He also appeared to suggest he was considering providing a label that would link to "exact funding sources".
It is not clear whether this would apply to other media outlets too.
In a separate email seeking to clarify his earlier comments, Mr Musk wrote: "We are aiming for maximum transparency and accuracy. Linking to ownership and source of funds probably makes sense. I do think media organizations should be self-aware and not falsely claim the complete absence of bias....
....MUCH MORE
I'm getting dizzy. And thinking of this from 2012 for some reason:
Climateer Headline of the Day: Strange Loops Edition
A strange loop is a phenomenon in which, whenever movement is made upwards or downwards through the levels of some hierarchical system, the system unexpectedly arrives back where it started. Hofstadter (1989) uses the strange loop as a paradigm in which to interpret paradoxes in logic (such as Grelling's paradox, the liar's paradox, and Russell's paradox) and calls a system in which a strange loop appears a tangled hierarchy....Here's a graphic example of a strange loop:
Drawing Hands, M. C. Escher
And from 2014's "Why strange loops could be an argument for artificial intelligence"
....Strange Loops were the brainchild of Douglas Hofstadter, a philosopher and scientist who wrote I Am a Strange Loop. They can be simple or complex, but they depend on what Hofstadter called "tangled hierarchies." Instead of a linear progression, these hierarchies balance on each other. Together they encompass a set of instructions that set out two equally valid ways of looking at a situation. The situation cannot be resolved without elevating one view and one part of the set of instructions over the other, but there is no objective way to do that....
And don't get me started on the self-referential vortex...
