Knowledge & Learning

— A —

• AI A fancy calculator that mirrors us incomprehensibly. Artificial intelligence. Not actual.
• Algorithm The rules that define how you and your data are processed, classified, and directed. (see also Media)

— B —

• Belief Conviction without proof — faith, trust, or opinion — often used interchangeably.
• Bias Everyone has it — only other people are accused of it.

— C —

• Censorship Suppression of truth or protection from someone's view of harm.

— D —

• Data Any raw, aggregate, analyzed, or framed information. Also our personal preferences and habits — packaged and sold without actual consent or remuneration.
• Debate Historically, a method of sharing and testing opposite or incompatible points of view — used to obtain more knowledge, consensus, and/or resolution. Now, often just theater.
• Disinformation Deliberately false or misleading information spread with intent to deceive — misinformation with intent. (see also Information or Misinformation)

— E —

• Education Learning, indoctrination, credentials, or liberation — depends.
• Evidence Actual proof, inconvenience, or invented facts.
• Expert Trusted authority or paid researcher, depending on whether you like the results.

— F —

• Fact What we observe, agree upon, or declare — most often the latter.

— I —

• Information Raw material of knowledge. Not necessarily what happens to it after. (see also Disinformation or Misinformation)
• Internet The network that connects anyone to anything and isolates everyone from many things. Infrastructure, marketplace, and battlefield.

— M —

• Media The space between the event and the audience. Print, broadcast, digital, social — and now, the algorithm. (see also Algorithm)
• Misinformation False facts, or information that those in power call false. (see also Information or Disinformation)

— N —

• Narrative Story or spin — the frame around the facts. (see also Spin or Agenda)
• News Events we select and report. Some manufactured. The picking may be the story.

— O —

• Opinion Public and private personal views. Often treated as fact. (see Fact)

— P —

• Perspective The angle or viewpoint from which we see and understand the world. Shapes everything we each think we know.
• Propaganda What we call their lies. What they call our news.

— R —

• Reality What's actually happening — actually relative and malleable.
• Relative A view or comparison dependent on context and perspective. Also, one of your clan by blood or affinity.
• Rules Written or unwritten norms and laws that we agree, or are made, to follow and how the game is played.

— S —

• Science Method, data, consensus, and authority. Pseudoscience obscures at least one.

— T —

• Technology Every tool we ever built to expand knowledge, reduce effort, increase comfort and security, or tighten control. (Access may be limited.)
• Theory In math, proof. In science, a well-tested explanation. In common use, a guess or a belief. To each their own evidence.
• Truth Fact, experience, or the "official" version. Malleable and elusive.