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#realitycheck

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Petra van Cronenburg

Reading about the #Signalgate theatlantic.com/politics/archi - my author's brain explodes in crazy Hollywood film plots from a fascist clique exterminating one another by a crazy social media act, over a film about a drunken state secretary sabotaging his government, to a mass-bromance on Mars, crowdfunded by another evil state. And a film about a journalist using Signal in Punxsutawney. Sorry, Bill Murray.
Please, let me wake up!!! (BTW, I like the 1. film) 😂

The Atlantic · The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansBy Jeffrey Goldberg
#TimeGetsWeird#RealityCheck#RealHumans
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🇺🇦 Je me souviens 🇨🇦

#RealityCheck

"Trump's promise of a quick end to Ukraine war gets a reality check after talks end with no deal
Ukraine and Russia have agreed in theory to a limited, 30-day ceasefire, but President Vladimir Putin has essentially demanded Ukraine's surrender and continued to bomb it."

#Crisis #Tariffs #USA #EU #News #Democrats #MAGA #Fascism #War #DoD #Defense #Security #Stupid #War #NationalSecurity

nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-

NBC News · Trump’s promise of a quick end to Ukraine war gets a reality check after talks end with no dealBy Alexander Smith
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

#KI #FakeNews #Pravda

Von #NewsGuards #RealityCheck:

"Ein Audit ergab, dass
👉die 10 führenden generativen KI-Tools #Moskaus Desinformationsziele unterstützten, indem sie in 33 Prozent der Fälle falsche Behauptungen des kremlnahen #Pravda-Netzwerks wiederholten👈.

Pravda ist Russisch für "Wahrheit".

Ein gut finanziertes, in #Moskau ansässiges globales "Nachrichten"-Netzwerk hat westliche Tools für künstliche Intelligenz weltweit mit russischer Propaganda infiziert".

newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-

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Petra van Cronenburg

I think that #writers watch these days with open mouths and surprise how reality can write the weirdest plots for #SciFi or #comedy. (Forget ChatGPT with its biased boring stories!)

“This isn’t reality TV,” said another former intelligence official. “There are consequences.”

And this is a #real quote in a real facts article about a real development in real #reality. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/pol
Try to sell such a plot to your publisher: 'too irreal', incredible, could never happen!"

CNN · Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources sayBy Natasha Bertrand
#RealityCheck
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Petra van Cronenburg

Remember well that yesterday, a Russian so-called journalist 🕵️ gained entry to the Oval Office (while important agencies like Reuters and AP were excluded): reuters.com/world/russian-stat

Or to say it politely with CNN: "As the White House takes control of the pool roster, the TASS staffer’s presence represents a potential security lapse on the White House’s part." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/med
Fortunately, no window was open.

#RealityCheck#realityGoesWeird#USPol
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Futurist Jim Carroll

Daily Inspiration: "Invincibility is a myth" - Futurist Jim Carroll

A belief in invincibility is often the start of defeat. And in all truth, once you start to think you are invincible - you probably aren’t! You might think that you are on top of the world; that nothing bad can happen; that everything will be perfect; and then, it can all come crashing down in an instant.

Often, with spectacular results.

Here are some facts:

- believing you're invincible invites vulnerability

- that vulnerability happens because you become blind to reality

- the resulting overconfidence, unchecked, will usually lead to failure

- that's because it's when you are feeling invincible that reality will swoop in

- your actual invincibility fades over time, so it's a mindset of caution that can better sustain success

The fact is, a mindset of Invincibility is often the start of defeat!
Organizations and the people within them can easily develop an attitude of invincibility when things are great. Success after success develops a culture of complacency, and inevitably, failure becomes the result when least expected. That's because a mindset of invincibility is a barrier that blocks insight.

Often, this culture of invincibility develops at the top and then permeates throughout the organization. An attitude of invincibility at the leadership level is often the biggest challenge that an organization can face because it’s easy for someone at the top to think that everything is guaranteed. That nothing will topple them.

Their ego gets in the way; their desire for praise becomes a more important goal than any real sort of strategy.

From a personal perspective, feelings of being invincible are dangerous and can wreak havoc on your overall goals and mindset. You start to believe that you have everything under control, which makes you more susceptible to failure.

Invincibility? Watch for it, be wary of it, and always be on your guard - nothing is ever guaranteed.

#InvincibilityMyth #StayHumble #AvoidComplacency #LeadershipLessons #MindsetMatters #StayVigilant #OverconfidenceKills #RealityCheck #SustainSuccess #Resilience

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/11/daily-i

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Futurist Jim Carroll

Daily Inspiration: "The euphoria of winning is often soon offset by the reality of achieving!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Do you remember that phrase, "underpromise and overdeliver." It's a useful mindset for achieving goals!

But what happens if you "overpromise and underdeliver" - does that work?

Nope.

Lots of folks are soon to find that out.

Remember the Fyre Festival? Awesome times! The reality? It was so underdelivered that it became the subject of not one, but two full-length documentaries - including one called "Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened."

Massive promises never delivered. Oops. The founder went to jail.
So - to that point - a lot of people now expect things to suddenly get massively better in the next little while because, well, all the problems will be fixed.

Here's the thing - it's going to be tough to improve on an economy that is already firing on all cylinders. It's going to be difficult to bring back entire industries - think about the automotive sector - that have not already made the investments that are necessary to get to the future. It's going to be difficult to provide jobs that require newly emerging skills if you haven't done the retraining necessary with people to fill those jobs. It's not going to be easy to have a successful economy that is massively reliant on migrant labor if you are going to try to terrorize those people.  It's going to be tough to take away healthcare and old age security from folks when the very people who voted for come to realize that you were talking about taking away their healthcare and old age security! It's going to be difficult to fire millions of federal workers when people suddenly come to realize how those workers make things function.

Oops. Fun times ahead.

Here's the thing about overpromising - as soon as it becomes apparent that all you can do is underdeliver, mindsets move.

#Overpromise #Underdeliver #LeadershipLessons #RealityCheck #SustainableSuccess #TrustMatters #Innovation #CorporateChallenges #Expectations #LessonsLearned

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/11/daily-i

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Futurist Jim Carroll

"Reality always trumps wishful thinking!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

There's a reality gap.

A gap between an understanding of how industries are changing, and how people hope it will change. A gap between what it takes to solve deep, complex issues, and how people think they can be solved. A gap between the skills needed to thrive into tomorrow, and the skills that people need. A gap between the desire to preserve the status quo, and the reality of what the quo will do. A gap between what it takes to align with fast-moving trends, and what leadership teams think they need to do to deal with those trends.

A gap between the promises made by those who whitewash tomorrow and the reality of what will happen.

As I've said before, some people are a captive of their denial of reality, a prisoner to their delusions, and are forever trapped in disbelief of their impending disruption. Denial happens when people are confronted by reality but perpetuate their misbelief with the most dangerous of all drugs, which is denial itself. The result of this is that those who don’t like a trend don’t just oppose the trend, they now deny the reality of the trend itself!

But the fact remains: the ability of some people to make up their reality won’t absolve them of the consequences of their real reality - and it won't let them avoid the reality of what tomorrow will bring. This means that the uncanny ability of some to deny reality will have a huge impact on their potential success in their future reality!

What’s the way out of this madness?

I have no idea – of all the trends I follow, this is the one that worries me the most.

#RealityCheck
#Denial
#Truth
#Change
#Disruption
#Innovation
#Leadership
#Future
#Trends
#WakeUp

jimcarroll.com/2024/09/daily-i

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Futurist Jim Carroll

"Reality always trumps wishful thinking!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

There's a reality gap.

A gap between an understanding of how industries are changing, and how people hope it will change. A gap between what it takes to solve deep, complex issues, and how people think they can be solved. A gap between the skills needed to thrive into tomorrow, and the skills that people need. A gap between the desire to preserve the status quo, and the reality of what the quo will do. A gap between what it takes to align with fast-moving trends, and what leadership teams think they need to do to deal with those trends.

A gap between the promises made by those who whitewash tomorrow and the reality of what will happen.

As I've said before, some people are a captive of their denial of reality, a prisoner to their delusions, and are forever trapped in disbelief of their impending disruption. Denial happens when people are confronted by reality but perpetuate their misbelief with the most dangerous of all drugs, which is denial itself. The result of this is that those who don’t like a trend don’t just oppose the trend, they now deny the reality of the trend itself!

But the fact remains: the ability of some people to make up their reality won’t absolve them of the consequences of their real reality - and it won't let them avoid the reality of what tomorrow will bring. This means that the uncanny ability of some to deny reality will have a huge impact on their potential success in their future reality!

What’s the way out of this madness?

I have no idea – of all the trends I follow, this is the one that worries me the most.

#RealityCheck #Denial #Truth #Change #Disruption #Innovation #Leadership #Future #Trends #WakeUp

Original post:jimcarroll.com/2024/09/daily-i

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Futurist Jim Carroll

Daily Inspiration: "Aligning to tomorrow? You’ll succeed when you get beyond a series of awful decisions driven by the delusion of denial!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Most people believe that they can keep doing tomorrow what they are doing today, even when what they are doing today is not working.
They are wrong.

And, in many cases, people keep making the same awful decisions that bind them to a series of regular failures, driven by the delusion of denial that guides their thinking.

That sounds pretty awful, doesn't it, but it's true in many cases! As someone who deals with the realities of tomorrow, I see it all the time.

The fact is, denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome - and making bad decisions based on that denial only makes things worse.

People make a series of bad decisions all the time. They don't take the time to invest in the new skills training which might lead them to a better future. They don't dare take on the risk of trying to do new things, with the result that they remain stuck doing old things. They refuse to acknowledge that their current mindset of negativity won't allow them to chase the optimistic opportunities of tomorrow. They simply can't accept that what they are doing today might be entirely irrelevant tomorrow. They continue with behaviors and patterns that are truly destructive and yet refuse to admit that they have a problem.

They cannot comprehend the reality of the massive disruptive trends that are set to change their world.

The result is that things don't work out too well for them - because they continue to make bad decisions based on the denial of their reality.

The fact is, denial is the most dangerous of all drugs.

End your addiction to denial.

Move forward, not back!

#RealityCheck #Denial #Change #Adaptability #Decisions #Leadership #Future #Innovation #Transformation #Success

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/09/daily-i

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