Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap: Social Media are trafficking in Fake News!!!

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– News and commentary about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added. 

Quincy Quarry Weekly Fish Wrap:  Social Media are trafficking in Fake News!!!

As reported by Quincy Quarry, the world’s arguably largest conduits of news and other information were busted for featuring all manner of Fake News about last Sunday’s bloody Las Vegas massacre.

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Given an all but abject lack of undertaking merely but minimal expectations of fact-checking, both Facebook and Google provided prime featurings of all manner of often vile, racist as well as even criminally-sourced Fake News disingenuously promulgated about last Sunday’s bloody Las Vegas massacre.

As usual, both of the top two online providers of information tried to hide behind the argument that their respective computer algorithms can only catch so much.

In turn, so much for Artificial Intelligence.

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Quincy also had its own social media scare: a Quincy High School student apparently put out a Snapchat post threatening to lay waste to all who failed to walk properly in the school’s hallways.

Needless to say, helicopter parents and other zero tolerance types went into high dudgeon over what has become obvious as more likely to be an admittedly troubling dumb stunt of the sort teenagers do.

On bright note, at least the ongoing but so far all but utterly boring as Nebraska local office election season finally has something of true significance going for it.

Open the books!
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Specifically, and has already been covered by Quincy Quarry News, at Large City Council seat candidate Anne Mahoney has proposed that the Quincy City Council insist that the Koch Maladministration apply some of its $1.9 million bond-funded spending request to upgrade both the City’s computer systems and communication technology to include implementing Open Checkbook in the Q.

Open Checkbook is software that would make it possible for anyone to readily see online to see where the Koch Administration is spending annually many hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ money and user fees.

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Also note that Open Checkbook is not all that expensive or difficult to implement as it can readily port data from MUNIS, the City of Quincy’s accounting software.

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Further note that Open Checkbook is already widely used.  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and many other states have had Open Checkbook data available online for years. 

So too have many communities in Massachusetts, including Arlington, Boston, Braintree and Brookline to note but a few from the top of a long alphabetic listing of Open Checkbook users.

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Considering the fact that for many years the Koch Maladministration has failed to provide any data readily available to the public as to just actually where and how it has spent billions, Mrs. Mahoney’s proposal is eminently understandable as well as an entirely reasonable one.

In other words, it should be most entertaining to watch others endeavor to attack both Mrs. Mahoney and her entirely reasonable proposal or now opt to instead disingenuously try to present it as their own idea.

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