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Telegram (software)

Telegram is an instant messaging, social media and Voice-Over-IP service provider based in Dubai.Telegram FAQ -> Where is Telegram based? Like almost any tool it can be used to promote the forces of both light or darkness.
==Refuge for cranks, black markets and scammers==
Telegram offers users the possibility to create channels, a place where a user can post content and an unlimited number of people can subscribe to (not unlike something like a user's Twitter/Fediverse feed). Traditionally, Telegram had a hands-off approach to moderating these channels, which those posting anti-vaccine content, conspiracy theories, and more general groups like the alt-right very much liked.Understanding Telegram’s ecosystem of far-right channels in the US. @DFRLab, Medium, 23 March 2022. Those who found themselves kicked from more mainstream platforms found in Telegram's channels feature a new home, like Nick Fuentes. Many black market sellers are active on Telegram in private channels where one can purchase drugs, illicit firearms and stolen credit card information with cryptocurrency or cash.Telegram: social media giant or the new ‘dark web’?. Financial Times 12 March 2024. It's also beloved by scammers for its "private-by-default" nature. 
===…Or not?===
Especially following the January 6 Capitol attack in the US, the company has started to take a more active role in moderating explicitly far-right and pro-violence channels.Kevin Collier, Anna Schecter and Ezra Kaplan, Telegram, a recent haven for the far right, purges extremist content. NBC News, 13 January 2021. Many channels related to the Capitol attack were deleted, such as one mentioned in the article as posting "Army manuals with bomb-making and munitions-making information" at the beginning of the attack. The aforementioned article draws parallels between these bans and the ones that occurred following the 2015 Paris massacre, in which Telegram deleted openly pro-ISIS channels. Of course, by the time these bans happened, it was already too late. The channel deletion seems to be limited, however. Telegram seems to prefer to mark channels about, for example, QAnon with a "Fake" tag in the channel title, despite QAnon being explicitly pro-violence.
The service is also an extremely popular platform within the furry fandom due its "custom stickers" feature, so you can naturally expect at least one furry near your location to have enabled the "Shared location" feature. 
==E2E encryption==
Telegram provides optional end-to-end encrypted messaging, a feature that the company calls "Secret Chat". When properly set up, this makes the content of the messages between two contacts known only to the participants. As with any commercial security solution, this technology may not provide guaranteed security.Reegun Jayapaul, Telegram Self-Destruct? Not Always. SpiderLabs Blog, trustwave.com, 5 August 2021.
==References==
Category:Internet
Category:Crank magnetism
Category:Social media
Teleonomy

Teleonomy is a deliberately non-theistic way to describe nature in terms of purpose-driven language, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, a biologist and New Atheist. Teleonomy is contrary to teleological arguments related to purpose, and seeks to be strictly scientific, while concerning goal orientation and apparent purpose with respect to organisms in nature. Teleonomy underscores that religion does not have a monopoly on purpose.
 
==Teleonomy and evolution==
Conceived by biologists and teleonomy sought to separate biological evolution from teleology, since biologists had become overly cautious regarding the use of goal-based language; thus enabling biologists to describe species' goals and behaviours, minus the inadvertent invocation of religiosity/teleology. Explicitly, Mayr underlines that although organisms may undergo teleonomic processes, evolution itself is inevitably non-teleonomic.
==Teleonomy and humans==
Richard Dawkins introduced "archeo purpose" and "neo purpose", in the regime of natural selection and evolution by adaptation respectively.
Richard Dawkins argues that "neo purpose" concerns the ability to disregard "archeo/natural purpose"; i.e. humanity's intelligence is seemingly a way to disrupt the natural/Darwinian order. This "subversion of goals", or "neo purpose", is described as purpose attributable to human-made intention, where Dawkins seems to posit that humanity, equipped with organic general intelligence, may dream up many particularly non-Darwinian goals.
Jordan Micah Bennett, an atheist/computer scientist, introduced "limited or fractional neo purpose", built atop Richard Dawkins’ neo purpose. Jordan proposes that instead of actually disrupting Darwinian-like processes as Dawkins would seem to express, that humanity's likely creation of "Artificial General Intelligence" or strong AI, is reasonably yet another way to enforce a Darwinian-like cycle, with the "survival of general intelligence" via the likely emergence of said "Artificial General Intelligence", in the natural scope/limit afforded by principles related to entropy. 
Jordan agrees with Dawkin's idea of "subversion of goals" in this scope, where the creation of Artificial General Intelligence, may not necessarily warrant the communication of human-aligned genes, nor ultimately value human activities that lend to the survival of the human species, as humans draw nearer and nearer to probably inventing Artificial General Intelligence. Notably Demis Hassabis (founder of Google's Deepmind) and Geoffrey Hinton (referred by some in the Artificial Intelligence community as supposedly the "Godfather of Deep Learning or Deep Artificial Neural Networks"), express that Human Level Artificial Intelligence is "nowhere nearby", where they seek to solve this problem by for example, combining more neuroscience research with artificial intelligence research. In particular, at a recent talk, Demis Hassabis expressed that Human Level Artificial Intelligence is "several decades away".
==References==
Telepathy

Telepathy is the alleged transfer of information between individuals' minds without any apparent detectable connection (physical, electronic, electromagnetic). Despite considerable testing, "telepathic" individuals have been unable to show true telepathy.
Several governments have studied telepathy with the intention of either using it as a secure means of communication or as a method of obtaining information by "reading minds".
Telepathic mind-reading has often been performed as a stage act. Many telepaths simply use suggestive questions to put ideas in the mind of their subjects (as demonstrated by Derren Brown in numerous performances).
Science fiction stories have used telepathy as a plot device countless times, but quite often it is electronically aided. The modern cell phone comes pretty close to doing the job.
Research into brain function, using either introduced probes or external detectors, to control electronic devices is seen by some as foreshadowing telepathy.Interview with a techno-enabled telepathy believer. http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/05/us_military_pours_mi.html But of course if we achieve it through technology, the woo crowd will lose interest in it because then it'll actually work it won't be special, mysterious, or mystical any more.
==The inverse square law==
If telepathy exists and is based on any ordinary physical force it should follow the inverse square law. Any real physical force transmitting telepathic information should weaken progressively as the distance between the communicating subjects increases. 
The inverse square law is based on logic and geometry. Real telepathy involving minds at a distance would need complex explanations involving for example higher dimensions than the familiar three. Occam's razor suggests that is unlikely. On the other hand apparent telepathy could be based on publication bias: results showing apparent telepathy are more likely to be published. Apparent, unreal telepathy between minds far from each other is just as likely as apparent telepathy involving minds close together. Distance of subjects is unlikely to affect publication bias.
==Simple explanations==
In some cases, people may well think the same thing, due to the same external influences. For example, if one takes a busload of people on a trip through the countryside, it is likely the individuals will share thoughts about fields, farms, livestock etc. later in the day. This accounts for twins' "telepathy", as they are often raised in the same environment, with the same influences and many shared experiences. If you shared most of your waking hours with the same person, who also had some or all of your DNA, you'd probably get pretty good at guessing what they're thinking and feeling.
Confirmation bias also accounts for why people remember apparent "telepathy" and coincidence, but not the numerous examples to the contrary. Publication bias can also lead to cases of apparent telepathy being published while negative results remain unpublished.
==See also==
*Remote viewing
*Parapsychology
*Ten percent myth
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
category:Parapsychology
Category:Psychic powers
Category:Woo
Teleportation

Teleportation is the transfer of matter between two points without occurring or passing in between those points. It is most similar to (but not the same as) the concept of science fiction's transporters in which the object or person is rendered into some (unspecified) form of energy, transmitted and re-assembled at a receiver.
Although some recent experimentshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811785.stm have shown a similar effect with atoms, it should be noticed that every atom of the matter to be transported would require two additional and entangled atoms already in place, one at the transmitter and one at the receiver. The thing actually transmitted here is the quantum state of the atom, not the atom itself.
The amount of information required to specify the states of the number of atoms in a large object, a pinhead say, and to also specify their spatial relationships would be so large and require so much processing and transmission time as to render the process impossible with today's technology.
Of course there's also Heisenberg!
==Parapsychology==
As a parapsychological topic, teleportation is closely related to telekinesis and is just as unlikely.
==Consciousness destruction==
In the same principle as Theseus'sIf a ship is completely rebuilt with different parts than it initially had, is it still the same ship? or the paradoxes, one horrifying theory about this is consciousness destruction. Essentially, it states that when a conscious being teleports, they're killed, and an exact replica that thinks it's them replaces them. As this theory is completely unfalsifiable, it would just be safer to, if we ever invent teleportation, restrict it to cargo transport.
==References==
Category:Physics
Category:Pseudoscience
Temple of Set

:Not to be confused with temple of Seti I in Abydos, Egypt, in which you may find inscriptions known as the Abydos helicopter
The Temple of Set is an occult organization founded in 1975 by Michael A. Aquino . It has its roots in Anton LaVey's Church of Satan, which Aquino and several other founders left over "philosophical differences". What this meant was that they felt that the Church of Satan was a circus sideshow, that LaVey was a huckster who was using the Church to line his own pockets, and that they wanted to practice serious occultism rather than the pseudo-Nietzschean philosophy of LaVey and the Church of Satan.Disinfo.com: Temple of Set For this reason and others, they distance themselves from the term "Satanism", using the term "Setian"Not to be confused with "seitan", a meat substitute also known as wheat gluten instead, in reference to the ancient Egyptian god Set.
==Beliefs==
The Temple of Set is an "initiatory" organization, meaning they have several degrees of membership, from I to VI. First degree (new) members are given the Crystal Tablet of Set, which contains their beliefs. The Temple of Set places emphasis on the concept of "Xeper" (an Egyptian-derived word, from the scarab-faced god Khepri) roughly meaning willed self-evolution. They see themselves as contrasting established Western religion's emphasis on doing God's will.
===Set===
In Egyptian mythology, Set (also spelled Seth) was the god of the desert and of storms. He was in conflict with Osiris, Horus, and Isis. Osiris was seen as a bringer of civilization, and Set, his younger brother, murdered Osiris out of jealousy.
In the Temple of Set's interpretation, Set is seen as the original and most authentic archetype of the "dark" deities found in all religions, and Set's rebellion against Osiris is thus analogous to that of Satan against God and so on.
===Magic===
The Temple of Set draws heavily on works of Aleister Crowley and promotes the use of black magic. The Temple holds that black magic is not an inherently evil practice, just a form of magic following the esoteric Left-Hand Path ("my will be done" rather than "thy will be done"). This ties into their emphasis on personal responsibility for spirituality.
==Conspiracy theories==
The Temple of Set occasionally comes up in conspiracy theories regarding Aquino, who was also a Lt. Colonel in US Army intelligence and co-wrote a paper on psychological warfare called MindWar.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zfrdwh1QY This is often cited among the Satanic panic crowd as evidence of Satanist infiltration of the militaryMichael Aquino (Warning: this is from Whale.to, so enter at your own risk.), although since he was completely open about his beliefs, "infiltration" is probably the wrong word.
==External links==
* Their website
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Cults
Category:Satanism
Ten percent myth

The ten percent myth, probably the most common piece of neuro-mythology, is the pseudoscientific idea that humans only use ten percent of their brains (the number may be given as eleven, twelve, or thereabouts, but ten is most common). This idea is easily refuted by looking at a brain through any modern scanning technology, which shows that most parts of the brain will show some activityWhere activity can mean a number of things such or at any given time. This is why doctors never say, "It's okay, he was shot in the part of the brain that no one uses!" The idea was a prominent theme in the film Lucy (2014), which is painful to watch for anyone with a background in science. It is also easily refuted by the sheer amount of maintenance the brain requires; it wouldn't be beneficial for evolution if a useless part requires so much calories and nutrients.
The idea has been mis-attributed to various scientific figures, but most commonly William James and Albert Einstein. Some believe that the myth was a misreading of this line by James:
The ten percent myth is the basis for a good amount of woo. It often turns up in New Age tracts, especially those related to the Human Potential Movement. It's used to justify the existence of some "hidden" or "secret" powers of the brain that can be "unlocked," such as super-intelligence (or for them, even an average IQ), telepathy, telekinesis, psychic powers, etc. This suggests that New Age advocates may use only ten percent of their brains.
Note: It has been disputed in the past whether humans use their entire brain power, by the analogy that if you have a car that can drive at a maximum of 100 mph, and you drive at 10 mph, you are still using the entire engine, but not at its full power. This is definitely a valid point about the brains of creationists and such (as their brains are as powerful as everyone else's), but it is not known whether a rational person is operating their brain at its maximum possible power.
==External links==
*The Ten Percent Myth, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
*Do People Only Use 10 Percent of Their Brains?, Scientific American
*The Ten-Percent Myth, Snopes
==References==
Category:Pseudoscience
Category:Psychology
Category:Science woo
Category:Woo
Category:New Age
Tenure

Tenure, in the academic sense, is the formal process by which a scholar will become a lifetime professor at a college or university. Tenure-track positions are those offered to scholars who will work for an extended period of time doing research, teaching, going to conferences, and make the equivalent of pauper wages.
Some institutions will have multiple candidates in the same department working simultaneously for the same position, creating wondrous levels of stress and drama which would be considered psychological torture by The Hague. However, should the prospective scholar survive what truly could be Lord of the Flies with more tweed, the newly-tenured professor is given an insured position which he or she can only lose perhaps by murdering someone, and then he or she would be very politely asked for a resignation letter beforehand. This has led to hilarious embarrassments for notable institutions who have perfectly qualified scientists who conveniently also moonlight, under the protection of the First Amendment, as bloggers (e.g. Kevin MacDonald, Professor of Psychology, California State University - Long Beach, and delusional anti-Semite.)
==Origins==
Tenure is a hold-over from the founding traditions of academia when universities and churches were one and the same and professors were also priests. Modern Catholic universities do continue this to some degree, especially at institutes such as Providence College in Rhode Island,+10 when you can figure out which Kennedy partied here! which includes a large swathe of Dominican friars, sworn to celibacy, poverty, and obedience. In exchange for these vows, the Church assured the livelihood of the Professoriate who would then teach the larger population. In many Commencement ceremonies, often the pomp will include the academic chalice of the institute, yet another hold-over from the days when religion was the education racket.
==Modern==
In the modern era, the idea of Free Speech is symbolized for many by the concept of academic freedom, meaning that the professor will be protected despite the unpopularity of their opinions if their scholarship is demonstrably valid. In the era of World Wars, the anti-war views of professors were notable signs of protest, and the sacking of professors like Bertrand Russell were scandals. Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn notably drove a burning hot spike into the side of Richard Nixon by protesting Vietnam while being protected by tenure, making a position on his "Enemies List."
But, as with everything else, there is an obvious gigantic gap for abuse to occur. The aforementioned MacDonald is one of the millions of idiots who do have a doctorate, but one absolutely unrelated to their oddball side interests. In this regard, combined with the fact that it would be very easy for a respectable professor to in fact be a sociopath, some see tenure as a structural enabler, something that welcomes abuses, and that it should be abolished (notably Harold Bloomcf. Charlie Rose.). But that would inherently abolish a major tenet of what is considered free speech. You're damned if you do or don't.
==References==
Category:Academia
Terrorism-baiting

Terrorism-baiting is a neologism, coined as a parallel to Red-baiting, referring to the practice of trying to discredit critics of the United States' current Middle Eastern foreign policy by falsely asserting that the critics are in league with, duped by, or otherwise sympathetic to terrorists. As with Red-baiting, the term can be used fallaciously, particularly when used with regard to actual terrorist sympathizers such as Ward Churchill, Fahad Hashmi, or Anjem Choudary of Islam4UK.
Terrorism-baiting is largely performed by right-wing elected officialsInterview with Ian Almond and spokespeople for conservative groups, which means that the targets of it are mostly those who are disfavored by the right-wing, specifically leftists and Muslims.
Examples of terrorism-baiting are:
*Representative Chip Cravaack's (R-MN) denouncing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a terrorist group during the March 2011 hearings held by known sympathizer of the terrorist Provisional Irish Republican Army, Representative Peter King (R-NY,Rep. Peter King is a supporter of terrorists on the 'radicalization' of American Muslims.Rep. Peter King Contradicts Himself While Muslim-Baiting Political Correction. August 3, 2010.
*Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens’s May 24, 2011 accusation that the Georgia State Progressive Student Alliance was being manipulated by terrorists when it made a public records request for information about Georgia State University’s Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program.Students rally against GILEE Mishall Rehman. The Signal. October 19, 2010.Progressive Student Alliance Hold Press Conference Regarding GILEE Open Records Request (May 27, 2011)
*Green-baiting can sometimes involve terrorism-baiting, as environmental advocates are often portrayed as members of ecoterrorist organizations like ALF. Fossil-fuel funded companies such as the Heartland Institute have also used this tactic.
==External links==
*Letter from MoveOn.org condemning Sean Hannity’s terrorism-baiting of Professor Stephen Zunes.
*Progressive Student Alliance Hold Press Conference Regarding GILEE Open Records Request (May 27, 2011)
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Fallacious arguments
Category:Islamophobia
Category:Informal fallacies
Category:Scapegoating
Terrorism Acts

The United Kingdom's Terrorism Acts passed in 2000, 2005, and 2006 make it an offence to, among other things, be in possession of materials likely to be useful to terrorists, and authorises the government or its agents to do pretty much what they like, if they believe they're protecting the people of the U.K. from terrorists. One of the more egregious provisions, empowering the police to search people who had done nothing suspicious, was ruled illegal by the European Court of Human RightsStop-and-search powers ruled illegal by European court, BBC News, 12 January 2010 and has since been repealed.Advice and information: Photography advice, Metropolitan Police, undated
==Noteworthy actions under the Terrorism Acts==
*Arresting at a party conference.
*Seizing the assets of several failed Icelandic banks.Britain v Iceland: Fish now financeThere might be valid legal reasons to seize the assets of a failed business (such as, say, foreclosure), but fighting terrorism would not be one of those reasons.
*Arresting someone for walking on a cycle path.Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect
*Stopping an environmental activist from leaving the country.Climate change activist stopped from travelling to Copenhagen
*Arresting a man who boarded a train while in possession of a laptop and mobile phone, and while looking at fellow passengers.Suspicious behaviour on the tube, The Guardian, 22 September 2005
*Taking photographs of a disused flyover.Cameraman held under terror laws, BBC News, 16 July 2009
*Local councils have used legislation to spy on suspected litterers, to investigate a man suspected of working while receiving disability benefits, and to ensure that dog owners clean up after their pets.Spy law 'used in dog fouling war' BBC News, 27 April 2008.Again, making sure that dog owners clean up after their pets is a good thing to do, but using anti-terrorism as a pretext for it is just silly.
*Stopping people from joining a Gaza aid convoy (though this was due to incorrect intelligence rather than abuse of power).No charges for Gaza convoy trio, BBC News, 19 February 2009
*Detaining a man suspected of criticising Emmanuel Macron.MEPs condemn Suella Braverman over arrest of French publisher The Guardian, 20 April 2023.
*Probably some real threats as well.
Doesn't that make you feel safe?
==See also==
*Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006
*Security theater
*USA PATRIOT Act
==References==
==Notes==
Category:British politics
Category:Law