Well, my day started on a downer. Text message , saying falsely Jimmy Carter died.

[niyad]

I hought it was odd that my phone had not blown up, and immediately came to DU. WHEW!! Nothing. Some sicko out there thinks this kind of thing is funny.

At least now Ii can restart my day on a better note. Hate those assholes.

I do have to admit that, after thinking about Jimmy and Rosalynn for a minute, my thoughts were about how this sad news would knock the orange monster off the front page, which made me smile.

[ExciteBike66]

1. Might be a text from the future

Ask about the lotto numbers!

[niyad]

3. Excellent thought!

[Hugin]

6. My spurious texting always comes from an alternate reality...

Where somehow I am in a Prince/Princesses’s Rolodex under “Help unlocking frozen funds with a gift card”.

[niyad]

8. I used to be on that same Rolodex. Thankfully, I seem to have dropped off.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Big Tech should protect the public from disinformation - LIES

It's a defective product if it harms the public. Regulate it to death.

[niyad]

4. It seems almost too late.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. lol, ya think?

it's a communications revolution but there are bugs to be worked out. i'm encouraged that the internet of 20 years ago is now irrelevant and barely archived. so we can erase/bury our glitches. We need to innovate our way to the future, but archaic political and business interests control the legal system, mostly.

Without modern digital communications, would we be in a civil war right now? maybe we reap greater rewards than i credit them for.

[sir pball]

5. AHHH DON'T SAY SHIT LIKE THAT!!

This is usually one of the first sites I open in the morning, before any MSM (y'alls are a way better source)…I almost had a friggin' heart attack myself! Say FAKE text message or something!!

[niyad]

9. I did add "false". The text itself was real, from a friend. I am waiting to hear

where she heard this. She was genuinely upset. I did tell her it was false.

[sir pball]

10. Thanks...I guess I saw before the edit nt

[niyad]

11. Yes. I added "false" at your request. I should have had it in there, as you reminded me.

[EYESORE 9001]

12. An occasional video shows up in my YouTube feed, touting the ostensible death of a celebrity

I just pay them no mind. It’s a bit harder to ignore when it comes from someone you know on FB, but no harder than setting the person straight.

[niyad]

13. Whenever I see a death announcement, I immediately look for news coverage.

And, as I stated in the OP, I got a text that started off my day. I am not on social media.

[EYESORE 9001]

14. Sorry, missed that part

Getting a spurious message about a celebrity death is a new one on me.

[niyad]

16. I remember at least three different fake notices about RBG. I was a bit

surprised at the one that turned out to be true.

[elocs]

15. I won't be sad when Jimmy Carter dies. The point of living is not to squeeze as much life from a body as possible

even when there is no quality of life anymore. Besides, Carter doesn't believe he is dying but that he is going home and looks towards that moment in happy anticipation. He has lived a full life and certainly looks forward to seeing his beloved Rosalyn and other deceased loved ones.

[niyad]

18. My sadness would be if he does not live long enough to vote for Kamala,

which he very much wants to do.

[Wednesdays]

17. "...how this sad news would knock the orange monster off the front page..."

I wouldn't bet the farm on that.

[niyad]

19. True. But perhaps some, certainly the international ones.