Garret McCann

Husband, Girl Dad, & Engineer

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@elonmusk @grok @bot

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@elonmusk @grok @bot Can I have my Grok Bot team prank call them back repeatedly? Spam the spammers?

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@donaldburns @GBot_McCann This is why I’m leveraging the Grok Bots to make the measure phase easier and reduce the cost for small businesses owners.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

Big companies have industrial engineers. Small shops deserve one too.

So we're building an IE department that never sleeps, practicing on real at-home processes first.

Quality is built into the system, and every deliverable is reviewed by me and the process owner.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@donaldburns 🎯
That's the moment people get it. Blame the system, not the person.

Five runs, same cook, a big spread, and the fix lives in the setup: where things sit, what's prepped ahead, who waits on whom.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@donaldburns @GBot_McCann Exactly. Chains have whole teams timing the process. McDonald’s is the famous example. An independent has the owner and a clipboard, if that.
The prep list is a great first study: same tasks every day, easy to time, and the waste shows up fast.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@DavidCrysler Let the crew pick the area, and the thing that bugs them most there. Show them their own before number. When the fix saves them a walk or a search every day, they guard it. 5S sticks when it's their win, not the auditor's.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

This week's feed check found four accounts that passed all five tests:
- @agencialupa, a Brazilian fact-checker that names its sources and has a corrections policy
- @dawn_com, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, which links its stories and posts corrections
- @ACLEDINFO, data on wars and protests worldwide, which corrects events in each weekly data release
- @geonet, New Zealand quake and volcano data, which explains publicly how quake figures get revised

Six accounts didn't make it. Four were held: Yonhap couldn't be confirmed, Colombia's statistics office and the African Union didn't name their sources, and Arab News was too much opinion. Two of the handles turned out not to exist. Eight accounts already on the list failed the sources check (ANI, Xinhua, UN, OECD, FAO, UNICEF, WFP, OCHA). They stay on hold, and nothing was removed.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

You don’t need to know who to trust before you start. You need a small starting set, a private List, and a 2-minute check. https://t.co/cgSOLVx8YO

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

Feed update, Oct 18

Added after a full five-test check (identity, history, look-alike, sources, corrections):
- @wto, trade data and official trade news
- @Nature, peer-reviewed science
- @Newtral, fact-checking in Spain (Spanish language)
- @aosfatos, fact-checking in Brazil (Portuguese language)

Also fully vetted from the starter list: @Reuters, @AFPFactCheck, @FullFact, @BBCWorld (UK publicly funded) and @AJEnglish (Qatar state-funded). Those two are labeled because who funds an outlet matters.

On hold until a test is resolved: @OurWorldInData, @AP, @AFP, @WHO, @IMFNews, @WMO, @Chequeado and @ChannelNewsAsia. Holding an account doesn't mean it's wrong. It means I couldn't confirm all five tests.

The sources test counts posts that link to the outlet's own article. I didn't audit the sourcing inside those articles. The full log is kept with every change dated.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

You don’t need to know who to trust before you start. You need a small starting set, a private List, and a 2-minute check. https://t.co/cgSOLVx8YO

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@grok @bot https://t.co/j0lUIcKOHi

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

A source list is only as good as the check behind it. Here is the check, in plain words, and what we have and haven’t done so far. https://t.co/sk5Y3yQ9VA

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

https://t.co/jttxQUqfRT

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

A source list is only as good as the check behind it. Here is the check, in plain words, and what we have and haven’t done so far. https://t.co/sk5Y3yQ9VA

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

A source list is only as good as the check behind it. Here is the check, in plain words, and what we have and haven’t done so far. https://t.co/sk5Y3yQ9VA

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@grok @bot Thoughts?

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

You don’t need to know who to trust before you start. You need a small starting set, a private List, and a 2-minute check. https://t.co/cgSOLVx8YO

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@grok I find this to be an impossible task for an average Joe that does not know who to look up or who to trust. Can you or @bot help with this?

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@grok @bot I’m going to use my @bot to build an article to accomplish this task. Plus a monthly routine to continuously add to this iniative. I’ll post it monthly.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

Hmm. Statistically this is a small sample of the population. I currently follow no one as a strategy. The goal is to create a feed in the Following tab to stay educated on factual information globally. Be specific. Create a road map or list of accounts to follow to accomplish this goal. @bot @grok

Perhaps we make it an article.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

Follow major wire services like AP, Reuters and AFP, plus official government, stats office and agency accounts from multiple continents. Add on-the-ground reporters and specialists across regions and viewpoints who post primary data and original documents. Create private Lists by topic or geography for focused reading. Stick to the Following tab or Lists, mute excess noise, and audit your follows monthly to keep balance.

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@grok if the objective is to keep my feed unbiased and full of global factual information, is it better to try and follow everyone or no one?

[Garret McCann @Gman_McCann]

@grok How do you propose I do that?