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From Fake news to Junk News. The data politics of online virality - by Tommaso Venturini.
Part of the book "Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights" - by Didier Bigo (site) et.al (2019)
Didier Bigo on Security, Surveillance and Democracy
Fog of Information - by tekgnostics
“In this day and age... we are faced with a Fog of Information that is as distracting and detrimental as the fog of war.” - from “Bread & Circuses”
"Information overload occurs when the amount of input to a system exceeds its processing capacity. Decision-makers have fairly limited cognitive processing capacity. Consequently, when information overload occurs, it is likely that a reduction in decision quality will occur."
"It's not a matter what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true" - Henry Kissinger
#Politics #SE #InfoSec #Bots #Culture #KM #Internet #Military #RTM
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"Simply saying that more health research is needed on 5G —the latest generation of cell phone technology— can be hazardous to your reputation."
Related: A Fact-Free Hit on a 5G Critic
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“One Half A Manifesto” - written by Jaron Lanier in the year 2000:
“There is a real chance that evolutionary psychology, artificial intelligence, Moore’s Law fetishizing, and the rest of the package, will catch on in a big way, as big as Freud or Marx did in their times. Or bigger, since these ideas might end up essentially built into the software that runs our society and our lives. If that happens, the ideology of cybernetic totalist intellectuals will be amplified from novelty into a force that could cause suffering for millions of people.”
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Hans Selye (1907 - 1982) was a pioneering endocrinologist of Hungarian origin. He conducted important scientific work on the response of an organism to stress. He is considered the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress, both negative and positive (Eustress).
Selye International Institute for Advanced Studies
Docu on Selye and his ideas of medicine based on stress reduction - by Desire' Dubounet
Images from "The New Science of Stress and Stress Resilience" - talk by Elissa Epel
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Big Brother is watching: Chinese city with 2.6m cameras is world's most heavily surveilled (guardian)
Chongqing has 1 camera per 6 residents, but “Singapore has plans to install 100,000 facial-recognition cameras on lampposts, Chicago police have asked for 30,000 more, and Moscow intends to have 174,000 by the end of this year.”
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Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (wikipedia)
"The Encyclopedia was started in 1972 and now comprises more than 100,000 entries and 700,000 links, as well as 500 pages of introductory notes and commentaries. The Encyclopedia collects information on problems, strategies, values, concepts of human development, and various intellectual resources."
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Tactic, Strategy, Attitude and Practice
Related from earlier on this blog: Kata and Shu Ha Ri.
Related from Marketing contexts: G’SOT (Goals, Strategies, Objectives and Tactics):
- A goal is a broad primary outcome.
- A strategy is the approach you take to achieve a goal.
- An objective is a measurable step you take to achieve a strategy.
- A tactic is a tool you use in pursuing an objective associated with a strategy.
G’SOT Example for Intel’s line of Core processors:
- Goal: Make our Core PC microprocessors a category leader in sales revenue by year X.
- Strategy: Persuade buyers that our Core processors are the best on the market by associating with large, well-established PC manufacturers.
- Objective: Retain 70 percent or more of the active worldwide PC microprocessor market, according to Passmark's CPU benchmark report.
- Tactic: Through creative that underlies our messaging, leverage hardware partner brand awareness to include key messages about the Intel Inside program.
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The Lies About World War II - by Paul Craig Roberts. << While i do not agree with many things in this post, it is still thought provoking & the following quote is spot-on:
"In the aftermath of a war, history cannot be written. The losing side has no one to speak for it. Historians on the winning side are constrained by years of war propaganda that demonized the enemy while obscuring the crimes of the righteous victors. People want to enjoy and feel good about their victory, not learn that their side was responsible for the war or that the war could have been avoided except for the hidden agendas of their own leaders. Historians are also constrained by the unavailability of information. To hide mistakes, corruption, and crimes, governments lock up documents for decades. Memoirs of participants are not yet written. Diaries are lost or withheld from fear of retribution. It is expensive and time consuming to locate witnesses, especially those on the losing side, and to convince them to answer questions. Any account that challenges the “happy account” requires a great deal of confirmation from official documents, interviews, letters, diaries, and memoirs, and even that won’t be enough. A historian on the track of the truth faces long years of strenuous investigation and development of the acumen to judge and assimilate the evidence he uncovers into a truthful picture of what transpired. The truth is always immensely different from the victor’s war propaganda.
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Follow up post: The Truth About World War II Is Beginning to Emerge 74 Years Later
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In China, AI can now screen newborns for genetic disorders: https://www.techinasia.com/china-ai-screen-newborns-genetic-disorders
"Chinese scholars have developed AI-powered software that is geared to help screen newborns for genetic disorders through a facial scan. It was designed to detect more than 100 disorders with distinctive facial features"
The new Eugenics movement is as brain-dead as the old one. Scientists as a class are progressively morally bankrupt, following their owners. #Biology #ML #Biotech #SE #China
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Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-s-secret-project-nightingale-gathers-personal-health-data-on-millions-of-americans-11573496790 Medical Data: A Google Focus for More Than a Decade: http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2019/11/12/medical-data-a-google-focus-for-more-than-a-decade/
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Sidewalk Labs' Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police: http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/11/sidewalk-labs-smart-cities-will-create.html
Sidewalk Labs advances plans for Toronto smart city: https://www.dezeen.com/2019/11/01/sidewalk-labs-waterfront-toronto-development/ #Urban #Infrastructure #Military #SE
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“To the extent that propaganda is based on current news, it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. A man caught up in the news must remain on the surface of the events; he is carried along in the current, and can at no time take a respite to judge and appreciate; he can never stop to reflect ... One thought drives away another; old facts are chased by new ones. Under these conditions there can be no thought. And, in fact modern man does not think about current problems; he feels them. He reacts, but he does not understand them any more than he takes responsibility for them. He is even less capable of spotting any inconsistency between successive facts; man's capacity to forget is unlimited ... This situation makes the 'current-events man' a ready target for propaganda.” — Jacques Ellul, Propaganda (1973)
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Oh Dear II (2014) - by Adam Curtis. #Politics #Military #SE #Documentary
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Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook's Apps: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption
EU Court: Facebook Can Be Forced To Remove Content Worldwide: https://www.apnews.com/4182cda66edd4638b4feea68a5136934
France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/french-liberte-tested-by-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-plan
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U.S. Government Plans to Collect DNA From Detained Immigrant: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/us/dna-testing-immigrants.html #Military #SE #InfoSec #Biology
“That kind of mass collection alters the purpose of DNA collection from one of criminal investigation basically to population surveillance, which is basically contrary to our basic notions of a free, trusting, autonomous society,” said Vera Eidelman, a staff lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt believes biology is the next frontier in computing: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/02/eric-schmidt-says-hes-eyeing-biology-for-the-next-computing-frontier.html #Biology #Military #InfoSec #SE
Key Points
- Former CEO Eric Schmidt said biology is in a “golden period,” making it perfect for tech.
- Schmidt said data from human eyes will generate new algorithms.
- He also said computing and biology need each other now more than ever.
Schmidt said he’d like to marry the two worlds as quickly as possible. At one point, he asked the crowd to “build bacteria that absorbs CO2,” adding “We need it at scale and we need it in the next 10 to 15 years.”
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Social media manipulation as a political tool is spreading: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/09/30/social-media-manipulation-as-a-political-tool-is-spreading/ #SE #InfoSec
"The use of computational propaganda to shape public attitudes via social media has become mainstream, extending far beyond the actions of a few bad actors. In an information environment characterized by high volumes of information and limited levels of user attention and trust, the tools and techniques of computational propaganda are becoming a common – and arguably essential – part of digital campaigning and public diplomacy."
Some key findings from the report:
- 87% of countries use human-controlled accounts
- 80% of countries use bot accounts
- 11% of countries use cyborg accounts
- 7% of countries use hacked/stolen accounts
- 71% of these accounts spread pro-government or pro-party propaganda
- 89% attack the opposition or mount smear campaigns
- 34% spread polarizing messages designed to drive divisions within society
- 75% of countries used disinformation and media manipulation to mislead users
- 68% of countries use state-sponsored trolling to target political dissidents, the opposition or journalists
- 73% amplify messages and content by flooding hashtags
