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2011/11/132011/11/17

Theophilis Goodyear: The “Teflon” Argument – Open-Source Government Can Launch a New Scientific Age with Multinational Open-Source Science Projects

The “Teflon” Argument: Open-Source Government Can Launch a New Scientific Age by Facilitating International Cooperation on Open-Source Science Projects

The potential uses for open-source collaborations are limited only by human creativity and ingenuity.

In other words, Open-Source Intelligence is open-ended! No one can possibly predict the upward limits of benefits that can come from it. Clearly governance is just one use for collaborative networks of Applied, Collaborative Open-Source Human Intelligence.

Open-source governance should be thought of as the key to opening the door to all of the other open-source possibilities: medical research, education, basic science, and solving other technological problems: advancing science by sharing every new piece of the puzzle with other researchers. It could lead to major discoveries.

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2011/11/13

Seth Godin: Independence & subjugation

Blog Wisdom, Cultural Intelligence

Independence and subjugation

Tribal management often involves power struggles. One thing that's been shown again and again–subjugating another tribe, taking it over–it almost never works. It can take hundreds of years before the two tribes get into sync, if ever.

On the other hand, granting independence to a rising tribe, letting them go–this is harder to swallow but it generally leads to a quick and beneficial relationship between the two new groups.

When Atari was struggling after it was acquired by Warner, many top programmers left, some to start companies like Activision. Activision, ironically, was one of the bright spots for Atari after that. The passion and creativity of the nascent group was exactly what the original group needed.

Or consider the excellent relationship that the UK has with both the United States and India. In both cases, the wars of independence weren't as nearly brutal or as drawn out as they could have been.

While conventional views of power and authority seem to indicate that you should co-opt and capture other tribes, you can often achieve more by freeing your own people to maximize their vision alongside yours.

2011/11/132016/03/26

Marcus Aurelius: CIA Flogs on Campus + RECAP

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Director of National Intelligence et al (IC), Government, Officers Call

Marcus-Aurelius-150x150 — Marcus Aurelius

CIA runs all-source analytic competition for universities — neither the Open Source Center nor Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) are anywhere to be found.

Deja vu?

Covert Operation

WC Wins High Honors at CIA Tri-State Intelligence Simulation

Phi Beta Iota: This was probably a variation of the superb Mid-Career Course (CIA's mini-war college) analytic exercise but lacking the meat that is to be found in the Mid-Career Course: the opportunity to learn that walking around and talking to PEOPLE is what fills in the gaps and leads to a more complete view. Also lacking here, as it is in the Mid-Career Course, is any tutorial on analytic tradecraft, or any reference to external legal ethical human, online, and analog sources that generally have the 80% or more of the knowledge that CIA is simply not able to access because of its secrecy blinders.

Deja vu, indeed.

2011/11/12

Mini-Me: TheyRule Web Site Back Online

02 China, 03 Economy, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

They were online many years ago, then gone, now back.

They Rule – Facts & Charts

See Also:

Who Rules the World

How the Crown Rules the World

Who is the ‘Goldman Sachs rules the world' trader?

Review: Gods of Money – Wall Street and the Death of the American Century

Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Journal: $750 Billion Wall Street Scam, Russian Anger, Chinese Intent, We are NOT Making This Up!

2011/11/122011/11/13

John Steiner: Public Intelligence App Hypothes.is

Advanced Cyber/IO, Autonomous Internet, Collective Intelligence

$200K raised, thanks to all who contributed.

VISIT THEM to a) reserve your user name and/or b) make a contribution to their Kickstarter campaign.

Hypothes.is <http://hypothes.is> will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information. It will enable sentence-level critique of written words combined with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use model of community peer-review. It will work wherever you are‹as an overlay on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more‹without requiring participation of the underlying site.

It is based on a new draft standard for annotating digital documents currently being developed by the Open Annotation Collaboration, a consortium that includes the Internet Archive, NISO, O'Reilly Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and a number of academic institutions.

Media Coverage: Techcrunch, Forbes, ReadWriteWeb, KurzweilAI, SkepTools, Researchity

Phi Beta Iota: Apart from rapidly exposing lies by governments and corporations (“put enough eyeballs on it, no bug is invisible”) this has potential for also exposing covert sources of mis-information, connections between sources being harmonized covertly, and so on. This has great promise.

2011/11/122011/11/12

Mini-Me: Graduates versus Oligarchs–Reality Knocking

03 Economy, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government

Paul Krugman recollects a point he made years ago that Chuck Spinney and Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Auerbach have been pressing home for over a decade. Absentee landlords and capital flight from the heartland. TWO sucking chest wounds.

Graduates Versus Oligarchs

Paul Krugman

New York Times, 1 November 2011

Dean Baker raises an important point here: it’s really awfully late in the game to be saying that the important inequality issue is college graduates versus non-graduates. It’s not clear that this was ever true, and it certainly hasn’t been true for a while.

I wrote about this years ago, using Ben Bernanke’s maiden testimony as Fed chair as an entry point. As I said then, Bernanke — like many others — had made:

a fundamental misreading of what’s happening to American society. What we’re seeing isn’t the rise of a fairly broad class of knowledge workers. Instead, we’re seeing the rise of a narrow oligarchy: income and wealth are becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small, privileged elite.

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2011/11/112011/11/12

Kevin Carson: How Much of the Economy is Friction?

Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Government

How Much of the Economy is Friction?

Charles Hugh Smith raises the question of how much of the U.S. economy consists of the actual output of goods and services, versus the friction entailed in producing them. As a small example, he cites a physicians’ group that includes ten doctors — and twelve billing clerks.

That’s the general subject of a research paper I did for Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), The Political Economy of Waste.

The larger and more hierarchical institutions become, and the more centralized the economic system, the larger the total share of production that will go to overhead, administration, waste, and the cost of doing business. The reasons are structural and geometrical.

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