See Also:
Reference: Rise of the Stupid Network–Overturning Industrial Era Assumptions on Computation and Bandwidth Now Cheap and Plentiful
Advanced Cyber/IO, Articles & ChaptersEvent: 28 Sep San Francisco BoxWorks–Cloud Content and Cloud Collaboration Done Right
Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence
Includes Marc Anderssen, author of the recent Why Software Is Eating The World
See Also:
Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)
DefDog: Skilluminati Invocation–Manifesto for Action
07 Other Atrocities, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Civil Society, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Disgust is gaining traction…..
An Invocation Against the Inevitable
1 September 2011
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.” – McLuhan
Skilluminati Research has been a very cynical project…until now. Change of policy: there are no sufficient excuses for inaction. There is no point to all this research if I'm not capable of using it for something real. What interests me now is Synthesis. How can we build a politics that takes all of this horrible shit for granted and still provides a master plan?
In 2011, Hope and Change are hollow brand names and representative Democracy itself is hollowed out, broken for decades. Distrust of government has gone from a fringe position to a bipartisan consensus. If you think all that adds up to a “Now is the Time” pep talk, you're not hearing me at all. We are more fucked than ever. The situation is not “ripe,” it is fundamentally out of control and irreversible. …so what then?
The Machine is bigger than you can think. It snakes through every aspect of your life, it networks an entire planet of political powerbrokers, banking cartels, intelligence agencies, arms dealers, cult leaders, secret societies and royal families. From cynical operatives to true believers, from corporate boardrooms to secret bases, the Machine is too vast an ecosystem to model accurately. Both in human terms and hardware specs, much of the infrastructure is classified — and that's just the stuff the military is doing. Every serious effort to reform this system to date has gotten nowhere. …so what now?
Safety copy (text only) below the line.
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Penguin: MI5 Former Chief Slams War on Terror
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 09 Terrorism, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Law Enforcement
Better late than never. Do I sense people catching up with the emphasis on intelligence with integrity?
MI5 former chief decries ‘war on terror'
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller uses BBC lecture to criticise ‘unhelpful' term, attack Iraq invasion and suggest al-Qaida talks
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, delivered a withering attack on the invasion of Iraq, decried the term “war on terror”, and held out the prospect of talks with al-Qaida.
Recording her first BBC Reith lecture on the theme, Securing Freedom, she made clear she believed the UK and US governments had not sufficiently understood the resentment that had been building up among Arab people, which was only compounded by the war against Iraq.
Before an audience which included Theresa May, the home secretary, she also said the 9/11 attacks were “a crime, not an act of war”. “So I never felt it helpful to refer to a war on terror”.
Paul Fernhout: Open Letter to the Intelligence Advanced Programs Research Agency (IARPA)
10 Security, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Blog Wisdom, Cultural Intelligence, Government
EDIT 4 Sep 2011: Link and misc. fixed.
Dear IARPA staff-
The greatest threat facing the USA is the irony inherent in our current defense posture, like for example planning to use nuclear energy embodied in missiles to fight over oil fields that nuclear energy could replace. This irony arises in part because the USA’s current security logic is still based on essentially 19th century and earlier (second millennium) thinking that becomes inappropriate applied to 21st century (third millennium) technological threats and opportunities. That situation represents a systematic intelligence failure of the highest magnitude. There remains time to correct this failure, but time grows short as various exponential trends continue.
To address that pervasive threat from unrecognized irony, it would help to re-envision the CIA as a non-ironic post-scarcity institution. Then the CIA could help others (including in the White House) make more informed decisions to move past this irony as well.
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Koko: IBM Acquires I2–No Mention of Fat Finger Costs
Advanced Cyber/IO
IBM acquires i2 to fight crime and security threats
Net Security,01 September 2011
IBM will acquire i2 to accelerate its business analytics initiatives and help clients address crime, fraud and security threats. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Organizations in both the public and private sectors today are facing an exponential increase in “big data” — information and intelligence coming from disparate and unstructured sources including social media, biometrics and criminal databases. When it is accessible to the people who need it, this information can be used to anticipate potential problems, make better, faster decisions, and coordinate resources to deliver exceptional service to citizens and customers.
Phi Beta Iota: Fascinating, since I2 is to analytics as water is to C-Rations….humans do the fat-fingering, humans carry the water. As much as we like the idea of IBM trying to do more in analytics, this seems like a superficial acquisition that does not address the fundamentals. They might have been better off talking to any number of individuals focused on massive global gaming, human computation, and crowd-sourcing.
Koko: WikiLeaks Uncensored–Redactions Blown
Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, GovernmentIn the end, the full truth comes out…
Exposed: Uncensored WikiLeaks cables posted to Web
USA Today, 1 September 2011
LONDON (AP) – Uncensored copies of WikiLeaks' massive tome of U.S. State Department cables were circulating freely across the Internet on Thursday, a dramatic development which leaves a new batch of U.S. sources vulnerable to embarrassment and potential retribution.
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Until recently, WikiLeaks released relatively small batches of files to its partner organizations — composed of dozens of international media and human rights groups — so that they could remove information which could put innocent people in jeopardy. Only then were the files posted online.
But with the unredacted cables now being sloshed around in the public domain, all that work has effectively been thrown out the window.
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