Category: Advanced Cyber/IO

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Devin Balkind: Kickstarter for Citizen Journalists

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Ethics, Media
Devin Balkind
Devin Balkind

21 days to go toward their goal.

Bellingcat, for and by citizen investigative journalists

Bellingcat is a website founded by Brown Moses.

Bellingcat will bring together both critically acclaimed and emerging citizen investigative journalists using open source information to investigate, collaborate, and report on worldwide issues that are being underreported and ignored.

Open source information, which is information freely available to anyone through the Internet—think YouTube, Google Maps, Reddit—has made it possible for ANYONE to gather information and source others, through social media networks. Think the Syrian Civil War. Think the Arab Spring.

Read more and consider a donation at Kickstarter.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Could Microsoft’s Machine Learning in the Cloud Help Clean Up Legacy Big Data?

Advanced Cyber/IO
Stephen E. Arnold
Stephen E. Arnold

Microsoft Puts Machine Learning in the Cloud

Machine learning is ascending to the cloud. The Register asks, “Do Data Centers Dream of Electric Sheep? Microsoft Announces Machine Learning Cloud.” As competition in the world of SaaS and remote hosting continues to escalate, this move may set Microsoft ahead of Amazon and Google (for now). Our question—will this progress rub off on Bing? One can hope.

Writer Jack Clark tells us:

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Sepp Hasslberger: goTenna radio augments cellular

Advanced Cyber/IO
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

For those who venture into areas that have scarce cell pone coverage … goTenna will enable direct p2p messaging beyond the reach of a cell tower (and when communications are down for any reason). Expected to be available later this year. Can be pre-ordered at half price.

How goTenna will enable smart-phone off-line direct messaging by radio transmission

goTenna enables you to communicate without any need for central connectivity whatsoever—no cell towers, no wifi, no satellites—so when you're off-grid you can remain connected. In fact, goTenna will even work if your smartphone is in “Airplane Mode”! How does this magic work?

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Berto Jongman: Manufacturing Consent – Eleven Mainstream Media Tactics

Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, Officers Call
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

11 Tactics Used by the Mainstream Media to Manufacture Consent for the Oligarchy

The public is still largely numb to this reality, and in a wicked catch-22 for modern man, many people are still addicted to the very media that serves as the primary weapon of social control against them. The tide is turning, however, and to help break the spell we bring you this comprehensive list of 11 tactics used against the public by the mainstream media to coerce consensus, divide, conquer, ridicule and stifle truthful or meaningful conversation about the state of our world.

LIST ONLY:

1. Lying by Omission
2. Controlling the Debate
3. Selecting the Right Anchors, Casters, and Presenters
4. Scripting and Synchronizing the News
5. Politicizing Everything
6. Using the Language of Separation and Labels
7. Asking the Wrong Questions
8. Closing the Book Too Soon
9. Trivilaity and Distraction
10. Outright Lying
11. Bonus – Eye Candy and Mind Melting

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Sepp Hasslberger: Russian Li-Fi

Advanced Cyber/IO
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

A solution to the overload of microwave radiation from cell phones and WIFI?

Russian firm’s Li-Fi internet solution winning foreign clients

BeamCaster’s light module can transfer data at a speed of 1.25 gigabytes per second, which is the guaranteed speed for transferring data to each working unit.

In April 2014, the Russian company Stins Coman announced that it had developed a wireless local network called BeamCaster. This innovative solution transfers information to electronic devices with the help of light.

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Tom Atlee: Role of Collective Intelligence in Wise Democracy Needed for Humanity’s Survival

Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

TITLE: The role of collective intelligence in the wise democracy needed for humanity's survival

ABSTRACT: This article proposes that the primary function of intelligence is to sustain a dynamic system's balance between environmental control and adaptability.  A dynamic system needs to remain in tune with its changing environments so that its actions continue to be successful. It does this through impacting its environment and adapting itself to changing conditions.  Both strategies depend on awareness of environmental realities and their relevance to the success and survival of the intelligent system.

Human collective intelligence in technological, economic, and cultural realms has led to the rapid evolution of human civilization's capacity to impact its environment. Humanity's problem-solving capabilities have translated problematic circumstances into new forms of impact, a process known as progress.  However, this process has today projected extremes of actual and potential impact into unprecedented scales and realms which challenge not only our ability to respond but the very basis of our responsive capacities – the nature of our intelligence itself.

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Jean Lievens: Airbnb CEO on Sharing Economy – Starting with Education as a Global Traveling Experience

03 Economy, 04 Education, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Jean LievensAirbnb does business in 34,000 cities, has a valuation of over 10 billion dollars, and in a very short time has disrupted the world of hospitality and travel. Its co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky envisions the future city as a place where sharing is front and center — where people become micro-entrepreneurs, the local mom and pops will flourish once again, where space isn't wasted, but shared, and more of almost everything is produced, except waste. But the journey from here to there won't be all smooth sailing. What are the ups and downs of the sharing economy, as businesses like Airbnb confront critiques about regulation, economic development, and fairness? What role might businesses play in creating more shareable, more livable cities? How will the sharing economy, with its de-emphasis on ownership, be a tool for addressing urban inequality?

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