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Major Open Source Project Revokes Access to Companies That Work with ICE
On Tuesday, developers behind Lerna revoked access for any company collaborating with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Stephen E. Arnold: Google Losing to Amazon on Cross-Correlation
Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government, IO Impotency
Google: Online to Brick and Mortar Cross Correlation
Our research suggests that Amazon may have a slight edge in the cross correlation of user data. Google, whether pulling a me too or simply going its own way, has decided to link online and brick and mortar data.
The effort was revealed in “Google and MasterCard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales.” Amazon has access to some data which makes it possible for those with appropriate system access to perform analyses of Amazon customers’ buying behavior.
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Berto Jongman: Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code
IO Impotency
Andrew Smith in The Guardian.
Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code
The death of a woman hit by a self-driving car highlights an unfolding technological crisis, as code piled on code creates ‘a universe no one fully understands’
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Robert Steele: An Interview with Stephen E. Arnold on Google and Google Search — How the Digital Mummy Might Manipulate Search (Never Mind #GoogleGestapo Censorship)
Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency
I have known Stephen E. Arnold since the early 1990's when he quickly became the only speaker to be demanded by my international audience every year. I have relied on him over the years for truthful open source intelligence and deep insights not available from other commercial sources. Although he is now retired, I believe he will be instrumental in guiding millions of dollars in investments intended to create a national truth channel and social ecology that cannot be censored.
Here is my favorite bit up front:
“There is not enough money available to start over at Google. After two decades of fixing, tweaking, and enhancing, Google search is sort of chugging along. I think it is complex and swathed like a digital mummy in layers of code.”
Interview below the fold.
Stephen E. Arnold: Roubini Trashes Crypto…
03 Economy, IO ImpotencyJason Bloomberg writing in Forbes.
‘Dr. Doom' Economist Nouriel Roubini Bearish On Everything Crypto
Economist and New York University professor Nouriel Roubini is perhaps best known for calling the 2008 financial crisis in a series of articles and presentations starting in 2006. However, Roubini is no one trick pony – his research on emerging markets makes him an expert on speculative bubbles of all sorts.
At last week’s BlockShow conference in Las Vegas, Roubini did not mince his words. “There has been a total collapse this year in the cryptocurrency game,” he told an audience largely skeptical of his point of view. “It’s a crypto apocalypse.”
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Matt Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well
IO Impotency
Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well
How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything
Now the line is gone. Depending on the platform, one can be banned for “glorifying violence,” “sowing division,” “hateful conduct” or even “low quality,” with those terms defined by nameless, unaccountable executives, working with God Knows Whom.
Berto Jongman: Daniel Ben-Ami on Populism–The Elites vs Social Media
Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, IO ImpotencyPOPULISM: The Elites vs Social Media
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Whereas social media was once seen as a vehicle for the progressive cool of an Obama, it is now associated with the angry populism of a Trump.
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The rise of social media is viewed with horror by political elites now that they realise it could help forces outside the traditional mainstream.
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