The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Just a factoid. There is now a version of Elasticsearch which is integrated with Cassandra. You can get the code for version 2.1.1-14 via Github. Just another example of the diffusion of the Elastic search system.
The most important lesson is that the CIA is ready and willing to doctor its own reports in order to make them suit the foreign policy agenda of an administration. What we learn from the reports is that the CIA tells its government clients what they want to hear about given geopolitical issues or foreign leaders, not reporting as an impartial, non-partisan intelligence agency.
Guccifer 2.0 releases new DNC docs
We've done worse, but he makes a point.
More Loathsome or Despicable Than What We're Doing in Syria.”
Senator Richard Black and Janice Kortkamp discuss the shameful situation in Syria, where the US government is actively arming and funding Al Nusra (Al Qaeda) and “conduits” (“moderates”), blending them together, and then using this model to exterminate the Syrian population.
Thomson Reuters: Selling at Peak Value?
I read “Thomson Reuters Announces Definitive Agreement to Sell its Intellectual Property & Science Business to Onex and Baring Asia for $3.55 billion.” Thomson Reuters has been working hard to pump up revenue and generate a juicy profit for its stakeholders. Like IBM, it seems that the best way to get a large, established company in gear is to sell assets. According to the write up, Thomson Reuters’ management thinks:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: Onex and Baring Asia Buys Thomson Reuters Carcass”
Bringing the Platform Co-op “Rebel Cities” Together: An Interview with Trebor Scholz
Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor for Culture & Media at the New School and author of the book Uber-Worked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (Polity, 2016). He is currently touring European cities to talk about platform cooperativism.
Platform cooperativism, as he puts it, is “a way of joining the peer-to-peer and co-op movements with online labor markets while insisting on communal ownership and democratic governance.” I talked to him about this young movement, its rise, and the steps ahead.
Considering Media in the Light of Relationship and Attention
A Conversation with Mary Rothschild
Three bottom lines:
01 Digital world is a trap — everything is pre-programmed
02 First seven years are vital if a child is to grow up with a free open mind
03 Digital world has displaced parental attention.
