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Fighting Uber's Death Star with a Rebel Alliance of co-op platforms

As Mark Andreessen noted, software is eating the world because once it's developed, it scales to infinity. That means that once a worker's co-op of drivers clones Uber's platform in free/open code, drivers in every city in the world can disrupt the company, throw off its rent-seeking, and fill their pockets with the money the company siphons off for providing very little at the margins. In a long piece on Shareable, Neal Gorenflo articulates a vision for co-op versions of the sharing economy monopolies, an idea that will be explored later this month at the Platform Cooperativism conference in New York.

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2015/10/312016/12/08

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy

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Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part I – An American Grand Strategy, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017.

Part I in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series.

Updated November 15, 2016 Robert Steele

This is the author's preliminary draft of the first of three monographs focused on the future of the US Army as an expeditionary force in a complex world that is rapidly decentralizing while also facing major development challenges. A revised draft is provide at DOC below but the online full-text version has not been updated.

Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/2016-Grand-Strategy

DOC (56 Pages): EIN 7FV42 ERAP Steele Vol 1 Grand Strategy 2.4 LINKS

KINDLE (99 cents): An American Grand Strategy: Evidence-Based, Affordable, Balanced, Flexible

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Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part II – Overview of Planning and Programming Factors for Expeditionary Army Operations, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication December 2016.

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication December 2016.

Full Text with Graphics Below the Fold (Links Added)

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2015/10/252015/10/24

Chuck Spinney: Drones of War — Send Money

Drones & UAVs, Military

In the last week, much has been made of the leaked DoD briefing entitled ISR Support to Small Footprint (CT) Operations – Somalia and Yemen, dated February 2013. To date, all the reports I have read, save one, focus on the “critical shortfalls” of drone warfare revealed in these slides — see, for example The Intercept, which broke the story on October 15 and placed the slides on the net, and this report in Common Dreams, and anti-war progressive outlet. Both of these reports and the briefing slides contain a lot of useful information are well worth careful reading. But there is more.

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2015/10/252015/10/24

Berto Jongman: Putin the Statesman Speaks…

06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, IO Deeds of Peace, Peace Intelligence

Putin’s Speech at the Valdai International Discussion Club – October 22, 2015

Putin opens the New Age of Truthfulness and Exposition of the Dark Cabal in the West

Four points:

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2015/10/242015/10/24

Stephen E. Arnold: FTC Wants Big Data Algorithmic Transparency –While ObamaCare Cannot Detect False Documentation

IO Impotency

FTC Chair Edith Ramirez outlines concerns about Big Data

The FTC is worried about algorithmic transparency, and you should be too

Watchdog: Obamacare Exchanges Fail to Detect Counterfeit Documents

2015/10/222015/10/21

Stephen E. Arnold: When Big Data Becomes Bad Data Through Algorithmic Bias, Discrimination, and Distortion

IO Impotency

Algorithmic Bias and the Unintentional Discrimination in the Results

The article titled When Big Data Becomes Bad Data on Tech In America discusses the legal ramifications of relying on algorithms for companies. The “disparate impact” theory has been used in the courtroom for some time to ensure that discriminatory policies be struck down whether they were created with the intention to discriminate or not. Algorithmic bias occurs all the time, and according to the spirit of the law, it discriminates although unintentionally. The article states,

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2015/10/212015/10/20

Robert Parry: MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’

IO Impotency

MH-17 Case: ‘Old’ Journalism vs. ‘New’

For skilled intelligence operatives, the Internet can be a devil’s playground, a place to circulate doctored photos, audio and documents, making investigations based on “social media” and such sources particularly risky, a point worth recalling in the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, says Robert Parry.