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2016 Political TV Ad Tracker: with Analysis & Fact-checking Citizens Can Trust

To help citizens navigate their way towards informed choices amidst the flood of political messaging, we will be building on journalism partnerships to present digital library reference pages for political ads. Our journalism launch partners include Politifact, FactCheck.org and the Center for Public Integrity.

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Another outgrowth of our political ad experiments last year was applying audio fingerprinting to algorithmically find all other instances of an ad, once a single one had been identified. We used the audfprint tool developed by Dan Ellis at the Laboratory for the Recognition and Organization of Speech and Audio at Columbia University.

2015/08/132015/08/11

Steven Aftergood: Librarian of Congress Opportunity

#OSE Open Source Everything, Advanced Cyber/IO, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Government

A New Direction for the Library of Congress?

With the impending retirement of the longtime Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, there is an opportunity for a fundamental reconsideration of the function and operation of the Library of Congress. In particular, the time may be ripe for a massive expansion of the Library’s digitized holdings, enabling universal public access to its historic and cultural riches.

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2015/08/122015/08/11

Berto Jongman: 6 Corporations Control Science

Access, IO Impotency

Nearly All Scientific Papers Controlled By Same Six Corporations

Researchers looked at scientific literature published between 1973 – 2013 and found that companies ACS, Reed Elsevier, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell controlled nearly every single one.

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2015/08/112015/08/12

Mongoose: Families Of 9/11 Victims On Verge Of Proving Government Cover-Up In Court

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military

Families Of 9/11 Victims On Verge Of Proving Government Cover-Up In Court

For many years, rumors have circulated regarding the U.S. government’s involvement in an active cover-up of a sinister connection between Saudi Arabia and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In fact, 28 redacted pages from a congressional intelligence report are said to contain damning information that implicates the Saudis in the 2001 mass murder of American citizens. Despite a bipartisan effort to release the information, the now notorious 28 pages are still being withheld from the public under the predictable guise of “national security.”

Now, thanks to a federal lawsuit in a Manhattan court, there may be a light at the end of the tunnel.

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2015/08/112015/08/10

Stephen E. Arnold: Hack Your Death — Digital Disappearance

Advanced Cyber/IO, IO Impotency

Misinformation How To: You Can Build a False Identity

The Def Con hit talk is summarized in “Rush to Put Death Records Online Lets Anyone Be Killed.” The main idea is that one can fill out forms (inject) containing misinformation. Various “services” suck in the info and then make “smart” decisions about that information. Plug in the right combination of fake and shaped data, and a living human being can be declared “officially” dead. There are quite a few implications of this method which is capturing the imaginations of real and would be bad actors. Why swizzle through the so called Dark Web when you can do it yourself. The question is, “How do search engines identify and filter this type of information?” Oh, right. The search engines do not. Quality and perceived accuracy are defined within the context of advertising and government grants.

2015/08/082015/08/07

Berto Jongman: Obama Stonewalls SEAL 6 Crash Probe

07 Other Atrocities, 09 Terrorism, Corruption, Ethics, Government, IO Deeds of War, Military

Obama stonewalls SEAL Team 6 helicopter crash probe, watchdog says

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They believe SEAL Team 6 had a target on its back and that persons inside the Afghan National Security Forces may have tipped off the Taliban that night in Tangi Valley. That is why, they say, a fighter just happened to be stationed in a turret within 150 yards of a landing zone that had never been used before.

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2015/08/072015/08/06

Stephen E. Arnold: Google Begins to Understand Very High Cost of Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

IO Impotency

Google: Technical Debt Has Implications for Some AI Cheerleaders

If you are interested in smart software, you may want to read “Machine Learning: the High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt.” I like the credit card analogy. It combines big costs with what some folks see as a something-for-nothing feature of the modern world. … The paper identifies specific cost points which most MBAs happily ignore or downplay in post mortems of failed search and content processing companies. The whiz kids, both boys and girls, rationalize their failure to deal with shifting boundaries, “dark dependencies,” expensive spaghetti, and the tendency of smart software to sort of drift off center.

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JZ Liszciewicz: 2016 Political Fact-Checking Project