Tip of the Hat to Berto Jongman.
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Graphic: Future Finance Technology — Not Transformative at All
IO ImpotencyMatt Taibbi: In the Age of Trump, Will Democrats Sell Out More, or Less?
Access, Ethics, Government
In the Age of Trump, Will Democrats Sell Out More, Or Less?
The collapse of the GOP gives the Democrats an opportunity to abandon “lesser evilism” — but they probably won't
EXTRACT
The Democrats could take this godsend of a Trump situation and use it as an opportunity to finally have a healthy primary season debate about what they want to stand for in the future. But nah to that. They'll probably just hoover donor cash and use press surrogates to bash progressives the way they always have. Trump or no Trump, if politicians don't have to work for your vote, they won't.
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Robert Cordova: Arrationality
Advanced Cyber/IO
Arrationality is an evolving term. It evolves specifically in reaction to rationality. Arrationality is as much a part of the 500-year process of welcoming science into our consciousness as anything else. In this sense, arrationality was how people thought before the early modern era began around 1500 – admittedly not always to the greatest effect.
Sepp Hasslberger: Cold Fusion Verified, 10,000 Times Energy Density of Gas
05 Energy
Cold Fusion could change the world of energy …
Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas
Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists. The research paper, which hasn’t yet undergone peer review, seems to confirm both the existence of cold fusion, and its potency: The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline. Even allowing for a massively conservative margin of error, the scientists say that the cold fusion device they tested is 10 times more powerful than gasoline — which is currently the best fuel readily available to mankind.
Arno Reuser: Windows 10 Spys All
IO Impotency
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out (in theory).
Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out
Phi Beta Iota: Microsoft probably uses the constant updates to do things other than update. They simply cannot be trusted anymore than Google. The global marketplace is waiting for a cloud convergence that provides absolute default security including at rest data encryption.
Jimmy Carter: US an Oligarchy Steeped in Corruption
Corruption, Government
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery”
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.”
Antechinus: Political Framing Defines “Common Sense”
Cultural Intelligence
“Political ground is gained not when you successfully inhabit the middle ground, but when you successfully impose your framing as the ‘common-sense' position.”
George Lakoff, professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, has been working on moral frames for 50 years. He gives this precis: “Framing is not primarily about politics or political messaging or communication. It is far more fundamental than that: frames are the mental structures that allow human beings to understand reality – and sometimes to create what we take to be reality. But frames do have an enormous bearing on politics … they structure our ideas and concepts, they shape the way we reason … For the most part, our use of frames is unconscious and automatic.”
