The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Had to Stop. WordPress Cannot Handle So Many Links, and Entire Phi Beta Iota Site is About Peace and Prosperity Through Intelligence with Integrity. Links Below Line Estimated 25% of Relevant Links Across all 12,000+ Posts. Excellent search and badly needed PhD thesis that could “write the book” on the role of intelligence in support …
Terracide and the Terrarists Destroying the Planet for Record Profits By Tom Engelhardt We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live …
Top 5 ways to achieve an open and informed world Thinking about World Press Freedom Day earlier this month, I found myself asking: why does it matter? One of the key messages of this annual event is that freedom of the press, and by extension, expression, is more than just an important right. It is …
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Automatically Classifying Crowdsourced Election Reports As part of QCRI’s Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring Elections (AIME) project, I liaised with Kaggle to work with a top notch Data Scientist to carry out a proof of concept study. As I’ve blogged in the past, crowdsourced election monitoring projects are starting to generate “Big Data” which cannot be managed …
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Pressure is mounting for the US to become involved in the Syrian civil war. Advocates of intervention have all sorts of motives. Once of the most attractive talking points from the perspective of the interventionists is the Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons on its own people. This short and well focused essay addresses that …
National Defense University’s Convergence I have been writing on attention conservation for the last four years, having first heard of the concept within Bruce Sterling’s Viridian Design Notes. Sterling used this term as a label for an initial few lines of summary on each note, basically negative information regarding the content, permitting those who would not …
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Google Implants By 2030? From Marketplace Tech comes an interesting article on Google Glass and the projections into the future in regards to similar projects. The article, “Google’s Ray Kurzweil on the Computers that will Live in our Brains,” discusses how everything Google puts its hands on is changing how we search, retrieve and interact …
