The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence We have just finished a paper entitled ‘Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence’ for Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Global Security. For those interested below is the abstract: The emergence of social media has provided the public with an effective and irrepressible real-time mechanism to …
Evgeny Morozov 5.0 out of 5 stars Intellectual Recycling and Internet-Centrism, a tale of Cyber-Utopia Gone Really Wrong, November 30, 2012 Abhinav Agarwal (Bangalore, India) Dunks a much needed, well-reasoned, and well-researched bucket of cold-water over “Internet-centrists” and “cyber-utopians” (cyber-utopianism is a “naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication”), and assembles together an …
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How are humans going to become extinct? By Sean Coughlan BBC News, 24 April 2013 EXTRACT Dr Bostrom believes we’ve entered a new kind of technological era with the capacity to threaten our future as never before. These are “threats we have no track record of surviving”. Lack of control Likening it to a dangerous …
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Jointly: Peer-to-Peer Disaster Recovery App My colleague Samia Kallidis is launching a brilliant self-help app to facilitate community-based disaster recovery efforts. Samia is an MFA Candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York. While her work on this peer-to-peer app began as part of her thesis, she has since been accepted to the NEA Studio …
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Web App Tracks Breaking News Using Wikipedia Edits A colleague of mine at Google recently shared a new and very interesting Web App that tracks breaking news events by monitoring Wikipedia edits in real-time. The App, Wikipedia Live Monitor, alerts users to breaking news based on the frequency of edits to certain articles. Almost every significant news event …
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Libertarian pundit Justin Raimondo has written a splendid analysis of the Boston bomber’s overseas and other connections in his column today. The bad news is he makes a convincing case they did indeed have not only Islamic extremist connections but also connections to the Chechen mafia – a very bad mix of especially vile people. …
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Huh? Governor to Boston Area: “Shelter in Place”. Here is a Better Way By John Robb “Shelter in Place” is a phrase dreamed up by US Homeland Security. Now that the precedent has been set, we’re going to hear this phrase with ever greater frequency and duration. Governors that don’t take this step in the …
