The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh? My friends and colleagues, Forgive the interruption. I reach out to you on a matter of some urgency, about my dear friend, a former CIA officer, dedicated, stoic, talented … and now in deep and terrifying trouble. What’s happening to him is so stunningly crappy, and so unjustifiable, that his defense and support has …
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This is really fascinating because since these Salama graphics were posted, there have been many more explorations of the merger of neuroscience, psychology, and how we design and structure everything else. Imagine the most gifted artists in the world locked inside a lunatic asylum. That is us today. We can do better. Better search: Graphic: …
The Three Things You Need to Know About Big Data, Right Now Patrick Tucker World Future Society March 11, 2012 Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies Okay. You got me. I can’t really tell you everything you need to know about big data. The one thing I discovered last week – as I joined more …
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We used to emphasize incompetence over conspiracy. The Kony 2012 IO “story” is being exploded by multiple sources, most of which accuse the KONY administrators of being out and out thieves who deliver less than 30% of collected funds to any good use; and who have been reinventing themselves each year. There are many truths …
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I am always amazed when people tell me IO doesn’t work and then I see things such as this….I guess what they are really saying is incompetence doesn’t work….. Kony 2012: The anatomy of a viral campaign Hayley Tsukayama Washington Post, 9 March 2012 A particularly savvy media campaign by a nonprofit group called Invisible …
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Innovation and Counter-Innovation: Digital Resistance in Russia iRevolution, 9 March 2012 Want to know what the future of digital activism looks like? Then follow the developments in Russia. I argued a few years back that the fields of digital activism and civil resistance were converging to a point I referred to as “digital resistance.” The pace …
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Trails of Trustworthiness in Real-Time Streams Real-time information channels like Twitter, Facebook and Google have created cascades of information that are becoming increasingly challenging to navigate. “Smart-filters” alone are not the solution since they won’t necessarily help us determine the quality and trustworthiness of the information we receive. I’ve been studying this challenge ever since the …
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