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REVEALED: The True Story of Dr. Dr. Dave Warner and the Synergy Strike Force

The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War It was a dark time in a long, drawn-out war. Afghanistan was festering with resentment. The Pentagon brass were desperate. It was the kind of last-ditch moment when authorities start throwing an era’s weirdest ideas at its most hopeless bureaucratic mistakes. (ILLUSTRATIONS: GRAHAM SMITH) By Brian Calvert …

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Patrick Meier: Automatically Identifying Fake Images Shared on Twitter During Disasters

Automatically Identifying Fake Images Shared on Twitter During Disasters Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used to automatically predict the credibility of tweets generated during disasters. AI can also be used to automatically rank the credibility of tweets posted during major events. Aditi Gupta et al. applied these same information forensics techniques to automatically identify fake images posted on Twitter during Hurricane …

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Berto Jongman: More on Israeli Control of NSA via Narus Company

Worth reading. Narus is a company, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, which provides real-time network traffic and analytics software with enterprise class spyware capabilities.[1][2] It was co-founded in Israel in 1997 by Ori Cohen, who had served as Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDONet, an early media streaming pioneer, and …

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Patrick Meier: What is Big (Crisis) Data? How Do You Reduce Relevant Mass? Human Solutions to Machine Filter Failure

What is Big (Crisis) Data? What does Big Data mean in the context of disaster response? Big (Crisis) Data refers to the relatively large volume, velocity and variety of digital information that may improve sense making and situational awareness during disasters. This is often referred to the 3 V’s of Big Data. Volume refers to the amount of data (20 million tweets were posted …

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SchwartzReport: Miami Under Seawater — and Losing Drinking Water

Our children, grandchildren, and all the generations that follow are going to curse us. As the Republicans in the senate and the house, and their Theocratic Right base block any meaningful action on climate change, and Obama is reduced to doing what he can through executive order, our world is slipping away. The changes are …

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