The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Open Source Everything
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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: All Opens Below Line Includes Autonomous Internet, Crowd-Funding/Sensing/Sourcing, and Transparency, Truth, Trust, & True Cost
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NCAA fines Penn State $60M, vacates wins from 1998-2011
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — The NCAA crippled Penn State football for years to come and practically tore Joe Paterno's name out of the record books Monday, erasing 14 years of victories and imposing an unprecedented $60 million fine and other punishment over the child sexual abuse scandal.
“Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting young people,” NCAA President Mark Emmert declared in announcing the penalties.
The governing body of college sports shredded what was left of the Hall of Fame coach's legacy – the sanctions cost Paterno 111 wins and his standing as the most successful coach in the history of big-time college football – while dealing a severe blow to the university's gold-plated gridiron program.
The NCAA ordered Penn State to sit out the postseason for four years, slashed the number of scholarships it can award and placed football on probation, all of which will make it difficult for the Nittany Lions to compete at the sport's highest level.
Raising the specter of an exodus of athletes, the NCAA said current or incoming football players at Penn State are free to immediately transfer and compete at another school.
For a university that always claimed to hold itself to a higher standard – for decades, Paterno preached “success with honor” – Monday's announcement completed a stunning fall from grace.
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Graphic: Tony Zinni on 4% “At Best”
This is the only place in literature where we know the story has been told in writing.
2008 Open Source Intelligence (Strategic)
The source was Col GI Wilson, USMC (Ret), who heard it from Gen Zinni directly. We consider General Zinni, along with Generals Gray and Stackpole, one of the three brightest and most holistic naval flag officers in modern history.
Crisis Tweets: Natural Language Processing to the Rescue?
My colleagues at the University of Colorado, Boulder, have been doing some very interesting applied research on automatically extracting “situational awareness” from tweets generated during crises. As is increasingly recognized by many in the humanitarian space, Twitter can at times be an important source of relevant information. The challenge is to make sense of a potentially massive number of crisis tweets in near real-time to turn this information into situational awareness.
Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML), Colorado colleagues have developed a “suite of classifiers to differentiate tweets across several dimensions: subjectivity, personal or impersonal style, and linguistic register (formal or informal style).” They suggest that tweets contributing to situational awareness are likely to be “written in a style that is objective, impersonal, and formal; therefore, the identification of subjectivity, personal style and formal register could provide useful features for extracting tweets that contain tactical information.” To explore this hypothesis, they studied the follow four crisis events: the North American Red River floods of 2009 and 2010, the 2009 Oklahoma grassfires, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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Phi Beta Iota: Humans will continue to outpace computers for the indefinite future. Artificial Intelligence, of which Natural Language Processing is a sub-set, never fulfilled the expectations created for it, and to date all forms of proprietary technology remains retarded in relation to scalability, extendability, sustainabiliy, affordability, and agility.
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2012 PREPRINT FOR COMMENT: The Craft of Intelligence
2010 INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability
Amplify Brooklyn: Designing A Sustainable Economy At The Community Level
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This fall, graduate students in the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program at Parsons, in New York City, worked with Penin and her co-director, Eduardo Staszowski, to create Amplify, an exhibit currently on display at Brooklyn’s Arts at Renaissance, which demonstrates existing and potential design solutions to local issues related to everyday experience. The project’s aim was to re-think service design in terms of sustainability. Duane Bray, Sarah Soffer and Tom Eich from the design firm Ideo facilitated the Amplify workshop.
Jacques Ellul, technology doomsdayer before his time
“People see him as just a bringer of bad news, but the two most important things in his writing aren’t taken into account. One is the comprehensiveness of his explanation of the technological phenomenon. The second is his powerful moral concern. Those two aspects of Ellul’s thought are not as influential as I’d like them to be.”
“Technology becomes our fate only when we treat it as sacred,” says Darrell J. Fasching, a professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of South Florida. “And we tend to do that a lot.”
Via Manuel Pinto, Artur Alves
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His central argument is that we’re mistaken in thinking of technology as simply a bunch of different machines. In truth, Ellul contended, technology should be seen as a unified entity, an overwhelming force that has already escaped our control. That force is turning the world around us into something cold and mechanical, and—whether we realize it or not—transforming human beings along with it.
Phi Beta Iota: All of these authors overlook the role of corruption — the lack of integrity and intelligence among decision-makers allocating financial resources. The fact is that technology is like complex financial instruments: a means of defrauding various parties for the benefit of the few. This is one reason why Open Source Everything must apply to all technologies as well as all financial dealings.
See Also:
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society (Vintage, 1967)
Jacques Ellul, Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (Vintage, 1973)
Jacques Ellus, The Subversion of Christianity (Eerdmans, 1986)
Jacques Ellul, Reprint: Money and Power (Wipf & Stock, 2009)
Jerry Mander, In the Absence of the Sacred (Peter Smith, 1999)
Kirkpatrick Sale, Human Scale (New Catalyst, 2007)
John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Vintage, 1993)
Robert Steele, THE OPEN SOURCE EVERYTHING MANIFESTO: Transparency, Truth & Trust (North Atlantic Books, Evolver Editions, 2012)
Clifford Stoll, Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (Anchor, 1996)
Phi Beta Iota: Another term of art is “Autonomous Internet.” A broader term that includes this one is “Liberation Technology.”
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