Mongoose: ISIS Intelligence Manipulated?

Inquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating allegations that military officials have skewed intelligence assessments about the United States-led campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State to provide a more optimistic account of progress, according to several officials familiar with the inquiry.

Berto Jongman: Ken Wilber on Integral Operating System — 5 Elements

What Is an Integral Operating System? AQAL is short for “all quadrants, all levels”—which itself is short for “all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, all types,” which are simply 5 of the most basic elements that need to be included in any truly integral or comprehensive approach.  Element #1: States and Stages of Consciousness; …

Robert Cordova: Arrationality

Option3Project Arrationality is an evolving term.  It evolves specifically in reaction to rationality.  Arrationality is as much a part of the 500-year process of welcoming science into our consciousness as anything else.  In this sense, arrationality was how people thought before the early modern era began around 1500 – admittedly not always to the greatest effect.

Worth a Look: Paul Mason Trilogy — End of Greed, Emerging Revolutions, Post-Capitalism

2016 (forthcoming): Postcapitalism, A Guide to Our Future  In this bold and prophetic book, Mason shows how, from the ashes of the crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable economy. 2012: Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere, The New Global Revolutions  Economic crisis, social networking and a new political …

Stephen E. Arnold: Technology Can Be Toxic

Technology Takes It on the Nose I put this passage in my quote file: But technology is not neutral – and neither is code nor numbers. There are human, subjective judgments lurking behind the apparent objectivity offered by algorithms and the “user-friendly” operating systems. These technologies perform almost magically, while at the same time enabling …