Penguin: No on Tim Berners-Lee, Yes on Reward-Based Decentralization

Alert Reader comments: I think there should be some skepticism of Tim Berners-Lee. He created the world wide web out of CERN, and was later knighted. He’s connected to Oxford, the AI lab at MIT, and their center for collective intelligence. His new project is a joint venture with Qatar. There are several interesting projects …

Berto Jongman: Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates

Beacon and Warning: Sherman Kent, Scientific Hubris, and the CIA’s Office of National Estimates J. Peter Scoblic, a doctoral candidate at Harvard Business School, is a fellow in the International Security Program at New America and the author of U.S. vs. Them: Conservatism in the Age of Nuclear Terror. “From bias to probabilities, Kent anticipated …

Robert Steele: The Big Lie: “Russian Propaganda.” The Bigger Lie: “The Truth Is What We Say It Is.”

The Big Lie: “Russian Propaganda.” The Bigger Lie: “The Truth Is What We Say It Is.” American Herald Tribune 18 September 2018 DOC (6 Pages): AHT IO Russia and the Rest FINAL 1.1 Full text online below the fold. Полный текст, переводимый в онлайн ниже складки – используйте переходник в правом верхнем углу экрана. גאַנץ …

Berto Jongman: RAND on OSINT — Without Integrity

RAND_RR1964_OSINT_2018 Rethinking OSINT as an Intelligence Discipline Defining Open Source and OSINT OSINT Subtypes …News Media Content …Gray Literature. …Long-Form Social Media Content …Short-Form Social Media Content OSINT Methodology: The OSINT Operations Cycle …Collection …Processing …Exploitation …Production

Otto Scharmer: Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, Post-Human – How You Can Reconnect and Transform

How to Access Your Curiosity, Compassion, and Courage We all face the abyss of three great divides: ecological, social, spiritual. Post-Truth: Trapped in fake news digital echo chambers. You can’t know, nobody knows. Post-Democracy: Families, communities, societies breaking apart. You can’t connect, nobody can. Post Human: Lost connection and agency. You can’t transform, nobody can. …