The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Today’s Tripolar Power Struggle A few days ago I came across a map as part of research intended to expand the current Shia/Sunni labels applied to the Syrian conflict into the regional actors that fuel it. Egypt was given a prominent role that likely dated back to thinking about the United Arab Republic, formed early on …
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A Cognitive Prosthetic I recently wrote Curation & Cognition after receiving a paper that defined the practice of curation: Attention Doesn’t Scale. Summary: good curation is a treasure when you find it, and now we know what that entails. Stemming A Torrent Of Garbage describes the poor condition of LinkedIn groups without naming names. The ones …
Tripolar Power Struggle? Since I wrote Post-Assad Syria: Turkey’s Perspective this whole problem of sectarian and ethnic divides has been on my mind. I received some guidance after I published the article, basically that the underlying Bipartisan Policy Center paper U.S.-Turkish Cooperation Towards A Post-Assad Syria was not ‘wrong’, but that it was dated, and overly …
Compiled this from the source document: Curator Types • Aggregator • Distiller • Elevator • Masher • Chronologist Curator Skills • Sense-making: the ability to determine significance • Social intelligence: the ability to connect with others in a deep way • Adaptive thinking: the ability to come up with novel solutions • Cross-cultural competency: the …
The Keys To The Kingdom When NATO undertook the job of providing air support for Libyan rebels one of the actions they were tacitly supporting was the demolition of the Libyan state security apparatus. A hated tool of repression, those employed in it were slaughtered where ever they were found, offices were looted, files were burned, …
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All sort of stuff popping up today. Worth a complete and careful reading. Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt Friday April 19, 2013 On the 23 of June, 2011 a secret five hour meeting took place between WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was under house arrest in rural UK …
We’ll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years, Google expert claims Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years – an event known as singularity Our …
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