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Fake News: Defining and Defeating
Fake News: Defining and Defeating Real techniques for identifying fake news and disinformation Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to present his media critics with so-called “fake news awards,” it is more important than ever to define what “fake news” actually is, and what it is not. President Trump’s repeated accusations of fake news are […]
I Paid To See A Movie About Singing. I Got Ninety Minutes Of Pentagon Propaganda.
I Paid To See A Movie About Singing. I Got Ninety Minutes Of Pentagon Propaganda. To cap off a long, strange day, my husband and I took the kids out last night to see Pitch Perfect 3. The first Pitch Perfect is a firm favorite in our household, the kind of movie we end up […]
The Global Significance of the Ecovillage Movement
The Global Significance of the Ecovillage Movement Cobb Hill Co-housing community, Vermont Series: Ecological Design for Sustainable and Regenerative Futures This article provides some of the meta-issues or global perspectives relevant to ecovillage designing. Ted Trainer, a long time proponent of the ecovillage solution, continues in this vein by offering the rationale for instituting his […]
Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror
Rome’s “Empire Without End” and the “Endless” U.S. War on Terror Replaying the Roman Civil Wars in Reverse Since 9/11 L’incendie de Rome, Hubert Robert (c. 1785) That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on […]
The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN’s False WikiLeaks Story
The Washington Post Also Misreported CNN’s False WikiLeaks Story I left on holiday just as the news was breaking about multiple mainstream media outlets independently reporting a spectacularly false story about WikiLeaks, Donald Trump and Russiagate, and I was pleased to return to find they’d received their much-deserved beatdown for it. One fact that doesn’t […]
Designing Against Misinformation
Designing Against Misinformation Updated treatment for misinformation in News Feed using Related Articles Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false. Should you trust everything that you see, even if it comes from someone whom you don’t know well? If you’ve never heard of an article’s publisher, but […]
A Gold Guys View of Crypto, Bitcoin, and Blockchain
A Gold Guys View of Crypto, Bitcoin, and Blockchain Bitcoin was on my radar far back as 2011, but for years, I didn’t think much of it. It was a curiosity. Nothing more. Sort of like the virtual money you use in World of Warcraft or something. In 2015, looking deeper, I slowly (not the […]
Data, Power, And War
Data, Power, And War We’ve built a power structure that leaves the public good begging at the door. This must change. image Over the past few years I’ve been looking for a grand unifying theory that explains my growing discomfort with technology, an industry for which I’ve been a mostly unabashed cheerleader these past three decades. I […]
A fistful of beans, enough for a meal
A fistful of beans, enough for a meal On my mother’s relentless frugality which makes her life harder, but the world a better place. All photos taken by yours truly In November 2010, I paid a visit to my mother’s home town in Çanakkale, Turkey. The waters Helen of Troy bathed in. The coast Alexander the Great battled […]
What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today
Photo: Bettman/Getty Images What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today Sixty years after the nuclear tests, the groundwater is contaminated and the coconuts are radioactive. But are the coral reefs thriving? Nearly 60 years after the last of 23 nuclear explosions in its land, air and water, Bikini Atoll again looks like the idyllic Pacific paradise it […]
Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD.
Should we try to fix global warming with fake volcanic eruptions? TBD. There could be unintended consequences. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 sent planet-cooling aerosols into the atmosphere. Photo by Arlan Naeg/AFP/Getty Images. By Mary Beth Griggs With heat-trapping carbon emissions on the rise again, researchers are looking for ways to turn down […]
Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks
Hillary Clinton Just Told Five Blatant Lies About WikiLeaks As part of her ongoing “Thank God You Didn’t Elect Me” tour, Hillary Clinton made her debut on Australian television last night in an interview with the ABC’s Sarah Ferguson. Though she didn’t repeat her infamous “17 intelligence agencies” lie, which she’d continued to regurgitate long […]
Why Everyone Should Do What WikiLeaks Did
Why Everyone Should Do What WikiLeaks Did By far the best thing about the WikiLeaks-Don Jr. controversy has been watching the talking heads on CNN and MSNBC who spent a year and a half priming everyone for President Hillary now saying, “Ha! WikiLeaks claims they’re a legitimate news organization, and yet here they are, advancing […]
How Elites Control the Way You Think About Economics
How Elites Control the Way You Think About Economics Since the beginning of our nation, American elites have used their power to justify their disproportionate levels of wealth. Today, those few, those happy few, continue this wicked tradition with disturbing effectiveness. They do so by deploying an assortment of tried-and-true strategies to manipulate public sentiment […]
More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked
November 25, 2017
More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing. Spot the fake comment. Surprise — they’re all fake. NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans’ identities were stolen and used […]
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