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by aldous 9y ago
I was pondering this too. In a general sense, the ol’ Kremlins digital savvy, often attributed to Mr Surkov, seems very impressive, horribly insidious as it is. Troll army operations: https://www.theatlantic.com/internationa
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Climbing out of Facebook's reality hole(cnbc.com)
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The End of the Web(thelongandshort.org)
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For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks(washingtonpost.com)
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We let programmers run our lives. So how’s their moral code?(new.spectator.co.uk)
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Fictional internet policy is bad for India, good only for Facebook(tech.firstpost.com)
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by aldous 13y ago
The UK mainstream press are reporting it: http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21599061-kremlins-belli...
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by aldous 13y ago
One could argue that jingoistic chest beating, on both sides of the divide is lamentable.Would we not do well to remember the unprecedented difference between our world today and that of the past; all our nations are more tightly entwined,
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by aldous 13y ago
Indeed. It seems reasonable to postulate that a more 'unconventional' use of a nuclear weapon is the more likely scenario today. The documentary 'Count Down to Zero' discusses such scenarios ( http://www.imdb.c
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by aldous 13y ago
A valuable point worth noting in relation to this is the fact that Jesus, in the new testament, specifically dismisses such practices as stoning: John 8:7. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” http:/&
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by aldous 13y ago
This resonates with me. Twitter was my compulsion, until I realised what an absolute time sink it had become, whilst equally becoming an increasingly inane and frustrating experience. I logged out and never went back (almost 2 years has pas
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by aldous 13y ago
You can listen to the actual call here: https://soundcloud.com/jim-romenesko/aol-ceo-tim-armstrong-8...
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Principle meets chaos for these ‘geeks of truth’, from Evening Standard, London(standard.co.uk)
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by aldous 14y ago
Well you know, I find I agree with a fair amount in this post. At the core of FB is there not a paradox - the more 'connected' we become online the less we engage in more substantive communication offline? For me, I see an abstraction that