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A temblor is most likely to induce another quake within 30 degrees of the original quake’s antipode – the point directly opposite it on the other side of the globe.
If memes and disinformation have been weaponized on social media, it is still in the musket stage. Sam Woolley, director of the Institute for the Future’s (IFTF) Digital Intelligence Lab, has concluded that defenders of anything approaching “objective” truth are woefully behind in dealing with computational propaganda. This is the case in both technological responses and euro-cultural defenses. Moreover, the 2018 and 2020 US election cycles are going to see this kind of cognitive warfare on an unprecedented scale and reach.
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute found that bots generated more than one-third and nearly onefifth of Twitter activity supporting Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, respectively, during the first and second Presidential debates. Further, while the social media campaigns of both Clinton and Trump were highly automated, additional research from Oxford indicated that pro-Trump bots outpaced pro-Clinton bots five-toone from the day of the final debate to Election Day.
Over the past decade, linguistics, behavioral economics, and “fake news” have come to dominate most propaganda efforts as well as most attempts to understand how they’re engineered. Those disciplines and methodologies are relevant to memetics research but are often too siloed in their methodologies, or too tightly focused on technologies of transmission instead of human factors of reception.
For example, Me.me is a “meme search engine” that attempts to index and catalog memes as they emerge. In 2017, Me.me conducted a keyword analysis on the memes in their database to identify those words that increased in usage over a twelve-month period. Of course the “winners” were political terms, ranging from MAGA to libertarian to president.
Our media ecology is a cacophony of dissenting visions, targeted misinformation, weaponized persuasion, and other attempts to change our minds and our behavior (for helpful, trivial, and sinister reasons). If we ever fooled ourselves into thinking information can be neutral, we can no longer live under that illusion. The crisis of trust in institutions, and the active subversion of the perception and reliability of information sources is one of the defining features of political and social life
in the twenty-teens. How we as a society address this situation and the solutions offered will determine the course of the future of democracy
Most researchers have favored the study of the content of the memes themselves, for the best clues on how they function and why they spread. While the content of memes certainly matters, there are many other determinative factors in a meme’s contagion that are exogenous to the meme itself. The emotional effect on individual recipients, the timing to coincide with major events, the architecture and dynamics of the network, and the media literacy and facility of the target population may be more responsible for memetic contagion than the particular memes themselves.
When trying to understand why disinformation works so well, most scientists are drawn to the “source” of our main conscious (and unconscious) information processing system—the brain. New insights from neuroscience and neural imaging seem to flower and bloom every day from research centers around the world. These insights are magnified by a ready press and willing public, ready to soak up some “objective” explanation for why so many of our fellow humans are so easily seduced by fakes or the patently absurd.
While biology may be the best way of analyzing memetic activity in a human culture, memetic activity itself—particularly when it occurs in digital networks—tends to distance people from the biological and cultural mechanisms that stand a chance of mitigating its effects. The further removed from live, embodied communication we get, the less our interaction is governed by our evolved social skills. It becomes instead, as the many mis-interpreters of Darwin understand the world, a battle for survival of the fittest meme.
To combat hostile memes, we can either attack the memes themselves with antagonistic memes, or strengthen our cultural immune response to their codons.
Until now, social media companies have been depending on users to flag suspicious or malicious content—a self-policing that has clearly failed. Now, they are offering to upgrade their policing capability by using AI’s and machine learning. But given that the CEOs of social media companies got into the current mess by depending on technologies they didn’t fully understand, we must be guarded about their ability to find solutions using technologies whose ramifications are even less predictable.
[Future Comms]
Pre_stage ele_y
Pre_stage sec_y
Pre_stage dir_y
Pre_stage cap_y
[OnReady]
Q
FOR GOD AND COUNTRY.
PATRIOTS FIGHT.
Q
A temblor is most likely to induce another quake within 30 degrees of the original quake’s antipode
originally posted by: crankyoldman
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: cherokeetroy
Hhmmm...
Damn, is Bill Bar Corrupt Also? – DOJ Files New ‘Last Minute’ Motion to Keep Comey FBI Memo Content Hidden From Public…
theconservativetreehouse.com... rom-public/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Encouraging talk but discouraging actions from this new attorney-general.
Note: Everything James Comey is to be taken with Q glasses on full tint. He's not done. If he hasn't flipped, he will be the last because he does the most damage.
I will not be surprised if he turns out to be a gray or white hat.
The FBI's failure to provide Martin with a Miranda warning led to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Bennett rendering many of Martin's statements as inadmissible.
a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow
17th of Tammuz = July 20/21 = ANNIV of 1969 MOON LANDING - Lunar module 'Eagle'.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
There has been 639 Quakes (M>=3.4) in Calif in past 7 days.
www.volcanodiscovery.com...
EarthQuake 3D
EQ expert: www.youtube.com...
Full moon on July 16/17. Full Moon Q day? Be ready.
17 July - Mueller testifies
17th of Tammuz = July 20/21 = ANNIV of 1969 MOON LANDING - Lunar module 'Eagle'.
July 20, 1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
July 20, 1977 - C1A releases documents revealing MKULTRA.
July 20 is International Chess Day.
JFK Jr, Plane Crash, July 16, 1999.
Trump stated yesterday we'll all 'know more' within 2 weeks; regarding VP Pence cancelled NH trip.
Could be alot of happenings within next few weeks.
originally posted by: crankyoldman
17's. Find three and jackpot...