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SHE’S ONLY GONE AND BLOODY DONE IT THE MADWOMAN
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This ‘covfefe’ thing is such a non-issue and totally stupid, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying the hell out of it. I especially love Trump trying to pull some “4D chess” garbage to make it seem as if ‘covfefe’ was some complex secret code that only his biggest supporters can decipher.
True meaning of “covfefe” = Donald Trump is a dumbshit
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine
By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion. Many of these technologies have been used individually to some effect before, but together they make up a nearly impenetrable voter manipulation machine that is quickly becoming the new deciding factor in elections around the world.
Most recently, Analytica helped elect U.S. President Donald Trump, secured a win for the Brexit Leave campaign, and led Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign surge, shepherding him from the back of the GOP primary pack to the front.
The company is owned and controlled by conservative and alt-right interests that are also deeply entwined in the Trump administration. The Mercer family is both a major owner of Cambridge Analytica and one of Trump’s biggest donors. Steve Bannon, in addition to acting as Trump’s Chief Strategist and a member of the White House Security Council, is a Cambridge Analytica board member. Until recently, Analytica’s CTO was the acting CTO at the Republican National Convention.
Really fascinating article, especially in the light of the massive influx of fake/bot accounts following popular Twitter accounts today, one being Trumpy.
Take everything you see on the Internet with a big grain of salt, folks. Especially on social media. They might have started out with good intentions, but they pretty much now exist to sell the user and push narratives.
So will Cambridge Analytica become the new Illuminati style conspiracy group in a few decades?
Not that the existence of this thing doesn’t sound mildly terrifying. I’m really hoping they overplayed the influence this thing has.
It’s definitely an alarmist article, but keeping an eye on the evolution of the technology and having knowledge that we’re constantly being manipulated online is very important.
Aye. Seeing where the world is going is nice. (It’s just too bad that it’s going in a direction of selling personal information in order to manipulate markets)
This ‘covfefe’ thing is such a non-issue and totally stupid, but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying the hell out of it. I especially love Trump trying to pull some “4D chess” garbage to make it seem as if ‘covfefe’ was some complex secret code that only his biggest supporters can decipher.
Where were you in '77?
Be sure to drink your Ovaltine? I looked it up and It’s a milk flavouring thing. It is an American thing, I don’t know if I’ve seen stores carry it here.
Try looking up the entire phrase.
Oh my god.
What in the actual hell.
Going slightly athwart topic here, but I recently finished reading The Dictator’s Handbook after putting it down for months (this had less to do with the writing and more to do with the fact that I wanted time to digest the implications of said writing).
It’s a fascinating read and its cynical yet illuminating interpretation of government fits the current political climate like a glove. Highly recommended.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
lest we forget sean spicer:
Watch How the Real Sean Spicer Compares to Saturday Night Live’s Parody
Sorry for the stupid article with its ads, i couldn’t find a direct video link
Trump admin is now claiming the CBO’s TrumpCare score can only be explained by a Democratic mole in the CBO. I suspect they’re laying the groundwork for getting rid of the CBO in its entirety. Hand-picking the CBO chief and allowing them to use imaginary numbers apparently still isn’t good enough to get a favorable score.
I don’t know which is worse, the way they bullshit their way through everything or that 39.1% of people buy it.
The FBI and Congress are examining a campaign event last spring during which Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions and Jared Kushner were in a small gathering with Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak and other diplomats at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.
Five current and former U.S. officials said they are aware of classified intelligence suggesting there was some sort of private encounter between Trump and his aides and the Russian envoy, despite a heated denial from Sessions, who has already come under fire for failing to disclose two separate contacts with Kislyak. Kushner also denied through a spokesman that he met privately with Kislyak that day.
The officials acknowledged to NBC News that the evidence does not amount to proof, and they have declined to provide details about it.
From CNN:
A person familiar with Trump’s plans says he will trigger the official withdrawal mechanism that’s written into the Paris accord. It will kick off a process that will take until November 2020 to complete.
This was considered the less-drastic option of withdrawing – the other being removing the US entirely from the UN climate change treaty, which would have taken effect sooner.
The person said Trump will make clear that he hopes to renegotiate better terms but that enacting the withdrawal process was the only way to do that.
So basically he’s gonna try to claim a win for pulling us out and leave the problem for others to fix.
What could be wrong with the terms already that pulling out to renegotiate to put us back in could possibly improve? Literally every country but 2 didn’t have a problem with this. This “America First” thing is ridiculous.
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He thinks you can treat everything like a business deal.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/870364445167542272
BREAKING: Trump announces withdrawal from Paris climate accord, but says U.S. will begin negotiations to re-enter agreement.
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BREAKING: Trump announces withdrawal from Paris climate accord, but says U.S. will begin negotiations to re-enter agreement.
The rhythm method
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-farage-idUSKBN18S4YM
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the U.S. investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing unidentified sources.
The London-based newspaper said Farage had not been accused of wrongdoing and was not a suspect or target of the U.S. investigation. But it said he was “right in the middle” of the relationships being looked at.
The newspaper said the former leader of the UK Independence Party had “raised the interest” of FBI investigators due to his connections with Trump and Julian Assange’s Wikileaks, which published leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee during the campaign.
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine
By leveraging automated emotional manipulation alongside swarms of bots, Facebook dark posts, A/B testing, and fake news networks, a company called Cambridge Analytica has activated an invisible machine that preys on the personalities of individual voters to create large shifts in public opinion. Many of these technologies have been used individually to some effect before, but together they make up a nearly impenetrable voter manipulation machine that is quickly becoming the new deciding factor in elections around the world.
Most recently, Analytica helped elect U.S. President Donald Trump, secured a win for the Brexit Leave campaign, and led Ted Cruz’s 2016 campaign surge, shepherding him from the back of the GOP primary pack to the front.
The company is owned and controlled by conservative and alt-right interests that are also deeply entwined in the Trump administration. The Mercer family is both a major owner of Cambridge Analytica and one of Trump’s biggest donors. Steve Bannon, in addition to acting as Trump’s Chief Strategist and a member of the White House Security Council, is a Cambridge Analytica board member. Until recently, Analytica’s CTO was the acting CTO at the Republican National Convention.
Really fascinating article, especially in the light of the massive influx of fake/bot accounts following popular Twitter accounts today, one being Trumpy.
Take everything you see on the Internet with a big grain of salt, folks. Especially on social media. They might have started out with good intentions, but they pretty much now exist to sell the user and push narratives.
Here’s an equally fascinating interview with Andrew Nix wherein he attempts to play down his status as an evil genius.
Doesn’t really help much that he looks like an extra from Kingsman.
Fun game, add “Mr. Bond” to some of his quotes:
“My ambition is to be an agent of change” = “My ambition, Mr. Bond, is to be an agent of change.”
It’s like something Blofeld says as he’s standing in front of his plate glass evil lair windows while Bond stands behind him in manacles.
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An Interesting ™ argument I just heard:
I agree. Who cares? That’s your [Americans] system. He’s [Trump] your pick. You don’t get a feel good card for not voting for him. Own it.
(This from a Canadian)
I want your opinions on this. Should all Americans deserve collective responsibility for Trump?
Discuss.
An Interesting ™ argument I just heard:
I agree. Who cares? That’s your [Americans] system. He’s [Trump] your pick. You don’t get a feel good card for not voting for him. Own it.
(This from a Canadian)
I want your opinions on this. Should all Americans deserve collective responsibility for Trump?
Discuss.
How responsible is an individual being dragged along by a massive bureaucracy driven by an established system, especially when, in addition to the momentum of the bureaucracy, that individual’s impact is lessened by economic or political disparity? A single Koch brother has one vote, but by pumping billions of dollars into the process, he can influence millions of voters. A single black person has one vote, but if they live in a gerrymandered congressional district, their vote may not be worth much at all.
The flaws exposed in our electoral process are perpetuated by a Republican Party that doesn’t care about representing what most Americans want — based on polling, a more progressive agenda overall — and instead only cares about maintaining power. It will take overwhelming support from Democratic voters in 2018 to overcome the effects of gerrymandering, and even then, it’s so severe in some areas that sheer numbers might not get us there, so while voters do bear significant responsibility, there are places in the U.S. where one’s vote truly doesn’t count.
It took generations to get the U.S. where it is today and will likely take a generation (or two) to fix it, and again, that’s only if we can knock Republicans out of power. As long as they control any part of the executive, real change will remain out of reach. And we still have to ask ourselves: do Democrats have the spine to drive systemic change? I, for one, am tired of them reaching across the aisle.
Also, having a few Trump supporters in my family, I can attest that there’s little a liberal can do to influence voters who remain willfully ignorant of facts and have bought into the fear-based platform of the modern GOP. Can we somehow minimize the impact of the stupid voter without causing the same problems we face already?
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An Interesting ™ argument I just heard:
I agree. Who cares? That’s your [Americans] system. He’s [Trump] your pick. You don’t get a feel good card for not voting for him. Own it.
(This from a Canadian)
I want your opinions on this. Should all Americans deserve collective responsibility for Trump?
Discuss.
How responsible is an individual being dragged along by a massive bureaucracy driven by an established system, especially when, in addition to the momentum of the bureaucracy, that individual’s impact is lessened by economic or political disparity? A single Koch brother has one vote, but by pumping billions of dollars into the process, he can influence millions of voters. A single black person has one vote, but if they live in a gerrymandered congressional district, their vote may not be worth much at all.
The flaws exposed in our electoral process are perpetuated by a Republican Party that doesn’t care about representing what most Americans want — based on polling, a more progressive agenda overall — and instead only cares about maintaining power. It will take overwhelming support from Democratic voters in 2018 to overcome the effects of gerrymandering, and even then, it’s so severe in some areas that sheer numbers might not get us there, so while voters do bear significant responsibility, there are places in the U.S. where one’s vote truly doesn’t count.
It took generations to get the U.S. where it is today and will likely take a generation (or two) to fix it, and again, that’s only if we can knock Republicans out of power. As long as they control any part of the executive, real change will remain out of reach. And we still have to ask ourselves: do Democrats have the spine to drive systemic change? I, for one, am tired of them reaching across the aisle.
Also, having a few Trump supporters in my family, I can attest that there’s little a liberal can do to influence voters who remain willfully ignorant of facts and have bought into the fear-based platform of the modern GOP. Can we somehow minimize the impact of the stupid voter without causing the same problems we face already?
Well put.
Personally it’s a bit annoying when people act like we’re all culpable for this.
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Elon Musk and Disney boss quit Trump’s business panel over Paris pullout…
thought this was interesting - have seen a couple of Mayors of US cities say similar things…
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/cities-cant-sign-treaties-can-still-fight-climate-change
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-farage-idUSKBN18S4YM
Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the U.S. investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing unidentified sources.
The London-based newspaper said Farage had not been accused of wrongdoing and was not a suspect or target of the U.S. investigation. But it said he was “right in the middle” of the relationships being looked at.
The newspaper said the former leader of the UK Independence Party had “raised the interest” of FBI investigators due to his connections with Trump and Julian Assange’s Wikileaks, which published leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee during the campaign.
Hope they do find some dirt on him (whether it be long rumoured ties to Russian backed-funds etc) - unfortunately he’s played the game so long (as a former banker, former Tory elite etc) he’ll have likely hidden any ties and money quite deep…
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/26/nigel-farage-phoney-scrutinise-him-ukip
A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…
Welcome to the OriginalTrilogy.com | Introduce yourself in here | Useful info within : About : Help : Site Rules : Fan Project Rules : Announcements
‘How do I do this?’ on the OriginalTrilogy.com; some info & answers + FAQs - includes info on how to search for projects and threads on the OT•com
A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)
… and take your time to look around this site before posting - to get a feel for this place. Don’t just lazily make yet another thread asking for projects.
Elon Musk and Disney boss quit Trump’s business panel over Paris pullout…
thought this was interesting - have seen a couple of Mayors of US cities say similar things…
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/cities-cant-sign-treaties-can-still-fight-climate-change
Yeah, I read an article somewhere that said the industry is still likely going forward in support of renewable energy/going green because it’s expensive to change from one system to another; there is expectation that future policy will force the regulations anyway; and so to do it now allows for a gradual switch over instead of the enormous expense of meeting a sudden and abrupt deadline.
chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.