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The Age of Distributed Truth (eugenewei.com)
Eugene Wei, head of video at Oculus (Formerly with Flipboard, Hulu, and Amazon) writes about how information gets distributed now, and things that were commonly known in specific circles are becoming more widely known. From his article: The internet gave everyone a megaphone, and these days that can feel like that Chinese proverb, you know the one. Perhaps the truth was better kept in the hands of a limited set of responsible stewards, but that age of the expert has passed, and that system had its own issues. As every Death Star reminds us each time they're blown up, concentrating power in a small area has its own unique vulnerability. We live in the age of distributed truth, and it's an environment in which fake news can spread like mold when in viral form. But the same applies to the truth, and if there's one lesson on how to do your part in an age of distributed truth, it's to speak the truth and to support those who do. It may be exhausting work -- is it really necessary to point out the emperor is buck naked? -- but it's the best we can do for now. In this age, the silent majority is no majority at all.
If there's one lesson from the 20th Century it's "Trust No One"
Government. Media. Academia. All have betrayed trust, all corruptible, all fallible, all human.
Show me an inviolate person and i will see an empty chair.
TFS utterly fails to make a coherent point. I am incapable of agreeing or disagreeing.
For example, some of you incorrectly think Russia hacking the US election is "fake news". This is incorrect.
Some of you think Russia interfered on social media in the US election. This is true, but it is not true, in that it was far worse than that, and at a scale you would find difficult to believe.
Some of you think Russia may have hacked 15 states and only looked at data in a few counties in those states. This is not true, as it is far far worse.
Some of you think Russia hacked 39 states and only looked at data and gave it to certain individuals they controlled. This is not true, as it is far worse.
A very very few of you know that Russia attempted to hack every state, managed to disable specific precincts voting machines, created large scale disruption, and altered reporting systems for electronic-only non-paper-trail counts, and also maintained large scale social media attacks. This is very true, but most people, sadly, think it's false.
Do you really want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes?
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
Stop silencing it. Stop labeling opinions that seem "mean" or "spiteful" as hate speech. Free speech is essential to unmasking the truth. Problem these days is this country is just one big dramatization of "a few good men".
We have absolutely no grasp of how much better our lives are now, and how much better they're going to be in the future, due to advancements in communication technology.
Take the healthcare industry. The joke is, of course, that doctors hate it when their patients internet-diagnose themselves, but the truth of the matter is that the internet enables patients to have a much greater degree of participation in their own health. This is amazing. Doctors are, generally speaking, pretty smart people, but they are also very busy. Having a patient who takes an active role in their health make visits far more efficient and effective. That's just one industry, and we haven't really progressed far with AI yet. Imagine what's coming: a doctor that lives in your browser that can make recommendations based on data from your telemetry band. Preemptive heart treatment. Prescriptions auto modified based on your reactions to them.
Some may lament days gone by of the "Experts", but they can have it. I'm looking forward to the future.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
But that is an unpleasant truth.
The internet gave everyone a megaphone, and these days that can feel like that Chinese proverb, you know the one.
No. I don't know the one. After googling I still don't know it. Has anyone figured it out?
Drill baby drill - on Mars
...until it mentioned fake news.
I'm so tired of the "fake news" about "fake news" FFS
The Troll Truth and only the Troll Truth, according to President Troll. So help me God !
At least, that's what one might think, given the 'de-platforming' tactics currently in fashion.
Experts are people who take truth/knowledge and process it. They apply what is applicable, creatively and pragmatically.
This nonsense about the death of the expert is, itself, an untruth.
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That goes in my quotable quotes file:
" if there's one lesson on how to do your part in an age of distributed truth, it's to speak the truth and to support those who do. It may be exhausting work but it's the best we can do for now."
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
See subject folks: Who & what REALLY "runs things"? Corporate "$" (the root of ALL evil that both JFK & Eisenhower warned of) . It's they - always HAS been! So - who's behind them & what types compose them? Read on:
Pres. Trump = A good man imo, so far @ least! Imo, unless he's academy award actor capable? Isn't.
He is stepping on a LOT of their toes @ great risk & they do NOT like it (nor do the Masonic/Khazar-Pharisee/Jesuit order 'controllers', satanic screwballs the lot of them)!
He isn't even taking Presidential pay to give the rest of us a chance vs. the sociopath LOONS causing the REAL havoc out thereQ
(Man... they have to have ALL the 'pie' & imo, they're insecure freaks doing it, psychologically not realizing they BREED REVOLUTION starting wars, making enemies for FILTHY "Holy Dollar" (not) dead-presidents....)
Which they will try to make Pres. Trump one of. Mark my words. Try to think from THEIR twisted psycho point of view... you see it fast. Know thyself but more importantly? KNOW THY ENEMY (the REAL ones).
The UNHOLY DOLLAR is for sick losers who LIVE FOR IT ALONE (there's far better things in life, money's just a means to an end for family security (the real deal, those you love IF you are capable of such higher sentiments - they aren't. It's their "fix" for their TRUE drug - power, & control... especially political where they INSERT choke point controller infiltrators (see Glenn Ford's "BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL" for a great analogy example of how they operate))).
Bank on it (pun intended) Soros & his Rothschild masters (part of the Khazar/Pharissee legacy Christ himself kicked the crap out of w/ Jeremiah too, & St. John called them "the synagogue of Satan" who CLAIM to be jews but are NOT but spirit cooking sicko satanic luciferian toads (as as Masons which they find out in 30++ degree - see Albert Pike to verify (who engineered HOW world wars 1-3 will be started & we're living it today))?
They're slowly raising FED (not Federal @ all, another lie from the slaves of the BIGGEST LIAR OF ALL their 'master) interest rates to make it happen.
* Look out for Sept. folks (pull out of the markets while you can & get away w/ YOUR loot @ least)...
The masonic order attempted to "recruit me" 3x in this lifetime - I couldn't figure out why (I've done a lot of good in my day but a LOT OF STUPID too, go figure right?) - but they thought I was some CHUMP they could play too (fuck that - even a friend's father did, but NOT HIS OWN SON... go figure). No. No "F'ing" way!
TRUST NO "CLIQUE" OF MEN - usually WEAK inadequate weasels is why.
Jesuits?
I was schooled by them. They BREAK THEIR OWN LAWS (10 commandments, though shalt not kill, which they SWEAR THEY WILL for "the body of Christ on earth" our JESUIT POPE - wtf? HE IS JUST A MORTAL MAN (unless he drinks/transfusion infuses the blood of the young, yea, it goes on LOOK @ PETER THIEL) & are a major part of the swine too.
APK
P.S.=> Shit's making me sick. They're like Jackals attacking @ ALL ANGLES (via scumbag Saul Alinsky, another fake JEW admitted satanist "attack, attack").
Doubt any of this? LOOK INTO IT, I did - I almost WISH I didn't... in retirement I have the time (I didn't when I was being a donkey chasing FAKE MONEY FIAT DOLLARS)
No - what we're seeing now in FAKE news (especially CNN where John Bonnifield, a producer there, ADMITTED the 'russia' stuff = bs)? Only a distraction - they could care less if they are caught here (they are BORN liars, killers, & psychopaths (the only kind their life appeals to, face it - thinking they are "so smart" - most are FUCKING PAWNS only).
The REAL deal is COLLAPSE the dollar & the US Economy, start a war, & serve their "master" (baphomet who bohemian grove whackos worship who is MOHAMMED (look it up folks) & violent ISLAM (hence them working in concert for all of this)
DOUBT ANY OF THIS? Sure, I did - Until I looked into it... apk
All concentrations of power have their own unique weakness that they are scripted to contain. Hollywood scripts are scripted. Ultimately all concentrations of power have one vulnerability. All Humans Die. Until then nothing is forever and forever is an eternity.
>> it's to speak the truth and to support those who do. It may be exhausting work -- is it really necessary to point out the emperor is buck naked?
Oddly enough, those who last spoke the truth (i.e., John Podesta and the DNC did some unsavory things to keep Sanders out of contention) and noted that (Hillary) the emperor (to be) was buck naked (i.e., a corrupt and uninspiring candidate) are among the LEAST supported here in the USA. In fact, speaking the truth to power here could get you accused of "hacking the election" and "colluding with the Russians".
Apparently lots of people knew about the toxic environment at Uber. Why, then, did Susan Fowler's blog post end up being the one that set off the dynamite?
"It almost sounds naive, but it's clear she knows what's happening, and how in this high stakes game of poker, she has to be the coolest player at the table, lest she, like so many women before her, be labeled some hysteric. Her post is a masterpiece of tone and rhetorical control, and it had to be. No resorting to snark or irony or any number of tricks of the clever; she bore her own witness, and no better witness could an attorney have imagined."
Fuck Drumpf!
One problem I've found is that scientific research is mostly behind paywalls of some sort. Either you read an article where the company has access to the site and you get an interpretation or you pay the $10 or $100 or $1000 for access to the raw data and report.
But any nut job can set up a website and as long as it sounds believable (for small values of belief), he or she will have a following of similar nut jobs.
[John]
Shit better not happen!
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APK
P.S.=> A little "analogy" as to my TRUE motivations... apk
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belief in the ignorance of experts.
From his article:
Was this meandering collection of platitudes, non-sequiturs and aphorisms supposed to contain some great insight?
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
No one really does anything like, "This is what happened. This is where and these folk were involved."
If there is any of this it is buried beneath an unshakeable narrative position.
Reality tv's final triumph.
"American-first Principle"-Nazism in 21st Century Rejected
The Korean Central News Agency released an article "We Reject 'American-first Principle'- Nazism in the 21st Century" on Tuesday to shed light on the criminal nature of "American-first principle" touted by the Trump group of the U.S.
The big chaos the world has been forced to undergo at the hand of ruthlessly high-handed and arbitrary practices of the present U.S. administration is a direct product of the "American-first principle" trumpeted about by the Trump administration, the article says, and goes on:
The "American-first principle" is, in essence, the continuation and the expanded version of the hegemonic pursuance sought by the successive U.S. administrations.
This reactionary ideological trend stirs up extreme aggression and chauvinism by which they give the green-light to the violation of independence, the right to existence and the right to development of other countries and nations in order to serve the U.S. interests.
The idea is the American version of Nazism far surpassing the fascism in the last century in its ferocious, brutal and chauvinistic nature.
The "American-first principle" arouses denunciation by the public at home and abroad as it advocates the world domination by recourse to military means just as was the case with Hitler's concept of world occupation.
Just following Hitler's dictatorial politics, Trump's "two-nation strategy" justifies suppression after dividing nationals into two categories i.e. friends and foes. The strategy creates the atmosphere of horror among political, public, media, information and all other circles in the U.S., putting Trump, advocator of the idea, on the chopping board of impeachment himself.
Anti-immigration politics, little short of fascism's racist politics, has touched off aversion from big businesses which are gaining big benefits by relying on immigrated men of talents, and has sparked off derision by the world people as it denied the history of the U.S. itself, a multi-national and multi-racial country.
The world has never seen peace since the emergence of the "American-first principle".
After fixing it as the priority item of its policy for diplomacy and security to settle the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, and setting the "maximum pressure and engagement" as its DPRK policy, the Trump administration has pressed for the unprecedented nuclear threat and blackmail and economic sanctions on the DPRK.
Its wild act of blocking even medical appliances and medications, to say nothing of even a drop of fuel oil, from entering the country, is an unethical and inhumane act, far exceeding the degree of Hitler's blockade of Leningrad.
The moves to contain potential rivals China and Russia and hold the region and the rest of the world under its control have reached the extremes under Trump rule.
The Trump group has caused the evil cycle of destruction, slaughter and instability even in the Mid-east.
The U.S. moves to stamp out anti-U.S. countries have complicated the situation in Latin-America, too.
The Trump way of thinking that the whole world may be sacrificed just for the better living of the U.S., has put even its allies and stooges in a pretty fix.
The U.S. wantonly violated the Paris agreement on preservation of earth environment as an extension of its moves of defying even international law and agreements.
It is quite natural that the international community brands the U.S. act of conniving at the indefinite emission of carbon dioxide for its own interests as "an act of putting into the shade Hitler's poisonous gas atrocity" and "a crime to annihilate humankind by turning green planet into a poisonous gas room as a whole".
All facts prove that the "American-first principle" which brings horror and instability to the world is just intervention and dangerous war-first principle which defy the principles of non-interference and peaceful co-existence.
The "American-first principle" whose
... are two different things. "Truth" is a concept of logic, e.g., "If A then B" AND "if B then C" THEREFORE "if A then C". The last statement is logically true independently of the veracity of any statements A and B.
"Facts" are observable, verifiable statements about the real world, e.g. "the ocean is composed largely of the chemical compound H2O" and "there are some fish who live in the ocean". From these "facts" one can logically infer that there are some fish who live in water.
"Distributed truth" seems as meaningless to me as "alternative facts".
For men shall be... Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news would be consumed,
> President Bill Clinton's White House feared that the Internet was allowing average
> citizens, especially conservatives, to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access
> information that had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
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> The infamous 1995 "conspiracy commerce memo" tried to demonize and discredit alternative
> media outlets on the right to mainstream media organizations and D.C. establishment figures.
President Kennedy made Bill Clinton look like a saint. He was fucking women all over the place, e.g. Marilyn Monroe. But there was no internet back in the early 1960's, and the MSM lapdogs were all protective of a Democrat president. Compare that with Bill Clinton in 1998. The MSM were still protecting their Democrat president. But there was now a thing called "the internet" or "the web". Along came a lowly store clerk (Matt Drudge) with a modem
http://australianpolitics.com/...
> Web Posted: 01/17/98 23:32:47 PST -- NEWSWEEK KILLS STORY ON WHITE HOUSE INTERN
>
> BLOCKBUSTER REPORT: 23-YEAR OLD, FORMER WHITE HOUSE INTERN, SEX RELATIONSHIP WITH PRESIDENT
>
> **World Exclusive**
> **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**
>
> At the last minute, at 6 p.m. on Saturday evening, NEWSWEEK magazine
> killed a story that was destined to shake official Washington to its foundation: A White House
> intern carried on a sexual affair with the President of the United States!
Hillary Clinton's response was to lament the lack of "internet gatekeepers". http://www.freerepublic.com/fo...
I'm not repeating myself
I'm an X window user; I'm an ex-Windows user
HEY, "Baby I'll be there to SHAKE YOUR HAND & I'll be there to share the land, when we all LIVE TOGETHER NOW" https://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10803949&cid=54718813/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLQJ4toj-JY/ get it? I hope so... any other way = being PLAYED LIKE FIDDLES by 'controllers' I described, with GREAT HISTORICAL ACCURACY, unquestionably (I invite you to convince myself, or others, otherwise (& not from some PAID FOR FUCK who profits by misery, greed & death - "a'ight"?).
YOU won't see a lot of what I write - the "POWERS THAT BE" (known criminals banished from ~ a dozen nations over time) control the presses but DIG a bit to verify it... I freely invited it in fact!
* BY THE WAY - you're speaking to 1 of them, from here, that doesn't FALL FOR ANY BULLSHIT... & anyone's entitled to 1 thing - gettin' "PLAYED" (the brothers...) trick is, not to KEEP getting played.
Got it brother? I hope so. Question YOUR sources, by the by. It's TOO easy to 'package' something that appeals to base sensibilities & tribalism you know (ala "For the Children" who I am LARGELY for, admittedly - they're not "F'd up" yet = why).
Fact is, you're HUMAN too - you KNOW who I describe runs things & it's NOT a religious body, politic, or peoples - it's a MINDSET (of sick morons who are deficient drug addicts in a REAL way, for power) - playing us all against one another.
HOWEVER:
Never EVER think we are 'weak' though - that's the province of the ULTIMATE dimwit thinking mercy = weakness (the ghetto taught me this in ways you probably do NOT want to know) - mainly since YOU & YOURS? Seriously do NOT have the power... get it, get it good.
FACT:
We ARE YOU too (this IS the USA), & everyone else & we LEAD THE PLANET but we get led astray too (see what you replied to, drink it in & digest it).
OH lastly - tell King Jong I said "Grow up FOOL", ok? He's a pawn in THEIR hands too - too STUPID & young dumb full of cum to get his head right... he hasn't had the time to acquire wisdom (he's just a BOY, & I severely doubt he's had anyone tell him an OUNCE of TRUTH out of fear of execution @ the hands of a PETULANT boy...)
Ask him if he has seen the Mario Puzo film my subject is about - there is NO f'ing way I will turn on my fellow US citizens (right or wrong) but I willl try correct IF possible. Give us that much we are trying via Mr. Trump's actions.
Tell your "fearless leader" I said that - he doesn't like it? I will FREELY, mano-a-mano DOUBLE his age, willing to personally SCHOOL him otherwise... got it? GOOD...
APK
P.S.=> ANY other way = annihilation, & what I call "ILLOGIC LOGIC" stupidity - it pisses me off - we're on the VERGE OF GREATNESS (but somehow, I think things like the BIMINY ROAD show us we NEVER, ever get there, cut the F off BEFORE we can - how sad, & as a HUMAN BEING it's my duty to prevent that THIS round)... apk
There is no truth.
I tend to rant.
I do not know "that Chinese proverb". Anyone here knows-it ?
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That is why you down mod.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
A million college professors cried out in anguish and were left gnawing the knuckle of their remaining hand.
Bronx Shooting? As opposed to every other mass shooting.
That's a 1 D 10 T statement if there ever was one.
if there's one lesson on how to do your part in an age of distributed truth, it's to speak the truth and to support those who do.
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The truth cannot be distributed (in the meaning of the OP). And anyway the tagline is wrong.
We live in an age of distributed opinion. Everyone can access publishing and put their opinion out. People's opinions were always a source of great discomfort, bizarreness, and startle responses. Our friends tend to be the people whose opinions we can live with (if not necessarily agree with).
No, in the old days, there were these people called "editors". They made sure that the limited people with access to broadcast mediums and tools, stayed on point, stayed intelligible, and stayed with the facts. They published corrections and retractions when necessary. The system wasn't perfect but it did function reasonably well.
Then the OPM people, the MBA people, the Wallstreet Wizards came along and started undermining journalism, editors, professionalism and broadcast standards. "No one cares" about news or standards they claimed, as they put hundreds of talking heads, soap operas and reality TV on the air. Those things already existed of course, but journalism used to thrive alongside them. Slowly newsrooms were cut back, thinned out and their air time was reduced.
Now, everyone's opinion can get national attention. No matter how stupid or ill-informed. Racist, xenophobic and sexist commentary gets on the air because it is claimed to be "authentic" and "real voter opinion". It is hard to determine whose voice should be listened to, especially if you only watch/read/listen at intervals and frequently don't pay attention at all.
Then political persons with negative orientations took these trends and ran with them. And those people were rewarded with money, attention, success and national prominence. Those people didn't deserve any of that but they got it and now we all have a mess to deal with.