I think many are starting to realize
Mueller's probe solves nothing, without men willing to enforce the law
in front of judges loyal not to the constitution, but the crown
and the coming civil war
will not be civil
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Saturday, March 9, 2019
It oil, it's always oil
Holy shit
50% of Russia's foreign income is from Oil.
Oil that is threatened if global warming is addressed
Oil that is threatened when the USA became a net exporter
Oil that is supported by OPEC
Who else has Oil that is threatened the same way?
Saudi Arabia
Syria
The USA is being attacked, because the "Green New Deal" will eventually kill Russia
Ultimately, it's all about the Benjamins...
Sunday, February 17, 2019
It's ever more layered and complicated
Who knew
that the Saudi's would hack the Amazon CEO
and use AMI/National Enquirer to attempt to blackmail
And its rumoured the Israeli's have a hand in there
Who Knew...
that the Saudi's would hack the Amazon CEO
and use AMI/National Enquirer to attempt to blackmail
And its rumoured the Israeli's have a hand in there
Who Knew...
Sunday, April 1, 2018
The threat is Oligarchy, and perhaps not Fascism...
The rich have taken over the United States.
Rich control the media, in Fox News, and Local through Sinclair
The President and Cabinet are enriching themselves at the expense of taxpayers.
The Russians are funding disruption in order to distract and exhaust the population.
By the time Trump is finished filling judicial positions, there will be no more wins in court against companies.
who knew
they would go out,
Not with a Bang,
but a whimper
Rich control the media, in Fox News, and Local through Sinclair
The President and Cabinet are enriching themselves at the expense of taxpayers.
The Russians are funding disruption in order to distract and exhaust the population.
By the time Trump is finished filling judicial positions, there will be no more wins in court against companies.
who knew
they would go out,
Not with a Bang,
but a whimper
Friday, October 20, 2017
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Twitter influence operation experiment
Twitter was one of the vectors through which the Russian influence operates. My experiment is on how to sanitize it.
I started to more closely follow the 2016 elections in the late summer, and saw lots of interesting discussion about the candidates, and some certain amount of noise, for lack of a better term. There were an increasing number of accounts that made arrogant, inflammatory replies, and either refused to engage at all, or argued for a bit, then disappeared.
As the election neared, if felt like the volume of the noise kept increasing every day, and it was harder and harder to find signal. I had time to sort through it, but I imagine many or most did not, so real information was completely lost in the noise.
This experiment hopes to find a way to quiet the noise, and make twitter useful as a tool again. I will use the mute to remove these noisy accounts. My theory is that there is a limited number of accounts that create noise, and I can use mute to reduce the volume.
I initially tested the theory by adding all the muted accounts to a Twitter List, and occasionally looking at the list, and evaluate if it was pure noise. I found a contingent of accounts that hate being added to a list, and will block you immediately. This has the net effect of removing them from your public list. Didn't hurt the experiment, as either way, I was not seeing their posts. It does make lists less useful to pass the block list to others.
I start by using the Hamilton 68 dashboard http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ and look at the trending hashtags. When one pops up that looks like an obvious influence operation, I look it up with Twitter search, and mute everyone using that hashtag.
The first one that I tried this with was #TotalNFLBlackout. This one was created as a result of Statements by the president regarding NFL players protesting prior to sporting events. I did not have to mute very many to make this Hashtag go silent. The next to go was #CrisisActors, created in the days after the mass murder in Las Vegas, and a much larger number of accounts got swept up in this one. Last I added #falseflag which also added a huge number.
My mute list now stands at 551 accounts. Twitter has millions, so I am not silencing many voices. So far, it has reduced the volume somewhat. Replies to relatively famous people on Twitter seem more calm, more signal, less noise.
I need a way to quantify this...
I started to more closely follow the 2016 elections in the late summer, and saw lots of interesting discussion about the candidates, and some certain amount of noise, for lack of a better term. There were an increasing number of accounts that made arrogant, inflammatory replies, and either refused to engage at all, or argued for a bit, then disappeared.
As the election neared, if felt like the volume of the noise kept increasing every day, and it was harder and harder to find signal. I had time to sort through it, but I imagine many or most did not, so real information was completely lost in the noise.
This experiment hopes to find a way to quiet the noise, and make twitter useful as a tool again. I will use the mute to remove these noisy accounts. My theory is that there is a limited number of accounts that create noise, and I can use mute to reduce the volume.
I initially tested the theory by adding all the muted accounts to a Twitter List, and occasionally looking at the list, and evaluate if it was pure noise. I found a contingent of accounts that hate being added to a list, and will block you immediately. This has the net effect of removing them from your public list. Didn't hurt the experiment, as either way, I was not seeing their posts. It does make lists less useful to pass the block list to others.
I start by using the Hamilton 68 dashboard http://dashboard.securingdemocracy.org/ and look at the trending hashtags. When one pops up that looks like an obvious influence operation, I look it up with Twitter search, and mute everyone using that hashtag.
The first one that I tried this with was #TotalNFLBlackout. This one was created as a result of Statements by the president regarding NFL players protesting prior to sporting events. I did not have to mute very many to make this Hashtag go silent. The next to go was #CrisisActors, created in the days after the mass murder in Las Vegas, and a much larger number of accounts got swept up in this one. Last I added #falseflag which also added a huge number.
My mute list now stands at 551 accounts. Twitter has millions, so I am not silencing many voices. So far, it has reduced the volume somewhat. Replies to relatively famous people on Twitter seem more calm, more signal, less noise.
I need a way to quantify this...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
1/ Short thread here. In light of the Admin's down-the-rabbit-hole strange misstatements about the location of the USS Carl Vinson...
- 2/ I want to re-up another weird and still unexplained thing that happened Friday night concerning the Pentagon.
- 3/ Late on Thurs night, @TheHill posted this story about the gigantic bomb the US mil dropped in Afghanistan: http://goo.gl/oKPXsC
- 4/ That article was notable for this strange, un-CENTCOM-like statement attributed to "a CENTCOM spokesman":
- 5/ Then Friday, CENTCOM put out a press release saying basically, 'Uh, that wasn't us." I've never seen anything quite like this from DOD:
- 6/ CENTCOM never explained who it was that gave that statement as if they were a spokesman...
- 7/ (We asked, they wouldn't say).
- 8/ Also, the odd "that wasn't our spokesman" release is not on the site where CENTCOM posts its press releases: http://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/ …
- 9/ Also, look at the "Release Number" on the "that wasn't our spokesman" press release: 20170414-01...
- 10/ There is actually a CENTCOM Press Release coded with that number... but it's a totally different thing:
- 11/ So: now we've got a DOD statement that someone said things to a reporter that DOD disavows, but we don't know who the person was...
- 12/ Nor do we know the circumstances of why or how someone was pretending to be a CENTCOM spokesman for a day.
- 13/ And the release copping to this odd event is not publicly posted and it's coded with a release number that belongs to something else.
- 14/ This is mostly just weird. But (a) I've never seen anything like it before, and (b) DOD should explain the fake spox thing. OK, done.
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