The ban was a national security move. Psychological warfare is a well known military doctrine, if you want to see the sciences behind it, use the filetype:pdf tag on google with the terms psychoacoustics, psychographics, psychovisuals. They teach these techniques when going for marketing degree's and there are well documented studies on how the use of these techniques have ridiculosuly boosted profits e.g. supermarkets playing calm music and building their store like a maze to force customers to listen to calming music for a sufficiently long enough period of time to cause the autonomic and limbic nervous systems to relax thus increasing susceptability to other signals and triggers on packaging. This specific technique has been linked to a 30-50% increase in revenue.
There is a strong argument these adversaries have built domestic terrorist cells who have been running around in gangs threatening people, razing buildings, and engaging in nonsensical political discussions about disposing with government services, and they are using a social media company owned by a foreign state with stated military objectives to organize. Whether you want to view Antifa or Trump supporters as the terrorists, or TikTok, Twitter or Facebook as domesitic or foreign companies is a matter of perspective.
The fact is weapons of psychologcial warfare do not differentiate between targets and may yet proove to be as deadly as any WMD.
The reason Section 230 is under attack by the current regime is that astroturfing exercises on boards like this one to force perspective change and create sounding boards for corporate political policies has become a well documented business model as the recent deposition of FB and Twitter's CEO infront of congress showed.
The real insanity is that any CEO would ever think messing with people's brain chemistry without knowing what you are doing in order to make a buck was ever a good idea.
Listen to black debaters in the 1950's and 1960's sometime, david hoffman on youtube has a few really great videos up. Some of the Black panthers stuff is pretty interesting IMO.
Black people are more than capible of holding their own in corporate america, but they've been disenfranchised and disabused by crappy social policies and generational complex trauma stemming back to the 1600's in America, compounded by familial and community abandonment.
The net result of this is you have a bunch of basically abandoned children that, when they get into an adult environment, especially a tech environment, they can't function. Then, the devil incarnate comes along and says an environment of high emotional regulation (professional standards and boundaries) where people strive to develop cognitive function (think through their problems) and work as teams (because we all have to specailize) is "whiteness" because people are explaining the basics to them, or they can't negotiate because they get very nervous, or a myiad of other issues that really boil down to development.
It is a terrible lie, many things that aren't really racist become racist because all of a sudden we are discovering this group of disabused people don't have the development they need to have to function in that environment, are getting left behind, and have no clear path to attainment. Then the media vultures come in and "monetize" them.
And in some cases, they make people feel threatened and not physically but intellectually, and some narcisstic people feel like they've been dressed down a few notches which is BS.
You're American, some goat farmer is going to come over and invent the next big thing, put you out of work, then you're going to go work fixing robots and make 4x what you were making. Deal with it, leave your cultural identity on the boat.
So first of all, be the best you can be. You have nothing to feel guilty over by doing that and working towards that.
Second, recognize this group has been through an incredibly difficult time and more importantly, that survival instinct and moral perspective are important to really listen to and to play chess with. Keep "whiteness" and "blackness" out of the discussion and just stick to this as a navigation exercise.
Third, keep in mind a lot of them are impatient and angry. That isn't your doing, the best you can do is offer them an ear, mentorship if they ask for it, and a straightforward and fair explination.
First, and I really want to point this out. The author's sentance you are quoting doesn't have fully correct english and due to that is missing meaning. You're reading into it what you want.
Second, applying the assumption they are obfusicating code to maintain control or ensure job security paints a lot of people with a very, very wide brush. If you asked why or spent time understanding why, then you'd get a lot closer to the truth of whatever the situation happens to be.
Third, Arthur Schopenhauer is attributed with the statement "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." High performers tend to hit targets nobody else can see and that tends to be a very disorienting experience for all involved because systems end up behaiving in unexpected ways. Some people call it code obfusication, some people call it forcing people who are looking to break things to understand what they are doing before they do it; both are forms of organizational dysfunction which is pandemic in the industry.
Subtly demonizing these people as "inhuman", or as you are doing right now, painting them with a wide brush, illustrates one of the serious problems that high IQ and high performance staff face. Namely, they get scapegoated and harassed by groups of people.
At one org I found a bug causing 8 figures a year in inventory shrink caused by 2 lines of SQL Code that had been there for 10+ years; a contractor had come in, implimented a fix, and nobody had ever questioned it. Millions of dollars of inventory were being stolen by staff. Now imagine how disorienting that is to the entire end to end org. Believe you me, the c-suite wanted me gone after that and not because I wasn't doing a great job, but because I was fixing organizational issues that made them look bad and they wanted that stopped. They hired a high performer, encouraged it, and then when it got too bad for them, they got rid of them.
It is fully possible that some of these situations exist where there's a toxic, narcissistic fascade being sold to maximize profit. It happens. But I doubt that is the norm.
Is this an issue of organizational incentives? It's an issue with organizational structure, not recognizing people for who they are, and not aligining staff's interests because in this world we have this f'd up idea that we're just here to make money for shareholders or be the ATM machine for ownership. If running a company as pageantry makes them money, then they do not care.
This is why many high performers often create a niche money-making product that doesn't take up a lot of their time to get cash out of, then move on to working on other things that make them happy.
This article hasn't been grammer checked, uses a lot of recent, sensationalist words, doesn't ask questions directly except at the end, provides no new or interesting information on Mileva, her accomplishments or her day to day, her kids and family, background, or their accomplishments. I conclude with no picture of what her life was like.
It's substance consists fully of vague diatribes about why Mileva didn't get credit for general relativity, asking vague, emotional questions that can easily be construed as accusations without providing new information or answers.
It is, by definition, trite and spin and poisons the news feed of HN. If it's a slow news day, it's a slow news day.
This reminds me of slashdot back in the early 2010's after Cowboy McNeal sold it off to I think it was Dice. Every day there was minimum 1-2 SJW Agenda pieces; initially they were recieved warmly but as the material got more and more radical over time, the community realized what was going on and turned extremely vitriolic. Then they drew an unbelievable amount of automated bot spam and even people with old accounts became hostile and left. Towards the end, they got sneakier and sneakier about the agenda pieces; you'd see one about an obvious feminist topic draw ire and a tremendous amount of vitriol, then another about "How do I help my daughter learn STEM\Electronics". Articles like the ladder became more common and people began ignoring them. Eventually the community left and all you had were a bunch of hateful people left. BizX stopped posting those pieces after buying the site a few years backl; They have a different agenda mostly inline with their financial portfolio.
I remember when the site had minimum 300-400 responses per article, many of which were tremendously useful, with some articles hitting 1000-2000 and it did that on every article. Today they're lucky to hit 100 and most of that, these days, looks like astroturf.
Cloud is giving a service provider all of the benefits of a utility with none of the responsabilities. If Compute was really a utility, then like water, sewer, and internet, it'd be highly regulated.
BTW, Mailstore free can backup your google e-mails handidly and is the best such client for doing so.
If they treat you like an ATM machine, you treat them as such. 40 hr weeks, go home, and DGAF.
Patients dieing because people don't work 80hr weeks? Why are you working for such a shit management team? That's management's problem. Don't like it? Quit. Really don't like it? Name and shame.
It's unfortunate we live in a day and age that kind of thinking is necissary but it is. Burnout in the middle of a pandemic can get you killed.
The actors responsable are doing an all out attack to maximize profits as US Large corps and military are currently targeting their networks to prevent election tampering. These botnet networks have prooven difficult to disrupt even fort hem. This is a profit maximization effort for them and probably one they'll do right before folding and disappearing as the last time hosptials and police were directly targeted national governments began disappearing the perpitrators.
What'd be heartless is if the malware, such as the ryuk ransomware in December of 2019, had a bug in it that prevented the decryption key from working and all it did was garble and trash data.
Be forwarned, a few groups deploying ransomware are on sanctions lists which carries direct liability if you pay them. If you're the IT staff, make the CFO\CEO pay them and wash your hands of it.
First, Ben Bagdikian's media monopoly highlights how we now have very concentrated media companies and almost every company that calls itself "the mainstream media" is actually part of 4 or 5 companies that are I think are best deemed an oligopoly of influence brokers in the US. Much of the reason those companies have been targeting the current incumbent president for the past 4 years with a ferver that the Bushes, Clinton, or Obama never were attacked with is largely because when a rich person is threatened with losing their money, they'll simply spend it all to stop it from being taken away. Great example of how that works is here:
Second, you make more money as a "news" org if you foster an unquestioning, guillable audience that doesn't question what you're putting forward much. Hence, the use of naming and shaming, guilt tripping, heckling and otherwise berating their own audience through innuendo and sleight of hand. The MSM has repeatedly crossed the line in the last year of attempting to incite their audience to violence. A great majority of americans at this point, by polls, consider those orgs to be trash news and tabloids; what these large news orgs are attempting to do is to stop competition from taking root. Some of that is supported by the US Government; psyops are a real thing and having media control is an effective means to stopping them. Much of that is revenue assurance. The problem today is, people are turning off the TV and Cable news broadcasts and are going to 3rd parties because they've gotten wise to big media pissing in the soup.
Finally, 8chan has been, for a long long time, targeted by social engineering groups including spooks from the US government. The internet has this funny issue where unregulated, anonymous boards tend to get targeted by social engineering threat groups in foreign governments and that has been pretty well documented. Even HN gets targeted. The problem with psychological warfare is, much like any WMD, it doesn't differentiate between target or target audiences, and as a spook org, you have no idea who really uses 4chan or 8chan. So you end up with these platforms being used to attract and radicalize certain broad audiences, then SHTF such as e.g. Anders Behring Breivik, the courts and governments are left to pick up the pieces and save face.
Pretty much at this point there's no more face to save, and the burden of proof is now a hell of a lot higher for audiences going forward. The game of building trust in an org then using people is prooving less and less effective.
Krebs did an excellent job at following the money down on what looks like a fairly sophisticated psyop. Interesting to me he'd do that.
The cost of innovation in crude governments of faith (Dictatorships, Tyrranies, etc) is measured in starvation, famine and deaths in the population. The cost of innovation in modern governments built on systems (socialist or capitalist democracies) is a lot of squaking about the innovation and its uses.
The cost of the NORK's replicating nukes and China's profiling their citizens contrasts with the US in that those costs are much lower in the US. The US isn't carting off undesirables to re-education camps (there's a prison system with a lot of people in jail but every single one of them was put there by a jury) or starving its citizenry to make innovations (although there is a point to be made there). This, in turn, tends to increase the rate of innovation (people don't come to associate the change with bad things and because they are discussing them more people are exploring them).
China or Europe can be #1 in scientific paper publishing but until I see robots that can do what General Dynamics is doing or even what Honda was doing 5 years ago, it's all just copying the leader and the development cycle for those countries to product decent copies is quite long and tends to be inconsistent due to people developing bad cases of I-don't-give-a-shit-itus. E.G. China has problems innovating for the same reason they have problems making an aircraft carrier and maintaining a navy; their steel mills churn out inconsistent crap.
The BBC article is trying to deliver a message using Schmidt's name, and isn't coming to any conclusions or providing any data. It's pure propaganda and a total waste of time to read or comment on really.
Yeah the problem with Chinese innovation is the government still has a brain drain for fundamental science and Advanced manufacturing which still needs years of development. So thanks a lot Trump to help creating a Chinese hostile atmosphere to turn it to a brain gain (you can argue about it but many talented people are going back whatsoever)
However the people there are ironically submissive, dictatorial, flexible and long term thinking. Every now and then magically CCP would adopt some bottom up Suggestion and turn it to top down strategy that does the right thing
Japan declared war on the US by pre-emptively bombing pearle harbor in an attempt to permanently cripple the US Pacific fleet. The president at the time knew it was coming via intel and forward radar installations and let it happen to maximize the political mobility of the act.
After WW2, the US had been drug into 3 seperate foreign wars at that point; the Spanish war, WWI and WWII. Spanish war we were attacked at the southern tip of Texas and won that one before an invading army could get into the states, Both WWI and WWII The US entered because their merchant fleet was being attacked. In WWI a luxury cruseliner was sunk and that served as the tipping point, and in WWII our mechant fleet escort ships were attacked and the tipping point was a Torpedo fired at the Greer, a military escort ship. Basically, once you begin attacking the merchant fleet, your next step is to attack ports and port cities to stop material from getting on boats and to stop boat production. The Japanese harbored expansionist\empirial ambitions and knew they'd come into conflict with the US, hence the reason they had built a huge pacific fleet. That doesn't just happen overnight, they had a lot of build up of ships and material. Once the US entered the European theatre officially, the Japanese Military command became worried the US might attack them due to their alliance with Germany\Italy, hence the pre-emptive strike. Had Japan not attacked pearle harbor, had stayed in Asia, and had not built an alliance, a good sized chunk of China would probably be Japanese today and we might've had a Japanese-Indian war.
After WWII, The US had a unique viewpoint. Because we had just about every single culture on earth represented here, we could see how dumb these squabbles were. We had the bomb, and decided that instead of having a war every generation, we'd instead build the most terrifying set of ICBM's, Bomber planes, and nuke subs to make our adversaries know that attacking us or involving us in a war is Dumb. The tech for it was leaked to the soviets by US Scientists fearing a monopoly of power and M.A.D was born.
This shifted warfare into the use of economics and psychological warfare (cold war) to trash your enemy before an attack and the use of psychological warfare specifically and the creation of puppet ideologies used to weaken an adversary is what lead to the war against the spread of socialism\communism. E.G. The soviet union used ideological subjugation (look up Yuri Betzmenov on Youtube) successfully against countries including Afghanistan and Venezuala and those places are hot messed due to it today. Marxism is what we call the current puppet ideology in the US; it encompasses a lot of things the Russians do not do or believe in today and never really believed in and most people don't recognize that.
The Vietnam\Korean war was largely about stopping the spread of Communism by setting up military bases on Mainland china to keep an eye on the chinese, and creating capitalist\democratic economic powers in mainland China to serve as an example. It was a pre-emptive war to stop a bigger war from ever occuring.
The problem we have today with Conscientious objectors is psychological warfare is now a thing and if an adversary can eliminate your will to fight, they can take you by suprise or engage in domestic politics to create domestic problems to keep your attention at home.
In WWI, trench warfare was an excuse to send lots of perfectly good men to their deaths in a bullshit defensive game. Great thinking exercise; what is the cost per square mile of territory taken in human life? You'd extinguish the US male population before you got halfway into Germany. Given the survial rate of front line troops, objecting was an intelligent decision; that's no way to fight a war.
In WWII, they had less issues after pearle harbor due to the politics played. You had much better survivability and moral politics in that war.
When you get into the cold war and attacking smaller countries on the auspice of stopping the spread of an ideology, that is going to create cognitive dissonance.
There is a strong argument these adversaries have built domestic terrorist cells who have been running around in gangs threatening people, razing buildings, and engaging in nonsensical political discussions about disposing with government services, and they are using a social media company owned by a foreign state with stated military objectives to organize. Whether you want to view Antifa or Trump supporters as the terrorists, or TikTok, Twitter or Facebook as domesitic or foreign companies is a matter of perspective.
The fact is weapons of psychologcial warfare do not differentiate between targets and may yet proove to be as deadly as any WMD.
The reason Section 230 is under attack by the current regime is that astroturfing exercises on boards like this one to force perspective change and create sounding boards for corporate political policies has become a well documented business model as the recent deposition of FB and Twitter's CEO infront of congress showed.
The real insanity is that any CEO would ever think messing with people's brain chemistry without knowing what you are doing in order to make a buck was ever a good idea.
E2E solves none of the above.
Welcome to 2020.