Intuitively, reputation matters in daily life. Thus, it is unsurprising that scholars and statesmen have long held that reputation must also matter in international relations (IR) since Pericles. Yet, while reputation, especially reputation for resolve in (international) conflict, has enjoyed renewed attention in the past decade or so, few in-depth studies of reputation in (international)…
Cambridge Analytica, 5 years on
I think we face the usual problem of working on and implementing policy for yesterday’s issues. * We are coming out of ten years of Blockchain mess * Now we are into #AI mess, the is no intelligence in the current round, only artificial writing. Let’s look at what actually matters The original openweb had…
Upton Lecture 2023: Fake News: Learning from Spinoza
Tonight a touch of philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_James_(philosopher) I wonder what the is to learn from this, it’s my subject #openweb and the media. Upton Lecture 2023: Fake News: Learning from Spinoza Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. She has held faculty positions at the University of Connecticut and the University of…
Economics and National Security – The audience for this was the servants of power, good to understand what they are thinking
Going to this event to see what the #mainstreaming think about the upcoming political changes to economic is about.It was interesting, but the only agency was asking the servants of power to do make the needed change. This has been the same ansear for the last 5 seminars i have attended in Oxford. It is…
Had a ontopic post removed twise from a campaining facebook group I used to be an admin for.
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NBTA Its the normal A to B march problem
We generally agree that #CRT is #notfitforpurpose, and we want to do something about this https://www.bargee-traveller.org.uk/march-on-crts-offices-stop-the-surcharge/ A good reaction post to this “Think this is great, but wouldn’t it be better to do it when the office is actually open?” Its the normal A to B march problem and the subject of the XR big…
Clues on how to compost #mainstremining #deathcult worshiping
This is a #lifecult that has been overwhelmed with the mess we all push. The activists are shovelling and composting for the first time in 40 years faster than we all spread shit over the world. Help them please, don’t be a “common sense” #deathcult worshipper. This is a #deathcult the only power the isolated…
Good video about #deathcult and their worshippers
Talking about #hashtags
We need to think of a serendipity view of how #hashtags work and how our coder kings implement them (#feudalism). Not saying this is a good aproch… i don’t know… but spelling hashtags “wrong” makes their use in categorization and sorting work differently. Might be worth thinking if this could add value or is purely…
The #mainstreaming move back to the #openweb is filling with #NGO parasites
Best to start from #KISS the left is based on trust and open culture.
Best to start from #KISS the left is based on trust and open culture. Moving away from this the left has destroyed itself over the last 40 years. * The #fashernista embracing of postmodernism * The soft left embrace of the “common sense” of neoliberalism Combined, these have undermined the foundations the left is built…