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Tag Archives: propaganda
A Quick-Start Summary of the Past Couple Years
In case you are just now emerging from your man-cave, your woman-cave or perhaps some basement (having been playing video games for the past couple years), here is a short note from one of my father’s (RIP) colleagues — you … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, advertising industry, blockchain, bullshit, business, crypto, economics, economy, global economy, hot air, propaganda, rational media, social business, Socio.BIZ
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Hope & Change: Flipping the F-word & Removing the Old-Fashioned R-word
I have an important announcement to make: I’ve learned something — and what I learned has helped me to change my course. Many years ago, I started using Facebook (in large part because one of my friends said “facebook” was … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, brand name, brand names, brands, fake news, Hope & Change, irrational media, language, manipulation, propaganda, rational media, retard media, slogans, suckers, wisdom of the language
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Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community
One of my good friends (the kind that actually try to push back on the kinds of things I often say) has been hammering away for some time at my attitude – sort of calling it patronizing. I beg to … Continue reading
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, advertising industry, attitude, audience, closed, communication, communications, communities, community, express, expressed, expression, expressions, free speech, group, groups, illiteracy, illiterate, in-group, language, languages, linguistic communities, linguistic community, literacy, literate, mean, meaning, means, mutual, negotiation, negotiation of meaning, open, out-group, participate, participating, participation, patron, patronage, patronise, patronize, patrons, propaganda, rational media, read, reader, readers, reading, relationship, relationships, retard media, target, target audience, targets, understanding, write, writer, writers, writing
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Automatism + Automaticity – What is my role?
While writing the previous episodes, I wondered how other people would react to them. I decided to publish them even though I think most people are not very concerned about the well-being of others. I expect most people will react … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, anxious, Automaticity, Automatism, bandwagon, bandwagon effect, behavior, behaviour, chance, community, compliance, comply, ego, egotistical, enlighten, enlightened, enlightened self-interest, evolution, explain, explanation, fear, fears, fool, foolish, Holy Fool, ideas, illiteracy, insecurity, irrational, literacy, mainstream, money, nature, neighbor, neighbors, other, others, propaganda, rational, rationality, repress, repressed, repression, risk, risky, self, self-centered, self-interest, selfish, thoughts, unconcious, vulnerability, vulnerable
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Automatism + Automaticity – First Thoughts
Automatism and automaticity are “real concepts”, but they are not widely used … or at least not widely used everywhere in the same way. One of the fields where these concepts are most widely used is in the broad field … Continue reading
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Tagged adapt, adaption, adaptive, algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, app, application, applications, apps, attitude, attitudes, automate, automatic, Automaticity, automation, Automatism, aware, awareness, bad, code, codes, common sense, configuration, configure, constitution, enlighten, enlightened, enlightenment, evil, evolution, free to choose, good, govern, governance, government, law, legal, literacy, moral, naive, printing press, program, programming, propaganda, rational, rationalism, rationality, result, results, right, search, search algorithm, search algorithms, search engine, search engine results page, search engines, SERP, software, system, systemic, systems, wrong
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Only Fools Rush in to Build on Top of Closed (Secret, Proprietary) Platforms
Last week Amnesty International published a report about the online platforms of the leading surveillance giants – see my brief post about it @ Find News. What I find particularly signficant about the news is not the recommendations for public … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, data, development, Facebook, fool, fools, free market, Google, governance, historical, history, market, marketing, online marketing, policy, privacy, promotion, promotional, promotions, propaganda, rational, rationality, recommendations, regulation, retard media, secret, sucker, suckers, surveillance, technological, technology
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How to make facts
A guy named Edward Snowden was interviewed on the Joe Rogan Experience recently, and here is something he said: This is the context: You say you know, and — you know, let’s put it the other way: maybe you do … Continue reading
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Tagged big data, data, deniability, deniable, Edward Snowden, evidence, fact, facts, factual, false, gossip, information technology, journalism, journalist, language, mass media, natural language, proof, proofs, propaganda, prove, skepticism, speculation, true, undeniability, undeniable
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Some Reflections on the Revolution in Propaganda
More or less exactly ten generations after Edmund Burke’s treatise concerning the French Revolution and roughly about twenty generations after the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press, I would like to give you a small update on the state of news, … Continue reading
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Tagged analysis, authority, bias, biology, brand, brand name, brand names, branding, brands, communication, communications, data, distrust, distrustworthy, document, documentation, documents, enterprise, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurs, evolution, fake, gatekeeper, homo sapiens, human, humanity, humans, information, information and communications technology, internet, language, meaning, online, open, ordinary language, plain language, plain talk, private, propaganda, public, publication, publish, publisher, publishers, publishing, rational, rationality, real, reason, religion, revolution, transparency, transparent, trust, trustworthiness, trustworthy, vernacular, writing, written
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The Cooperative Principle in Conversation versus the Prejudice in Silence
In the following, I understand the Internet as a massive text connected by many participants conversing with one another. Parts of the text are in close connection, and the discussion can be viewed as heated insofar as the sub-texts reference … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, artificial intelligence, big data, data, language, natural language, propaganda, qualitative, quantitative, rational media, research, science
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