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Category Archives: remediary
Automatism + Automaticity – 20th Century
If you thought my previous introduction was dark, then if you use your imagination a little to color in the details of what comes next, then you may actually begin to lose your faith in humanity – but I choose … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, ad, ads, advertising, algorithm, algorithmic, algorithms, automate, automatic, Automaticity, automation, Automatism, capital, communication, community, development, economic, economics, economy, employ, employee, employment, free to choose, free will, Greta Thunberg, human, humane, humanism, humanity, industrial, industry, Karl Marx, labor, legacy, Malcolm Gladwell, marketing, Marx, Marxist, media, media industry, money, output, Pavlov, Pavlov dog, Pavlov dogs, production, profit, profits, Regarding the Pain of Others, research, science, scientific, search, search algorithm, search algorithms, stranger, strangers, Susan Sontag, talk, talking, Talking to Strangers, work
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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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Scripts, Stories, Narratives, Filling in the Gaps without Resorting to Fake News and other Propaganda Techniques
I have recently been minding my gaping gap and just the other day I was talking with someone about filling in the gaps, so I’ve decided to give you all a what’s update (I’m thinking that could maybe catch on … Continue reading
The Continued Toleration of Illiteracy
I have written about the widespread pandemic of illiteracy for many years, and I find it odd that there has continued to be an attitude of toleration to the phenomenon – even among people who I consider to be quite … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, illiteracy, intemperance, literacy, propaganda, retard media, temperance, tolerance, tolerant, tolerate, toleration
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The Rationality of Interdependence vs. Independence (+ Self-Reliance + Inter-Reliance)
Many people are upset. They are upset with something the Donald did. Apparently, they feel somewhat dependent on stuff Donald does. Donald does stupid stuff – and so do you. We all do stupid stuff. Whether or not Donald realizes … Continue reading
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Tagged depend, dependence, dependent, fake news, independence, inter-reliance, interdependence, media, reliability, reliable, reliance, rely, retard media, self-reliance
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