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Sorry what's the link between valve and kremlin?

by jokoon 17d ago

pwdisswordfishq 17d ago
I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
- jokoon 12d ago
  hey, no threats, please
Schlagbohrer 17d ago
kremlinology is an old pre-1989 term for people trying to observe and interpret the workings of a tightly sealed institution. Could be used for Vatican rumors and news, too, for example, or North Korea, etc.
- ramses0 17d ago
  Pentagon pizza tracker?
  - mister_mort 17d ago
    Similar to that idea of trying to derive stuff from an indirect channel, but much more distant. (There is an obvious link between food consumption and building occupancy.) Stuff like watching the order of names on public lists of attendees for dinner events, etc. If someone disappeared or moved off the top few names, perhaps they're in trouble or have been purged from the party ... or maybe they're just sick this week.
AdamN 17d ago
kremlinology is the term for any political intelligence gathering that's all second-order. In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data and even then there were so many moving parts that you needed an expert in just that area who had alot of data like who was having drinks with whom to predict who might be on the out and who might be ascendant.
- vlyan 17d ago
  >In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data not anymore, apparently. even random ~~grifters~~ geopolitics experts on youtube now have people on the inside.
  - NooneAtAll3 17d ago
    we mostly live in misinformation age don't get fooled that only one side does that
- ahazred8ta 17d ago
  There was one analyst reading Pravda who noticed a lot of people were suddenly being promoted into positions held by members of a certain large clique, with no notice about what was happening to the former appointees. After one of the nuclear treaties was signed, there was a guy whose photo was published in Pravda, shaking hands with Gorbachev; a different fresh photo of him shaking hands with Gorbachev every day for an entire month. He turned out to be the head of the ministry of strategic deception.

Sorry what's the link between valve and kremlin?

by jokoon 17d ago

Sorry what's the link between valve and kremlin?

pwdisswordfishq 17d ago

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

jokoon 12d ago
hey, no threats, please

Schlagbohrer 17d ago

kremlinology is an old pre-1989 term for people trying to observe and interpret the workings of a tightly sealed institution. Could be used for Vatican rumors and news, too, for example, or North Korea, etc.

ramses0 17d ago
Pentagon pizza tracker?
- mister_mort 17d ago
  Similar to that idea of trying to derive stuff from an indirect channel, but much more distant. (There is an obvious link between food consumption and building occupancy.) Stuff like watching the order of names on public lists of attendees for dinner events, etc. If someone disappeared or moved off the top few names, perhaps they're in trouble or have been purged from the party ... or maybe they're just sick this week.

AdamN 17d ago

kremlinology is the term for any political intelligence gathering that's all second-order. In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data and even then there were so many moving parts that you needed an expert in just that area who had alot of data like who was having drinks with whom to predict who might be on the out and who might be ascendant.

vlyan 17d ago
>In the canonical case of the Kremlin it's because it was very difficult to get inside data not anymore, apparently. even random ~~grifters~~ geopolitics experts on youtube now have people on the inside.
- NooneAtAll3 17d ago
  we mostly live in misinformation age don't get fooled that only one side does that
ahazred8ta 17d ago
There was one analyst reading Pravda who noticed a lot of people were suddenly being promoted into positions held by members of a certain large clique, with no notice about what was happening to the former appointees. After one of the nuclear treaties was signed, there was a guy whose photo was published in Pravda, shaking hands with Gorbachev; a different fresh photo of him shaking hands with Gorbachev every day for an entire month. He turned out to be the head of the ministry of strategic deception.