aldous

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by aldous 15d ago
Paul McCartney maybe? "We were writing songs that were memorable, not because we wanted them to be memorable but because we had to remember them"
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by aldous 1y ago
Nine new reservoirs are planned by 2050 apparently. But as general point reservoirs are... a) only part of the solution (water reuse schemes can be much cheaper and more effective) b) really difficult to build! Finding an appropriate locati
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by aldous 1y ago
Yeah, I'm with you on this one. Surely in most instances it is easier to just bash out the email plus you get the added bonus of exercising your own mind: vocabulary, typing skills, articulating concepts, defining appropriate etiquette
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by aldous 2y ago
Yes, good points. It's not a wild stretch of the imagination that Mr P and gang are actively trying to drag China into the Ukraine conflict and I'd imagine Beijing is pretty pissed off today about being (ostensibly) implicated in
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by aldous 2y ago
The article explicitly references donations to the Democrats too btw, the authors overarching point appears to be this idea that the vastly wealthy consider themselves above the state and the rule of law. This is not a new phenomena, histor
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by aldous 3y ago
Checking my news feed it is intriguing to see how little exposure Kirkpatrick's statement is getting verses the media frenzy that followed David Grusch and his cohorts outlandish congressional hearing. I guess this is a great example o
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by aldous 3y ago
Good points. I guess a counter is if seemingly 'cast-iron' pledges are put out there for the electorate (such as the scrapping of tuition fees) and people subsequently turn out in big numbers to vote for them (this was the year pe
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by aldous 3y ago
Clegg's credibility in the UK is pretty poor due to some well publicised policy u-turns during his tenure in political power, most notable being tuition fees. He went from hero to zero very quickly over there, becoming almost an archet
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by aldous 4y ago
I like to collect music and have been building a library of certain genres. I had been buying a lot of vinyl over the last few years but recently I’ve been getting back into CD’s in a big way because of how cheap they are second hand. Like
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The world is moving closer to a new cold war fought with authoritarian tech(technologyreview.com)
1 points by aldous 4y ago|1 comments
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by aldous 4y ago
I remember Fireworks very well and completely agree it was exceptionally well optimised for UI. As well as the ability to easily edit both bitmaps and vectors, the combination of frames and layer sets nested within the frames allowed for su
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Keynes was wrong. Gen Z will have it worse(technologyreview.com)
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by aldous 8y ago
It’s an investigation by the common definition. You know Mueller is a Republican right? What do you think it is, can you expand?
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by aldous 8y ago
I’m not on about the “collusion” accusations (I agree we have still to see hard evidence of this though I’d suggest it may be forthcoming). I am specifically talking about the idea that a Kremlin initiated campaign of influence is the stuff
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by aldous 8y ago
My point was that dismissing the ongoing investigation and its emerging findings as a “meme” implies it is un-substantive and trivial when this appears not to be the case. Conflating all the multiple stands of a complex and far reaching inv
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by aldous 8y ago
Some fair points, though I don’t agree with all of them. What are your thoughts on the DNC hack and subsequent leaks btw? It seems reasonable to credit the disclosure and the way the Trump campaign encouraged it and then capitalised on it a
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by aldous 8y ago
Hmm, I’d add that being owned by corporations does not always equate to being controlled. Editorial policy will be set by a range of people within these organisations, it can be very complex this chain of command, and the degree of influenc
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by aldous 8y ago
You make an interesting point about expanding social spheres and influence, nice. However, do you really believe in this concept of a conspiratorial all powerful MSM, that spans the political spectrum and co-ordinates efforts to refute view
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Using systems thinking models to explore lying in politics(blog.schucan.com)
3 points by aldous 8y ago|1 comments
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by aldous 8y ago
Yes, indeed the genius of spreading propaganda this way is that it is often disseminated through personal networks, increasing its potency as a wealth of cognitive biases come into play. And how on earth can these campaigns be mitigated? Th
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by aldous 8y ago
In regards to point 1, Facebook was indeed lauded at the time as a catalyst for the Egypt revolution (more so than Twitter). A good illustration of this was the Egyptian guy that named his child “Facebook” in honour of its role in the upris
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by aldous 8y ago
Are you referring to the Kremlin? There is a wealth of allegations of such activities attributed to them: The most infamous (and heinous) oft sighted example... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings
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by aldous 9y ago
Do you know the song "Quick Canal" by Atlas Sound? It articulates some of the sentiments in this thread beautifully. "I wanted to live the life of a prince Because I thought saints were born saints So, indeed, we didn't
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The libraries of the future will be made of DNA(theconversation.com)
1 points by aldous 9y ago|0 comments
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by aldous 9y ago
Thanks for replying. I was however hoping for something more substantive though.
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by aldous 9y ago
No it isn't. They are arguably currently at odds with the Conservative government over a range of issues. Do you know how strict the BBC's editorial guidelines are and the procedures they have in place to try and ensure impartiali
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by aldous 9y ago
I’m not sure I completely follow the implications in your reply tbh, it seems a little reductionist. Are you disputing that RT is a propaganda arm of the Kremlin? As stated above the Kremlin are quite explicit that this is indeed the case.
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by aldous 9y ago
I agree counter balance is indeed healthy and I think generally, in the west, we are served a wealth of different viewpoints on any given issue, so much so that we can take it for granted. My point above was that RT, in the Kremlins own wor
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by aldous 9y ago
“they only want to undermine the credibility of everyone else” It’s reasonable to assume this is indeed one of the objectives behind RT, undermining western news media. In 2008 the Kremlin had TV-Novosti (RT is a brand of TV-Novosti) on its
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by aldous 9y ago
I was pondering this too. In a general sense, the ol’ Kremlins digital savvy, often attributed to Mr Surkov, seems very impressive, horribly insidious as it is. Troll army operations: https://www.theatlantic.com/internationa

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