How Deep State Intelligence reinforces Archetypes and Manipulates Culture via Mass Media, Spectacular Crime and Hollywood The weeks leading up to the release of Todd Phillips’s 2019 film Joker were awash with hysterical corporate media warnings about insane killers shooting up theaters at screenings. But this hysteria was not a spontaneous reflex of the media hive mind: it…
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The Surveillance State: The A.I. Surveillance Tool DHS Uses to Detect ‘Sentiment and Emotion’
H/T Lenny Ladner The A.I. Surveillance Tool DHS Uses to Detect ‘Sentiment and Emotion’ Customs and Border Protection (CBP), part of the Department of Homeland Security, has bought millions of dollars worth of software from a company that uses artificial intelligence to detect “sentiment and emotion” in online posts, according to a…
Practical Paranoia and Preventable Death
Practical Paranoia and Preventable Death PREPARING FOR MUNDANE DISASTERS IN THE HOME Humans are pretty bad when it comes to risk assessments. As a species, we tend to fo – cus more on fantastical outliers and aggressive outside influences rather than the boring nor – mal. But dead is still dead regardless of…
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Know Your Civil War History: The Second Battle of Reams Station
H/T RebelGrey57 (Picture: Artist’s impression of battle from Union lines) Aug. 25, 1864- The 2nd Battle of Reams Station Soon after the Union success at the battle of Weldon Railroad, Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock’s (USA) II Corps was ordered to move south along that rail line, destroying it as it…
Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic
Fast and Furious: The Philosophy and Mechanics of the Blitzkrieg Tactic It’s the dawn of World War II, and the old ways of fighting aren’t cutting it anymore. Soldiers huddled in trenches, days turning into weeks with little progress—it’s a stalemate that no one wants to repeat. Enter the Blitzkrieg tactic, a plan that’s…
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