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[victorianalexander]

Slime Mold is Smarter than AI

Slime Mold is Smarter than AI

The Next Rembrandt project is a multi-million dollar project, funded in part by a Big Bank and Microsoft, which trained AI to mimic the style of the great master in order to paint a mediocre original painting (left). In this article,  J. Augustus Bacigalupi, Òscar Castro Garcia and I show how complex and sophisticated even the most primitive forms of life are as they sense and respond to their…

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[disinformer]

THE TRUTH UNDERGROUND

THE TRUTH UNDERGROUND by Robert Guffey on January 3 via Cryptoscatology: Last evening, on January 3rd, I appeared on Jim Rivas’ radio show THE TRUTH UNDERGROUND, which is broadcast out of New Orleans on WGSO 990 AM.  For at least two hours you can hear me discuss my book CHAMELEO, the ...

http://disinfo.com/2018/01/the-truth-underground/

[victorianalexander]

Terrordise selected for TheModCon London Film Festival

Terrordise selected for TheModCon London Film Festival

Terrordise, a black comedy screenplay by V. N. Alexander has been selected for inclusion in TheModCom London Film Festival.

Synopsis:The Schwartz-Johnson family can’t wait to get to their new home in Paradise, a high-security gated community in Dallas, Texas. They are willing to sacrifice privacy for the ultimate in safety against any kind of terror threat –until Mr. & Mrs. Schwartz-Johnson are…

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[victorianalexander]

Signing at Golden Notebook in Woodstock Sat, Aug 1st 6PM

Signing at Golden Notebook in Woodstock Sat, Aug 1st 6PM

Political satirist, Victoria N Alexander has a new novel entitled, Locus Amoenus, a literary term that refers to a beautiful pastoral paradise where nothing bad can ever happen.

Set in the nearby Harlem Valley region of New York, the story involves a 9/11 widow, Gertrude, and her son, Hamlet, who move to the country to run a sustainable farm. Unfortunately, they find their neighbors prefer the…

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[diegueno]

This was such a pure and indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit. I mean, NPR radically misled millions of people with this report. To sit there and present this firm as though it’s some independent big data company, as she called it, that just listened to news reports, heard this claim that Snowden had helped the terrorists and then set out earnestly to investigated it, without telling their listeners what they—Dina Temple-Raston herself knew, because she had reported two years earlier that the CIA itself had invested millions of dollars in this company, that the investment arm of the CIA, In-Q-Tel, sits on the board of this company and that the researcher on whom they relied himself is the head of a company in a strategic partnership with the CIA, that is about as journalistically indefensible as it gets. She misled NPR’s listeners into believing that this was some independent, credible source, rather than what it is, which is a government-loyal firm. And that’s to say nothing of the huge numbers of fallacies in the report itself. They gave Bruce Schneier 42 seconds at the end of the story, in two sentences, more or less, to say, "Here are a couple questions I’d have about this report," but the first three-and-a-half minutes were as Dina Temple-Raston uncritically and mindlessly summarizing the report. It’s press release journalism on behalf of the Pentagon that she covers. And it’s the reason that the U.S. media has collapsed in terms of the trust and esteem with which the American public holds them.

Glenn Greenwald Criticizes NPR for Relying on CIA-Linked Firm in Report on Impact of Snowden Leaks | Democracy Now!