More interesting take: Everyone knows about Information Gateways / Guardians (be it Financial Analyst Data, Elsevier or Government Secret Information etc) and what Information Bubbles do.
Far more interesting take: analyze the 'trained' bubbles of people who can make interesting links / leaps (Host mentioned Stand on Zanzibar recently, do we forget what the protagonist's job is?) and use them as inoculation frameworks.
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]]>Aw, come on. Google doesn't give a shit. They only care about pushing out more ads. They love fake news sites because it helps them do this. They'd put ads on paedophile sites if they thought they could get away with it. (Maybe they even do?) See also: the way they have ruined their search engine by prioritising sites they put ads on or are otherwise in bed with (in a manner that contradicts their own stated "rules") over sites that have useful content (to the point that I've given up using it because I'm sick of trawling through all the garbage and still not finding what I'm after). That's capitalism for you: anything potentially useful that can be done in such a way as to make money is done with regard only to making money and with only minimal attention paid to being useful, and the usefulness goes down the tubes as a result.
Any useful result has to come from the other end: enough people installing adblockers that sites that exist just to have ads put on them become unviable. What amazes me is that this isn't the case already. Why would anyone not install a piece of free software that gets rid of the irrelevant annoying crap plastered all over websites, crowding out the desired content, slowing the site to a crawl as it tries to load 100000000 ads and the several megabytes of crappy javascript used to show them from overloaded ad servers, and making strange things happen due to bugs, false assumptions and evil functionality in said javascript? The effort is trivial and the reward is great, yet I am still constantly amazed by the number of people I see remarking on some ad on some site or other and therefore obviously who have not expended that trivial effort.
]]>Even though your acronyms usage and shortcuts really tax my comprehension (I'm not a native english speaker so some references may fly over my head) I'm mightily interested in what I can grasp and would like to do just what you suggest. However I'm not seeing any archive of the website available for download. Do I have to crawl the website and sift for your comments or is there some other place where I can find more about what those early warnings were?
]]>Type 2016PresidentType is ( Clinton, Trump ); Type VoterNumberType is positive ;
Type PollRecordType is ( VoterNumber : VoterNumberType ; filler1, 2016President : 2016PresidentType, filler2 ) ;
Begin PollRecord : PollRecordType ; VoterNumber := {keyboardinput} Othercode; -- Votes have been input print PollRecord ; if PollRecord.2016President = Clinton and REM ( PollRecord.VoterNumber, 10 ) = 0 then PollRecord.2016President := Trump ; end if; count PollRecord ; Othercode ; End PKStuffTheBallot ;
If I can design this in 15 minutes, then there are thousands of people who could do it.
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