In 2006 a special international communication draft was released by the applied studies program of The Institute of World Politics (IWP) called “Ridicule as a Weapon, White Paper No. 7“. It contained sharp analysis such as this: …U.S. strategy includes undermining the political and psychological strengths of adversaries and enemies by employing ridicule as a … Continue reading Ridicule as a Weapon: a Fate for Nazis Worse Than Death
The easily predictable disaster has been a disaster: …two years before The Vessel opened, architecture critic Audrey Wachs was warning that the waist-height railings around the staircases would fail to prevent deaths: “When you build high, folks will jump.” Even an “easy solution” came with predictions. Three suicides in the early 2000s at New York … Continue reading NYC’s $200 Million “Suicide Machine” Closed Again After 4th Tragedy
The header for the email says it all, really. From: timbl@info.cern.ch (Tim Berners-Lee) Newsgroups: alt.hypertext Subject: WorldWideWeb: Summary Keywords: heterogeneous hypertext, web, source, protocol, index, information retrieval Message-ID: <6487@cernvax.cern.ch> Date: 6 Aug 91 16:00:12 GMT References: <6484@cernvax.cern.ch> Remember VAX? WorldWideWeb – Executive Summary The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to … Continue reading This Day in History 1991: The WorldWideWeb Project
On July 29th the Stanford Internet Observatory, arguably a Potemkin village by design, released the following PR statement: Announcing the Journal of Online Trust and Safety… The journal was conceived from a recognition that much of the cutting-edge research on online harm lacks an appropriate journal for publication. An “appropriate journal”? What was wrong with … Continue reading Is Facebook Using Stanford to Silence Its Critics?