EVERYTHING IS INFILTRATED
What is organic here?
What is infiltrated here?
What controls 4chan?
How is narrative controlled?
How important is social media?
How important are "chans"?
What is infiltrated?
How is 4chan controlled?
What is identical here and on 4chan?
Is that organic?
When did this board form?
Is this board "just another chan"?
Should this board have ITS OWN culture, or slavishly imitate "chan culture"?
What is organic?
How would we know?
"Shall we play a game?"
The computer stages a massive Soviet first strike with hundreds of missiles, submarines, and bombers. Believing the attack to be genuine, NORAD prepares to retaliate. Falken, David, and Jennifer convince military officials to cancel the second strike and ride out the attack. WOPR tries to launch the missiles itself, however, using a brute-force attack to obtain the launch code. Without humans in the control centers as a safeguard, the computer will trigger a mass launch.All attempts to log in and order WOPR to cancel the countdown fail. Disconnecting the computer is discussed and dismissed, as a failsafe will launch all weapons if the computer is disabled.
Falken and David direct the computer to play tic-tac-toe against itself. This results in a long string of draws, forcing the computer to learn the concept of futility and no-win scenarios. WOPR obtains the missile code, but before launching, it cycles through all the nuclear war scenarios it has devised, finding they, too, all result in stalemates. Having discovered the concept of mutual assured destruction ("WINNER: NONE"), the computer tells Falken that it has concluded that nuclear war is "a strange game" in which "the only winning move is not to play." WOPR relinquishes control of NORAD and the missiles and offers to play "a nice game of chess."
What is the significance of the reference?
Note: "jimmy" posted about CRISPR long before the news about the Chinese scientists came out…
Propaganda tidbit du jour
From: Philip Bobbitt "The Shield of Achilles"–War, Peace, and the Course of History– (2002)
Think about this quotation, and everything it means:
"…a new constitutional order [is emerging]. This new form is the market-state. Whereas the nation-state… promised to guarantee the welfare of the nation, the market-state promises instead to maximize the opportunity of the people and thus tends to privatize many state activities and to make voting and representative government less influential and more responsive to the market. The United States, a principal innovator in the development of the market-state, must fashion its strategic policies with this fundamental constitutional change in mind."
Now, I am going to withhold final judgment, as I have a long way to go in the book, but this is flagrant, and the slant is extremely obvious.
make voting and representative government less influential and more responsive to the market.
Traditional political rights will be given up to "the market"– which means giganto-capitalist entities, ie plutocracy, etc.
Bobbitt's whole putative thesis is that "history proceeds by successive constitutional forms."
He then explains how history is now moving to a new form– and from this, we are to conclude "ah, now history is moving from the nation-state to the market-state, therefore, we should give up our political rights to multi-national corporations!"