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That's It, I'm Passing the Ball to Stronger Runner Imagine the jet is the Bot/Troll story. Big, threatening and capable. I've been driven to pump out alarums for over a month about the social media warfare being waged by America's non-friends. Every time I felt a blog post coming on, it was this. I was slightly obsessed. This super story was not getting enough attention , methought. But things are getting better. I saw great stuff over the last week indicating the bot/troll awareness and assessment is penetrating the public's mind and even (surprise) the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. Pundits have caught the wave, politicians running for office have mentioned it. Even (gasp) the "mainstream media." (Not the rightwing media much, nor the Trump Administration much.) I felt a strong urge to clang away at the alarm bell. I hardly ever feel that way. So Yea! Part of my obsession with it was it seemed like the Congress/Pundit/Media folks

CAUGHT ON DISQUS [Click this title] Disqus is a very cool software outfit that handles the "comments" for several of the sites where I put forth my profundities. It stores your comments and you can access them. I'm sure the Big Data types access them all the time. ANYWAY... I accessed my recent stuff, and surprise! I've been cranking out a lot of stuff about bots and trolls. I grabbed these to show you the depth of my obsession. I THINK THIS WHOLE BOT/TROLL THING IS A HUGE STORY. IT IS ONE OF THE BIGGER FACETS OF THE INTERNET-CHANGES-THE-WORLD META-STORY.  ... Oh, sorry I'm trying to control my obsession.                                                   Bots. They're everywhere! A Bit of Social Intercourse on Breitbart Between me, Some Bots and Some Non-bots [ "hidad" said "If the Dims want it so desperately, it must be crushed!"  a typical bot snort. ] seniorjunior (scooter duff)     hidad    10 hours ago

There I was, "participating" in a comments section... [Click this title] I was yakking about the cop that shot the NYCity terrorist truck driver, saying "he was a cop." That triggered a NASTYBOT calling itself "Geo Trump." Geo Trump   - Just Now Kill any babies today liberal? Geo Trump’s comment is in reply to  seniorjunior (scooter duff) : - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Classic NASTYBOT.    -No substantive content    -Change of topic to hot button subject    -Polarizing in its insult ("liberal" made it a blow for the "conservative" tribe)    -Very fast (it was "typing" within 3 seconds of my "he was a cop" post.    -Bad punctuation.    -Text in bold Here's another, less obvious NASTYBOT candidate (Same "cop" comment from me)                  Cuthbert J Twillie   •   3 minutes ago Try readin

T HIS HAS GOT TO HAPPEN! To Save Our Democracy (I Predict) It's Gonna Happen The "I'm Not a Bot. I'm Not a Russian Troll" Certification A Credential of Real, American Person-ness. * Real Humans with Certificates to Prove It Someone - probably a company like American Express or a startup with some big tech names will offer a Certificate of Actuality for a low monthly fee. ** More certified real people You can use it online to prove you are as real as rain, not some fake news purveyor, some Rooskie propagandist or troll farmer from Uzbekistan. This will become necessary real soon. Who will trust you these days without a realness credential that is impossible to forge, hack or steal? Without one, people will suspect they are being conned (again) and not take anything you say seriously. (I also predict) the creds will be handled by block chain programs, sort of Bitcoin-ish. For only $2.99 a month you will be unquestionably who

The Pure-Insult NASTYBOT [and it's hate child, NASTYBOD] * "What really makes me mad is being called a SNOTBOT. Job Description:   Turn American against American, Black against White, Jew against Gentile, Everybody against Muslims, Republicans against Democrats, South against North, Cities against Rural, Texas against California... oh you know.  All of us at each others' throats is bad for America, good for Russia (and China, Iran, North Korea and some others.) That's NASTYBOT's job How, you might ask, does this ugly gremlin with bad breath accomplish this? It's liddle twitter brain algorithm looks at tweets and "comments" for something on a big list of "trigger" words and phrases. Then it selects an apropos short response and puts it in the right format and sends it.  "Apropos" means: Mean, nasty, insulting, demeaning, dismissive, gross or outrageous . Or several and sometimes all of them. (Never any real s

Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it won't eat your ship I'm Talking "Monster" News Stories, BTW (Forgive the seasonal tricks... the treats are below) The SuperTech Beast That Ate Our Politics They know EVERYTHING about you You might have noticed I'm very disturbed about this combination of computational linguistics, A.I. big data analysis and very hardcore rightwingism... Owned by billionaire rightwing ideologue Robert Mercer, this outfit MADE FAKE NEWS WORK on behalf of DJTrump. Oh, and they did lying on a cosmic scale to PUSH BREXIT. And heaven knows what they are up to at this very moment! --A powerful piece with the latest updates on the CAC (Cambridge Analytical Catastrophe) is in the Oct 29th London Guardian.  Gather your courage and check it out here . How About "I always believed that, but now I learn I'm WRONG!" ??? "Lungs of the Planet" sucking up that CO 2, right? Right?? I

When You Are Falling Apart The Only Thing to Do Is Get Yourself Together. We're at each other's throats. * The local political discussion got sort of out of hand I was indulging my penchant to "comment" on Breitbart's very active comments sections. This was on Stephen Bannon's speech to the California Republicans on the 20th, I think. Great carping and RINO bashing plus the usual snarling at Liberals, the cancers of humanity, etc. It Hit Me.  We're falling apart quite rapidly. Brother against sister, wife against husband, neighbor against neighbor... Just like The Rooskies would like us to be. Fastest way to break tip a champion team is to get the players feuding.  [In my opinion, about 50% of the nasties on Breitbart are Russian bots. The insulting, demeaning, pure nasty tone of many of the shorter retorts are bot-popped in there with sophisticated placement. The real Breitbartian folks, not only the"hard core," "alt-