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CLICK 'EM AND WEEP "Like Bots" - the newest weapon Whole 'Nother Bot Thang I f They Can Do This to Twitter The Russians Really Like My Blog 50,000 Twitter Bots and Counting The Russians are (still) here! The Russians are (still) here! Rebuttal (to some rudenecks) Cluster Trolls Obsession Cured (not!) Obsessed? Who Me? Classic NASTYBOT Examples NASTYBOTS Olde Scooter Predicts My New Passion - Reconciliation They Are Whuppin' Our Butts In the Propaganda War Looking for Bots in All The Wrong Places Bot Spotting - Seriously How to Spot a Bot+

I've Been Telling You and Telling You... Russia, Iran, China, North Korea and a bunch of others are all over the Net They are in your Twitter feed, your Facebook pages, your Instagrams and favorite sub-Reddits. They write many of the comments in the "Comments" sections of your favorite news and opinion sites. they sell you things on Amazon and the auction sites. They traffic in your financial data stolen from Equifax.   You know all that, of course.  Here's a fine piece of journalism from a credible source about the strange variation on the cyber wars as practiced by North Korea. Even their highest class hackers are the slaves of the regime. NONE of us has Kim Jong-un's haircut! There are no strong borders in the cybersphere. Mostly no borders at all. Darn Fern'ers are swarming around us like mosquitoes at Texas summer sundown. The more we educate ourselves about this, the more we can watch our (and each other's) back. MY PASSION, AS PE

This is an Experiment (But what isn't?) Ok, it failed.   That's science for you.

China Passes U.S. in Laser Power.   China Passing U.S. and Europe in Giant Accelerators Thank Heavens we've got Elon Musk. ...'Cause the Trump Administration is shooting us in our science foot "The most powerful pulses of light the world has ever seen" (Science Magazine) Shanghai 5.3 million billion watts 5.3 PETAWATTS, up and running. And they are building a 100 PETAWATT model.  These super powerful, super short pulse lasers are opening vast new areas of research, and the U.S.A. is not leading the pack. Even Romania and the Czech Republic will soon zoom around us. Russia, of course is planning the Czar Bomba of lasers, a 180 PETAWATT monster.  " Largely missing from the fray are U.S. scientists, who have fallen behind in the race to high powers." sayeth the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. And... DONALD TRUMP WANTS A BIG PA RA DE Big, sophisticated accelerators are coming on line in China China

Not Russian, Floridian! A source of millions of bots... If you haven't read this amazing investigative report , please look at it. LLLllliiiiiikkkkkkeeee MMmmmeeee !!!! I admit, I'm preoccupied with bots and trolls... the roaring background noise of social media and "Comments" sections.  This amazing NYTimes investigative report uncovers whole new dimensions of the bot-ocracy. Not getting enough "likes" on your brilliant Twitter account? Just buy 10,000 more for a pittance! And who's to say the Russians aren't getting some of their ubiquitous bots from this American scam machine? Oh, it's a winding trail we travel. Olde Scooter's Botmania Symptoms If They Can Do This to Twitter The Russians Really Like My Blog 50,000 Twitter Bots and Counting The Russians are (still) here! The Russians are (still) here! Rebuttal (to some rudenecks) Cluster Trolls Obsession Cured (not!) Obsessed? Who Me? Classic NASTYBOT Examples

50,000 Russian Bots ....Think What They Can Do to "Comments!" There has been a lot of attention to all the bots on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, etc. My fixation has been on "Comments" bots/trolls. It all started with the bots on Breitbart for me. That's where I coined " NASTYBOT, " ( More examples ) Go ahead. Pet me.  ...those gross insults that were amping up the snarling, the American-on-American hatred. Somehow Breitbart was the perfect platform for these Russian cyber-clusterbombs. Actual nasty humans jumped right in and became "NASTYBODS," ever eager to follow the worst bully on the schoolyard. Gradually, the word is penetrating the semi-attentive among us to understand how many millions of bots are polluting the social media environment. It took a long time. HOW LONG ? The Really Big Story (of course) came in the New York Times . And this army of bots doesn't even count the Russian ones!! The OTHER

What's Really Going On While We All Watch the Clown Show (Nunes memo, et al) We are all prisoners of REGULATORY CAPTURE * Yassah, Master Oligarch, just call if you need anything else! It's called "Regulatory Capture," and the Trump Administration foxes are capturing the heck out of some very important hen houses. Republicans have advanced towards their key objective of “regulatory capture”. Regulatory capture is defined by George Stigler, a Nobel laureate economist, as “a form of government failure which occurs when a regulatory agency, created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating.” Now, because of direct action by Donald Trump, with a nod from the Republican Congress, virtually all Departments and agencies in our Federal government is headed by someone from the industry or who has advocated for the industry that