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The Persuasion Apocalypse is Just Around the Corner   And bots are the "critical mass generators"  So ban those boogers before they eat our brains. Some people like Rock-aganda. Some don't. * Creds Near-future scenario: Psychological profiling gets incredibly more powerful, thanks to A.I. and machine learning, combing through vast piles of data about each of us. Our tastes, our fears, our heroes, our demons, our fantasies, our positions, our prejudices, our..... everything ; they've got it all, and it goes into the machine learning grinders. (Read up on machine learning - Whoowee baby.) Instantly (computers are fast) you are analyzed and categorized.  Out comes the key to your mind (and maybe your soul). Then with propaganda custom tailored to convince you of whatever THEY want you to think/believe/do, THEY get inside your mind, under your defenses, below your radar and inside your ego. Without even knowing it, you start to think/believe/do what

CNN Is an Amazing News Organization (The more DJ Trump Picks On It, The Better They Look) F'er Instance: My ongoing question, "Yeah, Cambridge Analytica, but what about the Russians?" gets reported by who? CNN, that's who. Yep, Trump talks about us a lot. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: Data could have come from more than 87 million users, be stored in Russia I knew it! Knew it, knew it, knew it!  But have you heard anything about this from Congress? Fox News? ( Sputter, giggle, snort )  See the CNN story HERE. Soooo, if the stolen Facebook Data categorizes you as (say) "Credulous, likes conspiracy theories, and always looking for trouble," you will be hearing from Rooskie trolls, bots and the occasional North Korean now as much as ever. Fun! Way to go, CNN. Right up there with the "failing" New York Times, the "Amazon" Washington Post and the "Very Fake News" MSM.  I'M PRETTY SURE ROBERT MUELL

The (Almost) Snowless Winter in New Mexico This may sound like I'm whining,       And what right do I have to whine         When the East Coast is snowed senseless? Still, I want you to know we New Mexicans are experiencing what made the Early Pueblans leave their amazing cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde  and their magnificent buildings in Chaco Canyon. Scary. It’s only April and a stretch of the Rio Grande has already dried By Laura Paskus, Apr 05, 2018 08:00 pm Hey Goose, want to play splash? Read all about it and feel better about all your snow. Rain Turtle, why hath thou forsaken us?

"Day Zero" - When the Water Dries Up ... OK, way over in South Africa. BUT... ...This book - and several others - predicts huge water shortages are coming in the many places on earth - and in the United States - where long term droughts plus exploding population size will bring more Day Zeros .  The 2011 Book That Predicted Capetown's Water Crisis [I lOVE this book. It's scary, but fascinating. It's a history book with the past viewed through the lens of water. Brilliantly annotated, it is credible beyond reasonable question. Comforting, that.] "Day Zero" is actually here, over there Tonight's PBS report on Capetown skirting the edges of "Day Zero." Talk about an INFRASTRUCTURE CHALLENGE! How Should America respond to the parching of its Western one third?  There is a lot water (many floods, even) in its Eastern third; what would it take to move some of the excess water to the west? Some kind of big time infrastructu

No "Breaking News," No Dramatic Events, No Tweets... Just relentless, grinding reality.  Hard to cover in today's news environment. Drought Expands Across Southwestern US   -  By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press Water, water, never where * Drought is tightening its grip across a wide swath of the American Southwest as farmers, ranchers and water managers throughout the region brace for what's expected to be more warm and dry weather through the spring. The federal drought map released Thursday shows dry conditions intensifying across northern New Mexico and into southwestern Arizona. On the southern high plains, Oklahoma is ground zero right now for the worst drought conditions in the United States. Federal agriculture officials say crop conditions in some areas are declining. In New Mexico, about three-quarters of the winter wheat crop is in poor to very poor condition as meaningful moisture has been scarce. Along the Rio Grande in southe

29 Seconds of Guilt-Free Pride I did a short vid to send to my sons, and thought 'Why not on the blog?' Note the clean cuts in the concrete pavers. Cuts were made with a 4" diamond blade on a hand grinder spinning like a bat outa Heck. Lots of dust.   The gray and red pavers are of different thickness. Engineering by Eyeball, LLC. The snow just melted. WATCH THE SHORT VIDEO HERE CAST: Dog #1-Gunnar; Dog #2 -Ali; Dog #3- Yoko; Narrator/photographer -Olde Scooter

The London Guardian Does It Again... Super inside story, But WHERE'S THE RUSSIAN ANGLE? Another insider spills more beans , again to a Guardian reporter. These guys think THEY WON THE ELECTION FOR TRUMP. (Read all about it here ) Cambridge Analytica snuck out with all that Facebook data (like how much toilet paper you use per sitting; which country singer you just love; how many times you "like" what; what kind of comments you leave on a gnarly Facebook quote, what kind of tweets you retweet... on and on) from maybe 50 million of us, MAYBE MORE when everything is counted. Read This Without Gasping (They used)...data modelling and performance-optimising algorithms  to target 10,000 different ads to different audiences in the months leading up to the election. The ads were viewed billions of times. 10,000 different ads!?  BILLIONS of viewings?! Holy brain bending, Batman! ...And they had a polygraph on us all through the campaign, mea