How Algorithms and Authoritarianism Yielded a Corporate Nightmare at United
"I was only following corporate algorithms"
Testimony given at a future war crimes trial (riff on the Nuremberg defense)
Articles from Global Guerrillas
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Using Drones to Rapidly Set up Networks
Here's a new drone (warning, acronym creep) called the CICADA, or Close-In Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft.
The Case for Neo Isolationism
It appears that neo-conservatives are now in control of the Trump White House.
The bombing of the Assad regime in Syria announced to the world the US was still in the business of micromanaging global political outcomes through the selective use of violence (a profoundly anti-conservative notion).
That's bad news. The US record on military adventurism and regime change over the last few decades has been stunningly bad.
The London Terrorist Attack and the JCC Bomb Threats
Jewish Community Center Bomb Threats
Some More Thoughts on Automating Populism
Here's some more thinking on how Trump (with Bannon's help) could (~will) use social networking to turn the populist insurgency that got them into the White House into a dynamic (or extremely dangerous, depending on your perspective) political force.
How Trump and Bannon Could Restructure US Politics Overnight
We live in a world where we can get nearly everything instantly.
Instant information. Instant entertainment. Instant communications. Instant transactions.
Simply and rightly, we have come to expect our decisions to yield instant results from the systems that serve us.
Well, that's true for every system except our political system.
A BIG Start-up Opportunity in Politics?
The New York Times pointed out yesterday that Trump ran his candidacy like an Internet start-up. His goal was to use Internet technology to disintermediate the established system (parties, media, etc.) of getting a President elected. Bannon even brought into the team start-up culture mantras:
"move fast and break things"
Political Networking (how social networking is changing politics forever)
Social networking is changing politics, that fact should be clear by now. A simple proof: Trump wouldn't be in the White House without it.
But where is political networking taking us? That's the BIG question. I've been doing lots of thinking about this (it's going into my book). Here's my shorthand for where our political system is headed. We have three political networks to choose from:
How Trump's Use of Social Networking Changes Governance
The Trump presidency operates very differently (obviously) than those of his post-WW2 predecessors. First off, its goals are completely different: it's dismantling the neoliberal system. A system that earlier administrations built up over decades. Second, and equally as interestingly, it operates more like a network than a bureaucracy.
Trump's Rollback of the Neoliberal Market State
What is Trump doing?
Trump is rolling back neoliberalism and everything connected to it.
To understand what this means, here's a narrative of Trump's insurgency. It explains what he is doing and what he is likely to do. It starts with the rise of neoliberalism.