Today I drive outside city limits to share MIT Scratch with some kids. The theme today is "broadcasting" whereas last week it was "cloning". These are technical terms within the Scratch namespace.
I was up until like 4 AM this morning, after teaching an on-line class, catching up on the Putin Files a little (PBS). There's way more there than I'll likely have time for. I also caught some of the Oliver Stone interviews (of Putin), awhile back, not this morning.
That got me back to studying where we're at in the latest political soaps. I posted a bunch of links to Facebook (public). One link points to an article saying Guccifer 2.0 was a GRU guy. Then there's the VIPS narrative that metadata proves DNC emails were sucked down to a memory stick, not siphoned off through some backdoor connection (so no proof of a hack).
The purported Guccifer comms also looked doctored in some way, something about cutting and pasting to a Russiafied Word document? I'm not at all close to this investigation. So whatever happened to the story about destroyed hard drives in that guy's garage?
Me on Facebook:
I'm supposedly confusing people by promulgating a concentric hierarchy of polyhedrons, a purely Platonic construct in the sense that one doesn't need empirical evidence to shore it up, just mathematics.
The reliance on verifiable mathematics ala what's in my Jupyter Notebooks makes the whole debate somewhat more democratic in that neither Zubek nor I need rely on unnamed, anonymous "intelligence professionals" -- almost always a weakness in those more empirically-based narratives, making those games unplayable except by certified insiders, more a spectator sport than participatory.
Tonight I'm back to teaching on-line, but a different course than last night's. I'll be charging my Bluetooth headphones.
I was up until like 4 AM this morning, after teaching an on-line class, catching up on the Putin Files a little (PBS). There's way more there than I'll likely have time for. I also caught some of the Oliver Stone interviews (of Putin), awhile back, not this morning.
That got me back to studying where we're at in the latest political soaps. I posted a bunch of links to Facebook (public). One link points to an article saying Guccifer 2.0 was a GRU guy. Then there's the VIPS narrative that metadata proves DNC emails were sucked down to a memory stick, not siphoned off through some backdoor connection (so no proof of a hack).
The purported Guccifer comms also looked doctored in some way, something about cutting and pasting to a Russiafied Word document? I'm not at all close to this investigation. So whatever happened to the story about destroyed hard drives in that guy's garage?
Me on Facebook:
I suppose a 3rd narrative is something like "yes the Russians helped expose DNC corruption and we thank them, lets hope to return the favor." A 4th narrative remembers how Pizzagate was going viral at the time, which is related to Russiagate but seemed to have a life of its own and was damaging to Clinton Foundation / DNC.My summary remark on Facebook was:
I have to say, I think the substantive content in all these soaps is more meaty than during the Clinton years, which were so much about sex scandals, not that we don't have that going too (Stormy etc). The cyber stuff is really dense (IP numbers etc.) and the Putin Files take us to Ukraine, Crimea... the public has plenty to chew on. Looking at reality as TV, the screenwriting has gotten better. That's putting the best spin on it I'm capable of this Tuesday morning. Same goes for these discussions with Fero I suppose.Somewhere in the middle of that thread, Fero Zubek showed up lambasting the Bucky stuff and linking to his own videos, which often mention me by name as the arch-villain.
I'm supposedly confusing people by promulgating a concentric hierarchy of polyhedrons, a purely Platonic construct in the sense that one doesn't need empirical evidence to shore it up, just mathematics.
The reliance on verifiable mathematics ala what's in my Jupyter Notebooks makes the whole debate somewhat more democratic in that neither Zubek nor I need rely on unnamed, anonymous "intelligence professionals" -- almost always a weakness in those more empirically-based narratives, making those games unplayable except by certified insiders, more a spectator sport than participatory.
Tonight I'm back to teaching on-line, but a different course than last night's. I'll be charging my Bluetooth headphones.
