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The new dark age: a place where the future is radically uncertain and the past irrevocably contested, but where we are still capable of speaking directly to what is in front of us, of thinking clearly and acting with justice.

What was missing in Rwanda and Srebrenica was not evidence of an atrocity, but the willingness to act upon it. As one investigative report on the Rwandan killings noted, ‘Any failure to fully appreciate the genocide stemmed from political, moral, and imaginative weaknesses, not informational ones.’11 This statement feels like it could be the punchline to this book: a damning indictment of our ability to either ...

Schmidt’s – and Google’s – worldview is one that is entirely predicated on the belief that making something visible makes it better, and that technology is the tool to make things visible.

The view numbers of these videos must be taken under serious advisement. Just as a huge number of these videos are created by automated pieces of software – bots – they are also viewed by bots, and even commented on by bots. The arms race between bot makers and Google’s machine learning algorithms is one that Google lost a long time ago across most of its properties. It’s also one that it has no real reason to ...

Chemtrails have been around for a while, since at least the 1990s, when, according to the conspiracy theorists, the US Air Force let slip what they were really up to. In a report entitled ‘Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025’, a group of Air Force researchers proposed a series of measures by which the US military might use weather modification to achieve ‘battlespace dominance to a degree ...

The last 2 chapters
were really a wild (& freakish if I may add) revelation... Couldn't put the book down