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Once you go digging into the actual technical mechanism… | blogjou

Edward Snowden

Permanent Record

p. 332
13 Nov 2019

Once you go digging into the actual technical mechanism...


Once you go digging into the actual technical mechanism by which predictability is calculated, you come to understand that its science, if fact, is anti-scientific, and fatally misnamed: predictability is actually manipulation. A website that tells you that because you liked this book you might also like books by James Clapper or Michael Haydn isn’t offering an educated guess as much as a mechanism of sublte coercion.