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Lots of coverage today of Amlo (Andres Manual Lopez Obrador) victory in Mexico -- populist platform, explicitly anti-Trump. Worth remembering that he likely received media/info ops support from Russia + Russian $$ coming through several means. /1

theguardian.com/world/2018/jan…
The core of the message was anti-institution -- everything is broken, vote against it. Sound familiar?

Won't do much to calm rocky N American relations, & is good data point: while America dabbles w/ victimized isolationism, our enemies working to rearrange our neighborhood /2
Not saying Obrador was Russian project or whatever, simply that they saw an opportunity to be disruptive & took it. And it matters, & we should care, & we should be reminded that no matter how the Trump-Putin summit goes, the Kremlin is always working to limit American power. /3
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No really, some genius has a line of meal replacement products called Soylent.

... At least there isn't a green one, I guess?
Oh, but don't worry -- it includes genetically engineered products!
Agh you may as well eat styrofoam, it's about as natural
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I spent 55 hrs rewatching Battlestar Galactica this wk, & had deeper thoughts on AI/nature of consciousness/why we think of the divine, resistance techniques/guerrilla warfare, civil-military relations, representative govt/social stratification -- than I get from year of TV news
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Would be a good way to upend ideas re science, faith, human, machine, & battle over development of AI.
Also, this, again, x1000

I started watching the last ep without tissues and with cats on me, and that was a big mistake.

@edwardjolmos + @MaryMcDonnell10, thank you for your portrayal of my favorite TV romance, ever

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I'm rewatching Battlestar Galactica because man vs machine vs the unexplainable is pretty much the philosophy we need right now.
The exchange at the beginning between the military and civilian leaders re: the inherent evil vs benefit of networked computers/AI = 2018
Adama, as if speaking to 2018 tech companies: "When we fought the cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question why. Why are we as a people worth saving? ... We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done...
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Highlights fro #Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on foreign interference via social media platforms:

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This is actually #AMLO’s re-election: He first won the presidency in 2006. But back then the thieving, scheming, blood-stained criminal gang that rules Mexico (and I’m being polite), declared his dissolute opponent the winner. gregpalast.com/how-the-bernie…
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With all the nonsense at the border, people need to pay closer attention to what's really going on.
July 1 is the Mexican presidential election.
The guy in the lead is threatening to "put @realDonaldTrump ihn is place"
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Government for the last 10+ years has admitted to 11 million.
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3. The current population in the US is 325.71 million.
If the population includes 30 million Mexican nationals, that means more than 9% of our population are potentially a major Mexican army.
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