- On Wednesday about 10 crates filled with files and documents were carried out of the building where Cambridge Analytica is based and loaded into a rental delivery van, the Huffington Post reported. Two men loading the van declined to comment when asked if they worked for the company.
Zuckerburg, you fucking coward. Go into politics, I dare you! You're the most unlikable, uncharismatic, out-of-touch CEO in the entire valley. De-activated my Facebook. Typed out a few sentences as to why I'm de-activating in the comments box, said to myself "what am I doing?", and just changed my response to "lol bye".
Indeed it is. I imagine he has a personality coach. Maybe several. It might help a bit, but you can't teach empathy. Zuckerburg doesn't have any.
...it is, though. Empathy isn't the same thing as sympathy. You don't have to feel bad for the population of Puerto Rico but you do have to understand where they're coming from, understand why other people feel bad, and be able to act as if you, too, are moved by the plight of millions of Puerto Ricans without power or running water. Ethos, Logos, Pathos. You don't win without all three. Politics is the act of turning yourself into the avatar of all those who trust you to act on their behalf. People will vote for psychopaths if they think the psychopath has their best interests at heart... but in order to operate in contested space you need to be able to understand the motivations of your opponent enough to predict their movements. Sociopaths are high-performers in hierarchal environments such as corporate trees. They are low performers in consensus environments where agency depends on trust. Robert McNamara was a genius. He made a lot of scientific and logistical contributions to the world. He was also distrusted by everyone and despite becoming a household name, the only election he ever won was to Phi Beta Kappa. Kissinger? Appointed to everything he ever did. Compare and contrast: both Rumsfeld and Cheney won congressional seats in their youth. They knew who to appeal to and who to not; they had friends and they had enemies and they played them off each other. Kissinger and McNamara? Responsible for large swathes of history but never once appealed to the public.
Dude, every gaffe GWB ever made was him making stupid remarks and uneducated misstatements in moments where he was expected to be empathetic. He didn't fail to be empathetic - he failed to be properly, convincingly empathetic. He knew what was required of him. He just stopped giving a fuck in the moment.
Nothing says "We're innocent" like destruction of proof for unlawful conduct.
No, no, see, they were cooperating. They were shocked - shocked, I tell you - that a firm with access to their data would act so nefariously (in 2015) so they rushed over there right away to investigate (something they knew about in 2015). I've heard rumors that Zuck was so appalled by this (three year old) totally-not-a-breach of user data that he's been unable to speak to any authorities.Update on March 19, 2018, 3:25 PM PT: Independent forensic auditors from Stroz Friedberg were on site at Cambridge Analytica’s London office this evening. At the request of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which has announced it is pursuing a warrant to conduct its own on-site investigation, the Stroz Friedberg auditors stood down.
FB's chief of IT security resigned yesterday. Apparently not because he is the one being scapegoated, but because he's been arguing for greater cooperation and transparency in the Russia-Trump investigation. They basically fired his ass because he's the one person at that shithole company who stood up and said maybe let's try doing the right thing for once??? Edit: Just saw that you posted that elsewhere. Read the chatter before you speak, b_b!
You've got the timeline backwards. It was a legitimate term used to describe political disinformation which was coopted by Trump and his supporters.
It's sticky, it's simple, it's basic. Ref and I are no longer speaking over the definition of "feedback" and I'd wager 90% of the country couldn't define "propaganda" with a gun to their head. In an earlier era, "news" was "information of value." Then we got "news feeds" and they were basically "a bunch of shit you have to filter through." "fake news" is that shit in your facebook feed you can slag on the poster for sharing while "propaganda" is something the Nazis did. Maybe. They did have a few good ideas. And were such snappy dressers. Unlike Shillary. Pantsuits I swear to christ...