charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
The accts signal a potential tactical shift in how #China aims to #influence American #politics, w/more of a willingness to target specific candidates & parties, including Biden.
9 #witnesses in the #criminal cases against #Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, & a grant of shares & cash from Trump’s media co.
#Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the #UnitedStates, & leverage the #Ukraine#war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, acc/to a secret Foreign Ministry document.
Is there any better way to celebrate the glory of the Resurrection than by helping a #criminal suspect—indicted on scores of charges—pay off his #legal fees?
Not according to Donald #Trump, who took his broke ass to Truth Social on Tues morning to announce that supporters can purchase copies of the Christian holy book.
#Influence without Authority. To overcome the Endowment effect, it helps to highlight the cost of inaction. In the #Agile world, we often deal with teams that say, we too rushed or busy to improve. Consider showing them cost of not doing anything. Not refactoring and improving engineering practice? Highlight the increase of chaos in their code. Not improving flow? Consider measuring # of days items are stuck waiting to be worked on. Show the failure to act is already harming the team.
4 major nonprofits that rose to prominence during the #coronavirus pandemic by capitalizing on the spread of #medical#misinformation collectively gained >$118M between 2020 & 2022, enabling the orgs to deepen their #influence in statehouses, courtrooms & communities across the country, a Washington Post analysis of tax records shows.
#Influence Warnings become recommendations. TidePods are classic example. A warning tweet, helped spark the tidepod challenge. This is true of many health warnings. People feel their Autonomy is taken away and they pushback.
To really influence, start with taking time to understand the other person’s needs.
The latest #doxxing attempt fits a pattern of #threats against people who speak out against Trump.
The addresses & phone numbers of fmr Trump lawyer Cohen's family members were posted to a doxxing website after Trump was #convicted of 34 #felony counts in connection w/a scheme to illegally #influence the #2016election.
Moscow has found better ways to conceal #influence ops, by using harder-to-trace tech, to amplify arguments for #isolationism before #UnitedStates elections, acc/to disinfo experts & #intelligence.
#Influence without Authority. We get kicked by the Endowment effect: It is easier to tolerate the status quo than to make change. In the #Agile world this is made worse because of a Cost Benefit Timing Gap. We pay a lot of $$ upfront and the benefit only shows up later. Sometimes much later. This tells us we need to change how we offer Change.
We must speed the time to benefit and reduce the cost/risk. Look for clever ways reduce cost of change and even make it reversible (less risk).
Basically a crowdsourced instance where memes are kept
But not just a pile of hopeful clip-art which mostly doesn’t apply anywhere specific, not just a collection of tired arbitrary animated gifs from the past 10 years or so
This would be a curated, dynamic and above all meaningful set of memes that reflect the zite-guys (oh those guys, the zite guys, they’re always on top of things, it’s as if they’re the spirit of the age)
technically, the animated gif is actually a good medium (scarred by the amount of prehistoric pixels animated gifs extant from the days of the last century)
Even the two-frame; three-frame; four-frame memes consisting of static images with burned-in text are valid stories
But we have other formats now, a simple two, three, or four step sequence of still images with dynamic overlaid SVG text and arrows and stuff could work as a new meme format (wrapped as SVG)
This could need and complement the MFM markup that Calckey promotes
But anyway, whatever the details, the idea that there’s a place to go to to refer to current memes and pull them from there would mean that individual instances don’t have to have the load to store the (by then) multiple copies of it as it spreads, it’s all canonical
The curated side of it could mean that that’s where the topicality, the currency, the finger on the button is – that’s where the pulse of the thinking of the fediverse is – that pile of memes in one place
Dangerous idea: it could also be curated in terms of thought direction, to weed out ‘poisonous’ or ‘bad’ thinking, to weed out unhelpful memes from the perspective of human potential or achievement or integrity, and promote good helpful (happy?) thinking to build on – ie weighted more to the positive than evil
#Influence#Failures Mere exposure to ideas that are outside of our zone of acceptance can reinforce our existing beliefs. Chris Bail et al ran experiment on twitter, they had hoped to discover that getting people to listen to ideas different from their own would moderate opinions. Result: the opposite. Exposure to ideas from the other caused them to take on more extreme beliefs. https://buff.ly/4aHbbpo
Share examples of where this has undermined your work?
Getting other people to taken on your ideas seriously isn't about authority. At best that will get compliance. Instead it's about #Influence.
There are many paths to influence.
Look for collaborators
Ask open ended questions
Freedom to make their own choices
Reduce risks
Focus on Relationships
How have you succeeded at influencing others?
(Hint although I don't go into geeky detail in the video, everything I share is evidence based) https://youtu.be/mLnx5W8mXIU
#Influence#Failure - We have anti-persuasion radar that can kick in when we feel pushed, even if it's toward something we want. Example - many people want to speak up more in meetings. (Good). Yet when it becomes a corporate thing, now we ask: "Am I choosing to speak up for my own reasons or because it was pushed". Result: We often shutdown.
Who has seen an Agile change go off the rails right here?
Personally, I have nothing against the emergence of new #programming languages. This is cool:
the industry does not stand still;
competition allows existing languages to develop and borrow features from new ones;
developers have the opportunity to learn new things while avoiding #burnout;
there is a choice for beginners;
there is a choice for specific tasks.
But why do most people dislike the :clang: #clang so much? But it remains the fastest among high-level languages. Who benefits from C being suppressed and attempts being made to replace him? I think there is only one answer - companies. Not developers. Developers are already reproducing the opinion imposed on them by the market. Under the #influence of hype and the opinions of others, they form the idea that C is a useless language. And most importantly, oh my god, he's unsafe. Memory usage. But you as a #programmer are (and must be) responsible for the #code you write, not a language. And the one way not to do bugs - not doing them.
Personally, I also like the :hare_lang: #harelang. Its performance is comparable to C, but its syntax and elegance are more modern.
And in general, I’m not against new languages, it’s a matter of taste. But when you learn a language, write in it for a while, and then realize that you are burning out 10 times faster than before, you realize the cost of memory safety.
Journalists in the west now seem to finally be admitting that our media environment has seen a radical shift towards anti-democratic forces.
Yet. This didn’t come out of nowhere.
Remember those same people posting RT clips daily back in 2015?
As far as my home country goes, we have pretty solid evidence that even if we have only ourselves to blame for supporting these people, #Russia had an #influence and provided a lot of the #disinformation ammo they shot with.
[News] Pro-China influence campaign pushed talking points across more than 50 websites (www.nbcnews.com)
Facebook said Tuesday it has identified a sprawling online propaganda effort: a pro-China campaign that had a presence on more than 50 websites....