00:00:00.767-->00:00:05.706 >> How's everyone else doing? It's the last talk of the day. [cheering] Still got a lot of 00:00:05.706-->00:00:10.711 energy? You know, I was, ah, the first day I was streaming the "101" track and there was a lot 00:00:15.716-->00:00:19.519 of people that were, uh, you know, coming up here and, and encouraging people not to go to 00:00:19.519-->00:00:23.023 the talks. They were like "Oh, just... it's always uploaded on YouTube, why would you go to the 00:00:23.023-->00:00:27.394 talks?" And I'm usually one of those people, I'm usually the person that thinks that you're 00:00:27.394-->00:00:32.266 crazy if you're gonna come do a talk and stand in all those lines. Mostly, it's the lines! 00:00:32.266-->00:00:37.271 Being from Wyoming, lines aren't a thing, so, like, makes my heart hurt when I see-hee people 00:00:37.271-->00:00:42.276 standing in the line. [pause] Uh, but, I dunno, to encourage people not to come to a talk, 00:00:46.313-->00:00:52.853 that's, uhm, that's not, uh... I'd say it's misguided cause there's something about being a 00:00:52.853-->00:00:57.591 part of an audience that's just electric! And, you know, this is no surprise, you know, you think 00:00:57.591-->00:01:03.230 about any sort of sitcom that's out there, what do they do? They pipe audience into your living 00:01:03.230-->00:01:07.734 room, they're piping, uh, soundtracks into you, or ,uh, uh, canned laughter into you 00:01:07.734-->00:01:10.904 just to make you feel that you're doing the right thing. To make you feel like "Oh, I 00:01:10.904-->00:01:14.841 shouldn't have to go make real friends, uhm, I've, I've got all the friends I need right here in 00:01:14.841-->00:01:19.413 my living room." [audience noise] So, I mean, it kinda makes you wonder, it's like... 00:01:19.413-->00:01:24.918 Oh, so first off - yea, thank you, thank you for, uhm, braving the, uh, colds and sinuses, 00:01:24.918-->00:01:29.923 infections and what not and, uh... [sniff] Being here with me today. Uhm... uh, yea so, uh, 00:01:33.593-->00:01:36.596 yea.. There's something electric about being in the audience and it, it makes you think, it's 00:01:36.596-->00:01:41.601 like... What is that? What is that that is programming us to like, to yearn to be a part of 00:01:41.601-->00:01:46.840 these social, uh, interactions, and, you know, if, if things like laughter, canned laughter 00:01:46.840-->00:01:52.846 can program us to act differently then just how open, how vulnerable are we? [pause] 00:01:52.846-->00:01:57.951 And I thought, yea, well, let's just examine one of the hardest cases that we know about and I'm 00:01:57.951-->00:02:03.790 talking about kernel version Helen Keller. She was blind, deaf and mute and look at 00:02:03.790-->00:02:08.295 that... she's still reading. You're still piping input into her - teaching her who knows 00:02:08.295-->00:02:15.168 what. [chuckles] [laughter] So it's like if she's, she's the most locked down system I could 00:02:15.168-->00:02:19.539 think of and if she's not locked down, how wide open are we?! And, you know, I'm joking but at 00:02:19.539-->00:02:23.076 the same time I'm really not because we can't stop stuff from coming into our eyes; we can't 00:02:23.076-->00:02:26.747 st... stop stuff from coming into our ears, mostly. You walk around Vegas, you're bombarded 00:02:26.747-->00:02:31.752 with stuff. [sniff] [pause] So, yea... What's my motivation? I'm a software engineer by day but 00:02:33.854-->00:02:38.792 I'm a frustrated consumer by night, a media consumer. You know, it's one of those things 00:02:38.792-->00:02:42.562 that, that you just feel icky, you feel that, like, propaganda is, is all over you, you know, 00:02:42.562-->00:02:48.502 and you can't escape it. Uhm, so what can you do about it? You figure that the people can do 00:02:48.502-->00:02:52.572 something about it are the ones that are doing the propaganda to begin with. You know, you can't 00:02:52.572-->00:02:57.677 expect anybody else to, you know, come to your rescue for you so I thought "Well, Python 00:02:57.677-->00:03:01.481 solves a lot of my other problems, could Python solve this problem for me as well?". 00:03:01.481-->00:03:06.486 So, I guess it's time to take a journey. It's time to fight your friends in alleyways... 00:03:09.289-->00:03:13.193 [laughter] ... tell them to put on the glasses. And if you don't get this, you haven't watched 00:03:13.193-->00:03:19.332 "They Live" and that's your fault, you're wrong - not me. [laughter] So let's define 00:03:19.332-->00:03:21.635 propaganda, propaganda's defined in this talk, it's, uh, real simple, you have node A, you 00:03:21.635-->00:03:23.637 have node B and you have a communication stream or data stream. This data stream is an 00:03:23.637-->00:03:28.642 attempt from node A to get node B to behave in such a way that directly benefits, or get node B 00:03:31.945-->00:03:36.950 to act in a way that directly benefits node A. It's real simple... [pause] And it goes by 00:03:43.356-->00:03:49.329 many names, you know, advertising, lobbying, social engineering - all of Las Vegas 00:03:49.329-->00:03:54.334 essentially, it's all one big propaganda. [chatter] Uhg, go away... [laughter] [pause] Yea, 00:04:05.545-->00:04:09.382 so propaganda is defined by this talk, it goes by many different names and, uhm, you're probably 00:04:09.382-->00:04:12.519 thinking "Oh, I do some of these... am I a propagandist?" Yea, you are. We all are, we all 00:04:12.519-->00:04:16.623 propagandize a little bit, for sure. [sniff] And, it's, uh, it's a level like what we're 00:04:16.623-->00:04:20.160 willing to tolerate, what we as an individual, what we as a society, what we're willing to 00:04:20.160-->00:04:24.664 tolerate as far as what we're able to do with, or we're, what we find acceptable in 00:04:24.664-->00:04:31.138 propaganda. But what about the word? I'd like to give a little history of the word, uhm... 00:04:31.138-->00:04:34.741 because none of these, none of these word are a scary as propaganda - "propaganda" is the 00:04:34.741-->00:04:39.479 only one that really is scary. Maybe "social engineering" is a little bit scary. But propaganda 00:04:39.479-->00:04:43.416 is the only one that's really scary, you know, the one that's always used as a pejorative and 00:04:43.416-->00:04:47.921 you gotta ask "Well, what's... what's behind that?" there's definitely reason behind that. 00:04:47.921-->00:04:53.393 Uh, propaganda you know, you know, first came into vernacular in like, you know, the mid, uh, 00:04:53.393-->00:04:58.398 in 1622. It was, it stood for propagating the faith, uh, the world was getting larger and, 00:05:01.001-->00:05:05.338 like, our ships could sail further, the world was also getting smaller and kingdoms and 00:05:05.338-->00:05:09.476 factions started to bump into each other. And so you had, like, this pope that's like 00:05:09.476-->00:05:13.480 "God, I don't wanna deal with all this sh** that's on the outer reaches of my kingdom, I'm 00:05:13.480-->00:05:18.985 just gonna...". He didn't say that, he speaks Latin, and uh... [laughter] He, uhm, he, uh, he, 00:05:18.985-->00:05:22.822 you know, he.. he stood up this, uh, you know, propagation, this, uh, propagation of faith and it 00:05:22.822-->00:05:28.094 became effective almost immediately. In fact, like, the guy that was in, you know, the 00:05:28.094-->00:05:32.232 cardinal that was in charge of the propagation, you know, committee, you know, he was, uh, 00:05:32.232-->00:05:35.769 he was known as "The Red Pope", he was essentially an ad hoc pope for all the external 00:05:35.769-->00:05:40.874 kingdoms out there - very powerful. But even then, I mean, it, it, it wasn't a pejorative, 00:05:40.874-->00:05:45.378 it didn't become a pejorative until, like, as in a negative connotation until World War I, 00:05:45.378-->00:05:50.517 after World War I. What's going on there? [audience noise] Well, World War I is, if, you know, if 00:05:50.517-->00:05:56.823 you.. I've listened to, uh, George Collins, Dan Collins, uhm, World War I history, uhm, 00:05:56.823-->00:06:02.062 if I, I highly recommend it. But, uh, you know, he, he brings out World War I was the first 00:06:02.062-->00:06:08.435 war, you know, major war in the, in, uh, uhm, since like the Napoleonic era. So you had this 00:06:08.435-->00:06:13.373 group of people, who, you know, who weren't used to fighting, and you had to get them spun-up, 00:06:13.373-->00:06:17.077 you had to get them hating the other people. And Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, he wrote a whole 00:06:17.077-->00:06:20.614 chapter on war propaganda and he's like "This is where we failed, the English were, the 00:06:20.614-->00:06:23.650 English and the Russians they were way better at this and we've got to do a lot better". 00:06:23.650-->00:06:27.887 It was at this time also, and, and... Hitler called it propaganda, you know, he, he 00:06:27.887-->00:06:33.026 loved the word. And so that's why it became a bad word here. [sniff] Edward Bearnaise, uhm, 00:06:33.026-->00:06:38.732 uh... you know he's a father of modern day propaganda, he wrote, he looked at the same time 00:06:38.732-->00:06:42.502 period and he actually wrote in his book propaganda, he lamented, he goes "Propaganda is 00:06:42.502-->00:06:46.906 such a fine word and the Nazis went and ruined it..." he's like "Well, we've gotta come up with 00:06:46.906-->00:06:50.677 a different word." And the word he came up with was "Public Relations", you know, that's the 00:06:50.677-->00:06:55.682 term... [laughter] Did the Germans learn their lesson? Well, after World War II... was 00:06:59.019-->00:07:02.956 over, the, the liberators were, how ever you wanna look at them, were coming through, uh, 00:07:02.956-->00:07:07.961 Germany, and they came across, the, this, uh... A man named Robert Gaylin, Gellin... And 00:07:10.263-->00:07:14.134 they looked at his, uh, anti-communism propaganda and they were like "Man, this is 00:07:14.134-->00:07:19.172 good! Can you do this in English?" And he was like "Ja... I mean Yes...". [laughter] "I 00:07:19.172-->00:07:25.445 can totally do that". And, uhm, it was very effective, we have this, uh, retired CIA officer 00:07:25.445-->00:07:30.116 saying that we fed his propaganda, you know, his anti-, uhm, uh, anti-communism 00:07:30.116-->00:07:34.054 propaganda - the fed at pentagon, the president's office, you know, it was just, 00:07:34.054-->00:07:39.492 he called it, it was basically bullshit; it was boogeyman bullshit. [sniff] [pause] So 00:07:39.492-->00:07:43.430 yea, the Germans did lose, did learn their lesson. And they still lost the war but their 00:07:43.430-->00:07:50.303 propaganda machine was much better, uhm, yea... Thanks for sitting through that, uh, brief 00:07:50.303-->00:07:54.374 history... [audience noise] Let's fast forward to, like, we have the rise of the machines 00:07:54.374-->00:07:59.412 with propaganda - what has that done? Now, you've probably heard a lot of stuff about, like, how 00:07:59.412-->00:08:03.650 much it costs Google to power, you know, to run their, you know, just to pay their power 00:08:03.650-->00:08:08.521 bill every day. Probably heard stuff about, you know, Target, uh, you know, could predict 00:08:08.521-->00:08:13.793 the... predict when one of their customers was pregnant - all those kinds of stories. You 00:08:13.793-->00:08:18.298 know, there's these big numbers, we're not really quantifying it as a, as a human brains. But 00:08:18.298-->00:08:23.303 then I saw this, this, uh, this, uhm, this really neat article "The heterotopia of Facebook" - 00:08:25.839-->00:08:31.277 the thing is, Facebook, is a, uh, doesn't really matter, this could be any social, uh, uh, 00:08:31.277-->00:08:36.483 network out there; on, especial.. especially online. And, yea, go ahead and, go ahead 00:08:36.483-->00:08:41.087 and... I highly recommend reading the "The heterotopia of Facebook" and it, it describes 00:08:41.087-->00:08:47.460 what is going on with the human brain very succinctly - we participate in these social 00:08:47.460-->00:08:53.867 media groups. You know, these, other spaces is what "heterotopia" stands for. 00:08:53.867-->00:08:58.304 Heterotopia is where you can go, it's a space that exists in real life, but it's a space where you 00:08:58.304-->00:09:04.144 can go and kind of project and live a sort of, you know, your own utopia. The this is everyone 00:09:04.144-->00:09:08.648 else is doing the same thing, so you can get curbstomped if you go out there and project your 00:09:08.648-->00:09:14.254 idea; you can also get your boots licked by a sicko fan. What Foucault argues is that, 00:09:14.254-->00:09:19.959 like, whatever happens in these heterotopias, if you're investing real, uh, uh, parts of 00:09:19.959-->00:09:26.299 yourself into it every action that happens inside of this heterotopia will have an effect 00:09:26.299-->00:09:30.437 on you in the real world. Because your brain really can't distinguish between the two. 00:09:30.437-->00:09:35.108 It's like "If I was a dumbass in there, why wouldn't I be dumbass outside? And the answer is... 00:09:35.108-->00:09:38.711 [laughter] ... there's no reason. There's nothing stopping you, you are a dumbass. 00:09:38.711-->00:09:43.716 [laughter] That post? That was a sh** post... [laughter] Your whole life's been a sh** post. 00:09:47.554-->00:09:51.157 [laughter] You know?... So yea, so let's say you have these heterotopia, you have these 00:09:51.157-->00:09:55.094 spaces and you're a propagandist and you, like, you know, a salesman comes up to you and 00:09:55.094-->00:09:58.531 says "Look, I have these spaces where people just come and live their lives and interact with 00:09:58.531-->00:10:02.101 all these other people. And it's like, it's like a direct pipeline to how they act in the 00:10:02.101-->00:10:06.673 real world. Also,we've had machines and we've recorded everything, could this be of use 00:10:06.673-->00:10:12.178 to you?". "I dunno... [chuckle]... I dunno if it'll be worth my time..." says the 00:10:12.178-->00:10:16.850 propagandist. Obviously that's not what they say! We know this because, uhm, these industries 00:10:16.850-->00:10:22.822 are titans - uh, they're owners of billionaires, uh, the people, you know, are trying to wine and 00:10:22.822-->00:10:26.759 dine the owners all over the place to try and get their services on, you know, to be 00:10:26.759-->00:10:31.531 beneficial to them. So, yea, these heterotopias, or these, uh, social media groups, that 00:10:31.531-->00:10:36.236 collect all of our data that we invest very real parts of our lives in - it's a very 00:10:36.236-->00:10:42.609 important, it's very important. [sniff][deep breath] Let's go back to 1993, Al Gore was 00:10:42.609-->00:10:47.514 talking about, you know, this, this idea of, like, the gap between the "information haves" 00:10:47.514-->00:10:52.819 and the "information haves not". He's warning, you know, if we don't provide technology to , 00:10:52.819-->00:10:57.824 you know, uh, poorer populations they'll just get left behind. Now, in his book... I mean, 00:11:00.360-->00:11:05.832 that's fine! That's a noble, that's a noble thing to say. In his book "Davis Mod... David 00:11:05.832-->00:11:10.837 Shank". He made a, he made a really good point cause it... he goes "It's one thing if you push 00:11:13.072-->00:11:17.844 technology on to a people but if you don't upgrade the people, if you don't teach the people, if 00:11:17.844-->00:11:23.316 you don't give them the proper education of what it takes to, you know, uh, to understand what 00:11:23.316-->00:11:28.788 these devices are and what data they're producing, then you're not helping the information gap 00:11:28.788-->00:11:33.693 at all. In fact, you might even be widening it". So what's it take to be "information have" 00:11:33.693-->00:11:37.430 and "information haves not"? What's that gap? Well, the information, to be an 00:11:37.430-->00:11:41.568 information have is not that hard - if you know what a tracking cookie is, if you... 00:11:41.568-->00:11:47.407 you know, you, you know why the internet is making these people billions of dollars, if you know 00:11:47.407-->00:11:50.777 those things; if you know what an adblocker is, you're already in the information haves. If 00:11:50.777-->00:11:55.615 you're, you know, one of these fine outstanding citizens that need stuff to just work out of 00:11:55.615-->00:12:00.553 the box - you're an information have not. [pause] And, uhm, to, uh... Whoops. [pause] Yea... 00:12:19.739-->00:12:23.042 [pause] Huh, I guess I can go to, uh... Do we have any examples of information gaps 00:12:23.042-->00:12:29.549 today? Yea, sorry... I think so! I think one came up not too long ago, in the aftermath of the, 00:12:29.549-->00:12:35.722 uh, the Orlando shootings, we had a talk, uh, uh statement from Hillary Clinton. [pause] 00:12:35.722-->00:12:39.659 She promised, you know, as president "I will work with great tech companies from 00:12:39.659-->00:12:45.732 Silicon Valley to Boston..." She then goes on to uh, uh, give the normal stump speech about 00:12:45.732-->00:12:49.202 intersecting ISIS's communication, tracking and analyzing their media posts, 00:12:49.202-->00:12:52.839 blah, blah, blah. We already know that, there's already been plenty of discussion about that. 00:12:52.839-->00:12:57.677 But, what I find interesting is, as well as promoting credible voices who can provide 00:12:57.677-->00:13:02.615 alternatives to radicalization. She's asking Silicon Valley to team up with them to promote 00:13:02.615-->00:13:08.688 credible.. credible voices. Promote them, you know, whatever voice you deem necessary. Why do 00:13:08.688-->00:13:15.561 I think this is, uh, an example of the information gap? Because I don't think she could have got 00:13:15.561-->00:13:21.301 away with saying something like this: "As president I will work with our great net, uh, New York 00:13:21.301-->00:13:26.439 Times' bestseller list, promoting credible books and authors who can provide 00:13:26.439-->00:13:32.845 alternative radicalization...". And, so, yea, that's the question, it's, like, why can, 00:13:32.845-->00:13:39.118 you know, why can, a, uhm, uhm, what's the difference between, you know, Silicon Valley 00:13:39.118-->00:13:43.723 promoting stuff on their product and the New York Times promoting books on their bestseller... uh, 00:13:43.723-->00:13:48.194 promoting books on their bestseller list? It's one of those things where, uh, you 00:13:48.194-->00:13:51.030 know, some people read this they read about the government messing with their books and 00:13:51.030-->00:13:55.435 they go "Hmmm, I don't think so. You stop right there, government!" [chuckles] Uhm, uh, 00:13:55.435-->00:14:00.373 uhm... uh why can we get social media, you know the government can, uh, you know, talk, you 00:14:02.975-->00:14:08.047 know, the presidential candidate can openly talk about how she would like, uh, you know, 00:14:08.047-->00:14:14.987 private companies to help promote propaganda. [pause] And this wasn't a one of thing 00:14:14.987-->00:14:19.392 either, we have this one story you might have seen, uh, this was in, uh, "Facebook and 00:14:19.392-->00:14:25.331 Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within 24 hours" - this was a story that was in Europe. 00:14:25.331-->00:14:30.269 And inside this article we see that companies that also agree to promote independent 00:14:30.269-->00:14:35.508 counter-narratives to fight hate speech including content non-discrimination, tolerance 00:14:35.508-->00:14:41.614 and respect. So, we this, you know, we movements where private, uh, companies are asked 00:14:41.614-->00:14:46.619 to, you know, produce propaganda, you know, and uh, are we okay with that? [pause] 00:14:49.889-->00:14:55.595 Alright... so we have, uh, we have, like, we have this gap - information haves and 00:14:55.595-->00:15:00.733 information have nots. The best way to get information have nots into the information haves class 00:15:00.733-->00:15:04.737 is for education. Just educate them, just educate an information have nots into a 00:15:04.737-->00:15:10.510 information haves and it's done! The problem is, is that this front's countered to what a lot 00:15:10.510-->00:15:14.447 of, you know, there's a lot of people that, you know, in their best interests are keeping 00:15:14.447-->00:15:19.552 information have nots. You know, the more a information have nots there are, the more ads, the 00:15:19.552-->00:15:24.557 better ads you can sell; or target the people. And, uhm, you know, the more surveillance you 00:15:26.859-->00:15:30.830 can collect on people, so, you know, there's interests in keeping the information have 00:15:30.830-->00:15:36.903 nots. [audience noise] Now you say, "Well, if we were to educate these people, what would 00:15:36.903-->00:15:40.907 it be?" Thank you very much, that was a good transition to the next slide... [laughter] So, 00:15:40.907-->00:15:45.912 I'm, uh, I'm pulling this from, uh, a, uh, a lot of this is, uh, uh, propaganda information from 00:15:48.314-->00:15:53.586 this book called "Firewall", "Firewall: Propagandists guide to self-defense". Jack Nolan 00:15:53.586-->00:15:58.591 was, uh, a PSYOP officer himself, in the military, and, uhm, if you don't know anything 00:15:58.591-->00:16:02.862 about the military - they have these things called fuel manuals and they are like command pages 00:16:02.862-->00:16:08.501 for war. If, you, you ever find yourself in an apocalypse, you'll wanna secure a volume. 00:16:08.501-->00:16:14.373 [sniff] Now, uhm, he's basically going through the PSYOP, uh, uhm, basically his training and 00:16:14.373-->00:16:20.446 he puts it all in this book. So, first off, let's go and, like, what's the propaganda steps? And 00:16:20.446-->00:16:25.518 we see here it's mostly like a normal, uh, like a pen testing step. [chatter] You know, you 00:16:25.518-->00:16:29.322 start off, like, dv audience, you know, you wanna do some footprint, you know what I mean? 00:16:29.322-->00:16:35.595 You wanna, you know, determine what the audience's, uh, limits are, what you CAN get them to 00:16:35.595-->00:16:40.132 do; what you CAN'T get them to.. to do. [sniff] You also wanna determine who their ringleaders 00:16:40.132-->00:16:47.006 are. [pause] In today's, you know, you know, in today's, you know, social networks we have 00:16:47.006-->00:16:51.477 all these lights, we have followers - it's easy to tell who the ring leaders are - the 00:16:51.477-->00:16:57.149 end-users. But, also, you gotta rem.. remember that you can also target moderators, you can 00:16:57.149-->00:17:01.854 target sysadmins. A propagandist may just, I mean, it's way easier, what are you gonna do? 00:17:01.854-->00:17:06.192 You gonna target a group of people or you can just target a mod who can censor everything 00:17:06.192-->00:17:11.030 for you? If you want, I mean, if you can get them onto your side... Uh, the next thing a 00:17:11.030-->00:17:17.169 propagandist wants to do after ID-ing his target audience - he needs to, you know, uh, 00:17:17.169-->00:17:22.375 determine a goal state. Most of the time goal state is to make money, you know, but, we've got 00:17:22.375-->00:17:25.978 a lot of other things that that goal state could be, you know, to, uh, get people to hate the 00:17:25.978-->00:17:30.883 other people so you can go to war. But mostly it's to make money. The next thing you wanna 00:17:30.883-->00:17:36.822 do is scan for vulnerabilities, on a society, on a group of people that you'd like to, uh, 00:17:36.822-->00:17:42.061 you'd like to, uh, change their behavior on. These are... you can tell what a society's 00:17:42.061-->00:17:46.365 vulnerabilities are - these are know as hot-button issues. If, ever you're like "OOH, that's a 00:17:46.365-->00:17:49.735 hot-button issue" - that's a societal vulnerability. That is something that someone could 00:17:49.735-->00:17:53.906 always wedge in there, you know, wedge a wrench in there and just try to exploit. This can be 00:17:53.906-->00:17:59.845 race, religion, gender, wealth... you know, these are, uh, you know things that people 00:17:59.845-->00:18:04.817 are real sensitive about. And, you know, it's upon the society, it's up on the society to really 00:18:04.817-->00:18:08.287 patch these. You can't, you know, if you're always gonna leave this vulnerability open 00:18:08.287-->00:18:15.027 it's, you know, it's, it, uhm... It'll always be exploited. [pause] Choose the theme of the 00:18:15.027-->00:18:20.132 message - this is essentially the exploit of the, how do you, how are you gonna exploit the 00:18:20.132-->00:18:25.504 vulnerability? Are you gonna appear.. appeal to fear? Are you gonna appeal to greed? Ingroup/ 00:18:25.504-->00:18:29.442 outgroup that's very powerful. Like I said about people yearning to be a part of a 00:18:29.442-->00:18:34.447 crowd. [pause] Uh, if you can get people feeling like they're an outgroup, you know, you can 00:18:36.549-->00:18:41.787 get people feeling like they're an ingroup cause they continue to do what you want them to do. 00:18:41.787-->00:18:45.391 [sniff] These are all different, uh, this is your theme, this is the message that you wanna run 00:18:45.391-->00:18:50.262 with, you wanna appeal to something of your audience - fear, greed, whatever. [pause] 00:18:50.262-->00:18:55.267 Now I actually wanna plan to grab attention, this is essentially like your payload 00:18:57.336-->00:19:02.642 that you're going to be delivering. [pause] You know, you're gonna have your TV 00:19:02.642-->00:19:08.247 commercials; you're gonna do internet advertising [pause] There are many to choose from... 00:19:08.247-->00:19:13.119 Next thing you wanna test the message, measure it's impact and adjust the message as needed, 00:19:13.119-->00:19:17.757 repeat. In today's day and age this is very easy to do. Obviously, this is uhm, you 00:19:17.757-->00:19:22.762 know, we get immediate feedback on the message and its impact and, uh, we can adjust it as 00:19:25.031-->00:19:29.935 needed very quickly, repeat it, recoup, repeat it. So that's what a propagandist is gonna do, 00:19:29.935-->00:19:35.608 that's his steps. What can a propaganda, uh, what can a person do to counter the 00:19:35.608-->00:19:40.713 propaganda? What kind of checklist can they, can they, can they use for themselves? 00:19:40.713-->00:19:46.585 [pause] A series of questions that you can ask is can the speaker gain anything from 00:19:46.585-->00:19:53.225 having me listen to them? You know, if you're talking to somebody and they, you know, you 00:19:53.225-->00:19:58.297 feel, you know, they f... they feel that, like, "Yes, you know, if I listen to them they have 00:19:58.297-->00:20:02.902 something that they can gain if, you know, if I, if I listen to them and, you know, believe what 00:20:02.902-->00:20:07.907 they say..." [sniff] [pause] Ask if the source is verified. Alright, so, when you're reading 00:20:10.676-->00:20:17.416 articles, uhm, pay attention to what, uh, uhm, you know, who's, you know, who's saying what. 00:20:17.416-->00:20:23.889 Sometimes you'll have an unidentified source, uh, uh, you know, these are good clues, so 00:20:23.889-->00:20:28.894 you know, white source. Is the source identified? This is like you know, you know who the 00:20:31.130-->00:20:34.733 author is. You know I'm the journalist, you know, "Glenn Greenwald, I'm publishing this 00:20:34.733-->00:20:39.739 article.". Uhm, uh, you know, he's putting his name out there. If a source is unidentified 00:20:41.841-->00:20:47.313 you'll see sometimes, like, uh, for instance in, uh, the coo that happened in Turkey, it was 00:20:47.313-->00:20:51.750 an unidentified source that released, uh, you know, that, uh, the president or the prime 00:20:51.750-->00:20:57.189 ministers or uh, was, you know, he had uh, he had sought asylum in Germany. [sniff] That came 00:20:57.189-->00:21:00.893 from iden.. that came from an unidentified source and that's something that you can look 00:21:00.893-->00:21:04.530 into, I mean, that's something, that, uh, it's a very good clue. If an iden... if an unidentified 00:21:04.530-->00:21:10.503 leak, you know, ha.. happens, and the government tries to chase them off to Russia, you 00:21:10.503-->00:21:14.974 can tell that that was not a government, uh, uhm, sponsored leak. Obviously they did not 00:21:14.974-->00:21:20.779 like that, however if the source is an article and is not identified and doesn't seem to 00:21:20.779-->00:21:26.318 be a big deal, you bet that that was a sponsored leak. Like they, you know, the government was 00:21:26.318-->00:21:31.323 okay with that one. [sniff] [pause] And black as a source is falsified, you know, some 00:21:31.323-->00:21:37.496 people, like Donald Trump, say stuff that's never happened before that is a black,uh, uh, 00:21:37.496-->00:21:42.101 verification. The source is uh, a falsified source, he said something that no one else has 00:21:42.101-->00:21:48.174 even said. [pause] You also wanna ask if the source is credible. Has the source lied to 00:21:48.174-->00:21:51.744 you before? Usually when a journalist does something, like, say that they're, they, you 00:21:51.744-->00:21:55.948 know... "they took, you know, took rocket fire or they saw combat in the area" you know 00:21:55.948-->00:21:59.618 they're done. They're, they're no longer credible, there's no reason for you to believe them. 00:21:59.618-->00:22:04.557 So asking them, keep track of your source, uhm, uhm.... [pause] You know, have they lied 00:22:09.595-->00:22:15.201 to you before? Have they always been truthful? You know, that kind of thing. [pause] Ask if 00:22:15.201-->00:22:21.774 you've heard the message repeatedly. If the me.. repetition is key to propaganda. 00:22:21.774-->00:22:27.813 It's, like, their best friend. I, uh, I kind of feel, uhm, uh, kinda reminds me of, like, the 00:22:27.813-->00:22:33.586 Unix touch command - when run "touch" first it creates a new file, right? What happens if you 00:22:33.586-->00:22:38.123 run it again on a file? Modifies the end-time right? Modifies that, modifies that modified 00:22:38.123-->00:22:43.829 time. And the way our brain works is that we rely heavily on modified time - when we go to 00:22:43.829-->00:22:50.236 search for something we like to go to stuff to receive activity recently. So, when you build a, 00:22:50.236-->00:22:55.241 when you send a message out repeatedly... [pause] You're building familiarity. We're, uh, 00:22:57.810-->00:23:03.515 we're uh, humans we love familiarity. It means that you're not a tiger that's here 00:23:03.515-->00:23:08.954 to eat me... [chuckles] You know, you know it means that you're, uh, uh, a friend, you 00:23:08.954-->00:23:14.026 know... And that's way everyone's trying to push their label or their commercials or 00:23:14.026-->00:23:18.330 their propaganda on you all the time, repeatedly. That's why it's a good sign, it's a good 00:23:18.330-->00:23:21.800 sign, that's why it's a good clue - you're seeing the message repeatedly, like, "Why am I 00:23:21.800-->00:23:25.070 having to see this repeatedly?". Think about every time you go into McDonalds - how many golden 00:23:25.070-->00:23:30.075 arches you see, they're trying to build a familiarity presence. [sniff] [pause] Alright, 00:23:32.478-->00:23:37.483 "Manufacturing consent". Uh, this is a book written by a man, uh, Noam Chomsky and Edward 00:23:40.319-->00:23:46.025 Herman, and it's coming from the hypothesis that "The media mobilizes support for special 00:23:46.025-->00:23:51.163 interests that dominate private and state activity". Basically, the media is not the forth of 00:23:51.163-->00:23:55.067 state is what they're deciding. They're, uh, what they're hypothesizing, they are 00:23:55.067-->00:24:00.005 hypothesizing that the media is not this neutral thing - that they will perform, you know, to 00:24:00.005-->00:24:04.943 the, to the needs of the special interests of the society. And to test this hypothesis, they is... 00:24:07.179-->00:24:12.718 they developed a propaganda model. And what's in this propaganda model? This... 00:24:12.718-->00:24:19.291 Alright, one of the things, it, first propaganda filters the size, concentration, ownership, 00:24:19.291-->00:24:25.197 uh, alright... God damnit... [chatter] [pause] Size, concentration of ownership, 00:24:25.197-->00:24:30.202 owner wealth, profit orientation of dominant mass media firms. So, in our beloved capitalist 00:24:33.405-->00:24:38.410 systems, uh, these media firms and these businesses in general they're allowed to grow, they're 00:24:38.410-->00:24:44.316 allowed to buy more... uhm, uh, just everything around them. So you can buy more media 00:24:44.316-->00:24:49.154 companies, you can, you know, that's, uhm, you can buy more things that aren't media 00:24:49.154-->00:24:52.991 companies and now you have, now you have, like, uh, you know, maybe something that's making 00:24:52.991-->00:24:58.397 money and you don't want your media firm to be, you know, too, uh, you know, to, uh, it's.. You 00:24:58.397-->00:25:02.267 have a business that's shady, you don't want your media firm bringing attention to it, you 00:25:02.267-->00:25:06.105 own both of them - that's great! You can just tell the media firm "Hey, shut up about this." and 00:25:06.105-->00:25:11.343 the media firm will be like "Alright, you're the boss.". [sniff] Advertising, as inc... 00:25:11.343-->00:25:18.250 as a main source of income - this is nothing. So... when, when media was just sold a 00:25:18.250-->00:25:23.255 subscription-only kind of a thing.... [pause] Uh, the government, uh, publications 00:25:26.125-->00:25:32.164 were allowed to talk a lot of sh** about governments and a lot of people in power. But, uhm, it 00:25:32.164-->00:25:38.003 was hypothesized, like, "Well, if we just turn it over to the market... and so maybe the media 00:25:38.003-->00:25:42.941 will sort itself out. Maybe it'll get back in line, you know, people won't be as, uh, 00:25:42.941-->00:25:48.447 anti-government." And it really worked! And one of the ways, you know, as soon as the advertising 00:25:48.447-->00:25:53.051 came in it allowed for, you know, more rich people than you know, the rest of the population 00:25:53.051-->00:25:58.290 to come in and, and, you know, uh, kind of, sort of invest in these media companies. Allowing 00:25:58.290-->00:26:03.228 them to grow bigger. [pause] And so that's another way, if you can't own the media what you can 00:26:05.898-->00:26:10.736 do is own part of the advertising - that's a way that you can get your own, kind of, 00:26:10.736-->00:26:17.109 check in balance and go like "What message it the media putting out there?". [sniff] 00:26:17.109-->00:26:20.746 [pause] And then we have this idea of like reliance of media on information provided by 00:26:20.746-->00:26:25.284 government experts funded by primary resources. This is where we get the idea of press 00:26:25.284-->00:26:30.989 conferences from. So, we have 24 hour news, and, you know, we have uh, or at least news - we 00:26:30.989-->00:26:35.394 have a newspaper every day, we have a news hour every day and yea... we do have 24 hour news. 00:26:35.394-->00:26:40.399 How do they have news to give? Well! This is where you know, pre, you know, very powerful 00:26:43.202-->00:26:48.173 entities such as governments and corporations can set up a press conference. Like, "Oh, you want 00:26:48.173-->00:26:54.246 news? You can just come to this location at this time, there'll be coffee and donuts, we.. all 00:26:54.246-->00:26:58.517 you have to do is just listen to us tell our side of the story". And that's very important 00:26:58.517-->00:27:02.321 because now you have the government and the media kinda working together and, you know, 00:27:02.321-->00:27:05.424 you kinda hear about it, you know, when, uh, you know, someone, you know, some 00:27:05.424-->00:27:09.228 journalist, "goes", you know, "goes rogue" and, uh, you know, get's their, get's their 00:27:09.228-->00:27:15.634 credentials pulled for being loud into the, the, you know, the press conference. You know, 00:27:15.634-->00:27:20.672 so it gets, you know, journalists, uh, to kind of stay within bounds, so they can stay 00:27:20.672-->00:27:25.043 getting news from these press conferences. And, also, think about what this does, it's like 00:27:25.043-->00:27:30.549 you're on the other side of the world and one of these entities harms you in some way... You 00:27:30.549-->00:27:36.154 have to wait for journalists to, like, fly over and stick a microphone in your face. Where 00:27:36.154-->00:27:42.928 as in, with press conferences by the time journalists gets across sees to interview the victim, 00:27:42.928-->00:27:49.301 the, you know, on the home side, you know, the, the big entities they'll have had their opinions 00:27:49.301-->00:27:55.674 in, uh, in, uh, you know, the public's sphere for who knows how long? [sniff] [pause] You 00:27:55.674-->00:27:59.945 know, so, uh, so press conferences are very beneficial - they're very beneficial to 00:27:59.945-->00:28:04.349 both the media and, you know, government and high power entities that can, you know, 00:28:04.349-->00:28:08.453 afford to do these press conferences for journalists. Flack... flack is a way of 00:28:08.453-->00:28:14.393 disciplining the media, if ever the media does something bad you have to have ways that you can, 00:28:14.393-->00:28:20.299 uh, uh, tell the media, you don't like that. Uh, one of the ways you can do this, is, you 00:28:20.299-->00:28:26.038 know, you can have counter stories, run, you can withdraw your advertising - this kind of 00:28:26.038-->00:28:30.342 thing. You wanna make life difficult for any media that dare say something bad about 00:28:30.342-->00:28:35.614 you. Another thing that propaganda model has, it's got this thing called "boogeyman 00:28:35.614-->00:28:41.153 e..", "boogeyman enemies". When, uh, manufacturing consent first came out, you know, the 00:28:41.153-->00:28:44.890 communist was the boogeyman. And the way they wrote it is like they assumed that communism 00:28:44.890-->00:28:49.061 would be the boogeyman forever. We have terrorists as the boogeyman today, another 00:28:49.061-->00:28:53.832 boogeyman that we have, like we've gone over before, is hate speech. You know, hate speech is 00:28:53.832-->00:28:58.837 being used, you know, to get social media companies to, uh, help propagandize.... its users. 00:29:03.842-->00:29:07.879 [pause] [deep breath] Alright, so we've learned some things about propaganda, what can we 00:29:07.879-->00:29:13.452 do? Well, I decided to make a Reddit column, why did I make a Reddit column? Well because I'm 00:29:13.452-->00:29:17.089 addicted to Reddit, alright? [chuckles] [audience noise] And, uhm, you know, my friend told, 00:29:17.089-->00:29:21.493 he was like "That's doing weird things to your brain...". I didn't listen and so now it's 00:29:21.493-->00:29:25.364 the only one I can solve problems... [laughter] Becau.... well I mean, the theme on Reddit 00:29:25.364-->00:29:30.102 though - it's a very organised website and so if you can get rid of the people it's very 00:29:30.102-->00:29:36.241 pleasant. [laughter] And, you know, if you think about, like, "I wanna better, my, my media 00:29:36.241-->00:29:41.413 consumption..." you know we're all familiar with this, you know, this, concept of 00:29:41.413-->00:29:46.385 end-to-end encryption. You don't want things in the middle, you know, we want things "end" to 00:29:46.385-->00:29:51.390 "end"... So could we do the same thing to, uh, to, uh, our media consumption? Can we get as close 00:29:53.659-->00:29:58.864 as possible to the knowledge source without having, you know, all these grubby paws in there 00:29:58.864-->00:30:05.137 trying to change the message? And the other thing that Reddit does... yea I get through the 00:30:05.137-->00:30:10.075 mods and admins, this is huge! Like... uh, I, don't... Reddit has a lot of drama that gets 00:30:10.075-->00:30:15.280 kicked out cause of the mods and admins did something that was seen as censorship. Uhm, luckily 00:30:15.280-->00:30:20.218 I have not had to do any of that because I don't go to those weird sub-rights, but, you know, 00:30:20.218-->00:30:26.124 they've got a point. Mods and admins can just choose to do stuff, uh, against your, uh, 00:30:26.124-->00:30:32.497 against your will, is... do you want that in a news source? [pause] Also, it's open source 00:30:32.497-->00:30:38.704 with a very easy install script. And it's got this, you know, Python, the Python prom module 00:30:38.704-->00:30:45.343 is a, is a very decent, uh, uh, module for, you know, scripting your Reddit bots. I dunno why it 00:30:45.343-->00:30:50.716 keeps coming on... [laughter] So, I just stoodup this Digital Ocean droplet, it's running 00:30:50.716-->00:30:56.655 Ubuntu. This is, uh... the Reddit install script and it, uh, you can, you know, can run 00:30:56.655-->00:31:01.660 it on like whatever version, you know, Ubuntu, or whatever that can support it if you're brave 00:31:01.660-->00:31:06.064 enough, you can tweak it to your heart's desires. But, like, if you want life easy and, you 00:31:06.064-->00:31:10.535 know, something like Digital Ocean and, uh, will make it that easy, you can just select 00:31:10.535-->00:31:16.074 whatever install Reddit shell's looking for and BAM! Within 15 minutes, uh, uh, Reddit column 00:31:16.074-->00:31:23.014 up and running. [pause] I wanted to leave the Reddit code alone, you know, once I got up and 00:31:23.014-->00:31:27.018 running, I was like "Alright, that's fine.". So then I just used "pra" and "bottle", any.. 00:31:27.018-->00:31:33.992 anyone here use bottle? It's very lightweight Python, uh, uhm, framework. It's like, it's 00:31:33.992-->00:31:39.531 very lightweight, it's stupid simple API, I can just send commands at it and it'll just 00:31:39.531-->00:31:46.404 send commands at my Reddit clone. [pause] Also, I use this thing called "summary API". 00:31:46.404-->00:31:52.177 Summary API was a life sent cause I had only scrapers, you know, stuff like the natural 00:31:52.177-->00:31:55.647 language, you know, toolkit out. And you know, Parsey McParseface... [audience noise] 00:31:55.647-->00:32:00.819 Came out not too long ago, right? So I was like "Wow, I can do all this stuff". But then! 00:32:00.819-->00:32:05.824 Luckily, summary comes out and was like "I do all that for you". Plus... [pause] Uhm... you 00:32:08.527-->00:32:13.899 know, I don't have to... uh, I mean, what it'll do, it'll go out, you'd send it a link or 00:32:13.899-->00:32:20.539 even send a text and it will run an analysis on it and pull out the important sentences. You 00:32:20.539-->00:32:24.442 know, this is literally, if you've ever seen, like, a "Too Long; Didn't Read" bot it's 00:32:24.442-->00:32:31.049 probably using this exact site. It's, it's great at just taking the article pshh and munching it 00:32:31.049-->00:32:34.786 down to however many sentences you want - you can munch it down to a tweet, you know, if you 00:32:34.786-->00:32:40.725 wanted to. [sniff][pause] So yea, I was very happy to uh, uh, know about these guys I relied 00:32:40.725-->00:32:46.731 on heavily. Also, look, I'm a slow reader, so if I can just shorten articles - look, I'm 00:32:46.731-->00:32:51.970 either gonna run a 10 sentence synopsis of this article or I'm not gonna read it at all. 00:32:51.970-->00:32:57.843 [chuckle] [audience noise] So, thanks summary! [pause] Alright, yea... Everybody ready for an 00:32:57.843-->00:33:03.982 exciting demo? Look, it's Reddit, don't get too excited. [chuckle] [laughter] So, this 00:33:03.982-->00:33:09.788 is, yea, so when I said it was very simple - that was a lie. Where are you guys now? Uh... 00:33:09.788-->00:33:14.793 cause I killed some of my bots, but I have one bot up and running. [pause] Oh, God damnit. 00:33:18.463-->00:33:23.468 [pause] So, yea, it's uh... it's very simple, like, whatever, you know, whatever, uhm... [pause] 00:33:30.008-->00:33:35.013 Whatever domain, uh, the a, the, the article came from that's gonna be the "sub-Reddit". 00:33:37.015-->00:33:42.420 Whatever author wrote it, that'll be the "user". So, you know, Reddit's a great way, you 00:33:42.420-->00:33:45.023 know, you can select, you know, all of the things that were published by ... all the things 00:33:45.023-->00:33:49.895 that were published by that author and, you know, that part of the organization is done 00:33:49.895-->00:33:54.199 automatically. [deep breath] So the next thing you can do is, like, let's take a look at this, 00:33:54.199-->00:34:01.039 uh, uhm... [pause] Summary because that's what we're looking at here. So, I dec, I 00:34:01.039-->00:34:06.978 did away with titles, you know, the, the journalists aren't the ones that decide the article's 00:34:06.978-->00:34:13.084 title, that goes to the editor. The editor wants to, uhm, you know, he wants people to click 00:34:13.084-->00:34:18.390 on it. He's gonna make it "click baity". [laughter] So, get rid of it. Like I said, if we want 00:34:18.390-->00:34:22.761 end-to-end, why not just get rid of that? He's gonna try to get you to click on it, so get rid 00:34:22.761-->00:34:27.766 of it. And so... what I have is just the top, the, the first 300 integers, or 300 characters, I 00:34:31.303-->00:34:37.409 mean... is for it's limit. So that's, you just, that's my title. So I read the first, you 00:34:37.409-->00:34:42.247 know, the first couple of sentences. And we're gonna load it... Or not. [audience noise] 00:34:42.247-->00:34:47.252 Oh, shoot, oh well. [pause] I had one loaded up here. [pause] >> If you reset the various 00:34:51.756-->00:34:56.761 wireless prompts, you may not be on the right one. >> I thought I was on "DefCon". Oh, wow.... no, 00:35:06.338-->00:35:11.343 no, no. [pause] Uhg, oh okay... Well I realize I'm all... Geez, you all are, are so kind, I'm 00:35:25.056-->00:35:30.061 gonna be over, waaaay over. Alright, real quick... [chatter] Let me just go over this, tips 00:35:32.831-->00:35:36.601 for reading internet comments: DON'T read internet comments. [laughter] Alright... alright, 00:35:40.705-->00:35:44.843 first off, it's not do, doing good stuff for your health, alright? You get upset, you 00:35:44.843-->00:35:49.481 know, it's raising your blood pressure, you're using your free time, or work time, you know... 00:35:49.481-->00:35:53.918 [laughter] Probably someone on the other end is getting paid for that, alright? So you're 00:35:53.918-->00:35:58.923 hurting yourself. Not only that but we're seeing more of this, you know, first off [chuckles]. 00:36:01.226-->00:36:05.830 If you're Russian you're a troll, you know, but you're, you know, you're uh, Facebook 00:36:05.830-->00:36:10.301 warrior if you're British. That's some interesting propaganda in and of itself. 00:36:10.301-->00:36:16.007 But, we're seeing more of these things called "Astroturfers" or "Trolls", or whatever you want 00:36:16.007-->00:36:21.513 to, uhm, very many names. Uhm... [deep breath] And that's very powerful, it's like, you know, 00:36:21.513-->00:36:25.483 you're talking to a somebody, you know, like we talked about, in your heterotopia. You're 00:36:25.483-->00:36:30.321 talking with someone and you thinks it's real but they're not real, and so... Also, I like 00:36:30.321-->00:36:36.294 this, it's, like, you know, Russia has the troll army but, you know, we're gonna go look 00:36:36.294-->00:36:41.499 at, uhm... We're gonna have an internet stranger tell me who I should vote for. That's above 00:36:41.499-->00:36:46.504 board... So, you know. Even if you think you're the best internet debater in the world, 00:36:48.673-->00:36:54.312 you don't have an incentive, you don't have a money incentive on the line... But that's not, I 00:36:54.312-->00:36:59.217 would argue that that's not the main reason you shouldn't argue with internet trolls and the 00:36:59.217-->00:37:04.122 main reason I think comes from the "Correct a record". This was Hillary Clinton's super pack, 00:37:04.122-->00:37:10.795 they were talking about like "Yea, we astroturf people." And, in the statement "Lessons learnt 00:37:10.795-->00:37:14.966 from online engagements, Bernie Bros, during the democratic primary will be applied to the 00:37:14.966-->00:37:19.471 rest of the primary season and the general election". I mean, it's even if you think that, 00:37:19.471-->00:37:22.440 like, you're, you're, you're getting good ideas out there and you're throwing them out 00:37:22.440-->00:37:25.977 there... you're really not. You're just helping them, you're building their knowledge base, 00:37:25.977-->00:37:30.982 uh, and you're helping them get better. It kinda reminds me of, uh, uh, like, Rick and Morty 00:37:33.318-->00:37:36.588 when it comes to like those little micro verses, you know... [laughter] You, know, they're 00:37:36.588-->00:37:40.058 able, you know, you have like this internet and you're in your, uh, your little thread and 00:37:40.058-->00:37:43.261 you're just... but really all you're doing is speeding up their test and you're speeding 00:37:43.261-->00:37:48.500 up their, their knowledge of how to, uh, uh, propagandize the rest of the population. Because 00:37:48.500-->00:37:53.538 as they, you know, come out of that, uh, out of your thread they come into the real world 00:37:53.538-->00:37:57.942 and they're like "We have just the commercial for you...". [laughter] Alright, so just 00:37:57.942-->00:38:02.747 don't, however... Alright, if you do insist on reading internet comments or if you 00:38:02.747-->00:38:09.521 wanna comment with somebody, take out the public part of it. Take out the vanity part of it, 00:38:09.521-->00:38:15.693 you know, with, whether it comes to up vote or, uh, retweets or any of that, just take all that 00:38:15.693-->00:38:20.632 and go to dm or pm, you know, see about that. You know, I think most people you know 00:38:20.632-->00:38:25.637 they've been most of, uh... accepting. They'll talk to you on dm, on the dl. [audience 00:38:30.175-->00:38:33.745 noise] So, and if you want, if you're interested some documentaries I recommend "The 00:38:33.745-->00:38:37.815 manufacturing of consent", it's about three hours long. Uh, that, this is a documentary on, 00:38:37.815-->00:38:43.821 uh, uh, Noam Chomsky,it goes over a lot of his theories on propaganda. "Century of self" is 00:38:43.821-->00:38:48.960 about Ed Bernays, this is the movement from, like, alright "We just kicked a** in a war, now 00:38:48.960-->00:38:54.199 what will we do? We can a lot of money, that's what we can do". And that's what Century of self 00:38:54.199-->00:38:59.204 is about, it's about turning, like, propaganda on to the, uh, uh, private sector. Uh, some 00:39:01.339-->00:39:06.311 books, again, "Manufacturing consent and propaganda" by the same people; Firewall, uh, that 00:39:06.311-->00:39:10.949 was a name by Jack Nolan, I've, I dunno why I didn't put his name. Now, some sites, okay so I 00:39:10.949-->00:39:16.020 didn't mention fair dot org and I didn't mention LMD media podcast... uh, fair dot org, you 00:39:16.020-->00:39:20.391 know, they, they're the fairness and accuracy in reporting, they do a lot of newsletters on how 00:39:20.391-->00:39:26.397 to, uhm... [pause] On just some bullsh** that the media does. On the media podcast, uh, you know, 00:39:26.397-->00:39:31.269 it's, uh, if you like radio labs it's kind of the same, kind of the same kind of production 00:39:31.269-->00:39:37.942 value. They give like 15 to 50 minute podcasts and, uh, they do some interesting topics on how 00:39:37.942-->00:39:42.947 the media is treating various different subjects. [pause] Alright, thank you for coming. 00:39:46.918-->00:39:51.923 [chuckles] You've been too kind. [applause] Alright, alright, hold up, hold up. So if you 00:39:56.561-->00:40:03.468 wanted to see. [pause] [audience noise] Yea, this is summary, I've got like little 10 sentence 00:40:03.468-->00:40:07.939 summaries. You can come through and you can read the article very quickly if you wanted to 00:40:07.939-->00:40:11.909 and if you're, you know, and, you know, I always include the link so you can go see the real 00:40:11.909-->00:40:17.015 thing if you wanted to anyways... Alright, now I'm done. [laughter] [applause] 00:40:17.015-->00:40:17.482 Fuck...