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Cold Call or starve. Choose wisely

Adam Townsend - March 31, 2018December 12, 2018

Whoever you are, whatever you do for a living, you should cold call. What you are cold calling on behalf of may vary, some people sell cars, some sell real [ … ]

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Facebook. The data mess and what happens next

Adam Townsend - March 22, 2018December 12, 2018

 This is a complex topic. It’s easy to get wrong or overstate certain pieces of the puzzle so I urge us away from the conveniently political, an unproductive course which resolves [ … ]

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Quickest way to gain moral authority is this nifty trick

Adam Townsend - March 20, 2018December 12, 2018

The quickest path, should you wish to gain moral authority over your foes, is to racialize all political difference Accusing one’s political opponents of racism is beyond the pale precisely because the legacy [ … ]

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Twitter Campaign. Politicians, you’re doing it wrong

Adam Townsend - March 13, 2018December 12, 2018

This is the ‘real real’ of a Twitter campaign. Not what a staffer insists because everyone else is doing it. Social media doesn’t want to see pictures of you standing [ … ]

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Computational politics. Twitter, big data for sale or barter

Adam Townsend - March 6, 2018December 12, 2018

Computational politics are the analytical tools used to profile at the individual level. It is asymmetrical warfare. ‘They’ have a machine gun and ‘you’ have nothing, not even the awareness [ … ]

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Myth vs. Fact document in the Banking Committee

Adam Townsend - March 5, 2018December 12, 2018

This Myth vs. Fact document Democrats on the Banking Committee are distributing on their bank deregulation bill is a *masterpiece* of technocratic dishonesty. Let’s do some reverse engineering on this [ … ]

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MLK. Letter from Birmingham Jail

Adam Townsend - March 4, 2018December 12, 2018

16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do [ … ]

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Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities?

Adam Townsend - March 4, 2018December 12, 2018

 This opaque corporate censorship amounts to a private-sector Stasi, pursuing an Orwellian world of profits reaped from the censorship and suppression of dissent I’m certain that Facebook, Google and Twitter [ … ]

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NRA isn’t dropping bombs

Adam Townsend - February 25, 2018December 12, 2018

I don’t like to write about anything political on my blog site. I keep this to my investments and such. Blogging lets me collect my thoughts and file them systematically. [ … ]

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Contempt for teachers. Bullshit jobs versus societies value creators

Adam Townsend - February 25, 2018December 12, 2018

In the old inefficient socialist states like the Soviet Union, employment was considered both a right and a sacred duty, that system made up as many jobs as they had [ … ]

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