For all their brilliant aggression in collection, they haven't advanced a single day beyond 1940 on analytics. You know, their actual job.
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@emptywheel@bartongellman AFAICT, contact chaining is the only piece of tradecraft they thought it suitable to automate. -
@Dymaxion Shh. Don't tell anyone they're automating contact chaining, it will unsettle the NGOs.@bartongellman
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@emptywheel@Dymaxion@bartongellman or, some combo of "link analysis works actually really well" and "that's an exaggeration." -
@emptywheel@Dymaxion@bartongellman one relevant parallel here is journalistic OSINT pipeline. Bottlenecks mostly not solvable with algos. -
@jonathanstray What do you mean?@Dymaxion@bartongellman -
@emptywheel@Dymaxion@bartongellman I mean the units in news orgs which watch social media. Bottleneck is human verification/judgement. -
@jonathanstray Ah, right. That's NOT solvable is it? Tho I assume CIA thinks they have?@Dymaxion@bartongellman -
@emptywheel@bartongellman@jonathanstray Visualization makes a big difference, but they haven't gone their either. -
@Dymaxion I thought they had. Tho admittedly those pretty pictures on 60 minutes don't count.@bartongellman@jonathanstray
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@emptywheel@Dymaxion@bartongellman it says “guilt by association” -
@Asher_Wolf Yup. Sort of my question.@Dymaxion@bartongellman
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