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oatmeal<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>analysis</span></a> / The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [2015]</p><p>Key Findings</p><p>Results of Economic Analysis of the Five Scenarios</p><p>[...] A return to violence would have profoundly negative economic consequences for both Palestinians and Israelis; per capita gross domestic product would fall by 46 percent in the West Bank and Gaza and by 10 percent in Israel by 2024.</p><p><a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR740z1-1.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rand.org/pubs/research_reports</span><span class="invisible">/RR740z1-1.html</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraelHamasWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraelHamasWar</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RANDCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RANDCorp</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The move also comes as the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biden</span></a> admin &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Congress</span></a> are grappling w/how to push back on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>China</span></a> w/o tipping the 2 countries into open conflict, &amp; w/how to reduce the risk that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AI</span></a> is used to magnify <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>disinformation</span></a>.</p><p>The impact of the Chinese campaign — identified by researchers from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RecordedFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RecordedFuture</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RANDCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RANDCorp</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewsGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewsGuard</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UofMaryland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UofMaryland</span></a> — is difficult to measure, tho early indications suggest that few social media users engaged w/the most outlandish of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ConspiracyTheories</span></a>.</p>
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://defcon.social/@thedarktangent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thedarktangent</span></a></span> Great images.</p><p>That first diagram of centralised / decentralised / distributed networks is straight out of Paul Baran's 1964 work detailing the concept of packet-switched networks. You <em>can</em> get the original publications direct from the RAND Corporation, along with <em>all</em> his RAND works:</p><p><a href="https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rand.org/about/history/baran.h</span><span class="invisible">tml</span></a></p><p>Of his other and later works, many concerned issues of privacy, surveillance, and discrimination made possible though computerised systems, showing remarkable prescience:</p><p><a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_paul.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rand.org/pubs/authors/b/baran_</span><span class="invisible">paul.html</span></a></p><p>The full set was made publicly available free of charge after an inquiry I'd made a few years ago.</p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/PaulBaran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulBaran</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/RandCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandCorp</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/PacketSwitchedNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacketSwitchedNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Networking</span></a></p>
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