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How stable are Dwarf Fortress’ foundations?
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-12-20-how-stable-are-dwarf-fortress-foundations

15 years deep in #Development on the seminal fantasy simulation, Tarn Adams talks about the realities of fan-supported development

How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel - Jared Keller - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/how-the-cia-uses-social-media-to-track-how-people-feel/247923

How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? To answer these sorts of question, the U.S. government has turned to a rich source: social media.

#surveillance #text-mining

How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel (Euro-Police)
►http://euro-police.noblogs.org/2011/11/how-the-cia-uses-social-media-to-track-how-people-feel

In a nondescript building in Virginia, “vengeful librarians” are tracking millions of tweets, blog posts, and Facebook updates from around the world How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? To answer these sorts of question, the U.S. government has turned to a rich source: social media.(...) Source: Euro-Police

How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel
►http://euro-police.noblogs.org/2011/11/how-the-cia-uses-social-media-to-track-how-people-feel

How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? To answer these sorts of question, the U.S. government has turned to a rich source: social media.

The Associated Press reports that the CIA maintains a social-media tracking center operated out of an nondescript building in a Virginia industrial park. The intelligence analysts at the agency’s Open Source Center, who other agents refer to as “vengeful librarians,” are tasked with sifting through millions of tweets, Facebook messages, online chat logs, and other public data on the World Wide Web to glean insights into the collective moods of regions or groups abroad. According to the Associated Press, these librarians are tracking up to five million tweets a day from places like China, Pakistan and Egypt: