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People of #bcm112 here is the most important slide from your lecture tomorrow pic.twitter.com/oBDmEbXiKG
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 25, 2018
Here are the prezi slides from a guest lecture I gave on the Fail Early Fail Often philosophy [#fefo], as well as the methodology of Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, Tiny [#fist].
And below are some related gifs I made for the occasion:
In tomorrow’s #bcm112 lecture I will be talking about our media making philosophy – Fail Early Fail Often #FEFO pic.twitter.com/OterrA6s2N
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) March 4, 2018
Tomorrow I am also talking about the #bcm112 media making method – Fast Inexpensive Simple Tiny #FIST pic.twitter.com/UcxK48fxRx
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) March 4, 2018
Everyone in #bcm112 stressing about project ideas, this is for you. pic.twitter.com/IaSiws2MMP
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) March 8, 2018
So, this happened today, and space will never be the same again. This simple image has vastly bigger importance than the increased payload and reduced cost of the Falcon. And who else to accomplish this but Elon Musk – space flaneur. Suddenly, space is not an extension of the bureaucratic state machine anymore, instead it has been reframed into a place where this is possible:
View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth. pic.twitter.com/QljN2VnL1O
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2018
We knew 2018 will be a meme year, but it’s only February and apparently there is a car in space. On its way to Mars. Where can we go from here? https://t.co/tD0gSkj7O1
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018
Alone in the vast emptiness of space, Starman is staring at the diminishing Earth and a dashboard saying Don’t Panic. I’d like to think the glove-box really contains a copy of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and a towel. https://t.co/tD0gSkj7O1
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018
This is so surreal. A new s p a c e a e s t h e t i c is born #Starman #FalconHeavyLaunch pic.twitter.com/oMfWyKSt1v
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018
A new meme is born #Starman #FalconHeavy pic.twitter.com/Okg7nJBvVS
— Teodor Mitew (@tedmitew) February 7, 2018
This is a third paper in a cycle on distributed swarms, OODA loops and stigmergy co-authored with a PhD student of mine. The paper is titled Distributed Swarming and Stigmergic Effects on ISIS Networks: OODA Loop Model, and was published in the Journal of Media and Information Warfare. This is probably the densest and most interesting paper in the series, as we analyse information warfare waged by distributed swarms in the context of network-centric warfare theory, stigmergic adaptation, and John Boyd’s work on the OODA loop concept. For me the most interesting elements of the paper involve our discussion of Von Moltke’s concept of auftragstactic in the context of maneuver warfare in the information domain.
This is a paper I co-authored with two collaborators, one of which is a PhD student of mine, titled Encrypted Jihad: Investigating the Role of Telegram App in Lone Wolf Attacks in the West, and published in the Journal of Strategic Security. We examine the role played by Telegram, one of the most popular social media apps offering end-to-end encrypted communications, in the command and control [C2] operations of distributed terrorist organizations. Specifically, I was interested in illustrating how encrypted platforms such as Telegram can be used as part of a complex stigmergic communications strategy relying on memetic impact both within the distributed network and outside of it. In brief, Telegram acts as a standalone communication platform where core C2 vectors are encrypted and obfuscated from counter-terrorism efforts, while all other communication is built for maximum memetic potential, relying on stigmergic impact among otherwise unconnected nodes acting as lone wolves.