Yet another useful use for DoubleTweets
[ by Charles Cameron — in hindsight it looks like what — foresight? prediction? prophecy? predestination? ]
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Use-case: confirming that intel was available ahead of time.
@20committee it's not as if ISIS fanboys claimed Denmark was the next target on the day of the Charlie Hebdo attack: pic.twitter.com/QPRjc3nSpa
— Henry VIIII (@Henry_VIIII) February 15, 2015
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It should be noted, though, that the intel may have been scatter-shot, from a source of questionable reliability, lacking in precision as to date & place, methodology, etc.
Arguably this is too little, too late.
February 15th, 2015 at 2:12 pm
The trouble with looking back like this is that you know what you’re looking for. Your caveat is right on. I’ll bet you could find tweets from “suspicious” sources targeting Norway, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Russia, the US, and so on. And if it had been one of them that had been hit, people who believe in a massive Islamic conspiracy would be quoting them.
February 15th, 2015 at 4:14 pm
Hi Cheryl:
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Yup, agreed.
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As usual, it’s the form (DoubleQuotes, HipBone Game, Sembl, and for that matter villanelle, fugue, etc) that interests me, because of the impact it has on our reception of content — I always hope the particular content I use in illustration will be interesting, and it has obviously captured my own eye or I wouldn’t be using it, but form is a technology that the arts often explore, and that I think can provide cognitive strength to our thinking in general. It’s a way of thinking that I’m after…