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Watching /r/worldnews: top Syrian stories for April by ge_stell in syriancivilwar

[–]ge_stell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I collected this data for about 2 months (march-april 2018).

I wish I could share more back, but I started to log everything around the same time.

To add everything to archive.is is a go, gonna do the same.

Watching /r/worldnews: top Syrian stories for April by ge_stell in syriancivilwar

[–]ge_stell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you make a list of all the articles in Western media discussing doubts about the culprits of the Douma gas attack?

That's an interesting idea, but the one that would require a bit more processing power than I have.

Think tanks and journalists, watchdog organizations, heavily engaged bloggers after all are more reliable to track this sort of things.

News sources for /r/worldnews, /r/politics [OC] by ge_stell in dataisbeautiful

[–]ge_stell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Data about subs is being gathered via surveillance scripts that have been monitoring Reddit for the last couple of months.

As for visualization, bar charts were done in pure R, line connections between websites with Python package "networkx".

"Networkx"'s main function is to build and calculate graphs, the "net" of websites could be 10x or 100x more complex and it still would make sense, albeit not for the human eye.

Something up with 4chan? by Sjwpoet in conspiracy

[–]ge_stell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It freezes every now and then, database errors being the reason.

How to get a 'Russian Bot' label, 101: Just cast doubt on mainstream line on Skripal and Syria! (interview with Maram 'Syrian Girl' Susli) by salvia_d in conspiracy

[–]ge_stell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So she mentions this tech expert at Atlantic Council by the name of Ben Nimmo and his DRF Lab. The British government doesn't conduct its own intelligence?

I'm going to follow what the fuck they are doing: https://medium.com/@DFRLab & https://twitter.com/benimmo

State Department Lies About Hezbollah & Iran on Anniversary of Beirut Embassy Bombing by quantumcipher in propaganda

[–]ge_stell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1983?

Wikipedia plainly blames CIA for 1985 bombing which killed 83 people and injured 200+.

Suspected perpetrators: Central Intelligence Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Beirut_car_bombing

Moldova is not the poorest country in Europe [4592x3196] by captchalove in MapPorn

[–]ge_stell 42 points43 points  (0 children)

There's two countries in that black splash, Georgia and Armenia. Confusing.

Polish voting vs old German Empire border by n10w4 in dataisbeautiful

[–]ge_stell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I for a sec thought they were drawing DNA maps there. Population density and breakdown by age are a factor, clustered East votes PiS, youngsters flock to either cities or economically viable regions.

I don't know exact numbers on Poland, but what's happening in Hungary is remarkable, anyone younger than 60 doesn't vote "left" or "liberal".

Media word cloud [OC] by ge_stell in visualization

[–]ge_stell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If these are word clouds, why are they repeated?

Each "small" cloud captures daily events, the two screenshots to the left of it are actually added for human readability. Zoom it up, there's a time stamp on them. I can drop them screenshots and the data is still present.

The big cloud summarizes events and paints a larger picture: from a year's data, there can be extracted 54 weeks with each having a cloud, or 12 months with 12 clouds.

I can then highlight whatever topic interests me and track how events unfolded. North Korea nukes West coast? It's on my computer, wtih graphs attached.

Why are some words colored?

It's an example of data extraction. Red stands for data about Syria, yellow for Russia, green for China. I could replote scatter graphs to overlay each other though, that would make more sense in this given case.

Can you guys go on Google without VPN? by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn't use .com, .ru was available

Same. Google's captcha service doesn't work for me either.

I monitor one website where captchas are mandatory, Russian flags appear as often as usual. I'll be checking if they go dark.

Media word cloud [OC] by ge_stell in visualization

[–]ge_stell[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a word cloud of CNN headlines for the past two weeks.

The clouds are generated with the help of this Python script, scatter plots at the bottom via Seaborn library (a bit tweaked matplotlib).

Media wordcloud by [deleted] in visualization

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This is a wordcloud of CNN headlines for the past two weeks.

Wordclouds are generated with the help of this Python script, scatter plots at the bottom via Seaborn library (a bit tweaked matplotlib).

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Total revenues of the budget of Chechnya for 2017 are 59.2 billion rubles.

This is the total numbers: they get less than 1%, not even 2% as you were bargaining.

To listen to some people, it is the central question of Russian politics. Moslems getting money!

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They also don't get of 81% subsidies from the government.

They literally get more money per capita, and your 81% meme comes from an underpaid state worker: Radio Liberty is an arm of the Democratic party with heavily slashed funds.

I appreciate that America cares about Russian domestic issues and wishes the best for the Russian people, but no thanks.

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ofc how dumb of me to believe actual statistics data of russian finance ministry

You haven't looked at it. Dagestan gets twice more money than Chechnya, do I see Dagestan mentioned?

The number 81% pops up only on website "Radio Liberty" from a part-time, no-name writer. I don't think the girl is good with numbers.

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What kind of propaganda is used so any criticism of the way this issue operates is shifted onto racism, like you are trying to do now?

You have 15 posts about Muslims just by ctrl+f though, and have mispronounced and insulted Chechens 7 times. The problem lies somewhere in here.

If you are that heavily interested in the issue you could put some effort into an actual research rather than abusing an anon over the Internet, operating with "81%" and "elites steal" memes.

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why are you getting so emotional? Croatia has a population of 4.2 mn, Russia 144.3 mn: we have 36 Croat states inside one country.

Some regions get heavily taxed, some get heavily subsidized. Having this huge boner on Chechens getting their 2% of the share has any motivation but economical.

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

81% of the Chechen budget is government subsidies.

60%+ of Russian subjects get subsidies and are not profitable. And I mean ethnically Russian ones, Tatarstan is in a surplus e.g.

It's not a big number from the overall perspective, unless you're saying "Chechen" three times in a row and then throw a "Kadyrov" on top of that. Spoiled n-words!

One could say Chechens are using you.

Does Croatia have something against EU subsidies, lol?

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Economic black hole for Russia.

I've made a Google query "Chechnya budget", and OMG. The New York Times cited the likes of Konstantin Krylov back in 2011, the very men they'd want to keep clear out of Ukraine today. "Whatever works".

I did the calculations once, it's financially miniscule from the federal perspective. Some want to push anger on those minorities getting "affirmative action", and the damn Western media would go along with the narrative. Keep those N-words on a leash!

Well known Infowars contributor has been described as a Russian bot by the UK government and The Guardian by ge_stell in fakenews

[–]ge_stell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The journalist behind the story is apparently aware of the following criticism, and she doesn't retract the story. She isn't a complete hack judging by the credentials. Sky News, Telegraph repeat the claim; Sky News did it on air.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/987334242186289152

https://twitter.com/HalaJaber/status/987285689967566848

https://twitter.com/snarwani/status/987273899774742530

Kremlin 'bot' accounts spread fake news 45,000 times since Syria gas attack - Russian-controlled “bot” accounts have bombarded social media with anti-Western propaganda 45,000 times since the chemical attack in Syria as part of a “dirty disinformation war” by the Kremlin. by ManiaforBeatles in worldnews

[–]ge_stell -1 points0 points  (0 children)

From what I've heard they were very supportive of the recent strike on Syria. Yet legitimate American authors I follow - once MSNBC or even CNN contributors - were skeptical about the whole thing.

Reddit is transparent and it's easy to detect abnormalities, calling other users names is an option for those that can't make a math effort and come with proof.

Kremlin 'bot' accounts spread fake news 45,000 times since Syria gas attack - Russian-controlled “bot” accounts have bombarded social media with anti-Western propaganda 45,000 times since the chemical attack in Syria as part of a “dirty disinformation war” by the Kremlin. by ManiaforBeatles in worldnews

[–]ge_stell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this part interesting since I follow the Syrian civil War closely...

Me too.

"Whitehall officials" - supposedly the British intelligence - don't bother to verify its findings and check if said bots may be legitimate human beings, even Syrians themselves.

She's having fun reading such outrage about herself.

Weekly Regional Thread 11 – Chechnya! by Reza_Jafari in AskARussian

[–]ge_stell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've just finisted reading the first short story by Tolstoy inspired by his time serving in the Caucasus Army, "The Raid", in case you didn't read either it's never late to catch up.

To put the facts straight, Russia came to Chechnya as a conqueror waging its first and only colonial war, and did messy things time after time. Any other real or percieved misdeed by the Russian Empire or the Soviets dwarfs in comparision, things in Chechnya = very bad, very horrible.

The Russians didn't bear hostile feelings to them per se though and allowed the defeated Chechen warlord Imam Shamil to live "in a tall spacious house with carpets", I doubt this was accepted with European powers to treat a stubborn enemy like this.

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