possibly relevant, possibly not

[Max Herman]

Hi all,

This relates to some things I tried to talk about last month, but failed badly.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/07/28/mystery-umbrella-man-vandal-from-minnesota-police-say-hes-a-white-supremacist-instigator/#62fdeddb48ee

Agent provocateurship does seem to have caught on from the federal side too, in 
continuing escalation.

The former head of DARPA is now proposing a "Health Age" to succeed the 
digital.  Maybe health applies to multiple spheres such as climate, green, 
economics, media, culture, and so forth?  It might need to work a bit like 
immunology, i.e. making strategic moves to balance the resurgent virality of 
fear, ethnonationalism, hate, and so forth, without killing the patient.  
Network culture would seem to have a role in that type of system adaptation, 
the anti-viral as well as its opposite.

All best hopes and wishes,

Max

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Hungary's Index journalists walk out over sacking

[János Sugár]

Index is the last of Hungary's key independent media and editor in 
chief Szabolcs Dull was fired on Tuesday. Over the past decade, 
supporters of nationalist and conservative Prime Minister Viktor 
Orban have gradually taken control of Hungary's independent media. 
Hungary is ranked 89th out of 180 countries on the Reporters without 
Borders World Press Freedom Index.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53531948

Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign
https://index.hu/english

Editor-in-chief fired at Hungary's leading independent news site
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/22/editor-in-chief-fired-hungary-leading-independent-news-site-szabolcs-dull-index

Editor in chief of influential Hungarian news site Index.hu ousted
Szabolcs Dull warned that website's independence at risk of political 
pressure from Orban's government

https://www.ft.com/content/7832088e-7286-4d3f-b745-2015cd5c7046

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/pressefreiheit-in-ungarn-index-auf-viktor-orbans-index-a-1151361f-eb6d-4ec2-905c-f92c48dc7a44
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