Maybe the next president will do that. I don't think this one will.

It starts with framing the CIA as a neutral entity, which it is not. It's a form of metapropaganda, in which a propaganda outlet characterizes itself as a neutral provider of information.

One example that comes to mind is Patrice Lumumba's assassination, allegedly authorized by the American government. There is no mention to Lumumba's government that started in 1960.

Venezuela's entry has the same issue pointed out in the DPRK's - the negative impact of sanctions imposed by the US on the economy is not mentioned, and is described as "chaotic economy due to political corruption".

It is subtle, but it is propaganda as well.

Obvious propaganda plays a role in the destruction of a shared objective reality, which is part of the authoritarian playbook. Subtle propaganda distorts reality but preserves the notion of a shared objective one and does not intend to undermine trust.

When a government uses blatant, easily disproven lies, but doubles down on the lies and continues with increasingly absurd ones, there is no space for subtlety or trustworthy sources in that government.

But wanting not to talk to us might be a reason to make themselves hard to detect. Kind of moving to the quieter place when you can’t find anyone interesting at a party.

At some point they’ll hit the speed of light as a limit to how quickly it can propagate its internal state to itself - as the brain grows larger, the mind slows down or breaks apart into smaller units that can work faster before rejoining the bigger entity and propagating its new state.

Must feel really strange.

True, but they have abandoned the subtlety of the factbook.

Until you change the dominant technology. At some point we ditched germanium transistors for silicon ones because the latter switched faster.

The natural ceiling is the amount of compute per unit of energy. At the point you can no longer improve energy efficiency, you can still add more energy to operate more compute capacity.

> and many of them have no particular reason to be visible at astronomical distances.

Or to want to talk to meat.

https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg