If a Sketchy Russian Ad Network Promotes a Facebook Event, Will Anyone Show Up Last week, news broke a network of fake Russian trolls bought at least 1. Facebook between June 2. May 2. 01. 7. The ads were sometimes politically themed and potentially reached tens of millions of Americans, raising questions about possible links to increasingly well evidenced allegations of Russian interference in the 2. Donald Trumps campaign, and could have ultimately been linked to some kind of marketing operation instead. Heres something a little more tangible, per the Daily Beast. Apparently, a known Russian front company managed to use Facebooks event management tool to remotely organize and promote political protests in the U. Tenku notshirotwapyuta Big Miracle 2012 DVDRip READNFO x264SiC Love and Other Drugs. Eng DivX On Style17 E07. CATV H264. 480pSHINs Bob. S., including an August 2. Muslim rally in Idaho, which were promoted using ads paid for by the same network of fake accounts. According to the Beast, Facebook confirmed the events were taken down in the same purge of the 1. The Idaho rally originally appeared as sponsored by Secured. Borders, the same front allegedly responsible for an eclipse themed meme of Donald Trump the president actually tweeted. Secure. Borders is linked to the Internet Research Agency, a strange St. Petersburg venture with ties to both Vladimir Putin and private interests. But if this was an attempt to actually translate influence into a change in the behavior of US voters, the event does not seem to have been very successful. One cached Facebook event which appears to be the same one flagged by the Beast had just 4. Without more details, a lot of this is inherently speculativeone could interpret this as a test for some kind of government op, or perhaps an attempt by the troll farm to pretend it had a real life presence while it was hawking merchandise or linking slack jawed US yokels to profit generating malware. But whatever was going on with this specific event, it seems to have been a very curious use of someones dollars, or rubles, or whatever. The Daily Beast. Ever notice how Christopher Nolans movies Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige feel like an anxiety attack Well, maybe thats overstating things a bit. But. President Donald J. Trump has decided to advance his bogus ban on trans individuals openly serving in the US military beyond tweeting vague dictates on the matter. Please be advised that many video files, particularly those for recently released ones, may have a very short lifespan before they are removed from host sites. Pda Formats Life, Animated Review Film here. The Uncanny Sound Illusion That Creates Suspense in Christopher Nolans Movies. Ever notice how Christopher Nolans movies Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige feel like an anxiety attack Well, maybe thats overstating things a bit. But the director does have a knack for creating an unnerving degree of tension. Turns out hes using a little bit of musical magic to do it. The magic is actually a science based audio illusion called a Shepard tone. Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs Cartoon Divx ' title='Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs Cartoon Divx ' />Named after psychologist Roger Shepard, a pioneer in our understanding of spatial relation, the effect sounds like an infinitely ascending or descending scale. The tones are constantly moving upwards or downwards, but they never seem to reach a pinnacle or nadir. This is accomplished by stacking scales on top of each othertypically one treble scale, one midrange, and one basswith an octave in between, then playing them in a continuous loop. A Shepard tone is sometimes referred to as the barber pole of sound. You can even see the similarity, when you hear it and look at the spectrum view of a Shepard tone. Dont listen to this too long, or you might lose your mind Anyways, Christopher Nolan just loves this. With longtime collaborator Hans Zimmer, the acclaimed director has used a Shepard tone in almost every one of his films in the last decade. He even writes his scripts to match the effect. In a recent interview, Nolan explained how he used Shepard tones in his newest film, Dunkirk The screenplay had been written according to musical principals. Theres an audio illusion, if you will, in music called a Shepard tone and with my composer David Julyan on The Prestige we explored that and based a lot of the score around that. And its an illusion where theres a continuing ascension of tone. Its a corkscrew effect. Its always going up and up and up but it never goes outside of its range. And I wrote the script according to that principle. I interwove the three timelines in such a way that theres a continual feeling of intensity. Increasing intensity. So I wanted to build the music on similar mathematical principals. Knowing this, you gain a deeper understanding of films like Interstellar, Inception, and The Prestige. It also explains why these films seem somehow inconclusive. A Shepards tone creates a conflict that cant be resolved, just like Nolans plots. Digg, Business Insider.