Collaborate Disseminate
Racism is a well-documented problem in this company run by a white man from South Africa who grew up wealthy due to apartheid: An ex-Tesla employee who worked at the Fremont factory for about two years said in a sworn declaration in the Vaughn case tha… Continue reading Racism at Tesla Might Explain Why Their “Autopilot” Crashes So Often
A 911 call was placed by “neighbors” near Grand Rapids, Michigan when a black army veteran and his real estate agent toured a home for sale. The two suddenly found themselves surrounded by police pointing guns… with no cause. Thorne and his son were to… Continue reading US Army Veteran Arrested for Being Black While Touring House for Sale
The easily predictable disaster has been a disaster: …two years before The Vessel opened, architecture critic Audrey Wachs was warning that the waist-height railings around the staircases would fail to prevent deaths: “When you build high, folks will j… Continue reading NYC’s $200 Million “Suicide Machine” Closed Again After 4th Tragedy
A long personal story published in Business Insider tries to reduce the stigma around those opposed to vaccines in order to help “change minds”: The reason for everybody to get the vaccine is to make sure that the virus doesn’t mutate to a point where … Continue reading Get the Vaccine So People With Vaccines Aren’t in Danger
On July 29th the Stanford Internet Observatory, arguably a Potemkin village by design, released the following PR statement: Announcing the Journal of Online Trust and Safety Notably, here’s the lineup claiming “a wide range” of researchers: Led by co-e… Continue reading Is Facebook Using Stanford to Silence Its Critics?
According to a 2008 paper called the Two Faces of Death, vaccination and antibiotics completely changed mortality statistics for US military: Throughout America’s first 145 years of war, far more of the country’s military personnel perished from infect… Continue reading Before Vaccines More American Military Died From Disease Than Enemy Action
A Report on the Office of Censorship from November 1945, by Byron Price (Director), has quite a lot of detail with regard to American culture during 44 months of national censorship operations. Censorship’s work may be said to divide itself into two se… Continue reading “Censorship is essential in wartime, and we are at war.”
Way back in 2012 I gave a presentation called “Big Data’s Fourth V”, which really was meant to kick-off my “new” book about how hard data integrity is in the emerging technology space. In it I described how the mobile phone is the modern battlespace, u… Continue reading Mobile Phone is The Modern Battlespace
Interesting write-up from the National Park Service (NPS), explaining how abolition was central to the monument that has become known for something different. The Statue of Liberty would never have been conceived or built if its principal French and Am… Continue reading Statue of Liberty is a Monument to Abolition of Slavery
An oft-cited reason to stop riding horses in cities was their prodigious output of excrement as a by-product, not to mention disposal of dead and rotting horse carcasses. Both of these could have been easily solved problems (Golden Gate Park owes its l… Continue reading As Legged Mobility Improves Efficiency, Wheeled Transit Appears Toxic to Environment