Collaborate Disseminate
A new thought-piece from a powerful British government lobbyist (Vice President of Global Affairs, Facebook. Former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leader of the Liberal Democrats, member of Parliament.) was introduced to me rather blankly… Continue reading Facebook VP Tries to Justify Colonialism
As I read current news from the press about America losing trust in news, I am reminded of the long history of this issue. One of the more tragic stories is this one from 1837: Elijah Lovejoy was a reverend and printer in Alton, Illinois, in the 1830s…. Continue reading American Distrust in Press: Deadly 1830s Cancel Culture
War on the Rocks has published a superb article on Irregular Warfare under an image of a Christini 300 AWD motorcycle. I suppose you could call a motorcycle 2WD, yet that doesn’t do the concept justice. AWD means ensuring all wheels are engaged with po… Continue reading Irregular Tech for Irregular Warfare: AWD Motorcycles
More and more experts are joining to denounce Tesla’s marketing as dangerously misleading. In that vein this might be one of my favorite denunciation paragraphs so far: It’s also interesting because the guy in the passenger seat is such a constant and … Continue reading Is Tesla an Elaborate Scam?
All the fresh reports of a ship blocking the Suez Canal seem to underplay the most important point. This ship built in 2018 was in a similar accident in 2019: …the cargo ship ran into a small ferry moored on the Elbe river in the German port city of Ha… Continue reading Ship Blocking Suez Canal Had History of Losing Control
Keith Gunderson, a pioneering philosopher of robotics, in his 1964 paper called “Descartes, La Mettrie, Language and Machines” captured this Robert Stoothoff translation of the 1637 Discourse: If there were machines which bore a resemblance to our bodi… Continue reading Descartes on AI: I Think, Therefore I Am… Not a Machine
What was the Dust Bowl Disaster? The term Dust Bowl was coined in 1935 when an AP reporter, Robert Geiger, used it to describe the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms. Although it technically refers to … Continue reading SolarWinds is a Dust Bowl Disaster of Modern Computing
A long time ago, what seems like a hundred years from today, I wrote a post called “1873 Slaughterhouse Cases Explain US #Covid19 ‘Anti-Mask’ Cultism” to explain why Americans are so slavishly (pun not intended) obsessed with refusing to wear a simple … Continue reading Why Violent Suicide Biker Gangs Love And Hate Masks
This is just a single drone video as a promotional exercise, but every time I see someone bring up the following video as a thing of marvel it reminds me of gross violations of privacy and the general inability of people to defend themselves during mas… Continue reading The Future of Drone Terrorism on Display Today
While digging around in history I noticed this exact phrase comes from the Free Speech League of America, during 9 April 1917 “Espionage and Interference with Neutrality” Hearings of U.S. Congress: Also noticed that English general and statesman (Cromw… Continue reading “The first casualties of war are free speech and free press”