Collaborate Disseminate
My head hurt when I read a new “insider” article on detecting and preventing hate on big data platforms. It’s awful on many, many levels. It’s like seeing a story on airplane safety where former staff reveal they couldn’t agree politically on how to me… Continue reading Big Tech Admits Security Teams Politically Directed and Intentionally Blind to Hate Groups
Recently as I was reading a note someone sent me about Melody Millicent Danquah, who was born in 1937, I thought something seemed wrong. Danquah was described as the first female pilot in Africa, trained in 1963 by Ghana’s Air Force and a year later ma… Continue reading 1930s Air Force Against Fascism: First Women Pilots in Africa
A new paper in Nature says they have an algorithm that can read tightly folded letters without opening them physically. The challenge tackled here is to reconstruct the intricate folds, tucks, and slits of unopened letters secured shut with “letterlock… Continue reading X-Rays Defeat LetterLocking: Secrets Exposed of Ancient Folded Papers
Two years ago an article called “The Decline of Historical Thinking” warned that too few people in America were studying the right stuff to understand society (foundation to engineering): Lately, I’ve noticed a feature of economic inequality that has n… Continue reading America’s “Intellectual Inequality” Undermines STEM
Something I’ve always known about Tom Cruise is that he is a fake. Literally. He is a paid actor, who makes a living from being a fake. He is highly paid because apparently his fakes are so good. Now comes a stark warning that evidence has been found o… Continue reading Tom Cruise is a Fake. For Real This Time.
In 2016 the National Socialist Movement (NSM) of America, claimed to be “buoyed by a Donald Trump victory”, and announced a shift in symbols they considered headline-worthy: “…white supremacists ban swastika in bold attempt to ‘go mainstream’.” The Oda… Continue reading CPAC 2021 Open Display of Nazi Symbols
Here are some useful definitions for interpreting the continuously bad news about infrastructure and transit safety in South Dakota. Gross Negligence: “…reckless disregard for the safety or lives of others, which is so great it appears to be a consciou… Continue reading Manslaughter By Car: “At Best Negligent” in South Dakota
I’m curious about a theory posted in a rhyming-slang encoding guide meant to demystify some fun yet secretive communication: …no cake can be eaten that has not been given (by a shopkeeper) and taken… “Give and Take” is thus said to mean the word cake. … Continue reading The Give and Take of Cake
Amazon’s “blatant disregard of human life” is straight out of a classic American novel and now makes me wonder if the company name is related, as I wrote here in 2015 about that book. …when you talk to the platform engineers behind closed doors you wil… Continue reading Would You Call Amazon “The Jungle”?
In 2011 at BSidesLV I gave a presentation about the danger of big cloud companies operating like the movie 2001 by Stanley Kubrick — ship automation systems with too much authority detaining and terminating their own crew. That presentation was the gen… Continue reading Robot Detained a Google AI Ethicist, Terminated Her