Collaborate Disseminate
Hamilton is a famous American musical: to deepfake the dead not only is not wrong, it can be very right. The big question is who owns a content control/consent role for someone in our past. If you can’t decide that, there’s a much bigger problem at han… Continue reading To Deepfake the Dead Can Be Very Right
From the history of a Japanese soldier, comes insight into Americans today In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by Ame… Continue reading No Surrender: Some Whites Still Believe US Civil War Wasn’t Lost
As I am sure many of you know, white male executives at Disneyland “created” Doritos to crush a Hispanic local tortilla chip inventor (Rebecca Carranza) and drive her family business under. The headline in Popular Mechanics magazine saluted a manufactu… Continue reading The Doritos Conspiracy
People keep saying Washington DC violence from militias is a new thing to prepare for, yet who remembers 1960s and early 1970s saw repeated attacks on US capitol by violent domestic groups? The FBI records have details of the groups involved, including… Continue reading 26 Capitol Police Officers Were Injured by Militants… in 1969
Poet Amanda Gorman has been chosen to read at the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden She is calling her inaugural poem “The Hill We Climb” while otherwise declining to preview any lines. Gorman says she was not given specific instructions on wha… Continue reading Amanda Gorman: “The Hill We Climb” to be Biden’s Inaugural Poem
I’ve been asked, perhaps in jest by those reading my SS blog post, whether the Columbia logo is a swastika because it also has four quadrants (it’s not). …founded in 1938 [a year after largest shirt factory owners Paul and Marie Lamfrom were forced to … Continue reading What Isn’t a Swastika?
When you look at all the Doppler radar-filled nose cones that used to be crossing the planet and reporting detailed weather, and then the empty skies today… you might be inclined to think forecasting will suffer. I laid awake one night thinking about t… Continue reading Fewer Airline Flights is Surely Leaving Meteorologists Blind
Dave Troy provides a long thread on Twitter explaining the roots and objectives of Parler, a technology platform. He also boils it all down to this single Tweet: Non-descript tech bro randomly meets ostensible Russian honeypot, travels to Russia, marri… Continue reading The TL;DR on Parler
I would argue (and have said since that time) we actually saw the coup in America back in 2016 and these last four years have been little more than an idiotic bumbling attempt by wannabe tinpot dictators to figure out how to close the door on democracy… Continue reading The US Coup Was 2016
A very long time ago I was in Chicago meeting with the man who wrote the security system for IBM’s AS400. I asked him “but why a Q” as we discussed the QSECOFR account. He said it was a rare letter, denoting something special, and I had no reason to do… Continue reading The Significance of Q in Communications