Collaborate Disseminate
Confederate memorials in prominent areas are a form of domestic terror tactics, like racist graffiti denigrating the American landscape. They are akin to someone putting up a statue of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, or naming the streets after them… Continue reading Confederate Names Erase History: Removing Them is a Restoration Project
There’s a line “do not obey” within the famous song “Move On Up”. What does it mean? In 1919 organized white mobs committed widespread violence against Chicago’s black neighborhoods killing dozens, known today as … Continue reading Curtis Mayfield and the History Behind “Move On Up”
Honored to be a part of the Inrupt mission as profiled by Andrew Sears on All Tech is Human (ATIH) CHANGEMAKERS. Here’s a full text version of my interview: Davi Ottenheimer is the Vice President of Trust and Digital Ethics at Inrupt, a company s… Continue reading CHANGEMAKERS: Data Ethics and How to Save the Web
I’ve read so many articles about the gun-toting American protesters entering a state capitol building that I’ve lost track of the number. It’s a hot news item for sure. What to do? Protestors storm capitol… Protesters, some arme… Continue reading NRA Supports Governor’s Capitol Building Gun Ban
There haven’t been updates in a while, so Яolcats’ English Translations of Eastern Bloc Lolcats are now classics: -The air is crisp, like fresh spring leaves. -Do you know the time in Zurich? -It is you! no one believed you would surv… Continue reading Poetry by Яolcats
Fine issued for misuse of fingerprints. The logic of this huge enforcement action was simple, biometric data was collected disproportionate to need. Employees of a company had to have their fingerprints scanned for attendance and time registration. Aft… Continue reading GDPR Fine Print: 720,000 Euro Penalty for Collecting Biometrics
The numbers are expected to go even higher, but for now the NYT has said it’s reasonable to assume 20,000 people in NYC were killed in just 30 days. Part of the reason for the new count is COVID-19 visualizations have been mapping current death r… Continue reading Over 20K Dead in NYC: 30 Days of COVID-19
In November 2019 a DIY article was posted on how to build and train an inexpensive RPi thermal camera. Even with more complex network architectures, the optical model wouldn’t score above a 91% accuracy in detecting the presence of people, while … Continue reading Replace Your Door Peephole With a DIY Thermal Camera
On this day in 1812 a group of a hundred or more Luddites attempted to enter Burton’s Mill in protest. British soldiers opened fire, killing a dozen. Who were the Luddites? There’s a common misnomer in calling Luddites anti-technology, whic… Continue reading This Day in History: 1812 Luddites Destroy a Zoom Factory
Big news from the Park itself: Dr. David Kenyon, Research Historian at Bletchley Park highlights the rarity of this find: “No other film footage of a site intimately connected with Bletchley Park exists. We don’t know who filmed it and the … Continue reading Anonymous Donates Rare Film to Bletchley Park