Collaborate Disseminate
Buried in chapter 5.2 of the famous 1945 report to the President (“Science The Endless Frontier”) by Vannevar Bush, under the heading “Security Restrictions Should Be Lifted Promptly”, is this sentence: Our ability to overcome possible future enemies d… Continue reading Sharing Knowledge to Overcome Possible Future Enemies
Here’s an odd paragraph from new scientific research: Results confirm that conservatives have lower sensitivity than liberals, performing worse at distinguishing truths and falsehoods. This is partially explained by the fact that the most widely shared… Continue reading Most Falsehoods “Tend to Promote Conservative Positions”
Virginia Hall in 1944 on this day set up a safe house in Le Chambon sur Lignon, south central France on the farm of Maurice and Léa Lebrat. In her own words: My life in Haute-Loire was different and difficult. I spent my time looking for fields for rec… Continue reading This Day in History 1944: Virginia Hall Sets Up “The Farm” in Occupied France
A new leak from the Kremlin alleges that America’s “bad luck” in the 2016 election was due to a Russian unconventional warfare plot. …help secure Moscow’s strategic objectives, among them “social turmoil” in the US and a weakening of the American presi… Continue reading Unconventional Warfare Results that Appear to be Bad Luck
The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars (or a totally unpronounceable ENVGB) make the world look so much like a scene from Tron I’m super excited to use them every day, er, night instead of lights. Totally cool, right? They should have been called … Continue reading Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars are Totally 1980s Cool
An extremely thorough and eye-opening 2011 report by the AAUP exposes how extremist conservative professors manipulated political pressure to censor American voices they disagreed with: Regents and administration and some faculty of the University of C… Continue reading Conservative Cancel Culture: The Curious Case of Ward Churchill
A bankrupt man in Florida with get-rich-quick schemes of violently taking over a government is alleged to be the “mastermind” of Presidential assassination. National Police Chief Leon Charles told a news conference on Sunday that the arrested man, 63-y… Continue reading Was Haiti Assassination Inspired by American History of Domestic Coups?
In April of 2021 the FTC published a blog post saying bias in algorithms is against the law: Section 5 of the FTC Act. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. That would include the sale or use of – for example – racially biased algorithms… Continue reading Does Twitter Management Bias Mean Violation of Law?
Dmitri Alperovitch tweeted an oft-given and somewhat misleading statement that was picked up in a new article: It’s unconstitutional to extradite Russians. While technically one might say it’s unconstitutional, it nonetheless has been done successfully… Continue reading “It’s unconstitutional to extradite Russians”
I just got off the phone with a technology reporter for a major newspaper, where I was asked about the risks of facial recognition. That’s a deep topic, since crime using faces can apply to almost anything (e.g. fraud/theft, racism, classicism), yet I … Continue reading Tesla Safety Fail: “Full Self Driving” Can’t Read Even Basic Traffic Signals