Collaborate Disseminate
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) in an old interview with Wired explained the simple economics of modern Russian information systems warfare: If you add up all Russia spent in the Brexit vote, the French presidential elections, and the 2016 American election… Continue reading Why Russia Favors Attacking American Information Systems
the truck transmission whined in protest, the computer gave up. then, bailing away soft flowing sand from our door sills, shovel burning my hands even under a cool moonless starry night… something was truly exhilarating about digging out. this machine … Continue reading Bailing Sand
The United Nations has this introduction to the subject of mines and disarmament: Landmines come in two varieties: anti-personnel and anti-vehicle mines. Both have caused great suffering in the past decades. Anti-personnel landmines are prohibited unde… Continue reading Landmines are Banned. Should Drones be Classified as Airmines?
The premise of “surveillance capitalism” is that it should be stopped for doing harms. However, what if surveillance is in fact the foundation of modern science and capitalism is the foundation of that science being sustainable? Wouldn’t stopping autho… Continue reading Surveillance Capitalism Theory is Dangerously Wrong
The BBC makes a classic error in their new report by saying GM started electric mass vehicle development in 1990s (shutdown by Bush in 2001). Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think In fact it started in the 1970s (shutdown by Reagan in … Continue reading Why Mass Electric Car Concepts of 1940s May Finally Arrive in 2020s
An excellent write-up of the history of the American filibuster makes it absolutely clear how it’s rooted in blocking civil-rights, and its supporters are spreading lies about history to cover-up this fact: “…filibuster was not ‘created to bring togeth… Continue reading American Filibuster Must Die: Its History is a Bald-Faced Lie
All over the news is the story of Naomi Osaka defending her mental health against attackers: ‘This Will 100% Save Somebody’s Life.’ Athletes See a Turning Point for Mental Health After Naomi Osaka Takes a Stand at the French Open However, NOT all over … Continue reading Naomi Osaka Just Shutdown Russian State Attacks on Athletes
A domain called motherfrunker has compiled a huge list of lies. It’s really quite amazing Tesla operates as such an obvious scam. Here a just a few examples out of the dozens: September 2014: They will be a factor of 10 safer than a person [at the whee… Continue reading Timeline of Lies About Tesla “FSD”
Here’s a weird footnote in deepfake history… Old publishers of “facts” like map makers and encyclopedias gave up inserting fake data after the US Supreme Court ruled their facts can’t be copyrighted, as a New Yorker article from 2005 explained. If Moun… Continue reading Deepfake Map History
A while ago I wrote a long-form history of the NRA, in which I pointed out how it was started by Union Generals in the 1870s to arm Black Americans against white militias. Now it seems a historian is making the case that a 2nd Amendment to the Constitu… Continue reading What if the 2nd Amendment is About Oppressing Blacks?