Collaborate Disseminate
The Southern District Court ruled in Nichols et al. v. Noom, Inc., no. 20-cv-3677 (Mar. 11, 2021) that, given lack of an exportable target, a hyperlink fails to become an attachment, and thus a producing party does not have to deliver anything more. Wh… Continue reading Court Rules Email HyperLinks Are Not Attachments
I was really excited to watch this video until I clicked on play and a giant Betsy Ross flag showed up as the backdrop. There are some places this American flag featuring a 13-star circle would seem appropriate. For example, a display of all the flags … Continue reading Is the Betsy Ross Flag Racist?
On this day in 1970 four students were killed during an assault on Kent State University campus by Ohio National Guard carrying M1 rifles with bayonets attached: …three shot in the chest and one in the head… with some injured by bayonets… Allison Kraus… Continue reading This Day in History 1970: Ohio National Guard Kills Kent State University Students
I’ve written before how Stanford pushed virulent racism as Governor of California (1862–1863). Local racism was bad on its own. Yet here’s an example of how it also fed directly into American federal policy: In May 1912, President Woodrow Wilson wrote … Continue reading Stanford Racism Precipitated “National Policy of Exclusion” and Internment Camps
In the famous Pulitzer-prize winning book “The Guns of August“, the author applies some colorful language to illustrate WWI and Imperial Germany. Tuchman for example frames their march like predator ants: (page 251) The German march through Belgium, li… Continue reading The Night Witches of WWII
In this new podcast (around the 11 minute mark), former NSA Director and Cyber Command chief Admiral Mike Rogers says cyber Pearl Harbor is wrong as a framework today because we’ve been watching cyber attacks continuously for 20 years and nothing anymo… Continue reading “Pearl Harbor Was a Bolt Out of the Blue” Unlike Cyber Attacks
In 1846 a chef in Paris created a disruptive edible paper portrait of a visiting Egyptian dignitary, perched on top of a pyramid of pulled sugar steps: On the top of the [sugar] pyramid was a portrait painted in food dyes on sugar paste, of the Pasha’s… Continue reading Edible Wrappers Are Centuries Old. Why Are They Now Disruptive?
Yet ANOTHER bone-head security screw-up at Facebook. ‘The authors never intended to publish this as a final document to the whole company, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. NEVER INTENDED. Intended? Does it matter what they intended? After t… Continue reading How Facebook Avoids Consequences for Crimes
News from France sounds exactly backwards to me: French intelligence officials to use older intelligence data, including data the government isn’t currently allowed to retain, to train AI systems. Such an approach should be called out for what it is, r… Continue reading Will France be Worse Off Using AI for Anti-Terrorism?
There’s not much to add to a brilliant take-down of the toxic and completely tone-deaf platform just launched called Clubhouse. …demonstrates a growing chasm between attitudes in the United States and Europe about data governance, as Silicon Valley con… Continue reading Doghouse: How Not to Build a Club or a House.