Collaborate Disseminate
Years ago I wrote about Google’s calculator absurdly requiring network access permissions. A calculator needs network? What? Looking back, and based on recent headlines, it should at least have been front page news. Someone just prompted me to answer w… Continue reading Contact Tracing Fail: Why is Google So Bad at Basic Security and Privacy?
I’ve written for many years about the systemic racism of American transit policies; from disastrous “Urban Renewal” projects using highway construction to “balkanize” cities and destroy black neighborhoods, to the history of jaywalking. A new article t… Continue reading Pedestrian Kill Bills Are Racist
A “CyberWar 2.0” book published in 1998 had a chapter called “Information Peacekeeping: The Purest Form of War“. Here’s the sort of cogent warning you will find, written by Robert D. Steele, which seems like it was written just yesterday. …perhaps the … Continue reading 1990s Warnings About Cyber War That Nobody Heard
Saying nuclear power is the safest energy seems wildly inaccurate and misleading, yet often I see people make this claim. It’s always based on wild assumptions about quality control, which end up forming a logical fallacy (tautology). If absolutely eve… Continue reading Is AI as Dangerous as Nuclear Tech?
Want to become a great speaker? Become a great listener. Want to seize your moment? Override your fear and do the thing you were called to do! Dreamers, this message is for you: Whatever you do — Don’t. Drop. The. Mic!
The post Poetry of #DontDropTheMi… Continue reading Poetry of #DontDropTheMic
When the events of January 6th unfolded, a hot-take was posted by a DefenseOne executive editor immediately declaring no coup because: Coups don’t come without any military, police, secret police, or armed forces of any kind on their side. As someone w… Continue reading An American History of Coups: How Military and Police Led Jan 6th Violence
Catchy title, no? But seriously, cars (from the old word carriage) also are called automobiles because they automate mobility, kind of like robots that move people. I’m calling a car a robot because that’s really what it is. In the recent case of Tiger… Continue reading Did a Robot Just Try to Kill Tiger Woods?
A harsh new report about notifications to Facebook in 2017, based on an allegedly leaked internal email, tells us what we’ve all known since at least 2015. Facebook knew there was a problem, and failed to do anything until half a billion users’ details… Continue reading Facebook Security Knew in 2017 There Was a Problem and Failed to Act
Just a few days ago on April 14th the CEO of Tesla tweeted a prediction: Major improvements are being made to the vision stack every week. Beta button hopefully next month. This is a “march of 9’s” trying to get probability of no injury above 99.999999… Continue reading Tesla CEO Gaslighting Autopilot Safety Failures
A while ago I wrote about a 1917 saddle bag with bogus British battle plans that “fell” off a horse near the Turkish front lines, which had a decisive influence. Apparently that wasn’t inspiration for a similar mission that had an important impact in W… Continue reading This Day in History 1943: Operation Mincemeat