Collaborate Disseminate
A new article on the history of American racism towards its black veterans points out it goes back to the Civil War: Thousands of Black men who served in the Civil War, World War I, and World War II were targeted because of their service and threatened… Continue reading America’s History of Mistreatment of Black Service Members
Recently I wrote about a country song of encoded KKK/Nazi signals, called “The Big Revival“. It got me thinking about whether a map might show how a KKK revival happened as a result of Woodrow Wilson’s “America First” campaign platform in 1915. And the… Continue reading Mapping “America First” Revival of the KKK
It is quite sad how someone can gleefully erase people to highlight himself. Anyone believe a claim by Steve Jobs in 2001 that there was no personal computer in 1975? Being literate in history should require knowing that by 1974 personal computers alre… Continue reading Who Invented the Personal Computer? “Apple Was Literally Following Us Around”
Here are my unvarnished thoughts on this week of security news…in 60 second snippets. Many thanks to Steve Prentice, CISO Series and Cyber Security Headlines for having me on and asking the hard questions!
The post Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Re… Continue reading Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – April 12-16, 2021
New book from Robert D. Putnam called “The Upswing” attempts to explain why American democracy won’t work if individualism is over-emphasized like southern Italy The Upswing builds on the author’s celebrated concept of “social capital”: the web of non-… Continue reading How Individualism Ruins Democracy
Breaking news. Facebook might soon be understood for being exactly what it always has been. Lawmakers finally seem to understand what journalists, academics, activists and legal experts have been saying for years – that social media, and particularly F… Continue reading Facebook’s Role in Domestic Terrorism
I stumbled across a 1970 clipping from Nixon’s administration where they claimed “urban renewal” (widely recognized today as intentionally racist and destructive to American cities) would do the exact opposite of what we know they designed it to accomp… Continue reading Nixon Drove “balkanization and polarization” While Claiming the Opposite
An interesting apology from editors of Vice: Friday April 9th, VICE Asia published an interview with Matt Loughrey, an artist working to restore and colorize images from Security Prison 21 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which was used by the Khmer Rouge regi… Continue reading Vice Apologizes for Faked Photos of Genocide Victims
A nicely written summary of the attack on Fort Sumter can be found on the Smithsonian’s page called “The Civil War Begins” In December 1860, a little more than a month after Lincoln’s election, South Carolina’s secession convention, held in Charleston,… Continue reading This Day in History 1861: Confederacy Starts War With United States to Force an Expansion of Slavery
One of my most popular posts on LinkedIn was about the logical fallacies, as well as some history, of Virginia Police. LinkedIn gave me an award for it… Then they deleted the post, as well as all my comments on other posts about the Virginia Police. I … Continue reading LinkedIn is Deleting All My Comments and Posts About Virginia Police