Collaborate Disseminate
A Report on the Office of Censorship from November 1945, by Byron Price (Director), has quite a lot of detail with regard to American culture during 44 months of national censorship operations. Censorship’s work may be said to divide itself into two se… Continue reading “Censorship is essential in wartime, and we are at war.”
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
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
At 9:40 AM on Feb 17, 2016, using Twitter for iPad, the @brian_bilston account tweeted: Here’s a poem entitled “America is a Gun”. Strangely, however, you will not find this poem anywhere on Brian Bilston’s official “Poetry Laboetry“.
The post America … Continue reading America is a Gun
Since I was a teenager I’ve preferred watching non-American movies because they aren’t saddled with the boring good/bad split. Drama becomes exceptionally lame when you are told who is good, who is bad, and then you take an obvious side and wait out th… Continue reading What If There Was No Good/Bad Split in Narratives?
An old story from The Guardian reported how transparency played in a war with liars: An academic trawl of the corporation’s archives has revealed that while the Nazi regime used puppet broadcasters such as William Joyce – nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw – to sp… Continue reading The British in WWII Reported Own Losses to Undermine Nazi Confidence in Wins
On the 22nd of February 1943 a brave 21-year-old woman walked to a Nazi guillotine, displaying full conviction she “had done the best I could have done for my people”. This is where her life ended. But how did it begin? Today marks what would have been… Continue reading This Day in History 1921: Sophie Scholl Was Born
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
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