Race Baiting in American Politics
Vermin supreme: When President Donald Trump tweeted this weekend that Baltimore is a “rat and rodent infested mess,” he was continuing a long pattern of using this kind of rhetoric to describe a majority-black city. This particular attack was in response to Maryland Congressman Elijah Cummings, whose district includes West Baltimore,Continue Reading
Is Blockchain secure and can it increase voting over current rates
At its core, the technology is meant to make voting easier and increase primary turnout, which is historically lower than that of general elections. About 20 percent of registered voters cast ballots in midterm House of Representatives races last year—a huge leap from 2014’s turnout rate of 13.7 percent. “Given that theContinue Reading
Ethics and AI, A Slippery Slope
‘The prospect of creating beings with intelligence far beyond our own is hugely exiting. It is also hugely worrying because we don’t yet know if the immense power that we believe these agents would possess is going to be wielded in a way that helps or hurts us. That is,Continue Reading
Scary Pan Handlers and Self Driving Vehicles
In the article below the author mentions instances that pose possible problems for future self driving vehicles in America. Can these vehicles be programmed to include the anxiety perimeter of a passenger in addition to the conventional road safety data. The author mentions a trip to another city and beingContinue Reading
Art. Market.
Art that is popular often points to the social desires of its time.Continue Reading
The Plumbers Crack: The Toxic Male As a Cultural Construct
(toxic masculinity is addicted to performance, to poses and postures of physical endurance, willingness to engage in or actual violence, and stoic absence of any emotion, pain, or discomfort.) be sure to check the comments section at the end of this piece for the trumpista dust up Continue Reading
Foucaults LSD Trip in Death Valley
“[T]he bare skull was marked by several extra lobes, which bulged from the apex of the brain stem. One does not have to be a phrenologist to recognize this extraordinary cerebral mutation, something on the order of a supermind, had emerged from the outer limits.” The subtext is clear: WhatContinue Reading
Another Fine Example of the Cards Stacked Against the Poor
Baltimore is a town striken with inequality, between rich and poor, black and white. The slight of hand by senior politicians and big biz to abuse the public trust knows no limits in this their field of opportunity ripe for the picking. (The Port Covington tract is just 4% black.Continue Reading
The AI thing
With Jess a “AI fellow” in an aspirational Dawson College venture to get into the 21st Century flow, the OG crowd sniffed an opportunity.Continue Reading