This is the ‘real real’ of a Twitter campaign. Not what a staffer insists because everyone else is doing it. Social media doesn’t want to see pictures of you standing [ … ]

Computational politics are the analytical tools used to profile at the individual level. It is asymmetrical warfare. ‘They’ have a machine gun and ‘you’ have nothing, not even the awareness [ … ]

This Myth vs. Fact document Democrats on the Banking Committee are distributing on their bank deregulation bill is a *masterpiece* of technocratic dishonesty. Let’s do some reverse engineering on this [ … ]

 This opaque corporate censorship amounts to a private-sector Stasi, pursuing an Orwellian world of profits reaped from the censorship and suppression of dissent I’m certain that Facebook, Google and Twitter [ … ]

16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do [ … ]

I don’t like to write about anything political on my blog site. I keep this to my investments and such. Blogging lets me collect my thoughts and file them systematically. [ … ]

In the old inefficient socialist states like the Soviet Union, employment was considered both a right and a sacred duty, that system made up as many jobs as they had [ … ]

If a currency can’t be converted on demand into the underlying commodity, it’s not “backed by oil,” it’s just another form of control fraud. For context, here is a chart [ … ]

Television is a uniquely hard medium for sci-fi. Hard to write, script, directing and acting mess-ups can cause irrevocable damage Frequently, to fake a cult popularity, the show embeds too [ … ]

Tech history is short. I began the Uber post-mortem early last year, before it was fashionable There is a new chapter in Uber’s story and this is my annotation. Let’s [ … ]