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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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. [ … ]

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 [ … ]

 …experts were asked for their probabilities that we would get AI that was “able to accomplish every task better and more cheaply than human workers”. The experts thought on average there [ … ]

Broke: ‘the world is full of two types of people…’ Woke: ‘the world is full of two types of bots…’ Hardware bots: drones, industrial machinery, robots Software bots: artificial intelligence, [ … ]

Bitcoin was not the big bang, something came before. In the early 1980s privacy advocates were already devising digital bearer instruments. David Chaum, a cryptographer, devised a means of payment [ … ]