Archive for December 2019
AI As Your Corporate Master
Here is a scary article in H+ Magazine. Increasingly, corporations dominate the field of artificial intelligence. We should be terrified of that fact. The Corporatization of AI is a Major Threat to Humanity *** Michael Jay Tucker is a writer and journalist who has published material on topics ranging from the Jazz…
Read MoreVideo: Soaring
This may be my last video for 2019. It is, after all, late December. It’s been quite a year, hasn’t it? A real roller coaster ride. And, I must confess, this was a flight I could have done without. And, I suspect, like you, I worry about what the last year…what the last three years…will…
Read MoreVideo: Rover Revisited
Thinking again about Mars Rover Opportunity whose final transmission sounded so terribly human and so terribly sad, “My battery is low and it is getting dark.” And, curiously, there is a connection here to who we are, and what we may (or should) become. ~mjt
Read MoreFlu Shots & Loving Songs NOW for Kids in Cages
Incredibly powerful piece from The Shalom Center… Holy-Day Love Songs for Children in “Detention” Cages [Dear friends of all communities of love and Spirit, Hanukkah and Christmas are approaching. Both holy times beckon us to Light and Love. In “detention centers” that are really becoming concentration camps of illness and trauma, refugee and…
Read MoreFalse Equivalency Between Truth and Lies? Result: Erosion of Democracy
From Chris Hedges via Truthdig: “The Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are perplexed. They presented hours of evidence of an impeachable offense — Perhaps journalists, by giving voice to opponents of impeachment—who do indeed live in a world not based in fact—created a false equivalency between truth and lies. [It might have been useful to…
Read MoreBritish Election Fallout
As a resident of the UK, it falls to me to comment on the election of Boris Johnson. What’s more, my editor has prissily informed me that “screaming until my eyeballs haemorrhage” isn’t a proper response and that I’ll have to put my thoughts in writing. I guess I’m just too avante garde for some…
Read MoreVideo: From The Lighthouse
Even after Trump is gone, we will have to be on guard. We must deal with the underlying problems that made him possible, or else we will have to deal with bigger Trumps in future.
Read MoreWhat will we tell our children?
Jersey Shootings and the Endless American Arms Race
Yesterday in New Jersey, armed gunmen took part in what has fairly been described as a “battle” with police for several hours. After an initial confrontation in a cemetery in which the police were apparently fired upon with high powered rifles, the suspects fled in a van and barricaded themselves inside a Kosher supermarket, trading…
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