As some of you know, I’m in the cybersecurity field. I’m always looking for better and safer ways to do things in the interwebs. I try to avoid Google, as much as is possible (it’s pretty hard actually), and one of the things I do is avoid using Chrome, and avoid using Google for my […]
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Syd Mead has died
A tragic loss for the community: Legendary visual effects artist, futurist and industrial designer Syd Mead died Monday at age 86, his manager Roger Servick confirmed to Deadline. Mead had been battling lymphoma, Servick said. The artist is best known for his concept art for sci-fi movies Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Aliens, Tron, Star Trek the Motion Picture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mission Impossible 3, Elysium and Tomorrowland. In the […]
I have a growing uneasy feeling about this Senate impeachment process, like the Dems had some dirty trick up their sleeve. Else, why keep pursuing it? I am now expecting a Red Wedding moment. So then there’s this, from a story in the Washingtonian in October: Laurence Tribe, a leftist anti-Trump constitutional law professor at […]
A ruling today in a federal appeals court overturned the dismissal of a Colorado Electoral College member after he refused to cast his electoral college vote for the candidate that won the state’s popular election. The panel concluded that the presidential electors in the Electoral College have the absolute right to cast their electoral vote […]
Michael Moore and his “Bowling for Columbine” producer colleague discovered some inconvenient truths when they set out to do a documentary on the green energy movement: “It turned out the wakeup call was about our own side,” Gibbs said in a phone interview. “It was kind of crushing to discover that the things I believed […]
I’ve written and deleted variants of this post several times over the past couple of days. Rough weekend. Every weekend is rough if you read the news coming from our inner cities. I’m a gun owner, and not a casual one. I have to take my shoes off to count the number of guns I […]
It’s stories like this that make me cautiously optimistic that patriotic Americans are coming back out of the closet, and the tide of anti-Americanism is being beat back: After unanimously voting to remove the Pledge from council meetings, the council voted unanimously to reinstate it after major backlash from the community. “I’ve concluded that I […]
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Mike Rowe on the Nike Flag Dustup
Mike Rowe recently weighed in on the controversy surrounding Nike’s Betsy Ross sneaker: “[W]e can’t deny Kapernick’s right to speak his mind, but we shouldn’t ignore the flaws in his thinking. He has argued that the Betsy Ross flag is ‘racist,’ because it flew at a time when slavery was legal in America. By that […]
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Alternatives to Google
I work for a school, but I’m not a teacher. My role is cybersecurity, and I have been protecting schools, hospitals, telecommunication companies, and banks, for more than 20 years. So trust me when I say that getting away from Google is hard. Really hard. Even if you don’t use Google services directly, they own […]
This is amazing. And yet, it has become so routine it hardly made the news. https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-06-25/elon-musks-spacex-completes-most-difficult-launch-ever While the center booster recovery failed, they did manage for the first time to catch half of the rocket’s nose cone. In a giant net held up by a boat out in the ocean. Seriously. Who does this? Capitalists, […]
DARPA recently announced a site that aggregates video, audio (with transcripts) and photos of the Apollo 11 mission into a single pane of glass. You can scrub to any point in the timeline. You can even listen to specific audio tracks in real time. If you want to just hear what the flight surgeon was […]
As Naval Ravikant said: “The Left has won the Culture Wars, and are now just driving around shooting the survivors.” This week we learned from a brave whistleblower that Pinterest, a site known primarily for recipes and home decorating ideas, is blocking content from websites that their Orwellian-monikered Trust and Safety team in San Francisco […]
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Naval Ravikant on the Culture War
The Left won the culture wars. Now they’re just driving around shooting survivors. Naval Ravikant is a tech billionaire and a bona fide genius, on the Joe Rogan podcast. I thought that was a great metaphor for what is happening over the past week or two.
Scott Adams thinks that the social media companies have won the war, now that “the people” are on the side of selective censorship of social media companies. He thinks the level of influence wielded by the socials is insurmountable. But they haven’t stopped at outright censorship, which they would have to defend at some level. […]
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Suffering from depression?
If you or someone you love is suffering from depression, I would encourage you to watch the last hour of Bill’s Stratosphere Lounge from last night. Bill talks extensively about his battle with depression, and how he finally turned the corner. You are not alone. There is help. Here’s the easy link: https://billwhittlecom.wpenginepowered.com/2019/06/07/the-stratosphere-lounge-episode-220/