Reddit is Being Manipulated By Big Financial Services Companies Web Publication: Forbes, by Jay McGregor Information bedbugs For those of a certain vintage, you may not be familiar with Reddit other than name recognition. The average age of a Reddit User is 23.03 and the median is 22 according to one bright young analyst. Additional […]

TIR 2/21/17: Seven Days in February Seven Days in February Web Publication: National Review, by Victor Davis Hanson Amidst all the bi-partisan hate going around, Victor Davis Hanson takes a step back and does a compare-and-contrast of some of Trump’s moves compared with his predecessors and a 1964 work of fiction ‘Seven Days in May’. […]

TIR 2/16/17: Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump on Leak Concerns Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump on Leak Concerns Web Publication: WSJ, by Shane Harris Spooks rule What a pickle when the FBI and the intelligence community may be acting as a controlling branch of government. In the article, Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald […]

The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class Web Publication: Wired, by Cade Metz Pull back the curtain and lets look at how AI (artificial intelligence) scientist are viewing the next step in the progression of the non-human intelligence. But first a glance backward: AI has been coming along quite well […]

This insight will require you to examine two articles dealing with A) the extreme right and B) the extreme left. Here they are: I Helped Create the Milo Trolling Playbook. You Should Stop Playing Right Into It Web Publication: Observer.com By: Ryan Holiday Anti-Milo organizer: Window-smashing Cal protest ‘stunningly successful’ Web Publication: San Francisco Chronicle […]

Can Farming Solve Detroit’s Postindustrial Blues? Web Publication: Vice, by Mark Sundeen A better question for this article presented by Mark Sundeen might be: Can Farming Solve America’s Post-Robotized Blues? While this is essentially a feel good story about down and out Detroit with unique conditions regarding land, property values, social and economic destruction, and […]