Today, I ran across this article featuring the thoughts of Tim Berners-Lee, the guy that really did “invent the Internet” as we know it. The article is Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent ‘weaponized’ web. The gist of it is that the big players now dominating the web have grown so large […]

In my prior essay, ‘Shootings’, I suggested that there is a way forward that would require both polar opposite sides of the gun debate to put everything on the table. “To the left, it is all about guns. To the right, it is all keeping the guns.” No one should be holding their breath. Suggesting […]

Unfortunately, shootings are now so common we tune them out. There are exceptions when the body counts go higher or if there’s something unique about the shooter or the victims.   The aftermath is now also so common that we tune it out. Usually it’s about the guns but I detect that now it’s just […]

This week has felt like a fast movie trailer showing what is now, ubiquitous scenes of machine-human iterations. This has been helped along by the fact that: a. I’ve had a lot of actual dreams at night, b. I’ve watched a lot of movie trailers this week – most of them including odd loops of […]