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Getting it wrong on recycling
Getting it wrong on recycling Let’s see what those disparaging America’s rate of recycling as “too high” either get completely wrong or fail to understand. You can read recent commentary suggesting that the recycling rate is too high here, here and here. The number one complaint is that it costs more to recycle some categories of waste than to […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part V
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part V Before we proceed any further in describing how political technologies can be used to bring about the sort of dramatic social change that might grant humanity a new lease on life on planet Earth, let’s describe what “naturelike technologies” might look like. By “naturelike” we mean something that is in […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part IV
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part IV In the previous parts of this series, we started picking away at a very big subject: what a successful strategy for bringing about rapid social change would look like, such social change being necessary if we were to avoid the worst ravages of catastrophic climate change. This change must introduce […]
Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death
Drones, IBM, and the Big Data of Death LAST WEEK The Intercept published a package of stories on the U.S. drone program, drawing on a cache of secret government documents leaked by an intelligence community whistleblower. The available evidence suggests that one of the documents, a study titled “ISR Support to Small Footprint CT Operations — Somalia/Yemen,” was produced for the […]
Snowden leaks reveal harmfulness of US monopoly on internet – Russian minister
Snowden leaks reveal harmfulness of US monopoly on internet – Russian minister Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Nikolai Nikiforov © Vitaliy Belousov / RIA Novosti The NSA’s mass surveillance would not be possible if the internet wasn’t controlled by just a few major US companies, Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia’s communications minister, […]
The Downsides of Cheap Abundance
The Downsides of Cheap Abundance Having “a lot” is not necessarily a good thing. (Photo: Public domain) In college, Economics 101 is often described as the social science discipline that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. MIT Economist Paul Samuelson liked to focus on scarcity, or more specifically, the allocation […]
He’s told us not to blow it
He’s told us not to blow it Hopefully you’ve seen the recent movie, The Martian, a film directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from the online book by Andy Weir. If you have not seen the movie or read the book, both of which I highly recommend, there will be some spoilers for the movie in this […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part III
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part III [Part I] [Part II] Previously in this series of posts we outlined how inside the US special interests use political technologies to keep the population fooled. We also showed how these efforts will eventually fail, either through internal contradiction or because the parasites eventually end up killing the host. We […]
“This is No Longer Fiction” – The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here
“This is No Longer Fiction” – The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here Whenever cryptographer and computer security specialist Bruce Schneier issues a warning about something, I pay close attention. What follows are excerpts from a recent piece he wrote for Forbestitled, The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here: ID checks were a common response […]
How America’s Modern Shadow Government Can Be Traced Back to One Very Evil Man – Allen Dulles
How America’s Modern Shadow Government Can Be Traced Back to One Very Evil Man – Allen Dulles Allen Dulles, the CIA director under presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the younger brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and the architect of a secretive national security apparatus that functioned as essentially an autonomous branch of government. […]
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part II [Part I] Political technologies have three main goals: 1. Changing the rules of the game between participants in the political process. 2. Introducing into the mass consciousness new concepts, values, opinions and convictions. 3. Direct manipulation of human behavior through mass media and administrative methods. Political technologies pursue these tactical […]
Did the European Court of Justice Just Torpedo the Mother of All US Trade Agreements?
Did the European Court of Justice Just Torpedo the Mother of All US Trade Agreements? Europe’s already rocky trading relationship with the U.S. just got a whole lot worse. Thanks to one young man’s battle against one of the world’s biggest tech companies, data traffic underpinning the world’s largest trading relationship has been thrown into […]
‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality
‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality “The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make […]
You Call this Progress?
You Call this Progress? One of the prevailing narratives of our time is that we are innovating our way into the future at break-neck speed. It’s just dizzying how quickly the world around us is changing. Technology is this juggernaut that gets ever bigger, ever faster, and all we need to do is hold on […]
The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech
The Pentagon Creates Partnership with Apple to Develop Wearable Tech Last week, in the post JP Morgan Hires Recently Retired U.S. General, Raymond T. Odierno, I made the following observation: How can you ensure that the interests of TBTF Wall Street mega banks and the military-intelligence-industrial complex remain aligned? Create a revolving door of course. Of course […]
