You may recall my 2018 post about the supply-chain ethics of Toyota light trucks used for militant political destabilization. Basically when technology gets battle-tested with life-and-death results, the optimal tools for the job become somewhat self-evident. If driving around to shoot things is the job, then a light truck (before light electric-motorbikes arrived) repeatedly came … Continue reading American Bemoans “Big Dumb and Blind” Truck Options, Demands Import of Chicken Little Trucks→
In 1993 I worked with some of the world’s best OCR scanners and various text to speech systems, as a volunteer in a program to help blind graduate students. By 1997 I was deploying industry leading speech to text at a major clinical and research hospital…. The technology and subject matter has been familiar to … Continue reading Elon Musk Haunted by His Lies: Begs Judge to Blame Someone Else→
The big question is why Enron, “the most innovative company in America“, ever got caught and held accountable for the thing Elon does constantly: lie and defraud people. …Times story carried a quote from the closing arguments of the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Nicholas Porritt: “This case is about whether rules that apply to everybody else should … Continue reading How Elon Musk Pulls An Enron And Gets Away With It→
As I started my career in computer security in the 1990s I felt like I was quite late to the party; had to catch up to the many experts who brought deep experience over decades of practice. Instead I’ve realized over time that showing up late doesn’t mean that you aren’t also, at the same … Continue reading A Quick Guide to Digital Misinformation→