The new cranky privacy report from Mozilla on car data is a useful point in time analysis… unmoored from the past and lacking suggestions for what to do in the future. Give it a read and ask yourself when things will change and why. I am reminded of my 2019 blog post about 2012 research: … Continue reading Mozilla Says Car Data is Unsafe, Like It’s 2012 Again
On April 28, 2016 Time gobbled up SpaceX lies. …you should pay attention to the April 27 announcement from Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, that he intends to launch his first unmanned Mars mission in just two years and will beat NASA’s goal of putting astronauts on the surface in the 2030s … Continue reading SpaceX Announces Time Machine to Reach Mars by 2018
An impressively astute book review has been published on Defector. He welcomes the return of a space race, not between rival superpowers, but between capitalists indulging in healthy competition “like that of the railway barons a century earlier.” This is fatuous in a familiar way, but also wrong: The American railway boom was 150 years … Continue reading Fatuous Howler: Elon Musk Biography by Isaacson “misleading and even flat wrong”
First, let’s just get out of the way that white South African children exposed to horribly racist Apartheid lies were raised to believe Black people should never be allowed to keep private thoughts. Inside South Africa, riots, boycotts, and protests by black South Africans against white rule had occurred since the inception of independent white … Continue reading Neuralink “Exploration” Based on Apartheid Torture of Captives to Death