Update August 3, 2024: This new cartoon is so spot on, it’s like The Onion’s Stan Kelly has been reading my blog. Update November 30, 2023: Elon Musk, after being widely condemned for obvious antisemitism, uses his Swastika platform (formerly known as Twitter) to affirm and spread violent white nationalism. Here’s the key to decode … Continue reading How Racist is Elon Musk?
Virginia Heffernan, writing for Wired, has published an “ideas” piece for the March 2022 issue that calls out the Tesla bot as “a racist phenomenon dating back to the 18th century.” I couldn’t agree more, and in fact am quoted in the article. At least one observer, Davi Ottenheimer, a digital ethics expert, likened the … Continue reading Wired Magazine: “History of Black Androids”
The gap (from empiricists like Austrian philosopher Karl Popper) described in a fun philosophy article about Hegel is exactly why big data security is failing so badly (the book I’ve been writing for a decade). His philosophy was seen as the epitome of a grand metaphysical system purporting to lay out a priori the fundamental … Continue reading Does Hegel’s Philosophy Crack the Big Data Security Nut?
German war history is frequently told incorrectly, obscuring huge waste and a lack of mechanization related to Nazi incompetence. A history book “Mechanized Juggernaut Or Military Anachronism“, for example, is described by its publisher as “myth-busting”: One of the great misconceptions about World War II is the notion that the German Army was a marvel … Continue reading The power of disinformation: “75 percent of the German Army relied on horses” in WWII