Regulation and targeted response strategies to fight disinformation worked after FDR took office in 1932, and it’s likely to work again today when someone will muster the national trust of residents ready to take action. Without that kind of popular support, and by instead making conciliation to technology companies, it’s unlikely we’ll see any progress … Continue reading U.S. Fighting DisInformation? Look at 1932 Presidential Election→
“Very nicely done, Davi” — General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret), May 2020 “The mere act of breaking the negro’s chains was the act of Abraham Lincoln…. But the act by which the negro was made a citizen of the United States and invested with the elective franchise was pre-eminently the act of President … Continue reading Hiding Grant’s Tomb in Plain Sight→
All day today on Twitter I was twittering, tweeting, sending twats about the lack of historic perspective in the auto-auto, self-driving, driver-elimination…whatever you want to call this long-time coming vehicle drone industry. Here is a good example: “Control system” was all the rage for terminology in the 1960s, I guess. Must have sounded better back … Continue reading Automobile Control System “Eliminates” the Driver→
After the end of WWII hostilities the U.S. Navy deployed “task forces” all over the world. From the South Pole to the North Pole there were military teams mapping territory, assessing risk and seeking out remnants of opposition. At least a dozen ships with double that many aircraft were assigned to study “techniques” for operation … Continue reading USCG Arctic Shield Operation→