There seems to be a lot of similarity, yet a very notable difference, between social media ethics headlines from fifteen years ago and today. Yahoo was in big trouble in 2007: Yahoo Inc’s chief executive was verbally lashed by U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday over the Internet company’s role in helping identify a Chinese dissident who … Continue reading How Yahoo in 2007 was Like Facebook in 2021
Early in my political science studies at Macalester college I remember vividly my professor arguing America promotes football because it legitimizes displacing human rights by celebrating machine-like boxes of industrialized (minimal judgment/power) behaviors… a memory I’ve hinted at before on this blog in 2007. Instead of continuous movement of humans free to learn and achieve … Continue reading What is So American About American Football?
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?
By John Greenleaf Whittier Atlantic Monthly, September 1858 The massacre of unarmed and unoffending men in Southern Kansas took place near the Marais du Cygne of the French voyageurs. A blush as of roses Where rose never grew! Great drops on the bunch-grass, But not of the dew! A taint in the sweet air For … Continue reading Le Marais du Cygne