Category Fourth Estate

Kurzweil and decentralized media

I’ve been reading this interview with Ray Kurzweil, a futurist/technologist/scientist who’ve been aware of for a while and whose ideas I am interested in. I lack the depth to fully endorse or innovate or thoroughly critique them, but I think I can take on little bits. In this case, an important tangent where I think [...]

Powell admits complicity in torture, sort of; denies knowing its role with sources of claims he endorsed

…and, oh yeah, he’s still a Republican. Colin Powell was on Face The Nation today. Bob Schieffer lead the interview by asking him first about a recent volley of remarks that one might say started with Powell critizing conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh during Q&A at a cybersecurity conference, as reported by Chris Strohm of Congress [...]

A brief update on my work appearing in attack ads

I’ve yet to receive a response from the Bill Russell campaign, although the promotional graphics for the ads on their home page, which feature frames from the ads that use my photo, have been taken down as of this afternoon. I don’t know if this is a coincidence.  The YouTube ads remain up as of [...]