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Trained in engineering and broadcast journalism. I work in audio technology. I play outdoors.
Following an earlier question: Do you foresee audiences of fragmented independent journalists growing due to curators and aggregators moreso than selling your own work "door to door"?
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Following an earlier question: Do you foresee audiences of fragmented independent journalists growing due to curators and aggregators moreso than selling your own work "door to door"?
“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”—Voltaire
But there's an important caveat: They cannot be come too poor, or bad things happen to the rich.
But there's an important caveat: They cannot be come too poor, or bad things happen to the rich.
October 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”—Voltaire
But there's an important caveat: They cannot be come too poor, or bad things happen to the rich.
But there's an important caveat: They cannot be come too poor, or bad things happen to the rich.
Two other times in history countries destroyed their own science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. We're now seeing the third.
I hope the rest of the world appreciates our gift, and shows compassion for us.
[ www.goodreads.com/book/show/90... ]
I hope the rest of the world appreciates our gift, and shows compassion for us.
[ www.goodreads.com/book/show/90... ]
Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelle…
Offers in-depth profiles of the talented Jewish scienti…
www.goodreads.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Two other times in history countries destroyed their own science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. We're now seeing the third.
I hope the rest of the world appreciates our gift, and shows compassion for us.
[ www.goodreads.com/book/show/90... ]
I hope the rest of the world appreciates our gift, and shows compassion for us.
[ www.goodreads.com/book/show/90... ]
I think it's a perfect day for each of us to read aloud the reason the day's a holiday:
[ www.archives.gov/founding-doc... ]
[ www.archives.gov/founding-doc... ]
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Note: The following text is a transcription of the Stone Engraving of the parchment Declaration of Independence (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling a...
www.archives.gov
July 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I think it's a perfect day for each of us to read aloud the reason the day's a holiday:
[ www.archives.gov/founding-doc... ]
[ www.archives.gov/founding-doc... ]
Any violence is really bad optics.
"You have to know who the real audience of the protest is. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, The Congress,etc. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust…"--Peter Coyote
"You have to know who the real audience of the protest is. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, The Congress,etc. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust…"--Peter Coyote
June 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Any violence is really bad optics.
"You have to know who the real audience of the protest is. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, The Congress,etc. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust…"--Peter Coyote
"You have to know who the real audience of the protest is. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the Board of supervisors, The Congress,etc. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they can trust…"--Peter Coyote
We should never forget this eye witness comment from the official Senate record: www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/rem...
McConnell on Impeachment: “Disgraceful Dereliction” Cannot Lead Senate to “Defy Our Own Constitutional Guardrails” | Republican Leader
The official website of the United States Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senator from South Dakota
www.republicanleader.senate.gov
June 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We should never forget this eye witness comment from the official Senate record: www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/rem...
Gig workers being paid pennies per mile who will be given an AI app on their phone (which they have to supply on their own) telling them how to fly the plane.
June 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Gig workers being paid pennies per mile who will be given an AI app on their phone (which they have to supply on their own) telling them how to fly the plane.
A few years ago on Flag Day, I set-up a flag pole with a state flag, beneath a U.S. flag, below a U.N flag, beneath a United Federation of Planets (from Star Trek) flag.
June 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
A few years ago on Flag Day, I set-up a flag pole with a state flag, beneath a U.S. flag, below a U.N flag, beneath a United Federation of Planets (from Star Trek) flag.
But you cannot say the same for a minimum wage worker paying 20% tariffs.
June 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
But you cannot say the same for a minimum wage worker paying 20% tariffs.
If the 1% paid 75% marginal tax:
They wouldn't be homeless, hungry, or lack medical care.
But they'd drive luxury cars, hire domestic help, take international vacations, send their kids to elite private schools, retire to private estates, and contribute to corrupt our elections.
They wouldn't be homeless, hungry, or lack medical care.
But they'd drive luxury cars, hire domestic help, take international vacations, send their kids to elite private schools, retire to private estates, and contribute to corrupt our elections.
June 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
If the 1% paid 75% marginal tax:
They wouldn't be homeless, hungry, or lack medical care.
But they'd drive luxury cars, hire domestic help, take international vacations, send their kids to elite private schools, retire to private estates, and contribute to corrupt our elections.
They wouldn't be homeless, hungry, or lack medical care.
But they'd drive luxury cars, hire domestic help, take international vacations, send their kids to elite private schools, retire to private estates, and contribute to corrupt our elections.
The USA had well below the rate of inflation averaged around the world in the wake of the pandemic-induced supply-chain disruptions. That was not a self-inflicted wound unlike the arbitrary tariffs applied by the 47th president, which amount to a regressive tax hurting low-income folks the most.
June 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The USA had well below the rate of inflation averaged around the world in the wake of the pandemic-induced supply-chain disruptions. That was not a self-inflicted wound unlike the arbitrary tariffs applied by the 47th president, which amount to a regressive tax hurting low-income folks the most.
But they could still drive luxury cars, hire domestic help, vacation internationally, send their children to elite private schools, retire to private estates, and make the kind of campaign contributions that corrupt our elections.
Not so for a minimum wage worker paying 20% tariffs.
Not so for a minimum wage worker paying 20% tariffs.
June 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
But they could still drive luxury cars, hire domestic help, vacation internationally, send their children to elite private schools, retire to private estates, and make the kind of campaign contributions that corrupt our elections.
Not so for a minimum wage worker paying 20% tariffs.
Not so for a minimum wage worker paying 20% tariffs.
If the 1% paid a 75% marginal income tax:
They wouldn't be homeless, go hungry, or suffer lack of medical care.
They wouldn't be homeless, go hungry, or suffer lack of medical care.
June 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If the 1% paid a 75% marginal income tax:
They wouldn't be homeless, go hungry, or suffer lack of medical care.
They wouldn't be homeless, go hungry, or suffer lack of medical care.
American conservatives pine for the days about which Charles Dickens wrote.
May 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
American conservatives pine for the days about which Charles Dickens wrote.
Oh good. You caught my sarcasm.
April 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Oh good. You caught my sarcasm.
I am not likely to ever support the death penalty until science makes it reversible in the event of error or injustice.
April 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I am not likely to ever support the death penalty until science makes it reversible in the event of error or injustice.
Privatization of a public service or resource is never in the public interest. But what you will see, whenever and wherever it happens, is some scoundrel making out like a bandit.
April 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Privatization of a public service or resource is never in the public interest. But what you will see, whenever and wherever it happens, is some scoundrel making out like a bandit.
"A just educational system is not one where a few of the poor are privileged enough to enter elite private schools, but one where the public schools are good enough that even the rich will attend them."--Marianne Huusko, Finnish minister of education
April 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
"A just educational system is not one where a few of the poor are privileged enough to enter elite private schools, but one where the public schools are good enough that even the rich will attend them."--Marianne Huusko, Finnish minister of education
If you can track it, an automated system can probably launch a projectile at it. It could be that tech already exists given that glue-filled paint balls have been around as a drone countermeasure since the early 1990s.
April 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If you can track it, an automated system can probably launch a projectile at it. It could be that tech already exists given that glue-filled paint balls have been around as a drone countermeasure since the early 1990s.
Years ago, some private security company in LA invented a paintball round that shout glue to attack paparazzi drones monitoring celebrity residences. Apparently, they worked pretty well.
April 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Years ago, some private security company in LA invented a paintball round that shout glue to attack paparazzi drones monitoring celebrity residences. Apparently, they worked pretty well.
It worries me more that they might know exactly what they're doing, and it is diametrically opposed to what the majority of us want done.
April 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It worries me more that they might know exactly what they're doing, and it is diametrically opposed to what the majority of us want done.