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Saturday, August 26, 2023
Fwd: TRUMP'S FINGERPRINT
Tired of Trump yet? No?
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Friday, August 25, 2023
The Amaze-ing Debate
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Pro-Life: Live now, die later.
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Stifle it
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
America's Mayor
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Numerical inferiority
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
The school of DeSanctimonious
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Monday, August 21, 2023
The New Yorker: Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
The New Yorker Daily Newsletter
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
The meddling of oligarchs in the fate of nations is not new. But Elon Musk's current influence on global affairs is especially "brazen and expansive." As Ronan Farrow explains in a deeply reported story from this week's issue, Musk's SpaceX is currently the sole means by which NASA transports crew from U.S. soil into space. The government's plan to move the auto industry toward electric cars requires increasing access to charging stations, many of which are owned by another Musk enterprise, Tesla. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military has relied on Musk's Starlink mobile Internet terminals for communications in its fight against Russia. "We are living off his good graces," a Pentagon official said, of Musk's role in the war. "That sucks."
We asked Farrow what his biggest misapprehension about Musk had been before he began reporting the story. "As someone who had followed news about Elon Musk fairly casually, I don't think I'd registered just how exposed he is," Farrow said. "There is little truly new to observe about one of the world's most observed people. But I also hadn't—and I think most people haven't—reckoned with just how pervasive and consequential his influence is. I didn't know that Musk is not just advancing technology but shaping the outcome of wars and policy debates."
Farrow added that it is easy to become distracted by the flurry of strange news and controversies that Musk invites and incites. "For all the arresting details about him, say, using ketamine and speaking with the Kremlin, I was in the end less transfixed by Musk and more by what his influence shows us about the systems around him," he said. "There's a lot to learn here about the consequences of extreme capitalism and the way in which declining state investment in important areas of progress has empowered private entities to fill new spaces—with consequences both positive and dangerous."
As for one additional takeaway, Farrow noted, "It must be said: the man has sophisticated taste in video games."
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Marion County RECORD | Newspaper from Marion KS | Aug. 16, 2023
http://marionrecord.com/?display+chilling_video_shows_raid_on_98_year_old_newspaper_co_owner_s_home+5448video+4368696c6c696e6720766964656f2073686f77732072616964206f6e2039382d796561722d6f6c64206e657773706170657220636f2d6f776e6572277320686f6d65
Chilling video shows raid on 98-year-old newspaper co-owner's home
Video released Monday reveals the frustation experienced by 98-year-old
Marion County Record co-owner Joan Meyer during during a nearly two-hour
search of her home Aug. 11 by Marion police and Marion County sheriff's
deputies.
Meyer, still reeling from the effects, died 24 hours later of sudden
cardiac arrest. An official coroner's report lists the anxiety and anger
she experienced as a contributing cause of her death. After the Kansas
Bureau of Investigation intervened, the search was ruled unjustified
five days later.
The video, one of 82 captured on her security cameras, starts one and a
half hours into police presence, which she found intolerable, at her
home and ends at the point when police pulled the plug on her Internet
connection.
At the beginning of the video, she asks her Alexa smart speaker to call
her son, Eric Meyer, the paper's other owner and editor and publisher.
He had left to go to the newspaper office, where employees had been
ejected by police and were forced to stay outside during a heat
advisory. In the background, Eric Meyer's cell phone can be heard
ringing. It already had been seized by police.
Seized items were turned over to the newspaper's attorney Wednesday and
gradually are being returned after being checked by a forensic expert to
determined what police might illegally have accessed. As of this
writing, four computers, two hard drives, and router still have not been
returned.
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Chilling video shows raid on 98-year-old newspaper co-owner's home
Video released Monday reveals the frustation experienced by 98-year-old
Marion County Record co-owner Joan Meyer during during a nearly two-hour
search of her home Aug. 11 by Marion police and Marion County sheriff's
deputies.
Meyer, still reeling from the effects, died 24 hours later of sudden
cardiac arrest. An official coroner's report lists the anxiety and anger
she experienced as a contributing cause of her death. After the Kansas
Bureau of Investigation intervened, the search was ruled unjustified
five days later.
The video, one of 82 captured on her security cameras, starts one and a
half hours into police presence, which she found intolerable, at her
home and ends at the point when police pulled the plug on her Internet
connection.
At the beginning of the video, she asks her Alexa smart speaker to call
her son, Eric Meyer, the paper's other owner and editor and publisher.
He had left to go to the newspaper office, where employees had been
ejected by police and were forced to stay outside during a heat
advisory. In the background, Eric Meyer's cell phone can be heard
ringing. It already had been seized by police.
Seized items were turned over to the newspaper's attorney Wednesday and
gradually are being returned after being checked by a forensic expert to
determined what police might illegally have accessed. As of this
writing, four computers, two hard drives, and router still have not been
returned.
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Sunday, August 20, 2023
Donald Trump: ‘It’s a witch hunt!’ – cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/aug/19/donald-trump-its-a-witch-hunt-cartoon#comment-164033108
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Pay attention!
A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
I need more time ... er ... more delay
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Friday, August 18, 2023
"Only don't tell me that you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence ... and it makes me very angry."
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
warrantless and warranted
In Marion, KS, this happened to a newspaper run by Eric Meyer, no relation, but somebody with whom I went to journalism school. Quite a stir for a town of about 2,000 a short distance down the Yellow Brick Road from Smallville ...
And elsewhere on the planet ...
And elsewhere on the planet ...
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A NASA software engineer for 23 years (retired), Silicon Valley software engineer for 36+years, Egyptology hobbyist and ARCE-NC board of directors member for more than 25 years, reporter and copy editor for the Kansas City Star and Louisville Courier-Journal for 6 years. Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alpha, Heritage Registry of Who's Who. I favor open source development, Linux, net neutrality, medical care as a right and not a privilege, the ACLU, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech.
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