The military is being trained (for the first time in decades) how to manage without computers.
This is good, not just as a defense against cyber attacks, but because it will give them a lot more insight. Even when I started my career in aerospace, I worried that young people were being too confident in computer output, without understanding the fundamentals sufficiently to know whether or not it made sense.
“Washington has laid all the ugly cards out on the table, and at last we have clarity.”
What a scene it presents. On the one hand is a group of people who think America is the source of all evil that should spend the rest of its historical existence atoning for the mischief it has loosed in the world. On the other hand is a group who believe that for all its faults it is the greatest country in the world and that those who want to destroy it should go back to Somalia. Whichever point of view you subscribe to (or neither) it’s hard to deny that these factions have existed for some time and are only now coming to grips in the open.
Yes.
[Update a while later]
Trump is not a racist: He’s just moving the Overton Window back to normal.
…are turning their kids into cyborgs.
This will be a big breakthrough for a lot of people, though (as with all tech advances) it will have its downsides.
A history of the Siege of Vienna.
How do we get them to obey traffic laws?
I almost hit a guy in my neighborhood this week driving Patricia to the bus stop. I was in a four-way stop intersection, about to pull out, when I catch him coming from the left out of the corner of my eye. He didn’t even slow down for the stop sign, let alone stop. It would have been Darwinian if I’d hit him, but I’d still feel terrible.
Two new studies indicate that, for practical purposes, it doesn’t exist.
Thoughts on identity politics versus reductionist politics.
As someone who is often called a racist because I disagree about a policy issue, I am enjoying the hell out of Nancy having the race card pulled on her.
It could happen to a town near you.
I could understand why Nancy left Los Angeles, but not why she moved to Portland.
…and their pre-traumatic-stress syndrome.
These people are certainly full of themselves.
Meanwhile, are we or are we not heading for a grand solar minimum?
An interesting interview of some non-woke feminists.