Tech
President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare
The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets measures designed to mitigate the generation of racial and gender biased content and even hate speech. […]
This Is What Technocracy Actually Looks Like
As everyone learns about technocracy, the management of society by technical experts, or so-called social engineering, it may be difficult to discern when it is being executed. The concept of technocracy has been around since the early 20th century, peaking in the 1930s. But without the advancement of today’s technology, how was technocracy implemented […]
AI Is a Mirror in Which We See Our Own Reflection
AI is not so much a tool that everyone uses in more or less the same way, but a mirror in which we see our own reflection–if we care to look. Attention has been riveted on what AI can do for the three years since the unveiling of ChatGPT, but very […]
A 2025 Assessment: The Emerging Artificial Intelligence Threat
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been alarmingly rapid since 2022. Before then, AI was considered little more than a plaything or a novelty. But now it is transforming businesses, wiping out entire categories of office jobs, and threatening human liberty. The first practical release of the Claude AI code-writing […]
#TBOT 10: Meta’s Content AI Abused By Governments, Police Surveillance at Your Hardware Store, Build Your Own Pay Phone, Private FOSS Keyboard
Watch on Substack Here’s the stories for the week: Meta’s Content AI Abused by Governments: An anonymous group has released the first part of their data leak analysis from Meta’s Integrity Labs. They allege that Meta’s reporting system was abused to minimize discussion around Palestine in the wake of October 7th. […]
Geoengineering and Flights of Fancy
Geoengineering in the form of modifying the weather happens. It can save decimation of farmer livelihoods by mitigating droughts, and it can risk the global food supply by reducing crop growth. Like nuclear fission, it’s useful in the hands of sane people working with the knowledge and assent of the […]
Technocracy is NOT CommunitarianismThe Secrets Behind Matt Odell’s Bitcoin Empire
There has been a noticeable shift in the narrative over what is going on in Washington, DC. I say Technocracy. Others used to say Communism, socialism, or fascism. Now it’s being called Communitarianism. The uptake on this word to mask Technocracy is stunning. It’s unprecedented. It might be that you are […]
AI Is Accelerating the Fourth Turning’s Institutional Meltdown
News headlines are focused on AI innovations. Not so much on the input, but on the output. The good, the bad, and the ridiculously ugly parts. It’s mostly entertainment. They want the spectacle—the robot that will fold their laundry, do the dishes, and guide them to their next best purchase […]
New Drone Rules Will Pave the Way for Starbucks and Amazon Deliveries
“We are going to unleash American drone dominance,” said Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. New Drone Rules Reuters reports US Proposes New Drone Rules May Lead to Starbucks, Amazon Deliveries. The U.S. Transportation Department is proposing new rules to speed deployment of drones beyond the visual line of sight of operators, a […]
To Share Weights from Neural Network Training Is Dangerous
Some organizations and researchers are sharing neural network weights, particularly through the open-weight model movement. These include Meta’s Llama series, Mistral’s models, and DeepSeek’s open-weight releases, which claim to democratize access to powerful AI. But doing so raises not only security concerns, but potentially an existential threat. For background, I have written […]
