Did you ever notice that Samsung backwards is GNUsmas.
For you normies out there GNU = GNU is not Unix. Recursive acronym joy!
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Vanity Fair uses too much Axe Body Spray
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A brief discussion on the difficulties of managing interest and work in a variety of outputs. Here I’ll discuss single discipline focus vs the more ‘renaissance man’ approach and ask questions like should you schedule poetry?
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Just some updates about a new posting schedule for The Sketch of Sam Monroe (a novel in progress you can find on my website). Also, I go into a bit of a super informal ramble about one of the themes in that story: ancient civilizations.
Topic Links
9.7 million year old tooth – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/10/21/9-7-million-year-old-teeth-discovery-germany-could-re-write-human-history/787140001/
Graham Hancock – http://grahamhancock.com/
Randall Carlson – https://sacredgeometryinternational.com/
Carlson and Hancock on JRE (featuring Skeptic Magazine’s Michael Shermer) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFlAFo78xoQ
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A catchup vlog where I review topics like policing, surveillance, technology, chat a bit about the storm affecting (effecting? lol always hated this) the southeast and give some updates on upcoming content.
Mr. Reed’s Cop Columns – https://fredoneverything.org/category/cop-colums/
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Public discourse is vital to a free and open society. Effective public discourse faces many challenges. One such challenge is Pundits Disease – moralizing about pet issues from a high tower.
Pundits and commentators whether mainstream or independent tend to be removed from direct involvement in what they are discussing. A position that leads them to cover vague notions more than they do the practical application of those notions.
A huge problem with this trend is that it dwarves huge issues behind a cloud of hot air and trendy topics.
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I ramble about odds and ends and the ongoing importance of raising environmental awareness. I cringe a tad writing that due to the baggage attached to ‘environmental awareness.’ It’s an unfair stigma that really detracts from a pretty sound idea. Taking care of our resources is taking care of ourselves.
I am aware the sound sucks. But re-rendering is another 2+ hours due to hardware limitations. I think its tolerable enough if you turn it up. I don’t ever yell so don’t worry about an ear blow out.
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A pre – powernap ramble about the trend of treating institutions of higher learning like trade schools and the deleterious effects this has.
The video that stirred the thought:
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Dana Goodyear (The New Yorker) recently visited Axon, formerly Taser. I use this story as a springboard for a discussion on policing, surveillance, and citizenship.
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Read the Reed
https://fredoneverything.org/tales-from-the-street-trades-things-you-probably-dont-want-to-know/
https://fredoneverything.org/squad-car-dreams/
https://fredoneverything.org/christmas-in-the-street-trades/
https://fredoneverything.org/test-yourself-in-a-dark-alley/
https://fredoneverything.org/my-biochemistry-made-me-do-it-confessions-of-a-genetic-subroutine/
https://fredoneverything.org/lynching-zimmerman-and-the-coming-race-war-in-america/
https://fredoneverything.org/some-things-detwaddled-cops-race-that-sort-of-tlhings/
https://fredoneverything.org/community-policing-rounds-and-around-and-back-again/
https://fredoneverything.org/racial-profiling-the-view-from-a-squad-car/
A brief overview of some grim realities of the street trades and one companies proposed solution to violence.
The connection between Mr. Reed’s points and The New Yorker article by Mr. Goodyear will become more apparent in later videos.
Apologies for the ‘minimalist’ approach today but I’m pressed for time.
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I review and discuss an article in Vanity Fair about internet luminary Tim Berners-Lee. Who according to livescience.com is responsible for HTML and as far as I understand, the general outline and process of WWW as we know it.
He has always favored decentralization and fears that human rights are threatened by unethical implementations of the technology he helped foster. I discuss some of these issues and his proposed solutions.
Sources
Vanity Fair (Katrina Brookers, August 2018)
https://www.livescience.com/20727-internet-history.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/23/news/la-mo-who-invented-internet-20120723
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