If you haven’t heard, yet, the alt-right has a counter movement: “antifa” (anti-fascist), basically anarchists, maybe prone to violence, certainly anti-democratic, much like their enemies, the alt-right
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Mysteries of the Internet: IP Addresses
Published March 9, 2017 in Warp & Woof Mysteries of the Internet: IP Addresses – Where Do They Come From, and Why Should You Care? William Sundwick TCP/IP When the Department of Defense first developed DARPANET, in the late 1960s, it immediately became apparent that all the participating research institutions whose big clunky IBM mainframes,Continue reading “Mysteries of the Internet: IP Addresses”
More Links from 2017
It’s Wall Street, stupid! Queer is real … and, not pejorative! There is physiological intersexuality, and there are many people who are neither XX nor XY binaries, and even among those who are, many different factors contribute to sexual identity.
Link from Politico
Trump’s new VOICE office will collect and publish data on crimes local law enforcement have deemed too trivial for detention, “declined detainers” as ICE calls them, when local authorities decline to detain suspects long enough for ICE to get their hands on them.
Link from Vox
Science journalism has its weaknesses … maybe not fake news, but often sensationalized. Beware!
How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization?
Published March 1, 2017 in Warp & Woof How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization? Personal experience from mid-century America William Sundwick Origins It started in Germany. When Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, acquaintances from a start-up engineering firm, invented a light-weight internal combustion engine (ICE in today’s parlance), they apparently realized thatContinue reading “How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization?”
Link from Autoblog
Silcon Valley getting cold feet about this car making business? Don’t worry, there’s still the Big Data side of auto informatics …
Link from Scientific American
Some science behind political polarization, and manipulation …
Link from Vox
McMasters has a very Clausewitzian view of strategy. It may still be a bit harsh; but, at least it has a firmer grounding in history than the world view of the totally unhinged Bannon!
Link from Vox
Unaware of economic facts, as usual, Trump claims China currency manipulation going in opposite direction from what it has been doing for last two years
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