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Monthly Archives: June 2025
Ukraine and God
I am reproducing a Ukrainian essay which I found highly moving but also a lesson of how war can push you to your God, rather than push your belief away.
Posted in anthropocene
Tagged aggression, beliefs, cruelty, faith, feeling alone, God, grief, hate, injustice, loss, love, pain, peace, sovereign state, suffering, ukraine, war
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Iran’s dream of democracy once oil was discovered
This was the ceremonial and spiritual capital of a vast empire, built by Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, titans whose names still echo through history. Giant statues of winged bulls guard the Gate of All Nations, through which princes from vassal … Continue reading
Growth by negation
Some extracts from this book: This book will haunt you if you are already perplexed about the pain and suffering in the world. It is an honest realisation of a hopeful young person learning about capitalism, which he ultimately coins … Continue reading
Posted in anthropocene
Tagged capitalism, cowardice, do no harm, greed, growth, hate, innovation, legacy, responsibility, technology, trade
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Joining the dots
I am reproducing a Substack article here, relevant to technology applications and their Corporate owner politics of the present day:
DOT-COM to AI: Investor hysteria
Dot – Com began 1995. PSI-net went public. It was one of the first internet providers. Bill Schrader was co founder of PSI-net. By July of that year, he was worth $105 million. By 2001, PSINet had declared bankruptcy. The … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, bankruptcies, betting, dot-com, false dawn, financial mistakes, greed, hype, Internet, investors, naive expectations, overconfidence, quick buck, technology
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Technological progress could have saved the planet
I never knew, until I read Kara Swisher’s ‘Burn Book’, that Al Gore, when senator of Tennessee, played a key role which birthed the Internet. As a senator from Tennessee, Gore crafted and pushed through the “High Performance Computing and … Continue reading
Humanity with and without Empathy
If you are fortunate to have been born with a neurotypical brain, you will have developed empathy, an important component for interacting with other life forms, sensing what they might be thinking, using an amazing set of tools provided by … Continue reading
Military Drone Development: Heralding permanent war?
Drones are ubiquitous now, but a relevant military use timeline can be found, which is relevant to the previous technology blogs: What we do know is that modern drone warfare began in earnest in 1982, when Israel coordinated the use … Continue reading
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Tagged CIA, death, destruction, drone technology, intelligence gathering, israel, military strategy, permanent war, targeted killings, timeline
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