Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Bridges are built with a factor of safety. Reactors have containment margins. Aircraft carry load limits written into law before anything flies. The most consequential technology of this century has no such margin at all. It has arguments: open letters, summit panels, and the word ‘hoax’ typed in capitals. It has nothing you can calculate. ...
A major Linux kernel and driver upgrade cycle provides an excellent opportunity to align system configurations with hardware capabilities. Operating system defaults are typically engineered for broad compatibility, which often leaves significant performance and efficiency on the table. Following a major platform transition—such as upgrading to the Linux 7.0 kernel and installing updated graphics drivers—a ...
It is tempting to talk about COVID as if it were a chapter we have closed. A horrible few years, then a return to “normal”. But that framing feels increasingly wrong to me. The pandemic was not only an acute crisis; it was a forcing function that pushed institutions, companies, and individuals into rapid adaptation. ...
Humanity has always lived in the shadow of its own ingenuity. Every leap in technological power has widened the gap between what we can do and what we can wisely control. Today, that ancient asymmetry has become the defining tension of our age. We are accelerating into a future shaped by artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, ...
What is power? The word appears everywhere. We speak of political power, purchasing power, horsepower, electrical power, power of attorney, statistical power. Each domain offers its own technical definition shaped by its particular concerns. But is there something fundamental beneath these variations? Something that unifies them? Rather than cataloguing the many meanings of power across ...
🎬 Introduction: A Society on the Brink In an age defined by speed, noise, and digital saturation, the ability to think critically is quietly vanishing. This video offers a sobering exploration of what happens when a society surrenders its intellectual independence—not through ignorance, but through passive acceptance. The original video is here – full credits ...
I’ve been searching for the last 5 years for an economical very small microwave oven. This is something I could use when working out of hotels. Well, I gave up on the search. But not easily. I even explored trying to build with my own hands, a small microwave by taking component parts from second ...
This article is not designed to be a book review. I have not read the whole book as yet: “The Manipulated Man” by Esther Vilar. Of course, you never heard of her. Who cares! To learn less do not read Wikipedia. I have read several parts of the book and will complete it soon. This ...
I only found out today about this major cover up in the history of the world. I’m like “How on earth can one cover up a major nuclear disaster?!” If you have other more important things to do, like bathing dogs and watering plants then do that first. Introduction In the annals of nuclear history, ...
The topic is a very big one. It is about how people repeat actions that lead to futility. If you don’t know what futility means find a dictionary and read up. If you can’t read, what are you doing here? Futility But what is futility? It is not just a hopeless situation. My classic example ...
‘Everybody’ knows about the strengths in human nature! By ‘everybody‘ I mean a majority of people. In any event ‘everybody’ uses the term ‘everybody’ – or ‘not everybody’ conveniently – so I’m using the term. And – I don’t give a monkeys whether I know ‘everybody’ – and I don’t! So – instead, I’ve focused ...
Today I have ultra-conclusive evidence that email and e-correspondence is a risk to the survival of the human race! Some see email as different to text on websites and social media platforms. It isn’t! Why? Because both are text-based information sent by electronic means, and put in places for people to read. Tough – I’m ...
I sometimes become despondent about the human race – for a number of reasons. I think to myself, that people of average intelligence surely must be able to read, understand, and apply some logic to what’s going on. Surely that sort of activity is what differentiates us from all other animal lifeforms on this planet. ...
The Cap has recently become disturbed by events in history – those related to Auschwitz. Mention of the word usually means that 80% of people switch off. After all who wants to read about atrocities committed on Jews etc. I know – people have better more pleasant things to do, than become depressed reading about ...
What is attitude? Where and how does it arise? What is it’s power? Does it have power? What is power? A power is anything that has influence over our being. So I have the power to direct myself to type this, therefore I am in power at this point. If the door bell rings then ...
This issue is explored extensively in certain Sci-Fi movies – and immediately many will have clicked on some other link, ruled by System 1 thinking. Those blessed with an innate or acquired portion of System 2 thinking may stay on a bit longer. Sci-Fi is only a stage upon which we can explore issues that ...
See below. There are translation errors. Syrie Synthese Nationale de Renseignement Declassifie 02-09-2013 English Translation by Using Google by Captain Walker
There is now little doubt that chemical weapons have been used in Syria. The Americans at this time say they ‘know’ that these weapons have been used by those allied to the Assad Regime, based on their evidence. The Russians say the evidence doesn’t prove that. Cameron was defeated in Parliament on a motion to ...
I’ve just come across an interesting situation. When I tell you about it, you may not find it surprising. In fact I don’t find it surprising either. But this is one of those things, where you know it happens without the hard evidence – well, now I have the hard evidence. Here goes. Through my ...
This is an amazing story! STOP EVERYTHING: Don’t go to the toilet..don’t walk that dog…don’t go to the grocery…don’t phone that friend! This is a tragic tale of how a judge of international repute ends up in jail – for attempting to tell a little fib. "Marcus Einfeld, the judge in question, was certainly of ...
It was 00:30 2008-09-13 – when I decided to start writing this. Crazy? So what. I’ve been thinking about what changes people’s minds about things. For example what changes your mind about accepting something, believing something or doing something. Why the heck am I interested in that? Because of my statement that “The human mind ...
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