Forecasting: AI is Reading & Watching the Actions of its Founders
For the purposes of this green paper, consider “AI” to mean evolutionary artificial neural networks of human and human-error-based artificial design of different levels of complexity that evolve in unpredictable ways due to limited knowledge, entropy, ignorance, tunnel vision, unknown unknowns, coding error, design, hacking, or unforeseen logical twists and turns combined. The use of…
MAGA Quandary: Are The Majority 47’s Boss or Have They Abdicated?
[Above photo: Proud Boys, pardoned by Trump, as seen with one of them with a shirt praising the Nazi’s perpetration of the Holocaust and specifically adopting Hitler’s obsession with blaming the Jewish people.) Chad Loder and one more author. https://archive.today/20201218023157/https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1338985747227930624Fair use. File:Proud Boys wearing shirt with Neo-Nazi slogan 6 Million…
Ideas for Dealing with Drone Threats to U.S. & Allied Paratroopers
As NATO’s new Secretary General lauds airborne capabilities within NATO there are questions and answers about the survivability of airborne troops in the age of anti-personnel drones and increasing swarm capabilities. The issue requires intelligent planning, defense tech innovation, operational innovation, and OODA loop work. As early as 2015 some,…
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense Nominee
The Hang-Chadian Nature of Divorcesque Confirmation Hearings Does Pete Hegseth have the right maturity, experience, character, and personal constitution to be U.S. Secretary of Defense? Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Confirmation Committee argued over whether this particular American son was ready to protect the family estate. Except in this…
Pitch: Tech Firms Should Provide In-Person ID Verification & Related Secure Tech Service
For security of identity, it makes little sense for companies to require people to scan and send official documents proving their ID across servers on the internet to an online company that for whatever reason has flagged online activity or presence as “suspicious.” For one, consider that the company security…
Trump’s rhetorical Greenland spectacle
President-elect Donald Trump, by calling for the effective U.S. purchase or annexation of Greenland, an autonomously-run territory of European NATO ally Denmark, seems to be playing mind games with Copenhagen, yet by so doing does damage to Ukraine, Israel, and NATO in open, obvious benefit to Vladimir Putin and Xi…
Internet Morphs WSJ Article on 2021 IC Differences on Covid-19 Origin into “Cover-up”
Feature photo from China Daily. On Friday December 27th, 2024, the Wall Street Journal published “U.S. Intelligence Review of Origins of Covid-19 Masked Deep Divisions,” (also titled “Behind closed Doors: The Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak”) reporting that the FBI was the only member of the…
The Ouster of Christopher Wray
If President-elect Trump had learned anything since his first term he would have retained Christopher Wray as FBI Director for the duration of Wray’s term. Instead, Trump ousted an effective FBI director who served in the best traditions of the FBI’s national security and law enforcement missions. Specifically Mr. Trump…
Keeping the U.S.A. Out of Foreign Nation State Hands
Here is a historic quote no less true today during attempts to put Kash Patel over the FBI, Tulsi Gabbard over the ODNI, and Pete Hegseth over the Defense Department: “If Russia seizes the West’s secret services, it controls Western policies. If it taps into Western intelligence services, it makes…
Who Has America’s Center of Gravity: The United States of America’s Race for President, 2024
The Center of Gravity of the United States is mostly about who the great majority of Americans really are, deep down, toward others. Deep down, are they about loving their neighbors or hating them? If hatred rules, the United States will fall apart in division and poverty, and our adversaries…