I just could curse against everything. If you have an urge to curse about something, you can do it here. Every Night.
In German: Ich fühle mich verarscht. Von der Technologie.
So, translate that. Is it 'I feel ripped through/by the technology'?
Interesting take on Eisenhower's farewell address at The American Conservative.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/eisenhowers-farewell-ad...
This was first posted July 31, 2014 at Real Economics as The Higgs boson and the purpose of a republic.
We take it for granted that as technology advances, year after year, we all benefit. Better computers!
Imagine for a moment you were a country isolated, and denied access to technology.
What would you do? You couldn't begin to reinvent technology. That's taken decades of the world's economy funding it to happen. Anything you could do for years would be childlike.
Technology is terrific. Technology is terrible. Or, in a mashup of Dickens with current norms of ahistorical, absolutist proclamations: these are the best of times; these are the worst of times. More accurately, as ecologists have long told us, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Technology is great, but we still gotta eat.
Thanks technology
There are few opportunities for the general public to see The Deep State (TDS), people they influence and tentacles that reach into industry, non-profits and federal agencies. Bernie, Trump, 9/11 and now are a few of the times we have been able to view TDS in real time. The power struggle between CIA, FBI, Department of State and Pentagon has erupted into a non compliant public. I don’t think Congress is a major player anymore.
This one has nothing to do with politics but it does hit my own personal trifecta in that it has a biology element, a photography element and a big nerd element.
Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard.
Morning folks, I wanted to place this wunnerful news in the open thread but I don't see that up yet. So this is just an extract with the link.
I don't judge folks who choose to make use of all the technological devices they are able to. I'd love to have a device that I carried everywhere that allowed me to hook up to the internet at whim, to play games at the drop of a hat, and find directions without having to ask a nearby pedestrian.
Good Morning 99%'ers!
