Going Dark The Facebook (FB) forum has come to be the dominate watering hole for the social media. I “went dark” for three months because of the high volume of senseless pandering of political views and the incessant targeted marketing of unwanted products aimed to my viewing habits. No one missed me… Ha! I found some peace. FB is as annoying as cable TV in its dominating data mining of it’s viewers habits. Both now...
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Experience 70
My 70th birthday is in a few days. I used to think that was old age. Now I know it is. But that’s OK of course, as it beats not getting or being there. Time and age advance with nothing I can do about it, I notice I complain more about the things I cannot control. That’s a privilege of age and should use it wisely. I am going to have to pay attention and...
Continue reading...The Evil Empire is Here
The “Star Wars” fantasy evil empire exists. Not exactly in the form presented in the movies. The evil empire has the sign “WWW”. Yes, the World Wide Web and the internet data system. The epic battle scenes are in cyberspace rather than outer space. On the surface, the empire presents itself to most people as a doer of much good. But it also has a very dark side. A very, very dark side. There is...
Continue reading...Bad Science
The public knowledge is being overrun and polluted by bad science in the name of entertainment. I am seeing it everywhere and although I can recognize it for what it is, I believe there may be a great number of people, especially our developing youth who don’t recognize it. The entertainment almost always starts out with a “what if?” or “perhaps” and then a “maybe then…” The producers are very careful to not say what...
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