People have asked me lately if I’ve seen news footage of the giant symbol erected haphazardly atop Twitter headquarters in SF. Yes, yes, I tell them. I sometimes watch it getting destroyed by the U.S. Army just to cheer me up. Oh, they say they did Nazi that coming. Twitter’s ‘X’ sign is taken down … Continue reading Twitter’s “X” Design Based on Nazi Swastika →

The Ukrainian and Russian approaches to war could not be more opposite. Learning and innovating, creating and maintaining, Ukrainians are showing off four colonial-era Maxim machine guns (made famous in WWI) turned into a quad anti-drone machine. Ukrainians are thinking hard, and working hard in measurable ways. It has signs of long-view sustainable effeminacy. Russia … Continue reading What Could Be More Steampunk Than A Ukrainian Maxim Machine Gun Quad Shooting Down Iranian Drones? →

Here are the four drivers cited in the 2020 Foreign Affairs article “How a Great Power Falls Apart: Decline Is Invisible From the Inside”. Amalrik identified four drivers of this process. One was the “moral weariness” engendered by an expansionist, interventionist foreign policy and the never-ending warfare that ensued. Another was the economic hardship that … Continue reading Amalrik’s Recipe for Great Power Decline →

This (draft) post basically comes after reading one called “The Feds Got the Sony Hack Right, But the Way They’re Framing It Is Dangerous” by Robert Lee. Lee stated: At its core, the debate comes down to this: Should we trust the government and its evidence or not? But I believe there is another view … Continue reading Gov Fumbles Over-Inflated Sony Hack Attribution Ball →