History really does repeat. Just this week a story broke of a man arrested near San Francisco who was inspired by “America First” speeches of foreign-backed agents to plot domestic terror attacks. Napa resident Ian Benjamin Rogers, 44, was taken into custody by federal agents earlier this month following a tip that he was in … Continue reading Dumb as Rocks: How California Caught a WWI German Spymaster
An Interactive Media Bias Chart is well worth taking a close look: This might as well be a graphic representation of someone trying to ride a bicycle. Zachery Tyler explained it succinctly like this: As usual, your best bet for legitimate sources of information is to read the wire services and actual newspapers, such as … Continue reading Bias is Anti-Balance: Consuming Media is Like Riding a Bicycle
Dave Troy provides a long thread on Twitter explaining the roots and objectives of Parler, a technology platform. He also boils it all down to this single Tweet: Non-descript tech bro randomly meets ostensible Russian honeypot, travels to Russia, marries her, then returns to US to start a whacko social network with explicit political aims, … Continue reading The TL;DR on Parler
A new article about the philosopher Wittgenstein’s passion for reading crime stories has an important insight into both the man and his methods, very applicable to recent breach news: That a crime has been committed, [The Maltese Falcon author] Hammett knew, does not necessarily mean that a plan has been carried out. Plotting and scheming … Continue reading SolarWinds Breach is the Rule, Not an Exception