I know there are other things that we should probably be talking about right now, like the “wall of moms” in Portland or the flood of disinformation headed our way about vote-by-mail, but I feel, for the sake of my sanity, the I need to step back, and write about other stuff for a while. […]
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By Mark | November 21, 2019
I’m seriously overwhelmed at the moment, and I’ve decided to take the night off and watch an episode or two of Columbo. Before I punch out for the night, though, I wanted to share the following excerpt from the opening statement read this morning by Fiona Hill, the former senior director for Russia and Europe […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2016, active measures, conspiracy theories, Crowdstrike, Democratic National Committee, Devin Nunes, DNC, Donald Trump, Fiona Hill, House Intelligence Committee, impeachment, national intelligence, national security, Russia, Russiagate, Ukraine |
By Mark | January 12, 2019
Over the past few days, a reader of this site – a fellow calling himself iRobert – has shared the same link in the comments section several times. It’s a link to an episode of a television program from 1958 starring Robert Culp called Trackdown. Saying that the episode in question, titled “The End of […]
Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1958, border wall, CBS, con man, con men, Death Lends a Hand, Fred Trump, Hoby Gilman, iRobert, Lawrence Dobkin, Old Man Trump, racism, Robert Culp, Talpa, Texas, Texas Ranger, Trackdown, Woody Guthrie |
Last night, as I couldn’t sleep, I decided to see whether or not I could find an episode of Columbo that I’d never seen before streaming on the internet. And I found one that looked promising on YouTube titled “Murder by Natural Causes,” starring Hal Holbrook and Katharine Ross, which I promptly started watching. And […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Bill Fiore, Burt Lancaster, Hal Holbrook, Katharine Ross, Murder by Natural Causes, Peter Falk, Richard Levinson, The Swimmer, William Link |
Last week, when it became public knowledge that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal information of over 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users, allowing the Robert Mercer-owned political consulting firm to build a “psychological warfare weapon” that, according to one of the men involved, existed to exploit the “inner demons” of Americans for political gain, David […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, big data, Bruce Schneier, Cambridge Analytica, Columbia Journalism Review, data, data mining, David Carroll, Donald Trump, Facebook, fake news, Hillary Clinton, NYC Media Lab, Parsons School of Design, privacy, psychographic targeting, psychological warfare, Robert Mercer, threats to Democracy, weaponization of data |
