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Mueller indicts Russian trolls, laying the groundwork for the next phase of his investigation

By Mark | February 16, 2018

Earlier today, we learned that, in addition to porn star Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump was also having an affair with Playboy “Playmate of the Year” Karen McDougal back in 2006, in the months just after our First Lady, Melania Trump, gave birth to their son Barron. Furthermore, we got confirmation that McDougal, like Daniels, had […]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 018/02/16/world/europe/prigozhin-russia-indictment-mueller.html">the oligarch Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, affairs, Anti-Corruption Foundation, assault weapons, Auction Essistance, Barron Trump, Birthers, Cambridge Analytica, cheating, collusion, cum, cybersecurity, David Axelrod, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, election hacking, election meddling, Facebook, FBI, Florida, gun control, gun laws, guns, Hillary Clinton, identity theft, Internet Research Agency, James Comey, Jill Stein, John Brennan, Karen McDougal, Mark Warner, Melania Trump, obstruction of justice, oligarchs, Pam Bondi, Playmate of the Year, Playmates, race, racism, Richard Pinedo, Robert Mueller, Roberty Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, sanctions, school shooting, semen, sex scandals, social media, Stormy Daniels, The Godfather, The Translator Project, treason, Twitter, Vladimir Putin, who funded Russia's Internet Research Agency, witch hunt, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin | 181 Comments

U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant

By Mark | January 8, 2014

A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering undergraduate Beverly Chou (seen below accepting the award from A2 Awesome founder Lisa Dengiz) to help fund the launch of an event that she and fellow students are calling Makeathon. After our meeting, I took the […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized | Also tagged 3D printing, A2Awesome, art & design, Awesome Foundation, Beverly Chou, collaboration, College of Creative Studies, competitions, Detroit, entrepreneurship, Facebook, hackathons, Hardware Hacks, IDEO, interdisciplinary, kids today, Lisa Dengiz, Makeathon, makers, making stuff, mechanical engineering, micro-philanthropy, MIT, MPowered, produce design, students, Sydney Bigelow, TechShop Detroit, University of Michigan | 5 Comments

Will self-interested corporations succeed where privacy advocates have failed, and force a roll back of online government spying?

By Mark | December 10, 2013

On Monday morning, the world’s leading online technology companies – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL – launched a coordinated campaign against online government spying. Saying that it’s, “time for the world’s governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information,” the CEOs of […]

Posted in Civil Liberties | Also tagged AOL, Apple, big data, Edward Snowden, Facebook, internet, internet business, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Mozilla, NSA, privacy, ReformGovernmentSurveillance.com, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, Twitter, Yahoo | 8 Comments

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden comes clean on why he turned over classified government documents to the press, just how much the intelligence community knows about us, and what his actions will likely cost him

By Mark | June 9, 2013

Earlier today, the identity of last week’s much-talked-about National Security Agency whistleblower was made public. His name is Edward Snowden, and he’s a former technical assistant for the CIA, who, most recently, worked for the NSA through the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d highly recommend that you watch […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged Booz Allen Hamilton, Bradley Manning, Bush, China, Constitution, Courage, Dianne Feinstein, domestic spying, Edward Snowden, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, espionage, Espionage Act, Facebook, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Glenn Greenwald, Microsoft, Nathan Hale, national security, National Security Agency, NSA, Obama, PalTalk, Patriot Act, patriotism, PRISM, privacy, Protect America Act, Skype, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, telecommunications, threats to Democracy, treason, Verizon, War on Terror, whistle blower, Yahoo, YouTube | 43 Comments

Guilty until proven innocent in the age of ubiquitous electronic surveillance

By Mark | June 6, 2013

Upon taking office, President Obama issued a memorandum on the subject of transparency: “My Administration,” he said, “is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency […]