Charlottesville wasn't a standard protest. It was a social blasting cap. An open invitation to a public fist fight between the left and right. A fight orchestrated to create widespread social disruption. A fight the police didn't want to referee. A fight that was allowed to escalate for hours.
Some items of interest:
I recently ran into a European counter-terrorism expert who complained that it was getting very difficult to build a fake profile on Facebook. Every time his team tried to set up a fake profile, it was shut down in less than 24 hours. Here's why he ran into problems.
The Ukrainian SBU now believes that the destruction of arms depot at Balakliya in March that did a billion dollars in damage was carried out by a small drone armed with a thermite grenade.
Six years ago, I floated a business plan, for building a new type of company to building extremely valuable databases. Apparently, it was far more insightful than anticipated. What changed? AIs (more specifically, deep learning/ConvNet).
It's a pretty good bet we're going to see a rise in sea levels (we already have). Here's a good report by the Union of Concerned Scientists with some much needed detail on how it will impact us.
I figured out what I'm going to talk about at the Prime Minister's conference in Singapore next month: the automation of terrorism. Here's the outline of what I'm going to discuss (I already have most of the thinking on this topic already done and the trend is already in motion).
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Mass killings in London, Portland, and Orlando over the last seven days (occurring at an increasing rate). We have categories for each type of attack:
If we examine each category by itself, it's hard to determine any underlying factors common to the attack of that type. Jihadi terrorism has lots of contributing factors.
Here's an indicator that Americans are suffering from deep psychological distress.
Americans are killing themselves in record numbers.
The method of choice? Overdose.
In Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Nietzsche's proclaimed "God is dead, and we have killed him, you and