The War on Truth…
GIF Image Source: Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place Blog Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Environment, Existentialism “It’s a Good Life” is the eighth episode of the third season of the American television series The Twilight Zone, and the 73rd overall. It was written by series creator/showrunner Rod Serling, based on the 1953 short story “It’s…
The Audacity of Arrogance…
Topics: African Studies, Civil Engineering, Civilization, Diaspora, History A personal note: I am mandated to drive into my office daily, which for me is a one-hour and ten-minute commute if the traffic is optimal. Two of my colleagues opted to separate from government service as their commutes were two hours for one and two and…
Eugenics…
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Economics, Education, Existentialism Carrie Buck and her mother (left panel) were both labelled as “feebleminded,” shorthand for unintelligent and undesirable. In the 1927 the Supreme Court case, Buck v. Bell, judges endorsed the surgical sterilization of Carrie Buck, who was pregnant due to rape at age 16. Officials at…
Allegory…
Why is Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Still Relevant? Source: A Change For Better Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Civics, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism, Fascism This is another conversation with Claude.ai that I found enlightening. It allows me to experiment with artificial intelligence and pose questions that I hope are carefully thought through, to see how the app…
Likelihood…
Source: https://youtu.be/m9DmPRO4MPQ?si=PEyFXaHMGP2Wb9-j Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Civilization, Existentialism, Philosophy To Claude.ai: “What is the likely outcome of the United States and Israel attacking the nation of Iran on suspicion of having nuclear weapons?” An attack on Iran by the US and Israel would likely have severe and far-reaching consequences across multiple dimensions: **Regional Military Response** Iran…
Equally Terrifying…
Topics: Civilization, Existentialism, Nanoengineering, Philosophy, Quantum Mechanics, Star Trek As an undergraduate Engineering Physics major, science classes disabuse you of notions that science fiction might leave you with. “2001” was released in 1968, the year Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy Sr. were assassinated, the second year of the Star Trek franchise, one…
Convos With Claude…
Image source: University of Central Florida Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Computer Modeling, Computer Science I was intrigued by a Medium article using Claude.ai that posed a question: “You are a member of the United States Senate Budget Committee. Your task is to design a budget for the next ten years that will produce a…
Now What?..
Students enter Harvard Yard, on the university’s main campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Credit: John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not…
Memorials, and Directions…
Topics: African Americans, Civics, Civil Rights, Democracy, Existentialism, Human Rights It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been busy at my federal work, a large part of it after rescinding all previous telework agreements. I am now commuting an hour and ten minutes to and from my work site five days a week, in…
Algebraic Analysis…
Masaki Kashiwara—Abel Prize Laureate 2025. Peter Badge/Typos1/The Abel Prize Topics: Abel Prize, Mathematics, Modern Physics, Research Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis. One of the landmarks of Kyoto, the home of mathematician Masaki Kashiwara, is the Kamo River. At certain points, there are stepping stones…
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