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James O'Keefe
husband, father, son, grandson, Quality Assurance engineer, youth soccer coach, Pirate Party activist, and two time candidate for Treasurer of Massachusetts
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- So tired I am forgetting to log how long I sleep.
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- Too much to do, but sleep is what I need most.
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- Apr 04, 13
Iain (M.) Banks announced yesterday that he has terminal bladder cancer and has less than a year to live. In less than a day 3800 people (including me) signed his guest book/condolence page. Had he announced three days ago during April Fools Day, I would have had a chuckle and rubbed my hands in anticipation of the many more novels he would gift to us. Sadly that joke was not to be.
I finished Against a Dark Background in February, and The Hydrogen Sonata shortly after it came out in October of last year. These two novels brought the number of his books I have read to eleven, which is probably the most of any other author I have read. By far it is his Culture novels I adore.
For me, his Culture novels describe a post-scarcity anarcho-communist society where everyone can choose his, her or its own purpose and is able to live a full, rich life of play. A short fan video directed by Jon Rennie goes far in describing what that life is like:
In our current world of violence, austerity and inequality, the future the Culture offers is immensely liberating.
Certainly the Culture is guided by its Minds, the god-like artificial intelligences (AI) who are fond of their generally mentally and logically inferior pan-human and drone fellow citizens and wish to keep such "interesting companions" around. One cannot ignore the Culture's (or is it the Mind's) propensity to meddle in the affairs of other societies less technologically advanced than they are either overtly or covertly via its Special Circumstances adhoc grouping. All for the good of course.
That the Culture has contradictions and problems is evident in his novels and certainly what makes them interesting stories. Banks has not crafted a perfect utopia, even if it is a desirable one.
Sadly no one has adaptated any of Banks' science fiction novels for film or tv, though some have talked of it. The complexity of the stories and their many characters make it difficult to adapt, certainly. His first two Culture novels, Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games are probably the ones that could be most easily adapted. Perhaps some enterprising person will write a screen play for them and ask for funding on Kickstarter. I would certainly give to such an endeavor.
Banks' impending demise will prevent us from reading future books from his pen. Yet there is no reason others should not be allowed to create in his sandbox. Let his wife and family have the books he created for the next seventy years (the term of copyright in the US). By opening up the worlds and galaxies he created for others to use and adapt, he would give us a truly wonderful gift.
- Mar 02, 13
Posted this at masspirates.org on 2/27/2013.
Yesterday the Supreme Court killed our 4th Amendment right to privacy on-line. In a 5-4 vote, they ruled that the ACLU and other plaintiffs did not have standing to bring their case challenging the FISA Amendments Act that allowed warrantless wiretapping. Since they concluded that “a fear of surveillance does not give rise to standing” and such warrantless government surveillance is secret, no one can challenge the Constitutionality of such surveillance. This Catch-22 is a recipe for unchecked government power.
We now know that the NSA’s secret domestic intelligence program has a name: Ragtime. According to a new book, Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry, about three dozen NSA officials have access to Ragtime’s surveillance data. Additionally, a small number of people in the NSA’s general counsel’s office review the list of citizens surveilled to make sure they have connections to al-Qaeda. While Ragtime may only be able to process 50 different data sets at one time, the facility that the NSA is building in Utah will likely increase that number as well as allow the NSA to store larger amounts of our communications for increasingly longer periods of time.
Doubtless some will say that the existing NSA safeguards are enough to protect innocent people from getting caught up in a government dragnet. However, recent surveillance of the Occupy movement, COINTELPRO and Watergate show government officials will use their power to go after even peaceful dissent. The 4th Amendment was a check on that power. A check that five members of the Supreme Court, many of whom claim to want to return the Constitution to the original intent of the Founding Fathers, feel we don’t need on-line.
It is up us to protect our privacy and overturn such unjust and undemocratic laws. We cannot trust those in power to do it.
- Dec 30, 12
I caught the tail end of the Enemies of the State talk from this year's Chaos Communications Congress 29C3 Panel. US Department of Justice ethics advisor Jesselyn Radack, as well as Thomas Drake and William Binney, who had significant positions in the NSA, talked about being whistleblowers and the increase of the US surveillance state.
In light of the recent Senate vote to allow the US government, basically the National Security Agency (NSA), to secretly spy on everyone (including anyone in the US) without judicial oversight, I highly recommend that you watch it. We can pretty much kiss our 4th Amendment rights good bye for the next five years. Better start to encrypt everything you send out on the Internet.
Speaking of US government surveillance, tonight I plan to read as much as I can about the Partnership for Civil Justice’s FOIA of FBI materials on Occupy Wall Street. Naked Capitalism has a great write up - Banks Deeply Involved in FBI-Coordinated Suppression of “Terrorist” Occupy Wall Street, as does Naomi Wolf, and a bit by Glenn Greenwald. Then of course there is the Partnership for Civil Justice's summary, and the actual (redacted) documents. More later.
- Nov 05, 12
The Boston CryptoParty was a success with over 50 people participating in it. We recorded most of the talks, but haven't processed them all. The following are done:
- Truecrypt/LUKS, OTR, Secure VoIP/SIP w/ Jitsi, Bitcoin & data liberation
- Counter surveillance by David House of the Bradley Manning Support Network & Andrew Lewman of the Tor Project Part 1 Part 2
- Encrypt to Live talk by Andrew Lewman of the Tor Project
Additionally, raw videos from a number of the talks are at the Tor Project.
- Nov 04, 12
The Albert Einstein Institution has released an iPad app to accompany the How to Start a Revolution film about nonviolent revolution and Gene Sharp they released last year. Not having an iPad, I cannot get it, but it looks interesting. Sadly no Android app, yet.
- Nov 03, 12
Yves Smith has a post about how Sandy continues to disrupt NYC and how fragile complex systems are. Now this wouldn't be a surprise to folks reading The Oil Drum, but should be a wake up call to everyone else as the planet warms because of our own stupidity and greed. As we build systems that are efficient, redundency goes out the window, which will be a serious problem as our planet's climate gets increasingly chaotic.
The hospital situation is particularly telling as she cited from one commenter:
"The Manhattan hospital system is near collapse. Sounds like an exaggeration? It’s not. How do I know all this? I was hit by a cab on Monday afternoon, and taken to an Eastside hospital, and medical staff told me this.
My visit to the ER was beyond chaos (not normal ER chaos). I and several other trauma patients never received TRIAGE. They had no ICE. They were so short-staffed only cardiac patients received triage. One TBI patient had to wait over 4 HOURS to have a head CAT scan. These are bottom-line protocols that should never be violated, even in an emergency. The entire hospitals network was on the blink; everything had to be done manually (the servers in the flooded basement)."
More on Sandy's effects on hospitals.
- Nov 02, 12
Naked Capitalism is rapidly becoming my favorite blog on economics & finance issues. Yves Smith (pseudonym) and her fellow bloggers always bring insights and clarity to the post-2008 financial crisis world. Even though I read it almost daily, I missed this article (no doubt due to the title), and only became aware of it via the Dollars & Sense blog.
It succinctly expresses my own views of the world that our plutocrats and their supporters envision for us and have been working since the 1970s to achieve bit by bit. Throw in increasing government and corporate surveillance, laws like SOPA & CISPA and corporations increasing attempts to enclose the internet commons for their private profit, and we have a vision of a future where all but a few are slaves. A future that may not be all that different than the ancient Roman Republic during the Servile Wars, only with means of control that are totalitarian in all but name.
I need to go support Naked Capitalism, but I hope you will find that Yves Smith's words clarify the reality we all face.
“My sense is that the widespread sense of gloom, the increased level of aggression in many walks of life (and on the Internet) isn’t just due to the lousy state of the economy, although that certainly isn’t helping. In the last year, it has become increasingly evident that a very ugly set of changes that will have broad social impact is moving forward with surprising speed.
“We are in the midst of a finance-led counterrevolution. The long standing effort to roll back New Deal reforms has moved from triumph to triumph. The foundation was laid via increasingly effective public relations efforts to sell the Ayn Randian world view that granting individuals unfettered freedom of action would produce only virtuous outcomes, since the talented would flourish and the rest would deservedly be left in the dust. In fact, societies that have moved strongly in that direction such as Pinochet’s Chile and Russia under Yeltsin, have seen plutocratic land grabs, declining standards of living (and even lifespans), and a rise in authoritarianism or (in the case of Colombia) organized crime. Those who won these brawls did flourish, but at tremendous cost to society as a whole.
“In the US, the first step was making taxation less progressive. A second, parallel measure was deregulation, particularly in financial services. Together, they fostered the growth of an uber wealthy cohort that increasingly lives apart from middle class and poor citizens. The rich can thus tell themselves they have little to gain from the success of ordinary people. And, perversely, the global financial crisis has worked to the advantage of the financial elite. As former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson described in a May 2009 Atlantic article, the US instead suffered a quiet coup, with the top end of the financial services industry becoming more concentrated, and more firmly in charge of the political apparatus. And you see more vivid evidence of the financial takeover in Europe, where technocrats are stripping countries of their sovereignty and breaking them on the rack via failing austerity programs, so as to avoid exposing the insolvency of French and German banks. In the US, the events of the last year are less dramatic but no less telling, including a coordinated 17-city paramilitary crackdown on Occupy Wall Street, a “get out of jail almost free” settlement for the mortgage-industrial complex, and an election where the two candidates are indistinguishable in their enthusiasm for cutting Medicare and Social Security, and murder by drone.
“The implications of gutting social protections are far more serious than they might appear. Dial the clock back eighty years, and most people lived in or near the communities they grew up in. They could turn to extended family, or other members of the community for support if they suffered a serious setback. Informal social safety nets stood in the place of the government provided ones we have now.
“Broadly shared prosperity and government safety nets are essential underpinnings of a modern, mobile society. The American nuclear family isn’t just an outgrowth of the automobile era; it’s also the result of union jobs in an industrial economy helping create a wage foundation, and the high confidence most men (in those days, it was men) had in continued employment, and the existence of social protections if something bad happened (Social Security’s disability programs have raised entire families, for instance) made it viable to move far from one’s hometown in pursuit of opportunity.
“But as the population has become more mobile, the role of community, and their local support mechanisms, has faded. Yes, when people get desperate, they might still move in with a parent or child. But anecdotally, that seems far less common today than it was a few generations ago. So when government provided social insurance programs are gutted, the broader social impact is much greater than taking us back to the era right before they were implemented. Michael Hudson has described the changes under way as neo-feudalism. We are moving towards the sort of stratified society we had not in the 1920s, but in the early Industrial Revolution with a landed aristocracy, a small haute bourgoisie, some well remunerated craftsmen, and a large agricultural/servant class. In other words, the effort to roll back the New Deal is in fact going much further, in terms of reinstitutionalizing class stratification, lack of mobility, and a resulting large new “lower order” that will live in stress and often squalor. A new, more brutal society is being created before our eyes, and it seems such an incredible development that many people are still in denial about what is happening.”
- Oct 31, 12
Naked Capitalism brought my attention to this video on what drones can do and what they might do in the future. It makes for rather concerning viewing.
Personally, I have no doubt that within the next ten years, drones will be small enough and cheap enough to follow us and record all of our actions in public. My guess is that many of us will have more than one permanently following us. My guess is that people will object to governments tailing us with a drone, though I wouldn't put it past them. However, I wouldn't put it past corporations to monitor the public lives of their employees or ex-spouses for that matter. I am sure that many might have them to monitor themselves. The government could then use a warrant (or not) to gather the recordings.
I keep thinking of writing a story of woman as she goes about her day, from greeting the drones that keep track of her in the morning to saying good night to them, and everywhere in between. There would be one from the corporation she works for, one from her ex-husband, one from her child's school, one from the school where she takes night classes, and so on. The cheaper drones become, the more we will use them, afterall. If you want to write such a story, you have my blessing, though please contact me so I can promote it.
On to the video.
- Oct 24, 12
By now some of you have heard about or read the recent Washington Post story by Greg Miller about the Obama administrations efforts to make permanent its powers to kill anyone on the planet in the name of the war on terror. Glenn Greenwald, talking about the Post story and citing work by the ACLU of Massachusetts on the government's continuing attempts to increase their surveillance of us all, paints this chilling picture:
What has been created here - permanently institutionalized - is a highly secretive executive branch agency that simultaneously engages in two functions: (1) it collects and analyzes massive amounts of surveillance data about all Americans without any judicial review let alone search warrants, and (2) creates and implements a "matrix" that determines the "disposition" of suspects, up to and including execution, without a whiff of due process or oversight. It is simultaneously a surveillance state and a secretive, unaccountable judicial body that analyzes who you are and then decrees what should be done with you, how you should be "disposed" of, beyond the reach of any minimal accountability or transparency.
As if this were not bad enough, we know we have entered new territory in the destruction of our rights when a government official likens drone strikes to swatting flies as in this quote from Micah Zenko's Council on Foreign Relations post, Institutionalizing America’s Targeted Killing Program:
“It really is like swatting flies. We can do it forever easily and you feel nothing. But how often do you really think about killing a fly?”
Will you are I be a fly to some future administration? If we are, as Spencer Ackerman at Wired noted, we can thank Obama for that.
- Oct 13, 12
While I didn't catch enough of the Dem/Rep. VP debate to assess either candidate's performance, a friend drew my attention to this dressing down by the (female) prime minister of Australia for the (male) leader of the opposition's attempt to tar the prime minister with the text-messaging scandal of one of her allies. Perhaps the Dems could take advice from Julia Gillard, Australia's first female prime minister, on how to support women's rights with gusto.
So to summarize for those who didn't want to watch the whole takedown, and you missed a lot of fun if you didn't watch it, the leader of the opposition is:
- a sexist, misogynist;
- with a long history of dismissing women and condoning sexism and misogyny in his party;
- a long-time friend and supporter of the text-messaging scandal minister of parliament (MP) and even attended said MP's wedding;
- and so a complete, politically motivated, hypocrite.
As I said, a spectacular takedown. Wish we had more such examples in the US.
Of course, this episode begs the question of when are politicians going to learn that everything they ever do in public, and likely semi-public, will be available for others to use against them? My guess would be when people actually use that information against them effectively. Until then we will have more politicians saying "those aren't the 47% you are looking for".
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- Dec 13, 10Dating sites for the undead?:
During dinner my son mentioned that he felt that online dating sites are lame. I am not quite sure how we got to it, but we started talking about zombie movies. Then it hit me, we need a dating site for zombies! Well, one for people like to dress up as zombies! Why limit it to one form of undead, let’s include vampires, werewolves and other creatures of the damned.
I went looking and found Zombie Harmony, but it is really an ad for a free dating service. Are there any other sites for people who want to date people who dress up like the undead? If not, does anyone want to start one?
- Apr 29, 10
I came across this mug while having lunch with a friend. I immediately thought about what would they do with the mug if one of the advertisers decided not to continue advertising with them. Would they cross out the advertisement? This of course got my mind working on a solution to this, likely minor, problem.
One possibility is to embed an e-Ink display on the outside of the mug, since they can bend, and update the advertisements wirelessly. You could charge the mug using the new wireless electrical systems that are appearing now. Too expensive at this time, certainly, but perhaps not in the future.
However, cleaning these mugs could be a problem…
- Apr 03, 10
We have a problem at work, how to get a large amount of data from one distant location to another. We could dump the data one or more disks and either FedEx it to us or have someone carry it on a plane. Either is pretty expensive and, if you are bringing it internationally, runs the risk of getting stuck in customs.
We could set up a dedicated line between there and here, but the lead time is a month or more and they want their customers to rent it for a while.
What is needed is a service where you plunk down your corporate credit card and rent a dedicated pipe between two locations for a brief time (a day or two). The pipe would need to be SSL of course. With all of the excess fiber rolled out in the late 90s, I would think that someone could pay for dedicated lines and then rent them out for a day or so.
- Mar 17, 10Web service for "assemble-your-own-book" market?:
My friend and former co-worker, Dave, writes:
Many years ago, when I was a technical writer, my team explored the option of moving away from writing the source files for documentation as actual document files (FrameMaker, Word, etc.) and towards writing them as heavily-indexed articles in a database out of which we could assemble documents as needed.
The idea being that if you wanted a manual that documented everything about process X, we could produce that; if you wanted a manual that documented operational instructions for all our processes, we could produce that; if you wanted a manual that documented operational instructions and technical reference data for all processes in a particular group, we could produce that. The three manuals would overlap significantly, but be distinct manuals written for distinct audiences.
We dropped the idea after a while, but I often think about it when contemplating the ways that the web behaves differently from published books. In some ways, it’s precisely that model — especially what the “semantic web” folks are trying to move towards — although people are still mostly talking in terms of search operations rather than filter/sort/assemble operations.
All of which has gotten me wondering whether there’s anyone out there marketing into the “assemble-your-own-book” market for reference materials.
For example, I can totally imagine a company that publishes travel books exposing a web service whereby you can identify where you want to travel, what price range you are operating in, and what sorts of things you are interested in, and they print up a nicely bound volume of “Exploring Nature Trails, Snail Farms, and Art Museums in France, West Germany, and Denmark on $50-$100 a Day” that you can take with you.
I wonder whether there’s actually a market for that sort of service. - Mar 14, 10
Ok, last of the ideas for the night.
The thing I have noticed about social networks is that I have a lot of “friends”, but I cannot say I am terribly close to most of them. Seems like the connections are shallow and not deep.
Don’t get me wrong. It is nice to get status updates from classmates I haven’t seen in 20 years or co-workers who left the company a year ago. As a Gub noted when we ran into each other last weekend, it is nice to have a finger in each others lives. This is especially true after I found out that a friend of mine from my high school years died this year.
Still, perhaps there is a need to have a social networking site that limits the number of friends you can have. Limiting your list to 3, 5, or 10 friends really focuses you mind as to who and/or what is important. I have tended to only “friend” someone who is already on a site, and not invite people to a social networking site. I would feel more compunction to invite someone on to a site where my friends were limited.
But what is the win to having the network of close friends? What services should a site like that provide that would make people desire to visit it. Certainly, its simplest competitor is email since anyone can create a list of people to send email to and then send a note just to them.
One serious downside is if you are limited to 3, 5 or 10 close friend slots, then how will someone feel if you take them off of your close friend list? It strikes me that folks should not know who is on your list, in fact they should probably not even need a note if they are no longer your close friend. They just stop getting your notes and updates. Perhaps, even, close friends can be one way just like Twitter: except instead of signing up to get someone else’s status messages, you are signing up to send someone your status messages. The limit of the number of friends you can have and the ability to block such incoming messages should cut down on spam.
What the added value is, I am still not sure.
UPDATE: A friend of mine pointed me to ASMALLWORLD. It looks like a social networking site for the rich and/or influential and bills itself as:
… the world’s leading private online community that captures an existing international network of people who are connected by three degrees of separation. Members share similar backgrounds, interests and perspectives. ASMALLWORLD’s unique platform offers powerful tools and user generated content to help members manage their private, social and business lives.
Membership to ASMALLWORLD is by invitation only, which is part of what makes this network unique, and the connections, authentic. Trusted and loyal ASW members who meet certain criteria have the privilege of inviting a limited number of their friends to the network. If you know someone with this privilege, you can ask them to invite you. If not, please be patient and continue to ask around in your own personal and professional circles.
An integrated media company, ASW is an ideal match for advertisers seeking to target the world’s tastemakers and develop heightened mindshare with this sophisticated and influential group. [bold from site]
- Mar 14, 10
I moved Spontaneous Ideas to another tumblr blog so that others can post to it and I can free up the old blog to be my lifestream. The domain and feeds and the like should update. If you get extra messages in your RSS feed besides this one, just ignore them.
- Feb 26, 10
With the various cases of credit data getting lost or stolen (Social Security Administration, TJX among others), I have found that if I want to keep tabs on who is accessing my credit history, I have to pay one of the credit reporting agencies a monthly fee. This strikes me as strange considering it is my credit history. I generated it, thank you very much, and where fees and interest are involved, I paid for it.
There is a serious need of a consumer controlled credit reporting bureau. One where I get to see my data any time I want, have an easy way to correct problems and approve/reject requests to view it. Perhaps I could get money back when someone wants to view it.
Such a coop should also use alternative data on a person’s payment history: phone, gas and other utility bills. In this regard, at least Payment Reporting Builds Credit provides such an alternative.
- Feb 26, 10
It snowed about twelve inches in the Boston-area. Since we don’t have a garage, or indeed off street parking, I had to shovel out the car. Especially the snow that gathers under the car since it turns to ice and that can be very unpleasant to get caught sitting on when you are in a hurry to get out.
All this shoveling gave me that idea that if I put a fence, preferably one without any holes, around the car before it snows, then I wouldn’t need to shovel under the car or move the car to get at the snow.
Additionally, since we have no off street parking, we tend to pile up the snow at every possible location. As the piles grow bigger, snow rolls down covering over the area you just cleared. Another useful product would be a flexible barrier, such as with some compost fences, that you could put up at the border of one of these piles and would keep the snow in. It would need to dissolve within a day in snow, after the snow froze in place.
- Feb 26, 10
Thinking about my blood type got me wondering whether there is a relationship between your blood type and how willing to give you are. To refresh:
- A’s can take blood from A and O, but can only give to A and AB.
- B’s can take blood from B and O, but can only give to B and AB.
- AB’s can take blood from AB, A, B and O, but can only give to AB.
- O’s can take blood from O, but can give to anyone.
Based on these facts, O’s are able to give to the most people, AB’s the least and A’s and B’s are in between. So the hypothesis is “Do O’s give the most, AB’s the least and A’s and B’s somewhere in between.
One easy way to test this hypotheis, assuming that there is no skew towards finding O’s on the part of the blood banks, is to look at the volume of blood donated every year by blood type.
Other tests could be to select a random group of people, test their blood type and look at how much money they donated as a percentage of their income, or the number of hours they volunteered in a year.
- Feb 26, 10
My wife and I are going to a wedding in a bit, and since we have kids, thought it would be a good idea to go in separate planes. That way should, in the very unlikely event that the plane crash, only one of us would be lost. Finding tickets so that our departure and arrival times were similar proved rather difficult.
It may have been the times we wanted to travel, though there seemed to be lots of available seats on the seat chooser. I tried Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, United, American Airlines, and Price line, but the flights weren’t very good. I could have chosen me going out on American and my wife going out on United, but due to flights and picking up the kids, I would need to return on United and my wife on American. This makes getting fares a bit more difficult and the idea of having four one way tickets just didn’t seem like a good idea with the TSA looking over all flights.
If one of the travel sites, was able to accomodate parents desire to travel separately and present the flight possiblilities in an easier manner, I would be a happy person.
- Feb 26, 10
My wife and I have a disagreement over the food shopping. I do the shopping and she maintains the list .. on her computer.
I like the items on the list to be organized by where they are in the store, roughly. Milk near the eggs and yogurt, vegetables and fruits in one section, etc. Since my wife doesn’t do the shopping, she doesn’t know where things are, so I have to periodically go onto her computer and rearrange the list.
We also have different styles to updating the list. For me, the list is everything that we could ever need from a particular store. I go through what we have before I go to the store and cross of the things we don’t need. My wife edits the list for each trip.
Now there was a nice little list keeping app for the Palm OS that I had awhile ago, but I lost it. It is great if one person is the list maintainer and shopper. When the responsibility is shared it breaks down.
What would be really useful would be a web site that allowed people to create, edit, organize and share shopping lists. The basic service could be free with $ for alternative ways to access the data (iphone app, mac os interface, etc.)
An additional feature would be to list the average/lowest prices for each item on the list at stores in their area so someone could compare the price to what is at the store they are at. A variation of this would be to look at the prices for the items on the list and find the store that has the lowest overall cost for the items. If reliable, it could be an additional monthly fee. However, these features would require some method to get the user to put the items into identifiable products and either some site scraping for the prices, or an Atom/RSS feed for the prices. The price data would be a problem without some serious effort or buy-in from the supermarkets.
- Feb 26, 10
As I was going to sleep last night, I was thinking about not remembering many specific memories from childhood. Does the brain overwrite older memories to make way for new ones?
I then remembered an NPR story from a year or more back about some brain researchers who had determined in rats that while a rat sleeps, its brain plays back its short term memories backwards and places in the part of the brain the short term memories (or an abbreviated form of them) into the place that stores long term memories. Lack of sleep disrupted this process and lead to poor recollection of the now long term memories.
It got me asking how do brains determine which memories to keep?
Repetition certainly helps, otherwise why else would I remember the layout of the SciFi club at UMass? Many of us have heard the idea that stress helps to cement memories.
Certainly there are evolutionary justifications for both. Repetition could allows us to create more connections to that part of the brain that stores a particular location or fact. The more connections the better.
Likewise, it would make sense that a memory could get tagged as stressful due to fight/flight responses. The brain could then use this tag to decide that such a memory was more deserving of storage in long term memory.
So a proper research topic would be to determine what types or memories are more likely to be stored for long term retrieval.
- Feb 26, 10
One idea I keep thinking about, but which has captured my imagination is a website that people can post to and search for songs about historical events or periods of time. Want songs about the great depression, they would be there. Songs about Pearl Harbor, they would be there. Songs about Catherine the Great’s supposed horse fetish, yes that would be there too.
Initially, it could be just a list with songs tagged by period or type (war, life, economy, culture, etc.) that would note who wrote it, who has sung it, who published it, etc. Overtime, perhaps, it would have links to the songs so people could buy/download them, get the lyrics, etc. It should allow people to comment on the song such as its historical accuracy, the quality of the rendition, etc. Voting on the song seems like a desirable feature as well. Branching out into other media could also be a possibility, but there seems to be much to do with just songs.
My guess would be that the links for people to buy the songs would provide the income stream needed to keep the site profitable. It might even provide the ability for people upload their own songs for free or sell them through the site.
Of course it could become a venue for nazi or racist songs, so some reporting, categorizing or policing capability would be needed. Slander, libel or copyright infringement could also be an issue for uploaded songs as well.
- Feb 26, 10
… this is my place to write down the spontaneous ideas that I have come up with and that have a measure of sense and usefulness to them, but which I am unlikely to pursue due to time or inclination. Mostly time.
If you like the idea, take it and run with it. Please be kind enough to cite my post and/or tell me if it provided you with inspiration or proved helpful. It is how you execute it that counts, not the idea. If I decide to pursue an idea here, then don’t worry, I won’t sue you, but I may ask to help. If the idea already exists, then please tell me so I can use it.
Now, go make something useful!
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Posts
- Nov 04, 12The Albert Einstein Institution has released an iPad app to accompany the How to Start a Revolution film about nonviolent revolution and Gene Sharp they released last year. Not having an iPad, I cannot get it, but it looks interesting. Sadly no Android app, yet.
- Oct 08, 12
- Jul 23, 12
In the (generally) Facebook discussion of my Is there an instance where an armed citizenry prevented US government oppression? post, the responses were either of the form:
- it is too early to tell (as if 200 years of US history would not give us some useful examples) or
- the examples were so small they weren't in the historical record.
I did find two US historical examples of a group of armed citizens which successfully used firearm violence to counter what they perceived as government oppression:
- The violence by Southern whites before the Civil War to get the South to succeed;
- The violence by Southern whites during Reconstruction to reestablish the power of the white planter elite.
For the white planter elites and their supporters, they perceived that they were fighting for their liberty from what they thought of as an oppressive Federal government. However, former slaves, poor whites and most people a hundred years later would doubtless have a far different perspective.
Based on these examples, I believe that guns help authoritarian, elite power and really haven't moved us closer to a more just society or even kept government from being oppressive. In the examples above, they have been used to foster oppression.
The larger issue I get from my albeit brief analysis is that when firearms are used by those not in power, then they will be opposed by the larger society by all means necessary (see the examples in the earlier post). When those with firearms do have power, then there isn't a need to resort to firearms or if they do, then they can use the power of the state to full effect to back them up.
In my mind, the historical examples don't back up the thesis that an armed citizenry keeps oppressive government at bay, but I am still willing to hear about other examples.
- Jul 18, 12
One of the assumed truths in the US is that an armed citizenry will prevent the US government from becoming oppressive and taking away our liberties. Recently I have seen people state that the Tea Party folks brought guns to their rallies and the police were respectful of their rights to assemble, but the Occupy movement (and various left-oriented movements in the past) didn't have guns and so got attacked by the police.
I am curious about this line of reasoning and have been seeking an actual instance of when an armed citizenry prevented government oppression.
I can think of examples where an armed citizenry didn't stop government oppression such as:
- Shay's Rebellion,
- the Whisky Rebellion,
- post-civil war oppression and disenfranchisement of African-Americans,
- the anarchists around the turn of last century and
- the internment of the Japanese during World War II,
- the treatment of the Black Panther Party in the 60/70s.
Indeed that the anarchists or Black Panther party had weapons (and sometimes used them in self-defense) were used as excuses to use overwhelming government power and surveillance on them, which is part of the reason nonviolent tactics proved more effective.
Are there instances where firearms really did stop government oppression or did they only serve to bolster the power and privileges of the (generally) white wealthy power structure? I know some of you will think the question is loaded, but I am seriously trying to find an instance where firearms did stop government oppression.
- Jun 24, 12
I posted two of the miniature game rule sets I been working on over the last many years. Both are not complete, but it is better that they are available for comment than that they sit alone and unloved (except by me) on my computer. They are posted on the side bar, but you can also find them here:
- By Will Alone - Nonviolent Action Rules
- Star Bright - Star Ship Combat Rules
- Oct 02, 11
Nearly too late on this, but October 2nd is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday, which is a national holiday in India called, Gandhi Jayanti or sometimes Ganghi Jayanti. Since 2007, October 2nd is also International Day of Nonviolence. I leave you with Gandhi's seven social sins (Young India, 22-10-1925):
Politics without principles
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice - May 18, 11
A girl wears a Syrian flag painted on her face during a demonstration against the government of Syria - From Al Jazeera's May 10th Syria live blog. May the universe protect her and all who struggle for freedom in our world.
- Mar 03, 11
I setup a bywillalone twitter account, though I am not sure what I will be doing with it besides tweeting my blog posts and following nonviolent activists. Can anyone recommend any nonviolent activists on twitter?
- Mar 01, 11
Last December, Greenpeace put out a simple two person game called Deep Sea Desperation that focused on protecting ocean habitat for the Greenpeace player and drilling in more difficult places for the Big Oil player. Lots rather fun. The main page is here, while the rules are there. There is a lively discussion about it at The Miniatures Page.
Apparently someone else came up with a game called Save The Whale! about eco-warriors vs. whalers.
Both games are free and look fun to play and educational as well.
- Feb 17, 11
Two little bits (rumors?) from behind the scenes during Egypt's uprising.
Robert Fisk reported that on January 30th Mubarak ordered the military to attack the demonstrators in Tahrir Square, but the officers refused:
Last night, a military officer guarding the tens of thousands celebrating in Cairo threw down his rifle and joined the demonstrators, yet another sign of the ordinary Egyptian soldier's growing sympathy for the democracy demonstrators. We had witnessed many similar sentiments from the army over the past two weeks. But the critical moment came on the evening of 30 January when, it is now clear, Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks after flying F-16 fighter bombers at low level over the protesters.
Many of the senior tank commanders could be seen tearing off their headsets – over which they had received the fatal orders – to use their mobile phones. They were, it now transpires, calling their own military families for advice. Fathers who had spent their lives serving the Egyptian army told their sons to disobey, that they must never kill their own people.
Thus when General Hassan al-Rawani told the massive crowds yesterday evening that "everything you want will be realised – all your demands will be met", the people cried back: "The army and the people stand together – the army and the people are united. The army and the people belong to one hand."
While Paul Amar wrote that during the February 4th attacks on democracy demonstrators by pro-Mubarak supporters (likely paid thugs, police in plain clothes, government employees and even convicts freed on the condition that they attack the demonstrators), were not widely prevented by the military because they did not have ammunition:
The army’s role in countering Suleiman’s lust for repression was crucial to saving the momentum of this uprising. On 4 February, the day of the most terrifying police/thug brutality in Tahrir Square, many commentators noted that the military were trying to stop the thug attacks but were not being very forceful or aggressive. Was this a sign that the military really wanted the protesters to be crushed? Since then, we have learned that the military in the square were not provisioned with bullets. The military were trying as best they could to battle the police/thugs, but Suleiman had taken away their bullets for fear the military would side with the protesters and use the ammunition to overthrow him.
That the military was unwilling to attack the demonstrators on January 30th, certainly lends support to the notion that their ammunition was take away from them before February 4th, and highlights the usefulness of nonviolent tactics in undermining the support given to the regime by the military and other groups in and outside of a government.
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