Laura Ingraham recently hosted a town hall event on Fox News in which she asked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis whether he would sign legislation recently passed in Florida to ban biological males from competing in girls’ sports. Other Republican governors also signaled their enthusiasm for such legislation in their states, NCAA be damned. Perhaps they…More
Category Archives: Technology
Clarence Thomas Speaks on Social Media Censorship
Ian Haworth writes for The Daily Wire, “Clarence Thomas Appears To Endorse Outlawing Social Media’s Censorship Of Conservatives: Everything You Need To Know.” Should Big Tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter be regulated as common carriers like Verizon and Comcast and your power company are? It behooves us to consider the need for humility in how we…More
Bitcoin Mining and Bandwagons
My brother Bryce came over yesterday afternoon and traded me two 140mm computer fans for an RTX 2070 that had some child’s water inadvertently spilt on it. While he was here, he also set me up to mine Bitcoin on my RTX 3070 GPU. So now I have run NiceHash all the past night, on…More
GameStop, Reddit, and Robinhood
Curious what all the fuss is about with GameStop, Reddit, and Robinhood? Here is my quasi-insider small trader perspective. Spoiler alert: there are two sets of rules. One for the big players, and one for the little guys. Yet as Proverbs 20:10 tells us, “Unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to…More
Big Technology and Perilous Dependencies
A listener recently asked the following question: If I’m encouraging people to find other marketplaces besides Amazon.com, why am I publishing and selling my recent book on Amazon? That is an entirely fair question. Here is my answer. — This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app —…More
The Death of Social Media As We Know It
Someone I am close to recently deleted their Facebook; and despite having recently started an account on MeWe, it would appear they deleted that account also. This is not an isolated incident, though. Conservative Americans now feel entirely alien and unwelcome online. Years of being maligned, manipulated, and censored on the biggest platforms have suddenly…More
Buckle Up For Big Tech Censorship
Buckle up, friends. It’s about to get bumpy. Twitter and Facebook last week permanently banned President Trump from their platforms on the claim he incited protesters to violently assault the Capitol building last week during a joint-session of Congress. Google and Apple have both made moves to remove the free speech social media network Parler…More
Ctrl Alt Delete Facebook
I deleted my Facebook account this morning. They asked me “Are you sure?” “Are you really, really sure?” When I answered in the affirmative each time, finally I got the response: “It’s scheduled for deletion in 30-days.” I have been a very active Facebook user since 2006 – in other words, for all my adult…More
Edward Bernays and Propaganda
You may have never heard of Edward Bernays, but he had your number. The father of public relations gave us the modern mass marketing campaign as well as making Sigmund Freud – his double uncle – a household name. Maybe, just maybe, the trick to not falling for propaganda, fake news, and deceptive marketing practices…More