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Category Archives: How we change
From Chessboards to Chatbots: The Story of Machine Intelligence — and Where It’s Headed
From Chessboards to Chatbots: The Story of Machine Intelligence — and Where It’s Headed Written with CoPilot (2025). If you’ve ever wondered how we got from clunky, room‑filling computers that could just about play chess to conversational AI that can … Continue reading
Reclaiming Community in an Age of Spectacle
A personal reflection on how historical memory and community organizing converge to resist ideological extremism and rebuild pluralistic civic life. Continue reading
Electronic Vehicle Battery as Home/Grid Power Backup
Washington Post Climate Advice Columnist, Michael J. Coren, talks about how the battery in your car can become a part of the larger power grid solving short term and medium time frame problems. Technology already exists to connect your car … Continue reading
Anomie and the threat to American Democracy
Anomie is the breakdown of social norms resulting in an increase in “deviant” behavior. As the concept has evolved over time, the role of economic immobility has become a key area of research interest as a primary driver of abnormal social behavior. Continue reading
Posted in 9 to 5, Coping with Change, Equality
Tagged anomie, anomy, destruction of the middle class
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Women’s Rights in America
Living in NYC I was on the same street and used the same subway entrance as Elizabeth Cady Stanton did in the last decade of her life. On days when I walked passed the building she used to live in, … Continue reading
Samuel Clements for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The book was published in the United States in February of 1885. Samuel Clements is a candidate for humanist of the month for February for the 2016 calendar. The following is from Huckleberry Finn. It is when Huck is thinking … Continue reading
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Tagged humanist-calendar, Samuel Clements, slavery
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Whom do humanists thank on Thanksgiving?
Whom do humanists thank on Thanksgiving? Humans of course! I always thank those who made the feast possible. Article written for Billings Humanists at http://ow.ly/r3wKr. There are two related questions over on Quora on this topic, the one is more about … Continue reading
November 16, 2013; Skepticon 6 is underway in Missouri
Found out earlier this week that Skepticon 6 is happening this weekend in Missouri. They are live streaming at http://skepticon.org/. The schedule is at http://skepticon.org/schedule/. Looks like a fun event. Road trip next year?
Why isn’t gambling considered capital gains? Deconstructing the conversation about capital formation and taxation
The conversation about capital gains taxes, a higher income tax for higher incomes and capital formation needs to be broken down. First, not all forms of investment are equal. Some are about growing the economy by growing a business and … Continue reading
We are not a democracy.
We are not a democracy. The United States of America has never been a democracy. Some small towns in the USA are a democracy, but if you don’t live in a town with town hall meetings where everyone at the … Continue reading