Support for Trump is KKK’s Lost Cause
“The Lost Cause” is the odd phenomenon of white nationalists (KKK/Nazis) who believe they should still be allowed to continue practice slavery and genocide. They can’t obviously come out and say those words, however, so instead they cook up complex conspiracies. It’s like when they used the phrase “War on ... Read More
Social Media Protocol for Evidence of War Crimes
Berkeley Law announced the first global protocol has been set to aid in using social media for war crime investigations. Launched in 2016, the center’s Investigations Lab is the first university-based open source investigations unit to discover and verify human rights violations and potential war crimes — with over 75 ... Read More
Nazi Enigma Machine Discovered on Seabed
Recently I wrote about an Enigma encryption machine that showed up in a pigsty. The argument back then surely was nobody would find it. Now we can add a new twist to the list of places thought safe for disposal: an Enigma was found in the Baltic sea. “A colleague ... Read More
Germany’s Anti-Semitic Phonetic Alphabet
Interesting development in Germany to restore phonetics that were erased by the Nazis Before the Nazi dictatorship some Jewish names were used in the phonetic alphabet – such as “D for David”, “N for Nathan” and “Z for Zacharias”. But the Nazis replaced these with Dora, North Pole and Zeppelin, ... Read More
Have You Discovered Yet the 414s?
Discover magazine has just published a review of the 1980s phenom known as the 414s (Milwaukee area code, adopted by teenage hackers) While the 414s’ antics didn’t spark a nuclear conflict, they did ignite a national conversation on computer security… They get called pioneers, which I suppose is reasonable when ... Read More
Memory of Marie A
by Bertold Brecht One day in blue-moon September, Silent under a plum tree, I held her, my silent pale love in my arms like a fair and lovely dream. Above us in the summer skies, Was a cloud that caught my eye. It was so white and high up, and ... Read More
This Day in History: 1864 Sand Creek Massacre
The US National Park Service calls it… 8 Hours that changed the Great Plains forever In brief, on November 29, 1864 at Sand Creek, Colorado a peaceful non-threatening group of Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Native Americans (who believed they were under protection of US forces) were massacred by around 700 ... Read More
Should Driverless Cars Navigate by Stars?
As a backup to GPS, but really the precursor and consistently better system to GPS, is astral navigation. In the USAF they affectionately referred to their NAS-14V2 system as a science-fiction icon. Mounted behind the SR-71’s cockpit, this unit, affectionately known as “R2-D2,” computed navigational fixes using stars sighted through ... Read More
Explosive Projectile-laden Drones to Navigate Small Spaces
I’ll never forget being briefed by a US Army General about the redesign of South Korea in ways that would force invading Chinese tanks into tight “killing zones”. Take the humans out of those tanks and you’ve got explosive projectile-laden drones on land, similar to the evolution of torpedoes flying ... Read More
Why Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving
I’ve written about Thanksgiving history here many times for many years (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010) and this year it feels like time to write again. It is clear that the holiday was created by President Lincoln after Civil War to bring the pro-slavery rebels back to the table with their ... Read More
