This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
The last chance to prevent a criminal from becoming president of the USA has just been thrown away by the supreme court in their enigmatic 9-0 decision. They've thrown responsibility for the future back to the US house of representatives and senate, knowing full well that there's no chance a vote there can succeed. The … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?
Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
This morning I read a BBC article about South Korea's declining population. Korean women are said to be producing children at a rate of 0.72 per woman, the lowest rate in the world. Since it takes 2.1 births per woman to maintain a population (if you ignore immigration, which many wealthy countries receive), South Korea's … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | South Korea’s declining population
Rescuing the Future | Rising Housing Costs | But is the Condo explosion coming to an end?
....... we look like we're headed for some kind of spectacular multi-vehicle financial pile-up. Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing History and trying to rescue the Future | What Happened when the U.S. failed to prosecute an insurrectionist Ex-president
If Donald Trump gets re-elected, how long will it be before new versions of the Klan begin operations?
Rescuing the Future | Nick Bostrom and the Dangers of AI | his book Superintelligence
This is a book that dares you to read it.
Rescuing Reality | MacLeans Magazine on the Renters Revolt
.....for Canada’s property owners, the housing crisis is no crisis at all. The worse it gets, the more money they make.
Autism | Brain damage? Or is it something we haven’t thought of yet?
Yes, that's who I think most autistic people are. People from.......
Rescuing the Future | Rolf Dobeli – Self-Aware AI? Not in 1000 Years! | A neurotypical view of Artificial Intelligence vs an autistic one
.......I think we need something more intelligent than us to save us from ourselves.