Posted on September 4, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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Should Axon a SaaS company that emerged from Taser the LTL manufacturer of tasers be regulated? How so? Should it be considered a public utility? I frame such questions in this brief vlog. https://www.fractaljournal.com | Stories, Essays, and more! https://www.minds.com/Weirmellow | Follow me on…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Analytics, Axon, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Dana Goodyear, Databases, Electronic Rights, Ethics, Policies, Policing, Surveillance, Taser, The New Yorker
Posted on September 3, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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Axon the company that was once Taser is just that a company – a corporate entity. Yet, its cloud holds police data which as far as I understand is subject to public interest and access. Whether or not the data is actually ‘public’ is…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Articles, Axon, Current Events, Dana Goodyear, Economics, Essays, News, Policing, Politics, Social Commentary, Taser, The New Yorker, VieVue
Posted on September 1, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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I was born in 1989. A mere 29 years ago and despite my ‘youth’ I still feel odd about cloud storage. A radical shift happened in the new millennium. All my childhood and adolescent visions of precincts with tidy file cabinets of records…
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Axon, Cameras, Civil Liberties, Criminal Justice, Current Events, Law, Law Enforcement, News, Police, Taser
Posted on August 29, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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However faintly the frantic words ‘don’t tase me bro’ still probably echo in the popular imagination. Subduing a nebbish university student for an uncouth question is arguably the wrong way to use a taser. Is there a right way? Figuring that out has been…
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Axon, Columns, Dana Goodyear, Fred Reed, News, Opinion, Police, Politics, Social Commentary, Taser, The New Yorker, Violence
Posted on August 28, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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A brief overview of some grim realities of the street trades and one companies proposed solution to violence. The connection between Mr. Reed’s points and The New Yorker article by Mr. Goodyear will become more apparent in later videos. Apologies for the ‘minimalist’ approach…
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: AI, Axon, Dana Goodyear, Ethics, Fred Reed, Guns, Nonlethal, Police, Rick Smith, Social Commentary, Taser, The New Yorker, Vlogs
‘Don’t Datamine Me Bro’ – Taser, Axon, Skynet? (Part III)
Posted on September 3, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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Axon the company that was once Taser is just that a company – a corporate entity. Yet, its cloud holds police data which as far as I understand is subject to public interest and access. Whether or not the data is actually ‘public’ is…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Articles, Axon, Current Events, Dana Goodyear, Economics, Essays, News, Policing, Politics, Social Commentary, Taser, The New Yorker, VieVue