Tag: Current Events
Posted on October 24, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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Decided to dispense with the mic due to current hardware limitations making rendering an hours long nightmare. Topics – Weather – – Water – – Geetha Angara Death – – Trump’s withdrawal from Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia – – Tech Addiction – –…
Category: Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Alex V Weir, Current Events, Fractal Radio, Geeth Angara, News, Nonproliferation, Nuclear, The Fractal Journal, Treaty, Trump, Vlogs, Water
Posted on October 23, 2018
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Did you ever notice that Samsung backwards is GNUsmas. For you normies out there GNU = GNU is not Unix. Recursive acronym joy! Topics Gnusmas! Projects and plans Russia/Trump Ideological Bubbles The Word Gay Silicon Valley Mythology Vanity Fair uses too much Axe…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Alex Weir, Alt Media, Current Events, Fun, GNU, Ideological Bubbles, Russia, Silicon Valley, The Fractal Journal, Trump, Updates, Vanity Fair, Vlogs
Posted on September 14, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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A catchup vlog where I review topics like policing, surveillance, technology, chat a bit about the storm affecting (effecting? lol always hated this) the southeast and give some updates on upcoming content. Mr. Reed’s Cop Columns – https://fredoneverything.org/category/cop-colums/ https://www.fractaljournal.com | Stories, Essays, and…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Alex V Weir, Current Events, Fractal Radio, Fred Reed, Policing, Surveillance, The Fractal Journal, Vlogging, Vlogs
Posted on September 9, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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Public discourse is vital to a free and open society. Effective public discourse faces many challenges. One such challenge is Pundits Disease – moralizing about pet issues from a high tower. Pundits and commentators whether mainstream or independent tend to be removed from direct…
Category: Philosophy, UncategorizedTags: Commentators, Current Events, Ideas, Media, News, Politics, Pundits, Talking Heads, Trends, Vlogs
Posted on September 8, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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I ramble about odds and ends and the ongoing importance of raising environmental awareness. I cringe a tad writing that due to the baggage attached to ‘environmental awareness.’ It’s an unfair stigma that really detracts from a pretty sound idea. Taking care of our…
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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Dana Goodyear (The New Yorker) recently visited Axon, formerly Taser. I use this story as a springboard for a discussion on policing, surveillance, and citizenship. http://www.fractaljournal.com | Stories, Essays, Webcomics and more! http://www.minds.com/Weirmellow | Join me on minds! http://www.patreon.com/TheFractalJournal | Support Indie Media https://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/60959006-7-of-the-biggest-issues-facing-law-enforcement-in-2016/…
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Commentary, Current Events, Ethics, News, Opinion, Social Commentary, The New Yorker, Vlogs
Posted on August 26, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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I review and discuss an article in Vanity Fair about internet luminary Tim Berners-Lee. Who according to livescience.com is responsible for HTML and as far as I understand, the general outline and process of WWW as we know it. He has always favored…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Current Events, Ethics, History, HTML, Internet, Social Commentary, Tim Berners-Lee, Vanity Fair, Vlogs, WWW
Posted on August 23, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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I stall for time! In the coming days, I will post a fairly in-depth analysis of internet issues and the recent Vanity Fair Article about Tim Berners-Lee and his new project called ‘SOLID.’ For now, I just give a brief overview of the problem…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Current Events, Fractal Radio, Internet, News, Opinion, Social Commentary, SOLID, Tech, Tech News, The Fractal Journal, The Web's Inventor Plots A Do-Over, Tim Berners-Lee, Vanity Fair, Vlogs, WWW
Posted on July 4, 2018
by Alex V. Weir
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This Independence Day finds me stumbling across a recounting of a letter Washington wrote home during the Revolutionary War. I use the content of that letter as a springboard to discuss the merits of the revolution, the value of the constitution, and what it…
Category: Philosophy, UncategorizedTags: 1776, Citizenship, Current Events, Ethics, George Washington, History, Isolationism, King George III, Revolutionary War, Taxes, The Constitution, United States History, Vlogs
Tag: Current Events
Crushing the Welsh rebellion!
Posted on November 28, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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War is dumb. Social Media | https://www.minds.com/Weirmellow Tipjar | https://www.patreon.com/TheFractalJournal
Category: Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Social Commentary, UncategorizedTags: Current Events, Donuts, Russia, Ukraine, Warnings
Fractal Radio | Episode 25 – Carolina Weather, Death in New Jersey, and Nukes (O My)
Posted on October 24, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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Decided to dispense with the mic due to current hardware limitations making rendering an hours long nightmare. Topics – Weather – – Water – – Geetha Angara Death – – Trump’s withdrawal from Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia – – Tech Addiction – –…
Category: Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Alex V Weir, Current Events, Fractal Radio, Geeth Angara, News, Nonproliferation, Nuclear, The Fractal Journal, Treaty, Trump, Vlogs, Water
Fractal Radio| Episode 24 – GNUsmas!
Posted on October 23, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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Did you ever notice that Samsung backwards is GNUsmas. For you normies out there GNU = GNU is not Unix. Recursive acronym joy! Topics Gnusmas! Projects and plans Russia/Trump Ideological Bubbles The Word Gay Silicon Valley Mythology Vanity Fair uses too much Axe…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Alex Weir, Alt Media, Current Events, Fun, GNU, Ideological Bubbles, Russia, Silicon Valley, The Fractal Journal, Trump, Updates, Vanity Fair, Vlogs
Fractal Radio|Episode 20 – Fred Reed’s Cop Columns, Hurricane Florence, and Updates
Posted on September 14, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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A catchup vlog where I review topics like policing, surveillance, technology, chat a bit about the storm affecting (effecting? lol always hated this) the southeast and give some updates on upcoming content. Mr. Reed’s Cop Columns – https://fredoneverything.org/category/cop-colums/ https://www.fractaljournal.com | Stories, Essays, and…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Alex V Weir, Current Events, Fractal Radio, Fred Reed, Policing, Surveillance, The Fractal Journal, Vlogging, Vlogs
Fractal Radio | Episode 19 – Pundits Disease
Posted on September 9, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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Public discourse is vital to a free and open society. Effective public discourse faces many challenges. One such challenge is Pundits Disease – moralizing about pet issues from a high tower. Pundits and commentators whether mainstream or independent tend to be removed from direct…
Category: Philosophy, UncategorizedTags: Commentators, Current Events, Ideas, Media, News, Politics, Pundits, Talking Heads, Trends, Vlogs
Fractal Radio| Episode 18 – Legacy Pollutants Ramble
Posted on September 8, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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I ramble about odds and ends and the ongoing importance of raising environmental awareness. I cringe a tad writing that due to the baggage attached to ‘environmental awareness.’ It’s an unfair stigma that really detracts from a pretty sound idea. Taking care of our…
Category: Environment, Philosophy, UncategorizedTags: Current Events, News, Resources, Social Commentary, Vlogs, Water
‘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
‘Don’t Datamine Me Bro’ – Taser, Axon, Skynet? (Part II)
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
Fractal Radio| Episode 13 – Taser, Axon, SKYNET?
Posted on August 29, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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Dana Goodyear (The New Yorker) recently visited Axon, formerly Taser. I use this story as a springboard for a discussion on policing, surveillance, and citizenship. http://www.fractaljournal.com | Stories, Essays, Webcomics and more! http://www.minds.com/Weirmellow | Join me on minds! http://www.patreon.com/TheFractalJournal | Support Indie Media https://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/60959006-7-of-the-biggest-issues-facing-law-enforcement-in-2016/…
Category: Philosophy, Psychology, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Commentary, Current Events, Ethics, News, Opinion, Social Commentary, The New Yorker, Vlogs
Fractal Radio| Episode 11 – Tim Berners-Lee, Solid, and the Future of the Internet
Posted on August 26, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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I review and discuss an article in Vanity Fair about internet luminary Tim Berners-Lee. Who according to livescience.com is responsible for HTML and as far as I understand, the general outline and process of WWW as we know it. He has always favored…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Current Events, Ethics, History, HTML, Internet, Social Commentary, Tim Berners-Lee, Vanity Fair, Vlogs, WWW
Fractal Radio | Episode 10 – World Wide Problem Domain
Posted on August 23, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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I stall for time! In the coming days, I will post a fairly in-depth analysis of internet issues and the recent Vanity Fair Article about Tim Berners-Lee and his new project called ‘SOLID.’ For now, I just give a brief overview of the problem…
Category: Philosophy, Technology, UncategorizedTags: Current Events, Fractal Radio, Internet, News, Opinion, Social Commentary, SOLID, Tech, Tech News, The Fractal Journal, The Web's Inventor Plots A Do-Over, Tim Berners-Lee, Vanity Fair, Vlogs, WWW
July 4th 2018 – Celebrating the Constitution (Vlog)
Posted on July 4, 2018 by Alex V. Weir
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This Independence Day finds me stumbling across a recounting of a letter Washington wrote home during the Revolutionary War. I use the content of that letter as a springboard to discuss the merits of the revolution, the value of the constitution, and what it…
Category: Philosophy, UncategorizedTags: 1776, Citizenship, Current Events, Ethics, George Washington, History, Isolationism, King George III, Revolutionary War, Taxes, The Constitution, United States History, Vlogs
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