YouTuber @JanetWeiss5166 asked me on 15 October 2025 “Can you help the following facts go viral?” I added bullet points and rendered in italics the part I edited and my addendum. In March 2024 the Supreme Court ruled against the state of Colorado seeking to keep insurrectionist Trump’s name off the state ballot, citing the…
lesson learned (n): A law that prevents the recurrence of past social upsets. Most laws are passed in response to particular situations. Root cause analysis exposes the underlying dynamics that lead to particular situations. Based on these underlying dynamics, we can design fixes that prevent particular situations from arising. The Constitution of the United States…
While episodic social upsets driven by psychopaths and their followers are both painfully obvious and abundant to the point of distraction in the historical record, it is enlightening to place these upsets into the context of Babiak & Hare‘s psychology experiments. In these experiments, as treated further in another post, the minds in a random…
Personally, I’m an AI skeptic. Humans by nature tend to personify things. Show them a wind-up toy and their first impression is “Look! A little person!”. The more human a robot looks, the more human we assume it to be, regardless of its internal sophistication or lack thereof. The appearance itself sets our imagination in…
Ferdinand Magellan and his crew slipped the surly bonds of the Dark Ages when they set out to circumnavigate the world in AD 1519. For the most part, however, they took most of the Dark Ages with them in the form of their ideology, cultural sensibilities and religious beliefs. This is why Catholicism prevails to…
