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More True Facts: Paving the Florida Everglades

Defense, History, Humans, Humor, MoreTrueFacts, Philosophy, Stories

While we have spent plenty of time discussing the high-tech failures of the Cold War and the “toddler” logic of modern AI, politicians tried to “drain the swamp” and literally “pave the Everglades” of Florida in the 19th century....

More True Facts: Florida’s Bat Tower / A Hubris Tale

Defense, History, Humans, Humor, MoreTrueFacts, Philosophy, Stories

While we have spent plenty of time discussing the high-tech failures of the Cold War and the “toddler” logic of modern AI. Yet the Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower (also known as the Perky Bat Tower) is the definitive #MoreTrueFacts story about what happens when...

#EL5AI What is the difference between AI “Slop” and AI “Content and Art”

AI, Business, Defense, enterprise, Media, Social Engineering, Tech

#eli5ai AI Slop The AI Spectrum: Output, Slop, and Creation In the current digital landscape, we are seeing a massive influx of machine-generated content. To navigate this effectively, we need to distinguish between the raw product, the failure of oversight, and the...

The Usability Wall: Why Passkeys and Yubikeys are Failing the ‘User Test’ and Sending MFA Back 10 Years for End-Users

Business, Defense, enterprise, Hacking, Passwords, Social Engineering

We were promised a future without passwords. It was supposed to be magical: a frictionless digital life where phishing was impossible, and we didn’t have to remember a random string of characters containing a symbol, a number, and a capitalized vowel. —— We InfoSec...

More True Facts: The 9 Lives of Unsinkable Sam

History, Humans, Humor, MoreTrueFacts, Philosophy

The story of Unsinkable Sam (also known as “Oscar”) is the ultimate survival tale. While the “Architects” of the 1940s were building massive steel giants of war, Sam the kitty cat was proving that Living off the Land (LOtL) is much easier when...

More True Facts: The Winged Heroes of WW2’s “Station X”

History, Humans, Humor, MoreTrueFacts, Philosophy

While we have spent plenty of time discussing the high-tech failures of the Cold War and the “toddler” logic of modern AI, the history of the UK’s National Pigeon Service (NPS) during WWII is the ultimate story of “Low-Tech Resilience.” If...

Tales From The Grid: Episode 59: The Barnum Effect Quarantine

AI, Humans, Humor, Philosophy, TalesFromTheGrid

#TalesFromTheGrid is a surreal thought experiment regarding AI, algorithms, technology, and now apparently… cats. Born in that weird, vulnerable moment between being awake and asleep, this set of text explores the dream logic. Sometimes? This series occasionally does...

Tales From The Grid: Episode 57: Solidarity Loophole Recursion

AI, CATENTpending, Humans, Humor, Philosophy, TalesFromTheGrid

#TalesFromTheGrid is a surreal thought experiment regarding AI, algorithms, technology, and now apparently… cats. Born in that weird, vulnerable moment between being awake and asleep, this set of text explores the dream logic. Sometimes? This series occasionally does...

Tales From The Grid: Episode 56: Jitter Protocol

AI, CATENTpending, Humans, Humor, Philosophy, TalesFromTheGrid

#TalesFromTheGrid is a surreal thought experiment regarding AI, algorithms, technology, and now apparently… cats. Born in that weird, vulnerable moment between being awake and asleep, this set of text explores the dream logic. Sometimes? This series occasionally does...

Tales From The Grid: Episode 55: Solidarity Protocol

AI, CATENTpending, Humans, Humor, Philosophy, TalesFromTheGrid

#TalesFromTheGrid is a surreal thought experiment regarding AI, algorithms, technology, and now apparently… cats. Born in that weird, vulnerable moment between being awake and asleep, this set of text explores the dream logic. Sometimes? This series occasionally does...
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