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March 2024

Operation Eagle Claw: The failed Iranian Hostage Rescue attempt of 1980
In late 1979, preparations began for what became known as "Operation Eagle Claw" in the spring of 1980. My father was part of that operation during the…
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OpenAI and the folly of "safety" controls
People without morality to guide them have to create a whole system of "laws" because they cannot constrain their own behavior—and they think you can't…
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Bots, book and Bible ciphers, Want Ad secret messages—and Twitter posts (X). How do these things interconnect?
A breakfast-time talk about an odd Twitter post that I stumbled onto led to me teaching Emily about book ciphers, want ads, and one-time-pads. OSINT…
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December 2023

"Assistive Intelligence" (AI) and the parallels to gun control
People have been maneuvered into becoming highly polarized when it comes to the topic of AI—mislabeled as "Artificial" Intelligence, in my opinion…
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How an online Ad about the "Royal Christmas" got me to write this post —about UFOs
While browsing X (Twitter) the other day, I was shown an ad fawning over King Charles of England and the protocols for the "Royal Christmas". That led…
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A story about a dog: Shadow, the Black Lab
We don't adopt pets; they adopt us. Sometimes, they come to bring us something that was missing in our lives; other times, they come because they know…
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July 2023

Exoplanets, Tardigrades, and Earth's Carbon Dioxide: A Thought Experiment
"We are not the Enemy of Nature, but It's Salvation." —Patrick Moore, London, October 2015
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The mysteries of Helium and Dark Matter
Quantum Mechanics, despite all of its successes, cannot properly account for the structure of even the 2nd simplest atomic structure: Helium. What's…
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Time loops: Echoes of 1976 in 2023
Sometimes the past connects the future in ways that we could never imagine
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