Disinformation History
It was a pleasure and an honor to present “Disinformation history and what it means for the future of AI” at the Tech Discovery Conference this month. Here are the slides again (PDF) for your reading convenience.
History
British Ship Money: 1630s Origins of “Taxation Without Representation”
Where does the popular phrase “no taxation without representation” really come from? John Hampden, who ignited a resistance against the King of England, is arguably the source. The belief a government should not tax its populace unless repr…
Why Americans Love Political Ineptitude of the KKK
It’s a problem that the KKK in America fraudulently campaign on an underdog ticket. According to historians Ed Ayers and Brian Balogh, Americans have long rooted for the underdog. It’s truly problematic that the oppressors can somehow twist…
Fury as restaurant dangling over Waterloo memorial belts out ABBA hit on loop
A RESTAURANT is belting out ABBA hit Waterloo on loop — as it dangles over the 1815 battle site memorial.
The Dinner in the Sky attraction, which offers guests a £250-a-head airborne dining experience, has been branded tasteless.
It hangs from a crane over the Lion’s Mound site, where 10,800 soldiers died in the battle.
Retired British Major General Ashley Truluck, 75, raged online: “Belgian commercial interests turning the Waterloo battlefield into Disneyland.”
And Dennis Abbott, a British Waterloo battlefield guide and Royal Legion member, told The Sun: “I think it’s rather tasteless.
“Visitor numbers at the memorial have still not returned to pre-Covid levels and I think that’s behind this.”
Waterloo, the site of the decisive British and Prussian victory over Napoleon, is now overseen by a French company on behalf of four Belgian parishes.
It allowed Dinner in the Sky, which has run 5,000 similar events worldwide, to set up there until June 29.
But the sound of ABBA’s 1974 Eurovision winner as the restaurant is lifted up has visitors to the site wincing.
Marcus Cribb said: “After ABBA, there was some very loud dance music . . . shouldn’t happen on most battlefields.”
Dinner in the Sky declined to comment.
Dutch Supreme Court orders return of historical artifacts to Ukraine
The collection of archaeological objects, some more than 2,000 years old, was on display in Amsterdam when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.
Ike Library D-Day Resources
June 6th. The Eisenhower library has a wealth of resources about D-Day, and I dare say much better historical treatment of the subject than the UK Imperial War Museum. Radio broadcast by Ike: Audio of General Eisenhower reading his D-Day “Order o…
Opinion – Geoff Crowther or The Birth and Politics of a Hippie Worldview
With a background influenced by pacifism and May 68 socialism, Crowther had assembled a potent worldview which was filtering into the minds of travellers throughout the world.
Tesla Lawyers Tell Customers in US Cities to Stop Paying For Their Cars
The CEO of Twitter recently has been running a heavy handed PR campaign spreading hate speech to make American cities look bad. His lawyers, in a truly bizarre twist of logic, now want Tesla customers to stop paying for their cars if they live in a cit…
Brand New Tesla Owner Testing Autopilot Killed by F-150
A Tesla has been in a crash with a F-150, leaving the Tesla owner dead. It quietly revealed yet again that the “Autopilot crap” is really, and always will be, crap. One of the shocking things in April 2016 was that a man who clearly knew no…
Tesla eXemplifies Billionaire Misconduct (XBM)
IBM undeniably ran the German Nazi death camps. Their instrumental role was cemented, literally, in places like Dachau. I’ve been to plantations. I’ve been inside of execution chambers. I’ve walked the halls of death row. I’ve been to a lot of places w…