… we all know incomplete comprehension leads to error, (ask anyone bright enough to operate a bandsaw but not quite savvy about finger placement) – the cases in which simply knowing something draws a death sentence are far more interesting. The CIA claimed that on his last night in Manhattan, Olson purposely threw himself out [...]

I have had an idea of a utopian society in which Bentham’s Panopticon is realized with omnipresent surveillance and sousveillance of every citizen which is viewable by every other citizen and a sufficient number of negative votes cast against an individual results in the individual’s execution (i.e. if footage of your actions against another individual [...]

It’s not so often that I have an opportunity to dine on the sweet flesh of corvus corvidae (no accident though I remain human and I do sometimes fail to apply that in dubiis non est agendum maxim) – so here goes: the most likely suspect in the recent killing of a Seattle police officer [...]