What if, just a what if, somebody screwed up Thursday and the Microsoft/ClowdStrike FUBAR inadvertently occurred 3 ½ months early and was suppose to happen 1st week November? Was it AZ that said the outage affected their voting machines? What I don’t like is that paper is gone away, records are digital and voting machines are closed syst…
What if, just a what if, somebody screwed up Thursday and the Microsoft/ClowdStrike FUBAR inadvertently occurred 3 ½ months early and was suppose to happen 1st week November? Was it AZ that said the outage affected their voting machines? What I don’t like is that paper is gone away, records are digital and voting machines are closed system, privately held and there’s been no outside access (not 100% sure of #3). If we’re gonna be using these devices they need to be open source, outside audit AND no internet connection within months of use.
OK, that was rant #1: I’m still wondering if surviving the move to a highly technological civilization is the step that must be surmounted to escape the confines of one’s own solar system - it could be that our tech may be our own worse enemy; moving too fast, trusting too much, relying excessively…
Anyone who knows me knows that tech has been part of my life since high school - lost track of the number of computers in my house (not all in use) and revel how I can hold something with more "power" than the first system I build from scratch in the palm of my hand, AND IT RUNS ON BATTERIES! But, as I pressed my love of tech and what we can do on my son, I also came to realize that we are inherently analog critters. In the span of 2, maybe 3, generations we have reorganized our world around the flow of electrons flipping teensy tiny switches from 1 -> 0 and back again; it took us 2, 3 millennia to harness the wheel (chariot, stagecoach, stern paddle wheel steamer, locomotive, and my fav jaguar e-type), 3 gens to go from kitty hawk to the blackbird and we’re still improving, 1 gen from WWII to put MEN on the moon - but these were all analog techs and didn’t require reorganizing society from the top down/bottom up while the middle spreads far and wide (geez, sounds like me in middle age); education use to be hands on beginning with actual writing as a discipline; and I’m not sure how I feel about Avatars and Anonymity (both of which I’ve used extensively).
What I’m getting at is I think we’re moving too fast - notice I didn’t bring AI into the mix: what happens if/when we integrate AI, benevolently or nefariously, into our elections?
I’m done; now if you’ll excuse me I need to grab my pearl inlaid abacus to reconcile my weekly accounting and ink up my Gutenberg printer to post another rant on WordPress. Ah, fun times.
Maybe this was a practice run or a warning? Also maybe you will end up inking up your Gutenberg printer and post (on walls Like Martin Luther) in wood block type.
Door, 95 hand written theses nailed to the Brandenburg chapel DOOR
{ 🤔 gimme a minute to fact check myself. MAILED to Archbishop of Brandenburg, attached/posted (I say nailed) to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg}.
But yeah, what if we dropped wood block printed leaflets from drones?
If you mean printing the leaflets onto wood blocks and dropping from them from drones? I am all for it! Remember the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati when they dropped turkeys from a helicopter for Thanksgiving - Les Nessman reporting on the chaos. Boss, Arthur Carlson comes in saying "I swear I thought turkeys could fly!"
What if, just a what if, somebody screwed up Thursday and the Microsoft/ClowdStrike FUBAR inadvertently occurred 3 ½ months early and was suppose to happen 1st week November? Was it AZ that said the outage affected their voting machines? What I don’t like is that paper is gone away, records are digital and voting machines are closed system, privately held and there’s been no outside access (not 100% sure of #3). If we’re gonna be using these devices they need to be open source, outside audit AND no internet connection within months of use.
OK, that was rant #1: I’m still wondering if surviving the move to a highly technological civilization is the step that must be surmounted to escape the confines of one’s own solar system - it could be that our tech may be our own worse enemy; moving too fast, trusting too much, relying excessively…
Anyone who knows me knows that tech has been part of my life since high school - lost track of the number of computers in my house (not all in use) and revel how I can hold something with more "power" than the first system I build from scratch in the palm of my hand, AND IT RUNS ON BATTERIES! But, as I pressed my love of tech and what we can do on my son, I also came to realize that we are inherently analog critters. In the span of 2, maybe 3, generations we have reorganized our world around the flow of electrons flipping teensy tiny switches from 1 -> 0 and back again; it took us 2, 3 millennia to harness the wheel (chariot, stagecoach, stern paddle wheel steamer, locomotive, and my fav jaguar e-type), 3 gens to go from kitty hawk to the blackbird and we’re still improving, 1 gen from WWII to put MEN on the moon - but these were all analog techs and didn’t require reorganizing society from the top down/bottom up while the middle spreads far and wide (geez, sounds like me in middle age); education use to be hands on beginning with actual writing as a discipline; and I’m not sure how I feel about Avatars and Anonymity (both of which I’ve used extensively).
What I’m getting at is I think we’re moving too fast - notice I didn’t bring AI into the mix: what happens if/when we integrate AI, benevolently or nefariously, into our elections?
I’m done; now if you’ll excuse me I need to grab my pearl inlaid abacus to reconcile my weekly accounting and ink up my Gutenberg printer to post another rant on WordPress. Ah, fun times.
Maybe this was a practice run or a warning? Also maybe you will end up inking up your Gutenberg printer and post (on walls Like Martin Luther) in wood block type.
Door, 95 hand written theses nailed to the Brandenburg chapel DOOR
{ 🤔 gimme a minute to fact check myself. MAILED to Archbishop of Brandenburg, attached/posted (I say nailed) to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg}.
But yeah, what if we dropped wood block printed leaflets from drones?
If you mean printing the leaflets onto wood blocks and dropping from them from drones? I am all for it! Remember the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati when they dropped turkeys from a helicopter for Thanksgiving - Les Nessman reporting on the chaos. Boss, Arthur Carlson comes in saying "I swear I thought turkeys could fly!"