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It seems to me that as a society, we largely go on about our lives under the guise of one of two possible myths: Digital privacy exists in a meaningful sense. The lack of digital privacy isn't meaningful. Not too long ago, the digital dopamine slot machine informed me that almost all of the user data possessed by AT&T was leaked onto the darkweb, reminiscent of the very same level of event that…
Are we all just rose glassed staring at the past? Or have we left something behind that we're now desperate to recover? Being that my generational cohort is the millenials, I have an odd relationship with the vintage/retro technology of the past. I wasn't around for BASIC programming, or the NES, but my first gaming console was a SEGA, and I used to sneak into my older brother's room and play with…
The real problem here is embedded in the use of the word normal, as what is normal to the spider, is chaos to the fly. Unfortunately, at present, we don't have even the luxury of the simple distinction between predator and prey: such a dichotomy was honed over hundreds of millenia by evolutionary, environmental pressures spanning from the macro to the micro, truly pure randomness, and design (of…
As of late, one of my personal edicts is: Don't spill the latte. The phrase comes from a unmixed snippet of a leaked version of a Kanye record, and it has a quality of artistic, non-sequitur absurdity, a blend of shallow comicality and philosophical depth, that I find incredibly captivating. The delivery of the line really seals the deal for me, it's downright fucking hilarious, and while I won't…
Hip-Hop was birthed during the second iteration of the Harlem renaissance, which took place in the Bronx. The Bronx renaissance is still happening. The second renaissance took over the world. My argument is that, where some people would consider hip-hop(which they often use to refer to rap, which is a quadrant of hip-hop), a grand-child of the Harlem Renaissance, I believe when considered in the…
It is an unfortunate belief of mine that virtue without a capacity for villainy is foolishness, just as bravery without fear is recklessness. To be a force for good in this world is to contend with evil, and in the process of doing so, it becomes quickly apparent that there's an asymmetry that must be surmounted. That asymmetry is simply the lengths to which one is willing to go to see ones…
People who disagree with the narrative are labeled as detached from reality, by those who hold it sacred, but what if the very narrative itself is detached from reality? Obviously, getting people who've invested in the narrative to disagree with it, or agree with the alternarrative is a futile effort. By detached from reality, I don't mean unfeasible, or implausible, but rather, meaningfully…
Part One: For Better or For Worse, A Rebel I was always the rebellious child. I was often in trouble in school. My grades never really reflected my ability (not past 4th grade, anyway). I was always headstrong, holding myself to high standards, perhaps demanding to be allowed to attempt to live up to them, and being deeply critical of and frustrated with myself when I didn't meet them. Gifted, but…
I hated mathematics for at least 15 years. I do not use that amount of time, nor the term hate lightly, though despised or loathed would suffice, if we wanted to take it down a notch, but make no mistake- I had a vendetta against the entire world of numbers. This vendetta was assisted, by the fact, that my natural gift, is in the area of language, and my environment was well suited to support…
As of late, I've been venturing into the cloud & security- mainly on a lark, but with an endgoal of some certification or another, and somehow, while expecting it to be convoluted, I really didn't appreciate just how nebulous, blurry, and interwoven the internals of this sector were. The fundamentals, as I perceive them so far, are the CIA triad (an existential technological Freudian slip if ever…