Category Archives: politics

Enough Already! (with the Guns…)

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Yorick von Fortinbras

This is happening way too often in this country. Why? Guns are too readily available. Automatic and semi-automatic assault weapons designed to maximize kills are on the streets and apparently also in your mother’s garment closet. Why? “It’s our constitutional … Continue reading →

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Winds of Change (Not Hope and Change)

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Yorick von Fortinbras

I ask you to picture this: It’s 7:40 pm on a Friday night. I’m alone in my house. My pants are wet on the crotch and Barry Manilow is singing about a romantic weekend in New England – I’m on my third beer … Continue reading →

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Like Weiner, I’m DONE

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Yorick von Fortinbras

As Weiner-gate stretches into its final act this week, I too find myself beginning a climactic transition, stirring my own arousing cocktail of change, if you will. I quit writing on Friday night. It was quite liberating. I hadn’t realized … Continue reading →

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Contemplations of Strong AI as a Moral Entity and an Assertion Against Concurrent Intellectual Layers

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Yorick von Fortinbras

I was thinking about politicians and intelligence yesterday, one of the more pure oxymorons you’ll ever come across, and I began wondering, “Would a strong AI eventually become corrupt?” My assumption is “possibly”, if it came to be in its … Continue reading →

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Human 2.0

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Yorick von Fortinbras

Who is ready for Human 2.0? Do you want to succeed in a new world of integrated hi-technology that is rapidly approaching? Do you have any idea what this is? I will tell you. The coming world will be composed … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Peru

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Yorick von Fortinbras

My trip in a few words: Bob Dylan, sickness, traffic, burn, discomfort, sniffing, best idea, weakness, HDR photographs, tias all over the place So I adjusted my goal halfway through my recent visit to Peru, which was initially to return … Continue reading →

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