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I was living in LA in the late 1980’s, heard about something online called BBS. This was before everyone was on the internet. A local alt paper published BBS phone numbers. I bought a modem, spend an hour trying to…

These Twitter accounts are working to topple Trump. Louise Mensch is probably the best known. Plenty of others are doing excellent work too. There is no ideology except that Trump must go. The best way to follow them is to…

Trump is an ignorant willful child who can and will do extraordinary damage if he lasts four years in office. That can’t be allowed. Some say, well, let’s organize and take back the House and Senate in 2018. Then he…

The Trump Administration now appears determined to prosecute Julian Assange. I would not be surprised if Edward Snowden somehow gets returned to the U.S. Assange and Snowden have served their purpose. Neither Trump nor Russia has little further use for…

The biggest offshore wind turbines now produce 8 MW, enough for roughly 48,000 US homes, and are over 700 feet tall. They will soon be dwarfed by much bigger turbines capable of producing 15 MW, maybe much more. The economies…