AI exploitation
This video illustrates how AI is used to spread disinformation. YouTube (Google), Facebook, TikTok, and other social media sites facilitate the publication of falsehoods. It’s all about generating money from…
Norman Farrell
Cost reductions = quality of healthcare reductions
"Over the past 40 years, many health-care systems that were once publicly owned or financed have moved towards privatising their services, primarily through outsourcing to the private sector. But what…
Returning soon
I have not been active at IN-SIGHTS for a while, but I intend to resume. Wife Gwen and I have done a little travelling recently, including days in Amsterdam and…
Democracy is fragile
Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov wrote this and more in The Atlantic. Donald Trump likes to say he doesn’t actually lose elections–only the “rigged” ones. Such comments are not…
Exciting times?
American comedian Tom Papa says individual billionaires should be allowed to keep their enormous wealth, by only for a few hours.
Outrage
Fareed Khan describes himself as a "human rights and anti-hate activist, fighting for justice for the oppressed and persecuted." He has written and commented extensively about these issues. Khan's Substack…
Thank you editorial cartoonists
How long before editorial cartoonists are banned in the USA?
Do voters have the same interest as billionaires and corporations?
British comedian Frankie Boyle says the main purpose of conservative parties today is "to convince voters struggling through austerity that they have the same interests as billionaires and corporations."
Words come back to bite
Cole Bennett correctly wrote that Kirk's murder will not advance any of the causes he opposed. Violence against leaders is most often a consequence of damaged trust in political and…
Jackassery in Alberta
Alberta Conservatives recently demanded that inappropriate books be removed from schools. The order specified that students should not be exposed to sexual content. Among other things, there was to be…
Homelessness and extreme poverty
MPs, MLAs and council members seem to prioritize salaries, expense accounts, and pensions. If only they would have the same concern for action on homelessness. If they did, this would…
Old and uncollectible
Our magazine collection is rather large. Beyond hundreds of Scientific American, Archaeology, craft, cooking and gardening publications, we have about 500 National Geographic, including editions from the middle of the…
Global Peace Index
The 19th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. It covers 99.7 per cent of the world’s population.…
Foolish and deadly
Defunding mRNA Vaccine Research Is a Catastrophic Mistake vs New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes.
Bear with me
Our family has lived for decades at the edge of the forest in North Vancouver’s Seymour River valley. Bear encounters are not rare. We’ve had these animals in our yard…
Note to readers
Renovation work underway in and around our home explains why this site has been quiet recently. That and the July trip Gwen and I took across the ocean, which allowed…
Moral numbness
Writing for The Atlantic magazine, journalist David Brooks comments: There’s a question that’s been bugging me for nearly a decade. How is it that half of America looks at Donald…
Terawatts of clean energy
American company Quaise Energy is developing a new way to access the largest untapped energy source available. It will use established production methods of the fossil fuel industry, but the…
Economic power = political power
The video embedded here is not the least bit critical of its subjects. There is no discussion of wealth building through tax benefits, strategies that eliminate competition, or the use…
The Efficiency of Electric vs Fossil Fuel Economies
Markham Hislop and Professor Mark Jacobson dive into the rarely discussed fact that the electric economy is significantly more efficient than the fossil fuel economy, and therefore, less energy is…