One of the crucial failures of leadership during the Vietnam War was the way the pentagon managed to reduce a complex political/military/logistical situation down to a discussion about head-count. That allowed the military to focus discussion about the war into a question of head-count: how many dead Vietcong heads did you collect today? How many shiny new American heads did you ship over? How many came back?
A friend of mine made me watch this; I had had too much wine, perhaps, and really couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing.
White House press spokesman Sean Spicer made the comments during an off-camera briefing to journalists in Washington. [bbc]
I’ve described a bunch of situations as “white privilege” when I see cops talking politely to threatening-looking white people who have guns. For sure, white privilege is part of it, but I think there’s something more basic going on, as well.
Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma, has some interesting observations on America.
It came to my attention that one of the FtBloggers doesn’t like squirrels.
Caine has a post over at Affinity [aff] about Valley Fever – a poor person’s disease.
The talented Ieva Skrebele [avestra] did me a tribal badger icon. You’ve probably seen it in the small form already, but it’s worth a bigger look.
Back in October last year, I posted about the Russians’ deploying TOS-1 “Buratino” thermobaric multi-launch rocket systems. [stderr]
I’ve decided to celebrate June 10 as Facial Recognition Day. On this day, every year, I will try to think of some way to interfere with facial recognition.