Killed When Cleaning Gun: Alibis That Never Make Sense

In the annals of crime, crime fiction, and crime news stories even to this day is the phrase killed when cleaning the gun. What this refers to is the after-the-fact explanation for how the father, friend, brother, mother, and sometimes the self, got shot. Because when you shoot somebody out of intent but you don’t… Continue reading Killed When Cleaning Gun: Alibis That Never Make Sense

Crime Up and Down at the Same Time: Meet Your New Local News – Hoodline

Local news is in shambles, no doubt about that. Hyper-local newspapers are either struggling or no longer exist. In my community, the hyper-local newspaper survives only by running what feels like 90-percent ads and 10-percent news. Since robots build our cars and electronics, can they build our local news? That’s what Hoodline, a news aggregator,… Continue reading Crime Up and Down at the Same Time: Meet Your New Local News – Hoodline

YouTube’s Video Discovery System is Creepy

Virginia Gregg

As if we needed another example of how technology is creeping into our brains, how about this one: YouTube’s Video Discovery System? It’s one thing for Google and YouTube to follow closely behind your interests; we’re all accustomed to that. But now they want to match you step-for-step and even go ahead of you, predicting… Continue reading YouTube’s Video Discovery System is Creepy

Saving Computers: Death of US News Media, LA Times-Style

Eric Lundgren

The Los Angeles Times continues its descent into tabloid world with the headline on this article about the conviction of e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren: “Electronics-recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers’ lives.” Really? That’s shocking.   Because the Times pulled the article from the Washington Post due to some apparent content-sharing arrangement, I checked… Continue reading Saving Computers: Death of US News Media, LA Times-Style

Did Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian Really Say “Balls Deep”?

Lesson #1 of YouTube captioning:  don’t rely on automatic captioning.  But the mighty media empire behind The Young Turks couldn’t hire someone from Fiverr to vet the automatic captioning, thus saving Miss Kasparian from the indignity of uttering “balls deep” instead of the Hepatitus C drug Solvaldi? The Ball Quantity Discussion But it was only… Continue reading Did Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian Really Say “Balls Deep”?