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Bots, Politics And Democracy: When Technology Fails
May 12, 2016
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Bots, short for robots, generate messages daily that constitute 60 percent of web traffic. The automated programs are all over the internet. Some run free but others wait for an “execute” command. They come in different types like web crawlers, chat room bots, and malicious
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Surveillance Technology: Transparency With A Dark Side
May 10, 2016
In his essay for Foreign Affairs, Sean P. Larkin credits the explosion of surveillance technology with a new transparency in the world order. (“The Age of Transparency,” by Sean P. Larkin, Foreign Affairs May/June 2016, pg. 136.) The ability to monitor human behavior — fro
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If Dodd-Frank Becomes Less Frank
May 06, 2016
The Dodd-Frank legislation is under assault. Don’t look for cannon fire or sonic blasts. It’s a quiet battle making its way through the courts and raises a small point that could topple the entire edifice. And don’t the money lenders know it? In 2010, the financial refor
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Guilt And Shame Revisited
May 05, 2016
Recently, guilt and shame were topics in a New York Times column by David Brooks (3/15/2016). When my blog on the same issue appeared a month later, (Blog 4/25/2016), a reader emailed me a copy of those earlier remarks. Not crucial but immediately evident was a difference in the d
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Bernie Or Bust: A Moral Dilemma Or A Capitulation?
May 04, 2016
Having spent 9 years in public life, I know something about that spotlight. Politics is the one forum where one needs no credentials to chart a course for society. One needs only to be in the right place at the right time and have access to money. The situation would be funny, as
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Labiaplasty And Female Liberation
May 03, 2016
Labiaplasty may be one of the saddest words I’ve ever heard and only just learned. It refers to plastic surgery performed to alter the folds surrounding the female vulvae with the intent of giving them a clam-like appearance. In the case of a birth deformity, the procedure has i
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Data Dumps, The Media And The Myth Of Transparency
May 02, 2016
Data dumps aren’t the sole province of whistle blowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. In the name of transparency, our government unloads reams of data on a regular basis, so much so, that the search for specific information is like a forced to march though the dessert i
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Encryption And Human Nature
Apr 29, 2016
Encryption, which makes our electronic communications secure, is only as good as three things: human nature, human nature, and human nature. After Edward Snowden leaked information about government surveillance on our citizenry, Congress amended the USA Freedom Act to end NSA’s
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Fracking Needn’t Be A dirty Word
Apr 28, 2016
Fracking is a dirty word in my circle of friends and I admit, I am as eager as they are to see this country decouple from fossil fuels. But when Hillary Clinton was criticized for taking money from the fracking industry, a donation amounting to less than 1% of total contributions,
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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.
Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015
Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens. She also published the story Gustav Pavel, a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.
Caroline has published five novels
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