John Matze Founder/CEO of Parler and iPhone developer. Interested in friendly discourse. Las Vegas | Dad The media tried to claim that “The Insurrection” was organized on Parler. There are quite a few problems with this. 1) Parler has no way to organize anything, Facebook groups were used heavily to
With the latest developments in the U.S. and the willingness of Big Tech to silence conservative voices, we have been forced to have a good long look at the roadmap for the continued development of The BFD. Given Big Tech’s assault on freedom, I’ve selected a few
Bruce Wilds brucewilds.blogspot.com When one of those so-called personal digital assistants started to babble the other day I cursed it and told it to “shut the f**k up.” That is when it happened, to my surprise the damn thing told me something to the effect, “I may
Duggan Flanakin cfact.org Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas.
Marcus Roberts mercatornet.com Marcus Roberts was two years out of law school when he decided that practising law was no longer for him. He therefore went back to university and did his LLM while tutoring. He now teaches contract and torts law. Aside from law, his passions include reading
When the mapping of the human genome was declared complete nearly 20 years ago, pundits hailed it as the dawn of a brave new era of genetic medicine. Well, it took a while, but those breathless claims seem to finally be coming to fruition. The most well-known – and controversial – manifestation
In his final instalment of Donald Bell’s Maker Update for 2020, he celebrates some of the most creative and clever pandemic and social isolation projects of 2020. Projects include Simone Geirtz’s Proud Parent Machine, Bornach’s incredible Astable Exhalation sculpture, Shane Wighton’s robot barber, and Colin Furze’
Karl D. Stephanro mercatornet.com Faithful Muslims are required to pray five times a day, facing toward Mecca. In our smartphone era, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with an app that reminds the Muslim user that it’s time to pray, and conveniently uses
Spencer M. Ross University of Massachusetts Lowell Sommer Kapitan Auckland University of Technology Collectors for the Paralympic Games carried donation buckets ahead of the recent Santa parade in Auckland, asking for gold coin donations. Onlookers shrugged them off: “Sorry, no cash on me!” To the rescue, a charity volunteer waved
While Australia and New Zealand slavishly follow the EU’s obsessive focus on “renewables” despite the mathematically incontrovertible fact that they just cannot feasibly replace fossil fuels, some in the US are recalling America’s “can do” spirit – and making next-generation nuclear happen. Five minutes’ scribbling on the back of
righttolife.org.uk An Argentinian pro-abortion activist has created a modification for the famous 1990s video game, Doom, in which the player completes the game by shooting an unborn baby with a shotgun. Once the player has killed the unborn baby the game displays the message “You defeated fetito [English
Last week, the Australian government tabled world-first laws to force tech giants like Google and Facebook to start paying for news content scraped from media outlets and to meet minimum standards, including giving notice of changes to their algorithms. The government says that its mandatory news media bargaining code was
Australia is set to pass world-first laws to force tech giants to pay for the content they’ve so far been scraping for free from media companies, as well as sharing their data-collection methods. Is this the last gasp of a dying legacy media – or the first push-back against the
Commercial fusion generation has been “just around the corner” for almost as long as I can remember. As far back as the late 70s, fusion was a mere 20 years away…and there it’s stayed, always just out of reach. No matter how many “breakthroughs” are announced. So, you’
