Elon Musk

SciFriday: Photobombing the Comet

July 31, 2020

We’ve reached a strange point in human history: Taking photographs of the stars is becoming more difficult because of the man-made satellites in orbit that keep getting in the way.

CNN Says Trump Supporters Are in a Cult

November 26, 2019

CNN’s Brian Stelter Sunday interviewed a guest who claims that President Trump is a “destructive cult” leader using “mind control” to direct supporters.

SciFriday: AI, Social Credit, and Tesla’s Herkimer Battle Jitney

November 8, 2019

We peer into the future to see what’s coming within the next ten years: Self-driving electric vehicles, social media running our lives, and the emergence of “spiritual machines.”

SciFriday: Facebook Builds the Beast System

June 28, 2019

Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, raises the disturbing prospect of people with views they deem unacceptable—conservative, Christian, or (horrors!) conservative Christian—from being not just deplatformed, but unable to buy and sell if the day comes that Libra becomes a global currency.

Weapon of Mass Distraction

Official website of Derek P. Gilbert

SciFriday: Photobombing the Comet

CNN Says Trump Supporters Are in a Cult

SciFriday: Facebook Builds the Beast System

Ditching our bodies for bionic parts

Honoring the old goat demons

Open source A.I.