Trump’s AI-Enabled Autocracy

Listen HERE Mike Magee This week, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, did it again – scaring the bejesus out of societal leaders worldwide with warnings that their grip on security and governance of human populations is dangerously close to AI extinction. Amodei’s opening paragraph in his article titled “The Adolescence of Technology” wastes no time […]

The New Face of Eugenics?

Mike Magee MD Few can possibly be surprised that, in the age of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, “Designer Babies” (among the billionaire tech crowd and their followers) are all the rage. Seven years ago, He Jiankui, a gene editing scientist from China, took three human embryos and used Crispr technology to design in immunity […]

Stand Tall Stanford. Lead Again – Divest TESLA!

Mike Magee On the Stanford campus this Spring, in the middle of Silicon Valley, it was impossible not to hear echoes of Apartheid re-emerging with force 3/4 of a century after the original battle for social justice here and in far away lands was fully engaged. Stanford’s President, Jonathan Levin, said it best in […]

Echoes of Apartheid: The Case for Tesla Divestiture

Join the “Tesla Divestiture” Movement Send this link to all your friends and contacts. Speak up! Push back! ___________________________________________________ Mike Magee For aging Boomers, it is impossible not to hear echoes of Apartheid re-emerging with force 3/4 of a century after the battle for social justice here and in far away lands was fully engaged. […]

Trump and Vance: We Need to Finish This Drama and Undress These Actors.

Mike Magee “Chance made the situation; genius profited from it,’ says history. But what is chance? What is genius?” Leo Tolstoy from “War and Peace”, 1867. Trump and Vance wasted little time embarrassing America today. Following the game plan of “Professional Wrestling” they did their best to bully […]

A Message From Elizabeth II This Christmas Day

As the New Year approaches, Hcom offers this piece for your quiet consideration and contemplation. Mike Magee Hanukkah, the Jewish communities 8-day Festival of Lights begins this Wednesday on December 25, 2024. This is a rather rare calendar coincidence, one that will not repeat again until 2052. Those who witnessed the conspicuous Trump and Musk-induced […]

Altman v. Musk. Who Will Rule on “The Island of Accelerationalism?”

Mike Magee Has America turned into an “Island of Musk?” He seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. As Trump’s new best friend, he’s opened up the gates of Twitter-hell, morphed into a steady stream of crypto-cash, and demonstrated his dance moves alongside Trump at featured venues. He’s also launched “a robot […]