Author Archives: wrenchinthegears

Today’s “Black Friday” video is shared below. To skip forward to my analysis of the Solari Report’s recent short on “Bitcoin Billionaires” go to timestamp 25 minutes. But the first part is kind of fun if you want to take some time to think about how we think, alone and together, and what it might […]

Because I need to head out to dig the last of my garden beds before frost sets in, I am making a rather fragmented placeholder post to hold links I recently shared with online colleagues. I’m going to use this as a reference for my future self, but perhaps others will also find it to […]

Was LBJ’s Great Society “social safety net” a spiderweb from its initial conception? Elizabeth Hinton’s book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime” offers insights into the history of government welfare in the United States and an assessment that it provided the foundation for an expansive police state used to surveil and […]

There’s a gentle rain coming down tonight, and I’m enjoying the soothing sounds of it in my cozy sunroom. I feel like I’m stealing time here. This space is enclosed by rickety old metal windows, and with the drafts and lack of insulation, I expect it will be off-limits in a few weeks for the […]

Below is a summary of my most recent post from Hot Springs, Arkansas. It just goes to show how fragile our perceived “reality” is in a world increasingly governed by the physics of information. It truly is a fascinating time to be alive. With digital media working overtime to keep everyone in their assigned “reality […]

Yesterday I put together a 40-minute video in which I talk about Karl Friston’s “Free Energy Principle,” a theory developed in the 1990s that centers the unique narrative world models we hold internally and how those models in consciousness are shaped by sensory input, the incoming information hurtling towards us through the feed every day. […]

I write this post on the first anniversary of the death of my dear father Jerry Lee Hawver who grew up in an unstable, alcoholic household and through hard work and great people skills became a star athlete and executive with Proctor and Gamble. He and my mother raised my brother and me in the […]

Dear readers, For those who are still following along, you’ve probably noticed it’s been quiet on the blog this summer. I did a short update on my channel a few weeks ago letting folks know I found a cozy home, a 1970s two-bedroom brick rancher on about a quarter acre on the outskirts of Hot […]

That little voice whispered it was time to get out of the apartment and clear my head. I’d been working on additions to a map for several days, and it was going slower than I wanted it to go. My mother, in her 80s, moved into assisted living last month. As is to be expected, […]

This three-hour chat with my friend Lynn Davenport of Dallas, Texas was initially triggered by my frustration with a recent RFK Jr. video promoting blockchain as the future.   While I wanted to deconstruct the silly nationalist tone of his video, promoters of decentralized ledger tech know that the whole point is peer-to-peer communication and […]