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This is the third installment in the Synthetic Pretenders series examining the proposed CaliforniaTrust Framework within the context of synthetic biology, eugenics, and the Spanish mission system.  Part One: Scientific Management, Robo-Bees, and Digital Babies Part Two: Apocalypse, Mind Files, and Interplanetary Promises In December 2019, Chris Fall, head of science for the US Department […]

This is the second in a series examining the California’s proposed Trust Framework within the context of synthetic biology, eugenics, and the Spanish Mission System.  Part One: Scientific Management, Robo-Bees, and Synthetic Pretenders The feature photo for this post is of Jason, Lynn and me outside the Provo Library, originally Brigham Academy. We were there to […]

In the winter of 2021, I traveled to Salt Lake City to present on the threat of human capital finance, education technology, and sensor networks to children. Those talks are available here and here, slides here, and site visits here. Utah is the beehive state. I opened with a slide about bee populations that featured […]

I’m still working on my eugenics, synthetic biology and digital ID series. Hope to get the first posts on that up this weekend. For now, I want to share a conversation Jason, Lynn, and I had on Monday about the public hearing in Austin last month, and the amazing Texas moms who testified against blockchained […]

For the past week I’ve been researching a post that will link the rise of synthetic biology and digital identity, under the banner of climate justice, to California’s history of eugenics and fears of “dysgenic degeneration.” Today someone tagged me on an article,Tamagotchi kids: could the future of parenthood be having virtual children in the […]

The WHO pandemic treaty is a grave concern and key to pushing us into the Metaverse through compulsory digital identity. In my opinion, however, the World Economic Forum, with its over-the-top villainous caricatures, is meant to keep the resisting public’s eyes trained on Davos thus providing cover for smaller, more nimble organizations, such as the […]

At the end of our Utah / Colorado field work in late March (playlist here), Jason arranged for us to give a talk in Denver. It was lovely to participate in a conversation with a room full of people face-to-face. We covered a lot of ground in a heartfelt way, and I think it turned […]

I prepared the following webinar as a response to narratives being spun around Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Now that it’s done, with a good spit and polish by Jason, I believe it may be one of the more important presentations we’ve put together. This talk offers insight into the philosophical and technical underpinnings of […]

Featured photo: Alison McDowell next to Ben Franklin, Craftsman at his printing press, sculpture donated to the City of Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania Freemasons. Masonic Hall and Philadelphia City Hall in the background. We imprint reality through our intentions.  It’s a few days before Mother’s Day, and I find myself alienated from the two people […]

In 2018, David Roux, founder of Silver Lake Partners and trustee of Jackson Laboratory, delivered a speech at the University of New England in which he predicted a future where managed human breeding would be carried out through the normalized use of genomic medicine at scale. The title of his presentation was “Social Trauma: Technology […]