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Go Leo Gao and Cara Young!
A modern story of hope: Police hunting for a New Zealand couple who allegedly fled the country after a bank mistakenly paid them $NZ10 million ($6 million) believe they traveled to Hong Kong. New Zealand authorities have sought help from … Continue reading
Vaporware of Terror
A startup that should have stayed in stealth mode but didn’t. (Amplified their product too early in the cycle, couldn’t deliver.) The age of inept terrorists continues. Good police work paid off – and treating terrorism as an intense type … Continue reading
Idea: Criminal-Processing Corporate Micro-States
Here‘s a 2007 post brought back to life on how to solve Gitmo (making it cheaper, more useful, and ideally less ‘politiked’). Note, this was put together back when I was briefing academic audiences and private military corporations on the … Continue reading
Trance Scene
Turns out I ‘knew’ a surprising amount of the artists that are big in that scene back when they were getting started at Mp3.com in the late 90’s. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Secure Cities
Very cool research on the militarization of cities post 9/11: Utilizing an innovative method developed by our interdisciplinary team, we find that over 17% of total space within our three study sites is closed entirely or severely limits public access. … Continue reading