by ultrasoundmedia | Jan 6, 2024 | Life and Death, Uncategorized
It was shortly after midnight, January 1st, and I was sitting in a crowded pub with my wife and three sons. The band was blaring out something that I couldn’t catch; there was too much horn in the mix, and I had had too many Manhattans. As the obligatory exchange of...
by ultrasoundmedia | Oct 10, 2023 | Life and Death, Uncategorized
On October 7, 2023, the terror organization Hamas launched a multi-pronged attack on Israel, killing hundreds and kidnapping dozens. Hamas is the ruling authority in the Gaza Strip, a parcel of land roughly double the size of Washington, D.C.. The Gaza Strip,...
by ultrasoundmedia | Aug 30, 2023 | Culture, Technology
In the 1970s, Bob Hunter was the driving force behind the environmental activist group Greenpeace. Brazenly committed to raising Greenpeace’s public profile, he was a self-described media insurgent, openly rejecting objectivity and embracing sensationalism to inject...
by ultrasoundmedia | Apr 29, 2023 | Culture, Technology
The threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to us has been dominating the news cycle. Exactly what AI will do to us is hard to predict — it hasn’t happened yet. But some, like Elon Musk, worry that AI will be used primarily to peddle lies to us. Musk is right,...
by ultrasoundmedia | Apr 10, 2023 | Culture
Click on over to The Stream for my thoughts on what’s wrong with men who pretend to be women selling a drink that pretends to be beer. Bottoms...
