Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
SUBSCRIBE The politics of AI are beginning to bloom, an opportunity for its use as a lever to revive and help reform democracy in America. To be used as such requires an understanding there is no Democratic or Republican position on AI. It is either an issue that helps redefine
SUBSCRIBE Well, since Nigeria breached, hopefully briefly, the tidal line of the American information tsunami, maybe there’s a small opportunity for an ignorant people to learn a little about a part of the world they helped shape over the last half-century. Coincidentally and conveniently, the FT has a piece
A reminder next Saturday, December 6th is Chicago book event. Due to popular demand and fire codes, and fire codes in Chicago are nothing to sneeze at, we had to move the venue. No worries, it's right down the street with plenty of room, same time: Saturday, December
As far as American holidays go, Thanksgiving is about as good as it gets, not militarized or hyper-consumptive. Of course getting together and sharing food is as old a community tradition as this species has, cutting across all modern lines of separation, stretching back to the African savannas. Not to
And I keep on fighting for the things I want Though I know that when you're dead, you can't But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppet or a slave So as sure as the sun will
Please join myself, Yasha, and Evgenia, with songs by special guest Michelle Shocked this Sunday, November 23rd, 7pm, KGB Bar, New York as we talk the politics of technology. Despite my bohawk roots – Dedek, I’ve never paid great interest to Eastern Europe. Yet today, something very interesting is happening
I did a fine podcast on The Politics of Ape and Machine with Radio War Nerd, it's now up https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-ep-radio-143953879 Have a listen, it's a great conversation with Mark Ames, unfortunately Prof. Dolan was not able to join, however he has
“We may remark at this point that modern physics is in some way extremely near to the doctrines of Heraclitus. If we replace the word `fire' by the word `energy' we can almost repeat his statements word for word from our modern point of view. Energy is in
Very much thanks to friends John Cacciatore and Nancy Kozikowski for hosting inaugural The Politics of Ape and Machine event in their beautiful home filled with Nancy's art. That's the thing about Albuquerque, it's filled with artists, incredible high desert landscape, good food, and
Book Tour started off with a great event on the 1st in Albuquerque, New Mexico, video will be up tomorrow. Sunday evening in Cassapolis, Michigan 2nd event had some thoughtful discussions on AI. Next week NY, with a new Mayor coming in and everything, good luck to him, he'
Here’s a great interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire AI. It’s a nice little primer on the politics of AI, most especially its assured destruction of, or better, what’s left of democracy, if allowed to continue along this path. Also, she points out AI's
It was no mistake that four years ago the inaugural piece of Life in the 21st Century concerned Nigeria. The piece was about Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka’s just released novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth. I concluded, “Soyinka's work is brilliant satire