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Pandemia: How Corona Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives, Washington, D.C, 2022, Regnery Publishing Book Review Summary Pandemia is the most important book to be published about the Wuhan (COVID) pandemic of 2020 through 2023. Supported by copious amounts of accurate data (much of which was not disclosed to the American people by the American government as Wuhan gained strength and spread through the country), it is required reading for anyone who needs to understand what happened, why, and what the future potentially holds. The book is well written, even handed in its criticism of the various players…

High-tech has always had its Grand Dames. In the 1970s and 80s, the grandest of them all was Esther Dyson. Esther is the daughter of renowned theoretical physicist Freeman, who’s most famous for building (virtually) the Dyson sphere, a construct designed to englobe a sun and suck all the energy from it, thus powering a civilization even capable of counting the votes in a national election in a single day. The Dyson sphere lives in on the imagination of exobiologists, who feverishly scan the skies using the Hubble, Kepler, and Webb telescopes for the signs of working Dyson sphere powering…

On October 28, 2021, Facebook surprised high-tech by announcing it was changing its name to Meta and that the company intended to conquer the Metaverse. This is a bold move. Facebook is the second largest social media company behind Google (Twitter is a very distant third) and its brand, a direct result of its power and profitability, a mighty force. It also owns Instagram, Whatsapp, and Oculus VR, the company that makes all those 3D gaming goggles you loudly hinted you wanted for Father’s Day, used twice, then never picked up again (you know who you are). The name change…

The 2022 Winter Olympics are over and like a true American patriot, I celebrated the event by not watching a minute of it. Don’t get me wrong. I’m from the northeast and as a boy spent many hours figure skating on Van Cortlandt lake after it froze up during the winter months. I also  collected a chipped tooth and scar on my chin from The Bronx’s version of skeleton, which consists of shooting down a snow-covered hill at high speed on a sled, trash can lid, cardboard box, or whatever will do the trick while avoiding rocks (chin scar), dogs,…

Athon Slotkin, The Shadow CEO A sample NBA Top Shot digital sample playing card Dean Christensen. When not creating art, he plays for the amateur basketball team “The Brooklyn Eyebleeds” Profile Info: Company names The Stealth CEO Dapper Labs: Years in business: January, 2021. Principal management:  Athon Slotkin: Athon has earned the title of “The Shadow CEO” by working with thousands of businesses to adjust business strategy, see the big picture, make innovative brand or financial moves, and pivot accordingly to market developments. He is currently working with several startups on the NFT market. https://athanslotkin.com  Roham Gharegozlou: Roham is the…