The first trailer for Shazam! came out eight months ago, and it looked like a pretty good movie. Unlike certain other DC superhero movies, it looked like the Shazam! filmmakers remembered that comics were supposed to be fun.https://youtu.be/go6GEIrcvFYI managed to catch one of the sneak preview showings of Shazam! last week, and I thought it lived up to the promise of … [Read more...] about Shazam! – Review
The Walking Authorial Intrusion
Walking Dead is pissing me off. Again.The problem started with the final episode of Season 6, when Negan finally appears. The show had been building up to this for several episodes, as Rick's group had a series of run-ins with Negan's minions. In this episode, several of Rick's group were captured by Negan's much larger force and hauled into a clearing where they were … [Read more...] about The Walking Authorial Intrusion
The FACES of Justice
The ACLU and several other public interest groups have filed a brief with the Florida Supreme Court urging them to look into the use of automated facial recognition in criminal proceedings. In 2015, two undercover cops purchased $50 of crack cocaine from a Black man on a Jacksonville street. Instead of arresting him on the spot, one officer used an old phone to snap several … [Read more...] about The FACES of Justice
Green New Disaster
I've been meaning to write something about the "Green New Deal" for a while now, but it's been such a vague concept that I wasn't sure how to address it. Should I write about the letter to Congress signed by hundreds of environmental and liberal-leaning groups? Or maybe the Sunrise Movement's grand strategy? It would be pointless to write about some fringe version of the … [Read more...] about Green New Disaster
Model Justice — Starting Over
It's been a while since I wrote about my Model Justice project, which is an attempt to build a software model of certain aspects of the criminal justice system. In my last post on the subject, I explained why I was abandoning the Insight Maker systems modeling environment in favor of the Python general-purpose programming language. Since then, I've been slowly … [Read more...] about Model Justice — Starting Over