terror

On unintended consequences.

Drones can keep soldiers safe, but they put everyone else at risk.

January 31, 2020

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, mass incarceration, Politics

A Theory of the Drone, assassination, Chamayou, dope, drone, drone pilot, drone pilot suicide, drone pilots, drone strikes, drone war, drone warfare, drones, drug overdose, drugs, drugs in jail, drugs in prison, grass, Gregoire Chamayou, jail smuggling, marijuana, military, military suicide, military suicides, military violence, philosophy, philosophy of war, politics, pot, pot replacer, prison mail, prison smuggling, spice, suicide, synthetic marijuana, terror, terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attack, violence against civilians, War on Drugs, war on terror
On fear.

Activating the neurons behind fear makes mammals attack. And 45 campaigned on fear.

February 10, 2017

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Politics, Psychology

amygdala, Chicago, civil war, climate change, climate strife, Clinton, Comoli, Daesh, Donald Trump, fear, Functional mapping of the prosencephalic systems involved in organizing predatory behavior in rats, gene expression, immigrant ban, Integrated Control of Predatory Hunting by the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala, ISIL, ISIS, Ivan de Araujo, Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, laser-activated neurons, Manchurian candidate, mind control, prejudice, refugee ban, Restaurant Depot, retrovirus, Syria, terror, terrorism, terrorists, Trump, violence, violence against conspecifics, voluntary research participation, war, Wenfei Han
On military drones.

Sleep Dealer is a lovely film. Flawed, sure — the romantic bits are corny, the characters’ sudden shifts of heart are abrupt — but the ideas behind the film and they way they’re depicted are great. If you like mildly-speculative science fiction that conveys powerful social commentary, you should definitely look for it. But you should…

September 28, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts, Psychology, Ramayana

attacks on civilians, Chamayou, David Rohde, drone, Gregoire Chamayou, living near drones, Living Under the Drones, military, PTSD, signature strikes, Sleep Dealer, suicide bombers, suicide bombing, surveillance, terror, terrorism, Theory of the Drone, war on terror, zero dead
On hunting.

I saw many posts on the internet from people upset about hunting, specifically hunting lions. And eventually I watched the Jimmy Kimmel spot where he repeatedly maligns the Minnesota hunter for shooting that lion, and even appears to choke up near the end while plugging a wildlife research fund that you could donate money to. And,…

August 6, 2015

Frank Brown Cloud

All posts

aid to developing nations, an open invitation to stop by for dinner, animal cognition, animal intelligence, animal welfare, antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Barbara Ehrenreich, barbecue, Blood Rites, Bloomingveg, CAFOs, captive-animal hunting, Cecil, Cecil the lion, cognitive dissonance, concentrated animal feeding operation, conservation, directed evolution of virulent bacteria, distribution of wealth, do humans need to eat meat, dosing farm animals with subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics is evil, Ducks Unlimited, eat your ethics, Ecology, environment, environmentalism, ethical exemptions, ethics, ethics for sale, factory farming, food, foolhardy farming practices, Goodwell Nzou, guns, habitat loss, habitat maintenance, hunting, hunting in state parks, hunting license, hypocracy, intensive animal farming, Jimmy Kimmel, local food movement, meat, medical discoveries, monetary aid, money, nature, Origins and History of the Passions of War, overpopulation, people are more important than lions, philosophical consequences of being born a heterotroph, pigs, pigs are smarter than lions, poaching, poverty, reparations, running terrified during deer season, subtherapuetic levels of antibiotics, terror, the coming health crisis, trophy hunting, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian, wasting food, wetland preservation, zoo abuses

terror

On unintended consequences.

On fear.

On military drones.

On hunting.