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Thomas Holt Russell
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What Does Musical Taste Indicate About Us?

Music taste reveals a lot about us — but don’t take it too far. During a conversation addressing the question, “What is one of your most important musical experiences?” I was mocked for revealing my first real musical experience: The Beatle's appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. My fellow African…

Music

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What Does Musical Taste Indicate About Us?
What Does Musical Taste Indicate About Us?
Music

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Dec 31, 2022

Book Review: Divine Blue Light

Don't show this collection if you like to spread interest in poetry. If someone had handed me the poetry book Divine Blue Light for John Coltrane by Will Alexander, I would have never read a book of poetry in my life. This book, by a person touted as a Pulitzer…

Poems

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Book Review: Divine Blue Light
Book Review: Divine Blue Light
Poems

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Nov 13, 2022

Atlanta: A groundbreaking show ends appropriately — with us scratching our heads!

The surrealist television show is an instant classic and will be missed. Watching the first episode of Atlanta hooked me. Two scenes reeled me in. From the very first scene, the confrontation in the parking lot outside a nightclub between the three protagonists, Ern, Paper Boy, Darius, and a young…

Donald Glover

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Atlanta: A groundbreaking show ends appropriately — with us scratching our heads!
Atlanta: A groundbreaking show ends appropriately — with us scratching our heads!
Donald Glover

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Oct 24, 2022

Bias In, Bias Out

Is AI and machine learning helping to perpetuate bias? We hear and read much about how AI is not a technology that will help eliminate the bias of race, gender, and culture. AI seems to mirror the entranced racial norms that exist in atomic (as opposed to digital) reality. There…

AI

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Bias In, Bias Out
Bias In, Bias Out
AI

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Oct 12, 2022

Stop Making Dozens of Passwords

All you Really Need is One Strong Password — stop playin’ In 2008, my wife purchased my first biometric computer as a gift for me. I registered my fingers on both hands just in case I lost one of those hands, and the system worked fine. I was a little…

Passwords

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Stop Making Dozens of Passwords
Stop Making Dozens of Passwords
Passwords

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Aug 14, 2022

Delusional

The MAGA crowd is desperately holding on to a world that never existed. The political and racial division in America is so deep-seated into our culture, not even palpable truth can uproot this invasive social disease. The political climate raises questions about the possibility of violence. However, we are way…

Black Lives Matter

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Delusional
Delusional
Black Lives Matter

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Jul 24, 2022

A Step Back In Time

In Alamance County, It’s 1950 I recently visited a small, quaint southern town and was unexpectantly transported to the year 1950. The courthouse is located in the town square. A colossal statue dedicated to the brave soldiers of the confederacy stands guard at the entrance. …

Statue Removal

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A Step Back In Time
A Step Back In Time
Statue Removal

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Jul 11, 2022

Why I Embrace Humanism

When I was around six or seven years old, my best friend and neighbor, Raymond, told me the story of how our earth was made. I found it fascinating and thought that Raymond must have been the most intelligent person in the world. It was some time before I realized…

Humanist

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Why I Embrace Humanism
Why I Embrace Humanism
Humanist

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May 30, 2022

The Most Disturbing Movie On HBO

At less than 15 minutes long, the featurette, “One, Two, Three, Eyes On Me,” left a mark I can’t erase. A few weeks ago, I watched a movie that was one of the most disturbing movies I have ever watched on HBO. So disturbing, as a matter of fact, that…

School Shootings

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The Most Disturbing Movie On HBO
The Most Disturbing Movie On HBO
School Shootings

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May 16, 2022

We have the technology for secure voting

Distrust is stopping us from using it. We have the technology to conduct secure voting. The technology is not 100% un-hackable. Society has not invented Hacker-proof technology yet. However, it can provide security, anonymity, and accuracy to ensure fair elections.ff Then why are we not using digital technology to vote…

Vote

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We have the technology for secure voting
We have the technology for secure voting
Vote

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Thomas Holt Russell

Thomas Holt Russell

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Humanist, educator, writer, photographer, and modern-day Luddite. http://thomasholtrussell.zenfolio.com/ My writing is a living organism.

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