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Commencement Speech

Dear Class of 2026—congratulations… You did it. You survived active shooter drills, pandemics, wildfire smoke, AI plagiarism scandals and the mass psy-ops known as social media....

Commencement Speech | Daedalus Howell Dear Class of 2026—congratulations… You did it. You survived active shooter drills, pandemics, wildfire smoke, AI plagiarism scandals and the mass psy-ops

As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “There are no second acts in American lives.” But… Most self-help gurus say we do have more, maybe even three, with additional modules available for download.

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, the subject of Steal This Story, Please! a gripping new documentary that focuses on Goodman's unwavering commitment to truth-telling spanning three decades of turbulent history. Click-thru to listen/read...

Steal This Story: A Chat with Journalist Amy Goodman | Daedalus Howell I had the pleasure of interviewing Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, the subject of Steal This Story, Please! a gripping new documentary that focuses on

DVDs Are Flat Circles: Streamers Killed the Video Store

"I have a theory that media that is round and disk-shaped will always return. Its primary shape, a circle, speaks to the cyclical nature of tastes and life in general."

Streaming Killed the Video Store. Again. The last video store where one could rent DVDs in Marin County closed in February 2022. What does this mean for the non-streaming movies?

CIA: Take the Money and Run (a Little Magazine)

"And inasmuch as digital media has 'democratized' filmmaking, it’s still a slog to fund movies. My films and my CV have never compelled grantors or intelligence operatives to throw me a bone. But if they did, would I take their dough?"

CIA: Take the Money and Run (a Little Magazine) | Daedalus Howell Sometimes research is a benign form of procrastination. Other times, it’s a tremulous step onto a spider’s web of curiosities and conspiracies until the