Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

Child soldiers, unending war, grinding poverty, blood diamonds, blood batteries and now volcanoes. One of the most tragic and forgotten places on earth. More coverage is allotted to George Floyd and Bill Cosby than the Congo.

Money quote: While the military relied on what was already available on the civilian market and adapted it for military purposes – in the years prior to the fighting – the IDF established an advanced AI technological platform that centralized all data on terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip onto one system that enabled the …

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Complains he was put on hold when he called the police.

Like when the Night King walks through dragon napalm without getting a hair out of place.

In a way it proves nothing. Assertions are true or false because they are or they aren’t. Facebook has no power over factuality.

The president’s plans to invest in infrastructure, education, health care and more would push federal spending to its highest sustained levels since World War II.

China better find the missing link “Species X” before the public finds out what “gain of function” means.

Accidents, including deadly ones, caused by software or industrial robots, can be traced to the early days of such technology but they are not a direct consequence of the particulars of the intelligence available in such systems. AI failures, on the other hand, are directly related to the mistakes produced by the intelligence that such …

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Tomorrow’s headlines are already written. It’s what happened yesterday that’s still to be decided.

“I have now asked the intelligence community to redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Mr. Biden said. “As part of that report, I have asked for areas of further inquiry that may be required, including …

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Maybe China believes in itself unlike a certain civilization filled with trendy self-loathing.

Why is ethnic fraud so common in academia? Because it pays. The more important question is why does it pay?

The problem with current CRISPR-based gene drive systems is that they can spread indefinitely—potentially affecting every population of the target species throughout the world. It’s unclear how such “global” drives can be safely tested, much less whether nations will ever agree to use them. To return power to the hands of local communities, we devised …

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“You gotta go where the action is,” Fauci explained on Tuesday, as he faced questions about the increasingly popular lab-origin theory from Republicans during testimony before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. … “It would have been almost a dereliction of our duty if we didn’t study this,” Fauci said on Tuesday, meaning that …

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Europeans gasped with horror when Belarusian authorities forced a Ryanair flight to land in Minsk to detain a young journalist.

Is it time to end sanitation theater? Hygiene theater will end right around the time security theater does. Child in 2019 taking off his shoes prior to boarding plane: “Daddy what’s 9/11?’ Child turning briefly from Zoom in 2039: “Daddy, what’s air travel?”

Why are Biden and the media suddenly open to the former “conspiracy theory” of a lab origin of the coronavirus pandemic. First it was never purely a conspiracy theory. From the beginning many reputable experts urged the possibility be investigated. What may be happening is the tide is turning within the bureaucratic scientific establishment. As …

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It has all of the elements of a Jason Bourne plot: A commercial flight carrying a dissident journalist is intercepted by a MiG-29 fighter jet under orders from the strongman president of Belarus.

New at the Belmont Club. Religions in disguise.