Reality usually is. But in an ideological world where the good side and the bad must clearly distinguishable and never stray from their categories nobody is interested in the truth. “Journalism” becomes impractical; only polemic is possible. You’re stuck with the narrative you start. This is true of everything. Maybe even lockdown advocates knew this …
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Google Blocks News
Google has admitted to hiding news stories from the top of its internet searches Readers of leading Australian outlets report no longer seeing latest top stories Search giant said it changed its algorithm as part of a ‘short-term experiment’ Move criticised as show of power as Google fights plans to make it pay for news …
Political Einsteins vs HAL
Won’t stop government from creating AI because: Politicians will be certain they can pay HAL off. Politicians will fund the construction of an AI agent to control AI. Artificial idiocy always beats artificial intelligence. Part of the team’s reasoning comes from the halting problem put forward by Alan Turing in 1936. The problem centres on …
Our Selective Blindness
Facial recognition can track one face from a billion yet databases can’t identify the Covid deaths in NY nursing homes. The press can investigate a high school yearbook photo from the ’80s but WHO can’t investigate the origins of the virus in China. Our magic world leans to one side. Tech doesn’t track what it’s …
WHO Sleuths Land in China
They expect to stay for a month but will start work immediately during their two-week quarantine, according to the WHO. WHO investigators have arrived in China for a COVID-19 origin probe. But they’re already downplaying expectations … They will head straight to hotel quarantine for two weeks. During that time, they’ll be continuing their work, …
How Facial Recognition Technology Is Helping Identify the U.S. Capitol Attackers – IEEE Spectrum
“We have over three billion photos that we indexed from the public internet, like Google for faces,” Hoan Ton-That, CEO of facial recognition start-up Clearview AI told Spectrum. Every move you make, every pic you take I’ll be watching you. Oh can’t you see you belong to me. You do it to yourself. The technology …
How a Small Minority Coerced Multitudes
Impossible? Stalin did it. How he did it is why history matters. Stalinism was a rigorous attempt to implement Marxism. It wasn’t the Revolution Betrayed but the Revolution implemented with unshakeable will. The social engineering impulse makes it possible to exercise limitless, self-righteous power.
Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes
Stefan Thomas, a German-born programmer living in San Francisco, has two guesses left to figure out a password that is worth, as of this week, about $220 million. The password will let him unlock a small hard drive, known as an IronKey, which contains the private keys to a digital wallet that holds 7,002 Bitcoin. …
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The Great Unraveling/Awakening
Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times, realizes the devil actually exists, and rules a kingdom of lies, which sooner or later becomes a realm on earth. There was nothing so destructive as lying in a good cause. Miracle, mystery and authority are the three temptations of evil. They can only give you the …
Runaway Saves
Gab is restoring a backup of Trump’s Twitter posts. Yes, but how about you? Is YOUR information backed up: the search history, social media submissions etc mined by big silicon?
Vaccinating Vs Similar Diseases
This vaccine platform, called a mosaic nanoparticle, was developed initially by collaborators at the University of Oxford. The nanoparticle is shaped like a cage made up of 60 identical proteins, each of which has a small protein tag that functions like a piece of Velcro. Cohen and his team took fragments of the spike proteins …
It Was the Uniparty
They enjoy all of the benefits of being U.S. based companies, but their operations and customers span the world. Many of them have participated in the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council. The compact of that group states, “society is best served by corporations that have aligned their goals to long term goals of society.” …
YouTube is suspending President Donald Trump’s channel – CNN
CNN says his channel earned a strike under the platform’s policies, the company said Tuesday evening. Every breath you takeEvery move you makeEvery bond you breakEvery step you takeI’ll be watching you. That includes you also.
Suppose They Gave an Inauguration and Nobody Came?
Roger Simon writes: Don’t show up!When I say don’t show up, I mean really don’t show up.Don’t protest the inauguration in any way, not in Washington, not at your state house, nowhere. Ignore the whole thing.Don’t even watch the event on television or stream it on any of your devices. I suspect significantly fewer are …
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Uganda bans all social media ahead of election
Twitter outraged. “We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet,” it said in a statement.
An Ascendant Left Silences and Excludes Its Enemies
At least Weimar had the Great War as an excuse to fall apart. What alibi is there for the current moral collapse? The best show on television right now features a major city, the capital of an unsteady government, that is gradually being pulled apart by two competing political parties. The center can’t hold; it’s …
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Idaho internet company blocks Facebook, Twitter over ‘censorship’ | krem.com
That’s different! Or it? SPOKANE, Wash. — A North Idaho internet provider, Your T1 WIFI, confirmed it is blocking Facebook and Twitter from its WIFI service for some customers due to censorship claims.
Look Familiar?
Hard times need someone to blame. 2021 is likely to be a rough ride for countries all over the world. But it will be especially hard on those who have raised psychological expectations to an unreasonable degree. The dawn has broken so where’s the sunshine? The bad December job numbers are ominous. What happens if …
U.S. loses 140,000 jobs in first monthly loss since spring
George Friedman’s take on the number is that many businesses are permanently lightening ship. The economic damage is now long term. Those 140,000 cuts were made largely by businesses that have a profound understanding of the business they are in and of the appetite of their customers for what they sell. Most businesses have always …
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How We Went Back to the Middle Ages
We were warned in 2003 about the coming age of censorship. Today, when censorship is being advocated to counter ‘disinformation’ or the ‘Big Lie,’ it may be time to remember John Walker, the man who anticipated way back in 2003 that a digital imprimatur would be required to say anything substantial online. Walker was the …