“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 …
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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 …
Recipe for Gasoline
Nothing is less nonpartisan than a social media platform run by politicized CEOs. Yet social media platforms are precisely that: defined by their politics whether they be Facebook, Twitter, Parler or Gab. They are not ‘social media’ vehicles full of pictures of families having picnics or singing round campfires. They are places where activists call …
The Costs of Wading into Politics
One of the nice things about not being in politics is not being in politics. Make no enemies where you can make no friends. Like I said weeks ago, both sides are so evenly matched any clash will cause mutual damage. “The populist uprising is now objectively too powerful for progressives to crush. The left …
“We will have nothing left to open”
City hall can beat anyone except reality. “Who sent you?” (pause) “God.” (pause) “Never heard of Him.”
Twitter stock tumbles 10% after Trump is permanently banned from the platform | Business Insider
Even battleships take damage. The long term damage will be greater. There a certain powers which are tolerated on the tacit understanding that they will never be used, like authority to order a nuclear strike or the capacity to beat up one’s wife. Once this capability is used, whatever the justification, things are never the …
“Leaked Location Data Shows Another Muslim Prayer App Tracking Users”
Glad this doesn’t happen to anyone else. https://twitter.com/i/events/1348652231822893063?s=09