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From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: The Genesis & Evolution of the Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/no_author/from-spook-air-to-the-lolita-express-the-genesis-and-evolution-of-the-jeffrey-epstein-bill-clinton-relationship/
"Far from being the work of a single intelligence agency or a single country, the power structure revealed by this network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that transcends nationality and is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control."
If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2011/11/11/if-youre-busy-youre-doing-something-wrong-the-surprisingly-relaxed-lives-of-elite-achievers/
To summarize these results:
What the Study of Chess Experts Teaches Us about Building a Remarkable Life: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/06/the-grandmaster-in-the-corner-office-what-the-study-of-chess-experts-teaches-us-about-building-a-remarkable-life/
Deliberate Practice:
Mysterious Fungi Bring a West Virginia Forest Back to Life: https://www.wired.com/video/watch/mysterious-fungi-bring-a-west-virginia-forest-back-to-life
Paro Taktsang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro_Taktsang #Mindful #Architecture
China developing 'gene-edited super soldiers' in biological warfare revolution: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/china-developing-gene-edited-super-20546721
China’s Military Biotech Frontier: CRISPR, Military-Civil Fusion, and the New Revolution in Military Affairs: https://jamestown.org/program/chinas-military-biotech-frontier-crispr-military-civil-fusion-and-the-new-revolution-in-military-affairs/
China’s national strategy of military-civil fusion (军民融合, junmin ronghe) has highlighted biology as a priority. It is hardly surprising that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is looking to leverage synergies among defense, scientific, and commercial developments in biological interdisciplinary (生物交叉, shengwu jiaocha) technologies. Chinese military scientists and strategists have consistently emphasized that biotechnology could become a “new strategic commanding heights of the future Revolution in Military Affairs” (军事革命, junshi geming)
A doctoral dissertation titled “Evaluation and Research on Human Performance Enhancement Technology,” published in 2016, envisions CRISPR as one of three primary “human performance enhancement technologies” (人效能增强技术, ren xiaoneng zengqiang jishu) that can be utilized to boost personnel combat effectiveness.
Ultimately, today’s advances in biotechnology may prove revolutionary, and the strategic implications, whether for medicine or the military or aggregate national competitiveness, are only just starting to be appreciated. [22] Today, the PRC is actively exploring new frontiers of such biological cross-disciplinary technologies: from these prominent developments in CRISPR to bionic robotics, intelligentized exoskeletons, and techniques for human-machine collaboration. So too, at a time when Chinese universities and enterprises are pursuing investment and expanding global research collaborations in such fields, it is important that their foreign partners remain cognizant of the interests and involvements of their counterparts.
The USPTO wants to know if artificial intelligence can own the content it creates: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/13/20961788/us-government-ai-copyright-patent-trademark-office-notice-artificial-intelligence #Generative #ML #Creativity #Bots
#Comment: A far more interesting question is if angels and disembodied spirits can own the content they create. Generative copyright is peak late capitalist madness at its finest - the works of greedy petty lost souls. I spoke previously about related topics here & here.
Engineer discovers how to extract water from air and sunlight: https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/465212-engineer-discovers-how-to-extract-water-from-air-and-sunlight #Regenerative #Technology
Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/veneto-council-climate-change-floods-trnd-intl-scli/index.html #ClimateChange #Comedy
From oil age to soil age: What's already emerging? Some snapshot slides of our Urban-Rural exhibition in Shanghai by @johnthackara et.al: https://www.slideshare.net/johnthackara/urbanrural-exhibition-shanghai-november-2019-john-thackara-personal-slides
The End of Prehistory - talk by Kenny Ausubel at Bioneers 2019
"If billionaires were a country in 2019, they would be the third largest nation on earth"
Quote by Erich Fromm from "The Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology"
Solving the “Hard Problem”: Consciousness as an Intrinsic Property of Magnetic Fields: https://sacredneurology.com/2019/11/12/consciousness-is-an-intrinsic-property-of-magnetic-fields/ Image: Magnetotactic Bacteria
Shortly before the coup against Evo Morales, his government announced plans to nationalise the lithium industry and to deal directly on the global market. Demand for lithium is expected to triple in the next 15y. Guess where the largest reserves are...
"After the coup, Tesla’s stock rose astronomically": https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/after-evo-the-lithium-question-looms-large-in-bolivia/
Blackwater founder Erik Prince launches fund to invest in car battery metals: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-erik-prince-mining/blackwater-founder-launches-fund-to-invest-in-car-battery-metals-ft-idUSKCN1OV1S1
Who's behind the Bolivia coup? With Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, Ben Norton
#Politics #Military #Infrastructure
“Reality is not always probable, or likely.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
In China, AI can now screen newborns for genetic disorders: https://www.techinasia.com/china-ai-screen-newborns-genetic-disorders
"Chinese scholars have developed AI-powered software that is geared to help screen newborns for genetic disorders through a facial scan. It was designed to detect more than 100 disorders with distinctive facial features"
The new Eugenics movement is as brain-dead as the old one. Scientists as a class are progressively morally bankrupt, following their owners. #Biology #ML #Biotech #SE #China
Natural image reconstruction from brain waves: a novel visual BCI system with native feedback: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/787101v2.full #BCI #ML #NeuroScience
The Important Gut-Behavior Relationship: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-and-behavior/201911/the-important-gut-behavior-relationship #Health #FFHCI
Food loss & waste contribute 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Tackling them can help fight #ClimateChange while generating food security & economic benefits: https://www.eco-business.com/opinion/theres-no-time-or-food-to-waste/ #Regenerative #Food