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Russia plans government biometrics database for fingerprints, DNA, facial recognition
Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is planning to stand up a database of fingerprint, DNA and face biometric data collected from Russians and foreigners within the next three years, state news agency TASS writes. Software will be developed for the new Federal Information System of Biometric Accounting by the end of 2023, according to a statement from the Ministry. The database would include foreign citizens and stateless individuals in addition to Russians.
Previously: Russia To Grant Police Access to Bank Customers’ Biometric Data (2017)
Russia’s police and intelligence services will gain access to bank customers’ biometric data without their consent under new legislation making its way through the State Duma.
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"Total Relaxation is Possible"
- from "The Lazy Man's Guide to Relaxation" -
Writing Manifestos is fun. Here is one:
- Replace Economics with Ecology.
- Replace Money with Earthworms.
- Replace Accounting with Composting.
- Replace Growth with Relaxation.
- Replace Politics with Random Choice.
- Replace Experts with Children.
- Separate Science and State.
But in the end, it is much easier to write manifestos, than to exercise the art of peace every day.
- Replace Economics with Ecology.
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If you understand, things are just as they are…
If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen proverb -
Digging a Hole in the Ocean Floor - Zhuangzi - Chapter 7 - Illustration by CC Tsai
Full text Translated by Burton Watson
Chien Wu went to see the madman Chieh Yu. Chieh Yu said, "What was Chung Shih telling you the other day?" 4 Chien Wu said, "He told me that the ruler of men should devise his own principles, standards, ceremonies, and regulations, and then there will be no one who will fail to obey him and be transformed by them."
The madman Chieh Yu said, "This is bogus virtue! To try to govern the world like this is like trying to walk the ocean, to drill through a river, or to make a mosquito shoulder a mountain! When the sage governs, does he govern what is on the outside? He makes sure of himself first, and then he acts. He makes absolutely certain that things can do what they are supposed to do, that is all. The bird flies high in the sky where it can escape the danger of stringed arrows. The field mouse burrows deep down under the sacred hill where it won't have to worry about men digging and smoking it out. Have you got less sense than these two little creatures?"
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Relax. Nothing is under control. ~ Adi Da Samraj
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Don’t Waste Your Precious Time - by Ryokan (1758–1831)
The ancient Buddhas taught the Dharma
Not for its own sake but to assist us.
If we really knew ourselves
We would not have to rely on old teachers.
The wise go right to the core
And leap beyond appearances;
The foolish cleave to details
And get ensnared by words and letters.
Such people envy the accomplishments of others
And work feverishly to attain the same things.
Cling to truth and it becomes falsehood;
Understand falsehood and it becomes truth.
Truth and falsehood are two sides of a coin:
Neither accept nor reject either one.
Don't waste your precious time fruitlessly
Trying to gauge the depths of life's ups and downs.- translated by John Stevens
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“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.” ― Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: Or Control & Communication in the Animal & Machine
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Physicists could do the 'impossible': Create and destroy magnetic fields from afar
A new study circumvents a 178-year-old theory. Scientists have figured out a way to create and cancel magnetic fields from afar. The method involves running electric current through a special arrangement of wires to create a magnetic field that looks as if it came from another source. "We create the illusion of having this source at a distance," Mach-Batlle said. The researchers published their findings Oct. 23 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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HIDDEN: Animals in the Anthropocene - Photobook Uncovers “Darkest, Most Unsettling’ Realities Of Slaughterhouses”
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Employees at a tech-company which generate most of its money through advertising, got the option to opt-out of all ads. This led to employee comments such as "The no-ads experiment may also contribute to people not emphasizing with the user as much". Go figure...
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The Loser's Script, Elites & Stupidity - by Robert Anton Wilson
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European Parliament Votes for Right to Repair
In a landmark move, the European Parliament voted today to support consumers’ Right to Repair. The resolution was adopted with 395 in favour and just 94 against, with 207 abstentions. “By adopting this report, the European Parliament sent a clear message: harmonised mandatory labelling indicating durability and tackling premature obsolescence at EU level are the way forward,” said Rapporteur David Cormand, MEP from France.
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Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow! signal
Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero, one of the founders of The Exoplanets Channel, has found a small amount of evidence for a source of the notorious Wow! signal. In his paper on arXiv, Caballero describes searching the Gaia database for possible sun-like stars that might host an exoplanet capable of supporting intelligent life.
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