Enthusiasm for new terminal on New Silk Road
The new Dostyk TransTerminal at the China-Kazakhstan border crossing is proving to be successful. The volumes of traffic on the New Silk Road are growing tremendously.
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Thoughts on the fundamentals of inquiry and shortcomings of western science
When i have the opportunity of deep-diving into a research rabbit hole in the context of western science (e.g for work), i frequently return to the realization that while such ideas are very complex and fascinating, they ignore and utterly confuse the all important fundamentals of inquiry - where things like Qigong, Yoga, Meditation, etc. effortlessly excel. It's peculiar.
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Reflections on witnessing the latest PR events from sillycon valley players
The sillycon valley players (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.) seem to be stuck in a collective hallucination that makes them believe in a heavily sanitized version of "reality", that is 99% surface gloss and 1% essentials. Their focus is on delivering nice-to-have "consumer experience conveniences" coupled with ever increasing surveillance and control - instead of meeting the urgent needs of real people. Most poignantly, sillycon valley innovations are almost excursively catering to a ultra niche "WEIRD" audience ("Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic") that makes up only 12% of global population. As a result of all this, the next four billion people coming online are predominantly adopting technology solutions from incumbent non-weird players. It's time for sillycon valley to really "think different", or perish.
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New works from Nvidia AI team (code & colab)
"It turns out CLIP can go beyond in-domain image editing - and actually convert a generator between domains! Here are some examples"
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US Senate Finally Admits that Neuroweapons Exist, Passes Bill to Help Diplomat-Victims
In a reversal of the established commentary that those claiming victimization by electronic weaponry are crazy and delusional, the US Senate has passed a Bill authorizing payment to CIA and State Department officials who have been attacked by this weaponry. Recent news reports have detailed these attacks on US diplomats in Cuba and China. Dubbed “The Havana Syndrome,” it was recently reported that CIA personnel have also suffered such attacks in Europe and Asia. Senate Bill 1828, the “Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act of 2021, or the HAVANA Act of 2021,” authorizes payment to qualified employees for brain injuries inflicted by neuroweaponry.
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An enormous ‘mega comet’ is flying into our solar system
Astronomers have discovered a huge and previously unknown object entering our solar system that will reach the orbit of Saturn in 2031. It is possibly the largest body from the outer reaches of our solar system ever found to make such a close approach to the sun. Known as 2014 UN271, it is estimated to be between 100 and 370 kilometres across.
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The mainstreaming of eugenics is in full swing
The media outlet "Der Spiegel" (very close to the German government. Essentially a propaganda outlet) has finally made the jump and is now openly prompting mRNA based gene-therapy for everything from Cancer, Allergies, Heart Attacks to Dementia (but still calling it a "vaccine"). Conceptually they (the merger of state and corporations - AKA Fascism, as Mussolini defined it) are now very close to where the Nazis left of 75 years ago: Openly prompting eugenics and totalitarian population control/design "health" policies. What ever you think about "the virus", this should raise all kinds of red flags. But unfortunately even in the age of "magic" mRNA based gene-therapy (a deeply flawed, unproven and opaque bio-technology platform), there is still no cure for greed, stupidity and ignorance in sight.
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Today in late capitalist insane comedy news...
Canon Uses AI Cameras That Only Let Smiling Workers Inside Offices (petapixel) - A related project i created in 2016: Don’t Worry Be Happy - A Emotion Enforcing Text Editor All of this is kids play though compared to the "features" that the assistance of amazon & co have to help "educate" children.
Microsoft Hits $2 Trillion Market Cap (geekwire) And still no comment or repercussions whatsoever about the nasty "Truth About Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Jeffrey Epstein" or the fact MS has helped NSA & co backdoor every PC for 30+ years.
A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers In India To Yell At Armed Robbers (vice) - Just wait for pervasive central bank digital currencies, geo-blocking and robots to take off...
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John Thackara on what’s urgent
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The US Dollar will be gone soon. It's time to say bye to the funny money...
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"Defend Billionaires. We're just like you." This is a real advertising as seen in the USA 2021
