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Question: Does a majority of the people who suddenly in 2020 started to be terribly concerned with the health of themselves and especially others, actively practice a healthy lifestyle?
Question: How did giant corporate monopolies with a long track-record of promoting and exploiting illness and addiction - become widely regarded as trustworthy almost over night?
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The cryptocrats want everyone to know, that its "Time to heal" and then "Build Back Better" (and shut up, take their gene modification vaccination, adopt their post-national digital ID/Money - and accept the restructuring of the global economy that remove any sense of ownership & agency for most). The collapsing western "Great Reset" empire is a shit show.
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William F. Friedman (1891 - 1969)
#Comment: To put "knowledge is power" on your gravestone is surely an effective and comedic way to illustrate the severe limits of both...
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Seven out of ten workers in the German meat industry are precariously employed
The data from the federal government speak for themselves: the majority of workers in the meat industry are neither permanently employed nor well paid. And the number of employees from abroad is growing.
#Comment: An industry which very frequently treats animals like garbage, inevitable can't & won't care about it's employees or customers either. It's a ticking time bomb.
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Silence is Bliss
#Comment: Just about now, the majority of people around the world most be longing for a long break from the USA - that 4.23% of the global population which has been disproportional dominating all channels for decades with their entertaining but often very noisy and violent show. Life on planet earth with out Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Madison Avenue, Wallstreet, K-Street and the military industrial swamp on the main-stage will inevitably be much more quiet - but hey, silence is bliss. از سکوت لذت ببر! - 享受安静! - наслаждайся тишиной! - चुप्पी का मज़ा लो! - 静寂を楽しんでください！Genieße die Stille!
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What do Microsoft really think about open-source? Is Microsoft attempting to centralise open-source through "Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish" tactics which they are known for?
Organised crime and the art of computing #Comment: Github, via extension of its owner Microsoft, is owned by some of the most regressive, monopolistic, oligarchic/kleptocratic, big-finance forces on the planet - the likes of Blackrock, Berkshire, Gates, etc. It is very much in their interest to centralize and control open source/free software (free as in freedom), and they have a track record of doing just that. To say it more poignantly: Microsoft is a direct driver of perverse wealth inequality, endless wars and centralisation of power which effectively destroys any resemblance of democracy everywhere. Behind the clean corporate facade, they are just yet another mafia.
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The Global Brain Hive Mind Artificial Intelligence Control Grid
#Comment: It is a golden age for colourful conspiracy narratives which artfully mix bullshit and realshit in fun ways - and this video is a delicious example. Operation Mindfuck in full effect. What people who take such things very serious ("its real!" and "its not real!!") have not internalized yet (but some monks and other trippers might): The "conspiracy" governing reality is far more weird and bizarre. We - a domesticated monkey - are sitting on a round rock racing through infinite space, and left and right are infinite black-holes, where time/space collapses...
Closer to the mundane everyday life abstraction level, there is some truth to the following:
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Norwegians Got Paid To Use Electricity As Prices Fall Below Zero
"Electricity prices in Norway fell below zero for the second time in history early on Monday, and residents in southern Norway ‘got paid’ for using electricity as power producers have to pay to sell electricity when prices are negative."
#Comment: If this pattern became permanent, how long do you think until the folks currently controlling power would pass on the savings? Or would they keep quiet - just for fun?
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Question: In a world dominated by totalitarian central bank digital currencies (CBDC) that are backed by universal biometric ID and pervasive surveillance - the power of hackers is...?
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Zoom Is Now Worth More Than ExxonMobil (forbes)
#Comment: The end of the oil age is finally here. Once this rally picks up speed, anything and everything deeply invested in the old fossil fuels economy will be trending towards zero. (and no, Zoom is not magically becoming more valuable - its over hyped commodity software)
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Great Barrier Reef: Scientists find reef taller than Empire State Building
An enormous coral reef has been found at the northern tip of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the first such discovery in 120 years, scientists say. At 500m (1,640ft) high, the reef is taller than New York's Empire State Building and the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
#Comment: It's telling that humans reference human made structures to visualise the scale of a coral reef. Not that long ago, we would have used mountains or such as analogy.
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Poor hospitality: Hotel owners in big cities hit major tipping point - "Hotel closures, layoffs and debt struggles in leading markets signal more bad news to come"
#Comment: The corona world is a giant party for the owner class, and a blood bath for everyone else. It will make the kleptocrats 2008 bank-robbery look like charity in comparison.
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Three Rockefellers Say Banks Must Stop Financing Fossil Fuels (nytimes)
"Since 2016, 35 banks have funneled $2.7 trillion into fossil fuel companies and projects, a trajectory that will guarantee a world with runaway climate disruption. Of these banks, JPMorgan Chase has led the way by providing 36 percent more financing than the next largest fossil fuel financier, Wells Fargo."
#Comment: Hilarious to see the same families who over 100+ years were primary drivers and profiteers of the industrial-scale exploitation and destruction of nature (incl. humanity), are now starting to say "end fossil fuels". What we'll likely never hear them say is "we take responsibility for the mess we created and will pay for it adequately now" or "we were and are highly incompetent and thus make room for others". On the contrary, they are tirelessly strategising how to dominate the emerging renewable age by any means. A dark bullshit comedy.
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Yann LeCun, the Chief AI Scientist at Facebook, on OpenAI's hyped GPT-3 Language Model
“It’s entertaining, and perhaps mildly useful as a creative help,”... “But trying to build intelligent machines by scaling up language models is like [using] high-altitude airplanes to go to the Moon. You might beat altitude records, but going to the Moon will require a completely different approach.”
#Comment: LeCun (a merchant of doom) is right. GPT3 is a reflection of the organisation that produced it: OpenAI - A poorly disguised US-Intel/Military "innovation" front, run by sleazy used car salesmen that primarily offer overhyped bullshit.
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Daimler Trucks partners with Waymo to build self-driving semi trucks
#Comment: Here we go. As I've been predicting for years, the German car industry is totally clueless and will cheaply give away control over the brains of next-gen cars to silicon valley. In turn, that will guaranteed downgrade the entire industry to OEM's that just produce fancy metal boxes, while the real value is captured else where. Sehr peinlich und sehr lustig!
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#fuckcars: GM, Ford knew about climate change 50 years ago
#Comment: How is anyone surprised by the fact that some knew already decades ago that industrialisation rapidly destroys Nature, but kept it "secret"? Henry Ford - a prominent supporter of the German Nazi party and eugenics - and many of his corporate elite friends which dominated the 20st century, today would be classified as Mafioso with serious mental health conditions (Hitler and Ford each kept a framed picture of the other on his desk). But as the late George Carlin once correctly state: "This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders."
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Billionaires' wealth rises to $10.2 trillion amid Covid crisis
#Comment: Predictably the super-rich increased their already perverse fortunes by more than a quarter in 2020. At this point, the global kleptocrat class is truly above and beyond sanity. As their sense of omnipotence keeps growing exponentially, they can't seem to hear the sound of people around the world preparing the guillotines for them. Once the impact of corona fully unfolds (corona is a most convenient shield for the kleptocrats, allowing them to pretend that they did not cause this crisis through the usual means - greed and stupidity - but its all due to a evil virus), the anger in western economies will be uncontrollable, even for a modern cybernetic surveillance police state. A real shame, as a solution without violence is preferable for all.
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Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access
#Comment: Weaponising open source is a new low, even for this particularly clueless US regime. But this is really only meaningful in the short-term. In the mid-term (2030ish), the tech game is very likely to have drastically changed: Other countries will have taken the technological lead (china & co), while the US is still engaged in endless internal conflicts (in effect a mafia-state, akin to what happened in Russia after 1990). All the global talent that once powered the US tech innovation motor (droves of Chinese, Indian, Russian and European PhD students etc.) will have disappeared. At that point, we might see headlines along the lines of "Globally leading open source platform Gitea blocked US access". Personally, i would prefer to see yet another scenario, where the entire global Intellectual Property market collapsed and was replace by "open source everything" - but that might be a more long term vision.
