“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” ― George Carlin
tag > Politics
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Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
This is a placeholder post for all current news (about pandemics, politics, economics, wars, etc.). In a nutshell, 'It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya', as George Carlin once put it. The level of insanity, stupidity, dishonesty and maliciousness is currently so high, that it is the duty of any sensible person to consciously tune-out and direct ones attention to more sane, important, productive and joyful issues. Enjoy life today - it's precious and short.
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Everything that is wrong with the western "progressive" design community in one tweet.
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G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals - Interesting Analysis by Gabriel Zucman
#Comment: Way too little way too late. The G7 is well beyond the point of no return - a transnational mafia state that is rapidly heading for total collapse. Reminder: WEIRD ("Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic") make up only 12% of global population. As their economic and technological dominance fades (yet not the attached ego), incumbent non-weird players are more quickly meeting the needs of the next 4 billion coming online.
Related: China's bid for digital-yuan sphere raises red flags at G-7
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"I stopped making cartoons of politicians, after cartoons became politicians" - R. K. Laxman
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"Coinbase appoints former White House staffer as chief policy officer"
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."
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This is Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion being demolished.
“Jeffrey [Epstein] requested I send you the below wiring instructions for the Mongolian meeting Larry Summers had in Davos”. ($100k, 2014.) (International Peace Institute KPMG Forensic Review, 2020)
“The check is for the reimbursement of Larry Summers flight"
"Why did Epstein pay for the flight, and what was the purpose of it?"
“You don't call me directly,” Summers said when DN contacted him in September.
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James Patrick with CJ Hopkins on the “Covidian Cult”
Related Photo from Berlin in late May 2021: "Welcome! Visiting the terrace only with certificate of vaccination or test"
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Africa's drought crisis: Zimbabwe seeks solutions, Madagascar edges toward famine
Multi-year drought in Madagascar is pushing 1.35m to famine -with those suffering from hunger up 85% on last year. Similar story unfolding in Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia. “We haven't harvested anything for almost 2 years”
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The draft EU AI Regulation was leaked today - was asked to comment on this for a CNBC piece
#Comment: In the global race for A.I talent and capabilities, the EU is today clearly far behind China and the US. I find it rather difficult to understand how the introduction of highly complex, highbrow AI regulations in a niche market, will have any real impact on the development of "AI" globally. Further, i wonder how the EU's plans can be practically enforced, given that they constantly and catastrophically fail to regulate far "simpler" things, such as finance or tech-giants. Finally, i wonder why they choose to regulate an abstract concept such as "AI" instead of an applied technology like "machine learning" or it's specific applications? As the famous mathematician Paul Dirac once said "There are two main problems in A.I: What is A and what is I". Or as Edsger Dijkstra, one of Europe's greatest computer scientists, once said: "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes".
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Untold History of AI: The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence - J.C.R. Licklider’s proposals for “man-machine symbiosis” led to the invention of the Internet
"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production." - Robert Anton Wilson
#Technology #Augmentation #Robot #ML #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
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"You'd think a top scientist would have realised - on the evidence of COPs 01-25 - that telling leaders what they 'must' do is like - well, telling the captain of the Titanic to drive carefully, old boy. Climate scientists badly need a new theory of change." - @johnthackara
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"Praxis is a problem solving method" (Duncan-Andrade & Morrell, 2008)
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Western institutions, networks and culture are rapidly collapsing - the signs are all around us.
