Month: September 2019
The Occupation of the American Mind

Polling shows strong global opposition to Israel’s illegal 50-year occupation of Palestinian land, and mounting outrage over Israel’s ongoing slaughter of unarmed Palestinian civilians who are fighting for their rights. Nevertheless, public sympathy and support for Israel within the US continues to hold strong. The Occupation of the American Mind zeroes in…
The Infallible AI “Oracle” and the Future of “One Shot” Answers

It’s been said that, “Voice technology is the ultimate behavioral study that you didn’t realize was happening,” although I would argue that probably most of the technology that we’re interacting with on a daily basis is ultimately a “behavioral study” the depth and breadth of which we don’t fully comprehend….
Equifax Might Owe You $125. Here’s How to Get It
“Scariest Thing You’ll Read All Day”: Report Sounds Alarm Over Brain-Reading Technology and Neurocapitalism | Common Dreams News

“Your brain, the final privacy frontier, may not be private much longer.” A Vox report that swiftly sparked alarm across the internet Friday outlined how, “in the era of neurocapitalism, your brain needs new rights,” following recent revelations that Facebook and Elon Musk’s Neuralink are developing technologies to read people’s minds. As Vox‘s Sigal Samuel reported: Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Supermicro Bug Could Let ‘Virtual USBs’ Take Over Corporate Servers | WIRED

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Supermicro hardware brings the threat of malicious USBs to corporate servers. A lot can go wrong with corporate network security, but hopefully at a minimum people know not to plug strange USB sticks into network computers. But it turns out that an attacker could exploit…
DARPA unleashes anti-meme militia to fight deepfakes & ‘polarizing’ viral content — RT USA News

The Pentagon has unveiled an initiative to fight ‘large-scale, automated disinformation attacks’ by unearthing deep-fakes and other polarizing content – with the eventual goal of rooting out so-called ‘malicious intent’ entirely. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking software capable of churning through a test set of half…
YOU CAN SIT BACK AND WATCH ALL OF YOUR RIGHTS TAKEN AWAY OR FIGHT BACK
Scientists Witness “Woman With Exceptional Powers” Of Mind Rapidly Grow A Plant From A Seed – Collective Evolution

Why does the title of this article emphasize that ‘truly impossible’ results were witnessed? Because providing an explanation for what happened here is literally impossible right now, despite the fact that it happened repeatedly. Extra ordinary human potential is something that has been studied for decades; and although a number…