The U.S. average office occupancy rate dipped to 48.5 percent during the week of 9 April, according to Kastle Systems, which monitors entry-card usage among 2,600 businesses in 47 states.
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THE SINGULARITY AND THE SIMULATION
Most people have an awareness now that technologically driven surveillance has become as pervasive in supposedly free western countries, as it is in the most repressive regimes on the planet.
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BANKING INDUSTRY TUMULT SINKS EUROPEAN REAL ESTATE STOCKS
In Europe, the share prices of publicly traded commercial real estate landlords finished their worst month in three years last week as investors feared the banking industry’s difficulties will make it harder for property owners to secure loans, which could sink property values, the Financial Times said.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
The Restrict Act is being sold as a measure to ban TikTok, for being a “spy app” that benefits the Chinese government.
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AN AI PAUSE WON’T CUT IT: REJECT SCIENTISM OR BRACE FOR A POST HUMAN FUTURE
The quest of technology companies and AI advocates to create artificial intelligence that can outstrip human abilities, is finally undergoing some higher profile scrutiny.
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Investigative journalist and freedom advocate James Corbett spoke recently to Bitcoin.com about the ongoing banking crisis, and how it might lead to the introduction of a U.S. digital dollar.
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AS FORECAST: U.S. WEAPONIZATION OF FINANCIAL SYSTEM HURTING US, NOT THEM
In March of 2022, we forecast that the U.S. was hastening the demise of the dollar as a world reserve currency by trying to weaponize the financial system against its enemies: “the unprecedented use of the existing modern international financial order crosses a line from which there is no going back…
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IT’S OFFICIAL: SOCIAL MEDIA IS NOW WORTHLESS
Social media has long been a cesspit of breathless rumors, baseless conspiracy theories, and outright lies.
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BREAKTHROUGH TURNS PLASTIC TRASH INTO ENGINE FUEL
Coffee cup lids, the plastic film encasing paper towels, and the infinite number of single-use plastic shopping bags can be the source of energy and raw materials, if we only knew how to unlock their chemical bonds at a practical cost.