The tech website “Interesting Engineering” referenced an alarming new report by the prestigious Max Planck Society that assessed human’s capability for controlling killer Artificial Intelligence technologies. According to the report, science is rapidly approaching the point where AI will effectively break out of human control, something previously only presaged by doomsday blockbuster sci-fi movie franchises...
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GOOGLE FLEXES WITH FITBIT ACQUISITION
Google data and tracking just got bigger. On 15 January, Fitbit, a leader in wearable health and fitness analytics tracking technology, announced it was being bought out by Google, the world’s largest tech and human data-mining company. The move will expand Google’s already huge capacity to track and mine human data. Founded in 2009, Fitbit...
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ALL THE PRESIDENT’S APPS: TECH COUP 2021
In a whirlwind week of unprecedented tech censorship, the world witnessed President Donald J. Trump silenced in the waning days of his presidency. The pretext for the digital coup was a chaotic breach of the Capitol building during a massive MAGA protest in Washington, DC, on 6 January. The President had called for the protest...
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TOILET PAPER OF RECORD: FULL OF CRAP
It was a two-color story that gobbled up nearly two-thirds of a page in The New York Times last Thursday with the headline: 10% of Congress Has Been Infected at Some Time The paper had outlines of Congress broken up in red and blue with the seats darkened of those who got the virus. Below...
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TREND TRACKING LESSON: NYT PROMOTES AGENDA
Oklahoma, which does not have a statewide mask mandate, is experiencing its highest coronavirus infection rate since the beginning of the outbreak, The New York Times reported last Thursday. Their headline read: “Oklahoma, With No Mask Mandate, Faces Surge in Cases” The Times wrote, “Oklahoma is in the grip of a frightening surge of the...
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STATEN ISLAND BOROUGH PRESIDENT: NO “HEIL HITLER”
Oh “heil” no. Leticia Remauro, a Republican from New York’s Staten Island, found herself in hot water last week after she said “Heil Hitler” while protesting the state’s coronavirus lockdown. The New York Times reported that Remauro is running for borough president and was outside Mac’s Public House, a bar that has also clashed with city...
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TRUMP CARD: JOKER’S WILD
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last week that the city would cut business ties with the Trump Organization after this month’s riot at the Capitol, which Democrats blame solely on President Trump and his rhetoric. “The city of New York will no longer have anything to do with The Trump Organization,” de...
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RAND PAUL: CAPITOL SECURITY “RIDICULOUS” AFTER RIOT
Senator Rand Paul said in an interview last week that the newly-implemented security apparatus at the Capitol is an overreaction and seems to have turned the city into a “militarized zone.” More than 20,000 armed National Guardsmen have descended on the Capitol after the riot on 6 January while Congress certified the Electoral College vote...
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MIGRANT CARAVAN FROM HONDURAS HEADS TOWARD U.S.
No surprise. An old trend has new life. It was happening before the COVID War, and, now, with economic conditions deteriorating while corruption, crime, and violence are rising, people are escaping their downtrodden nations to find safe-havens. A migrant caravan from Honduras is making its way to the U.S. due to worsening conditions at home...
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INDIAN FARMERS BLAST COURT: NOT BACKING DOWN
Indian farmers lashed out at a recent ruling by the country’s Supreme Court, which we reported in the Trends Journal last week, that called for a temporary halt to the controversial farm bill signed into law by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The court called on experts to mediate between the farmers and Modi’s government to...