A quartet of stories this past week showed that governments and corporate allies are only stepping up weaponization of claims of “misinformation” and “disinformation” against their own citizens, to neutralize opposition to their objectives.
Category: 20 June 2023
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BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
Cryptos were born in the wake of a major banking and financial crisis that unfolded in 2007-2008.
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NEW CONGRESSIONAL BILL: CRYPTO WON’T BE UNLEASHED UNLESS GENSLER IS CAGED
Crypto utility and innovation in the U.S. won’t truly take-off unless Gary Gensler is leashed.
That’s the premise of “The SEC Stabilization Act,” which was introduced this past week in Congress.
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AI: HARVEST TOMATOES, SAVE HUMANITY
Researchers at technical universities in the Netherlands and Switzerland asked ChatGPT to name the greatest challenges that must be overcome in prolonging the survival of the human species.
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LARGE NUMBER OF CEOs SAY AI COULD DESTROY HUMANITY BY 2033
Forty-two percent of corporate chiefs surveyed at Yale University’s CEO Summit last week said AI has the potential to wipe out the human race within ten years.
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AI SPEEDS “REVERSE ENGINEERING” OF IMAGINED PHARMACEUTICALS
In the days before AI, biochemists would design the ideal molecule to treat an illness or chronic condition, then try to figure out how to make it—a process called “retrosynthesis” that could take years of tinkering and testing before human clinical trials even began.
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PASTOR CHATBOT PREACHES TO THE MULTITUDES
On 9 June, more than 300 believers at a Lutheran religious conference in Germany packed the pews to take part in what was billed as the world’s first church service designed and presented by an artificial intelligence.
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U.S. MEDIA: UKRAINIAN TROOPS SALIVATING TO KILL DIRTY RUSSIANS
The Western media continues to glorify the horrors of war in Ukraine and has presented the counteroffensive as some kind of Hollywood production of David vs. Goliath.
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OBESITY PERMANENTLY REWIRES THE BRAIN TO THWART WEIGHT LOSS
The “obesity epidemic” is old news by now: 13 percent of the world’s adults are obese—defined as a body mass index of 30 or higher— including 36 percent of Americans, according to Harvard University. Among people in the U.S. under age 20, more than 19 percent are affected and the proportion is growing.
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ELECTRIC VEHICLES’ DIRTY DILEMMA
Data shows that electric vehicles (EVs) do less damage to the natural world over their lifespans than gas-powered cars and trucks do.