Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, issued an advisory last week warning of the risks that social media sites have on mental health—especially young people—and called on lawmakers and Big Tech companies to enforce age minimums and create default safety settings.
Category: 30 May 2023
AI IS NOT JUST IN THE NEWS, IT’S INVENTING THE NEWS
The web is awash in phony news stories created by artificial intelligence (AI) and posted to social media sites, according to independent studies by NewsGuard, which finds and flags false information on the web, and Shadow Dragon, a company providing tools and training for digital investigations.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
In dumbed-down America, where nearly 45 percent of the people get what they call “news” from mainstream corporate TV and swallow the crap spewing out of the mouths of Presstitutes—media whores who get paid to put out by their corporate pimps and government whore masters—the vast majority have no clue of what in the world is going on.
ANTI-CHINA RHETORIC FROM G7 MEETING MOVES MOSCOW AND BEIJING EVEN CLOSER
China has warned European countries against following the U.S. down the path of confrontation in its zero-sum game to prevent the emergence of a unipolar world and to keep the current “global world order.”
EUROPE: FIRST AN ENERGY SHOCK, NOW A FOOD SHOCK
Europe’s cost of natural gas began rising sharply in the run-up to the Ukraine war as Russia curtailed gas deliveries to the continent in a show of political pressure; then gas prices skyrocketed again after Russia invaded Ukraine and the West slapped sanctions on Russia’s exports.
HUMAN “SYMBIOSIS” WITH AI: CHATGPT WANTS TO BE YOUR DIGITAL KEEPER
“The concept of a dream machine … the human-computer symbiosis … is exciting. We went from the bicycle to the steam engine with ChatGPT.”
RFK JR. BLASTS U.S. DECISION TO BACK F-16s FOR UKRAINE AS ‘DANGEROUS ESCALATION’
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democratic challenger up against the incumbent President Joe Biden, criticized the U.S.’s decision to support F-16s for Ukraine as a “dangerous escalation” without much upside.
PUTIN FACES DOMESTIC PRESSURE TO CRUSH UKRAINE IN ALL-OUT WAR
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to use the full might of the country’s military in Ukraine to save Russia from the risk of a revolution and to bring the war to a quick end.
GOV. DESANTIS PLAYING THE ROLE AS THE TOP CHOICE FOR REPUBLICANS
The Republican primary at this time in the Presidential Reality Show® is a race between former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis which is ratcheting up to be a bruising one between two men who are determined to prove their conservative strength while trying to win what is shaping up to be a personality contest.
RON DESANTIS’S CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT GETS MAJOR MEDIA COVERAGE, RFK JR STILL IGNORED
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis benefited last week from near wall-to-wall media coverage after his presidential announcement while Robert F. Kennedy, the Democrat challenging President Joe Biden, continues to be ignored by the corporate media.