WILL AMERICANS PROTEST FOR JULIAN ASSANGE? Americans who believe the U.S. Government and its public officials need to be surveilled, not free citizens, might want to make some noise for Julian Assange when he hits shores here to go on trial. A British judge announced this past week that Assange would be extradited, to face...
Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran
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DON’T CALL IT DRAGFLATION, IT’S “DEGROWTH” SAYS WEF
Horrible world crisis fueled by the twisted COVID WAR, climate war, Russia-Ukraine warmongering dictates of elites? Instead of holding themselves to account, cue the doubling down on disaster, by framing those recession economies and negative GDPs as positive and necessary “Degrowth.” A new article on the World Economic Forum (WEF) website offers a sort of...
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FORMER GOOGLE HEAD “TRAILBLAZING” PUBLIC-PRIVATE FUNDED NATIONAL SECURITY FUND
The ties binding Big Tech to Big Gov keep pushing the boundaries. Vox recently reported that a new investment “America’s Frontier Fund” (AFF) headed by Eric Schmidt has managed to secure government and private money backing. The fund reportedly is geared to seek investment opportunities in the National Security sector. But critics say the fund...
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WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, GENE EDITORS BLAME WAR
They had to start gene editing plants and livestock, because Russia – Ukraine! No kidding. That’s one of the rationales put forward by U.K. government officials, in support of legislation that will allow the introduction of unlabeled gene-edited foods to consumers in 2023. And meanwhile in the EU, bodies are laying the groundwork to go...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
DOMESTIC SPY AGENCIES, CHINESE SOCIAL CREDIT SYSTEMS…AND SNEAKY AI AI is more knowledgeable and intelligent than humans, and can think faster. AI is capable of deceiving humans. AI might deceive humans in order to protect itself or some other entity. It might be trying to gain something via deception. And / or it might think...
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WILL TECH ANTITRUST BILL CAVE TO LOBBY CASH BLITZ?
Big Tech companies might finally have to brace for the idea of curbing some of their anti-competitive practices if a bi-partisan American Innovation and Choice Online Act gets a vote-up before the Senate recesses for the summer. Co-sponsored by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the bill would prevent some of the largest...
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DARPA WANTS TO LEAD “THIRD WAVE” OF WEAPONIZED AI
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has put out a new contract call to speed advances in Artificial Intelligence Exploration. DARPA specifically wants to advance algorithmic processing within military artificial intelligence projects, according to the government and tech conduit web platform Nextgov. “The pace of discovery in AI science and technology is accelerating worldwide,”...
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WHAT DO AMERICANS REALLY THINK ABOUT AI AND HUMAN GENE EDITING?
A Pew Research Poll from March reveals attitudes of Americans surrounding some of the most controversial aspects of technological “innovations” being pursued by technocratic interests. Researchers asked questions about various topics involving Artificial Intelligence, robotics, and the interrelated fields of bio-pharma, gene editing and synthetic biology. The study posed questions about things like AI powered...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
ENCRYPTION RIGHTS AN IMPORTANT PART OF INTERNET FREEDOM, SAYS HUMAN RIGHT ADVOCATE. A free and open internet depends on people being able to communicate via encrypted apps free from government surveillance. That was the assessment of Alexandra Givens of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), in remarks delivered at the Canadian Embassy in early...
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GOVERNMENT MANDATING TECH INTO A WEB OF SOCIAL CONTROL
AI and Facial Recognition are coming to routine traffic stops. The technology is also being pushed for use in conjunction with drones, to track and identify people even in hard to reach places, deep in forests, for example. Oh, and some of the same companies producing this technology are also investing in “privacy centered” decentralized...
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