Mastercard has begun a test of its new biometric payment technology that lets customers in stores add purchases to their cards by showing their faces to a screen. Payments also can be made with a wave of the hand. By pioneering the technology, Mastercard could become “the enabler of the ecosystem,” setting standards of privacy...
Category: TRENDS IN TECHNOCRACY by Joe Doran
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
BOURLA DOES DAVOS, SELLS MICROCHIPS IN PILLS. No figure in the COVID War that has ravaged world economies and human medical freedoms, has been more cold blooded in appetite for power and money than Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. He just upped his game again. Bourla graduated yet another “conspiracy theory” to fact, using the largest...
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AI IS LEARNING YOUR JOB
Artificial Intelligence is being commercialized at an unprecedented rate. But as AI does more and more, questions about who is profiting and who is losing are becoming more important. On the one hand, many AI initiatives are designed to assist with all kinds of tasks. Their use can increase efficiency and speed business and creative...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
BILL GATES AND THE NEW GERM WARFARE. He of the pink sweater and crafty mega billions has a new coy allusion for the world: GERM. In what is being lampooned as the latest bizarre display from Bill Gates, a video released last week shows the always self-interested “do-gooder” promoting a new WHO that proposes to...
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ENERGY INFLATION AND GREEN ENERGY TYCOONS
It’s called the “First Movers Coalition.” As so often is the case with modern “democracies,” average voters have virtually no say in the power that this NGO elite concocted group is wielding with governments and business sectors. Under the guise of fostering new “green technologies,” which for many uses have trouble competing with oil, natural...
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TECHNOCRACY TWISTS: DID ELON BUY TWITTER TO SPEED THE ROBOT TAKEOVER?
Robot cars aren’t the half of it. It’s no secret Elon Musk is out to mainstream robotics beyond electric cars and AI-powered auto-driving and driverless technology. His Tesla bot vision calls for robots to take on many jobs and tasks currently performed by humans. Musk was an early force in OpenAI, originally an open tech...
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YOUR AI LOVER DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU (AND THAT’S WHY IT’S SO SEDUCTIVE)
For anyone who has been toying in the metaverse, in augmented reality, or just plain old text-messaging, with an “AI friend,” this may provide a cold reminder of reality: API code for programmers designing “chat friends.” The code in this case queries “davinci,” a neural network powered natural language AI system developed by OpenAI, currently...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
FBI DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE ABUSE: NO WARRANT, NO PROBLEM. According to U.S. intelligence officials, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted millions of searches of American electronic data without a warrant last year, a revelation that underscores corrosive government abuses of the Constitutional rights of Americans via illegal government monitoring. The FBI performed up to 3.4 million...
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WILL THE ALGORITHM LET YOU KEEP YOUR CHILD?
Social workers are relying on AI algorithms to help determine families that should be examined for possible interventions. Not families that have done anything allegedly illegal, as reported by anyone. Just families whose data, culled by government agencies, trigger an algorithmic probability warning. The Associated Press recently detailed the story, and concerns surrounding the program...
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BIDEN’S PICK TO HEAD NEW DOMESTIC “DISINFORMATION GOVERNANCE BOARD”: HOW LOW CAN YOU GO
People are still coming to grips with the fact that fighters deemed wild “Conspiracy theorists” and purveyors of “pessimism porn” like Alex Jones and Gerald Celente have been providing the roadmap for America’s 21st century descent into an elitist controlled Authoritarian police state. But at this point, virtually every day news breaks that sadly shows...
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