Archive for the 'Social Engineering' Category
The Newest Fake Meat Is Made from Thin Air
November 12th, 2019pHood! Via: FastCompany: Most plant-based meat, such as the Impossible Burger or the Beyond Burger, uses protein made from soy or peas. The newest meat alternative uses protein made from air instead, in a process that transforms CO2 into an ingredient with the same nutritional profile as the protein you find in animals. Air Protein, […]
Google Collecting Complete Health Histories on Millions of Americans
November 11th, 2019Unbelievable. Via: Wall Street Journal: Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold […]
Los Angeles: ‘Capsule Living’
November 11th, 2019PodShare getting you down? Try capsule living! Via: AFP: Kay Wilson packed up her life in a hurry and moved to Los Angeles… only to find that what she paid in Pennsylvania for a nice studio apartment would only get her a 2.9-square-meter box in California. Her new home is a capsule, inspired by the […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life
November 11th, 2019Comedy Gold on Cryptogon this morning. Via: MIT Technology Review: The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need. … The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, […]
U.S. Adult Diaper Market Explodes, Topping Baby Diapers
November 5th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: As the population of the elderly explodes, the need for hygiene products like adults diapers will likely see a commensurate surge (and many of the companies that make these products are publicly-traded consumer staples). The market is already growing, and last year, it expanded by 9%, to hit $9 billion.
How Central Banks Fund Our Age of Endless War
November 4th, 2019Via: Mises Institute: The 20th century was the century of total war. Limitations on the scope of war, built up over many centuries, had already begun to break down in the 19th century, but they were altogether obliterated in the 20th. And of course the sheer amount of resources that centralized states could bring to […]
French High School Students Will Learn About Bitcoin And Crypto [???]
November 4th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: France is about to introduce an educational module to its high school curriculum that covers Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies. In June, the French Ministry of National Education amended its study plan to incorporate the world’s largest cryptocurrency. French educators are expected to teach an introductory course that will assist students in understanding the […]
Google Given Green Light for Toronto Smart City
November 2nd, 2019Via: BBC: Sidewalk Labs’s plans to create a smart city in a disused area of Toronto can proceed but on a much smaller scale than it had wanted. Any data the Google-affiliate collects there must be treated as a public asset. Waterfront Toronto, the group charged with overseeing development of the area, voted unanimously for […]
Dark Journalist: TSSA CIA Fake UFO Disclosure
November 1st, 2019Via: Dark Journalist:
The Fantasy of Opting Out
November 1st, 2019Via: The MIT Press Reader: Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country. She is not in prison or institutionalized, nor is she a dissident or an enemy of the state, yet she lives in a condition of permanent and total surveillance […]
