Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Play Deprivation Is A Major Cause of the Teen Mental Health Crisis
July 28th, 2023Via: After Babel: The central idea of my forthcoming book, The Anxious Generation, is that we have overprotected children in the real world, where they need a lot of free play and autonomy,while underprotecting them online, where they are not developmentally ready for much of what happens to them.
Worldcoin Isn’t as Bad as it Sounds: It’s Worse
July 28th, 2023One person is willing to sell their soul every 8 seconds for a shitcoin and a cattle tag. Extreme clown world alert. https://t.co/RZeJYANCAV — Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) July 26, 2023 Via: Blockworks: Worldcoin — a new financial system connected to sensitive biometric information, mostly harvested from poor people — sure sounds like a terrible idea. […]
NASA Picks Lockheed Martin to Develop Nuclear Rocket
July 27th, 2023Via: PhysOrg: NASA and the US military said Wednesday they had selected defense contractor Lockheed Martin to develop a nuclear powered rocket, with a view to using the technology for missions to Mars. The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program may launch as soon as 2027, officials said on a call. Nuclear thermal […]
David Grusch in Sworn Testimony Before Congress: The U.S. Has Recovered Alien Spacecraft and Bodies and Has Run a Coverup for Decades
July 27th, 2023As expected, the hearing was a rehash of information that was already in the public domain. My assessment of this remains the same as in the past, “The military establishment is never, ever going to reveal what it actually knows about the phenomenon.” What we’re seeing now is likely a continuation of the limited hangout […]
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency
July 26th, 2023Via: House Committee On Oversight and Accountability:
South Korean Researchers Claim Room Temperature, Ambient Pressure Superconductor
July 26th, 2023Update: Skepticism Abounds for Claim that Lead-Based Material Perfectly Conducts Electricity at Room Temperature and Pressure — I don’t know why there’s no news coverage of this. Maybe someone out there in Cryptogon land would we willing to submit a sanity check for us laypeople. I remember reading about this in the 1980s. I asked […]
New U.S. Navy SEAL Delivery Vehicle: Dry Combat Submersible
July 25th, 2023Via: The Drive: The U.S. Navy’s newest special operations mini-submarine has now officially entered service. Unlike earlier SEAL Delivery Vehicles, the new Dry Combat Submersible allows the occupants to travel to and from their destination submerged, but without being immersed in often frigid water the whole time. This is a capability the Navy has been […]
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Launches ‘WorldCoin’ Token To Distinguish Humans From Bots
July 24th, 2023I like Melissa’s response to this: Waiting for the coin with the nipple scan, personally. — Truthstream Media (@truthstreamnews) July 24, 2023 Via: ZeroHedge: Last week we presciently discussed the somewhat dystopian outlook for an iris-scanning ‘World ID’ project to identify every human online: “Something like World ID will eventually exist, meaning that you will […]
Musk Is Rebranding Twitter to X
July 23rd, 2023Via: Engadget: Elon Musk’s rebrand of Twitter seems to be underway. In a series of late-night tweets Saturday, Musk shared that the company’s famous bird logo and name would soon be no more. The company, it seems, will simply be known as “X.” “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, […]
‘Once You Start Censoring, You’re on Your Way to Dystopia and Totalitarianism,’ RFK Jr. Tells House Committee
July 22nd, 2023Via: The Defender: In a hearing marred by contentious interruptions and attempts by House Democrats to remove him as a witness, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chairman on leave from Children’s Health Defense (CHD), testified before a U.S. House hearing organized by Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The subcommittee, operating within the House […]
