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Trump Campaign Adviser Pleads Guilty to Child Porn, Sex Trafficking
January 14th, 2020Via: Courthouse News Service: An informal adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who testified in the Mueller probe pleaded guilty Monday to charges of child sex trafficking and possessing child pornography. … This is not Nader’s first run-in with the law. He served six months after a 1991 guilty plea in Virginia to transporting child […]
Visit Art Museums to Live Longer?
January 14th, 2020Hmm. I don’t know about the health benefits, but in the the pre-collapse California days of the late 1990s to early 2000s, I found that roaming around art museums was definitely pleasant. I wasn’t particularly interested in art, or, so-called art, but the air conditioning worked and it was generally quiet in museums. Bonus feature […]
Computer-Designed Organisms
January 14th, 2020Via: GitHub: Thus, we here present a method that designs completely biological machines from the ground up: computers automatically design new machines in simulation, and the best designs are then built by combining together different biological tissues. This suggests others may use this approach to design a variety of living machines to safely deliver drugs […]
Surveillance Plane Joins Intensifying Hunt For Mystery Drones Over Colorado And Nebraska
January 11th, 2020Via: The Drive: The War Zone was among the first to report back in late December 2019 that eyewitnesses throughout northeastern Colorado had begun seeing formations of large drones flying at night in complex grid-like patterns over rural areas and farmland. Since then, the sightings have multiplied and the drones have begun appearing in neighboring […]
Chinese Deepfake A.I. App
January 11th, 2020Hilariously, this runs on phones. In other news, I noticed that AMD just announced their 64-core Ryzen Threadripper CPU (the 3990X). Cost: $3,990. In other words, don’t believe your eyes, when it comes to digital sources. (Or ears.) Via: Sheila Allen:
Surveillance Video from Jeffrey Epstein’s First Apparent Suicide Attempt ‘No Longer Exists’
January 10th, 2020Via: NBC: The surveillance video taken from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell on the day of his first apparent suicide attempt has been permanently deleted, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Epstein, the disgraced financier who was facing federal sex-trafficking charges, was found semiconscious in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, or MCC, in New York […]
The Case Against Reality – Prof. Donald Hoffman on Conscious Agent Theory
January 9th, 2020Book: The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman Via: Zubin Damania:
Letter Written by U.S. Marine General Indicated American Forces Were About to Leave Iraq
January 6th, 2020What the hell is going on? Via: Daily Mail: Reports Monday that the U.S. would soon withdraw all its forces from Iraq were turned on their heads minutes later when U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters there were no plans to pull up stakes. ‘There’s been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq, period,’ Esper […]
Epstein Murder: Fake Noose?
January 6th, 2020Full Episode: 60 Minutes Investigates the Death of Jeffrey Epstein Via: ZeroHedge: For the first time, we get to look at the noose Epstein used to allegedly kill himself. Photos admitted as evidence reveal a clean cloth with no blood, despite Epstein’s clearly bloody neck. Moreover, both ends of the noose were hemmed, not cut […]
Finland’s New Prime Minister Calls for Four Day Work Week with Six Hour Work Days
January 6th, 2020Via: Independent: Finland’s new prime minister has called for a four day working week, arguing that the change would let people spend more time with their families. Sanna Marin, a social democrat, who took office in December, leads a broad coalition that also includes greens, leftists and centrists. “I believe people deserve to spend more […]
