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Walking Tour of Downtown Oakland, California
December 28th, 2024It’s not quite the case that, “No businesses” can survive there. I wonder what all those Chinese businesses, without any customers, are actually doing??? Via: Metal Leo:
Chinese Test Flight of New Stealth Aircraft
December 26th, 2024Via: The Warzone: In something of a stunning development, China appears to already be flying a stealthy, high-performance sixth-generation crewed combat aircraft, imagery of which began to emerge today. pic.twitter.com/IZ9BlwjoOc — Justin Bronk (@Justin_Br0nk) December 26, 2024
UFOs Are Monitoring Nuclear Weapons Globally
December 24th, 2024Via: Jesse Michels:
Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?
December 21st, 2024I doubt it’s actually AGI, but it looks impressive. If it’s any consolation, they let it use a very nontrivial amount of compute to pull this off. If/when this thing gets the ability to iterate on itself… Well, that’s probably not going to go well for humanity. In the demo, they show it generating and […]
Magdeburg Christmas Market Car Attack: Saudis Warned Germans Over Suspect Three Times
December 21st, 2024Via: Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia reportedly warned German authorities three times about the perpetrator of a Christmas market massacre that killed five people and injured hundreds. Officials said a nine-year-old child is among the dead. Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke of the ‘brutality’ of killing and injuring so many people. ‘It is a terribly tragic accident’, […]
FAA Temporarily Bans Drones in Parts of New Jersey
December 19th, 2024Via: ABC News: The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ban on drone operations in several areas of New Jersey until Jan. 17, unless operators are granted special permission from the government due to “special security reasons.” … The temporary flight restrictions, which are set to last until Jan. 17, have been implemented beginning Wednesday in […]
Big Brother Camera Surveillance Changes Visual Perception
December 18th, 2024Via: Study Finds: The results were remarkable: “Our surveilled participants became hyper-aware of face stimuli almost a second faster than the control group. This perceptual enhancement also occurred without participants realizing it,” says Seymour. This held true whether the faces were looking directly at them or away, though both groups detected direct-gazing faces more quickly […]
Russia Claims Cancer Vaccine Ready for Use in 2025
December 17th, 2024Via: Daily Mail: Russia’s health ministry claims it has developed a vaccine against cancer that will be rolled out to patients for free. Andrey Kaprin, who heads the Radiology Medical Research Center of the Ministry of Health, said the shot will launch in early 2025, according to state-run media. The vaccine will apparently be used […]
Trump on Drones: “The Government Knows What Is Happening”
December 16th, 2024When asked if he has been briefed, he won’t comment. Via: The Hill: President-elect Trump on Monday said the Biden administration knows what is happening with the flurry of drone sightings in the northeast, suggesting it was not a hostile adversary and questioning why officials were not more forthcoming. “The government knows what is happening. […]
New Palantir Commercial: The Future of Warfare
December 16th, 2024Yes, really. Via: Palantir:
