Archive for October, 2018
Claim: Khashoggi Was Going to Expose Saudi Use of Chemical Weapons in Yemen
October 28th, 2018Via: Express: Last night a close friend of Mr Khashoggi revealed that he was about to obtain “documentary evidence” proving clams that Saudi Arabia had used chemical weapons in its proxy war in Yemen. “I met him a week before his death. He was unhappy and he was worried,“ said the middle eastern academic, who […]
Department of Homeland Security Ran Safety Drills at Tree of Life Synagogue
October 27th, 2018What was Bowers’ work history? I can only find one reference to him working as a truck driver, “Bowers told Mr. Hall’s fiance that he worked as a trucker.” Via: Heavy: The synagogue’s former president Michael Eisenberg said that while he was president, he had the Department of Homeland Security come to Tree of Life. […]
Rise of the Machines: Automation Reshapes Job Market
October 27th, 2018Via: Daily Republic: Looking at a map of California on a projector screen, Johannes Moenius, an economics professor at the University of Redlands, hovered his mouse over the Inland Empire, which glowed with a splotch of red pixels. The colored dots signified how susceptible an area would be to job losses caused by automation. And […]
TSA Announces “Biometrics Vision for All Commercial Aviation Travelers”
October 27th, 2018Via: Papers, Please: Today the US Transportation Security Administration released a detailed TSA Biometric Roadmap for Aviation Security & the Passenger Experience, making explicit the goal of requiring mug shots (to be used for automated facial recognition and image-based surveillance and control) as a condition of all domestic or international air travel. … It’s a […]
Robots to Make Robots at ABB’s New $150 Million Factory in China
October 27th, 2018Via: Reuters: Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country’s largest maker of industrial robots. The factory, located near ABB’s China robotics campus, is due to be […]
NSA Has Top Secret Documents on Seth Rich
October 26th, 2018I contacted @Ty_Clevenger to confirm that he made a FOIA request to NSA, as described in the piece below. He did: Via: Sic Semper Tyrannis: But now there is new information that may corroborate what the human sources quoted in the Fox article claimed about Seth’s role in getting the DNC documents to Wikileaks. Borne […]
Google’s Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare
October 26th, 2018Via: Engadget: Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet division focused on smart cities, is caught in a battle over information privacy. The team has lost its lead expert and consultant, Ann Cavoukian, over a proposed data trust that would approve and manage the collection of information inside Quayside, a conceptual smart neighborhood in Toronto. Cavoukian, the former […]
A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
October 26th, 2018Begins? haha That’s a good one. Just off the top of my head, I thought of this one from 2011. Via: New York Times: The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don’t want their own children […]
4Chan Trolls Mock ‘False Flag’ Bomb Scare By Making Parody ‘Bombs’ Of Their Own
October 26th, 2018Via: Information Liberation: “Just got this in the mail, I’m scared!”
The Parallel Stories of Tesla and Apple, as Model 3 Has Its ‘iPhone Moment’
October 25th, 2018Part of my comment on Tesla from 9 October: The long argument, of course, is that Tesla is different. Is it? Yep. I think so. In my opinion, the correct past analogy is Apple and the initial release of the iPhone. What Tesla is doing is “iPhone” level in terms of EVs and energy storage. […]
