Banks Are Still Drawing on the Fed for $164 Billion of Emergency Cash
March 24th, 2023Via: Bloomberg:
Banks reduced their borrowings only slightly from two Federal Reserve backstop facilities in the most recent week, a sign that institutions are taking advantage of the central bank’s liquidity in the wake of turmoil.
This Is the ‘Birth of a Different Age’
March 23rd, 2023This is about AI and Chinese psyop platform TikTok.
Via: Fox:
Leader of U.S. Military’s Africa Command States Our Government Shares “Core Values” with Military Coup Leaders
March 23rd, 2023Via: Rep. Matt Gaetz:
BREAKING: The leader of U.S. military’s Africa Command states our government shares “core values” with military coup leaders.
These SAME coup leaders were trained by our own Armed Forces! pic.twitter.com/boGYfQ6csb
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) March 23, 2023
The FBI Used an Undercover Cop With Pink Hair to Spy on Activists and Manufacture Crimes
March 23rd, 2023Via: The Intercept:
But Chelsie’s identity was as fake as her long pink hair. The young woman, whose real name is April Rogers, is a detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department. The FBI enlisted her to infiltrate and spy on racial justice groups during the summer of 2020.
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Once Rogers gained trust among the activists, she tried to set up at least two young men in gun-running conspiracies.
Australia: Soldiers Control Robot with Brain Computer Interface
March 23rd, 2023Via: Science Daily:
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought control.
The advanced brain-computer interface was developed by Distinguished Professor Chin-Teng Lin and Professor Francesca Iacopi, from the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT, in collaboration with the Australian Army and Defence Innovation Hub.
As well as defence applications, the technology has significant potential in fields such as advanced manufacturing, aerospace and healthcare — for example allowing people with a disability to control a wheelchair or operate prosthetics.
“The hands-free, voice-free technology works outside laboratory settings, anytime, anywhere. It makes interfaces such as consoles, keyboards, touchscreens and hand-gesture recognition redundant,” said Professor Iacopi.
“By using cutting edge graphene material, combined with silicon, we were able to overcome issues of corrosion, durability and skin contact resistance, to develop the wearable dry sensors,” she said.
A new study outlining the technology has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal ACS Applied Nano Materials. It shows that the graphene sensors developed at UTS are very conductive, easy to use and robust.
The hexagon patterned sensors are positioned over the back of the scalp, to detect brainwaves from the visual cortex. The sensors are resilient to harsh conditions so they can be used in extreme operating environments.
The user wears a head-mounted augmented reality lens which displays white flickering squares. By concentrating on a particular square, the brainwaves of the operator are picked up by the biosensor, and a decoder translates the signal into commands.
More: Brain-Computer Interface Systems
Scientists Find Plastic Rocks on Remote Island
March 23rd, 2023Via: AFP:
There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil.
So geologist Fernanda Avelar Santos was startled to find an unsettling sign of human impact on the otherwise untouched landscape: rocks formed from the glut of plastic pollution floating in the ocean.
Santos first found the plastic rocks in 2019, when she traveled to the island to research her doctoral thesis on a completely different topic—landslides, erosion and other “geological risks.”
She was working near a protected nature reserve known as Turtle Beach, the world’s largest breeding ground for the endangered green turtle, when she came across a large outcrop of the peculiar-looking blue-green rocks.
Intrigued, she took some back to her lab after her two-month expedition.
Analyzing them, she and her team identified the specimens as a new kind of geological formation, merging the materials and processes the Earth has used to form rocks for billions of years with a new ingredient: plastic trash.
“We concluded that human beings are now acting as a geological agent, influencing processes that were previously completely natural, like rock formation,” she told AFP.
Video of Fauci Attempting to Peddle Covid Vaccines Door-to-Door in Washington, DC
March 23rd, 2023Via: Fox:
Adobe Releases AI Art Generator Firefly To Take On Midjourney And DALL-E, “Could Be As Influential As The First Photoshop”
March 22nd, 2023It’s coming very quickly now.
Via: TechRadar:
Adobe has revealed its answer to AI art generators like Midjourney, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion – and the new family of generative AI tools, collectively called Adobe Firefly, could ultimately be as influential as the original Photoshop was in 1990.
The giant behind apps like Photoshop and Illustrator has been baking AI image generation into its software for years, but Adobe Firefly takes it to a whole new level. Its first Firefly beta brings text-to-image generation to Photoshop and gives you the ability to apply styles to text in Illustrator, among other skills.
DPReview.com Is Closing April 10th
March 22nd, 2023I became interested in 35mm photography back in the 1980s when I was in high school. After a brief stint in photography school in the early 1990s, I realized that the only way I was going to make consistent money with photography was with weddings. So, I moved on.
But my love of photography remained, and as the bulk of photography moved to digital, I followed along at dpreview.com. At least a couple of times a week… For over 20 years.
I’ll miss it.
Via: DPReview.com:
Dear readers,
After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year.
The site will remain active until April 10…
Labor Data Reveals Shocking Drop In Workplace Attendance Following Vax Campaign
March 21st, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
In their latest analysis, Dowd and crew use data from the Bureau of Labor Statistcs (BLS) to reveal a shocking spike in both employee absence and lost worktime rates, which they believe is due to vaccines – either from primary vaccine injuries, or because of weakened immune systems due to the jab, and not long covid caused by the virus itself.
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In 2022 the absence rate was 11 sigma above trend & the worktime lost rate in 2022 was 13 sigma from trend.
This is a very strong signal.
Related: US – Absence Rates and Lost Worktime Data
