Trust The Science Starter Pack
January 11th, 2023I do in fact #TrustTheScience – especially when government agencies, politics & celebrities stay far from it. #ConflictOfInterest pic.twitter.com/ANP62IXIWq
— Dr Sherri Tenpenny (@BusyDrT) January 11, 2023
The Role of the U.S. DoD (and Their Co-Investors) in “Covid Countermeasures”
January 10th, 2023“Countermeasure prototype”
“Other transaction authority contracts”
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Via: Sasha Latypova:
All Covid countermeasures, including the biological warfare agents marketed as “Covid-19 vaccines”, were ordered by the US DoD as a “large scale manufacturing demonstration” via Other Transactions Authority contracts.
Research Credit: Pookie
AI-Powered Lawyer Will Represent Defendant in Court
January 10th, 2023Via: CBS:
A “robot” lawyer powered by artificial intelligence will be the first of its kind to help a defendant fight a traffic ticket in court next month.
Joshua Browder, CEO of DoNotPay, said the company’s AI-creation runs on a smartphone, listens to court arguments and formulates responses for the defendant. The AI lawyer tells the defendant what to say in real-time, through headphones.
The artificial intelligence firm has already used AI-generated form letters and chatbots to help people secure refunds for in-flight Wifi that didn’t work, as well as to lower bills and dispute parking tickets, among other issues, according to Browder. All told the company has relied on these AI templates to win more than 2 million customer service disputes and court cases on behalf of individuals against institutions and organizations, he added.
Michai Morin: “A Presentation on Historical & Modern UAP Trends”
January 9th, 2023This is an interesting high level overview of the UFO phenomenon. There’s probably not a lot of information here that’s new for Cryptogon readers, but you might like to pass it along to someone who is new to this area of inquiry.
Via: Project Unity:
James Webb Telescope Reveals Milky Way–Like Galaxies in Young Universe
January 9th, 2023Via: Phys.org:
New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars—elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks—at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our Milky Way, this early in the universe will require astrophysicists to refine their theories of galaxy evolution.
Prior to JWST, images from the Hubble Space Telescope had never detected bars at such young epochs. In a Hubble image, one galaxy, EGS-23205, is little more than a disk-shaped smudge, but in the corresponding JWST image taken this past summer, it’s a beautiful spiral galaxy with a clear stellar bar.
VALL-E: Microsoft’s New Speech Synthesis AI Can Mimic A Speaker’s Voice From A Three Second Sample
January 9th, 2023Many audio examples are at the link.
Via: Microsoft – Github:
We introduce a language modeling approach for text to speech synthesis (TTS). Specifically, we train a neural codec language model (called VALL-E) using discrete codes derived from an off-the-shelf neural audio codec model, and regard TTS as a conditional language modeling task rather than continuous signal regression as in previous work. During the pre-training stage, we scale up the TTS training data to 60K hours of English speech which is hundreds of times larger than existing systems. VALL-E emerges in-context learning capabilities and can be used to synthesize high-quality personalized speech with only a 3-second enrolled recording of an unseen speaker as an acoustic prompt. Experiment results show that VALL-E significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art zero-shot TTS system in terms of speech naturalness and speaker similarity. In addition, we find VALL-E could preserve the speaker’s emotion and acoustic environment of the acoustic prompt in synthesis.
John Deere Will Allow U.S. Farmers to Repair Their Own Equipment
January 9th, 2023Via: Engadget:
John Deere has been one of the stauncher opponents of right to repair regulation, but it’s now willing to make some concessions. Deere & Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) that lets US farmers and independent repair shops fix equipment, rather than requiring the use of authorized parts and service centers. Users will have access to official diagnostics, manuals, tools and training. Deere will let owners disable electronic locks, and won’t bar people from legally obtaining repair resources even if the company no longer offers them.
Thousands of People Stormed Brazil’s Congress on Sunday in Protest of Left-Wing President Lula’s Win
January 9th, 2023Via: Daily Mail:
The supporters of far-right ex-President Bolsonaro invaded Brazil’s National Congress building, the Supreme Court, presidential palace on Sunday, and called for the military to overthrow newly elected President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after Bolsonaro questioned the integrity of the election.
WHO: Anti-Vaccine Activism is Deadlier Than Global Terrorism
January 8th, 2023Mmm hmm.
Via: Summit News:
The World Health Organization shared a video on Twitter promoting the claim that anti-vaccine activism is deadlier than global terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and gun violence.
Yes, really.
The video quoted Baylor College of Medicine’s Dr. Peter Hotez, who stated, “We have to recognize that anti-vaccine activism, which I actually call anti-science aggression, has now become a major killing force globally.”
U.S. to Send Ukraine Bradley Fighting Vehicles
January 8th, 2023Via: Antiwar:
The US is going to send Ukraine Bradley Fighting Vehicles for the first time in a new weapons package worth nearly $3 billion, US officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The officials said the $2.85 billion aid package will be formally announced on Friday, and it will mark the single largest arms package for Ukraine the US has pledged at one time. The package will include 50 Bradleys, which are designed to transport infantry troops with armored protection that are equipped with a 25 mm gun.
More: Meet All The Heavily Armored Western Combat Vehicles Ukraine Is Getting
