Heat Stress Kills Estimated 10,000 Head of Kansas Feedlot Cattle
June 15th, 2022Via: Progressive Farmer:
The current heat wave blazing through Kansas feedlots has killed an estimated 10,000 head of fat cattle.
Final death numbers continue to come in, but that early estimate was shared with DTN by livestock experts, who put the geographical center point for those deaths at Ulysses, Kansas.
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Large losses in feedlots due to heat stress seem to start every year around June, said veterinarian A.J. Tarpoff, who works with Kansas State University Extension. He explained that when there is a “perfect storm” of too much heat and no opportunity for nighttime cooling, cattle can accumulate heat and die from the stress. It’s a situation, he added, that can hit both feedlot and grazing animals.
“Heat stress doesn’t happen all at one time. Cattle accumulate heat during the day, and then over the nighttime hours, it takes four to six hours for them to dissipate that heat. As long as we have a cooling effect at night, cattle can mostly handle the heat. Where we run into issues is where we have two to four days in a row of minimal nighttime cooling, and we start the day with the heat load we accumulated the day before still there,” he said.
Over $200K Being Spent on Drag Queen Shows at NYC Schools
June 15th, 2022Via: New York Post:
New York is showering taxpayer funds on a group that sends drag queens into city schools — often without parental knowledge or consent — even as parents in other states protest increasingly aggressive efforts to expose kids to gender-bending performers.
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Cross-dressed performers typically read aloud from a list of books that teach acceptance and inclusion, including children’s classics like “Where the Wild Things Are” and “The Rainbow Fish” — and some that overtly celebrate gender fluidity, like “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.”
But the expansion into city schools has brought new features to the program, its social media posts reveal.
In April, the elaborately coiffed Harmonica Sunbeam wore a slinky gown to meet with kindergarteners at STAR Academy in Manhattan and color pages from “The Dragtivity Book,” which encourages kids to choose their pronouns and invent drag names.
Fed Hikes Rates By The Most In 28 Years
June 15th, 2022Mmm hmm. Strongly committed to fighting inflation. Current U.S. National Debt: $30.5 Trillion.
Via: ZeroHedge:
The Fed hiked rates by a stunning (but expected) 75bps – the biggest hike since 1994. Esther George dissented (preferring 50bps). Fed expresses that is “strongly committed” to fighting inflation.
The Strange Claims of U.S. Government Disinformation Agent Richard Doty
June 14th, 2022Richard Doty is a well known UFO disinformation operative and has admitted to lying about UFOs on behalf of the U.S. Government.
I don’t understand how anyone could take him seriously, but he is really, upping his game, so to speak, with his latest claims.
As the Tom DeLonge – Lue Elizondo operation fades away, we now have a former Air Force spook claiming that the Air Force refers to UFOs as, “Cardinals,” that aliens abducted children and that an escaped alien killed a man near Area 51.
If these things actually happened, why hasn’t Doty been arrested for his unauthorized release of top secret information?
Hmm.
Via: UAMN TV:
Amino Acids Found On An Asteroid in Space For The Very First Time
June 14th, 2022Via: Science Alert:
For the first time, scientists have found the building blocks for life on an asteroid in space.
Japanese researchers have discovered more than 20 amino acids on the space rock Ryugu, which is more than 200 million miles (320 million kilometers) from Earth.
Scientists made the first-of-its-kind detection by studying samples retrieved from the near-Earth asteroid by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft, which landed on Ryugu in 2018.
Google Engineer Placed on Leave After Claiming an Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Had Become Sentient
June 12th, 2022Via: Business Insider:
An engineer at Google said he was placed on leave Monday after claiming an artificial intelligence chatbot had become sentient.
Blake Lemoine told The Washington Post he began chatting with the interface LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications, last fall as part of his job at Google’s Responsible AI organization.
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But when he raised the idea of LaMDA’s sentience to higher-ups at Google, he was dismissed.
“Our team — including ethicists and technologists — has reviewed Blake’s concerns per our AI Principles and have informed him that the evidence does not support his claims. He was told that there was no evidence that LaMDA was sentient (and lots of evidence against it),” Brian Gabriel, a Google spokesperson, told The Post.
Related: What is LaMDA and What Does it Want?
“We incorporated the humanized SARS-CoV spike (S) glycoprotein into HIV particles to generate a highly infectious SARS-CoV pseudotyped virus”
June 11th, 2022Hmmm.
Hmmm. From 2004. Researchers in Beijing.
"we incorporated the humanized SARS-CoV spike (S) glycoprotein into HIV particles to generate a highly infectious SARS-CoV pseudotyped virus."https://t.co/vTCQPJ9U4h— Stephanie Seneff (@stephanieseneff) June 11, 2022
European Natural Gas Prices Soar by Almost 40% After Fire at Key U.S. Export Terminal
June 9th, 2022Pretty interesting timing…
Via: Business Insider:
Natural gas prices surged across Europe on Thursday after a fire broke out at a key US export hub, putting further pressure on already tight global supply.
The Freeport liquefied natural gas export facility in Quintana, Texas will remain closed for at least three weeks after Wednesday’s explosion, a company spokesperson said. The terminal accounts for nearly a fifth of all US overseas gas shipments, according to Bloomberg. The US supplies almost half of Europe’s LNG.
“Swarms of Electric Farming Robots”
June 9th, 2022Via: Electrek:
Agricultural machinery manufacturer AGCO is continuing its technical partnership with Apex.AI in order to use its Apex.OS software development kit to add autonomous capabilities to its farming robot concept. The battery-powered Xaver farming robots were developed by AGCO brand Fendt and can autonomously plant seeds on farms 24 hours a day.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s New Investment Firm Deepens His Ties to the U.S. Military
June 9th, 2022Via: Recode:
Perhaps most interesting is Schmidt’s connection to AFF CEO Gilman Louie. Louie was one of 15 commissioners on the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), where Schmidt was chair. From 2018 to 2021, the commission developed policy recommendations on how AI could be used to promote US national security. Their work was influential; the Department of Defense has adopted several of its recommendations. Poulson noted that Schmidt’s work on the AI commission could be summed up as “government-sanctioned lobbying.”
Louie’s past experience is likely useful for AFF’s ambitions. He was the first CEO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA venture capital firm that uses agency funding to invest in promising new tech that could be applied to the intelligence sector, whose structure AFF appears to be imitating. In-Q-Tel’s potential conflicts of interest have been well publicized. “More than half its trustees were alleged to have had financial ties to the companies in which the fund invested,” Paul said.
Now observers are concerned that AFF’s board of directors could have similar financial ties with companies it invests in, and that this will create rife opportunities for conflicts of interest. Schmidt is a major funder of tech and defense startups, with a special interest in AI. He’s an investor and chair of Sandbox AQ, an AI software development company spun off from Google’s parent company, Alphabet — and In-Q-Tel recently announced it was backing Sandbox AQ, saying it hopes to eventually sell the software to US intelligence agencies.
