AI Suggested 40,000 New Possible Chemical Weapons in Just Six Hours
March 19th, 2022Via: The Verge:
It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference.
All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
8-Year Secret CIA Training Program in Eastern Ukraine
March 17th, 2022Via: Antiwar:
CIA paramilitaries had been training Ukrainian forces on the frontlines of the Donbas war against Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and were only pulled out by the Biden administration last month, Yahoo News reported on Wednesday, citing former US officials.
The CIA first sent a small number of paramilitaries to eastern Ukraine when the war started in 2014, which was sparked by a US-backed coup in Kyiv and the Donbas separatists declaring independence from the post-coup government.
UK: 9 in 10 COVID Deaths Are in Vaccinated People
March 17th, 2022Via: The Exposé:
A report released by the UK government has confirmed that 9 out of every 10 deaths related to COVID-19 are found in those who are fully vaccinated. Although the virus variant is the same and the UK approved only one different vaccine (AstraZeneca) from the United States, the data in the U.S. are different. This may be due in large part to the CDC definition used to identify who is “vaccinated.”
U.S. data are also likely to become even more sparse in the coming weeks and months. In addition to the CDC hiding data, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) quietly decided in early February to stop recording deaths attributed to COVID-19.
“Blatantly Illegal”: DHS Collected Americans’ Financial Records in Bulk
March 17th, 2022Via: Epoch Times:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has collected Americans’ financial records in bulk, according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
Wyden revealed the existence of a DHS financial surveillance program in a March 8 letter to the department’s inspector general, calling for an investigation into the previously unknown activities.
Wyden said he has recently learned that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—a law enforcement component of DHS—was operating an “indiscriminate and bulk surveillance program that swept up millions of financial records about Americans.”
“After my staff contacted HSI about the program in January 2022, HSI immediately terminated the program,” Wyden wrote to DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari.
The senator said his office was briefed by HSI on Feb. 18—the first time Congress had been told about the program.
“HSI told my staff that it used custom summonses to obtain approximately six million records about money transfers above $500, to or from Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico,” Wyden wrote. “HSI obtained these records using a total of eight customs summonses, which it sent to Western Union and Maxitransfers Corporation (Maxi), demanding records for a six-month period following the order.”
Wyden said the HSI financial surveillance activities are highly problematic for numerous reasons, including the fact that only eight summonses were used to obtain more than 6 million records.
Digital Tyranny: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
March 17th, 2022Via: The Rutherford Institute:
No matter how much money the government pulls in, it’s never enough, so the government has come up with a new plan to make it even easier for its agents to seize Americans’ bank accounts.
Make way for the digital dollar.
Media Lies About Origin of Covid
March 17th, 2022Via: Peak Prosperity:
Heathrow Airport Drops Covid Face Mask Rules
March 17th, 2022Via: BBC:
The UK’s largest airport has dropped mandatory face masks for passengers.
Heathrow Airport no longer requires people to wear them in its terminals, railway stations or office buildings but will continue to recommend they do so.
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic are the latest airlines to relax their policies on face coverings.
Passengers must still wear them on board flights if the country they’re travelling to requires it.
U.S. Copyright Office Refuses to Register AI-Generated Work, “Human Authorship Is a Prerequisite to Copyright Protection”
March 16th, 2022Via: The IPKat:
Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright?
On Valentine’s Day, the US Copyright Office (Review Board) answered this question with a heartbreaking ‘no’, holding that “copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind”” and consequently refusing to register the two-dimensional artwork ‘A Recent Entrance to Paradise’ below…
Ed Dowd: “Millennial Age Group, 25 to 44 Experienced an 84% Increase in Excess Mortality”
March 16th, 2022Via: Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter:
Light Exposure During Sleep Impairs Cardiometabolic Function
March 15th, 2022In case you didn’t know this twenty years ago…
Via: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
Ambient nighttime light exposure is implicated as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes, including cardiometabolic disease. However, the effects of nighttime light exposure during sleep on cardiometabolic outcomes and the related mechanisms are unclear. This laboratory study shows that, in healthy adults, one night of moderate (100 lx) light exposure during sleep increases nighttime heart rate, decreases heart rate variability (higher sympathovagal balance), and increases next-morning insulin resistance when compared to sleep in a dimly lit (<3 lx) environment. Moreover, a positive relationship between higher sympathovagal balance and insulin levels suggests that sympathetic activation may play a role in the observed light-induced changes in insulin sensitivity.
