Surgeon General Calls for Health Warnings on Social Media for Younger Users
June 17th, 2024If you have children, I hope you understand that you can ban the toxic social media nonsense:
On your router.
On the devices your children use (parental controls).
On DNS.
Via: ABC:
The U.S. surgeon general called on Monday for social media platforms to include health warnings for younger users.
“One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don’t have the luxury to wait for perfect information. You assess the available facts, you use your best judgment, and you act quickly,” Vivek H. Murthy wrote in an op-ed published in The New York Times “The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor.”
“It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents,” he wrote, calling on Congress to take action to require such a label.
TDK: Solid-State Battery with an Energy Density of 1,000 Wh/L, Approximately 100X Greater than Conventional Solid-State Battery
June 17th, 2024Via: TDK:
TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) successfully developed a material for CeraCharge, a next-generation solid-state battery with an energy density of 1,000 Wh/L, approximately 100 times greater than the energy density of TDK’s conventional solid-state battery.
TDK’s technology is aimed at a solution that can be utilized in various wearable devices, such as wireless earphones, hearing aids and even smartwatches, with the goal of replacing existing coin cell batteries.
Related: TDK Claims Insane Energy Density in Solid-State Battery Breakthrough
“This is America’s Darkest Secret”
June 17th, 2024Previously:
‘Modern-Day Slave Traders’: Hawley Demands Probe Into 85,000 ‘Lost’ Migrant Children
HHS Whistleblower Says Government Complicit in Trafficking; Child Admits Being ‘Pimped’ by Sponsor
Biden Secretly Flying Underage Migrants Into NY in Dead of Night
U.S. Waives FBI Checks on Caregivers at New Migrant Facilities, Alarming Child Welfare Experts
Audio Appears to Reveal Sexual Abuse at Fort Bliss Facility for Migrant Kids
Tucker Obtains Whistleblower Report on Military Flying Illegal Immigrants
DHS Insider Blows Whistle on Int’l Child Sex Trafficking Gangs Exploiting ‘Reasonable Fear’ Loophole
Via: Redacted:
More: “Upcoming Report Will Expose Horrors” Of Biden’s Lost 85,000 Migrant Children In America
U.S. Navy in Most Intense Combat Since World War II Against Yemen’s Iran-Backed Houthi Rebels
June 15th, 2024Via: AP:
The U.S. Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world’s waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen.
The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, has turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II, its leaders and experts told The Associated Press.
Quarter of Americans Have Unfavorable Views of Both Major Party Presidential Candidates
June 15th, 2024Via: Axios:
A quarter of Americans hold unfavorable views of both President Biden and former President Trump — the highest share of “double haters” at this stage in any of the last 10 elections, according to new Pew Research data.
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS: The Decade Ahead
June 15th, 2024Via: situational-awareness.ai:
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace many college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word.
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Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Military Draft Coming? House Passes Measure To Automatically Register Men For Selective Service
June 15th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
The House of Representatives on Friday approved its version of the annual defense policy bill, effectively clearing the $883.7 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to move forward in a 217-199 vote which largely fell along party lines. Only three Republicans opposed it.
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But among the most interesting aspects to the bill for Fiscal Year 2025 is an amendment to the NDAA which automatically registers all draft-age male U.S. residents with the Selective Service System.
Seattle Police to Hire Illegal Immigrants
June 15th, 2024Via: Law Enforcement Today:
Seattle is joining the growing list of left wing cities that have decided to turn to illegal aliens to fill the ever-increasing void in the ranks of their police department, following cities such as Los Angeles. This is due to severe understaffing that has gutted many large city departments in primarily blue cities.
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One issue facing DACA recipients becoming police officers is because they are in the country illegally, which means that they are not generally permitted to carry a firearm. However, Biden’s ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has ruled that “It is ATF’s position that DACA recipients can possess duty firearms and possess ammunition as part of their official law enforcement officer duties,” according to the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).
Former NSA Director Joins OpenAI; Will Serve On Board And “Security” Committee
June 14th, 2024Chat GPT-4o: OpenAI’s New Realtime Multimodal Model:
This will make the individual profiling and surveillance that has been done by search engines for decades seem trivial.
OpenAI almost certainly wants this to be free for everyone in order to gather up as much personal and training data as possible.
OpenAI is probably able to review each of these sessions in order to make changes to how the system behaves. This means that the sessions could be made available to government and law enforcement agencies.
And now…
Via: ZeroHedge:
Days after we noted that OpenAI is expanding its lobbying army to influence regulation, the company announced that former head of the National Security Agency (NSA) – and the longest-serving leader of USCYBERCOM, Paul M. Nakasone, has joined board – just four months after stepping down at the government’s top clandestine data monitoring organization.
Nakasone, a retired US Army general, was nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump. He directed the agency from 2018 until his departure in February of this year. AsThe Verge notes, Nakasone wrote a WaPo op-ed in support of renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which was ultimately reauthorized by Congress in April – which contained a “terrifying” supercharged spying provision opposed by privacy advocates on both sides of the aisle in DC.
Related: AI Relies On Mass Surveillance
Counterfeit Titanium Found In Some Boeing And Airbus Jets
June 14th, 2024Via: ZeroHedge:
Some recently manufactured Boeing and Airbus jets have components made from titanium that was sold using fake documentation verifying the material’s authenticity, according to a supplier for the plane makers, raising concerns about the structural integrity of those airliners.
The falsified documents are being investigated by Spirit AeroSystems, which supplies fuselages for Boeing and wings for Airbus, as well as the Federal Aviation Administration. The investigation comes after a parts supplier found small holes in the material from corrosion.
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The issue appears to date to 2019 when a Turkish material supplier, Turkish Aerospace Industries, purchased a batch of titanium from a supplier in China, according to the people familiar with the issue. The Turkish company then sold that titanium to several companies that make aircraft parts, and those parts made their way to Spirit, which used them in Boeing and Airbus planes.
