Trident Missile Test Fails for Second Time in a Row
February 21st, 2024Via: BBC:
The test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed, for the second time in a row.
The latest test of the UK’s nuclear deterrent was from HMS Vanguard and was witnessed by the defence secretary.
The missile’s booster rockets failed and it landed in the sea close to the launch site, according to the Sun, which first reported the malfunction.
Albedo Space: Low Earth Orbit Satellites Will Have 10cm Resolution
February 20th, 2024Via: New York Times:
Anyone living in the modern world has grown familiar with diminishing privacy amid a surge security cameras, trackers built into smartphones, facial recognition systems, drones and other forms of digital monitoring. But what makes the overhead surveillance potentially scary, experts say, is its ability to invade areas once seen as intrinsically off limits.
“This is a giant camera in the sky for any government to use at any time without our knowledge,” said Jennifer Lynch, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who in 2019 urged civil satellite regulators to address this issue. “We should definitely be worried.”
Against that concern, Mr. Haddad and other supporters of Albedo’s technology say real benefits must be weighed, especially when it comes to fighting disasters and saving lives.
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Investors in Albedo include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the investment firm of Bill Gates. Albedo’s strategic advisory board includes former directors of the C.I.A. and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, an arm of the Pentagon.
From 2019: Soon, Satellites Will be Able to Watch You Everywhere All the Time
The War On Children
February 20th, 2024Via: The War On Children:
Worth watching, especially for parents pic.twitter.com/k6gb2CMVqU
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 18, 2024
Achieve AGI By Just Scaling Compute?
February 20th, 2024Video Generation Models as World Simulators:
We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios. We leverage a transformer architecture that operates on spacetime patches of video and image latent codes. Our largest model, Sora, is capable of generating a minute of high fidelity video. Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.
Via: The AIGRID:
OpenAI might have already achieved AGI internally:
WHO Chief’s Dire Warning: Disease X Outbreak ‘A Matter of When, not If’
February 18th, 2024Mmm hmm.
Via: Fox:
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has issued a new warning about the likelihood of Disease X breaking out, telling global world leaders it is “a matter of when, not if” a new pathogen and pandemic will strike.
Tedros, who goes by his first name and is not a medical doctor, told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier his week he gave a similar warning in 2018 that a pandemic was likely to hit, and he was proven right with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.
Complaining that the world is still ill-prepared for a new pandemic, Tedros once again touted the urgent need for a global treaty to be agreed upon by May and dismissed suspicions of it being a WHO power grab as outlandish.
He called the treaty “mission critical for humanity.”
Possibly Related: “Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones Heard Warnings from the FBI of Imminent Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.”
“Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones Heard Warnings from the FBI of Imminent Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.”
February 18th, 2024It is possible, maybe even likely, that nothing unusual will happen. (“Nothing unusual,” assumes that you understand that many major U.S. cities are already existing in what I’d consider to be a state of collapse.)
Privately, I have been advising people inside the U.S. to be at full readiness and far away from cities before the election in November. What full readiness means will vary from person to person. At a minimum, I suggest that your definition should include:
– A means to avoid freezing to death
– Adequate water and food for your group
– High capacity weapons and ammunition (with everyone in your group trained extensively in their use)
– Fuel / electricity
– First aid kit
– Communications (Internet, mobile phone, TV, AM/FM radio, CB, shortwave, ham, etc.). However, assume that the Internet and mobile phone networks will be totally or partially down.
While I don’t know if anything unusual will happen, according to the U.S. Army’s 4th PSYOP Group, “All the world’s a stage”:
All the world’s a stage.
Keyword: All.
With that context out of the way, here’s Sheriff Richard Jones:
Via: Journal-News:
At the National Sheriff’s Association Conference in Washington. D.C, last week, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones heard warnings from the FBI of imminent terrorist attacks on the U.S., and he is out to make sure his department is prepared.
“It’s not if they are going to attack, it’s just when they are,” Jones said. “There are people already here who have come to this country who hate us and want to kill us.”
Lines of attack, he said he was told, will be through cyber attacks, crippling power grids, train derailments and cells of armed terrorists who target multiple areas of the country.
Bonus: WHO chief’s dire warning: Disease X outbreak ‘a matter of when, not if’ [Right before election?]
Customs and Border Protection’s Top Doctor Tried to Order Fentanyl Lollipops for Helicopter Trip to U.N.
February 18th, 2024[???]
Via: CBS:
The chief medical officer for the Customs and Border Protection agency repeatedly asked staff members to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take on a helicopter mission to the United Nations in New York City in Sept. 2023, according to a whistleblower report by the Government Accountability Project.
The report was shared with Congress on Friday morning, and stated that Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alexander Eastman allegedly “spent copious hours of his and Office of the Chief Medical Officer staff time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops, a Schedule II narcotic, so that he could bring them on the CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter on which he would be a passenger in New York City.”
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid and painkiller driving the overdose crisis in the United States. Fentanyl lollipops are an oral version of the drug, and are used to treat pain, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency. Chief among the Customs and Border Protection’s duties as a federal agency is stopping the flow of illicit drugs, including fentanyl, into the United States over international borders.
When asked why he would need fentanyl lollipops to travel to the United Nations’ General Assembly meeting, Eastman allegedly argued that the lollipops would be necessary for pain management in case of an emergency, and were “necessary” in case a CBP operator was injured, or if the Air and Marine Operations team encountered a “patient in need.”
Over half a dozen CBP employees were involved in the “urgent” requests to purchase the fentanyl lollipops, the whistleblowers said, with senior leadership in the office reporting concerns about the process in emails. Eastman’s attempts to order the lollipops were unsuccessful because there was not funding available, the whistleblowers said.
Bohemian Grove Infiltration Pt. 2
February 18th, 2024This was my favorite part: Emergency Telephone.
Via: Dancer:
Related: Bohemian Grove Infiltration Pt. 1
Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World
February 17th, 2024Via: Unlimited Hangout:
In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger.
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“We believe we’re just halfway there in the ETF revolution…Everything is going to be ETF’d…We believe this is just the beginning. ETFs are step one in the technological revolution in the financial markets. Step two is going to be the tokenization of every financial asset.”
Microsoft Investing 3.2 Billion Euros In Germany For AI Research
February 17th, 2024Via: Reuters:
U.S. software giant Microsoft will invest 3.2 billion euros ($3.44 billion) in Germany in the next two years, mostly in artificial intelligence, offering a boost to Europe’s largest economy as it faces its worst slump in 20 years.
With its biggest investment in Germany in the last 40 years Microsoft aims to double the capacity of its AI and data centre infrastructure in the country and expand its training programmes, said President Brad Smith on Thursday.
