Stanford President Resigns Over Manipulated Research, Will Retract at Least Three Papers
July 20th, 2023Via: The Stanford Daily:
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne will resign effective Aug. 31, according to communications released by the University Wednesday morning. He will also retract or issue lengthy corrections to five widely cited papers for which he was principal author after a Stanford-sponsored investigation found “manipulation of research data.”
According to Jerry Yang, chair of the Stanford Board of Trustees, Tessier-Lavigne will step down “in light of the report and its impact on his ability to lead Stanford.” Former Dean of Humanities Richard Saller will serve as interim president. In a separate statement, Tessier-Lavigne defended his reputation but acknowledged that issues with his research, first raised in a Daily investigation last autumn, meant that Stanford requires a president “whose leadership is not hampered by such discussions.”
“At various times when concerns with Dr. Tessier-Lavigne’s papers emerged—in 2001, the early 2010s, 2015-2016, and March 2021—Dr. Tessier-Lavigne failed to decisively and forthrightly correct mistakes in the scientific record,” Stanford’s report said, identifying a number of apparent manipulations in Tessier-Lavigne’s neuroscientific research.
The report concluded that the fudging of results under Tessier-Lavigne’s purview “spanned labs at three separate institutions.” It identified a culture where Tessier-Lavigne “tended to reward the ‘winners’ (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the ‘losers’ (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data).”
Related: At Least a Quarter of Medical Randomized Controlled Trials Are Faked or Flawed
Japan To Deploy Pre-Crime Style “Behavior Detection” Technology
July 19th, 2023Via: Reclaim the Net:
The use of AI in law enforcement is becoming commonplace globally. A 2019 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace revealed that 52 out of the 176 nations surveyed were incorporating AI tools into their policing strategies, Nikkei Asia reported.
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The National Police Agency plans to carry out tests on these AI-integrated cameras within the current fiscal year, set to conclude in March 2024. These cameras are capable of “behavior detection” and “facial recognition.” However, in a bid to protect privacy, only the former will be utilized, a decision in alignment with recent EU regulations that limit the use of facial recognition due to potential privacy concerns.
Related: “This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal”
Limited Hangout: Newly Declassified CIA File Loosely Links JFK’s Assassination to UFOs, “Now, Conspiracy Theorists Are Asking Even More Questions”
July 19th, 2023The shameful government narrative rag, Popular Mechanics, is running a limited hangout related to the JFK assassination and UFOs:
One of the newly released documents revealed the name of the CIA official who intercepted Oswald’s mail in the months before JFK’s killing: Reuben Efron. It turns out Efron had a UFO encounter in 1955 when he was on a train journey through the Soviet Union with Senator Richard Russell, Democrat of Georgia, and an Army colonel. They all saw what a CIA report called two “flying saucers,” though skeptics later argued that they were Soviet aircraft. Russell was among the Warren Commission members who interviewed Marina Oswald, Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife, in 1964.
The timing of this is interesting, considering all of the action underway in Congress at the moment.
Why is Popular Mechanics trying to pollute search results for JFK and UFOs with the story above?
In this Dark Journalist interview of Watergate lawyer Douglas Caddy from 2015, Caddy states that E. Howard Hunt told him that JFK was assassinated, “Because he was about to give our most vital secret to the Soviets… The alien presence.”
Watergate Lawyer Douglas Caddy reveals CIA Spymaster E. Howard Hunt's Confession to Dark Journalist: JFK Assassinated over the UFO File…!#UFO #JFK pic.twitter.com/FzSkYhMYXk
— Dark Journalist (@darkjournalist) June 12, 2023
Full interview: CIA INSIDER EXPOSES: JFK KILLED OVER THE ALIEN PRESENCE! DOUGLAS CADDY & DARK JOURNALIST:
Apple Experimenting With ‘Apple GPT’ AI Tool
July 19th, 2023One of my children figured out a few cunning tricks to work around his time limits on his PC running Windows 10. I saw what he was doing and thought that I could solve it with some automation. In short, I needed a script to log just him out on workstation lock; completely terminate the session instead of the usual disconnect. I have other processes running on the system, which need to be left alone.
I prompted the free tier of ChatGPT to create this script for me and, yes, it knew how to do this and gave me usable code. The batch file looks up the session ID assigned to my son and issues logoff to that ID. I set it up in the task scheduler to trigger on workstation lock and it worked.
“Daddy used AI to fix my exploit. Unfair.”
It seems like a trivial thing, but it’s really not. You can read all of the AI unemployment doom articles you want, but it’s a different feeling altogether when that thing spits out working code for you…
For young people now, it’s probably best to advise them that jobs involving someone paying them to look at a computer screen are going to become increasingly rare as time goes on. (That’s a mild way of explaining it to a child. Just between you and me: Forget it. It’s over.) On the bright side, perhaps get them to think about self employment and how they can use AI tools to give them some advantage to doing tasks in the real world, which are not easily automated away.
Via: MacRumors:
Apple is working on “Apple GPT” artificial intelligence projects that could rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Work on AI has become a priority for Apple over the course of the last few months, as chatbot services and AI functions in apps have proliferated.
The Cupertino company has developed an “Ajax” framework for large language models like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing, and Google’s Bard, and it has developed its own internal chatbot that some engineers refer to as “Apple GPT,” a play on ChatGPT. Apple does not yet have a “clear strategy” for creating a product for consumers, says Gurman.
Given the popularity of AI chatbots, Apple is worried that it is lagging behind on new AI-based technologies that will change the way that people interact with smartphones. Apple employees must get special access to access the chatbot app that Apple is working on, and its output cannot be used to develop new product features for customers. It is being used for product prototyping and can answer questions based on the data that Apple used to train it.
Wheat Prices Soar As Russia Considers Ships Heading To Ukraine As “Carriers Of Military Cargo”
July 19th, 2023Via: ZeroHedge:
Wheat futures jumped Wednesday morning after Russia’s defense ministry released a memo on Telegram indicating all vessels sailing to Ukraine ports in the waters of the Black Sea will be “regarded as potential carriers of military cargo” beginning on Thursday.
“In connection with the cessation of the functioning of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the ?losing of the maritime humanitarian corridor, from 00.00 Moscow time on 20 July 2023, all vessels sailing in the waters of the Black Sea to Ukrainian ports will be regarded as potential carriers of military cargo,” the defense ministry said.
The ministry continued:
Accordingly, the countries of such vessels will be considered to be involved in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Kiev regime.
In addition, a number of sea areas in the north-western and south-eastern parts of the international waters of the Black Sea have been declared temporarily dangerous for navigation. Corresponding information warnings on the withdrawal of safety guarantees to mariners have been issued in accordance with the established procedure.
Confidential Biden DOD Memo Reveals “Transgender” Service Members Can Skip Deployments and Receive Indefinite Physical Fitness/Standards Waivers
July 19th, 2023Is this real?
Via: The Dossier:
Here’s some of the “highlights” found within the document:
Taxpayer funded “care” for transgender service members includes:
speech/voice therapy
cross-sex hormones,
laser hair removal,
voice feminization surgery,
facialcontouring,
body contouring,
breast/chest surgery (“upper surgery”)
genital mutilation surgery (“lower surgery”).
Psychological counseling
Service members who identify as transgender may receive a waiver for grooming and uniform standards.
Service members who identify as transgender may receive an indefinite waiver for physical fitness standards. This waiver often becomes a de facto permanent situation, and the transgender identifying service member just has to renew the exemption request every six months.
Service members who identify as transgender will be considered “non-deployable” for up to 300 days while taking hormones for their “transition” period. Again, given that these hormones are often required for life, this may render the transgender identifying service member as permanently unable to deploy.
U.S. Finally Cuts Off Funding to Wuhan Institute of Virology
July 19th, 2023Via: Washington Times:
The Biden administration has formally barred U.S. funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and signaled it would cut off the lab permanently.
The Department of Health and Human Services has determined the lab is “not compliant with federal regulations and is not presently responsible,” according to a Monday memo first obtained by Bloomberg News.
The Wuhan lab, which hasn’t received U.S. funding since mid-2020, is at the heart of probes into whether the pandemic-causing coronavirus slipped into humans from nature or as the result of a lab leak. Researchers at the lab studied bat coronaviruses.
Robert Salas Has Not Been Asked to Appear Before House Oversight Committee Hearing on UFOs
July 18th, 2023In case you don’t know who Robert Salas is:
I’d recommend watching the entire presentation, but if you want to skip right to the Robert Salas incident, it starts at 1:27:45.
And now…
?#ufo #uap #ufotwiter #UFOtwitter #UAPtwitter HELP! I know many of you are ardent supporters of myself, my story, and the subject of the UAP-NUKES connection. As of this time, I have not been contacted to appear for the July 26 House Oversight Committee Hearing on the UAP.
— Robert Salas (@keptycho) July 17, 2023
Related: UFOs & Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
At Least a Quarter of Medical Randomized Controlled Trials Are Faked or Flawed
July 18th, 2023Via: Nature:
For years, a number of scientists, physicians and data sleuths have argued that fake or unreliable trials are frighteningly widespread. They’ve scoured RCTs in various medical fields, such as women’s health, pain research, anaesthesiology, bone health and COVID-19, and have found dozens or hundreds of trials with seemingly statistically impossible data. Some, on the basis of their personal experiences, say that one-quarter of trials being untrustworthy might be an underestimate. “If you search for all randomized trials on a topic, about a third of the trials will be fabricated,” asserts Ian Roberts, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
The issue is, in part, a subset of the notorious paper-mill problem: over the past decade, journals in many fields have published tens of thousands of suspected fake papers, some of which are thought to have been produced by third-party firms, termed paper mills.
But faked or unreliable RCTs are a particularly dangerous threat. They not only are about medical interventions, but also can be laundered into respectability by being included in meta-analyses and systematic reviews, which thoroughly comb the literature to assess evidence for clinical treatments. Medical guidelines often cite such assessments, and physicians look to them when deciding how to treat patients.
“This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal”
July 18th, 2023
Via: Forbes:
Artificial intelligence is helping American cops look for “suspicious” patterns of movement, digging through license plate databases with billions of records.
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“You’ve seen the systems totally metastasize to the point that the capabilities of a local police department would really shock most people.”
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“The scale of this kind of surveillance is just incredibly massive,” Brett Max Kaufman, senior staff attorney at the ACLU, told Forbes. Pointing to both Rekor and Flock, a rival that runs a similar pan-American surveillance network of license plate readers, he described warrantless monitoring of citizens en masse like this as “quite horrifying.”
