Mark Zuckerberg Is Building a New Surveillance State
May 10th, 2025Welcome to the open air dragnet.
Via: The Hill:
Mark Zuckerberg recently took to Instagram to boast that nearly a billion people now use Meta AI across the company’s platforms. To celebrate, he announced the launch of a new standalone app, encouraging users to “Check it out!” It sounded innocuous, almost charming, as if he were discussing a playful new feature. But make no mistake: this wasn’t just a product release. It was a warning shot from a man who now has his hands firmly on the wheel of reality.
The new app is only part of the story. The real revolution — and the real threat — lies in what comes next: Meta’s AI glasses. Sunglasses, spectacles, whatever you want to call them — they look like something out of a sci-fi flick. But they’re real, and they’re here. Very soon, millions or perhaps tens of millions of people will be walking around with them on. And you might not even know it.
These aren’t just toys. They’re tools — and weapons. They comprise a camera, microphone, an AI interface and internet access, all embedded discreetly in eyewear. They are capable of recognizing faces, interpreting language, overlaying information in real-time and collecting vast swaths of data as their owners simply walk down the street. They can whisper comprehensive summaries about the stranger across the subway, translate foreign speech in real time, suggest pickup lines, record interactions without consent and overlay reviews of a restaurant before you’ve even looked at the menu.
All this is done without lifting a phone or typing a word. These glasses are not just watching the world. They are interpreting, filtering and rewriting it with the full force of Meta’s algorithms behind the lens. And if you think you’re safe just because you’re not wearing a pair, think again, because the people who wear them will inevitably point them in your direction.
You will be captured, analyzed and logged, whether you like it or not.
Australia: Bill Gates-Backed Biotech Firm Oxitec Wants to Release GM Mosquitos in Queensland
May 10th, 2025Via: University of Melbourne:
The British company Oxitec, in partnership with Australia’s CSIRO, has announced plans to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Queensland.
The initiative aims to reduce transmission of the dengue virus, as well as other pathogens spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito by reducing the size of the mosquito population.
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Releases of GM mosquitoes could undermine current dengue control interventions
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The genetic modification has not been tested in Australian mosquitoes
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The introduction of foreign genetic material has unknown consequences
Fear Of Economic Collapse Forced China To Negotiate With Trump
May 9th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
According to the Reuters report, “since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs on China last month, Beijing had responded in kind. On state and social media, it posted images of Mao Zedong, lambasted “imperialists,” and sent a message: capitulation to bullies is dangerous, and it wouldn’t back down.”
But behind closed doors, China was quietly preparing to do just that, and Reuters reports that according three sources, officials had grown “increasingly alarmed about tariffs’ impact on the economy and the risk of isolation as China’s trading partners have started negotiating deals with Washington.”
China’s reasons for deciding to negotiate, Washington’s letter on fentanyl, U.S. diplomatic challenges in Beijing, and the early outreach between the two sides are reported by Reuters for the first time, based on interviews with nearly a dozen government officials and experts on both sides.
More: Inside China’s decision to come to the table on Trump tariffs
Large Hadron Collider Transmutes Lead Into Tiny Particles of Gold
May 9th, 2025Via: CERN:
In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
…but the total still amounts to trillions of times less than would be required to make a piece of jewellery. While the dream of medieval alchemists has technically come true, their hopes of riches have once again been dashed.
Definitive Covid Vaccine Myocarditis Paper
May 9th, 2025Via: International Journal of Cardiovascular Research & Innovation:
We urge governments to remove the COVID-19 mRNA products from the market due to the well-documented risk of myocardial damage, a risk that is strongest for younger males (<40 years old).
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
May 9th, 2025Robots are going through the same ramp in capability that large language models went through a couple of years ago.
Via: IEEE Spectrum:
At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its warehouses, and Vulcan is designed to assist (or take over, depending on your perspective) with stowing and picking items in its mobile robotic inventory system.
Andreas Kling On The Ladybird Browser
May 8th, 2025Via: FUTO:
Weinstein on Trump and Disastrous Covid Shots Still Being Given to Children: “There’s No Way Forward by Reaching President Trump, He Can’t Hear It”
May 7th, 2025President Pfizer Warpspeed Pope Trump Gaza Number 1!
Clip:
Weinstein on Trump and Disastrous Covid Shots Still Being Given to Children: "There's No Way Forward by Reaching President Trump, He Can't Hear It" pic.twitter.com/UsNh22lJQa
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) May 8, 2025
Via: Tucker Carlson:
A thoroughly civil debate with Bret Weinstein over the existence of God.
(0:00) Introduction
(1:18) Debating Evolution
(10:54) Is Human Sacrifice Evidence of Something Supernatural?
(19:33) Consciousness vs. Intuition
(28:02) How Does Weinstein Explain the Creation of All… pic.twitter.com/Nr2qkhxNck— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 7, 2025
The High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers
May 7th, 2025Besides the valuable trade related courses, schools should include entrepreneurial courses as well, at least as an option.
I’ve been looking at other options besides pushing pixels and after watching only one Youtube video about starting a business, it began recommending countless other videos along those lines.
One of the most interesting videos I’ve watched was about a guy who created a dog poo cleanup empire:
Even if you have no interest in dealing with dog poo, that video goes into a lot of fascinating details about how the business operates, information systems, how they get customers, profit margin, etc. which could apply to many other types of businesses.
Also, I thought it was hilarious that the guy scoops the dog poop wearing a Rolex Batman (GMT-Master II) worth about $15,000.
Via: Wall Street Journal:
Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.
Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.
Employers ranging from the local transit system to submarine manufacturers make regular visits to Father Judge’s welding classrooms every year, bringing branded swag and pitching students on their workplaces.
“Why would we spend a record breaking $1 trillion on the military budget?”
May 6th, 2025Because war is a racket. It always has been.
We are over $36 trillion in debt.
We have a $2 trillion deficit.
We are not at war with anyone.
Why would we spend a record breaking $1 trillion on the military budget?
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 7, 2025
