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Love linux, self-hosting and privacy. Self-knowledge addict and occasional psychonaut. Lurking in farming and BTC discussions.
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nix 5 months ago
For a long time, I liked the idea of BRICS and Russian efforts to remain an important player on the world stage. There was, at one point, a very real attempt to dismember and eliminate Russia as a world power which would have increased centralisation. We are past that stage now though, and it is becoming obvious that just like with the EU, the goal is to use BRICS as a tool for control. A tool to subject countries to centralized control instead of strengthen them to resist it.
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nix 5 months ago
AI capabilities are great, but also greatly overestimated. "There is an unbridgeable gap between artificial and human intelligence, which is characterized by comprehension: a non-algorithmic property of consciousness that is often underestimated and inaccessible to computers" Federico Fagin, Irreducible, p.69
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nix 5 months ago
Someone calculate the CO2 cost of destroying and then rebuilding all this and then tell me why none of the mainstream 'environmentalists' has anything to say about it. If you serve in the USrael army, you are enabling the satanic pedophiles and the lunatics and the sociopaths, at great personal cost and while risking your life. Just don't. View quoted note →
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nix 5 months ago
Barnaby Jack was a security researcher who demonstrated the ability to remotely hack implantable medical devices like pacemakers and insulin pumps, proving they could be manipulated to deliver fatal shocks or lethal insulin doses. He died in July 2013 just before his scheduled presentation at Black Hat 2013 titled "Hacking Humans," which was intended to detail his findings on medical implants. The articles I could find all say no details were released about the circumstances of his death - so he was likely killed by the CIA. I could not however find evidence that he could 'hack a human body' as Sabrina Wallace claims.
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nix 5 months ago
I love Joe Rogan's podcast, but when he starts selling AI governance it feels like Elon has brainwashed him into oblivion on that topic. AI is not this free of passions perfectly fair and reasonable entity - it is a tool in the hands of whoever set it up. Elon would looove to use it as an excuse/front to rule the planet.
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nix 5 months ago
Thank you for the summary and explanations. I struggled to follow at times, I have to admit. I'll look into those books.
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nix 5 months ago
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nix 5 months ago
Our skies will get even busier with artificial stuff, but I guess it is a good thing if the US doesn't control all internet access in remote areas? We will see. "A Russian private space company has successfully placed into orbit the first 16 satellites of a planned broadband internet network intended as a domestic alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink."
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nix 5 months ago
Wow, some good news to start the day. Here's my first GM 😀 "In a historic win for free speech, the U.S. Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have been legally restricted from pressuring social media companies to silence Americans for the next decade. This comes from a formal Consent Decree in Missouri v. Biden, one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in modern history." How consequetial this will be in practice we will see, but a win is a win.
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nix 5 months ago
Apparently the CIA is preparing to throw the blame for us failings in Iran on ... Tucker Carlson. "As the Israel Lobby gets more desperate watching the collapse of American support for their country, they also become more nakedly authoritarian to control US discourse."
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nix 6 months ago
Members of US armed forces fight in defence of Epstein's handlers and clients. May be some years ago being a US veteran was something to be proud of. Now it is like boasting you used to be a pedophile.