Bombadil Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 9 hours ago, EnigmaticWorld said: High speed rail network in China, 2008 vs 2020. Crazy fast 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted April 20, 2022 Author Share Posted April 20, 2022 https://thuletide.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/clearview-ai-smartcheckr-fbi-interpol-the-department-of-defense-cia-facebook-paypal-peter-thiel-moldbug/ 'Dumping some information I dug up on Clearview AI. Technologies like this will undoubtedly be used to implement a Chinese-Communist-style social credit system in the West, but I haven’t seen anybody on the dissident right talking about how many links this creepy company has to the dissident right (I wonder why?). Clearview AI (formerly known as Smartcheckr) facial recognition software is now being used by the US military: https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-us-army-cid-criminal-command-tech-2021-8 As of 2020, Clearview claimed to work with over 600 law enforcement agencies: https://thenextweb.com/news/facial-recognition-company-ceo-says-he-doesnt-need-permission-to-use-your-face …including the FBI and Interpol: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement And they’re also working on technology like glasses with inbuilt facial recognition, which they’re selling to the US Air Force: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/02/03/clearview-ai-glasses-with-facial-recognition-are-here-and-the-air-force-is-using-them/ Most recently, Ukrainians have been using Clearview to scan the faces of dead Russians and send photos of their corpses back home to Russia (“more than 340 officials across five Ukrainian government agencies now can use its tool to run facial recognition searches whenever they want, free of charge”): https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/15/ukraine-facial-recognition-warfare/ Clearview AI was founded by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, who met at the Manhattan Institute. Schwartz is a Columbia University alumnus and was former aid to Rudy Guliani, Trump’s personal attorney. Ton-That is a hacker who comes from the royal Vietnamese dynastic Nguyen family. The Manhattan Institute was founded by William Casey, director of the CIA, and Antony Fisher, founder of free-market think tanks, such as the Atlas Network and Institute of Economic Affairs (“the UK’s most influential thinktank”). Fisher was also linked to the Fabian Society’s London School of Economics. Clearview AI is funded by Peter Thiel, who was the first outside investor in Facebook and co-founder of PayPal. He also co-founded Palantir, an AI corporation that is used by US intelligence agencies and the DoD. According to General Mattis “[Palantir] came up with ground breaking technologies that help us make better decisions in combat zones. You are giving us advantages right now that we need.” [Source: Palantir website]. Edit: Palantir was founded with investment from the CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, whose senior partner sits on the board of Metabiota, a company that was central to the entire scamdemic operation, from engineering COVID in a lab with the CCP to advising UN WHO policy (see this article here). https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/agent-of-intelligence-how-a-deviant-philosopher-built-palantir-a-cia-funded-data-mining-juggernaut/?sh=40ebefcd7785 Thiel also funded the cryptocurrency startup of Moldbug / Curtis Yarvin, “Tlon”: “In 2017, Peter gave a talented young founder $200,000, which two years later converted to equity in Clearview AI” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html According to Time magazine, Clearview was also secretly cofounded by “far-right” figure Chuck Johnson, an associate of Moldbug, who also started a bunch of crowd-funding websites to collect money for people like Richard Spencer and Tommy Robinson. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/technology/clearview-facial-recognition-ai.html Another Clearview guy and Thiel associate, Jeff Giesea, advised people to fund Alt-Right organizations using PayPal in 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160430140506/https://pastebin.com/FDSLKrHc PayPal (again, co-founded by Thiel) is now officially partnered with the ADL, and is using private user transaction data to map “hate networks” and identify wrongthinkers: “The intelligence gathered through this research initiative will be shared broadly across the financial industry and with policymakers and law enforcement.” https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/paypal-partners-with-adl-to-fight-extremism-and-protect-marginalized According to “ex-white supremacist” Katie McHugh — who was conveniently in the right place at the right time to witness and report on many Alt-Right shenanigans — Johnson stated that Clearview’s purpose was to “identify every illegal alien in the country.” https://gizmodo.com/creepy-face-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-sure-has-a-lo-1842740604 “He told me they had a way to identify every illegal alien in the country […] He brought up facial recognition technology and demanded I call Stephen Miller because he knew Stephen Miller was a true believer.” – McHugh Various “racists” and “anti-semites” have worked for Clearview. For example, Ricky Vaughn aka Douglass Mackey was a contract consultant for Clearview. He advertised the tool to Paul Nehlen who, supposedly, planned to use the it for “opposition research.” Clearview reportedly fired Ricky after he was doxed by Nehlen due to a disagreement over Clearview (Nehlen claimed Vaughn did not provide the services promised). Also, Clearview’s lawyer, Tor Ekeland, represented Weev. So, that’s yet another odd connection: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/the-trolls-lawyer/ That’s everything I’ve found so far. If you have any more leads, post them in the comment section. I think this is all weird as hell, especially with the amount of people on Right-Wing Twitter who suddenly started shilling Moldbug en masse in 2020/2021, while also claiming that “there is no globalist conspiracy.” See here, here, here, and here (these individuals promoted Moldbug at the time of these Tweets, no idea if they still do).' 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EnigmaticWorld Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 Smart Meters: Italy Limits AC As Energy Shortages Loom https://www.technocracy.news/smart-meters-italy-limits-ac-as-energy-shortages-loom/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Not really new tech bit yesterday I watched the latest Terminator film. There are scenes when the protagonists look the same as Terminator 2. Not an expert but looked pretty much perfect. I imagine this tech will be utilised massively in future. Anyone, anywhere anytime. Can’t see it being used for deceit at all 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 It’s time to ditch software subscriptions https://www.itpro.co.uk/software/367479/its-time-to-ditch-software-subscriptions I hate the subscription model, just let me buy the product. I still use my older copy of Photoshop, from before Creative Cloud. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 12 minutes ago, EnigmaticWorld said: It’s time to ditch software subscriptions https://www.itpro.co.uk/software/367479/its-time-to-ditch-software-subscriptions I hate the subscription model, just let me buy the product. I still use my older copy of Photoshop, from before Creative Cloud. same here. i have an old laptop in which i installed all the things i wanted to do offline. Never updated anything and not even got internet info online. Works a dream for what i use it for. Fast as the day i bought 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 36 minutes ago, Bombadil said: same here. i have an old laptop in which i installed all the things i wanted to do offline. Never updated anything and not even got internet info online. Works a dream for what i use it for. Fast as the day i bought It's not so bad when there is both options. There are services like Game Pass for example but it's not so bad because you can also buy the games too. It's frustrating when there is only a subscription model though. If the corporation doesn't like you, they can just cut you off. I use some software so much that I would rather just pay a single fee for it too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 51 minutes ago, EnigmaticWorld said: It's not so bad when there is both options. There are services like Game Pass for example but it's not so bad because you can also buy the games too. It's frustrating when there is only a subscription model though. If the corporation doesn't like you, they can just cut you off. I use some software so much that I would rather just pay a single fee for it too. I grnerally use Steam now amongst others for my gaming I still hve my old xbox account though so just collect a couple of hundred points or so a day . use the £5 voucher to buy films 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 3 minutes ago, Bombadil said: I grnerally use Steam now amongst others for my gaming I still hve my old xbox account though so just collect a couple of hundred points or so a day . use the £5 voucher to buy films Most of my collection is on Steam too, I got most of it over the years in bundles or in sales, and some games are from indie devs that probably couldn't have a big print run of physical copies. Steam is pretty reasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Just now, EnigmaticWorld said: Most of my collection is on Steam too, I got most of it over the years in bundles or in sales, and some games are from indie devs that probably couldn't have a big print run of physical copies. Steam is pretty reasonable. Same here. Ive been controlling my urge to buy recently, even when is something i really want. I no longer buy anything with less than 50% off. Also trying to do more now the suns around more often! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 'Resist!' Macron faces backlash as he launches digital ID days after French election win https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1602547/macron-news-french-backlash-president-s-digital-id-launch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truepositive Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 On 4/25/2022 at 4:07 PM, EnigmaticWorld said: It’s time to ditch software subscriptions https://www.itpro.co.uk/software/367479/its-time-to-ditch-software-subscriptions I hate the subscription model, just let me buy the product. I still use my older copy of Photoshop, from before Creative Cloud. 'You will own nothing' - its not meant as a completely nefarious statement, at least not in his own eyes, part of it is simply the 'rent everything' model. It's been creeping into music software as well but getting sufficient backlash there. Oh you wanted to finish your song? Unfortunately this synthesizer ran out of time, good luck! On the gaming note, GOG ftw. Im starting to dislike modern/ hyperrealistic stuff in general, just give me some Simcity 2k/3k/4k, some Total Annihilation, Quake 3 when i'm in the mood.. do i sound old? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheConsultant Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, truepositive said: 'You will own nothing' - its not meant as a completely nefarious statement, at least not in his own eyes, part of it is simply the 'rent everything' model. It's been creeping into music software as well but getting sufficient backlash there. Oh you wanted to finish your song? Unfortunately this synthesizer ran out of time, good luck! On the gaming note, GOG ftw. Im starting to dislike modern/ hyperrealistic stuff in general, just give me some Simcity 2k/3k/4k, some Total Annihilation, Quake 3 when i'm in the mood.. do i sound old? Quake 3 Arena may be one of my favourite games. Total Annihilation is awesome and you will probably enjoy Supreme Commander series as well, same dude behind both. Sim City is obviously the nuts. I am not sure its age its just having baller taste! Edited April 28, 2022 by TheConsultant 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, truepositive said: 'You will own nothing' - its not meant as a completely nefarious statement, at least not in his own eyes, part of it is simply the 'rent everything' model. It's been creeping into music software as well but getting sufficient backlash there. Oh you wanted to finish your song? Unfortunately this synthesizer ran out of time, good luck! Indeed. 25 minutes ago, truepositive said: On the gaming note, GOG ftw. GOG is great for classics, and some games are updated so they're compatible on modern operating systems. I wish more current games offered DRM free options though. Edited April 28, 2022 by EnigmaticWorld 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted April 28, 2022 Author Share Posted April 28, 2022 Space seed breeding makes breakthrough, yielding nearly 1,000 new species https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202204/1260518.shtml 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truepositive Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 Okay i was not aware that was a thing at all, very interesting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted April 30, 2022 Author Share Posted April 30, 2022 India orders VPN providers to collect data on users https://reclaimthenet.org/india-orders-vpn-providers-to-collect-data-on-users/ The EU’s Digital Services Act is the next big threat to free speech https://reclaimthenet.org/the-eus-digital-services-act-is-the-next-big-threat-to-free-speech/ 60 countries sign declaration that commits to bolstering “resilience to disinformation and misinformation” https://reclaimthenet.org/60-countries-sign-declaration-misinformation/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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EnigmaticWorld Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 Bulgaria to soon fight ‘online trolls’ with special institution https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/bulgaria-to-soon-fight-online-trolls-with-special-institution/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 One of China's biggest social networks is revealing user locations to head off 'bad behaviour' 'Reuters reports that Weibo will begin showing the rough locations of its users using IP addresses to combat "bad behaviour" online. The locations show up on both profiles and posts. A post announcing the move from Weibo's main account had over 200 million views and responses already included the location data, signalling the feature has already come into effect. Users cannot opt-out of having their location displayed.' https://www.techradar.com/news/one-of-chinas-biggest-social-networks-is-revealing-user-locations-to-head-off-bad-behaviour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EnigmaticWorld Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 'Musk has repeatedly said he wants Twitter to “authenticate all humans,” an ambiguous proposal that could be related to his desire to rid the website of spam accounts. Ramping up mundane identity checks _ such as two-factor authentication or popups that ask which of six photos shows a school bus _ could discourage anyone from trying to amass an army of bogus accounts. Musk might also be considering offering more people a “blue check” _ the verification checkmark sported on notable Twitter accounts _ like Musk’s _ to show they’re who they say they are. Musk has suggested users could buy the checkmarks as part of a premium service. But some digital rights activists are concerned these measures could lead to a “real-name” policy resembling Facebook’s approach of forcing people to validate their full names and use them in their profiles. That would seem to contradict Musk’s free speech focus by muzzling anonymous whistleblowers or people living under authoritarian regimes where it can be dangerous if a dissident message is attributable to a particular person.' https://globalnews.ca/news/8801331/elon-musk-twitter-free-speech-big-plans/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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