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• The City of Sydney has officially declared a climate emergency

  24-06-2019 23:56
  
  City of Sydney councillors have voted to declare that climate change should be treated as a national emergency.
  
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• When AI Becomes Your Boss, You Become The Robot

  24-06-2019 17:55 via technocracy.news
  AI sees humanity itself as a thing to be optimized, squeezing out all inefficiency. When unleashed as your boss, AI effectively turns you into a living robot to be controlled like a puppet on a string. Employees will never tolerate this indefinitely. ⁃ TN EditorCritics have accused companies of using algorithms for managerial tasks, saying that automated systems can dehumanize and unfairly punish employees.
  When Conor Sprouls, a customer service representative in the call center of in
  
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• Walmart Using AI-Powered Cameras In 1,000 Stores To Track Shoppers

  24-06-2019 17:27 via technocracy.news
  Walmart has hired a social engineering company, Everseen, to control and change behavior of its shoppers through the use of AI-based surveillance systems. By surveilling everyone, Walmart hopes to catch a few cheaters.
  According to Everseen’s website, “process mining” “amplifies awareness of scenes unfolding daily in retail, pinpointing the “moments that matter”, in order to nudge a behavior one seeks to change, and/or transform the underlying process.”
  
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• Massive Water Aquifers Discovered Under The Ocean

  24-06-2019 16:25 via technocracy.news
  There has never been a global shortage of water, but geologists have discovered virtually unlimited near-fresh aquifers underneath the oceans. One such structure off the East Coast contains more than 2.8 trillion tons of water.
  The United Nations states that “Water scarcity already affects every continent,” and of course, the shortage is blamed on global warming. Instead of creating artificial shortages, mankind should be thanking the earth for its abundance of resources. ⁃ TN
  
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• Climate emergency declared by city of Sydney

  24-06-2019 11:49
  
  City of Sydney councillors have voted to declare that climate change should be treated as a national emergency.
  
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