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• City Council Uses ChatGPT To Create Binding Ordinance For 1.3 Million Residents

  01-12-2023 16:47 via technocracy.news
  When legislators get a taste of it, AI and ChatGPT will be as addictive as fentanyl and just as destructive. Artificial Intelligence writing binding legislation for humans? If you can’t see a problem with this, then you risk being sucked into the vortex of Scientific Dictatorship, aka Technocracy. The council president was unrepentant: “I started to read more in-depth and saw that, unfortunately, or fortunately, this is going to be a trend.” ⁃ TN EditorCity lawmakers in B
  
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• Potential sat-bothering cannibal coronal mass ejection slams into Earth's atmo tonight

  01-12-2023 01:08 via go.theregister.com
  And where folks are likely to see a light show A so-called cannibal coronal mass ejection is set to hit Earth on December 1, creating geomagnetic storms across the skies at higher latitudes.…
  
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• Charles the climate king! Monarch is given biodiversity gifts by Amazonian tribe at Dubai hotel as he's joined by Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron for Cop28 summit

  30-11-2023 13:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Charles, 75, joined a Commonwealth and Nature reception at a Dubai hotel hosted by Secretary General of the Commonwealth Baroness Scotland.
  
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• The Filthy, Fractious Quest to Clean India’s Holy River

  30-11-2023 12:00 via wired.co.uk
  The Ganges river is one of the world’s most sacred waterways. It also happens to be one of its most polluted. To fix it, India is undertaking one of the biggest engineering programs in the history of sanitation.
  
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• Eric Schmidt: AI Guardrails “Aren’t Enough” To Prevent Harm To Humanity

  29-11-2023 17:35 via technocracy.news
  Trilateral Commission member and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a master Technocrat in the truest sense of the word. He was one of the pioneers of AI at Google, the inventor of “Surveillance Capitalism,” and is now heir-apparent to fellow Trilateral Commissioner Henry Kissinger. Schmidt is the pied piper of AI, singing praises on the one hand while on the other warning of dire consequences to humanity. This is globalist snake-oil. ⁃ TN Editor
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• They did it for science: 40 years since Spacelab module first launched

  28-11-2023 18:44 via go.theregister.com
  The legacy lives on, but best not mention that landing, eh? This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first launch of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Spacelab module aboard astronaut John Young's final Space Shuttle mission.…
  
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• Tesla Is Suing Sweden

  27-11-2023 19:11 via wired.co.uk
  Unions are boycotting Tesla’s business operations in Sweden to pressure it to sign an agreement with its workers. Now Tesla has decided to sue.
  
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• World's largest airship is unveiled: Enormous aircraft backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin measures 400 FEET long - almost twice the length of a Boeing 747

  27-11-2023 18:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The world's largest airship has taken to the skies for the first time as LTA Research begins test flights for the gargantuan Pathfinder 1. At 400ft long, this blimp is almost twice the length of a Boeing 747.
  
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• COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals

  27-11-2023 07:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Leaked documents show how the COP28 host planned to use its role to strike fossil fuel business deals.
  
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• Best Black Friday Deals (2023): 73 UK Discounts Still Live

  25-11-2023 15:40 via wired.co.uk
  Certified Black Friday bargains on laptops, audio, smart home, gaming and smartphones.
  
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• Customers furious after HSBC down for more than 24 hours

  25-11-2023 12:31 via bbc.co.uk
  The firm says it is "really sorry" for the problem, which comes on the busy shopping day Black Friday.
  
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• Huge underwater mountain TWICE the height of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is discovered off the coast of Guatemala

  24-11-2023 15:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mountain, or seamount, is 5,249ft (1,600m), making it twice as high as the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.
  
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• Europe's Ariane 6 rocket rated 'ready to rumble' after passing hot fire test

  24-11-2023 07:32 via go.theregister.com
  Still not reusable, but at least it's getting closer to long-delayed launch The Ariane 6 launcher has successfully conducted a hot fire test –, an important achievement for the Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA).…
  
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• Hard Drives, YouTube, and Murder: India’s Dark History of Digital Hate

  23-11-2023 17:39 via wired.co.uk
  India's next election will be partly decided online. But even before the internet reached the country's rural regions, divisive videos were distributed using hard drives and laptops.
  
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• Half a kilo of cosmic nuclear fuel reignites NASA's deep space dreams

  22-11-2023 14:15 via go.theregister.com
  There ain't no party like a Pu-238 party NASA has celebrated a shipment of half a kilo of plutonium oxide by the US Department of Energy, the largest since US production of plutonium-238 was restarted just over a decade ago.…
  
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• Fed’s Data Analytical Services (DAS) Gave Trillions Of Phone Records To Law Enforcement

  22-11-2023 04:22 via technocracy.news
  You read it correctly: over a TRILLION phone records every year, year after year! You might have already figured that AT&T is at the bottom of it. AT&T has been busted by Congress multiple times over the years for secret spying on Americans, but they turned around and amped up their efforts with impunity. Meanwhile, the Feds are carefully creating a police state right under our noses. Clearly, the Federal Government is now exposed as the enemy of all Americans.
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• EXCLUSIVE: Retired US Army Colonel says secret UFO projects should be made public by October 2030 - to beat America's rivals and get ahead of a 'catastrophic' leak

  21-11-2023 19:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The revelations came amid an invite-only UFO gathering at Stanford University. But others at the exclusive event worried UFO disclosure may spark social unrest
  
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• On Technocracy: Why We Are Sleepwalking Into Tyranny

  21-11-2023 15:24 via technocracy.news
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• The Emptiness Of The Transhumanist Ideal

  20-11-2023 16:59 via technocracy.news
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• The EU Wants to Fix Gig Work. Uber Has Its Own Ideas

  20-11-2023 15:57 via wired.co.uk
  The European Union’s Platform Work Directive was supposed to settle the employment status of gig workers. Years of lobbying later, workers are losing hope in the process.
  
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• SpaceX celebrates Starship launch as a success – even with the explosion

  20-11-2023 07:37 via go.theregister.com
  Test, progress, or mishap – take your pick SpaceX judged the second launch of its Starship a success after the craft's two launch stages separated and one made it into space, but neither finished their mission.…
  
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• Don Walsh: The man who made the deepest ever dive

  19-11-2023 01:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The remarkable story of Captain Don Walsh and his 11km journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
  
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• Are YOU a Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte or Miranda? Scientist claims all singletons fit into four categories - take the test to find out which one you are

  18-11-2023 15:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Colorado psychologist, Professor McGraw (pictured), says singles fit into one of four categories and understanding which you are can help you learn to be happy while single.
  
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• NASA's Psyche spacecraft beams back a 'Hello' from 10 million miles away

  17-11-2023 20:06 via go.theregister.com
  Transmitting data from deep space, with a frickin' laser beam NASA has fired up its Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) aboard the agency's Psyche spacecraft and received test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away.…
  
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• ‘We The Exploited’: Slouching Toward ‘Soylent Green’

  17-11-2023 17:33 via technocracy.news
  John Whitehead clearly explains the nuts and bolts of Scientific Dictatorship and the digital panopticon that provides the control grid. However, the government is the patsy of Big Tech, which is the driving force for Technocracy. You will see how we are commodified, molded, and compressed into products that are then fed back to ourselves… like Soylent Green.
  Technocrats have used governments to unlock tornadoes of endless data to feed into AI programs. Patrick McGoohan, the creator and s
  
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• IBM suspends ads on X after they appeared next to Nazi posts

  17-11-2023 01:45 via bbc.co.uk
  The decision came a day after owner Elon Musk endorsed an apparent antisemitic conspiracy theory.
  
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• The Technocratic Global Death Cult Will Cull The Human Population

  16-11-2023 18:34 via technocracy.news
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• The Mystery of Iceland’s Non-Erupting Volcano

  16-11-2023 11:00 via wired.co.uk
  Since 2021, lava has sporadically oozed out of various fissures crisscrossing southwest Iceland. Now, a huge sheet of magma could erupt at any minute. But where, and how severe will the eruption be?
  
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• When the prey becomes the predator: Sea lion rips apart a SHARK off the coast of California in video captured by beachgoers

  16-11-2023 01:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A marine photographer caught a bull sea lion killing a large blue shark in Monterey Bay. An expert said sea lion dragged the shark to the surface torip off a piece, which it then swallowed.
  
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• Chairman Xi Coming To San Fransisco To Wine And Dine With Elon Musk, Other Oligarchs

  15-11-2023 03:18 via technocracy.news
  There is a big thaw in China relations. Why would XI risk WWIII when he can take us from within without firing a shot? China is a Technocracy that panders to Technocrats. Technocrats pander to China. When Zbigniew Brzezinski pandered to Chairman Deng Xiaoping in 1974, he taught him about the merits of Technocracy. Given Musk’s family ties to Technocracy in the 1930s, it is obvious why he wants to pander to Xi. There’s a lot of pandering going on. Chinese citizens should call their de
  
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• Corduroy is coming to the metaverse with touchy-feely robotic sensors

  14-11-2023 20:15 via go.theregister.com
  Just what virtual reality needs – an update that brings a bit of texture torture Scientists have developed a robotic sensing system they say can distinguish between multiple types of fabric, including corduroy, in work they hope may bring a detailed sense of touch to virtual reality.…
  
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• It’s Time to Get Serious About Carbon Removal

  14-11-2023 08:00 via wired.co.uk
  If the world is to reach net zero, billions of tons of carbon dioxide need pulling from the air every year. At the moment, the global carbon removal system extracts less than 0.01 percent of that.
  
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• Revealed: The best and worst places to buy gadgets in the UK - so, how does your favourite shop stack up?

  14-11-2023 01:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Which? surveyed thousands of British shoppers to find out the most trusted retailers.
  
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• RIP: Frank Borman, NASA commander of first Moon mission

  13-11-2023 12:04 via go.theregister.com
  Former Air Force officer - also involved in first crewed rendezvous in space - dies aged 95 Obit  Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut in charge of the first crewed expedition to the Moon, has died at the age of 95.…
  
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• Elon Musk: The ‘Age Of Abundance’, UBI And Technocracy

  12-11-2023 21:58 via technocracy.news
  Elon Musk is a plagiarist and huckster for Technocracy, period. Age of abundance? Universal Basic Income? These concepts arrived in the early 1930s, when Musk’s grandfather (Dr. Joshua Haldeman) was the head of the Technocracy movement in Canada. People in the 1930s and 1940s quickly figured out that there was no such as a free lunch and threw Technocracy in the trash bin of history, where it belonged. Now, the world has disguised it, given it a new suit of clothes, and called it revolutio
  
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• Abandoned America: AI images what famous US cities would look like after 100 years - if they were deserted by humans

  12-11-2023 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DailyMail.com asked ChatGPT to describe our world in 100 years, revealing major bustling cities like New York and Seattle will lay still as vegetation flourishes.
  
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• Revealed: The 5 asteroids set to come 'dangerously close' to Earth this year - including a huge space rock the size of the Golden Gate Bridge

  11-11-2023 15:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline takes a look at five of the rarest, largest and closest asteroids - as well as another comet - that stargazers can feast their eyes on over the next couple of months.
  
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• Skiing Is Getting Riskier

  11-11-2023 13:00 via wired.co.uk
  The threat of avalanches is rising with global warming, but technology can help protect skiers on and off the slopes.
  
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• Fagradalsfjall: Iceland declares emergency over volcano eruption concerns

  11-11-2023 05:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands are asked to evacuate from a town in the southwest over fears magma has spread underground.
  
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• Baby blood used to convict pedophile of 1996 rape sparks ethical debate: Police allegedly took DNA from lab without a warrant - and lawyers say this violates the Fourth Amendment

  10-11-2023 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police allegedly obtained ablood from a newborn testing lab in New Jersey to crack a 1996 cold case and while some are calling it an achievement, others believe it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
  
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• Tipsy tongues tell all: How your sloshed speech could snitch to Siri

  10-11-2023 20:14 via go.theregister.com
  
  Alexa, am I wasted? Wondering if that wee tipple was a bit too much? Someday soon your sloshed speech may spill your secrets to your resident digital assistant as easily as you stumble through a tongue-twister.…
  
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• Pentagon UFO boss says strange sightings are either 'aliens' or a foreign power - and he hopes it's extraterrestrials

  10-11-2023 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'If we don't prove it's aliens,' the Pentagon's UFO chief said, 'then what we're finding is evidence of other people doing stuff in our backyard [...] and that's not good.'
  
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• Major hack by Russian gang steals social security numbers and health information from 1.3 million in Maine

  10-11-2023 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Maine residents are being notified that their date of birth, driver's license number, social security number and health and medical information that may have been stolen during the hack.
  
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• Rome reborn! Incredible interactive tool lets you explore temples, baths and gladiator arenas as they were in the ancient capital's heyday

  10-11-2023 15:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The online aerial tour, created by researchers in Indiana, soars over the entire metropolis as it appeared in the fourth century AD during its historical heyday.
  
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• Booths removes almost all self-service checkouts and puts staff back behind tills as experts say move will cut shoplifting: 'We listen to our customers - they want to speak to a real human'

  10-11-2023 15:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Booths - which has 27 stores in the North across Lancashire, Cumbria, Yorkshire and Cheshire - has decided that 'rather than artificial intelligence , we're going for actual intelligence'.
  
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• UNESCO Seeks To Regulate All Internet Content

  10-11-2023 15:08 via technocracy.news
  
  While citing the need for “multi-stakeholder” regulation of social media, UNECSO’s 59-page tome is titled Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms. This is Orwellian Double-Think at its worst, promoting free speech that is anti-free speech. The “major threat to stability and social cohesion” is all about their stability and the social cohesion they want to force on the world. Now UNESCO will spawn a feeding frenzy of eager NGOs and government tyrants to pr
  
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• Cosmic Christmas Tree! NASA's James Webb Space Telescope snaps a stunning photo of a colourful galaxy cluster with flickering lights

  10-11-2023 15:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The galaxy cluster, officially known as MACS041 and located about 4.3 billion light-years from Earth, was imaged by both Webb and its predecessor the Hubble Space Telescope.
  
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• iPhone users say Apple's iOS 17.1.1 update is RUINING their battery life, with reports of charge draining within hours - here's what to do if your phone is affected

  10-11-2023 14:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Several users who have updated their iPhones claim that iOS 17.1.1 has ruined their battery life, with reports of charge draining within hours.
  
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• NASA's Lucy probe scores a threefer as it flies by first target in 12-year mission

  10-11-2023 14:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  Scientists shocked to find Dinkinesh is orbited by two touching asteroids Dinkinesh, the first asteroid encountered by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is being orbited by a smaller binary pair, and is the first object of its kind to be found by astronomers.…
  
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• From vaping to boozing and even junk food - charts show how Britain REALLY fares vs the rest of the world

  10-11-2023 14:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  British women were this week shamed as the biggest binge drinkers in the developed world. But alcohol isn't the UK's only vice. Brits also among the biggest vapers and junk food addicts in the world.
  
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