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"I'm quitting because I can't remedy in my soul anymore the way in which my organization that I love to work for is being used and the damage its causing in the reputation of Victoria Police and the damage its causing to the community" A member of the Victoria Police in Australia speaking out today... Meanwhile legislators in Australia's Victoria state may be excluded from debate because they are unvaccinated or will not reveal their vaccination status... A study published in a European journal sees no connection between COVID cases and the percentage of the population "fully vaccinated"... Breaking News:...

The following is an email Facebook sent to Workplace users in regards to the outage of Oct 4, 2021 *** Dear Workplace Admin, Firstly, we’d like to apologize again for the outage on October 4, 2021. We know that your teams work incredibly hard to make the most of Workplace every day and we are truly sorry for the disruption the outage may have caused for your business. We appreciate your patience while we fully investigated this incident and its impact. This incident was purely an internal issue and there were no malicious third parties or bad actors involved in...

I got the go-ahead from Microsoft that my Lenovo laptop can be upgraded to Windows 11. But every time I try, it gets to about 75% then stalls. I have tried about 10 times. Yes, I have turned off the firewall. Any suggestions?

DEEP LEARNING IS NOW being used to translate between languages, predict how proteins fold, analyze medical scans, and play games as complex as Go, to name just a few applications of a technique that is now becoming pervasive. Success in those and other realms has brought this machine-learning technique from obscurity in the early 2000s to dominance today. Although deep learning's rise to fame is relatively recent, its origins are not. In 1958, back when mainframe computers filled rooms and ran on vacuum tubes, knowledge of the interconnections between neurons in the brain inspired Frank Rosenblatt at Cornell to design...

2021 09 30 Weather modification. “Climate Change” Part 4 12.5 Gpixels, the recently installed upgraded inner tracker for the ALICE detector, pictured on this issue’s cover, is the largest pixel detector ever built and the first at the LHC to use monolithic active pixel sensors (p29). Next year, LHCb will also be equipped with an entirely new pixel tracker, the VELO, while ATLAS and CMS are developing advanced pixel trackers to be installed for future high-luminosity LHC operations (p36). PDF FILE https://cds.cern.ch/record/2773907/files/CERNCourier2021JulAug-digitaledition.pdf

2021 09 30 Weather modification. “Climate Change” Part 1 I have been fascinated with the weather since I was a teenager in New York State. Watching lightning I was fascinated and watching the lightning hit many areas I would spend hours looking for storms. As I got older and going across the country in my twenties I have seen from east to west beautiful country and very little storms one Summer when I went across the country with friends. The last 60 years I have been following weather modification and fascinated with it. Finding out what causes storms as I...

Welcome to the DC — and Democrats’ fake “Infrastructure” Week. Where they are looking to spend upwards of $5.4 trillion on what they are calling “infrastructure” — but which has very little to do with actual infrastructure.Meanwhile, in the private sector….It is becoming clear that our Fifth Generation (5G) cellular technology infrastructure is going to rocket wireless into the dominant best way to connect to the Web.The download and upload speeds on the new wireless network are going to approach 1 Gigabit per second. This is approaching 20 times faster than today’s current speeds.5G’s capabilities will deliver us the ever-expanding...

Calling the strategic alliance of the US, India, Japan and Australia aimed at deterring a Chinese attack on Taiwan "an aggressive encirclement," Beijing's former ambassador to the UN, Sha Zukang says his country "must consider the option of a first-strike nuclear response." Sha went on to characterize "the US's passive measures to undermine the effectiveness of China's strategic forces in their righteous effort to reunite this breakaway province with the mother country" as "a criminal conspiracy to deny our sovereignty over our whole country. The US cannot rely on us to forbear the use of whatever force is needed to...

Facebook's head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher says the social network platform "will implement "extreme censorship of the German anti-lockdown movement." "These people are demanding freedoms that their own government has determined are a hazard to public health," Gleicher explained. "If we allow them to publish their dissenting views it could lead to others deciding to disobey the directives and mandates their governments have imposed on society. Here in America we have a subculture that immorally asserts that individuals have a right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. These quaint notions are out of step with the modern era....

On September 20, AD 2011, my father, Fred J. Di Leo, passed away at the age of 80. Dad was special, in many ways… An active member of his parish, a retired middle manager at Standard Oil of Indiana, a wonderful actor in Park Ridge community theater in the 1970s and 80s. Dad had been a competitive pistol marksman in the 1950s, then a park commissioner and Republican party activist in Evanston in the 1960s and 70s, and his life was full of thousands of wonderful moments, so many wonderful anecdotes to remember him by. Normally, I write a Facebook...

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Microsoft is announcing that Windows 11 will be released on October 5th. The new operating system will be available as a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 PCs, or on new hardware that ships with Windows 11 pre-loaded.The free upgrade to Windows 11 will start rolling out on October 5th, but like many Windows upgrades in the past, it will be available in phases. New eligible devices will be offered the upgrade first, and then Windows 11 will become available for more in-market devices in the weeks and months following October 5th.“Following the tremendous learnings from Windows 10, we want...

The computers got it wrong. The losing candidates were declared and certified as the "winners." But they didn't actually receive more votes than their opponents. This time, we happened to find out. As long-time readers of The BRAD BLOG know, there's a reason we routinely slam election officials and media for announcing wholly-unverified computer-reported results of elections before any of the ballots are actually examined by human beings. So called, post-election "random audits" of a tiny number of paper ballots --- where paper ballots exist, where officials even bother to do that much --- are almost always useless, easily gamed,...

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE– A brave whistleblower stepped forward and shared an image of a computer that was used at the TCF Center to process absentee ballots from a recent Detroit election. According to our whistleblower, who had access to the room where absentee ballots were being counted, Wayne County election workers were instructed to keep laptops used in the counting facility on “airplane mode” at all times. .... Snip.... We shared the image of the computer screen with the former two-term MI Senator Patrick Colbeck. He explained to us that the image could be “an internal network, but definitely vulnerable to...

Last night, while playing the Back 4 Blood beta on PS5, I was attacked by a large group of zombies. That’s not surprising; it happens all the time in the game. What was shocking was hearing a sound clip from one of the zombies that made it seem like it was yelling out a racial slur. Based on viral videos making the rounds right now, I’m not the only one hearing that similarity. Other beta players say they’re hearing the same thing: Zombies yelling the n-word. Back 4 Blood is the latest game from original Left 4 Dead developers Turtle...

The AP reported (emphasis added): Key elements of the first federal technology standards for voting equipment in 15 years should be scrapped because language that would have banned the devices from connecting to the internet was dropped after private meetings held with manufacturers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit against the U.S. Election Assistance Commission [EAC], filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., claims those meetings should have been open and that changes to the draft standards should have been shared with the commission’s advisory and standards boards. The lawsuit seeks to have those changes set...

Twitter on Wednesday unlocked the account of a Just the News reporter after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the COVID-19 tweet in question was indeed correct. The tweet Tuesday night stated a well established medical fact – one backed by the CDC – that not everyone should be injected with vaccines. Reporter Greg Piper tweeted "Vaccines are not safe for everyone." The post also linked to a report by the higher education news website the College Fix detailing Brigham Young University's refusal to grant an exception to its vaccine mandate for a student with a potentially complicating...

Ron Watkins – CodeMonkeyZ — released several photos on Monday leaked to him from an alleged Dominion Voting Systems employee and whistleblower. The documents prove that Dominion has remote access to their equipment during the elections. This is a HUGE development.

Two of the largest news publications in the country, the Associated Press (AP) and Reuters, have teamed up with one of the leading tech giants, Twitter, in a new partnership to crack down on “misinformation” and “elevate credible information,” the Daily Caller reports. Twitter confirmed the new alliance in a blog post, saying that the two publications would be responsible for identifying “misleading” information, and to help Twitter expand its efforts to mediate trending stories, “especially where facts are in dispute.” The websites will also help Twitter staff whenever they lack “sufficient expertise or access to a high enough volume...

Presidential Press Secretary Jen Psaki boasted that "due to an evolution in 'outside-the-box' thinking that has energized the Biden Administration, the problem of unpatriotic dissemination of false narratives has been solved." "A key breakthrough was achieved when Attorney General Merrick Garland pointed out that the prohibition against government censorship in the Constitution applies only to Congress," she said. "Specifically, it says Congress shall pass no law abridging freedom of speech. There is no prohibition against the President doing this by executive order. Neither does it bar private corporations from censoring anyone it wants to censor." "Luckily, the major social media...