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A whopping 79 percent of Americans suggest President Donald Trump likely would have won reelection if voters had known the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop—that it was real and not “Russian disinformation,” as intelligence officials aligned with Joe Biden falsely led the public to believe, a new national poll reveals. The survey of 1,335 adults was conducted earlier this month by New Jersey-based Technometrica Institute of Policy and Politics. The vast majority of those following the issue said they believe that the laptop is real, while only 11 percent still believe it was created by Russia.

The man who married a hologram in Japan can no longer communicate with his virtual wife. The software that allowed the interaction is no longer supported and the man can no longer interact with the hologram with which he had a relationship for years. Fictosexuality is the term used to describe those people who are sexually attracted to fictional characters and in Japan little by little it becomes a trend, to the extent that there are companies that develop technology to offer users holographic couples. Akihiko Kondo took his love for a fictional character one step further by holding a...

The WEF boasted it had recruited around 110,000 “volunteers” who would ensure that the opinions of dissenters around the world are discovered, tracked, and censored. In November 2020. The World Economic Forum (WEF) announced it had recruited hundreds of thousands of “information warriors” to control the internet. WEF Leader Klaus Schwab and his fellow globalists have unleashed their digital soldiers to police social media platforms and forums for “misinformation” and “conspiracy” content. As a result, efforts are being made to ensure systematic censorship, such as banning and suppressing social media accounts. In the first year of the pandemic, the controversial...

Apple announced on Wednesday that there are security vulnerabilities in its iPhones, iPads and MacsThe software flaws could potentially allow attackers to take complete control, with Apple saying it is 'aware of a report the issue could have been exploited'Apple recommended that users update their software, and released new updates for Macs on Thursday and for phones on Wednesday The flaw affects iPhones6S and later models; several models of the iPad, including the 5th generation and later, all iPad Pro models and the iPad Air 2It also impacts Mac computers running MacOS MontereyApple on Wednesday announced that they have uncovered...

Update (2130ET): Add Toyota Motor Corp. and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., the world's largest battery maker, to the growing list of companies shutting down factories in China's Sichuan province as a drought-induced power crisis worsens, according to Bloomberg. Toyota closed its plant in the provincial capital of Chengdu until Saturday, a company spokesperson said, while Contemporary Amperex halted operations at its lithium battery factory in Yibin. Sichuan is one of China's most populated provinces, with 80 million inhabitants, and is home to a major manufacturing hub heavily reliant on hydropower. However, a heatwave and drought have caused reservoir levels to...

There’s an election hack built before the 2020 election that can instantaneously swap the bubbles on your ballot. The “filled in” bubble of your candidate is moved to the hackers preferred candidate, and swapped out with that empty bubble. The change is made before the “ballot Image” is stored to the election server, and before it’s tabulated. By using the voter’s own marking style & penmanship, these changes are undetectable to the human eye. Here’s the scenario. Using a blue pen you fill in the “Trump” bubble on a ballot. Election officials insert this ballot into a tabulator. Those pixels...

I have waited "patiently" to be able to get on Truth Social with my PC, but I have run into a problem. In trying to sign up, they require an email address with a return email from the one they send --- done, but then also a phone number where you return a code from their text. All stop. I don't have, and don't want, a smart phone. So, I can't receive or send text messages. So, I can't sign up for Truth Social as it is currently configured. I can not find a work-around anywhere. Some other places will...

TikTok is facing calls to remove videos of an outspoken influencer and ex-Big Brother star who has been accused of spreading misogynistic 'rape culture' content to audiences as young as 13 on the platform. Raised on an estate in Luton, Bedfordshire as the son of a catering assistant and an American-born chess master, former kickboxer Andrew Tate, 35, is no stranger to controversy.

We previously wrote about Big Tech giant Twitter getting both good and bad news on its lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk for dropping his bid to purchase the company in July. Sure, a judge had agreed with Twitter that a delay in starting the case until next February–as Musk wanted–wasn’t going to happen, with the proceedings now starting in early October. But the company also got the bad news that the “uncertainty” of the incomplete deal has shaken investor confidence, causing Twitter to post major losses to its bottom line.Now, the Musk legal team has officially responded to Twitter’s...

Is anyone else having outages, due to bad weather, on Verizon Wireless? I wonder if anyone knows a good way to contact these idiots. Idont fully trust their robocall that tells us 18 hours later the area is still having Verizon outage. I’d like to get real people to talk to.

Facebook sparked outrage among free speech advocates when it fact-checked a senior economist with the American Institute of Economic Research for spreading so-called misinformation. The platform flagged the economist for — get this — correctly defining the word “recession.”

There are new business relationships in this ever-changing world not too many years ago I saw a video that depicted the conquest of the United States using the chips embedded in airplanes, cars and phones. Chip legislation just passed the other week in Washington. Places like South Korea and Taiwan not to mention domestic US production seen providing chip replacements for China in the future... Richard Nixon had high hopes when he opened up China some 50 years ago "We can't run the world without China" were words Nixon used as he went into the White House... So why get...

What is a zettabyte, what is exascale supercomputing, and what could be achieved with that massive amount of computing and storage resources--by entities that the public doesn't even know about? In this post, I’m going to introduce you to some fresh ideas about massive-scale data centers and supercomputing—like the ones used by certain three-letter agencies—and speculate about a possible use case for that enormous scale of storage and computing. Do I know for certain what they use these massive computing resources for? No, I don’t. What I’m going to discuss is (hopefully) just a thought exercise—one that I’ll use to...

A Google developer was recently fired for revealing that the tech giant’s AI bot had a mind of its own. The trigger that made him realize that the technology was sentient was a joke it made about Israel not belonging to any religion. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, former Google developer Blake Lemoine explained how he arrived at the conclusion that Google’s AI system, LaMDA was sentient and how a witty response about Israel being run by a philosophy based on a science fiction movie. As part of the process, Lemoine would continually challenge artificial intelligence with nuanced questions...

Anybody getting a warning "unsecured website, folks may get tour data...bla bla. La" type warning?

Concerned that "unauthorized political speech constitutes a kind of pollution that erodes the foundations of democracy," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeking legislation that would introduce strict government regulation of what can be said about government policies in public forums. "Many of those, particularly on the political right, aren't really qualified to comment on what the government does," the Prime Minister asserted. "As a result voters can easily be misled by enemies of the state to oppose policies that are for their own good. I feel strongly that it is my responsibility as the elected leader of this country to...

It's an excellent cover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0vVQnNGcc

I have been asking people to watch 2000 Mules. Several response are, essentially it is too expensive. I understand it is a commercial movie. Are there any sites where people can watch it without having to register, for little or no cost? If anyone knows, someone on freerepublic knows.

On July 7th, 2022, Julie Kelly posted a screenshot on twitter of an amendment to the NDAA put forth by Adam Schiff. Here is Julie’s 3 tweets on the topic: . Her commentary is mostly accurate but there is something about this that everybody is missing. We need to look closer at specifically what Adam Schiff’s proposed amendment would actually be amending. ...more..

In the wake of Elon Musk’s decision to pull out of his Twitter purchase because of the social media giant’s hesitation to share information on bot accounts, one has to wonder, what are they anyway? What do they do, and why are they so important that Hillary Clinton partially blamed her 2016 election loss on Russian bots?In late April, Twitter estimated that fake accounts and spam “accounted for less than 5 percent of its daily active users in the fourth quarter of 2021.” However, with a user base of at least 330 million, that’s still an awful lot of non-human...