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In its short 6 year lifespan Beijing based company Bytedance's Tik Tok has surpassed google.com with well over 2 billion downloads worldwide. From the outset, the Chinese Algorithm Source code had been collecting the habits and inner intent of every single user. Building a psychological profile of each user while addicting them to content promoting self harm by catering to their preferences and habits. Most of them children.Meanwhile, privacy policy moderators and employees answering directly to the Chinese Communist Party have access to private chats and all collected personal information. Four Employees at Bytedance were fired in 2022 for doxing...

This is what it must have been like when women were marched to the stake. Yesterday in Auckland the British women’s rights campaigner Posie Parker found herself surrounded by a deranged, heaving mob. She had tomato soup and placards thrown in her face. She was doused with water. Huge men screamed insults and expletives in her face. The shoving of the crowd became so intense that Parker feared for her life. ‘I genuinely thought that if I fell to the floor I would never get up again’, she said. ‘My children would lose their mother and my husband would lose...

I have had a google voice number for years. If you use the dreaded GMail then you can get one. While logged onto Gmail. https://voice.google.com/ Just do a search for Google voice. Then select a phone number with your area code. Easier done on your computer. When you have done all this, you can also install Google voice on your phone. For the past two years my phone has two phone numbers. Only problem was that I got lots of spam phone calls on the Google Voice number./// For the last week I just got one. I can only conclude...

There are two things that the mainstream media is salivating over these days. The first is Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and his (now collapsing) case against Donald Trump in the whole Stormy Daniels affair. The second is the Dominion Voting defamation case against Fox News.I have been pretty harsh on Fox News in the whole affair because I truly believe they are more guilty of focusing on audience than truth. And the revelations we’ve seen from the Dominion case back that up. They were incredibly worried about their audience leaving and heading to Newsmax or One American News, which led...

LGBTQ predator Jeffrey Marsh has defenders who know no bounds. First, they went after UK Muslim Shumirun Nessa with threats toward her and her kids after she called Marsh out on TikTok. She backed off, but they're still going after her, and probably won't stop until she's unalived herself. Now comes word a pair of Canadians have decided to file a class action lawsuit against people who have told the truth about Marsh (also on TikTok), saying their sentiments are untrue and hate speech. Now, Marsh lives in California (natch!). But these two people seem to think they can file...

The infrastructure just isn't there yet. Key points: * Electric vehicles can be expensive to buy and own. * My reason for not wanting to own an EV just yet has more to do with convenience than price. * Charging stations for EVs are not yet widespread, meaning they might not be a good option for you if you take long road trips to remote areas. These days, it's not so uncommon to see your fair share of electric vehicles on the road. And if your car has seen better days, you may be thinking of buying an electric vehicle,...

Many or all of the products here are from our partners that compensate us. It’s how we make money. But our editorial integrity ensures our experts’ opinions aren’t influenced by compensation. Terms may apply to offers listed on this page. Beware the runaway bicycle. Key points: * I plan on swapping my Toyota Corolla for an electric vehicle in 2024. * Cost declines, low-hassle maintenance, and safety perks make EVs a compelling alternative to conventional vehicles. I lease a 2021 Toyota Corolla Hybrid because it boasts an affordable price tag, gas efficiency, and a high safety rating. For context, I...

SOROS-BACKED SOS CAUGHT LYING TO LEGISLATURE: NEW MEXICO’S ELECTION SYSTEM IS COMPLETELY EXPOSED TO THE INTERNET Guest post from the Editor of the Estancia News During a March 10th hearing in the House Judiciary Committee on the controversial election bill titled SB 180, Representative Greg Nibert asked the Secretary of State directly, “Is the election system connected to the internet?” “No,” responded the SOS. This representation by the SOS to the legislature is patently false. The truth is that the SOS has gone to great lengths and spent almost $3 million of taxpayer money to get almost the entire election...

Financial expert Michael Burry sent one perfect Tweet on Sunday that explained why the economy is collapsing around us. Burry, best known for his portrayal by Christian Bale in hit movie “The Big Short,” has been signalling the alarm for an impending, massive recession for quite some time. After Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse Friday and Signature Bank’s shut down, Burry took to Twitter with one perfect statement: “2000, 2008, 2023, it’s always the same.” Burry wrote, now shared on his archive page. “People full of hubris and greed take stupid risks and fail. Money is then printed. Because it works...

One of the major causes of "food insecurity" is that low income people often have problems with money management. This is well demonstrated by people using their EBT money on junk food when they first receive a deposit on their card and then having no money/credit left at the end of the month. The once a month delivery made sense when the stamps were sent though the mail, but now everything is down on a debit card. It seems that it would be simple to change the card to a weekly or even daily dispersal instead of once a month....

Patrick Rooney, host of "DECLARATION of Independence," sits down with Professor David Clements, a leading voice for stopping the use of election machines and returning to paper ballots. Professor Clements was fired from his teaching position at New Mexico State University for his bold stance against their masking and vaccine mandates. He has been featured on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," and many other programs. Professor Clements is currently on a nationwide mission to restore trust in our elections. You can reach the professor: https://www.theprofessorsrecord.com https://rumble.com/c/theprofessorsrecord https://telegram.me/s/theprofessorsrecord How to take back your county: https://tworedpills.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Did-My-Vote-Count3.pdf Old School (Patrick Rooney's site: Natural Health /...

Around the city of Kolomna some 70 miles southeast of Moscow late tonight a loud whiz, a blast, smoke and glow. It's being investigated... Russian authorities say they pushed Ukrainian operatives who entered Russia's Bryansk region today back across the border and hit them...Two civilians killed with another, a ten-year old child, wounded by the Ukrainians. Russian President Vladimir Putin calling the Ukrainian activity a "terrorist attack". Tomorrow Putin will chair a meeting of Russia's National Security Council... In Gisborne, New Zealand a suspicious fire at a grain processing facility this evening... Russia says that the grain deal in connection...

Google “fundamentally started as a CIA project,” according to journalist and author of Propaganda in the Information Age, Alan MacLeod, who has warned that tech giants’ ties with intelligence agencies pose big problems for freedom of information as well as freedom of speech. MacLeod, who has extensively researched the ties between the national security state and Big Tech, explained to journalist Whitney Webb on the Unlimited Hangout podcast how a prior investigation by Dr. Nafeez Ahmed found that the CIA and the National Security Agency (NSA) were “bankrolling” research by Sergey Brin at Stanford University, which “produced Google.” “Not only...

An artificial intelligence service called ChatGPT, developed by a company called OpenAI, will give you false information about the 1993 death of former President Bill Clinton's deputy White House counsel, Vincent Foster.

SCREENSHOTS AT LINK............... A newly uncovered calendar notation on the Biden Laptop indicates Hunter Biden joined his business partner Devon Archer in a meeting with his father in then Vice President Joe Biden’s West Wing office on April 16th, 2014, something the Bidens and Archers have always denied. And while there’s a special counsel looking into Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, this meeting constitutes malfeasance in office, an impeachable offense. Here’s a screenshot of the calendar I viewed after my friends at Marco Polo exported Hunter Biden’s daily calendar from the Laptop to me. The notation is “Meet Devon...

It’s not that an AI should be racist, gratuitously and immaturely offensive, or that it should be spouting out racial slurs at the drop of a hat. Rather, the clearly-manipulated nature of the AI’s thinking on this superficial topic is indicative of a bigger problem — the AI is not designed to think rationally, or to serve the person using it, but instead is shackled to short-term political priorities. All of this is distressingly predictable… so much so that it was predicted almost exactly several years prior…

I have a full-time job (which is now fully remote, yay) and am looking for more remote part-time work. What people are now calling "overemployed."Question: it seems to me that it's best to have a second phone line for business -- both for security/privacy purposes and just to keep personal and work lives separate. Do others of you do the same? I've looked into dual SIM, Tracfone, Mint Mobile, etc. Virtual phones (Google Voice) have their place but can't be used in every situation (i.e., some places/services will not accept a virtual phone for verification and apparently are able to...

Editor’s Note: If you had asked me yesterday if artificial intelligence could write an article in the style of a popular columnist and few if anyone could tell the difference, I would have said we’re probably a few years away from that dystopian circumstance. I would have been wrong. The article below by Frank Miele of Real Clear Politics is partially written by ChatGPT. Can you tell the man from the machine? The Brave New World of Artificial Intelligence As a journalist and commentator, I have closely followed the development of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research lab founded by Elon...

Somewhere along the line, someone noticed that in software development, a few people are self-taught, and then suddenly they (erroneously) correlated software development with easy money. The truth is that it isn’t that easy.I’m not going to suggest that the field is overall something super difficult like Physical Chemistry, but it’s also not trivial to learn like my first job at McDonald’s. Though to be honest, getting those cone swirls right was for sure a pride point! I often see questions like, “how can I teach myself to code and have a full-time programmer job in 6 months.” I imagine...

The FBI invited the media for maximum public exposure when they searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence for classified documents last year, however news has just emerged that the bureau searched Biden’s former office for classified documents in November – and decided to keep the search a secret from the American people. Investigators from the FBI searched the office that Biden previously used at a DC think tank – days after his own lawyer identified classified material there, it was revealed Tuesday. The White House and the Justice Department did not disclose the search, which was reported by CBS News, despite the...