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  • Top WEF Official: ‘Dangerous Conspiracy Theorists Must Be Eliminated’

    07/26/2023 6:51:20 AM PDT · by dennisw · 46 replies
    A top World Economic Forum (WEF) official has called for so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’ to be banned from accessing the internet due to their ‘dangerous’ belief that a global cabal of elites control the world. Yuval Noah Harari, who is Klaus Schwab’s right hand man, condemned the theory that a shadowy elite of billionaires and globalists control the world as “anti-Semitic” and “dangerous.” During an appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast, Harari pointed out that the world is “too complex” for powerful people to control it. “The global cabal theory has many variations, but basically, there is a small group of...
  • Former defense official Christopher Mellon says the US has recovered technology that 'did not originate on this earth'

    07/26/2023 6:15:54 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 102 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 10:45 EDT, 25 July 2023 | By LAURA PARNABY
    * Mellon made the claim ahead of Congress UFO hearing Wednesday * The 65-year-old served as Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations *************************************************** Former intelligence chief Christopher Mellon has said he believes the US has recovered technology that 'did not originate on this earth'. Ahead of a scheduled Congress hearing about UFOs on Wednesday, Mellon said America 'may have in our possession off-world technology recovered from someone else's space program'. The 65-year-old served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush administrations, and he now works as...
  • Bryan Cranston Tells Bob Iger ‘Our Jobs Will Not Be Taken Away’ by AI in Rousing Speech: You Will Not ‘Take Away Our Dignity’

    07/25/2023 11:03:52 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 57 replies
    Variety ^ | Joe Otterson
    Bryan Cranston delivered a fiery speech at a SAG-AFTRA strike rally in Times Square on Tuesday, which included a message directed at Disney head Bob Iger. “We’ve got a message for Mr. Iger,” Cranston said from the stage of the “Rock the City for a Fair Contract” rally. “I know, sir, that you look [at] things through a different lens. We don’t expect you to understand who we are. But we ask you to hear us, and beyond that to listen to us when we tell you we will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots....
  • A Beginner's Guide to ChatGPT for Senior Citizen Freepers

    07/25/2023 5:09:11 PM PDT · by LittleBillyInfidel · 84 replies
    Self | July 25, 2023 | LittleBillyInfidel
    Welcome to my guide on how to navigate the oh so exciting world of AI with ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence created by OpenAI. Let's break down the basics in this easy-to-understand guide for some of us older Freepers who don't feel like slaying another dang dragon. ## Prompts A prompt is simply a question or statement that you give to ChatGPT. The AI then responds based on what you said. It's like starting a conversation with a friend. For example, you might ask, "What's the weather like today?" or tell it, "Tell me a joke." For some fun, try asking...
  • AI thinks the Constitution was written by bots — but there’s a bigger issue

    07/25/2023 4:42:48 PM PDT · by DFG · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 07/25/2023 | Alex Mitchell
    It’s “We the people,” not we the AI. Computer language models are under the impression that the US Constitution — written way before the Internet in 1787 — is an AI-generated document. The explanation is simple, according to Edward Tian, creator of AI writing catcher GPTZero, a service that also found the biblical book of Genesis to be 88% computerized. “The US Constitution is a text fed repeatedly into the training data of many large language models,” he told Ars Technica. “As a result, many of these large language models are trained to generate similar text to the Constitution and...
  • Al Gore Dresses Up Like Swedish Teen Girl So People Will Listen To Him Again

    07/25/2023 4:34:19 PM PDT · by millenial4freedom · 19 replies
    Twitter ^ | 07/25/2023 | The Babylon Bee
  • Painting Attributed to Raphael Thanks to Artificial Intelligence Goes on Public View for the First Time

    07/25/2023 2:47:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 7 replies
    ARTnews ^ | July 25, 2023 | Daniel Cassady
    Earlier this year, a 40-year debate over a painting known as the de Brécy Tondo was settled thanks to artificial intelligence–based facial recognition software, with the painting now considered to have likely been the famed Renaissance artist Raphael. Now, that painting has gone on public display for the first time at the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery in Bradford, England. For years, the de Brécy Tondo was assumed to be a copy of a work by Raphael made in the Victorian era, in large part because of its resemblance to his Sistine Madonna altarpiece. Hassan Ugail, a professor at the University...
  • Worldcoin: Sam Altman Launches Eyeball Scanning Crypto Coin

    07/25/2023 1:35:39 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    BBC ^ | Joe Tidy
    A cryptocurrency project described as being "dystopian" has been launched by AI entrepreneur Sam Altman. Worldcoin gives people digital coins in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs. In sites around the world thousands of people queued to gaze into silver orbs on day one of the project's full launch. The BBC visited a scanning site in London where people received free crypto tokens after going through the process. Mr Altman, the chief executive of Open AI which built chat bot ChatGPT says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot. "Worldcoin could...
  • As Elon Musk rebrands Twitter and replaces the ubiquitous blue bird with an X after 17 years marketing experts deliver their verdict…so what do you think?

    07/24/2023 10:03:44 AM PDT · by Morgana · 75 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | July 24, 2023 | Christian Oliver
    Elon Musk unveiled perhaps his most vigorous shakeup of Twitter so far on Monday: rebranding the social media platform and the famous blue bird with X. After buying the platform for $44 billion last year, Musk announced a number of changes, including limiting the number of tweets users can see and installing a subscription system for blue ticks that saw the verification taken away from notable profiles. The changes have alienated some users and turned off advertisers, leaving the microblogging site vulnerable to new threats, including rival Meta's new text-based app Threads that directly targets Twitter users. Despite this, Musk...
  • Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey urges ‘calm’ after Elon Musk eliminates the last traces of his original company

    07/24/2023 7:40:14 AM PDT · by dennisw · 30 replies
    MSN ^ | 7-24 | Story by Christiaan Hetzner
    Elon Musk has taken a wrecking ball to Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, first gutting the foundation and now demolishing the façade. But according to Dorsey, the co-founder and longtime chief executive of Twitter, Musk's latest idea to scrap the site’s blue bird logo and rename the platform to X as an “accelerant” for creating an everything app — an earthquake in the corporate branding world — is nothing to get excited about. “Keep calm and just x through it,” Dorsey posted late on Sunday on his former platform. Dorsey has been accused of letting the fox into the henhouse when he...
  • Spiral brain-computer interface slips into ear canal with no loss of hearing

    07/23/2023 6:38:08 AM PDT · by devane617 · 7 replies
    medicalxpress ^ | 07/23/2023
    A multi-institutional team of engineers in China has developed a new type of brain-computer interface (BCI) that can be easily slipped in and out of the ear canal. In their project, reported in the journal Nature Communications, the group set out to design and build a new kind of BCI that is less invasive than existing devices. A brain-computer interface is a device that allows communication between the brain and a computer—though to date, most such devices are one-directional. They are used to listen to brain waves for such applications as converting them to text or to electronic signals that...
  • MTG fires back at Hunter Biden's lawyer demanding investigation into showing explicit photos

    07/22/2023 8:25:36 AM PDT · by Libloather · 33 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 7/22/23 | Reese Gorman
    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) responded on Twitter to Hunter Biden’s lawyer requesting the Office of Congressional Ethics take action against her for showing redacted-nude photos of the president’s son during a House Oversight Committee hearing. Greene said Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell’s, letter confirms the pictures she displayed are of the first son and a prostitute and that they confirm “his violation of the MANN act by sex trafficking a victim across state lines.” On Wednesday, during a hearing with the two Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers, Greene held up a poster board that showed Hunter Biden performing sexual acts...
  • Barack Obama Shares 2023 Summer Playlist Ft. The Rolling Stones, Jorja Smith And More

    07/21/2023 3:56:43 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 30 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | July 21, 2023 | Tim Peacock
    The former US president’s absorbing new playlist also features Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj and Michael Kiwanuka.Former President Barack Obama has shared his playlist of his current favorite songs for Summer 2023. His latest picks include selections by The Rolling Stones (“Soul Survivor,”) Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj (“Princess Diana”) Aretha Franklin (“Dr.Feelgood (Love Is A Serious Buisness”) and Jorja Smith (“Try Me”) in addition to cuts from SZA, Boygenius, Pearl Jam, John Coltrane, Janelle Monae, Marvin Gaye and many more. “Like I do every year, here are some songs I’ve been listening to this summer—a mix of old and new,”...
  • Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

    07/21/2023 12:32:04 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 18 replies
    New Atlas ^ | July 21, 2023 | By Loz Blain
    "DishBrain" computer chips fusing human brain cells with electronic circuits and AI intelligence could underpin the next generation of learning robotsAI-generated by Midjourney =========================================================== Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes. The micro-electrode array at the heart of the DishBrain was capable both of reading activity in the brain cells, and stimulating them with electrical signals, so the research team set up a version of Pong where the brain cells...
  • Garbage into Gold. It's coming

    07/20/2023 10:10:56 AM PDT · by Bellflower · 30 replies
    Youtube.com ^ | March 23, 2023 | Dr. James Tour
    Absolutely amazing breakthroughs concerning graphene. A new way to make it that is economical, judicial with the energy needed, and makes clean energy in the process. Sounds too good to be true but looks real. Watch and be amazed.
  • Former ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek to plead guilty in federal child porn case

    07/19/2023 12:10:59 AM PDT · by Libloather · 28 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 7/18/23 | Stephen M. Lepore
    Disgraced former ABC investigative journalist James Gordon Meek is reportedly set to plead guilty to federal child pornography offenses, which could have put him behind bars for decades. Meek, 53, is expected to change his plea to guilty during an appearance in a federal courtroom in Virginia on Friday. The move to change his plea comes after his attorney filed a motion in June to delay his July trial, The Daily Beast reported. The filing argued a delay would allow Meek's team and prosecutors to 'engage in discussions regarding the possible resolution of the case.' A plea deal could allow...
  • Seeking guidance on web site revamp.

    07/18/2023 2:07:48 PM PDT · by TermLimits4All · 11 replies
    7/18/2023 | Myself
    So I have a standard Wix site for my business currently. I'm looking to revamp it to be more interactive with video, booking features etc. Our current site has 6 pages and would likely stay that way. I'm just curious as to what I can expect from a starting cost standpoint.
  • YouTuber who sexualized infants announces his surrogate is expecting twins

    07/18/2023 2:05:12 PM PDT · by Morgana · 13 replies
    Live Action News ^ | July 17, 2023 | Nancy Flanders
    YouTubers Shane Dawson and Ryland Adams have announced that a woman they hired to be a surrogate is now pregnant with twins. There is concern over the well-being of the children due to Dawson’s past inappropriate behavior regarding children. In a video announcement, Dawson and Adams traveled to Seattle, Washington, to attend the six-week ultrasound the surrogate was undergoing, which was delayed a week so that the men could be present, according to People. In the newly released video which was filmed back in May, Adams states, “We’re pregnant, b***!” “Whatever God wants for us is what it’s gonna be,”...
  • Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market

    07/18/2023 11:48:58 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 28 replies
    The Register ^ | 18 July 2023 | Liam Proven
    Linux is now a little more than three 3 per cent of the desktop OS market, excluding the just over four per cent that is ChromeOS. Which is also Linux, but the wrong kind of Linux. Web server statistics aggregator Statcounter announced last week that as of June 2023, Linux accounts for 3 per cent of desktop operating system use. However, this is still surpassed by ChromeOS, which means that desktop Linux has less than half of the desktop Linux market. If you feel that this is a bit weird, we agree with you.Apparently, desktop Linux use measures 3.08 per...
  • Vanity: Need insight on website hosting

    07/18/2023 7:58:13 AM PDT · by spacejunkie2001 · 25 replies
    7/18/23 | me
    We just created a new website and aren't keen on the company we engaged to do that, who are currently handling the hosting/maintenance. We'd like to contract directly with an entity to host it ourselves and possibly even maintain it ourselves, as there should be very little changes to it overall. The site was created through wordpress. Would love some guidance on taking over the daily/monthly ourselves.