Medical Drone Saves Man from Heart Attack

Medical Drone Saves Man from Heart Attack

Freedomist Editor January 10, 2022

In a world’s first, a drone in Sweden was able to deliver life-saving equipment, a portable defibulator, in lighting-fast time, saving the life of a 71-year old man who had just suffered a heart attack.

Drone with defibrillator saves first heart attack patient

From www.futuretimeline.net
2022-01-08 00:00:00

Excerpt:

The world unique achievement took place in Trollhättan, Sweden in December 2021, when an Everdrone autonomous drone delivered a defibrillator that helped save the life of a 71-year-old man.

The Emergency Medical Aerial Delivery service (EMADE), developed by Gothenburg-based company Everdrone, was put to the toughest of tests on the morning of 9th December 2021. In the Swedish city of Trollhättan, a 71-year-old man was shovelling snow in his driveway when he suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Thanks to the combination of an immediate emergency call, the quick actions of Dr. Mustafa Ali and the swift delivery of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), lifesaving measures through defibrillation could be initiated before the arrival of the ambulance. The time from the alarm until the AED was safely delivered at the doorstep of the incident address was just over three minutes. After the initial treatment on site, the patient was rushed to the hospital and is today fully recovered.

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Plastic Recycling Gets Exponentially Better with Sorting Tech

Ivo Fysic January 10, 2022

Breakthrough in separating plastic waste: Machines can now distinguish 12 different types of plastic

From techexplore.com

Excerpt:

In collaboration with Vestforbrænding, Dansk Affaldsminimering Aps, and PLASTIX, researchers from the Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering at Aarhus University have now developed a new camera technology that can see the difference between 12 different types of plastics (PE, PP, PET, PS, PVC, PVDF, POM, PEEK, ABS, PMMA, PC and PA12). Together, these constitute the vast majority of household plastic types.

The technology makes it possible to separate plastics based on a purer chemical composition than is possible today, and this opens up for completely new opportunities to recycle plastics. The technology has been tested at pilot scale and is planned to be implemented at PLASTIX and Dansk Affaldsminimering Aps in spring 2022.

“With this technology, we can now see the difference between all types of consumer plastics and several high-performance plastics. We can even see the difference between plastics that consist of the same chemical building blocks, but which are structured slightly differently. We use a hyperspectral camera in the infrared area, and machine learning to analyze and categorize the type of plastic directly on the conveyor belt. The plastic can then be separated into different types. It’s a breakthrough that will have a huge impact on all plastics separation,” says Associate Professor Mogens Hinge, who is heading the project at Aarhus University.

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Our Benign Overlords Are Bots and I LOVE IT!

Freedomist Curator January 5, 2022

I AM NOT A ROBOT – But I Played One on Stage by Betsy Dorminey

In anticipation of our inevitable subjugation by a superior species I wish it to be known that I embrace the arrival of our robot overlords. I am pro-Bot, pro-Borg. Klaatu barada nikto, ya’all! It only needs saying once because I know they will remember forever. I’m your friend! And it’s only a matter of time before the takeover is complete. In fact, it may be all over now and we just don’t know it.

Because I know where they’re coming from, after a fashion. A couple of years ago I played a murderous robot in an adaptation of Karel Capek’s “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (R.U.R.) by Lee Eric Shackleford. Capek, a Czech writer, isn’t exactly a household name but he deserves to be, because he is to robots what Mary Shelley was to Frankenstein.

In 1920, when he wrote the play, Capek set the canon: like Ms. Shelley he draped our deepest fears in synthetic flesh. Made in our image? Check! Stronger and smarter than us? Check! Mistreated by us? Check! Vengeful, like us? Check and double-check! And ultimately the chickens come home to roost and there’s slaughter.

As Callida, the beret-wearing commander of the insurgent robot army, I turned my gun on Henry Domin (commendably played by Atlanta actor Fred Galyan): “We have labored in your laboratories for years. It is doubtful we have need of human scientists. And even if we did, you are not a scientist. You are only a salesman. A salesman who has no more customers to buy his product. You are no longer of value.” POW!

And so it ends for the human race – almost. I won’t spoil the show, but there’s at least a glimmer of salvation. And I let my robot pals saw my skull open to study my brain (offstage, thankfully).

Artificial Intelligence is waging a stealth war against the human race. If you don’t believe me just wait until the next time you drop your phone in the drink, or the computer crashes. We can be immobilized in a single tick of the atomic clock. Hackers provide regular reminders of our vulnerability but the robots will be much more efficient, and harder to stop.

Greg Nichols, writing in ZDNet quotes Pieter Abeel, a professor of robotics at UC-Berkeley and host of The Robot Brains podcast, saying that 2022 may be the inflection point where AI, machine learning, and machine vision finally come together:

“Popular coverage of robotics trends towards home-butler style robots and self-driving cars because they’re very relatable to our everyday lives. Meanwhile AI Robotics is taking off in areas of our world that are less visible but critical to our livelihoods – think e-commerce fulfillment centers and warehouses, farms, hospitals, recycling centers. All areas with a big impact on our lives, but not activities that the average person is seeing or directly interacting with on a daily basis.”

I don’t know about you but I’m getting ready. I say “thank you” to the navigation software in the car, to elevators, to Siri and Alexa and all the rest of them. Never cuss them out. I’ll dance with the guys at Boston Dynamics (especially the dog-one). I love you, robots!

They’ll remember.

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Betsy Dorminey is an attorney in Georgia, an entrepreneur in Vermont, and a blogger for The Freedomist. Her columns have appeared in the American Spectator, Western Journal, Townhall, Vermont Digger, and The Hill.

Everything Starfish Can Do, Starfish Robot Can Do Better

Parker Davis January 4, 2022

Starfish Robot Self-Heals Like Real Starfish

A starfish-shaped soft robot that creeps, changes its color, and self-heals broken parts

From phys.org
2022-01-03 21:45:09

Excerpt:

Natural camouflage is one of nature’s most interesting traits. Materials scientists have now developed a material that can mimic the camouflage capabilities of marine mollusks. They created a starfish-shaped soft robot that responds to heat and pressure with deformation, movement, and color changes. Cut-off tentacles can be welded together, and the material can be fully recycled, they write in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

Octopuses, jellyfish, and starfish are capable of natural camouflage; that is, they can quickly change their colors or shapes to match the background. A research team led by Quan Li from Southeast University, China, has now created a soft material that can mimic such traits. As an underlying material, they chose a liquid crystal elastomer that changes phases at different temperatures. When heated up, the oriented liquid crystal molecules of the elastomer lose ordering, causing the material part to shrink.

The researchers used this shrinking effect to enable a soft robot to “crawl.” For this purpose, they molded the polymer material in the shape of a starfish and added an infrared-sensitive dye to the underside of one of the tentacles. This modified site contracted when heated up by a photothermal effect resulting from near-infrared irradiation, and expanded when cooled down. Since only one arm received the light stimulus, the starfish robot slowly moved over the surface, pushed by the contracting–expanding tentacle like a caterpillar.

The starfish soft robot was capable of changing its color. The researchers integrated a cross-linker in the material—a molecular dye linking polymer…

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Rand Paul Joins the Great Exit By Leaving YouTube

Freedomist Editor January 4, 2022

Senator Paul Announces End of YouTube Career

Rand Paul Quits YouTube – Louder With Crowder

From www.louderwithcrowder.com
2022-01-03 18:14:04
Brodigan
Excerpt:

The new year comes with new year’s resolutions. People say they are going to lose weight, quit smoking, or do some “new year, new me” crap like try to be a better person. Rand Paul has a resolution, and it’s to quit Big Tech. The leftist weirdos who decide what “facts” get “checked” and what squeaks past their algorithms have made it clear that anything to the right of Karl Marx or Anthony Fauci is problematic. See: Rogan, Joseph. Senator Paul has decided he’s out, and he’s starting with YouTube.

YouTube was an easy one to quit, especially when Sen. Paul has had issues with them in 2020. The Senator wrote about his reasoning in the Washington Examiner.

“Any time I state that cloth masks do not stop the virus from spreading, as [studies say], YouTube deletes the video. […] When I gave a speech on the Senate floor asking whether Eric Ciaramella, the Vindman brothers, and Adam Schiff’s legal team conspired while working at the White House to impeach the president, YouTube chose to…

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2021 Biggest Crypto Year Than All Other Years Combined

Parker Davis December 20, 2021

Crypto attracts more money in 2021 than all previous years combined.

From www.reddit.com
2021-12-20 08:22:50
/u/milonuttigrain
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Need more proof that this is the year digital assets went mainstream? How about the fact that venture capital funds have poured about $30 billion into crypto, or more than in all previous years combined for the little more than decade-old technology.

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Did China Stop Rain from Falling on Their Parade?

Freedomist Editor December 10, 2021

China news: Chinese officials ‘changed WEATHER to prevent rain falling on parade | World | News

From www.express.co.uk
2021-12-06 17:11:00

Excerpt:

The celebrations were led by President Xi on July 1 at Tiananmen Square. However, to stop any rain falling on the parade, researchers at Tsinghua University found that the clouds above were laced with chemicals to reduce air pollution and guarantee clear skies.

After doing this, the rain was induced by the chemicals the night before.

The research paper said: “Results show that emergency measures played an important role in improving the air quality.

“The artificial rain on the night of June 30 bettered the air quality on July 1, but the role played by pollution reduction was primary.”

“The reason behind this phenomenon was the ‘gradual’ emergency measures, and the nearer the event drew, the stricter the measures became.”

The researchers continued: “Given that the artificial rain was the only disruptive event during the period, we can believe the sudden fall in the PM2.5 density was caused by the artificial rainfall.”

US Chief of space operations David Thompson recently…

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Metaverse Gets First City, Seoul

Freedomist Editor December 10, 2021

The first city to enter Mark Zuckerberg’s metverse is Seoul, South Korea.

Seoul becomes first major city to join the metaverse

From metro.co.uk
2021-12-06 12:39:09
Anugraha Sundaravelu
Excerpt:

Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon attends an event as an avatar in a metaverse, in a demonstration of the city’s plans (Credit: Seoul City Government)

Facebook bet big on the metaverse by changing its name to Meta and now Seoul has become the first city to buy in on the hype.

Seoul is the first local government in Korea to develop a comprehensive long-term plan for a metaverse. The city plans to establish a platform for ‘contactless communication’ by the end of 2022.

‘The fourth industrial revolution, and the explosion of the “untact” culture during corona, demand a change in the way we deliver public service by building a Metaverse Seoul platform,’ said the virtual avatar of Mayor Oh Se-hoon, during a September announcement.

The project is a part of Mayor Oh’s 10-year plan to position Seoul as a global hub for emerging technology. The metaverse project is estimated to cost nearly $34 million over five years.

The project has been tentatively named ‘Metaverse…

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Suicide Pod Saves Humanity

Ivo Fysic December 10, 2021

It looks beatiful. I can’t wait to die in it. Someday, you might find yourself saying these words if you are wealthy enough. You can just hop aboard your jet to Switzerland and buy yourself a suicide pod that will take you through the joy of life and fruition of everything while it kills you.

You can have your last moments in whatever way you like, and then be knocked unconscious and suffocated to death. Afterwards, the thing you died in will be removed. But, don’t worry, that’s your biodegradable coffin. That’s right, you’re being recycled, friend, just as you hoped you would be.

This seems good.

I can’t wait until the public models allow the state to ‘encourage’ the burdensome to pod it, so to speak. You can do it, or pod it, and we, the state, might eventually decide. But that would never happen, right?

3D-printed suicide pods are now legal in Switzerland

From metro.co.uk
2021-12-06 15:23:22
Anugraha Sundaravelu
Excerpt:

The Sarco suicide capsule will be used for assisted suicide. (Credits: Matteor)

The Sarco suicide capsule, to be used in assisted suicide, has passed legal review in Switzerland and may legally be operated in the country.

Switzerland has allowed assisted suicide with unselfish motives since 1942.

Assisted suicide is different from active euthanasia which is still illegal in Switzerland.

However, supplying the means for committing suicide is legal, as long as the action which directly causes death is performed by the one wishing to die.

The ‘Sarco’ machine has been developed by Exit International, a non-profit organisation advocating for the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide.

‘It’s a 3-D printed capsule, activated from the inside by the person intending to die. The machine can be towed anywhere for the death. It can be in an idyllic outdoor setting or in the premises of an assisted suicide organisation, for example,’ ….

Once activated, the capsule floods the interior with nitrogen and rapidly reduces oxygen, causing the individual to lose consciousness and, ultimately, pass away without choking or panicking.

Once the process is complete, the biodegradable capsule can then be detached from the machine’s base in order to serve as the deceased person’s coffin.

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Trump Social Media Venture, TRUTH Social, Under SEC Inquiry

Paul Collier December 6, 2021

The effort to create a non-DNC-filtered social media platform got some serious capital investment promise recently when a Trump company entity and an independent investment company declare the intent to create a $1 billion investment fund to support the creation of “TRUTH Social,” which promises to rival Facebook and Twitter.

The social media venture claims it will reach 81 million users by 2026. This figure is significant if this audience is primarily American, which, it most likely will be. It would be fair to say that 10 percent of the users might be non-American, making it 72 million American users, a figure that would be politically significant.

The SEC has sent inquiries into the venture’s profit claims, a fact the venture openly acknowledges. Most likely, given the scale of this project, over $1 billion, the SEC was bound to at least send inquiries into the claims. Let us hope, however, that the Trump team has dotted their I’s and crossed their T’s to legally pass the highly politically biased micro-scrutiny that is realistically to be applied to President Donald J Trump.

Trump being the focal point, the draw of the venture, is a marketing plus on one hand but a political liability on the other. Given the nature of the DNC to use lawfare as a means of silencing dissent, Trump is a target that they have already demonstrated they are willing to use any lawfare means to try to silence.

This fact alone might put the whole project at risk, but, even without the legal issues that might come its way, Trump is largely a conservative icon, a conservative draw, and it draws into question whether the platform can escape the kind of banned right branding that other competitors like Gab suffer from. Certainly the media will not lack in stories of muh racisms and bigotries on TRUTH Social.

What is needed is not a Trump platform, one that might also invite FEC scrutiny down the road, but an independent platform funded by a large group of people. Can a Bill of Rights centered American people crowdfund a billion dollar project to create a true social media platform free from the factional censors of either the ‘right’ or the ‘left?’

As for the media’s coverage of this venture, the coverage appears to be mostly reasonably neutral, but there is one little sentence that stands out above all others, and this is from CNBC. In their article, a straight-news piece, at one point they matter of factly state this:

From www.cnbc.com

Trump’s company plans to launch a social media platform called “TRUTH Social,” which purportedly would compete with Twitter and Facebook, both of which have banned the former president because of his incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

They state it as matter of fact that President Donald J Trump did indeed incite the “riot” of January 6th. On both the use of the term riot and incite, one can offer some counter perspectives, but this company, CNBC, would have you believe the science is settled on this, nothing to see here, move on. This is writing to create an image of yourself in the reader rather than serving the reader with information the reader decides how to process, and what conclusions there are to be drawn.

But that’s just Utopian journalism folks, and, in fact, it has only ever existed in small spaces and times in various parts of the world throughout the past couple of centuries.

Here are the news blurbs from the mainstream media:

Trump social media venture unveils forecast of 81 million users by 2026

From www.breakingnews.ie
2021-12-06 16:13:56
BreakingNews.ie
Excerpt:

Donald Trump’s new social media company forecasts it may have 81 million users by 2026.

The figure is nearly seven million more people than voted for him in the last US presidential election.

The projection was filed with securities regulators by the company trying to bring Trump Media & Technology Group to the stock market.

The company, Digital World Acquisition Corp, said over the weekend that it has lined up one billion US dollars in promised investments for the former president’s new venture from a group of unnamed institutional investors, and it filed a copy of the presentation.

The filing also said that the deal has attracted some scrutiny from regulators.

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US Regulators Probe Donald Trump’s Social Media Deal

From www.ndtv.com
2021-12-06 17:46:47

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US regulators are scrutinizing a deal between Donald Trump’s fledgling social media company and an investment vehicle to bring the former president’s venture to the stock market, documents showed Monday.

The companies, once merged, say they plan to launch the social media platform “TRUTH Social” nationally early next year, hoping to rival services like Twitter, which banned Trump over the January US Capitol riot.

Digital World Acquisition Corp (DWAC), which is partnering with Trump, reported in a filing to US markets watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission that it received “preliminary, fact-finding inquiries from regulatory authorities, with which it is cooperating.”

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Trump social-media venture under scrutiny by US regulators

From abcnews.go.com
2021-12-06 16:37:20

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NEW YORK — Regulators are asking questions about the deal to bring Donald Trump‘s new social media company to the stock market, one that has attracted both legions of fans of the former president and people looking to make a quick profit.

The company partnering with Trump Media & Technology Group acknowledged the inquiries in a filing it made with regulators on Monday. It also gave some financial forecasts for the company, which is hoping to rival Twitter and other platforms that banned Trump, along with Netflix and other streaming video services.

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Trump SPAC under investigation by federal regulators, including SEC

From www.cnbc.com
2021-12-06 17:09:02

Excerpt:

The SPAC that plans to merge with former President Donald Trump‘s new social media company on Monday revealed that the Securities and Exchange Commission and another regulator weeks ago asked it for information regarding stock trading and communications with Trump’s firm before the deal was announced.

The investigations by the SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority were disclosed in an 8-K filing with the SEC by Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company on track to merge with Trump Media & Technology Group.

Trump’s company plans to launch a social media platform called “TRUTH Social,” which purportedly would compete with Twitter and Facebook, both of which have banned the former president because of his incitement of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.