Facebook Gets Targeted by Left for Cancellation Over Bugaloo Platforming

Paul Collier January 10, 2022

Despite all Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to utilize his multi-billion dollar platform to cut off dissent from the DNC during the 2020 election, his allies for whom he threw away any shred of credibility and good branding Facebook might have had are thanking him for pressing to have Facebook be held to account for their role in spreading the dread “Boogaloo Movement” that almost destroyed our precious mass mailer democracy on January 6th.
The movement itself, the one engineered and manipulated by the billionaire class of the DNC, is wholly consumptive in nature. Nothing can stand, for ‘everything is racist, everything is bigoted and it all needs to be challenged,” including any institution that today thinks its safe from the antifa-shirted mob because it enforces the draconian moral supremacist revenge-based code of what I regularly call corpowoketarianizm, the corporate-statized version of what once was more ubiquitously called ‘social justice.’

Facebook may face consequences for providing violent ‘Boogalo’ movement with online platform

From www.dailykos.com
2022-01-09 20:15:19
David Neiwert
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The lawsuit, filed by the sister of David Patrick Underwood—the federal security officer who was gunned down by two “Boogaloo” adherents in Oakland in June 2020—argues that Facebook’s algorithms drew the killer and his coconspirator together, enabling their vicious crimes.

“The shooting was not a random act of violence,” the lawsuit contends. “It was the culmination of an extremist plot hatched and planned on Facebook by two men who Meta connected through Facebook’s groups infrastructure and its use of algorithms designed and intended to increase user engagement and, correspondingly, Meta’s profits.”

Angela Underwood Jacobs contends that Facebook officials were aware that their platform was a recruitment tool for Boogaloo believers, but it failed to stop recommending their pages until after Underwood’s death.

“Facebook Inc. knew or could have reasonably foreseen that one or more individuals would be likely to become radicalized upon joining…

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Cows Get VR Pastures While They Milk

Ivo Fysic January 10, 2022

A Farmer from Turkey is using VR Headsets to help his cows feel better about their lives as they stand in their stalls ready to give milk to the squeezer or the pumper. The cows wear VR headsets that makes them think they’re in a wonderful pasture. The plan is to get the cows to relax to be more milk-giving for the squeezer or the pumper, and, so far, it seems to be working.

Farmer Puts VR Headsets on Cows to Simulate Green Pastures : Futurology

From futurism.com

Excerpt:

A farmer in Turkey says he’s purchased VR headsets for his cows so they’ll produce more milk and be less anxious.

On its face, a giant barn full of cows with headsets strapped to their furry faces to increase profitability seems pretty dystopian — but as Turkish news outlet Anadolu Ajansi reported this week, it does seem to be working.

“We get an average of 22 liters of milk per day from the cows in our farm,” Izzet Kocak said in the video, translated into English. “The milk average of the two cows [that] wore virtual reality glasses was up to 27 liters.”

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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

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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…