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.
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…
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…
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?
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.”
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.
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.
The Big Bad Jack is dead. He committed resignation Hari Kari. Jack Dorsey is no more at Twitter, and the media would have you believe it was mostly a non-event, with little in the way of sensationalist headlines coming our way, and little controversy being offered regarding the new CEO, the current CFO and tech whiz kid turned tech whiz middle-aged guy, Parag Agrawal.
The news was trickled out at first, with headlines like this from the New York Times, teasing the resignation.
In March 2020, Elliott Management struck a deal with Silver Lake, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest investors in technology companies, that allowed Mr. Dorsey to remain at Twitter. The deal also gave Jesse Cohn, the Elliott executive who oversaw the Twitter campaign, a seat on Twitter’s board. Mr. Cohn joined a five-member committee that led a review of Twitter’s C.E.O. succession planning.
Last November, that committee completed its review, saying that it had “updated the C.E.O. succession plan in line with best practices,” according to a regulatory filing, laying a path for the transition. Twitter’s stock began to climb, and in February, Mr. Dorsey announced an ambitious plan to double Twitter’s revenue by the end of 2023. The company also sped up its product pace, releasing new features like audio chat, newsletters, tipping and other updates.
Elliott’s Mr. Cohn stepped down from Twitter’s board in June.
Seeing the writing in the wall after that evaluation, apparently, Dorsey decided a self-yeet was the best approach, so he did the appropriate, self-preserving thing and exited stage extreme far left to the point that it becomes far right.
Having left the stage, the media decides to ponder on the metaphysical ramifications of a King walking away at the height of his power.
Let us remember, this King took the reins of this machine back in 2015, after one ouster in 2008. What he brought with him was security, and safety, and safety, and security, and a safety and security team led by moon-beamed children who had little regard or care for concepts such as the rights of individuals to express their own beliefs.
Dorsey oversaw the dismantling of what Twitter became after his first ouster, after 2008, a secured place for dissidents to exchange information. Nothing highlighted this more than #greenelection, the hashtag that raged on Twitter in 2010 during the Iran Green Revolution that tragically failed. I was there for that, and Twitter was once the wonderful wild west of expression.
Dorsey saw to it that the adults were once again treated like children, and that Twitter would become nothing but a machine of DNC Inc, a subsidiary of CCP Inc, though one hoping one day to usurp its benefactor.
Now that he’s left, the tech nerd will ride in and free the weird and the offensive once again.,
“THE COMPANY IS ready to move on from its founders,” explained Jack Dorsey, chief executive of Twitter, a distributor of short messages, as he announced on November 29th that he would step down and hand the reins to the firm’s chief technology officer, Parag Agrawal. “About time,” was the grumpy reaction of more than one stockmarket analyst, many of whom had long criticised Mr Dorsey for spreading himself too thinly by running both Twitter and Square, a fast-growing fintech company which he will continue to head. (The chairman of The Economist’s parent company is a director of Square.)
Yet the timing makes sense. Over the past several years Mr Dorsey has pushed through changes at the company that only a founder could (he launched the company with several friends in 2006, was ousted as chief executive in 2008 and took over again in 2015). Now Mr Agrawal will build on the foundations Jack built.
Dorsey’s “Finally Time for me to Leave” became a part of many headlines reporting this story, the kind of benign phrase that sanitizes the world’s biggest nerd school hall monitor ever created. Jack Dorsey probed the digital halls looking to turn people in for school violations, even inventing many of his own to catch more people.
But what you get here is a glass of artisanal water, a noble nothing, the stoic CEO who walked away from world power.
Twitter CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey has stepped down as the chief executive, the social media platform announced Monday morning, with Dorsey saying he decided to leave because Twitter is “ready to move on from its founders.”
Twitter stock spiked by 11% in value on the last 24 hours on Monday (29 November) following reports that Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey would be stepping down from his position at the company.
Dorsey has steered the company through controversies such as the platform’s decision to ban former US President Donald Trump from Twitter after the 6 January riots at the Capital and his refusal to accept his loss in the 2020 US Presidential Election.
But the former Twitter CEO confirmed reports this afternoon, announcing his immediate resignation after 15 years at the platform on Monday afternoon.
….According to Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index, Dorsey is worth roughly $12.3 billion (£9.25bn) as the co-founder of Twitter and Square, Inc…..
In Jack Dorsey’s resignation email sent to Twitter employees this afternoon, Dorsey requested that Chief Technology Officer of Parag Agrawal take over as Twitter CEO – saying his trust in Agrawal as new CEO was “bone deep”…..
Finally we are introduced to the successor, Parag himself, the tech nerd turned world leader. Whole nations quake at the censorship decisions this man is set to decide to favor. Will he keep going DNC-cringe-woke or will he find sanity and turn back towards the Bill of Rights?
Methinks Woketarianizm will still reign on Twitter, whose very power is born from its ‘willingness’ to censor American Presidents, so no politician is safe from the power of Parag, the new leader of the unfree world (ok, so I might be laying it a tiny tad thick, but, in spirit, I am spot on, friends, spot on).
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately. Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s chief technology officer, will take over the helm, the company said Monday.
Shares of Twitter closed down 2.74% on the day.
Dorsey, 45, was serving as both the CEO of Twitter and Square, his digital payments company. Dorsey will remain a member of the board until his term expires at the 2022 meeting of stockholders, the company said. Salesforce President and COO Bret Taylor will become the chairman of the board, succeeding Patrick Pichette, a former Google executive, who will remain on the board as chair of the audit committee.
“I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on from its founders,” Dorsey said in a statement, though he didn’t provide any additional detail on why he decided to resign.
Dorsey says a whole lot of nothing in his departure, but Crypto folks love the news. One Crypto wiz is convinced the new tech nerd CEO, the most powerful man in the unfree world, will suddenly turn Twitter towards Bitcoin again. Methinks Twitter will one day soon produce its own crap coin to join the pile of crap coins, so Bitcoin is still not going to be welcome there.
Twitter now has a new chief executive officer after Jack Dorsey resigned Monday. Dorsey, who is still the CEO of Square Inc., previously said that he wants to focus on bitcoin. Fundstrat Global Advisors’ managing director and head of research explained why Dorsey’s departure from Twitter is bullish for crypto.
Jack Dorsey announced Monday that he has resigned from Twitter. In his letter to the Twitter team, the former CEO explained that it was his decision to leave. Parag Agrawal, who served as Twitter’s chief technology officer, is the new CEO. Dorsey is still the CEO of Square Inc., which is currently working on several bitcoin projects.
Tom Lee, managing partner and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors, believes that Dorsey’s resignation from Twitter is bullish for the crypto market. In an interview with CNBC Monday, he was asked what Dorsey’s exit from Twitter means for the bitcoin and cryptocurrency…
What you can expect from the new tech nerd lord of the unfree world is more aggressive monetization, more aggressive pursuit of corporate buying to expand Twitter’s range of products, so that one day we will choose between having all of our life’s needs met through Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and TikTok. We’ll have Twitter Ice Cream, Twitter Cars, Amazon Pizzas, etc, etc, etc. Wait, we already have Amazon Pizzas.
Expect more expansion in monetization and acquisition, but little change in their DNC inc implementation of woketarianizm, though some tweaks might be offered to World Leaders in an effort to not encourage more states from developing their own Twitters, free from the tyranny of Parag The Tech Nerd, the Leader of the Unfree World.
A prefabricated building expert and a vertical farming developer are joining up in a venture to improve the efficiency of vertical farming through better physics.
The venture is one of many across the world working on cracking the vertical farming nut, to make vertical farming potentially the main method through which we not only grow our food, but our materials, our fuels, even our medicines.
With advances in technology that are enabling the manipulation of plant DNA, we are already seeing small-scale examples of plants that are engineered to grow the particular chemicals or material elements we need to create everything from medicine to cars. Coupling this technology with bioprinting and 3D printing, and you begin to see a potential future where your local hospital has a vertical farm and processing center in one tower next to the hospital, growing and manufacturing most of its medicinal needs onsite with considerable reduction in expense.
Imagine being able to grow whatever resource you need, reducing the scarcity of significant ranges of chemicals and materials.
The fight ahead will be between technology developed through open source and technology developed behind Intellectual Property protocols. If you favor consensual exchange, you should favor the open-source side, as through this tech, not centrally controlled and rationed off in the form of monthly subscriptions, more and more human beings will be able to make decisions about their lives based on their preferences and not the party’s current year program.
Scientists have discovered a way to unleash a myriad of new property potentials in materials that can be created from simple defects in atomic structures. By observing these defects in nature, they can now study these anomalies and learn to identify the types of unique properties they produce, enabling them, in time, to plan out intentional defect creation to unleash a whole range of new materials with properties we might not even now begin to imagine.
An international team led by EPFL scientists, has unveiled a unique quantum-mechanical interaction between electrons and topological defects in layered materials that has only been observed in engineered atomic thin layers. The phenomenon can be reproduced by the native defects of lab grown large crystals, making future investigation of Kondo systems and quantum electronic devices more accessible.
The properties of materials that are technologically interesting often originate from defects on their atomic structure. For example, changing the optical properties of rubies with chrome inclusions has helped develop lasers, while nitrogen-vacancy in diamonds are paving the way for applications such as quantum magnetometers. Even in the metallurgical industry, atomic-scale defects like dislocation enhances the strength of forged steel…..
Working with the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses in Grenoble and Toulouse, they accessed some of the world’s most powerful magnets. The collaboration performed experiments up to 34 Tesla in static conditions and with pulses up to 70 Tesla for a few milliseconds.
“My first guess was that it is a new type form of Kondo effect, despite the fact that we did not introduces magnetic species in the crystal,” says Konstantin Semeniuk, a scientist who worked on the study.
“Once we completed our investigation, the result was clear,” says Martino. “The atomically thin defects create a sort of magnetic wall in the material that bounces back some of the electrons that try to cross it. Unraveling the source of the Kondo effect has shown that thermodynamics can make big surprises. We believe there is a lot more to discover in this field, better understanding of atomic-scale defects by electronic microscopy, local magnetic measurements, and new quantum simulations to understand the formation and effect of such defects in layered materials.”
A driverless bus in France has become Europe’s first vehicle authorised to operate fully autonomously on a public road.
The driverless EZ10 shuttle, which can carry up to 12 passengers, has been making test runs on a medical campus in the southwestern city of Toulouse since March.
But last week France’s Minister of Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari and Ministry of Ecological Transition approved the bus for use without a human attendant on board.
“This is an important step towards real commercialisation of autonomous driving, both on large private sites, as well as on public roads,” said Benoit Perrin, general manager of the vehicle’s developer, EasyMile.
The authorisation makes EasyMile the first driverless vehicle maker in Europe to be allowed to run an autonomous shuttle among other vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists without on-board supervision on a public road, the company said.
Much of the patterns of consumption that you find yourself being pulled into is the product of a war between competing armies of digital thinktank ninjas creating algorithms designed to splatter your mind with yes or no reflexively, without even having to take one drop of agency of self to make the decision that automatically flows into your being.
The more unaware you are of your own preferences, your own beliefs, and why you have them or hold to them, the more you become the product that is triggered to consume a product. The product is political, social, pleasurable, practical, essential, lifes-saving, indulging. The product is the limited ‘choice’ you are shuttled into making by clever algorithms that spit fire into your screens, even when you’re going to the bathroom.
You become the code itself. You are more than battery, you are the matrix code itself. The battery is the mind captured by your own will to submit to the code outside of you.
You stitch the code with every angry emoji and every long comment convincing another Christian sky daddy idiot that God died when Nietszche made it so. You are the code.
This world that such a soul is trapped inside is created by teams of warring artificial intelligence machines working in deep learning meshness to create and adopt portals and doors to assure the programmed ethics was baked into the whole affair, as in, only the narrative of the machines gets through. We have entered a new age, the age of the deep learning barons, racing to consolidate intellectual potential and lock it behind intellectual property laws, and walls of billionaire-level lawyers, with walls of government agencies with guns willing to back up the words of the courts, where the ownership of thought is declared.
As these machines evolve in efficency, and the best rise in initial and ongoing cost (something far more likely if these machine innovations are locked behind intellectual property walls), lives will be led to favor this or that value at a moment’s notice, where today’s villains are tomorrow’s always has been heroes, where information truly is the reality of the power to create narratives that can easily be flooded into the vast majority of human eyes, on platforms controlled by the few.
IP might have a necessary role in society, but IP that creates monopolies on the use of high-level AI machines by the very, very, very few will put the vast majority of humanity at disadvantages that might be far more profound than anything that has ever come before this. Conversevly, if AI machines can be created through open source so that the most sophisticated machines can still be home-built by almost anyone, then these machines could level the ‘expert’ playing field for humanity, giving those in power new “inspiration” to suddenly rediscover the nobility of a Bill of Rights restricted power, be it civic, market, or social, so long as it occupies public space.
A power disbursed creates ‘liberal” central power, A power concentrated creates tyranny of the very, very, very few over the many, a scenario that the DNC would so wish to see happen as a result of the further development of AI by humanity.
This article from Army Technology is revealing a little more than, perhaps, it would want to reveal to folks like you and me when it exposes that the top concern in business in 2021 has been artificial intelligence. At number two, previously number one, was augmented realty. These potential AI Barons all recognize the potential for consolidation and control, as well as the flip side, the potential for loss of consolidation and control should the small scale enterprises have the same intellectual power as the mega-corps like Alphabet do.
Business leaders are still worrying about artificial intelligence (AI), but with Facebook pushing hard into the metaverse, augmented reality (AR) has also proven a massive concern for corporate chieftains.
That’s according to analytics firm GlobalData. The company defines a theme as any issue that keeps chief executives awake at night. In a thematic survey published in October 2021, GlobalData gauged the business community’s current sentiment towards emerging technologies that kept executives stirring into the early hours.
The research found that AI was the technology perceived as most disruptive in Q3 2021, regaining its position from AR, which, as Verdict previously reported, held the top spot in the previous quarter.
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