Just some useless trivia I strolled across...

Couple pics of Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok at the DeSantis inaugural ball. I'd say her presence confirms (along with her Tucker Carlson interview) that the origin & promotion of DeSantis's Parental Rights in Education (Don't Say Gay) bill and all the anti-grooming LGBT stuff...



Sen Manny Diaz Jr. - Florida education commissioner.


I did not know Libs of TikTok LLC is registered to Seth Dillon, Babylon Bee owner & Elon Musk's pal who takes some credit for convincing Musk to buy Twitter. Dillon, a Palm Beach County resident, also has a relationship with DeSantis...




Key as to who's who in the group:



Libs of TikTok creator backed by Babylon Bee CEO of Juno Beach


 how had I not heard he got this incredibly cringe photo removed.



de Sade??

Found him...


comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc (Usenet/Google groups)

Someone asked AI to turn each country into a villain. Got confused on Russia. 

Here's a few...

The more you learn the more you realize this regime is one sick puppy.

The story of the net from ARPANET to privatization, political policies & selling of infrastructure, the first platforms, Microsoft lawsuits, through to Google, Facebook, Airbnb & Uber, up to today.



Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction to the History of the Internet
04:06 – Building the Net
20:37 – The Browser Wars (Microsoft vs the United States)
44:35 – The Californian Ideology (eBay, Yahoo, Google and the Libertarian Mind)
01:07:26 – The Raiding of Privacy (Surveillance Capitalism)
01:18:05 – Facebook
01:26:07 – The Theft of the Community (Airbnb & Uber)
01:40:31 – No Place (Utopian Dreams)
01:49:38 – Open Source vs Microsoft
01:59:24 – Conclusion: Politics, Policy, and Alternatives

The drone program gave rise to at least one crazy incident on August 16, 1956 where a Navy Grumman F6F-5K Hellcat drone went rogue and circled over the heavily-populated Los Angeles area for several hours, while a pair of USAF Northrop F-89 Scorpions scrambled to shoot it down safely.



The jets fired 208 rockets at the Hellcat, and all missed. Eventually it ran out of fuel and crashed, lighting a massive brush fire.

LOL, GO Navy!

I'm surprised this forum is empty. Ok, I'll add one, though not really a rant per say.

Quote:Former Harvard Prof. Martin Kulldorff: ‘Science and Public Health Are Broken
(Feb 2022, The Epoch Times)

“I was able to publish in Sweden, in the major daily newspapers there during the spring of 2020, so that was not a problem,” he said. “But the United States was not allowed to have a debate, which is very troubling.”

His early efforts culminated in the Great Barrington Declaration...“The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk,” the declaration states.

“It’s just the basic fundamental principles of public health that existed in the pandemic preparedness plan that was prepared many years before,” he said. “It’s sort of astonishing that it wasn’t followed from the very beginning of the pandemic.”

“The most important audience was the public,” he said, “because it’s the public that ultimately will end these misguided public health policies. It’s the public, regular people, who are suffering the consequences.”

He said the authors wanted to advise the average person that their intuition was correct, that the restrictions weren’t based on public health science—”so when you oppose them, you’re standing on firm scientific ground.”
“The key thing was to break the pretense that there was scientific consensus for these lockdowns—which there wasn’t.”

“This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists … seems to be getting a lot of attention,” Collins told Fauci in the Oct. 8, 2020, email. “There needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. I don’t see anything like that online yet—is it underway?”

Collins’s four-line email mentioned that the declaration included “even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford.”

Fauci appears to have been in full agreement with Collins’s proposal to take down the authors and their declaration, sending a one-line reply.

“I am pasting in below a piece from the Wired [magazine] that debunks this theory,” he wrote. Collins replied. “Excellent.”

Within a day of the Collins–Fauci exchange, Google began to censor search results for “Great Barrington Declaration.”

In a subsequent interview, Collins said the declaration “is not mainstream science. It’s dangerous.”

Fauci called the declaration “ridiculous” and “total nonsense” in an interview with ABC.

Kulldorff, when asked if he’d ever considered himself a “fringe epidemiologist,” said, “No I have not, but I guess, when the public health leaders get it wrong, then it’s an honor to be a fringe epidemiologist.”

“So these are all tragic consequences, collateral damage, of these COVID measures, restrictions that were imposed,” he said. “And you can’t just do that for a whole year or two and expect that it doesn’t have other enormously bad outcomes on public health.”

Kulldorff anticipates that many of the ancillary health impacts have yet to surface.

In January, a Johns Hopkins meta-analysis of lockdown data concluded that lockdowns didn’t save lives.

“It’s very clear that if we want to have vibrant science, and a vibrant scientific community, we have to reform the way science operates and the way public health operates,” he said.

But, Kulldorff said, it’s up to the public—the truckers, farmers, nurses, pilots, and parents—as well as rank-and-file scientists to effect real change.

It’s also time to compassionately help each other heal from the psychological and mental wounds, he said, especially those still living in constant fear of COVID and those who have been self-isolating for two years now.

“I think we shouldn’t blame those who were afraid, because they were major victims of this pandemic strategy,” he said.

“We shouldn’t blame people for believing Anthony Fauci and the CDC—that was the natural thing to do. We just have to help them realize that these measures were misguided so that never happens again.”

Quote:Cardiac Arrest in Athletes by Dr Robert Malone.

What is known and knowable

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In thinking this through, I am going to take a different approach in considering how I can help this situation. How to make a small positive contribution. There has been lots of speculation, but not much education. So, today I am putting my “educator” hat on for a moment.

My friends Edward Dowd and Gavin de Becker have written an excellent book documenting the pattern of people dying suddenly.

The pattern of myocarditis in young men after vaccination is reproducible and known. Prevalence of clinical myocarditis post vaccination in young men is around 1/3000 - with a lot of variability between studies. A study from Thailand showed extremely high rates of sub-clinical damage in young men. Long-term outcomes from the vaccine are unknown in these cohorts. Five year mortality (including sudden death) post clinical viral myocarditis is absolutely not trivial. One would hope that the elite athletes required to be inoculated would have their physicians monitoring for signs of sub-clinical and clinical myocarditis. To not do so may place them at risk of legal consequences and medical board review.

That said, there is a good reason to speculate that Commotio Cordis could also have been the key event. In my opinion, there is also a (strong?) probability that there was a pre-existing heart condition or heart damage prior to the event (tackle).

Commotio Cordis is Latin for “agitation of the heart.” Commotio Cordis refers to when an unusual event happens whereby a mild to moderate physical impact or blow to the chest hits the heart during a specific moment of the heartbeat. This triggers a sudden and often fatal heart attack.

Commotio Cordis refers to the sudden arrhythmic death caused by a low/mild chest wall impact.  Commotio Cordis is seen mostly in athletes between the ages of 8 and 18 who are partaking in sports with projectiles such as baseballs, hockey pucks, or lacrosse balls.  These projectiles can strike the athletes in the middle of the chest with a low impact but enough to cause the heart to enter an arrhythmia. Martial arts is a sport in which a strike of a hand can also cause the heart to change it’s rhythm.  Without immediate CPR and defibrillation the prognosis of Commotio Cordis is not very good.  This condition is extremely dangerous with rare survival.

Read more: Cardiac Arrest in Athletes

Quote:You Don’t Have to be a Conspiracy Theorist to be Worried About the World Economic Forum

Samuel Greg, a Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy at the American Institute for Economic Research and author, most recently, of The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, has written a good piece for the Spectator about the WEF on the eve of Davos 2023.

He argues that if you care about liberty, democracy and national self-determination, it’s perfectly rational to be concerned about the influence of Klaus Schwab and his followers. Not because they are the puppeteers controlling politicians across the West, but because they’re ideas permeate the upper echelons of the global elite. In particular, Schwab’s belief in the top-down, technocratic form of government exemplified by the EU.

It wields no formal political power and can’t make anyone do anything. Nonetheless, since its founding in 1971, the WEF has become an organisation which embodies supreme confidence in the imperative of a particular type of person running the world from the top-down. In his famous 2004 essay entitled ‘Dead Souls’, the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington called this prototype ‘Davos Man’.

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The Human Meat Project is a conceptual 'Soylent Green' art piece. (Dec 15, 2022) Who the hell is behind this cannibalism? Gotta be a sick Paul R. Ehrlich dystopian joke, right?

Quote:Welcome to the Human Meat Project, we are the human meat donation program. By donating bodies for human consumption, we are taking action to solve overpopulation, which leads to climate change and the greenhouse effect caused by the mass farming of livestock animals in order to feed the world.

Our donors will be taken care of by our specialized team to make sure they are treated with full respect and care. Donors will be prepared emotionally and physically to enter the Harvest Room. Donors will be given time to spend their last moment as a person before they become Human Meat.
 

Well, one (unclassified) file with many, many projects.



Happy 2023, here are some fun activities DARPA and the DoD have in store for us this year.




A-PhI - scalable atomic clocks to create GPS independence from central NIST location in the event of power grid failure.




WARDEN - to amplify the range and lethality of high-power microwave systems.



Rapid Healing for Warfighter Injuries - leveraging artificial intelligence to predict, stimulate, and control physiological processes in complex tissues.




NSIA - non-surgical machine interface technology to input multiple channels of information into neural tissue. *Currently in final testing/transition to implementation phase*




***AAI*** facilitation of operator-machine interface, knowledge management and dissemination, and social context-informed AI forecasting, including focus on measuring and aggregating PRECONSCIOUS SIGNALS and how these can be used to determine what people believe to be true.




Oversight - implementation of automated satellite-based programming to maintain custody (constant surveillance) of "targets" in contested environments, interfacing with IoT infrastructure to supplement satellite capability.



SemaFor - the use of AI/machine learning to identify "false information", its origin, and its intent.




ASIST - development of computational agents (AI) that demonstrate human social intelligence which can be utilized with high trust/acceptance in complex environments.



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Some of this may strike a nerve with you

Some interesting plans for commercial space stations. There are many plans from the private entities who have big projects and plans for near space.