Central Bank Digital Currency Is The Endgame (Pt. 2) by Iain Davis originally published March 6, 2023 In Part 1 we noted that “money” is no more than a medium of exchange. If we cooperate in sufficient numbers, we could create an economy based upon an entirely voluntary monetary system. We don’t need banks to
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Imagine a World Without Smartphones by Emanuel Pastreich, Fear No Evil March 7, 2023 When people think of the great attack on humanity, they often refer to 9.11, the start of the Iraq war, the COVID-19 operation, or the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But perhaps the deadliest attack on humanity is that of the
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The Right to Be Let Alone: When the Government Wants to Know All Your Business by John & Nisha Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute March 7, 2023 “Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.” —Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis There was a time
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The REAL Dangers of the Chatbot Takeover “If you thought the amount of data that a company like Google was able to gain about its users by simply storing their searches was enormous, wait until you see what OpenAI and Microsoft and Google are going to do with the conversations that people are currently
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Riley Waggaman It seems QR codes will soon be back in vogue in Russia. Via Interfax: The Ministry of Digital Development, together with the FSB, will submit to the Russian government by May 1 a draft decree allowing the use of a digital identity card on smartphones instead of [an internal] passport in a number of …
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. — President Dwight D. […]
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Countdown to Gigadeath – From AI Arms Race to Artilect War Whether it’s the US or China, some would sacrifice humanity to create a digital god by Joe Allen, Singularity Weekly February 11, 2023 For true believers, artificial intelligence will inevitably become superhuman. According to their mythos, we’re adrift in a godless cosmos. So
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The Final Chapter of Slavery Hinges on Widespread Implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies by Gary D. Barnett February 9, 2023 “We don’t know, for example, who’s using a $100 bill today and we don’t know who’s using a $1000 peso bill today. The key difference with the CBCD the central bank will have
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Hysteria over balloons is a strange thing. Hot air balloons made their appearance during the Napoleonic era, where they served as delivery weapons for bombs and undertook surveillance tasks. High altitude balloons were also used by, of all powers, the United States during the 1950s, for reasons of gathering intelligence, though these were shot down […]
John & Nisha Whitehead “We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.” Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private lives: everything is public. Surveillance cameras mounted on utility poles, traffic lights, businesses, and homes. License plate readers. Ring doorbells. …
