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Water.  Data centres.  The continuous, pressing need to cool the latter, which houses servers to store and process data, with the former, which is becoming ever more precious in the climate crisis.  Hardly a good comingling of factors. Like planting cotton in drought-stricken areas, decisions to place data hubs in various locations across the globe […]

John Whitehead “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them.Seventy years after Ray Bradbury’s …

A professor of journalism wrote that if AI "is misused by journalists and news organizations on topics that require nuance and cultural understanding, then it could damage the credibility not only of the tool but of the news organizations that use it.”

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) It was done in 2017, and is about how in extreme-capitalist or “fascist” countries such as UK and U.S., where the megacorporations that sell only to governments — corporations  such as BAE and Lockheed Martin — bribe their way to enormous growth, ONLY the very wealthiest, who control those corporations […]

Serge Varlay, a recruiter for Blackrock that has $9.5 trillion of assets under management, said that banks and hedge funds like BlackRock, "run the world” and can buy politicians like senators and even the president of the United States.

By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | May 25, 2023 Google has renewed its partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide what it calls “factual” information about different diseases and conditions. The partnership is positioned as a way to combat what it says is the spread of medical “misinformation” observed during the pandemic. On […]

Yesterday evening the US union the Writers’ Guild of America went on strike. The most immediate impact of this is that all the late-night “comedy” talk shows – Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers – have gone on hiatus. I know, I was heartbroken too. How this may impact the already flagging entertainment industry – one which …

If humans lose control of AI then it will be considered to have reached singularity, which means it has surpassed human intelligence and has independent thinking. AI would no longer need or listen to humans, allowing it to steal nuclear codes, create pandemics and spark world wars.

By Přemysl Janýr | February 5, 2023 On 18 January, a few days before the presidential election, I received an email from a non-political group of friends with an anti-Babiš pamphlet. I replied with an anti-Petr picture that I had received shortly before. Out of a group of forty recipients, seven emails were returned to […]

Eric Zuesse NewsGuard, a news-site rating organization, which was founded and is run by the neoconservative journalist Steven Brill, is trusted enough by some online readers so that when NewsGuard threatened to downgrade a certain news-site’s rating at NewsGuard unless the site removed all my articles, the site removed all my articles. Here is what […]