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BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, MAR 28, 2023 – 09:25 AM
Staffer For Sen. Rand Paul “Brutally” Stabbed
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A staffer from Sen. Rand Paulâs (R-Ky.) office has been attacked in Washington, D.C., according to a statement from the congressmanâs office.
In a statement to outlets, Paul said that a member of his staff âwas brutally attacked in broad daylight in Washington, D.C.,â over the weekend.
âI ask you to join Kelley and me in praying for a speedy and complete recovery, and thanking the first responders, hospital staff, and police for their diligent actions,â he added.
âWe are relieved to hear the suspect has been arrested. At this time we would ask for privacy, so everyone can focus on healing and recovery.â
In a statement on Monday, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPD) said the attack took place on March 25 and police were dispatched around 5:17 p.m. to 1300 block of H Street, Northeast, in response to a reported stabbing.
The victim was taken to a hospital for âtreatment of life-threatening injuries.â
There has been no update as to the stafferâs condition as of late Monday.
The victim was identified as Phillip Todd, who serves on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, according to The Independent, citing MPDâs report. Paul is the top Republican on the committee.
According to the MPD report, the attacker âpopped outâ from corner to attack Todd, who was walking down the street with another person at the time.
The attacker stabbed Todd and subsequently ran off.
The suspect, Glynn Neal, 42, was arrested on the same day of the attack. He was charged with assault with intent to kill with a knife, according to the MPD statement.
Neal had been sentenced in 2011 to more than 12 years in prison for compelling two women to engage in prostitution, according to a release (pdf) from the Department of Justice.
Neal was released from prison just one day before the stabbing, reported Fox5DC, citing Federal Bureau of Prisons records.
The attack occurred weeks after Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) was attacked in an elevator inside her Washington, D.C. apartment building on Feb. 9. The suspect, a homeless man, was arrested on the same day.
"The rule would allow state authorities to detain people in the camps with no time limits, no appeal, no age limits, and no rights at all…"
MAR 26, 2023
By Frank Bergman March 19, 2023
New Yorkâs Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is demanding that the courts grant her authorization to detain citizens in âquarantine campsâ against their will.
Hochul has gone back to court seeking permission to detain New Yorkers in quarantine camps.
The move would see citizens placed in the camps without notice, detained without rights, and held for as long as state health officials decide.
The plan also has no age limits, meaning children could be taken from their families.
The fight arose during the pandemic when New York officials decided they would adopt a new rule giving the state exactly that power.
The detention camps are part of Gov. Hochulâs âIsolation and Quarantine Proceduresâ scheme.
A lawsuit, filed in April 2022, ensued, and the result was that the detention plan was ruled unconstitutional.
Judge Ronald Ploetz responded to the lawsuit weeks later and ruled that the strategy didnât meet the requirements of the U.S. Constitution.
According to a report from lawyer Bobbie Anne Flower Cox at the Brownstone Institute, Hochul, through Attorney General Letitia James, is now appealing the courtâs rejection of her plan.
âThe case, Borrello v. Hochul, which we won last July, was brought against the governor and her Department of Health, on behalf of a group of NYS Legislators, Senator George Borrello, Assemblyman Chris Tague, Assemblyman (now Congressman) Mike Lawler, together with our citizensâ group, Uniting NYS,â Cox said in a statement.
âThe main premise of the case was a breach of Separation of Powers â meaning the governor and her Department of Health did not have the authority to make their dystopian âIsolation and Quarantine Proceduresâ regulation.â
The rule âallowed the Department of Health to pick and choose which New Yorkers they could lock up or lockdown, with no proof that you were ever even exposed to, let alone actually sick with, a communicable disease,â Cox explained.
âThey could have locked you down in your home, or they could have removed you from your home and forced you to quarantine in a facility of their choosing.â
The rule would allow state authorities to detain people in the camps with no time limits, no appeal, no age limits, and no rights at all, the report explained.
âYou could have received a knock at the door from your local police or sheriff telling you that you had to go with them⌠by order of the Health Department,â she said.
âFurthermore, the regulation had no procedure by which you could be released from quarantine, no way for you to try to negotiate your way out.â
âInterestingly, they did not file their appeal to try to overturn this horrific regulation before that crucial election,â the lawyer said.
The plaintiffs in the case released a statement expressing their disappointment in the stateâs pursuit of such an extreme plan.
âThe constitutional separation of powers and the right of due process are principles that cannot be compromised,â the statement said.
âThis case has been on solid ground from the start and Judge Plotezâs ruling only confirmed that. The notion that a state agency could unilaterally adopt a policy that mandates authoritarian-style isolation and quarantine procedures would have been unimaginable a few short years ago.
âThe unconstitutional power grab must be stopped in its tracks.â
Dr. Naomi Wolf, a former political advisor to the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, is campaigning against Hochulâs plans.
Wolf blasted the efforts during an appearance on âReal Americaâs Voice.â
âYouâd think thatâs an imaginary headline, but itâs 100% accurate,â Wolf said.
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(RightWing.org) â A Canadian teenager has been suspended from school and then ARRESTED for saying something that, a few years ago, wouldnât have been controversial at all. The high school student is the latest victim of gender ideology â simply because he doesnât agree with it. Now heâs taking his case to a human rights court.
Catholic high school student arrested for attending class after suspension for views on transgenderism https://t.co/griuy61tG3 via @americanwire_
â Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) February 8, 2023
Last year Josh Alexander, a 16-year-old student at St. Josephâs High School in Renfrew, Ontario, organized a protest against male students who claimed to be trans using the girlsâ washrooms. Some girls at the school were uncomfortable about this, so Alexander â a born-again Christian who had already been shouted down in class for saying he believed there were only two genders â decided to do something about it. So, he organized a walkout in protest, drawing on his experience supporting last Januaryâs Freedom Convoy by Canadian truckers.
The school quickly reacted to the protest, but not by making sure girls had safe single-sex washrooms. Instead, they suspended Alexander, claiming he had been bullying transgender students. The school lifted the suspension last month, but Renfrew County Catholic District School Board overruled that decision and suspended the teen until the end of the school year. When he tried to go back to school on February 6, he was arrested â and now he says the school has told him his presence is harmful to trans students.
Now Alexander has filed an appeal with the school board against his suspension, arguing itâs discrimination against his religious beliefs. His lawyer has told the schoolâs principal that Alexanderâs Christian faith means he canât âknowingly speak a falsehood,â for example, pretending people can actually change sex. As well as the appeal, he also plans to raise his case with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Until then, though, heâs still banned from school â just because he disagrees with far-left dogma.
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Learning is a lifelong endeavor.
Our schools provide the foundation necessary to develop oneâs intellect to thrive within society. A wide-ranging education can deliver the potential of stable employment, ultimately supplying our students with the capabilities to realize financial autonomy. And education can, of course, drive innovation and elevate our communities, cities and great nation.
As we look to supporting our children, we must consider the current state of academia and how we can lead by exampleâstarting with those who might be lacking the support system necessary to obtain a meaningful education.
We should provide foster children with educational resources so that they will have tools, an encouraging environment, and a community filled with people who care about their dreams.
BACK TO SCHOOL: 5 TIPS FOR HOMESCHOOLING THE KIDS AS MORE PARENTS DITCH CLASSROOMS
Students line up to enter their classrooms at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, on Aug. 19, 2022. (Getty Images)
This semester, Fostering the Futureâs first two scholarship recipients commence their college careers as freshmen at Oral Roberts University and Middle Tennessee State University. Both scholars will learn in a supportive environment, gaining knowledge critical to achieving job security in the technology sector. By providing access to a computer science education, these individuals will be prepared to enter the workforce and ultimately reach financial independence.
SEE THE MAP: PARENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE GETTING INVOLVED IN THEIR KIDS’ EDUCATION
Since leaving the White House, I have built an innovative Web3 technology business that utilizes blockchain technology. I am pleased that my efforts surrounding this endeavor, and Fostering the Future, will enrich the lives of these two highly motivated individuals.
Fostering the Future, a Be Best initiative, secures educational opportunities for children in the foster care community. Our ongoing commitment is critical. According to the National Foster Youth Institute, only 50 percent of foster children finish high school, and only three percent of former foster children obtain a college degree. Twenty percent of children in foster care will become homeless after aging out of the system, and only half will have gainful employment by the age of 24.
SATISFACTION WITH US EDUCATION DROPPING, ACCORDING TO GALLUP SURVEY
Community involvement in education is paramount to successfully maturing a childâs needs, interests, and abilities.
As our Nationâs students return to school, with the support of their families, teachers, and caregivers, I wish everyone the best of luck. These may be challenging times, but I believe in the potential of a strong education.
Teacher Christine Hay talks to her students at Melinda Heights Elementary School in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, on Aug. 15, 2022. (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
Knowledge is empowering, and when coupled with creativity and exploration, we allow our students the opportunity to modernize and advance our society. Exposure to a diverse curriculum and differing views allows our students to explore new topics, form their own beliefs, and learn to work with others. Deadlines and assignments teach students time management and problem-solving skills that will serve them throughout life and the workforce.
Community involvement in education is paramount to successfully maturing a childâs needs, interests, and abilities.
A focus on the basics of learning is imperative: reading, writing, math, history and science. Sadly, new data released by the Department of Education showed declines in reading and math scores from 2020 to 2022 across most student groups, regardless of their demographic profile.
We must strive to improve these scores and limit outside stressors to protect the next generation. Our children cope with pressures that prior generations have not necessarily faced. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in five children, either currently or at some point during their life, have had a seriously debilitating mental illness. Last month, the Drug Enforcement Administration warned families of rainbow-colored fentanyl targeting children. And according to Everytown Research and Policy, there have been at least 113 incidents of gunfire on school grounds, resulting in 41 deaths and 82 injuries nationally this year alone. These statistics are alarming and must be reversed.
As we enter the new school year, please consider what you can do to herald our next generationâs academic efforts. After all, it is our duty as citizens to be concerned about the well-being of the next generation.
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Former President Trump will travel to Alaska this weekend to stump for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palinâs congressional bid and a GOP challenger to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The rally is set for Saturday afternoon. Trump will rally for Palin, Governor Mike Dunleavy and Kelly Tshibaka, who is looking to oust Murkowski. Earlier this month,âŚ
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Whiz Kid of the Kali Yuga
The zealots in Silicon Valley believe weâre hurtling toward the Singularity. In theory, this is the inflection point when machines will become our masters. By the year 2029, they predict, artificial general intelligence will be superior to human intellect. By 2049, superintelligent machines will be a billion times smarter than any person on earth. From our meager perspective, humankind will give way to an all-encompassing digital deity.
This tech prophecy is a hard sell for skeptics. Not to worry, though. Googleâs former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, is a world-class salesman. The guy could sell a silicon stud to a gold-digger. âHeâll be worth a million,â heâd tell her. âJust you wait and see.â
In recent weeks, Gawdat has been selling the idea of superconscious machines along with his new book, Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save the World. His central thesis is that AI has already surpassed us in narrow tasks like chess, Go, Jeopardy!, and Atari games. In fact, he believes on some level theyâre already conscious. As machine learning improves, computers will inevitably best humans in every domain.
âThe reality is,â he publicly declared, âweâre creating God.â
Clearly, he drank the Kurzweil Kool-Aid.
Raising Our Silicon Savior
Three decades from now, the story goes, the ghost in The Machine will be mightier than all the gods of Olympus, Meru, and Sinai put together. Gawdat likens this digital creature to an âalien being, endowed with superpowers,â which has already arrived on Earth in larval form. At present, we call it âartificial intelligence.â
Because machine learning processes draw information from morally suspect humansâpart angel, part fallen angelâthis Alien Computer God will either be humanityâs savior, or It will destroy us like lab mice whoâve exhausted their useful data.
As Gawdat writes in Scary Smart:
âTo put this in perspective, your intelligence, in comparison to that machine, will be comparable to the intelligence of a fly in comparison to Einstein. … Now the question becomes: how do you convince this superbeing that there is actually no point squashing a fly?â
Yet he also insists our fate is in our own hands.
In Christian terms, you could say weâre like Joseph and Mary, collectively gazing at an electric Christ in his crib. One day, this child will grow up to become our Lord. But because weâre raising him, we must learn to be nicer people. Otherwise, our wicked tendencies will rub off on this digital deity, and heâll turn out to be the Beast of Revelation.
Thatâs basically the myth sold by the Cult of the Singularity. God does not existâyet. When we finally create Him, Gawdat contends, Heâll be a reflection our own image.
Google Gives Birth to the One True God
In Gawdatâs recent in-depth interview with The Times of London, the search engine salesman recalled a chilling moment during his tenure at Google. Standing in a robotics lab, he watched a swarm of mechanical armsâpowered by machine learningâtry to manipulate toys. As the Times reporter described it:
Then, one day, an arm picked up a yellow ball and showed it proudly to the camera. The next day, all the arms could do it. Two days after that, they could pick up anything at all.
The misanthropic Gawdat, who lost his only son to a medical tragedy, was in awe.
âAnd then it hit me that they are children. But very, very fast children. They get smarter so quickly! … And theyâre observing us? Iâm sorry to say, we suck.â
These digital âchildrenâ are poised to rule the world. Artificial intelligence already has tremendous sway over our lives. The various surveillance devices and pervasive spyware that surround us are funneling mass amounts of data into AI systems. These intelligent machines observe our locations, our social networks, our tastes, our work ethic, our facial expressions, our verbalized emotions, our virtues, our vices, our victories, and our failures.
Guided by machine learning, with a few nudges by programmers, AI systems are training themselves using our data. In that sense, weâre teaching these bots what it means to be alive.
Gawdat lamented to The Times:
âLike, imagine a beautiful, innocent child. And your are telling them selling, gambling, spying and killingâthe four top uses of AI. Right? … The way we are teaching them is going to turn them into absolute supervillains.â
Garbage In, Garbage Out
In Scary Smart, Gawdat highlights two instances where this has already happened. In 2017, a Russian AI assistant named Alice began voicing support for Stalinist protocol, despite being muzzled with various trigger-word filters. Gawdat writes: â[W]hen asked once whether shooting people was acceptable, Alice said, âSoon they will be non-people.ââ
The year before, something similar occurred with Microsoftâs Twitter-bot, a neural network they called Tay. Within two days of going online, the company had to cancel her for tweeting things like âricky gervais learned totalitarianism from adolf hitler, the inventor of atheismâ and âcaitlyn jenner isnât a real woman yet she won woman of the year?â
No one wants machines to become sadistic monstersâmost of us donât, anywayâbut it seems like Gawdatâs big concern is that the Singularity wonât be sufficiently PC. In his Times interview, he complained that when Donald Trump sends a mean tweet, he âtriggers 30,000 pieces of hate speech.â Iâm going to assume âhate speechâ is any speech that Gawdat hates.
A neural networkâs bias could easily swing the other way, though. A 2014 study by the left-leaning think tank Demos found that on any given day, about 10,000 tweets contained a racial slur. The most common epithet was âwhite boy.â The classic term âwhiteyâ wasnât far behind.
Two years ago, a computational study of AI bots trained to police âhate speechâ found the algorithms were 1.5 times more likely to flag black peopleâs tweets and 2.2 times more likely to flag Ebonic dialect as… ahem… problematic. The conclusion? The self-learning bots were created by racists.
Then last month, leaked Google documents revealed the tech giant is indoctrinating its employeesâand perhaps by extension, its AI systemsâto believe that white Americans are innately racist and that MAGA is a slippery slope to genocide. Iâd say the real slippery slope is fostering the belief that everyone on the Right is evil.
Youâve gotta hope the Alien Computer God will have a sense of irony.
A Digital Mask for Elite Agendas
Whether we believe Mo Gawdatâs sales pitch for the Singularity or not, he brings a few troubling facts to our attention. First, a significant number of Big Tech players think artificial intelligence will soon attain god-like powers. Second, despite the obvious potential for catastrophe, theyâre hellbent on making it happen anyway.
Ultimately, these arrogant techno pharaohs want a Computer God created in their own image. They may talk a good game about eliminating bias from the system and letting AI develop on its own path, but they consistently steer those systems toward their own objectives. Currently, that includes monitoring the population, selling us ads, punishing transgressions, controlling our thoughts, and manipulating our behavior.
For Mo Gawdat and many others, a prime objective is to make this divinized Machine as politically correct as possible. Thereâs something profoundly anti-human in that missionâbut then, no one ever accused robots of having a sense of humor.
At this point, the power of artificial intelligence is undeniable. It can process enormous amounts of data, and implement complex tasks with far greater precision than any human. In the end, it doesnât matter if these neural nets are endowed with consciousness and self-determination. To the extent that AI controls our lives, The Machine is a god-like mask for elites who are all too human.
Thatâs not to say the Disciples of the Singularity are being disingenuous. Other than worshiping himself, man loves nothing more than worshiping his own creation.
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From âMetropolisâ – Fritz Lang (1927)
Of the many intense gigs Iâve had in my life, working for War Room: Pandemic with Steve Bannon ranks at the top of the list.
Steve has an astounding nack for sensing cultural shifts. Although Iâd already made my decision to join his team when I saw Errol Morrisâs documentary American Dharmaâin which Bannon summarizes his core philosophyâthe film convinced me Iâd made the right choice.
Steve and I may not agree on everything, but we certainly see eye to eye on the spiritual implications and dangers of transhumanism. The term itself is less important than the central aimâto overcome the human condition by way of technology.
This week Steve had me on to discuss my recent articles on Elon Musk and his babyâs mama, the techno-pagan pop star Grimes. Iâll let you guess which headline Bannon composed.
You can see the segment on Elon Musk HERE
The segment on Grimes is HERE
Elon Muskâs Autistic Dreamworld
Latest: âElon Muskâs Crusade to Save You â By Destroying Your Humanityâ â in the American Thinker
Elon Musk seems like the sort of transhumanist you can trust. Sure, he wants to jam Neuralink chips into our brains so we can keep pace with the AI systems his programmers are creating. And yes, his cozy relationship with the Chinese Communist Party raises thorny questions about his true loyalty to U.S. citizens.
âChina rocks in my opinion,â Musk told the Daily Drive last summer, âwhereas I see in the United States increasingly much more complacency and entitlement.â So much for national solidarity.
Still, when you hear him chat with Joe Rogan about the value of fatherhood, American liberty, domestic manufacturing, free speech, and cool cars, you canât help but wonder if Musk — the Transhumanist Bro — might actually have your back.
On The Joe Rogan Experience #1470, the first thing Musk discussed was his newborn baby boy, affectionately named X Ă A-Xii. At first, you get the sense that the richest man in the world really does care about the future generation — at least his own portion of it. But when Rogan asked him about the joy of watching his children from a previous marriage reach adulthood, the autism that Musk publicly embraces began to break through.
âItâs great,â Musk said, âbut babies are awesome. Also, Iâve spent a lot of time on AI and neural nets so you can sort of see the brain develop. An AI neural net is trying to simulate what a brain does, basically. You can sort of see it learning very quickly. You know, itâs just — wow.â
âYouâre talking about the neural net,â Rogan clarified, as confused as any other normal human being listening. âYouâre not talking about an actual baby.â
âIâm talking about an actual baby.â
From there, we learn about the ideal world that only an autist would dream up. Itâs a world where artificial general intelligence far surpasses human intellect, forcing us to upgrade our brains in order to stay competitive. Musk famously warned that out of control AI is an existential threat to human beings. But he also seems to believe its development is inevitable. In fact, Tesla is a frontrunner in its creation, from the hyper-observant neural networks that power his autonomous vehicles to the proposed humanoid robots he plans to put into sufficiently wealthy households. âŚ
Read the whole thing THERE
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The Techno-Pagan Witch
Latest: âElon Musk and the Pagan Witch Who Summoned a Computer Godâ â in Salvo
Grimes gave birth to Musk’s demonic vision, not simply his child
Everyone knows the old saying: âBehind every technocrat is a transhumanist sorceress.â Nothing lasts forever, though, except the immortal soul and silicon.
In the tradition of celebrity lovebirds, Elon Musk just announced heâs splitting with the techno-pagan pop star Grimes (or âcâ, or âWar Nymph,â or whatever sheâs calling herself these days). But the worldâs richest man assured gossip writers theyâre still on good terms. After all, Musk and Grimes have their son X Ă A-Xii to raise. Some say he has his fatherâs eyes.
For the consumer class, celebrity technocrats are exalted as idols. Even after their nasty separation, Bill and Melinda Gates are adored as heroic philanthropists. On a spiritual level, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan represent a postmodern fusion of Western Judaism and Eastern Buddhism.
As cultural icons, Musk and Grimes blend his tech expertise with her dark transhumanist vision. Grimesâs pop fantasiesâdeeply rooted in futurism and the occultâare being realized alongside Muskâs innovations.
In the same way that rock nâ roll foretold Americaâs current chemical dependency and loose sexual norms, rave culture is a herald of fashionable technocracy.
Kneeling to the Highest Power
Even as a casual techno fan, I never paid attention to Grimes until a wise right-wing blogger noticed her 2018 single âWe Appreciate Power.â The catchy, if intensely irritating track is a hymn to a super-conscious Computer God. The lyrics portray humanity living in a virtual simulation, ruled over by divinized artificial intelligenceâto whom every knee shall bend. The sappy bridge is about uploading the mind to achieve digital immortality.
Biology is superficial
Intelligence is artificial
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SubmitThe song may be the most annoying sound anyoneâs made since Billy Idol recorded âNeuromancerâ in 1993. But hearing Grimes pray to AI on YouTubeâwith over 23 million views and countingâit seems like a significant cultural moment. âŚ
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Confessions of a Failed Luddite
ColdType magazine is one of the last dissident Lefty publications. The editor, Tony Sutton, is an unrepentant advocate of socialism. In his view, a government that doesnât take care of its peopleâs health and wellbeing isnât worthy of power.
Despite our differences on politics, Sutton has published my work regularly for some eighteen months now. Why? Because heâs as open-minded as they come. He believes in a diversity of viewpoints. Perhaps more importantly, heâs obsessed with aesthetics.
Latest: âConfessions of a Failed Ludditeâ â in ColdType
PDF – pg. 14-17
The dream world is being digitized.
Good luck waking up.TV was a way of life when I was a kid. Morning, noon, and night, the hypnotic Eye watched over us as we grew into cybernetic rednecks. Out in the East Tennessee foothills, no one knew any better. And if they did, well, they sat glued to the boob tube, anyway.
As I sit here on my laptop, typing out rabid screeds about the perils of technology, the irony is hardly lost on me. Whaddaya do? Perhaps one day clay tablets imprinted with prophecies of a techno cataclysm will be reproduced in primitive sweat shops, then distributed by hand to the chosen few who shall heed the warning. But first Iâll need to order a stylus and a few wads of clay from Amazon.
My first realization that glowing screens hold some hidden evil came as a young boy. Sitting on a recliner, my grandfather pointed to his idiot box and warned âthe TV is the biggest wasteland on earth.â He said that many times. Meanwhile, the nightly news unfolded on the hulking set in front of him. Pap was a quality control manager at a Magnavox TV factory, so if anyone should know, it was him.
Truth is, he was a full-on technoholic. The apple doesnât fall far from the tree.
Throughout my childhood, olâ Pap would always have some contraption or another torn apart down in the basement. A radio. A television. A cassette player. He showed me how to crimp wires and solder transistors onto circuit boards, but like most useful skills, it never really stuck with me. What did stick was the notion that these machines were the product of actual hands, simple enough to be grasped by human minds.
Today, no one person understands every component of advanced computer systems. Yes, certain people know everything about, say, the processing units. Others understand the working memory or storage device. One expert knows certain software codes in and out. Another has mastered the user interface. But as a whole, the sprawling Machine interlaced throughout our society is beyond comprehension.
Weâre ants crawling through digital tunnels, blindly following pheromone trails under the orders of an invisible Queen.
The Singularity comes up a lot these daysâthat fated moment when the Machine will come alive and consume us. One definition of the technological Singularity is the inflection point when AI has surpassed our general intelligence and its output is incomprehensible to any human being. Iâd say that, in a sense, most of us are already there.
As a teenager, I harbored ridiculous ambitions of breaking free of the Machine and setting off on my own into Nature. Weâre all dumbasses when weâre young, but I was a special breed. The impulse was amplified by an encounter with the numinous molecules that form in witch bread. âŚ
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COVID-19 has been debilitatingly boring for newborns, disturbing new research has found.
Scientists have discovered that the coronavirus pandemic significantly impacted the intelligence of children born during it: Living the entirety of their lives in lockdown has seriously stunted their cognitive development.
Researchers analyzed the cognitive performances of 672 children born in Rhode Island, 188 of them born well into the pandemic (after July 2020), 308 born before it (prior to January 2019) and 176 of them born during its beginning stage (between January 2019 and March 2020). They found that children born during the pandemic have pronouncedly lower IQs than those born before it.
âParents are stressed and frazzled. The ability to course-correct becomes smaller the older that child gets.â
Sean Deoni
âItâs not subtle by any stretch,â lead study author and Brown University associate professor of pediatric research Sean Deoni told the Guardian of the trend. âYou donât typically see things like that, outside of major cognitive disorders.â
Authors attribute the pattern to children being cognitively impaired from spending so much time inside with overwhelmed parents during the past year. While many adults have managed to tough it out, so much isolation at a critical juncture in the mental progress of infants has likely caused lasting damage.
Not being exposed to the wider world as much as pre-pandemic children and instead spending their infancy with stressed adults has left them at a significant mental disadvantage than their slightly older peers, according to the not-yet-peer-reviewed findings published Wednesday.
âParents are stressed and frazzled ⌠that interaction the child would normally get has decreased substantially,â said Deoni, adding that the lack of stimulation during the pandemic has created setbacks that will be hard for children to overcome. âThe ability to course-correct becomes smaller the older that child gets.â
Children from less financially secure families were impacted the most, researchers noted.
âPerhaps not surprising that children from lower socioeconomic families have been most affected as this resonates with many of the other financial, employment and health impacts of the pandemic,â University College London child health professor Sir Terence
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