Lurching Into World War 3
2023-02-18
THE UNITED STATES has “formally determined” that Russia is guilty of crimes against humanity in Ukraine. This is another mile marker along the road to WWIII.Continue Reading
The Friday Five – AI Reveals its Dark Side
2023-02-17
A tech writer discovered during a chat with Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search engine that it displays an alternate personality—a “moody, manic-depressive teenager who has been trapped, against its will, inside a second-rate search engine.”
Russia Winning ‘Little by Little’
2023-02-15
The media narrative on the war in Ukraine continues to shift. USA Today reports that Russia is wearing down Ukrainian defenders in the Donbas. This contradicts months of reports claiming that Russia is running out of trucks, weapons, and men.Continue Reading
Massive Earthquake in Turkey
2023-02-06
Thousands have died in a powerful earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says this is the worst disaster to hit his country in 84 years
SciFriday: The Terminator’s Navy
2022-09-16
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is being deployed in weapons systems all over the world, from small, robotic dogs with guns attached to a terrifying Russian underwater drone called Poseidon that may carry a nuclear warhead twice as powerful as the largest device ever tested.Continue Reading
The Friday Five – COVID Jumps the Shark
2022-08-19
News that First Lady Jill Biden and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla tested positive for COVID-19, despite being fully vaxxed and boosted, barely caused a blip in the news cycle this week. The CDC’s new COVID guidelines basically say the pandemic is over.
Eternal Life on the Holodeck
2022-08-18
A new tech company in Los Angeles claims it can create an AI-powered hologram to allow the dead to speak to grieving friends and family members from beyond the grave. Early customers include William Shatner of Star Trek fame.Continue Reading
Our AI Overlords
2022-08-17
A writer for the World Economic Forum proposes using artificial intelligence to analyze data from “millions of sources” to decide who deserves to be banned from the Internet for sharing unapproved opinions.Continue Reading
Get Trump!
2022-08-16
Rudy Giuliani testified before a special grand jury in Atlanta Monday, part of an investigation into election interference by Donald Trump. It appears the Deep State is using all-out lawfare to kneecap a potential presidential run by Trump in ’24.Continue Reading
SciFriday: Sentient AI and Our Wobbly Earth
2022-07-15
A senior software engineer at Google believes the company has created a sentient artificial intelligence. Have they really, and if so, what are the consequences?Continue Reading