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9 Leading Experts: RF Radiation Can Lead to Brain Damage, Alzheimer’s – Children’s Health Defense 3/9/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Research on 5G radiofrequency (RF) radiation shows it can cause brain damage and possibly lead to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, according to nine independent experts in the RF radiation field.

In a peer-reviewed article published last week in the Annals of Clinical and Medical Case Reports, the experts called on authorities to heed the voices of the RF scientific community by establishing a “more stringent regulatory framework” on RF radiation and by halting the rollout of 5G technologies — including smart meters and 5G cell towers — until a team of “qualified scientists independent of industry” review the risks of the technology.

“The situation is absurd,” said Mona Nilsson, managing director of the Swedish Radiation Protection Foundation and lead author of the article.

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Utah Introduces Digital Driver’s Licenses, Following Plans to Introduce Online Platform Age Checks – ReclaimTheNet 3/8/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The Utah Department of Public Safety’s Driver License Division (DLD) has introduced an app that allows residents to download signed digital versions of their driver’s licenses. The app can be used as a and has been launched following the introduction of a bill that would require internet users to show digital ID as proof of age to access online platforms.

After downloading, the mobile driver’s license (mDL) can be used by scanning or tapping, meaning users do not have to hand over their phones.

The mDL can be used at airport security and some grocery stores and banks….

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State Entities Flagged “Anti-Ukraine Narratives” to Twitter for Censorship – Reclaim The Net 3/9/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

New information published by journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger ahead of their testimony to the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government today has revealed that government entities flagged “anti- narratives” to for censorship. Additionally, it revealed that a project which has partnered with several state entities and urged tech platforms to take action against “stories of true vaccine side effects” was onboarded to Twitter’s Jira ticketing system.

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Exposed: America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex – Michael Shellenberger 3/9/23

Source: public.substack.com

Friends —

Over the last three months, a small group of independent journalists, including Leighton and I, have, thanks to the Twitter Files, exposed the ways in which social media platforms have, under pressure from U.S. government agencies, censored ordinary Americans and spread disinformation.

Today, at 10 am ET, journalist Matt Taibbi and I will testify before Congress and reveal the existence of a secret censorship-industrial complex in the United States.

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CHD, California Groups Sue Los Angeles County to Stop Fast-Track Proliferation of Wireless Towers – Children’s Health Defense 3/8/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) and a coalition of community and environmental groups advocating for safe technology on Monday sued Los Angeles County to overturn amendments adopted by the county in January that allow for the fast-tracked proliferation of wireless infrastructure without due process and without residents’ right to appeal.

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Ford Wins Patent for Technology to Remotely Disable Vehicles – ReclaimTheNet 3/9/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Automaker Ford filed a patent application for technology that would allow semi and fully autonomous vehicles to repossess themselves if the owner misses loan or lease payments.

The patent is titled “Systems and Methods to Repossess a Vehicle.” It states that future Ford vehicles would be able to disable “a functionality of one or more components of the vehicle.”

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5G Towers Appearing Around Houston Area has Residents Asking Questions – ABC13 2/13/23

Source: ABC13.com

Imagine a 40-foot-tall pole popping up outside your home!

It’s happening in the Memorial Chase neighborhood in Spring. Neighbors say they don’t know what they are, but they want them gone.

“You wake up one morning, and you have a truck driver that wants to deliver a 40-foot pole in your front yard, and it’s like, ‘that’s interesting,'” Don Cochran said with a raised eyebrow.

He’s talking about a cell tower explicitly built to provide 5G capability.

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AI-Generated Arguments Changed Minds on Controversial Hot-Button Issues, According to Study – PhysOrg 3/2/23

Source: Phys.org

Suddenly, the world is abuzz with chatter about chatbots. Artificially intelligent agents, like ChatGPT, have shown themselves to be remarkably adept at conversing in a very human-like fashion. Implications stretch from the classroom to Capitol Hill. ChatGPT, for instance, recently passed written exams at top business and law schools, among other feats both awe-inspiring and alarming.

Researchers at Stanford University’s Polarization and Social Change Lab and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) wanted to probe the boundaries of AI’s political persuasiveness by testing its ability to sway real humans on some of the hottest social issues of the day—an assault weapon ban, the carbon tax, and paid parental leave, among others.

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Privacy Activists Lament After Biometrics are Used at Nigerian Polls – ReclaimTheNet 3/2/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Digital rights activists have raised concerns over the security of the biometric data collected during the recent general election in Nigeria where millions of Nigerians registered and voted.

Biometric data was submitted for voter registration and was also required to verify voters at polling stations using the Biometric Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) gadgets.

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US to Require Companies Winning Chipmaking Subsidies to Share Excess Profits – Reuters 2/28/23

Source: LBCGroup.tv

The Biden administration on Tuesday said it will require companies winning funds from its $52 billion US semiconductor manufacturing and research program to share excess profits and explain how they plan to provide affordable childcare.

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Banning TikTok – Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan 2/23/23

Source: schneier.com

The ban would hurt Americans—and there are better ways to protect their data.

Congress is currently debating bills that would ban TikTok in the United States. We are here as technologists to tell you that this is a terrible idea and the side effects would be intolerable. Details matter. There are several ways Congress might ban TikTok, each with different efficacies and side effects. In the end, all the effective ones would destroy the free internet as we know it.

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5G Towers Can Make Healthy People Sick, Two Case Reports Show – Children’s Health Defense 2/23/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

A new case report shows that two previously healthy men rapidly developed typical “microwave syndrome” symptoms shortly after a 5G cell tower was installed on the roof of their office.

According to the report, published Feb. 4 in the Annals of Clinical Case Reports, the men experienced headaches, joint pain, tinnitus, abnormal fatigue, sleep disturbances, burning skin, anxiety and trouble concentrating.

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Spotify Launches ‘DJ,’ a New Feature Offering Personalized Music with AI-Powered Commentary – TechCrunch 2/22/23

Source: TechCrunch.com

Ahead of Spotify’s upcoming Stream On event, where the company is expected to announce a redesigned home feed and other updates, the company today launched a new AI feature called “DJ” to better personalize the music listening experience for its users. Similar to a radio DJ, Spotify’s DJ feature will deliver a curated selection of music alongside AI-powered spoken commentary about the tracks and artists you like, using what Spotify says is a “stunningly realistic voice.”

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Kraken the Whip: The Feds’ Latest Assault on Crypto Freedom – HumanEvents 2/21/23

Source: HumanEvents.com

As if we needed another reminder of why blockchain technology is such a critical innovation in the face of authoritarian government overreach, the SEC’s recent $30 million settlement with cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is a perfect example, capturing the attention of crypto enthusiasts around the world.

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East Palestine Launched A Digital ID Program Days Before Disaster – ZeroHedge 2/20/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

As Klaus Schwab recently opined, the future of global hegemony will be dependent on the mastery of avant garde technologies which were once relegated to the realm of science fiction. With that power in mind, technologies advancing artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and other pillars of the World Economic Forum’s so-called fourth industrial revolution have begun to permeate into our everyday lives. Perhaps no greater example of the imperative of the technocratic elite to harness these technologies is the digital ID. The premise of an over arching digital identity as a mechanism for vast government surveillance was one of the cornerstones of the authoritarian response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Apparently, that crisis wasn’t the only instance of an opportunity to beta test the tools of dystopian oppression.

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Why a Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled – Kevin Roose 2/16/23

Source: NYTimes.com

A very strange conversation with the chatbot built into Microsoft’s search engine led to it declaring its love for me.

Last week, after testing the new, A.I.-powered Bing search engine from Microsoft, I wrote that, much to my shock, it had replaced Google as my favorite search engine.

But a week later, I’ve changed my mind. I’m still fascinated and impressed by the new Bing, and the artificial intelligence technology (created by OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT) that powers it. But I’m also deeply unsettled, even frightened, by this A.I.’s emergent abilities.

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New YouTube CEO Neal Mohan Supports Censorship of “Misinformation,” Boosting “Authoritative” Sources – TomParker 2/17/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Yesterday, former CEO announced that she would be stepping down and that YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan would be the new CEO.

During Wojcicki’s tenure, which ran from February 5, 2014 till February 16, 2023, YouTube made many unpopular decisions such as introducing far-reaching “hate speech” and “harassment” rules, restricting creators that produce content that’s “made for kids”, and hiding public dislikes. Wojcicki also made many public statements in support of censoring creators based on broad and subjective terms such as “misinformation.”

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The Sudden Global Push for Age Verification to End Online Anonymity and Drive Digital ID Uptake – DidiRankovic 2/17/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Anonymity online, long considered by civil rights groups as a fundamental feature of the internet, is coming under fire from different directions, and through a range of methods: from criticism by political elites, to actual legislation.

One kind of new law that can undermine or do away with online anonymity are those mandating age verification before users are allowed on a website. Another effect these rules have is increasing the uptake of digital IDs.

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A Way to Govern Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence without Hindering Advancement – TechExplore 2/17/23

Source: TechExplore.com

Texas A&M University School of Public Health researchers are developing a new governance model for ethical guidance and enforcement in the rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence (AI). Known as Copyleft AI with Trusted Enforcement, or CAITE, the researchers believe this model will guard against the potential harms of AI without hindering technological advancements.

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We don’t Need to Reinvent our Democracy to Save it from AI – BruceSchneier, NathanSanders 2/9/23

Source: BelferCenter.org

When is it time to start worrying about artificial intelligence interfering in our democracy? Maybe when an AI writes a letter to The New York Times opposing the regulation of its own technology.

That happened last month. And because the letter was responding to an essay we wrote, we’re starting to get worried. And while the technology can be regulated, the real solution lies in recognizing that the problem is human actors—and those we can do something about.

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ChatGPT Able to Pass Theory of Mind Test at 9-Year-Old Human Level – TechExplore 2/17/23

Source: TechExplore.com

Michal Kosinski, computational psychologist at Stanford University, has been testing several iterations of the ChatGPT AI chatbot developed by Open AI on its ability to pass the famous Theory of Mind Test. In his paper posted on the arXiv preprint server, Kosinski reports that testing the latest version of ChatGPT found that it passed at the level of the average 9-year-old child….

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Amazon Begs Employees Not to Leak Corporate Secrets to ChatGPT – Futurism 1/25/23

Source: Futurism.com

It might already be too late.

After catching snippets of text generated by OpenAI’s powerful ChatGPT tool that looked a lot like company secrets, Amazon is now trying to head its employees off from leaking anything else to the algorithm.

According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that “closely” resembled internal company data.

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