From the Department of Unintended Consequences...

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/seattle-mandates-499-fee-uber-eats-help-drivers-deliveries-crash-45

HOLODOMOR REMEMBRANCE DAY is November 23rd https://odysee.com/@ChapterBlack:3/Harvest-Of-Despair:1

Looks like the algos can't discriminate what kind of election denier you are.

EVERY Chinese citizen will be assigned a QR code, called citizen code

Imagine your daily routine being entirely dependent on a smart phone app. Leaving your home, going to work— each move, dictated by this code.

Facial recognition and a QR code required for entering this toilet.

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The Desperation of Backerkit

So, I received an email from Backerkit this morning, which tends to indicate the would-be crowdfunding platform is flailing and failing: Hi, Less than 3 days to go for HYPERGAMOUSE Volume 1! There’s still time to see a detailed breakdown of your pledges and reach out to your fans. Import your project to BackerKit Launch […]

https://voxday.net/2024/11/23/the-desperation-of-backerkit/

🇬🇧 Prominent conservative Telegraph writer comes out in favour of mass deportation.

https://x.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1857009464978673811

BREAKING: 🇫🇷 France declares that Ukraine can use French SCALP missiles against Russia.

@MegaGeopolitics

Watch: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya called out Los Angeles health officials who are trying to push another mask mandate, saying they have this illusion of control.

"I just can't fathom that a public health professional looking at the data on mask mandates in the past, completely making no dent on case rates, then concluding that we need another mask mandate. I mean, the case rates are coming down in L.A. County without a mask mandate. What does she think causes case rates to go up and down? They have this illusion of control over the spread of the virus that they cannot let go."

Read more: https://www.foxnews.com/media/medical-expert-slams-la-county-health-director-mask-mandate-push

The top image shows the final results of the recent U.S. presidential election, won by Trump with a score of 312 to 226. Remarkably, no human could predict this outcome—not experts, super-forecasters, exit polls, prediction markets, nor even psychics. But the AI model ChatGPT-4o did, as shown in the bottom image, where it accurately forecasted a 309 to 229 outcome back in September at Wuhan University (yes, once again China and once again Wuhan).

The precision of this prediction is rooted in an extraordinary foundation. Instead of relying on real human opinions, the AI analyzed simulated “social replicas.” Two years ago, a breakthrough technology emerged, enabling the creation of algorithmic replicas of any social group. Astonishingly, these algorithms proved indistinguishable from real people in surveys. This discovery, sitting at the intersection of natural language processing, cognitive science, and sociology, offers enormous potential for social hacking.

In 2023, this technology evolved to create algorithmic replicas of citizens from any nation. While still far from achieving AGI, these systems now simulate the collective unconscious of entire societies. From this, I formulated two key hypotheses:

✔️ A paradigm shift transforming psychohistory into a practical science—one akin to Asimov’s fictional discipline that mathematically examines societal processes to accurately forecast the future.

✔️ A cultural phase shift ushering in a new era: algocognitive culture.

Now, just three months later—at a pace unimaginable before the age of technological singularity—researchers in Wuhan have provided experimental support that these hypotheses are not mere futurist speculation; they may indeed reflect reality.

In other words, it’s likely that our world has already undergone a profound transformation. The roles of humans and algorithms in science, culture, individual lives, and the “algorithmically enriched societies” of today will never be the same. What’s next? Let’s find out!

#AIRevolution #CognitiveScience #FutureSociety
#science

Magnetic North Pole is rapidly moving towards Russia

From 1600 to 1990, it is estimated to have moved about 10-15km a year. In the early 2000s, it sped up to around 55km a year.

Santa has left Canada and is heading straight to Siberia. His new passport says "Ded Moroz".

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇳🇱 NEW: U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) implicitly threatens the Netherlands with invasion, suggesting that the U.S. could invoke the 'Hague Invasion Act' to protect Israeli officials from an International Criminal Court arrest warrant.

@Middle_East_Spectator

⚠️ Blackrock targets British farms in 7 steps🇬🇧


Yesterday UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the British economy could only grow with the help of massive private equity firms like BlackRock, who have a reputation for being aggressive, monopolistic and extortionate. This is how BlackRock could do considerable damage to British family farming in 7 easy steps:

1. They will start buying up small plots of agricultural land at double the normal price. They will issue a directive to all of their energy companies simultaneously to aggressively acquire plots for carbon capture. These third parties will start bidding against each other and force the value of agricultural land up. 

2. Initially farmers won't believe their luck - “These city folks are mad! If they want to buy an acre for £50K, who am I to say no to these fools,” is what you'll hear down the pub. 

3. These crazy prices will set record high comparisons for agricultural land. When a farmer dies, their farm will be valued using these new metrics and the next generation will discover the farm they thought was worth £3M is worth £9M and they don't have anything close to the money needed to cover the tax. 

4. In swoops a BlackRock subsidiary with a "Agri Debt Finance Tax Relief" product to lend them 20% the "value" of their farm so they can pay the taxes. 

5. The debt will come with conditions (a covenant) that the farm has to adopt and maintain certain practices. It has to use certain BlackRock owned fertilisers, software, machinery and labour solutions that get the farm ready to interface with a larger conglomerate. 

6. When a farm cannot make its debt payments, it is sold at auction. BlackRock subsidiaries are instructed NOT to buy these farms at auction. They have a special arrangement to buy the unsold farms at a rate that covers the unpaid debt plus outstanding fees and taxes to government... basically what the farm was originally worth. 

7. A BlackRock subsidiary then takes over the farm, consolidates it with a massive group of farms that uses illegal immigrant labour to staff the farms (which will be another government program they institute to deal with the immigration crisis). The government will subsidise the labour costs as part of this plan making the farms wildly profitable and making small family farms unable to compete. 

To anyone unfamiliar with the mind of a Private Equity General Partner, this will seem totally far fetched. To anyone who's had even the smallest dealings with the private equity world, you will recognise this as a standard playbook for extracting value at a large scale. Mark my words, save this post and watch it all play out.

Daniel Priestly
LinkedIn

Complete Detachment From Reality

A French regulator has ruled that since unborn children are not “living beings” it is forbidden to state that abortion can be a cause of death on the airwaves. Even though abortion is observably the world’s leading cause of death among homo sapiens sapiens. The French media regulator has fined the conservative channel CNews €100,000 […]

https://voxday.net/2024/11/24/complete-detachment-from-reality/

British General says Army 'ready to fight' Russia as WW3 fears skyrocket
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1979612/ukraine-war-britain-ready-to-fight-russia-ww3-tensions

The British Army would "fight tonight" should a new war in Europe erupt, a senior military officer said.

"I don't think anybody in this room should be under any illusion that if the Russians invaded Eastern Europe tonight, then we would meet them in that fight."

"We're not at war, but Ukraine certainly is, because Ukraine has been invaded by Russia, and that war has now been going on for just over 1,000 days.

"That's 1,000 days of aggression from Russia and 1,000 days of sacrifice for Ukraine, and that is why we've said consistently that we stand by Ukraine. We cannot allow Putin to win this war."