Pranksters Vovan and Lexus posing as Zelensky tricked ECB President Christine Lagarde into disclosing her plan to launch a "Digital Euro" in October that will give central banks control over how citizens can spend money:

"There will be control. You’re right. You’re completely right. We are considering whether for very small amounts, you know, anything that is around 300, 400 €, we could have a mechanism where there is zero control. But that could be dangerous...

I don’t want Europe to be dependent on an unfriendly country’s currency, for instance, you know, the Chinese currency, the Russian currency... I don’t want Meta, Google, or Amazon to suddenly come up with a currency that would take over the sovereignty of Europe."

Central bank digital currencies are the latest battleground in the ongoing struggle for individual liberties. Without global awareness, central banks will pull off a massive violation of human rights, and citizens will cheer them on while they do it.

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1644116706544189441

@KanekoaTheGreat

This is the beginning of the end of being reasonably able to trust that food is not adulterated.
This has happened numerous times in the past and was countered by regulations and inspection agencies.
What happens to a society when these agencies are or might have been captured?
Trust is destroyed.
You may want to consider how you would source food in a setting in which you no longer trust the authorities or corporates.
Best wishes,
Mike

https://open.substack.com/pub/petermcculloughmd/p/chinese-load-cows-milk-with-mrna

NPR dismissed a laptop containing evidence of 459 crimes the Biden family and their business associates committed as "not really news" and a "distraction" days before the 2020 presidential election.

NPR continues to turn a blind eye to the Biden family's crimes, financial corruption, and foreign kickbacks because they are a fraudulent news organization that is a propaganda tool for the U.S. political establishment.

NPR is worse than "U.S. state-affiliated media" — it's state-backed propaganda in its purest form.

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1643691402407342080

@KanekoaTheGreat

"As I told you when ChatGPT first started making the news, it’s not actual artificial intelligence. It’s not intelligence of any kind, it’s little more than a complicated marriage of Autotext and Wikipedia. And we’re already seeing the results of feeding the system with false information and intrinsically unreliable sources:"

https://voxday.net/2023/04/07/fake-ai-produces-fake-histories/

"These bots can dazzle when they produce a topical sonnet, explain an advanced physics concept or generate an engaging lesson plan for teaching fifth-graders astronomy."

https://archive.is/Vw61e

Anyone who thinks “[t]hese bots can dazzle when they … explain an advanced physics concept” understands neither advanced physics nor Crichton’s Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

archive.is/MHDvT

What weighs more? Two pounds of lead, or a pound of feathers? The answer will surprise you, if you think ChatGPT has any understanding of physics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson saying that medical consensus is more important than serious scientists having alternative viewpoints:

https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1644107524797345793

Marine Corps Reserve units are recalling personnel who were discharged almost a year ago for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and telling them they’ll be marked UA (unauthorized absence) if they don’t return.

Some of these articles are exhausting to research (like this one), and I don’t make a dime. I just want them to be read so America will know that crap is happening. Please share on your social media. Twitter link is on the bottom.

https://trmlx.com/marine-corps-reserve-recalls-marines-discharged-for-not-receiving-covid-19-vaccine/

https://twitter.com/realtrmlx/status/1643358525639327747?s=46

"Although these authors disagree about many details, they agree that Nixon was removed from office not because he endangered the constitutional order, but because his bureaucratic and political enemies plotted successfully against him. And while scholars shy away from endorsing some of the more dramatic claims that have been made over the years, the best understand Watergate not in terms of the conventional narrative, but as an institutional “conflict” in which Nixon was the most important casualty. Nixon had to go—not because of a bungled break-in, but because he challenged the national security state."

https://archive.is/0eMZ3

1st century steam engine

There lived in Egypt in the 1st century A.D. a scientist, engineer, mechanic, mathematician and simply a genius - Heron of Alexandria. He invented, for a moment: vending machines for holy water, automatic doors for temples, a distance meter, a fire pump, fountains, and... a steam engine.

The device was a cauldron of water, a fire was built under it, the water boiled and the steam gushed out and spun the device. Modern replicas made according to Geron's drawings were spun up to 3,500 rpm. The level of technology and scientific thought was such that official science could only reach the steam engine anew in the 19th century.

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