“Your Phone Really Is Listening In On Your Conversations”
September 3rd, 2024
Via: Daily Mail:
Millions of people have long suspected it, but now a leak suggests that our phones really are listening to us.
An apparent pitch deck from one of Facebook’s alleged marketing partner appears to detail how the firm eavesdrops on users’ conversations to create targeted ads.
In a slideshow, Cox Media Group (CMG) claims that its ‘Active-Listening’ software uses AI to collect and analyze ‘real-time intent data’ by listening to what you say through your phone, laptop or home assistant microphone.
‘Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers,’ the deck states.
The pitch deck goes on to tout Facebook, Google and Amazon as clients of CMG, suggesting they could be using its Active-Listening service to target users.
When You Ask Alexa About Voting for Trump vs. Harris for President
September 3rd, 2024This is insane.
Can more people replicate this? pic.twitter.com/gz7KH95LVg
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 3, 2024
Alexa is a Commie operative! You won’t believe this. Volume UP! ?? pic.twitter.com/mOQaaWULhK
— John Rich?? (@johnrich) September 3, 2024
Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess?
September 3rd, 2024Via: Brownstone Institute:
Zuckerberg’s censorship – and this pertains to Google, Instagram, Microsoft’s LinkedIn, and Twitter 1.0 – denied the public a choice on the central matter of lockdowns, masking, and shot mandates, the very issues that have fundamentally roiled the whole of civilization and set the path of history on a dark course.
And it is not just the US. These are all global companies, meaning that elections in every other country, all over the globe, were similarly affected. It was a global shutdown of all opposition to radical, egregious, unworkable, and deeply damaging policies.
When you think about it this way, this is not just some minor error in judgment. This was an earth-shattering decision that goes way beyond managerial cowardice. It goes beyond even election manipulation. It is an outright coup that overthrew an entire generation of leaders who stood up for freedom and replaced them with a generation of leaders who acquiesced to power exactly at the time it mattered the most.
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Why did Zuckerberg choose now to make this announcement and publicly reveal the inside play? He was obviously unnerved by the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, as he said.
Then also you have the French arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, an event which surely rattles any major CEO of a communication platform. You have the arrest and incarceration of other dissidents like Steve Bannon and many others.
You also have the litigation over free speech back in play now that RFK, Jr has been cleared as having standing, kicking the case of Missouri v. Biden back to the Supreme Court, which wrongly decided last time to deny standing to other plaintiffs.
Zuckerberg of all people knows the stakes. He understands the implications and the scale of the problem, as well as the depths of the corruption and deception at play in the US, EU, UK, and all over the world. He may figure that everything is going to come out at some point, so he might as well get ahead of the curve.
Berkeley Law School Dean: Constitution ‘Outdated,’ ‘Threatens the United States’
September 2nd, 2024Tell me another one, Professor.
Via: Armageddon Prose:
Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, promoting his very patriotic book “No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States,” recently penned an op-ed and appeared on MSNBC to float the idea that we need to toss out the United States Constitution — arguably the most eloquent and functional if imperfect governing document ever written, which every Western nation has modeled their own on — and replace it with something a little more Democratic™.
Strange Noises on Starliner Spacecraft
September 2nd, 2024Update: “An Audio Configuration Between the Space Station and Starliner”
Via: Daily Mail:
NASA has identified the source of strange, ‘sonar-like’ sounds coming from inside Boeing’s Starliner capsule, and says that the noises have stopped as of now.
In an emailed statement, a NASA press officer told DailyMail.com that the cause was ‘an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner.’
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An audio configuration issue could mean a lot of different things, but a retired NASA scientist told DailyMail.com that NASA is likely referring to a signal feedback loop.
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NEW – Boeing's Starliner began emitting "strange sonar noises" on Saturday — Ars Technicapic.twitter.com/ootKg7XMn9
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) September 1, 2024
Via: Ars Technica:
On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft.
“I’ve got a question about Starliner,” Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. “There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker … I don’t know what’s making it.”
Wilmore said he was not sure if there was some oddity in the connection between the station and the spacecraft causing the noise, or something else. He asked the flight controllers in Houston to see if they could listen to the audio inside the spacecraft. A few minutes later, Mission Control radioed back that they were linked via “hardline” to listen to audio inside Starliner, which has now been docked to the International Space Station for nearly three months.
Wilmore, apparently floating in Starliner, then put his microphone up to the speaker inside Starliner. Shortly thereafter, there was an audible pinging that was quite distinctive. “Alright Butch, that one came through,” Mission control radioed up to Wilmore. “It was kind of like a pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping.”
“I’ll do it one more time, and I’ll let y’all scratch your heads and see if you can figure out what’s going on,” Wilmore replied. The odd, sonar-like audio then repeated itself. “Alright, over to you. Call us if you figure it out.”
The End of Western Pluralist Democracy
September 2nd, 2024“Soon we may be needing all our prison space for political offenders.”
—A Clockwork Orange, 1971
Via: Craig Murray:
No major western leader is ever again going to be able to speak about human rights or ethical values, without attracting howls of derision. They are turning on their own people in order to prevent protest at a genocide they actively support.
Keir Starmer stepped up the pressure on opponents of Zionist genocide on Thursday with the arrest of journalist Sarah Wilkinson and the charging of activist Richard Barnard, both under the draconian Section 12 of the Terrorism Act which carries a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.
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Starmer has always been MI5-controlled. The fact that, while a Tory government was in power, the Crown Prosecution Service destroyed all the key documentation revealing Starmer’s involvement in the Assange, Savile and Janner cases (the last being far more important than generally appreciated), shows the extent to which Starmer is a protected Deep State asset.
The New Zealand COVID Vaccine Data Shows That The Shots Make You More Likely To Die
September 2nd, 2024Via: Steve Kirsch:
Getting a COVID shot dramatically increases your risk of death. This happens for each and every shot. I’ve calculated the p-value in one of these instances to show it a certainty that the COVID vaccines are unsafe.
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Here we limited our analysis to ages 60 and older where we had sufficient data to make a clear assessment. But this was the very age group that was targeted by the vaccine. What we showed is that the COVID vaccines have killed thousands of people in New Zealand which translates to over 10M people worldwide..
If New Zealand were to release all the records instead of just 1/3 of the records, we could do an assessment for even younger ages.
Unfortunately, this seems unlikely as it would expose the fact that the health authorities were advising parents to kill their kids. This is why they will fight to keep the full dataset secret and keep the public in the dark.
Chicago: City-Owned Grocery Stores
August 31st, 2024In related news: From Price Controls to Mass Starvation:
As cities clear of food, you’d need police patrolling parking lots and armed escorts on delivery trucks — perhaps you could even have government-run groceries like Chicago just announced.
Via: Chicago Tribune:
Nearly a year after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration floated the possibility of opening a municipally owned grocery store to help improve food access on the South and West sides, a feasibility study created for the city describes a municipal grocery model as “necessary, feasible, and implementable.”
The study recommends the city pursue some version of a municipally owned store or stores — and finds such stores could even turn a profit. It also suggests the city not attempt to operate a supermarket itself, but rather partner with a for-profit operator, a non-profit operator or a co-op.
Private grocers have shuttered a number of supermarkets on the South and West sides in recent years, leaving many residents with significantly diminished access to fresh groceries.
In an interview with the Tribune, city policy chief S. Mayumi “Umi” Grigsby said internal and external working groups will now work on finalizing a proposal for a store or stores. The city would then be ready to apply for funding for such a project, including from a new $20 million state grocery initiative.
Police Using Video from Tesla Vehicle Cameras in Investigations
August 31st, 2024Via: San Francisco Chronicle:
In Oakland and beyond, police called to crime scenes are increasingly looking for more than shell casings and fingerprints. They’re scanning for Teslas parked nearby, hoping their unique outward-facing cameras captured key evidence. And, the Chronicle has found, they’re even resorting to obtaining warrants to tow the cars to ensure they don’t lose the video.
The trend offers a window into how mass surveillance — the expansion of cameras as well as license-plate scanners, security doorbells and precise cellphone tracking — is changing crime-fighting. While few cars have camera systems similar to Teslas, that could change rapidly, especially as the technology in vehicles continues to improve.
X Banned in Brazil
August 30th, 2024Via: The Verge:
A judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of X after owner Elon Musk failed to designate a new legal representative for the country, according to reports from Bloomberg and local news outlet Poder360.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes told the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to limit access to X within 24 hours and has given Apple and Google five days to remove X from their mobile app stores. The country will also impose daily fines of $50,000 Brazilian real (~$8,900 USD) to people who try to access X through a virtual private network (VPN), as reported by Poder360.
More: Freedom Is On A Knife’s Edge Worldwide, As Brazil’s Ban Of X Shows
