Apple Intelligence
June 10th, 2024“Your requests and information will not be logged.”
Mmm hmm.
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 11, 2024
Via: The Verge:
Apple announced “Apple Intelligence” at WWDC 2024, its name for a new suite of AI features for the iPhone, Mac, and more. Starting later this year, Apple is rolling out what it says is a more conversational Siri, custom, AI-generated “Genmoji,” and GPT-4o access that lets Siri turn to OpenAI’s chatbot when it can’t handle what you ask it for.
The company that once refused to use the term “artificial intelligence” when talking about its machine learning features is now, as best as we can tell, catching up with just about all of the table-stakes features that Google, Microsoft, and others have rolled out in the last year. Of course, this being WWDC, none of what Apple announced today is out now, but coming in the fall instead.
Ukraine Claims First-Ever Fighter Jet Strike On Russian Territory
June 10th, 2024I always thought that nuclear war would occur with almost no warning. I never would have guessed we would slowly stumble toward it, escalation after escalation.
But here we go…
For the positive thinkers out there, maybe it stays conventional, like in Red Storm Rising. Here’s to hoping!
Via: ZeroHedge:
Ukraine is touting that it has launched a successful airstrike by fighter jet inside Russian territory, Sky News is reporting, which is a significant first of the conflict. An unidentified Ukrainian military source described to the UK outlet that an air-launched missile strike was conducted inside Russia’s Belgorod region Sunday, hitting a “Russian command node”.
Sky News raised the likelihood that a Western-supplied missile was used in the attack, highlighting that it comes soon after Western allies including the US greenlighted Kiev’s use of NATO-supplied munitions to attack inside Russia.
“It was not immediately clear what type of munition was used in the attack, including whether or not it had been a Western weapon,” the report said.
The Ukrainian military source told Sky: “A Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) mission has struck a Russian command node in Belgorod.”
Related: Russia Ready to Strike NATO Airfields Hosting Ukrainian Jets
Full Tucker Carlson Interview with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY)
June 10th, 2024Rep. Thomas Massie doesn’t care what you think of him, which is pretty great.
(3:19) Where Does US Debt End?
(10:32) Why Massie Voted 15 Times Against Funding Israel
(14:53) AIPAC
(34:04) Mitch McConnell
(42:25) Area 51
(50:32) Massie's Relationship with Trump
(57:09) Kill… pic.twitter.com/VBOiWjq056— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 7, 2024
Ultrasonic Investigations in Shopping Centres
June 9th, 2024For the handful of people who can hear it…
Via: Absorptions:
I can’t remember how I first came across these near-ultrasonic ‘beacons’ ubiquitous in PA systems. I might have been scrolling through the audio spectrum while waiting for the underground train; or it might have been the screeching ‘tinnitus-like’ sensation I would often get near the loudspeakers at a local shopping centre.
Whatever the case, I learned that they are called pilot tones. Many multi-loudspeaker PA systems (like the Zenitel VPA and Axys End of Line detection unit) employ these roughly 20-kilohertz tones to continuously measure the system’s health status: no pilot tone means no connection to a loudspeaker. It’s usually set to a very high frequency, inaudible to humans, to avoid disturbing customers.
However, these tones are powerful and some people will still hear them, especially if the frequency gets below 20 kHz. There is one such system at 19.595 kHz in my city; it’s marked green in the graph above. I’ve heard of several other people that also hear the sound. I don’t believe it to be a sonic weapon like The Mosquito; those use even lower frequencies, down to 17 kHz.
Atlanta Prosecutor Jailed for Stealing $15m of Covid Funds
June 9th, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
The former assistant city attorney of Atlanta, who was also a life advice podcaster, has been jailed for seven years after fraudulently obtaining approximately $15 million in COVID relief loans.
Shelitha Robertson, 62, used the illegally gained funds to splash out on luxuries such as a 10 carat diamond ring, a Rolls Royce and a motorbike.
The former police officer had obtained the money under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a federal stimulus program that was set up during the pandemic.
But only weeks before she was imprisoned, Robertson was still gleefully appearing on her daughter’s ‘Mommy & Me’ podcast in which the pair would give their advice on dealing with the world – including advising listeners on how to earn money though hard work and ‘integrity’.
Related: Donated to Trump Prosecutor Fani Willis’s Campaign After Applying for the Government Handouts
“The Haunting Connection Between UFOs and America’s Nuclear Weapons”
June 9th, 2024Via: Daily Mail:
UFO reports over America’s nuclear arsenal appeared to shift from sites where the bombs were made to missile silos and US air bases as the Cold War arms race grew.
That’s one of the key findings from the new work, a series of three studies led by a retired US Air Force staff sergeant, Larry Hancock, and a data analyst affiliate with Harvard’s UFO-hunting Galileo Project, Ian Porritt, along with their research team.
The group focused their analysis on official military and police reports of UFOs from 1945 to 1975, avoiding poorly supported accounts and ambiguous newspaper stories, to focus on cases with multiple witnesses and signals evidence, like radar.
Their study, which only covered US cases, also used reports of UFOs spotted above non-nuclear army bases and nearby civilian centers to act as control groups to test against their findings of any UFO trends at America’s sensitive nuclear installations.
Their qualified, but haunting conclusion: Data from this three decade-long period lends credence to the idea that extraterrestrials, or some other intelligence, has methodically surveilled America’s rise to a nuclear power.
‘This intelligence understands the developmental cycle. They have some contextual knowledge of what they’re looking at and what they’re looking for,’ Hancock told DailyMail.com, given these shifts in reported UFO sightings over time.
Paper: UAP Activity Pattern Study 1945-1975 Military and Public Activities
Off the Grid with Thomas Massie
June 9th, 2024Via: Free the People:
Research Credit: NH
Pfizer and Moderna Covid Vaccines, “Excessive Synthetic DNA Contamination”
June 8th, 2024Via: Jules On The Beach:
A part of the GMO proceedings is the allegation the Pfizer and Moderna products contain excessive synthetic DNA contamination, which contamination forms another much more insidious form of GMO.
After many Australian labs refused to conduct testing, we organised for Australian vials to be tested in Canada, by David Speicher PhD, the first author on the paper confirming excessive DNA contamination of Canadian vials (509 x above limits).
Dr Speicher has provided an initial report to us which is attachment 6 for your consideration. Dr Speicher has confirmed excessive synthetic DNA contamination in Pfizer was over 350 times above per dose limits set by the TGA (34,900% above), and over 200 times above per dose limits for Moderna (19,900% above).
Congressman Thomas Massie On “AIPAC Babysitters”
June 8th, 2024Congressman Thomas Massie reveals to Tucker Carlson that his Republican colleagues have an “AIPAC babysitter” to ensure they vote in the interests of Israel at all times.
“It’s the only country that does this,” Massie adds.
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/zNOA35t32u
— AF Post (@AFpost) June 7, 2024
Adobe: “We May Access Your Content Through Both Automated and Manual Methods, Such as for Content Review”
June 7th, 2024Madness.
Via: Venture Beat:
In particular, users have objected to Adobe’s claims that it “may access, view, or listen to your Content through both automated and manual methods…using techniques such as machine learning in order to improve our Services and Software and the user experience,” which many took to be a tacit admission both of surveilling them and of training AI on their content, even confidential content for clients protected under non-disclosure agreements or confidentiality clauses/contracts between said Adobe users and clients.
