Notes From The Digital Gulag
As the author of Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom, I guess I should not be surprised to find myself squarely in the digital gulag—banished, perhaps permanently, from Twitter and Facebook. Twitter permanently suspended my account several weeks ago, mere days before Elon Musk took over the helm.
The Age of Drones
While researching my piece, The Truth about Luciferase, I came across a patent that blew my mind and I absolutely had to write about it.
Chinese Students Invent Invisibility Cloak
China has a notorious governmental surveillance apparatus that is renowned to violate its citizens’ privacy and target the regime’s political adversaries. Now, Chinese students have invented an invisibility cloak.
Russia Offers Tax Incentives For Use Of Domestic Technology
Russian President Vladmir Putin stated that domestic companies should not have to pay extra to adopt new technologies just as Russia starts offering tax breaks for doing so.
Texas Sues Google For Unlawfully Collecting Biometric Data Without Consent
Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Google for collecting biometric data. The case was filed in response to a federal appeals court’s upholding of a Texas statute last month, which opens the door for legal action against social media corporations that engage in content moderation.
The Rise Of TikTok And Fall Of Facebook
In an interview with Stratechery on October 12, Mark Zuckerberg talked about the rise of TikTok and the fall of Facebook, calling it a sort of missed opportunity.
Human Cyborgs Are Just The Beginning
Ever since I wrote the substack article on human augmentation and the UK Ministry of Defence and the German Military Complex, discussing that these two organizations advocate for human augmentation in a report entitled “Human Augmentation – The Dawn of a New Paradigm”, I have been wondering if the US government, that is to say the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the Administrative State which controls it, has developed similar plans.
Synthetic Salvation — On Genomics, Mind Uploads, And The Quest For Immortality
Fear of death is intrinsic to human life. As our years accumulate, we watch friends and family drop off, one by one, disappearing from our presence and lingering only in memories.
Google AI Can Tell What Things Smells Like By The Molecular Structure
A Google AI can now tell what things smell like by the molecular structure. Some experts, however, are dubious about the AI’s effectiveness since they argue it does not consider how the human brain processes and interprets scent data.
Bill Gates’ ‘Magic Seeds’ Won’t Solve World Hunger But Will ‘Create Ecological Disaster’
Bill Gates said he believes the global community must invest in engineered crops using what he calls his “magic seeds” to solve world hunger.