As remarkable as the phenomenon of the "AI" marketing blitz is, it has brought some interesting quandaries to light.

From Vox: This AI says it has feelings. It’s wrong. Right?

In the source article, a new "AI" "product" is introduced to market (as a service of course.)  But this new "AI" boasts metric performances which seem to outshine its rivals.  For example:
 

I'm rickymouse, some of you may know who I am.  Someone referred me to this site and I see familiar names.

No candidate has ever verbalized this well-known "conspiracy theory" mantra. It's definitely been my thoughts since Ukraine.

Secondly, Trump will just likely bring chaos and riots, as the Democrats, MSM,Hollyweird freak out again REALITY

Kennedy's more competent, intelligent and thoughtful than both, and we need to end the 2 Party monopoly on real democracy in America. 

Not to mention in some way perhaps takes us back and addresses the shift in of our 1960's timeline. Right or wrong collectively we were robbed of JFK's likely 8-year term as well as RFK's term(s) all because of a few individuals.

Not suggesting we can go back to the 60s peace love dope, but maybe a real RFKjr push we could find out how much you know who controls still controls. 





https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/177...41969?s=20
 

Quote:The CIA works for military contractors, providing a steady pipeline of forever wars. The health agencies are controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, which profits from chronic disease. The Fed, held captive by big banks, floods the canyons of Wall Street with money. The agencies that are supposed to be stewards of American security, prosperity, and health are no longer working on behalf of you and me. They’ve become sock puppets for the industries they are supposed to regulate. Corporate capture is the biggest threat to American democracy.

Hi all and thanks DTOM for referencing this forum recently for easy finding.

You'll see me post/comment mainly in UFO or general consipacy threads.  I don't do politics and don't like mixing it up with other members.  I respect everyone's opinion no matter how wrong they are :-)

I live in Texas, I'm mid-century aged and work in IT (programming)

Studies using GPT-3 as a tool, have led researchers to surmise that propaganda produced by AI is at least as effective as human-made propaganda, and might even be better, all things considered.  Because natural language synthesis is so effective at lining up information to support a case, it can at times, create a better framework and presentation of the propaganda and by removing the human factor - can even save money and time.

The article that I will source here is: AI-Generated Propaganda Is Just as Persuasive as the Real Thing, Worrying Study Finds from Vice.com
It is subtitled: Propaganda from popular AI tools “could blend into online information environments on par with…existing foreign covert propaganda campaigns."

The author notes...

Researchers have found that AI-generated propaganda is just as effective as propaganda written by humans, and with a bit of tweaking can be even more persuasive.
 

• Most US drone strikes in the Middle East have targeted civilians, rather than terrorists
  
• US sanctions against Iran and Russia have helped the US control businesses and governments in Europe
  
• To justify its attack on an air base in Syria, the United States created fake reports saying that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons
  
• Western sanctions have led to a shortage of medical supplies in Syria
  
• The United States conducted attacks in Syria to gain control of an oil-rich region
  
• Saudi Arabia committed to help fund the US–Mexico border wall
  

I found some old research I had meant to turn onto a thread... I never did... but it still seems what I have might be interesting to some people.

From Ancient Origins.net:  Lifting the Lid on Antarctica: Ancient Landscape Revealed Beneath Antarctica
which cites a paper: An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

This article discusses how building upon earlier data and supplemented with their own, they have manage to reveal a topological map of the Antarctic.  They speculate about the many river valleys they appear to have found. 

While I found the text good... the pictures captured my imagination...

Just another refugee from ATS. I assume at this point ATS will soon come to an end.


For those that don't know me...I am a retired federal worker, having worked for DoD and the FBI. That's about it..I guess I am boring after all!!

Jack Sue was a great Australian and also a war hero, well there are a couple of documentaries and re-creations that use the word Hero in the title.

Quote:..Wong Sue served as a member of the commando/special reconnaissance section, Z Special Unit,[sup][4][/sup] during the Second World War 

Quote:His published works include two books published circa 2001: a memoir of his military service, Blood on Borneo, and a collection of anecdotes regarding a 1963 shipwreck, Ghost of the Alkimos.

Ex President Barak Obama seen entering 10 Downing Street in London today

Saw this on Reddit and thought Id share...

Agree with the original poster I can't recall this happening before, would think at most they would want to do this on the down low or do they want the attention? 

Certainly, more than Barak and Rishi go to White Castle or Nando's or where every 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/obama-arrives-...30266.html  

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comm...&context=3

Quote:What’s this about then, my US friends? Seems to be an unannounced visit to the Prime Ministers office and official residence, and the press were surprised. Why and why now? Obama is popular here but if he wanted to meet with any high up politicians in the UK, he could have easily done so in private without running the gauntlet of press cameras on Downing Street.
He is obviously not a sitting President so seems like a strange crossover of official/unofficial meeting and appearance. I don’t know of any former US President who has done this after leaving office and he is not meant to be the biggest fan of the UK. Just reminiscing about the bbq he held in the garden that time with ‘call me Dave’? Trying to get the latest Kate gossip?

Hello. I'm new here. I've been reading on another forum for well over a decade, but I admit that I don't really believe in any conspiracy theories or anything, but I do enjoy reading about them in the same way I enjoy reading fiction. I like to think, how cool would it be if the world was like this?

I will award bonus points to anyone who can convince me that the earth is flat, we never went to the moon, or 9/11 was an inside job. Unfortunately the points I'm awarding are as made up as the lizard people.

Link

If this is aliens, they’re just getting cheeky now. This base is tasked with stopping aircraft… ? ? ?

Quote:Air Force's job to protect American airspace, not the Navy's. Having a base tasked with that mission, and its airspace getting penetrated for weeks on end is clearly not the best look, especially after major lapses in domain awareness and air defense capabilities were recently spotlighted by the Chinese Spy Balloon saga.

Quote:The installation first observed UAS [uncrewed aerial systems] activities the evening of December 6 [2023] and experienced multiple incursions throughout the month of December. The number of UASs fluctuated and they ranged in size/configuration," a spokesperson for Langley Air Force Base told The War Zone

Quote:The situation prompted a serious response and caused significant reverberations throughout the U.S. military.

Quote:NASA's trio of WB-57Fs are specialized research aircraft that can be configured to carry a wide array of imaging and other sensors and equipment in their noses and other modular payload bays. In cooperation with NASA, the U.S. military has made use of these aircraft on various occasions

Quote:It is important to note that this is not the first time that Langley and other U.S. military bases across the country, including outlying U.S. territories, as well as critical civilian infrastructure, have been subjected to mysterious drone overflights. U.S. warships have also been swarmed off the coasts of the United States. U.S. military aircraft are also routinely encountering drones in various test and training ranges and other restricted military operating areas. America's nuclear power plants have had very troubling encounters with drone swarms. Yet the frequency and nature of the incursions in Virginia sound eerily similar to the bizarre claims of unidentified drone swarms roving over the plains of Colorado in the Winter of 2019-2020. The government response to those incidents was something of a meek sideshow compared to what clearly occurred regarding the Langley incidents — a sign of just how much more serious these incidents are being taken.

Quote:All this is in addition to the strange encounters between U.S. Navy fighter aircraft and unidentified craft that have occurred persistently for years just off the coast of where Langley is located. Based on investigative reporting by The War Zone, some of these were directly identified as drones in pilot hazard reports obtained via FOIA.

Quote:Did you miss the bit about the F-16s? They ghosted over our house one night during this at just over stall speed, so low that we could see the load out.

From Fox: Massive comet with outbursts of brightness makes its approach toward Sun

I recently found an article in Fox regarding Trumps intentions on the "issue" of abortion.  Needless to say, like all 'sanctioned' media, it is rife with holes and gaps.  But I read these things with that in mind.  I understand that whenever entertainment of the "news" flavor surfaces, it will be in some way biased.  It is the hazard of journalism.  To say it wasn't a 'choice' about how to report and what to say would be as incorrect as it would be correct.

Balanced reporting is about facts, which can be eminently boring to the reporter.  They frequently offset this boredom by including opinions (attributed or otherwise) and craft the story with those opinion driving the narrative.  In modern times, say after the emergence of mass media empires, journalists were encouraged to "engender activism," it would appear it was considered "good business."  The world, suddenly driven to mass consumption of "information," became the petri dish for many bad experiments.  But that's another story.

This article... (Trump promotes abortion compromise as Democrats push issue in 2024 race) Details a few things, namely that Mr. Trump is "announcing" his intention to pursue a "compromise" regarding the existing furor over government mandates regarding abortion limitations.  Apparently, the Democrat party is stridently seeking "changes" that reduces (eliminates?) the government's power to limit a citizen's access to medically-provided abortion services.

Now enter the noise, let's dispel the demons.  I'm not going to talk about whether there is an undue ideological motivation behind one side of the argument, I'm not going to characterize the activism of either camp.  I'm not going to belabor economic exploitation of the topic.  I refuse to name-call and participate in what many seem only too thrilled to do... namely, turn the issue into a social media joke compartmentalized into 'camps.'  But I just want to point out that unless we engage personally, directly, the camps' chatter is pretty much all we get to hear anymore...

Political comprise has a few eternal characteristics... One - Neither side fully "wins." Two - Both sides are free to bitch about it, while keeping the contention alive.  Think of it as a political arms treaty.  Neither party can claim a win, nor can it be said that either side lost; the fight isn't over, but we are going to "move on" for now.  I call it tweaking the status quo.  The radicals on both sides will self-identify as they rage-on forward (hoping to set fire to the other sides ideological edifice), and the press will fan the flames (as they always do) equally self-identifying in form and function.

The American genius for compromise is, unfortunately, often instinctually over-relied upon, I think.  Sometimes "deciding" can't be half-assed or lukewarm - we've already seen where that might lead us as a society.

A compromise on this matter is akin to "kicking the can down the road" which, as we have learned, is considered somewhat 'virtuous' to politicians.  But there is a danger in doing this.  And those who will suffer, are powerless to control the dialogue.  The exploitation of public debate is ever present.

But our political construct demands "dancing around Democracy" and politicians are well-trained in the dance.  With those that they claim as allies, will offer anything to end the debate, from total distraction, to polarizing public relations and theater.  And I think we must refuse them the control of us they so heavily abuse.

Whatever can be said about abortion is usually ignoring something else.  Every statement that is universally true on the matter is refused a place at the table.  Should it be a "never" thing? Should it be completely abolished, "Damn the torpedoes!"-style?  Should be entirely up to the individual(s) directly involved (that's another ball of twine to unravel?) Should only be the child bearer's decision?  Can any other third-party have a "say?" Can a doctor be compelled to provide the service? Can a doctor be compelled to refuse the service?  All of these questions lead to half-answers, and conditional rationale.  A government full of the politically motivated can't possibly be 'relied upon' to provide an answer... all they ever come up with is "ambiguous math."

I will spare you my opinion about it further. I am not a journalist.

Just felt like offering this up for discussion.  If your game.

Please consider this opinion piece from the chairman and founder of Delphi Group (a Boston-based think tank) focusing on disruptive technology innovation.

Appeared in Fox:  Here's how AI will empower citizens and enhance liberty

(my notes appear in blue)

Some of you may have heard about this past years . Quite a horror story to me , and another big scandal is the silence ....i have not seen anyone got punishment , or even got to court in this matter . Is this behaviour allready normalized ? no big deal at all ?  Just kill off elderly in care homes by lethal injections/ drugs ?

Deeply troubling issue in society .


Tens of Thousands of Elderly Secretly Euthanized to Boost ‘Covid Deaths’

Excess Deaths in the United Kingdom: Midazolam and Euthanasia in the COVID-19 Pandemic


 

Quote:A bombshell new report has sent shockwaves around the world after an investigation into the high numbers of “Covid deaths” during the pandemic uncovered evidence that tens of thousands of elderly people were actually murdered to boost the mortality rates.
The data produced for the report indicated that people were being euthanized using a fatal injection of Midazolam.
The cause of their deaths was then listed as “Covid,” indicating that the virus was killing far more elderly people than it was.
The explosive data from the report was made public by Australian politician Craig Kelly, the national director of the United Australia Party.
The report obtained official UK government data on death rates and causes.

Quote:The data appears to show that vast numbers of elderly were murdered with an injection of the end-of-life drug Midazolam.
According to Kelly, the patients were euthanized in order to boost “Covid deaths” and ramp up public fear to garner support for lockdowns and vaccines.
While alerting the public about the data, Kelly declared that it exposes “the crime of the century.”
“These deaths were then falsely blamed on Covid, which was the basis of the public fear campaigns used to justify the lockdowns and mass-mandated injections of the public (including children) with an experimental medical intervention that had zero long-term safety data,” Kelly said in a post on X alongside copies of the data.

Quote:“Along the way, a small group pushing the need for mass-mandated injections made billions.
“This paper shows that the UK spike in deaths, wrongly attributed to COVID-19 in April 2020, was not due to SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was largely absent, but was due to the widespread use of Midazolam injections which were statistically very highly correlated (coefficient over 90 percent) with excess deaths in all regions of England during 2020.
“The widespread and persistent use of Midazolam in UK suggests a possible policy of systemic euthanasia.”

Greetings gang!  Strange to be typing a message into a real editor.  I guess the ATS BBCode is non-functional here.  Or at a minimum, verklempt.

I haven't read a single post yet so I know not where I tread.  But like always in my life, I'll forge ahead and blunder about blindly until I figure it all out.

How many people/members are here?  Perhaps I'm alone and am cursed to wander aimlessly.

Well, off I go to explore.  If anyone sees me shuffling around and mumbling, please gently point me in the right direction.

The government and media is saying that China is using Tik Tok to steal our information.

Yet the same government uses Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), Discord, to steal our information.

I don't think Tik Tok should be banned.

If you want your info stolen, then it should be up to you.

I'm so sick of the main ones not having anything but useless adds for clicks. Are there any that can be accessed that are any better?

This comes from the wildest of places.
Office of Public Affairs | Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting | United States Department of Justice

See wildest of places.

Quote: A Montana man pleaded guilty today to two felony wildlife crimes – a conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act and substantively violating the Lacey Act – as part of an almost decade-long effort to create giant sheep hybrids in the United States with an aim to sell the species to captive hunting facilities.
 
Arthur “Jack” Schubarth, 80, of Vaughn, Montana, is the owner and operator of Sun River Enterprises LLC – also known as Schubarth Ranch – which is a 215-acre alternative livestock ranch in Vaughn. The Schubarth Ranch is engaged in the purchase, sale and breeding of “alternative livestock” such as mountain sheep, mountain goats and various ungulates. The primary market for Schubarth’s livestock is captive hunting operations, also known as shooting preserves or game ranches.
 
According to court documents, Schubarth conspired with at least five other individuals between 2013 and 2021 to create a larger hybrid species of sheep that would garner higher prices from shooting preserves. Schubarth brought parts of the largest sheep in the world, Marco Polo argali sheep (Ovis ammon polii), from Kyrgyzstan into the United States without declaring the importation. Average males can weigh more than 300 pounds with horns that span more than five feet. Marco Polo argali are native to the high elevations of the Pamir region of Central Asia. They are protected internationally by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, domestically by the U.S. Endangered Species Act and are prohibited in the State of Montana to protect native sheep from disease and hybridization.

Quote: 
Court documents also describe how Schubarth illegally obtained genetic material from wild-hunted Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in Montana. Schubarth purchased parts of these wild-hunted sheep in violation of Montana law, which prohibits the sale of game animal parts within the state and prohibits the use of Montana game animals on alternative livestock ranches. Schubarth transported and sold the bighorn parts in interstate commerce.
 
“This was an audacious scheme to create massive hybrid sheep species to be sold and hunted as trophies,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD). “In pursuit of this scheme, Schubarth violated international law and the Lacey Act, both of which protect the viability and health of native populations of animals.”
 
“The kind of crime we uncovered here could threaten the integrity of our wildlife species in Montana,” said Ron Howell, Chief of Enforcement for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP). “This was a complex case and the partnership between us and U.S Fish and Wildlife Service was critical in solving it.”

From: aggregator Phone Scoop, and Associated Press.
 

Well, this doesn't look good for human kind. We live in a society that seems to get dumber and dumber in certain aspects as we tax our brains less and less.  I guess a price we pay for certain conveniences.
COVID-19 Leaves Its Mark on the Brain. Significant Drops in IQ Scores Are Noted

Quote:Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging

Hey good people of DI!

So a funny thing happened in my world that has had an impact I could not have predicted...

A couple of weeks ago the weekly shopping was done. We have a large household and live about an hour from town - so two people make the trip once a week, taking lists of the things that the rest of us want or need. This streamlines and saves on trips.

When the items I requested were segregated and given to me I found a large candy bar in the bag. along with the items from the list I had provided.

Given that it is not uncommon for those who shop to buy a sale item or a small surprise to include in my bag, I thought nothing of it.

That night I broke off a couple of small squares of the chocolate bar and enjoyed a small, sweet, guilty treat.

The following night I did the same.

And the night after that.

Why this anecdote is relevant is that, as some of you are aware, I have issues with depression. Bipolar 2 specifically. It's been a decades long struggle for me. Over the years I have been placed on somewhere in the range of fifteen or twenty different antidepressants and most did not work at all. The few that did have some measurable effect always wound up causing side effects that were as bad, or worse, than the depression itself.

Given that we, in the US, are coming out of winter. Well, it's been several months of existing in a fairly constant depressed state for me. Energy has been hard to come by and my overall world was suffering for it. Laundry was stacking up. Floors were going unswept. Table tops and counters were slowly stacking up with items that needed to be put away and so on.

Thing is after three nights of essentially micro-dosing chocolate - I woke up on day four motivated and substantially energized. No sooner had I gotten out of bed and walked my dog than I began looking around at the state of things and feeling a desire to get it all back to right.

So I began cleaning and kept it up, off and on, for the duration of the day.

That night I ate my little bit of chocolate as usual. Again, just for a treat.

The next day - more cleaning.

Rinse and repeat for a few days and I found myself wondering what had caused my rebound in mood - as it was marked and, honestly, sort of profound. I felt like I had more optimism and mental clarity on top of renewed energy.

On a lark I Googled "Can chocolate help depression?" - as the addition of chocolate was the only factor in my life that had really changed - and was surprised to find that there is peer reviewed evidence that it might.

There are conflicting studies and opinions. That said, it's medicine and sometimes pharmaceutical companies will go to great lengths to bury simple fixes for issues that might impede their ability to make all the money from their patented medications... And the myriad variation of Prozac are one of the biggest cash cows they have going.

I guess my point in tabling this discussion is twofold:

First simply to put it out there that a square or two of a chocolate bar, each evening, seems to be doing more for me than any prescription previously has.

Also to ask if anyone else has discovered this same life hack?

I understand that we're all unique and that body / brain chemistry can deviate quite a bit from person to person and that what works for one will not work for everyone. Still...

Maybe it'll help someone else out.

So DI... Am I onto something? A placebo effect?

Thanks for reading!

Long ago, before the woke internet, before COVID, before 9-11, someone began an inquiry in the field of cosmology.

The cosmos presented us with a weird observation... not enough mass to hold the galaxies together.  The public was made aware of the popular concept of "dark matter" ... stuff we could not otherwise see... but that was only a theory, never proven, never directly measured (hence, "dark")...

but there was already another idea...
 

Archeologists in Turkey have discovered what may be the earliest "narrative" (story) depicted in Pre-Pottery Neolithic people.  Their excavation revealed many similarities with Göbeklitepe in style and apparent techniques.  But what makes this a bit different is that the story is told horizontally as opposed to otherwise. 

From Archeology: The World’s First Narrative



And much deeper information can be found here: (From Cambridge.org:) The Sayburç reliefs: a narrative scene from the Neolithic