oftwominds.com- If AI Is So Great, Prove It: Eliminate All Surveillance, Spam, And Robocalling
If AI is so great, why doesn’t it do all this stupidly burdensome “shadow work” for us? When yet another corporate monopoly’s products and/or services fails miserably, then why can’t AI get on the phone with a tech-support person halfway around the world and get it sorted?
In Manitoba the NDP are now firmly in control of the agenda.
The Blackrod- New stats show the NDP’s hard left-wing health decree increased suffering
The data shows that in the first six months of the NDP in power, there were 263 fewer hip-and-knee surgeries in Manitoba compared to the last six months of the Conservative Party. And that’s in addition to hundreds of hip-and-knee surgeries that could have been done if the NDP hadn’t banned sending patients to private clinics in the U.S. or other provinces.
To make matters worse, the median wait time for surgery in Manitoba jumped from six-and-a-half months to eight months.
The Blackrod- I Quit, said one of Mb’s top doctors; A brutal assessment of the NDP’s 6 months in office
“I have been a physician for over 40 years. I started out as a clinician and researcher and gradually moved into academic and health system leadership positions. I was privileged to work first in my home country (Switzerland) interrupted by a couple of years in the U.S. (University of California, San Francisco), and since 2004 I have worked in Canada, including in Toronto, where I was the director of the liver transplant program at the University Health Network, one of the largest health systems in Canada.”
“I saw a lot of health system dysfunction (in his career). However, none of it reached the extent of dysfunction that is present currently in healthcare in Manitoba.” he wrote.
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Armstrong Economics- Mainstream News is Committing Suicide
This chart shows the results of Gallup Polls, and the trust in American media is down well below 40%. Our models warn that when confidence in government falls below 40%, governments begin to collapse. That magic number applies to the media as well.
Armstrong Economics- TikTok Ban – WAR on Free Speech
Congress cannot agree on anything other than dismantling the First Amendment. There is no greater threat to the establishment than the uncensored sharing of ideas. This week, 353 members of Congress voted to ban TikTok to “protect our data.” Unlike any major issue facing the country, it took Congress a mere eight days to implement this ban, with an astounding 81% in favor of removing the platform.
Armstrong Economics- Would You Feed Bugs to Your Pet?
Armstrong Economics- Canada to Incorporate Social Scores in Banking
“It’s about having that fairer, more inclusive, more open society,” said Helen Child, founder of Open Banking Excellence. Open Society, well, that does sound familiar. Why is there a need for inclusivity and fairness in banking when it should come down to numbers? “It drives financial inclusion,” she added, “It’s democratizing data.”
Canada is one of many nations hoping to use unofficial social scores to control the masses. All of these actions are setting the stage for how CBDC will operate, a collective network containing everyone’s personal data and accounts. Governments have already begun debanking individuals and these steps will make it increasingly easier to force the masses to bow down and relinquish all control to the almighty government.
This shouldn’t need to be repeated, but here we are again.
The comments section of this blog is not your open sewer. I try to keep a light touch on moderation, but those who persist on spamming each other with insults will be banned, and I don’t care how many new personas you try to get back in. Guest authors also have the green light to nuke your comments, so consider that before you comment.
As you were.
We had server issues this morning, they look to be resolved. Sorry for the service interruption!
Or, “Twelve months of our betters being pretentious, neurotic, and perverse.”
A small taste:
Among the mighty titans encountered in November was a radical young lady named Margot, a “nutrition counsellor” who is “root-cause and system focussed,” and whose profound thoughts included “What do we eat during the revolution?” It turns out that you can’t agitate the proletariat without a solid meal plan. While her comrades “break capitalism” and “abolish” prison, Margot envisions herself “coaching people in how to eat from a revolutionary and resistance standpoint.” A task that involves instructing the little people on how to dry pepper seeds and how to wash foraged bin scraps in vinegar in order to remove any trace of those capitalist pesticides. The revolution, since you ask, will be fuelled by cashew milk and vegan pseudo-cheese. Because as capitalism is toppled, and amid the riots and burning cars, there will, it seems, be space for neurotic niche cuisine. Assuming, that is, that the proletariat are tempted by the prospect of economic ruin, roaming gangs of liberated rapists, and evenings spent washing other people’s bin contents.
I’m having connectivity problems today and no promise from Sasktel that they’ll be here before Thursday. Therefore, blogging from my vantage point may be intermittent over the coming days. (There’s still admin coverage though, so don’t go getting cute in the comments).
A Midwestern Doctor- The Many Dangers of Spinal Surgery
In the case of neck and back pain, I feel the primary issue is that limited knowledge exists regarding what causes pain there. This is important because many of the existing “treatments” for back pain actually worsen the underlying causes of that pain. For example, ligamentous laxity underlies many chronic spinal pain conditions, but one of the primary treatments for spinal pain (injected steroids) directly weakens the affected ligaments, creating a situation where therapies which are good for business but bad for patients frequently end up being chosen.
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As you have noticed, changes are afoot in the layout and appearance of the site. It’s not a change of my choosing, and I’m editing where possible. Thanks for your patience, there’s been a lot of work going on in the background to secure this site, this is part of it.
Update: for now, I’ve returned to the old format. The layout of the blog may still change in the coming days or weeks if site security requires it. (It’s complicated).
Update! The security audit and cleanup are complete, and we’re back in business. Many thanks to Graham at Wordfence for his tenacity and good humor, when he discovered he’d been tasked with a 20 year old site with 57,500 posts and 1.7M comments. There’s still work to do at our end, which should be complete by Monday. In the meanwhile, we have the green light to resume normal operations.
Thanks for your patience, everyone.
Kate
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The security audit interim report is in, and a number of problems have been uncovered. A big number.
To avoid interfering with the work, posting is suspended until I get the go ahead to resume – a break that will probably extend into the weekend. To that end, I’m also closing comments.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to cover the costs. Your generosity is being put to good use.
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— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 8, 2023
Posting has been slow as we’ve been fighting some stubborn security issues. Lance is taking a deep dive into the problem, but should that fail, we’ll be forced into an upgrade of our security support (again). If it comes to that, I may hold a mini-fundraiser to cover the costs. Many thanks to the readers who donate to SDA around the year – your support is very much appreciated!
Sept 7 Update: I did bite the bullet and have purchased a higher level of security monitoring and support. With luck, the problems we’ve been battling for the past few weeks will soon be resolved.
Many thanks to everyone who stepped up with donations. As you know, there are no ad links here, no envelopes of cash from political operatives, and no paywall subscriptions – nor will there be any. (Most of the book ads have long ago expired, I leave them up to support the authors). The blog is a volunteer effort, supported only by readers who drop a few bucks in the tip jar.
In a few instances my “thank you” notes bounce back (especially to those using gmail), so if you haven’t received one, let me thank you again here!
If you’d like to help keep a blog afloat, and keep it ad-free, I have some buttons you can push.
Contributions towards it’s upkeep are much appreciated.
If you’d like to help keep a blog afloat, and keep it ad-free, I have some buttons you could push.
Contributions towards its upkeep are much appreciated.
I’m down with one of my eyestrain attacks, so blogging will be slow on my part for at least a few hours.
Gold, Goats and Guns- Indicting Trump is the End of US Politics
And that’s what’s at the heart of this Trump indictment. Trump is the distillation of everything they need to tear down to validate their envy. He’s white, male, politically connected, a little corrupt, very cheesy and the antithesis of what middle-class bicoastal midwits believe they should be.
Successful.
They hate Trump not because he’s successful but because our society allowed for him to become successful.
All is well. I’ve been on the road, not far enough south to consider it a winter vacation, but a vacation from the internet just the same. My connectivity here is just awful, so blogging has been difficult to impossible. I should be back to the normal routine by middle of next week, weather permitting.
Update: Apparently this is what we have to look forward to. Oh, goody. (Hwy 13 in SE Sask)
Ken Opalo- Three Billion Africans, How demographics will shape African states’ economic and political futures
For much of history the continent of Africa has been largely underpopulated. For example, it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that the entire region’s population surpassed Europe’s (see below). Now the region is in the middle of a demographic boom that will see its population double over the next 50 years to more than 3 billion. By 2100 half all humans being born will be African. It is not an overstatement to claim that the world’s demographic future is in Africa.