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Broken civilizations get rebuilt at the local community level as families, businesses, churches and small civil governments begin to learn what those local institutions can be. That is happening right now in the US, primarily in rural counties.

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Is A.I. Going to Be Everywhere?

In 2016, Google’s boss Sundar Pichai was talking about “AI everywhere”. Possible?

Remember what happened with Google Maps.

"Way back in the mists of time," writes John Naughton, "the Google co-founders decided that they would map the entire planet. It was a stupendously expensive and ambitious project, made possible only by the fact that their company had money to burn. But they did it, in the process creating one of the networked world’s most useful resources.

"And now? Try booking a hotel, a restaurant, finding a garage, a sports venue, or almost anything else that has a geographical location, and under “location” on its website you find the relevant segment of a Google map, which is incorporated into the site using the company’s Maps Embed API.

"Something analogous is already beginning to happen with ChatGPT: in time, whenever you encounter a text box on a website or in an app, you’ll find yourself dealing with ChatGPT (or one of its digital peers) courtesy of an API. In this way, Pichai’s idea of “AI everywhere” will be realised, even if the AI in question isn’t particularly intelligent."

Below: these two persons never existed, but were pieced together with digital A.I.

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Yes, A.I. Is Powerful. Doomsday Powerful

Somebody typed a prompt, and a virus came out.

Sixteen of them. Genomes written by artificial intelligence, ordered as synthetic DNA, assembled on a bench, and grown into stocks that replicated and threw off offspring. Thirteen carried mutations that match no known natural sequence. The scientific paper ran in the publication Science, and its senior author disclosed funding from the Gates Foundation.

Six years ago, on April 6, 2020, Bill Gates sat with Trevor Noah and said a vaccine was the only thing that would let us return to normal — and announced that his foundation would start building the factories before anyone had seen efficacy data. Scale during testing, he said, rather than waiting for results. A great many people heard optimism. Some of us heard a schedule.

-- Dr. Peter McCullough

The Trajectory of National Evil

"There are times when a people tolerate an evil for so long that they cease to recognize its enormity. The evil acquires procedures, professional language, political constituencies, legal protections and respectable explanations. Eventually bloodshed receives a clinical name, partiality becomes public policy, and injustice—once sufficiently regulated—begins to look almost ordinary."

-- Bill Evans

Taking Orders From the EU

The @EU_Commission met today with Meta & TikTok on the situation in Ceuta.

"Platforms must act decisively in keeping the integrity of the digital space, in particular during crisis situations. Monitoring must increase, cooperation with fact-checkers to be strengthened."

What has social media been commanded to do? Cover up the fact that 72,000 military aged males invaded Spain over a two day period? Spin the story? Hire fact checkers who say, "Don't believe the misinformation. It was only 72 migrants." What were the orders given to social media regarding the Hungarian election of 2026? What orders are being given to the new puppet government of Hungary by the EU?

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