While the term “climate change” is familiar, the term “geoengineering” is still relatively new. Yet: it emerges as the “remedy” or, at least, one of them…More than 4 years ago …
Biohackers encoded malware in a strand of DNA
When biologists synthesize DNA, it is assumed that they take care not to create or spread a dangerous piece of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin …
Anthropocene?
Trying to document whether “human activities” (where “human” means capitalist) have affected the planet to such an extent that a “new epoch” can be defined for it, geologists (and perhaps …
The “Immaculate Conception of Data”
When a farmer buys a tractor from the agricultural machinery company John Deere, they receive a license to operate the vehicle. Nowadays, tractors are not like the old vehicles of …
Restructuring
While in the western world the so-called “artificial intelligence” is presented mainly as a linguistic achievement (with the purpose of accumulating data from its “interlocutors”), in the far east its …
Big Tech enter the food game
Do not trust the new UN campaign, “Food Systems Coordination Hub”, regarding the “transformation of food systems for global health”. The current corporate agenda, which is supported by this new …
Beauty contest
Why not? The first global beauty pageant for female avatars created with complex algorithms (artificial intelligence) is now a reality. For the crowning of “Miss AI”… Before you rush to …
Two discussions on the digitalization of the food system
The following dialogues are transcribed text from the first two episodes of a podcast series by the ETC group (www.etcgroup.org), which began in the summer of 2023, titled “Who Will …
The gears of recording
Statistics, as the science of numbers, records, and classifications without further explanations and annoying causal chains, had been closely intertwined with genetics from an early stage. Eugenics (and therefore genetics, …
Statistics… as we say “state”
The phrase of Mark Twain (which he himself attributed to British Prime Minister Disraeli) is now widely known: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Despite …
Strategic mistake!
John Ioannidis was endlessly vilified around here when he dared to criticize the hygiene-terrorist hysteria. In the USA he was even threatened—he lives very close to the corporate (and not …
Palantir explains: you are all dead!
On May 7 and 8, 2024, in Washington, the city’s largest convention hall hosted America’s military-industrial complex, leading technology companies, and the most sincere supporters of war crimes. Of course, …