…. And just like that, another piece of the puzzle falls neatly into place. President Trump has announced that David Sacks will be joining the administration as the Czar of Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency.
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The group of Peter Thiel (Palantir), Elon Musk (X), Vivek Ramaswamy (DOGE) and JD Vance (VP), now gain the addition of David Sacks to their core mission. Both govt inspired/networked AI and the world of Cryptocurrency will benefit.
Many voices say the introduction of AI into government networks was/is a foregone conclusion, so we should be happy that it’s the ideology of Musk, Thiel, Sacks, Ramaswamy and Vance constructing the parameters of the weapon. Perhaps they are correct.
On the upside, the Big Banks of JPMorgan, BoA, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will not be too happy, so there’s that. Bitcoin and various crypto exchanges like Bakkt will continue surging. A new era of finance dawns.
Essentially, as we have outlined since the early summer of this year, the new era technocracy is in full bloom.
The older Social Media technocracy system created by Barack H Obama has matriculated and is in flux. The rebellious fight to control public opinion continues, as the Trump FCC will predictably begin confronting the Death Star, Google.
The new Silicon Valley technocracy in the AI/Crypto world is now surging. Oracle (Ellison), Palantir (Thiel) and Musk (Xai) positioned as beneficiaries, with allies taking solid positions to assist President Trump in carrying out the Dept of Government Efficiency (DOGE) agenda.
Microsoft (Gates), AWS (Bezos) and Meta (Zuckerberg), are now riding their bicycles in slow circles at the end of the White House driveway, staring intently in the windows.
We’ll keep watching….
The next 4 years are certainly not going to be dull and “lame duck”. Buckle up Patriots!!
Just make sure you keep living like Biden is in the White House. Be prepared.
You must be new here.
And maybe didn’t pay close enough attention when President Trump leveraged them with his economic policies last time.
I think I’ll bookmark that video and see how well that guys prediction ages.
Incidentally, I’m new here too.
Should all us new people just go away?
Oh well, thank you R2R, very informative and helpful!
I’d say it’s time to check up on commodities and metal sector / mining ETFs.
Rather than being a negative nelly, this is not only the chickens coming home to roost- this might be the kind of real heat that our overlords need to feel. You see, the problem isn’t the average American, it’s those who are insulated from the consequences of their venality.
The Masters of the Universe need to go broke, quick; we’re not going to reset to ‘simpler, more robust, less complicated’ and trim the unnecessary crushing weight of the Compliance Complex and the lethal Greed Complex unless they are simply forced to.
Heck, we’re all being forced back into simpler, more sparse lifestyles because we simply can’t afford not to anyways. As a response, all kinds of self-reliance knowledge and learning is being generated, because Americans don’t need to be told what to do, we just do it. We’ve got to break this dependence on the government’s chains, I don’t see it happening any other way.
(ps- the next video following was how to turn dead dirt into rich gardening soil!)
Welcome to all newbies, as an I guess older treeper.
And all have a R2R, (love the handle, btw) .
Got my *ss handed to me, rightly enough recently, for cavalierly suggesting a fellow treeper “must be new here”. Not the first time I have posted that, but certainly the last.
Speaking for myself, its probably NOT a useful expression for promoting dialogue, its dismissive.
But, thats just me.
‘newcomer, fear monger, concern troll, etc’ are used all too frequently when someone appears out of step with the site cadence. The discourse is much better with than without.
Hi Dutchman or Marquis or others – do you happen to know what happened to “Bull” (BullDurham)? I got waylaid by life for a couple years, but noticed I haven’t seen his name in years. (Almost afraid to ask!!)
Seriously, do you know how much money the people behind world domination have? They’re not going to go broke believe me.
Understood. ‘We’ do have a moral obligation to our Families and fellow Countrymen to call out the Oligarchs, by name. Knowing much, (92%+), of MSM is owned by said Oligarchholes, ’tis important to get out the Message any way possible.
The “other nations” don’t have any money to spend to buy goofy products. Russia’s grain harvest was a bust.
I have not checked on China’s harvest but as I recall they have had droughts.
Cut off our grain exports and things will get real rather quickly.
Geography vs demography. China has much less viable farmland per population than it needs to feed itself. Look at the subject maps. It HAS to import most of its food and energy.
The US, otoh, has massive productive farmland and is much, much more productive on a per acre basis as well. Which is why China buys massive amounts of grains and meat from us.
We are also a net exporter of oil and gas largely thanks to Trump policies and will be even more so in the years to come.
Which is why Trump can impose any tarrifs he wants on China and they can only play at it.
We also have massive amounts of the rare earth minerals under public and private lands that federal regulations have prevented us from exploiting. That will change big time on 20 Jan.
The link only looks at a very narrow perspective to come up with its ‘whoa is us’ cries. Remember the 70s when we were buried in apocalyptic predictions of oil shortages that would end civilization as we knew it? …and yet here we are 50 years on, not only energy independent but a major exporter …with reserves in the ground that have grown every year despite the eco nuts best efforts.
And just look at how the AI boom has changed the popular view of nuclear power despite chernobyl and Fukushima. Three Mile Island is actually restarting one of it reactors to power a new AI data center. New permits are being approved for the first time in decades and Trump deregulation will cut the build time for new plants to years instead of decades.
Can’t wait to see Musk build one for his new AI data centers in months. MONTHS!
Screw the BRICS, it’s our time again and it’s going to be great! 😀😊😇
It is “woe is us”…. lol
Also stop using ethanol (corn) as fuel and drill baby drill!
Keep listening to simpletons that really don’t understand the economy. China’s economy is already in trouble. You think THEY want to cut off anything to us and put THEIR economy in a deep recession which would trigger a revolution?
Do you think we don’t have RARE earth minerals? We do. Just like we have as much or more oil than Saudi Arabia. Problem is guys like him either don’t know it, don’t believe or don’t want us to use it.
I’ll place my bets that we’ll be able to bring manufacturing back. Once we do that, the aces China thinks they possessed will be TRUMPED with the royal flush…
Where is china going to sell all those cell phones? To Africa? Good luck with that.
He is right that companies make products functionally obsolete so they can sell more. They really AREN’T functionally obsolete, they just refuse to support them. If they CAN’T get the rare earth minerals to make the NEW products, do you think ANY of the major carriers are going to let that happen? Or any of the social media players?
If that happens, it’ll just create all kinds of new companies, stepping up to fill the need. Probably with even better products. Remember the oil spill in the gulf? The huge companies had old technology to try to clean it up. A call was put out to entrepreneurs. Thousands responded. Some created technology 10 to 100 or more effective to clean it up. Of course, some was useless. Some was really creative but not scalable.
“Microsoft (Gates), AWS (Bezos) and Meta (Zuckerberg), are now riding their bicycles in slow circles at the end of the White House driveway, staring intently in the windows.”
Raindrops keep fallin’ on their heads…
Hope a figurative Pennywise pays them a friendly visit.
Oh no! Somebody threw nails all over the White House driveway and those boys are riding around on flat tires. To be continued…
”Who are those guys . . . ?”
“They’ve got’en up!”
Great line by Dr Sundance!
Twas.
This is been going on for quite a while. Last time I came back from Mexico, I experienced the exact same thing.
And clearing customs when you return from a cruise….A little unnerving to say the least.
It started on Facebook when we would tag people in our photos.
Did u know that the Post Office takes photos of every piece of mail? I hope Trump orders that practice stopped and the data deleted.
NYC already has photos of the perp on the CEO assassination from StarBucks, Bus station, and homeless shelter after only a couple of days. Hmmm, seems AI and face rec at work.
So the mail in ballots that got Joe over the top in 2020 will all have matching photos- right? Right? 😉
Or none, which is how we know they were fake.
There was a lawsuit filed against the USPS, demanding that they produce the images (in GA, if I remember correctly)….
…which brought out the “fact” that the ballots were processed at a facility that doesn’t process mail, only packages.
Go figure.
This came out of the USPS trucks with first class mail on them from New York to Pennsylvania in 2020. During the various FOIA requests, the researchers discovered that the USPS takes a pic of every piece of first class mail. Mail-in ballots are first class mail. They then asked the USPS of the images of the first class mail that was on the trucks.
I believe this FIOA is still in process, USPS not giving the images up. Maybe because they don’t exist. Maybe because this particular shipments of first class mail was artificially injected into the process?
But it’s for our convenience 🙄 so we can see what’s in our mailbox online.
The post office scans the face of the mail to sort it. They have been doing that for years. When you group that into the survalence thing it is not in the same league.
The face of the mail data is also used to foreward the mail. If people had to read it and key it in you would wait a couple if weeks for your mail.
The U.S. Post Office is sending mail from N. Fort Myers, FL (OTR) to Ybor City, FL, to be sorted and sent back to be delivered across the street here in Fort Myers, FL.
THIS IS NOT COST EFFICIENT.
Trump will solve that with DOGE? Just like the GRACE Commision solved the waster 40 years ago….yeah right….
In reality, it is highly cost efficient.
The central processing facility uses highly automated, robotic scanners and optical character reader software to scan both sides of a letter and route it to the correct address with minimal human touch. It has a much faster and higher correct routing ability than the old, local, human scan and routing sites.
And the central processing sites are run by private contractors, not the postal union. I was involved in the Bowling Green facility contactor operations side many years ago when the USPS was first experimenting with the concept. The cost savings, accuracy, and speed improvements were more than enough to justify expanding the program nationwide.
Another win.
Yes, it has to be transported back and forth but that turns out to be much cheaper and more efficient than local hand sorting and routing ever was. DHS, UPS, and FEDEX fight over the mail flight contracts every 4 years iirc.
The postal union hates it …which, imnsho, is the best evidence possible that its a good thing. We need more efficiencies like this, not less.
DOGE for the win!
If your conclusion is accurate.. I retract my ‘assumption’. Thanks.
Yes, I have read similar stories about the Post Office ‘efficiencies’ for years, and these P.O. workers get great wages and benefits while (much of the time) doing mediocre work… “cost efficiency” is not a motto of the U.S. Postal Service, imo.
Remember years ago “veteran’s preference” was a big deal in getting a job in the post office, but these days there is a sign outside our local PO begging for people to apply for a job, so it can’t be that great.
Happens in MT as well…days to get a bill paid just down the road if you’re using a check in the mail.
What’s new?
Trump has been a big disappointment to me on civil liberties and our right to privacy.
Seeing Jared grinning maskless on a private plane during the time of covidiocy was throwing it in our faces.
Must be nice.
Why did you comply in the first place?
But… ‘they’ still haven’t been able to identify the DC pipe bomber! Funny that.
So they already know everything about the guy but the slave media keep saying “they’re putting together the pieces.” CIA FBI already knew a long time ago every George Floyd rioter…so what’s the problem…they already know everything about the Trump assassin on the roof in PA who was later creamated. What an effin joke on “we the people”!
Sounds like China.
Glad I haven’t flown for years.
Do you have a driver’s license? Or any sort of government ID? You are in the gov database.
Have you driven on a highway? They have your license plate in their database. There are cameras all over. From your license plate, they have all your info too.
Many sheriffs deputies, local police and state troopers have the ability to scan your vehicle tags on the move.
I was recently stopped driving a vehicle registered to my Mom to ascertain that it wasn’t her driving the vehicle, (she no longer has a drivers license).
So beware if you let your registration or license expire!
Look up the number of airline “close calls” that have taken place in the last year or two. That’s very scary. D.I.E. at work?
Nope… it is apparently (mostly?) because pilots do not get enough “hands on” experience (not relying on technology to solve ‘problems in flight’)… In addition, fewer former Military (those who have learned to fly under extreme pressure) are coming ‘on line’.
last time i flew was in 1976 in my dads cessna 170.i will never get on a commercial flight.
I remember a time when I couldn’t figure out how some of the things in the Book of Revelation were going to be possible. Every time I read something like this……..well, I see how now.
Most of it has already happened. We’re in the 6th seal, awaiting the third “unclean spirit” gathering the kings of the world to war (WW3).
The rest of the 6th seal has been fulfilled. The first two unclean spirits were obviously WW1&2, the Battle of Armageddon was the Battle of Megiddo (WW1, 1918), and the drying up of the Euphrates “that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared” was the fall of the Ottoman Empire, which cleared the way for 9 middle eastern nations to eventually gain independence.
In the 7th vial, Rome is destroyed (and other cities of the nations along with it), as it has been the center of anti-Christian persecution for nearly 2000 years. This will likely be how WW3 ends – the nuclear destruction of major cities.
None of it has already happened, as the book of Revelation, which describes the 7 year period of the “tribulation”, which does not begin until after the event known as the “rapture”, which is the removal of the church, aka “the body of Christ”, which must be removed before the literal hell on earth that is the known as the “tribulation”.
Law and grace are like oil and water. You can mix them, but they will naturally separate.
We cannot be under law and grace at the same time.
You cannot serve two masters.
We are in the “age of grace” which will end with the “rapture” when the Earth is the put back under law and the absolute rule of the King of Kings and the LORD of Lords, Jesus Christ.
You don’t want to be here when Jesus physically return to Earth.
Merry Christmas to all.
Trust God Fear not.
100% correct on all fronts. In addition, the third temple in Jerusalem would have to be reconstructed and functioning in order to kick off Daniel’s final “week of years.”
The idea that there is a future Antichrist was created by the Jesuits in response to the Protestant Reformers, who correctly pointed out that Daniel 7 (the Antichrist “little horn” comes out of the Roman 4th beast) and Revelation 17 (“seven hills on which the woman sits”) both describe the Antichrist as leading a false Christian church located in Rome.
There is nothing in the Bible about a rebuilt third temple. That is a distortion of Daniel 9 and the 70 weeks prophecy. The Jesuit futurist interpretation inserted a gap (of now 2000 years) between the 69th week, which describes the first arrival of the messiah, and the start of the 70th week. The last two verses of Daniel 9 are describing Jesus’ death in the middle of the 70th week, but futurism takes those verses and falsely applies them to a future Antichrist. The phrase “he will confirm the covenant with many” is about the Davidic covenant God made with David to send his son, which Jesus fulfilled with his crucifixion, not about a covenant an Antichrist will make with Israel in a third temple.
Read what the Bible actually says. We have all been deceived.
Well someone has been.
The Seventh Seal, one of Van Halen’s best songs with Hagar.
The Seventh Seal, perhaps the finest black & white movie ever made, from Ingmar Bergman in 1957. Starring Max von Sydow.
Yes absolutely the best! I watched it as a senior in high school as part of an AP English class in 1971.
‘obviously’. Sigh.
Well then, I’m just gonna sell the farm and the stock and the preps and go set by the road waiting for…?
100%. We’re in infancy right now, crying with little balled fists and pooping our diapers. Wait ‘til we hit the terrible twos.
It has been suggested that the rise of internet connected tech augmenting humanity, essentially a global cyborg mass, is the second beast of Revelation 13.
Digital ID and biometrics the mark of the beast, not literally a mark on your body but in the sense that the system has you marked for tracking.
And AI now the global cyborg mass acquiring fake sentience, as the beast develops.
I saw a short video on FB that described how the moon is turning to blood. Apparently, the surface of the moon is covered in the mineral hematite. The root of the the word is the Greek haima, which means blood as in hemoglobin. IIRC, If hematite is exposed to oxygen and water, it will “rust” and turn red. Where the water and oxygen is coming from on the moon is another mystery to me that I have no explanation for. Following Revelation, this is a sign of before the Great and Terrible Day of the Lord. Rev. 6:12
Yes, everything gradually comes into focus. I’m in my late 60s and I can recall my grandparents’ generation wondering how “the whole world” would watch the two witnesses that lay dead in Jerusalem rise up and ascend into heaven. Of course that’s a Captain Obvious item to us now.
Watch it happen and create a meme about it in nothin’ flat.
Revelations was written in the classic age, more than 2000 years ago by anonymous. They didn’t even have concepts for what exists today, much less the language or words to express such.
As a result, the phophesies are extremely broad in their characterizations, such that almost anything, event, or entity can be fit within them. Much like the stanzas of Nostradamus.
Or like theist claims that the 1918 battle of Megiddo was the real battle of Armagedon described in the prophesies, etc., etc., etc. Note that General Allenby clearly stated that he picked that specific battleground BECAUSE it fit his interpretation of Revelations. How’s that for deliberately fitting history to prophecy?
I expect that if Armageddon had already happened according to Revelations, we’d more than likely know it. But that’s just me, eh.
I think I read here that you can refuse having your picture taken? Is that true? I’m not sure if it makes a difference since you need to show an id to get past them. So it would be recorded in a sense anyway, right?
You can’t get a DHS approved REAL ID drivers license without a current photo. Without a REAL ID after 7 may 25 you won’t be allowed to fly domestic anywhere in the US.
Unless of course, you’re an illegal alien …or ‘maybe’ a winged angel.
Why does it hurt so much to laugh at all this?
Don’t know about going through Customs (I think that was the point?) but for just TSA screening you can opt out. I always do and use my passport.
I see folks all hot to get their DLs and car registration on their phones. You do that and I suspect you just gave away consent to search.
There is nothing mandatory about giving your photo to tsa, at least yet. If you simply say “no thank you” when the tsa agent tells you to “look into the camera,” there is nothing they can do about it.
I have had interesting reactions from the agents. One snarled that starting in January ’25 they will be mandatory. On a subsequent trip another agent told me that he had not heard anything about photos becoming mandatory. Some agents look and slightly smirk. Most of the time they give no reaction.
I’m sure they have a record of my photo from somewhere along the way, I just resist cooperating for the hell of it.
Try closing your eyes. That at least denies the capture of a retinal scan to use as ID.
Five years ago when I renewed my GA driver’s license, I was photographed with my eyeglasses off. I was told that this made my face easier to recognize with F.R. software, which the state troopers employ.
At the airport but not at the border?
Good one!
You can say you don’t want it taken. I did that on a round trip to New Mexico. There was no pressure to do so.
Also, I have hip replacements and didn’t want to go through the “xray” which was fine, however I had to wait for a female,
and I stood there for 15 minutes, no one came. They don’t seem to have a “floater” person. I had to go, so I did the xray.
Same thing on the way back. I waited for 15 minutes, and couldn’t wait any longer. Next time I get there 45 minutes earlier than usual . Drather have the pat down than whatever the hell that machine is.
I have wondered if there is a more complete photograph of this to compare to the one of Ozero with all the big tech folks. Kind of a side by side comparison.
mind boggling stuff
I was hoping India would have snapped Bill Gates up by now. Gates has been a very bad man on that side of the world and there was talk a while back about India not being happy.
Bill Gates is the classic warning of what happens when some people have too much money, and power. Do you know why all his money is being poured into Africa?
Cyclical, and naturally occurring climate change, dictates Africa is about to become the bread basket of the world. The globes biggest corporations are lining up to steal their land.
That cyclical change is correlated to variations in earth’s orbital eccentricity and axial tilt among other factors.
The last time the Sahara comprised lush grasslands was over 8,000 years ago.
I don’t think a bread basket is the plan in the short term. Valuable minerals however are in abundance in places.
I can’t stand Gates, Bezos, or Zuck.
But at least Bezos created an extremely useful business… I love Amazon. Since childhood, I have always hated shopping in stores, but I love sitting at my desk, seeing details, reading reviews, and placing my order, and having it arrive at my doorstep the next day or a few days later.
As for Gates, MS software is horrible. I have three computers on my desk, two Linux boxes and a Windows box, which I use because some of my clients require it. The one exception WAS Word, which was not originally developed by MS, but with each “upgrade” (downgrade, actually) it gets worse and worse. Linux is VASTLY superior to Windows, and LibreOffice Writer is VASTLY superior to MS Word.
And then there’s Facebook, which I do use for some limited communications with friends, and also when I’m researching someone. But I don’t like FB one bit.
Gates is the worst, as he wants a massive global genocide.
Gates built his fortune off of KDOS – Killer DOS – which he bought from Seattle Computing.
KDOS —>> MSDOS.
He also was successful in getting many large corporations to adopt his software in the 80s & 90s.
Used to said of MS, “The code’s not done ’till Lotus won’t run”. I was running DRDOS as it was superior to MSDOS, and when they went from Windows 3.0 to 3.1 they made sure it wouldn’t run on DRDOS. Win95 was engineered to make it hard for Wordperfect which lost out to MS word.
Gates’ genius is in making money off of other’s inventions.
Yup, he gave away MDOS for free to the brand new PC consumers, and by far made it up with licensing to the manufacturers and commercial users. Free is what made it the defacto standard all the programmers wrote to.
QDOS- Quick &Dirty Operating System, is what I remember.
Oddly, at the big IBM meeting where a very young (19?) Gates was pitching his MDOS over the then dominant CD/M OS, the owner of CD/M decided he’d rather go windsurfing instead. Gates got the contract with Big Iron and eventually became the standard OS, as well as the richest man in the world.
Unless you own the company you just told on yourself. ALL ON COMPANY TIME? How many hours do you work a day?
True, but that said, Gates was responsible for a massive increase in productivity in this country and the world.
Personally I find MS Visual Studio and VS Code very nice to use, though the main project I work on uses CMake for building, but CMake integrates into VS well. I use LibreOffice on Windows as well, but it seems dog-slow. Now that you can actually buy Office 2024 I might do that.
Glenn Beck claims the new administration is going to take off FAST, and energy is one key (duh).
Glenn Beck’s IQ dropped 50 points the day he rubbed his face in crushed Cheetos to mimic Orange Man Bad.
Did he have 50 points to lose?
I admit to being a bit disappointed in myself.
A year ago I dropped into a local bar to buy a good friend a drink. A fella with him was wearing a B.B. cap with Bitcoin on it.
He was off course a salesman, and Bitcoin investor but was very pleasant.
He explained Bitcoin in detail to me, and me being sober I listened politely, and thought nice but that cannot be real and kinda kick myself now.
Cheers!
Eh dont be hard on yourself I knew about bitcoin as soon as it was invented. I hung out with people mining it online literally the week to month it was invented.. I said nah I’m good. LOL Still not into it.
I don’t understand it…not something I can hold in my hand. Everyone has to “agree” it is real, otherwise it is not. So, I have not invested either. I worry about things that are simply digits on paper (like my bank account:( insured to a point, but still could be erased with an EMP, or diabolical AI actor. Having gotten up close and personal with an online fraud (without loss of funds by Grace) I am trying to become more of an in cash, in person, local type as much as feasible.
In cash is good practice which is hard to do when that card is so convenient. I can hold a way better budget and the store can actually pass down the savings to the customer from the fees they don’t owe. Using a credit card its much easier to over spend on things. You see the cash leaving your hands you realize its not just digits it took you a long time to acquire that. Its harder to let it go and you see what your getting for it and may have second thoughts on its value. It’s a need or a want becomes crystal clear for some. Credit card you may not have that feeling younger generation might not affect them in the same way. Got to have something everyone agrees to like you said. I know older/ elderly people who don’t know what it ( bitcoin) is yet. By this I mean they never even heard of it. I still go to some stores that only accept cash they have the food I like.
Good post… Thanks.
The main advantage I have with CC (never had a debit card/never will) is I download all my transactions into Quicken and have decades of spending data. You have to be really disciplined to do that with cash. I have a “petty cash” account in Quicken, but I just reconcile it by entering a monthly uncategorized expense to cover my cash spending.
The US Dollar is only “real” so long as both parties to every transaction agree it is “real”.
The US Dollar is backed by what hard assets?
Since you can always pay your taxes in FRNs, there will always be a market for it.
If you are going to play with crypto, you need a digital wallet. With the usual caveats. Then, unless you can use your crypto directly for a transaction you are going to have find an intermediate currency to actually use it for something other than speculation.
For me, this crypto stuff is highly vulnerable.
Cut the power and nothing functions.
At least with cash on hand people will exchange commerce with me.
Good golly, I was told about Bitcoin with one of David Goldman’s former employees. (Goldman was God on Wall Street.) He no longer lived in New York or was in the industry, and was trying to eke out a living for his 9 kids. I wish to gosh I had told him to come onboard with me and together we’d pinch our savings into the then very cheap, very new Bitcoin.
He was saying he thought ‘coin was the future, the Next Big Thing. Right he was.
Still, I also beta-tested Windows when it was 85 cents a share.
If only I had…
Just yesterday, Putin said bitcoin could be a good option for a reserve currency. Russia has a problem right now of receiving payments in rupees. Converting rupees to bitcoin fixes a problem for them. Definitely something to watch.
Rubles = Russia
Rupees = India
🙂
My understanding….
Rupees to Bitcoin
Bitcoin for oil
Bitcoin to Rubles
Indians happy, Russians happy.
Sorry. I should have been more clear. India is buying Russian oil and natural gas. Russia needs to convert the rupees and can’t use US dollars.
I should add I don’t know much about this stuff but a financial YouTuber I listen to mentioned this yesterday. (Jack Gamble @nobodyspecialfinance).
Wait… what? What’s rhubarb?
A downward ‘spike’ in currency.
Crypto currency bitcoin split in apr 2024 and instantly became half its value.
ETH and other forms of digital stuff are keeping crypto currency mining worth it.
https://rarible.com/token/0xb66a603f4cfe17e3d27b87a8bfcad319856518b8:40951644127405469178548026431617352758096189621664965637597211162680393465857
The mining reward was cut in half(happens by program approximately every four years), but bitcoin itself was unaffected. Because there are costs to mine bitcoin, and the number of bitcoins awarded are cut in half, there is upward pressure on the market price of bitcoin. This is just one reason for price increase, though, and each halving accounts for somewhat less effect. The main reason for increase is the old maxim, supply vs demand.
Yup, BRICS is looking at trade settlement between nations.
What we’re going to end up with is two currencies, a domestic currency for us and a settlement currency for the international institutions.
That’s what China used to have, the yuan domestically and the renminbi for foreign. Much like using the dollar at home and Treasuries overseas.
If only facial recognition was for real terrorists and criminals…
Once upon a time racial recognition, in large part, sufficed for that role.
You mean profiling.
That is the excuse that will be given to us to accept nationwide use of facial recognition software when Palantir’s AI fully merges with the NSA database. It’s to keep us safe doncha know. Just like the Patriot Act was.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6436/president-trump-announces-david-crypto
Q. Will the bankers have to learn how to code crypto mining?
No because the central bank digital currency when fully up in running will kill the dolkar and indlave us all.😳
Not spelling guy.
Money – what is it really worth?
Gold: self-evident.
Fiat $$: All the natural resources of the issuing nation.
Crypto: Trust us, we have nerds!
I’m a firm believer in Article 1 section 10 of the Constitution. Gold & Silver only for legal payment of debt. Thanks FDR & Nixon. Or I should say Central Bank. (13 families) Trillions floating around allowing dark money corruption. When is the last time Congress has passed a budget? It remains to be seen what DOGE can do. There will be some type of reset. I’m shocked the average Joe still has faith in Monopoly money our government is printing. (Fiat)
I don’t think it was all beer and skittles in the 19th c with gold or gold/silver. Financial panics were a generational experience brought on by often exogenous forces. Prosperity was tied to discovery of new sources – Cali, Nev, and then Alaska.
Specie resumption was a major policy issue after the civil war, with NYC financiers being in favor and then-MAGA types being opposed.
The “worth” of gold is mostly in electronics and art markets. Other than that it is ability to assay and assumed scarcity.
Who owns City National bank? I’m just asking cuz thats the one I use and it wasn’t listed as “big mad” 🤣
So Trump is going all in on the crypto currency bandwagon. What does this mean for the government’s Central Bank Digital Currency controlled “digital dollar”? Are they one in the same, or is this the next iteration of the which is better, public vs private, debate? Do I recall correctly that Trump was dead set against having the Federal Reserve controlled CBDC?
You recall correctly,
So what? Imagine replacing a table leg by leg then switching out the tabletop… What’s left?
They might says they’re ‘against CBDC’, but they’re bound to have in place a proxy system that will be just as effective.
SD has noted elsewhere that Musk isn’t exactly anti-carbon tax:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/18/team-jd-vance-begin-announcing-policy-proposals-starting-with-elon-inspired-carbon-taxes/
and let us not forget how much shilling he did with his 1-on-1 DJT interview.
Let’s also guess that they will continue to demonize monero (a currency built with privacy in mind) while pushing more privacy-negating crypto such as BTC.
Regardless, get ready for your entire life to be lived like you’re going through airport security.
I despise Sacks and the tech-bros with such a passion. They are red/blue color-blind opportunists disfiguring every last vestige of freedom for their gain.
It should serve as a warning to boomers who are either tech-illiterate or so wedded to the tools you find yourself reliant on that your ignorance and apathy will be levered against you.
Convenience is the cattle-prod that go you into that pen. And that itself is just a series of endless nudges made since the smartphone arrived to deprive you of choices and make the alternatives as inconvenient and problematic as possible. Know that before opting into something you can’t easily escape!
Those loose fiddly coins? The awkwardness of leaving your house to make a purchase? Hey, you should consider diapers for maximum convenience as it saves making an extra journey…
If you’re reading this and gives a $#!+ and wants to banish their tech-ignorance and improve resilience I suggest familiarizing themselves with Rob Braxman’s channel: https://rumble.com/robbraxman
Totally different. Central band is a ledger controlled by the central bank which means they can control your digital currency.
Crypto is written into a block chain that has your record of buying and selling.
It totally different than a central bank digital currency.
But with crypto readily available you will not need central bank digital currency; thus, the latter will not prevail. Hopefully, as central bank digital currency also means slavery and complete control of all.
I think it means death to a central bank digital dollar, and that is a good enough reason for Trump to support crypto.
Blackrock intends to go the NGO/Twitter/MSM route, that is, use corporations as public-private mercenaries to do the government’s dirty work.
Stablecoin is already here, already widely used, and just as trackable/programmable. Russia China BRICS already on board. And Etherium’s operating system is hailed as the Internet 3.o…Blackrock Bitcoin will be our new Federal Reserve, both are owned by the same clans.
Show Larry is at the top of the flow chart, behind the hidden door. Larry and the late Steve Jobs were BFF’s. So much so, that Jobs was the photographer at his 4th wedding. Interestingly Larry owns a house in SF on billionaires row as it is called. Interestingly enough, Steve Job’s widow just bought the house next door to Larry in SF not long ago.
I wonder if she is playing the more liberal counter to his master of the universe. Just food for thought.
So what happens to the inevitability of the implementation of CBDC after Trump leaves office?
Sundance.
Almost certainly a name recalled and studied if we win.
Even if our efforts here, in enemy-controlled territory ultimately fail during our *lifetimes*, our efforts shall not be in vain.
Trust God.
Does all of this lead to the Mark of the Beast? Don’t mind me, but I am not taking the Mark of the Beast no matter who is advocating for it. May God send solar storms strong enough to wipe out all this evil technology.
The mark of the beast comes after the rapture not before.
2 Thessalonians 2
King James Version
2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Pretty sure the great falling away will be caused by people who thought they would be ruptured before the tribulation. They will lose faith when Jesus doesn’t show up. Rapture will occur before God pours out his wrath after the tribulation.
I’ve often thought the same thing regarding the great falling away. I guess it coms down to the difference between tribulation and wrath.
Wow. The preacher never warned me I had to be ruptured to be saved. I’ll have to think on that.
The falling away from God was Constantine’s infusion of Christian ideas into the Roman sun cult to create Catholicism. Roman “Christianity” was no longer Biblical, and it became a religion of rituals, graven images, and ceremonies, not an organic, pure faith like the Christianity of the first century.
The seven sacraments have nothing to do with salvation, babies cannot be baptized as they are to young to express their faith in Christ, statutes of Mary with prayer candles in front are no different than pagan idols, and the biggest persecutor of true Christians in history was the Roman Catholic papacy.
Technology is not inherently evil. It’s been with us since man first used flint to make the first knife. It’s essential to our way of life and to the better future of our children.
Bitcoin is the opposite of evil. It prevents the insidious erosion and destruction of government issued fiat currencies. It is the essence of a safe currency.
Central Bank Digital Currencies are inherently evil. They are a government controlled fiat currency in digital form. Much worse is that once in place, the government controls not only their value, but their use, not you.
Musk and Gates are both human and flawed as are we all. But look at what they have done and the contrasting results.
Musk, imnsho, has proven to be prohuman and anti-globalist. He sees a good idea and puts his money and his management skills behind it. So far, to great success.
Without Musk buying Twitter and opening it up to free speech to the extent possible, I’m dead certain that Biden would have been reelected last month.
Musk’s focus on SpaceX has opened Space to private business and made NASA functionally just another dying govt anachronism. Some here blather about him being subsidized by govt but the facts are different. Without the enormous cost savings Musk has provided NASA, almost none of its current programs would be fiscally possible. Musk will get us to Mars in the lifetime of many here. NASA won’t.
Gates made personal computers viable. He amassed a great fortune and has used it to advance his personal philosophies which have resulted in what I consider anti-human, pro globalist acts.
Both Musk and Gates pushed the frontiers of technology to make their fortunes. How they have used their fortunes to date largely defines good and evil in my mind.
Technology is our future for better or worse. How it is used and who uses it thus will define our future.
Trump has chosen Musk. I’m good with that.
Perhaps we humans will never be able to bring huge populations to live on Mars because of our human requirements. Radical temps, giant storms, no oxygen and depleted soils with little or no available water and far from the sun are challenges. Also the travel time to get there. It could be a robot colony, but robots can be blown away and subject to Martian dust storms, etc. I find the ideas about what’s possible on Mars to be a source of wonder and very interesting.
A Neanderthal would likely view Disney World with the same skepticism.
Mars is just a stepping stone to the stars, bus stop, train station …not a new Earth. It will never be Earth and Musk has never evinced such a plan. A colony that can survive on its own? YES. Earthlike terraforming? NO.
But a self sufficient colony on Mars that can survive an extermination level event on Earth makes human survival possible.
Harry Truman was president when I was born. A few years later Dad bought one of the first TVs on our block and all the neighborhood kids gathered in our living room to watch the Indian Head Test Pattern on the screen before Howdy Doody.
When the TV lost sound, Dad bought a portable TV at a pawn shop with sound and no picture and put it on top of the old one. Out on Gibbons Avenue, we kids would stop playing dodge ball in the street to look up whenever an airplane passed overhead. Portable transistor radios were all the rage, replacing the big heavy radios with vacuum tubes, like the ones Ralphie and his family listened to on A Christmas Story.
And the nuns had us convinced the best way to survive an atomic bomb attack was to hide under our school desks during the weekly safety drills.
That was technology then and I don’t know if I can handle AI and Crypto!
Duck and Cover…I remember the school drills, too,
Your not going to have time to duck and cover if a nuke hits.🤨
‘Duck and cover’ these days amounts to getting out of the target zones and providing for food and shelter for you and yours in the aftermath. Not as easy as crawling under a desk, but then it never was.
It my life focus for me and mine these days.
I remember those days… Such a different world now. It’s like looking out the window and seeing the science-fiction world once only available in comic books.
I’m 77, and have an 8mm Kodachrome movie of Truman on a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, speaking to crowds from the open platform of his train’s observation car.
We must be the same age.
utilizing liquidity pools within defi while using blockchain cryptography can fairly easily produce returns in the 30-200% a p.r. range
intermediarys are non-existent in the cryptoverse since transactions are completed peer-to-peer
the only thing between buyers and sellers if a fully transparent and immutable ‘smart contract’
the smart bankers are scared scatless
the ignorant bankers are destined to be steamrolled
In other words, piggy banks are useless and are now antiques for collectors.
What a shame.
The intent behind ‘piggy banks’ is still viable, just the means is redefined. Your kids understand it better than you.
I have no doubt everyone understands it better than me.
Nope. I’ve worked in places where the mere idea of piggy banks didn’t exist, much less cell phones and clean water.
You can read and write. Millions can’t do either. You’re in a good place. 👍.
I am not a crypto genius. Please explain re liquidity pools in crypto – the bankers I am not worried about. Sounds like crypto banking, but where is your security (lien, etc.) for providing crypto liquidity?
He was born in South Africa too. The S in BRICS 🤔.
Yes, but he came to America for his future. Just like my great-great grandparents did.
I’m an immigrant myself, naturalized American. That wasn’t my point.
You’re point, as i read it, was that he was born in a BRICS country and that somehow made him questionable. Have you looked at the current political or economic viability of a white person in South Africa? Talk about a racist government.
Are you persuaded by the current stance of your birth country on crypto? Or is the current stance of the incoming US administration the sole consideration.
Musk, for all his faults, is a sane individual. He’d likely nuke Capetown before he’d buy into BRICS.
“The group of Peter Thiel (Palantir), Elon Musk (X), Vivek Ramaswamy (DOGE) and JD Vance (VP), now gain the addition of David Sacks to their core mission. Both govt inspired/networked AI and the world of Cryptocurrency will benefit.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies :
‘ 2020
Palantir is one of four large technology firms to start working with the NHS on supporting COVID-19 efforts through the provision of software from Palantir Foundry and by April 2020, several countries had used Palantir’s technology to track and contain the contagion. Palantir also developed Tiberius, a software for vaccine allocation used in the United States. ‘
Considering the big picture, many believe that the “COVID-19 effort” was a two-part (binary) bioweapon, comprised of engineered virus and matching genetic manipulation shots, designed to effect long-term democide by attrition aimed at the US Bloc by the Controllers of the US Bloc.
It’s difficult to refute that suggestion.
Is it really possible that the designers of the shots did not predict the autoimmune attack caused by forcing human cells throughout the body to produce and incorporate a cytotoxic foreign antigen projecting from the cell wall ?
Along with everything else surrounding the plandemic – lies grossly overstating the virus hazard, propaganda, censorship, suppression of safe mitigations e.g. ivermectin, mass coercion to take the shots including the unlawful Sept 2021 biden EO mandates.
Is it really true that all this was done because of simple error, incompetence, greed, and fear? Or could there be something else going on?
The fact that the modRNA shots were pushed on the US Bloc only (like the climate canard and mass immigration harms) should cause suspicious cat to be suspicious.
These are important questions to consider in the context of the assembling Trump cabinet including figures who had a hand in the plandemic, like Thiel and Palantir.
Some experts estimate that the bio-attrition will continue even after the shots stop.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/widespread-spike-protein-poisoning
This book is written for non-experts, but still expansive. Worth the effort:
https://doctors4covidethics.org/mRNA-vaccine-toxicity/
German Pathologist Arne Burkhardt, who used histopathology confirming the shot spike smoking gun:
https://rumble.com/v42yfh5-pathologist-arne-burkhardt-final-interview-revealing-the-grave-dangers-of-m.html
Notice how positive confirmation of shot harms using histopathology has been largely absent from media until recently? The epidemiology studies are not certain. Is it possible the skeptical experts putting up epidemiological studies pointing to shot harms are not aware of histopathology? (Unlikely)
Now histopathology and other positive confirmations are starting to appear in the media.
https://mole.substack.com/p/a-german-lab-has-started-to-offer?triedRedirect=true
https://inmodia.de/en/
Are you one who received shot(s) and did not experience severe adverse events? Count yourself highly fortunate, you could have gotten one of the impotent batches.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36997290/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13998
The shot pushers are working to bury all this. We’re not done yet, don’t let them.
“…the autoimmune attack caused by forcing human cells throughout the body to produce and incorporate a cytotoxic foreign antigen projecting from the cell wall”
The shot pushers didn’t tell you about this design when they pushed you to take the shots, did they?
Informed Consent: NOT.
Coerced medical experimentation without informed consent: By definition.
Back to Thiel, Palantir, and their ilk in the Trump cabinet taking shape:
These figures have been part of the coerced medical tyranny and growing police state. They are still rooted in such “public-private partnerships” aka neo-fascism.
Which means the Trump administration will be continuing it, despite the advertised appearances to the contrary.
Look beyond superficial appearances.
I suggest you copy and paste your comment intact to: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/
Another link today, First ever definitive proof that Pfizer’s “vaccine” integrates into the Human Genome. Outlook is not promising..
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/catastrophic-bombshell-first-ever?publication_id=400535&post_id=152660298&isFreemail=true&r=ypagw&triedRedirect=true
I’m not tracking your logic on associating Palentir with Covid harms. What it really did, iirc, was supply a modified version of its off-the-shelf software for tracking and managing medical records in response to a DHS request for proposals to provide such software.
I agree with much of the rest of your post. It’s just your angle on Palentir in this specific instance that I question.
I’m not in tune with throwing out the baby with the bath water.
As I know nothing about this, I will hope its for the good. I just keep a checking acct, some savings, and a small amount of cash hidden away for emergencies. I’ve had a good life but I’m by no means rich in money at all. I get by and hope to get by. I am happy to pay my bills, splurge on some goodwill and thrift shop finds, eat out and now that I’m healing after 3 years of broken femur and numerous surgeries I am just looking forward to watch our President and his team MAGA!
“keep on keepin’ on” LOL
OMG the whole “wolverine follower” dynamic seems to have changed here?
Has their been a wholesale new uptake in CTH followers?
We can surely hope that’s true. The more eyeballs and grey matter focused here, the better for America.
It’s Okay, When the GOVERNMENT Does It
(MAGA Mark Dice-Bitcoin Jesus)
The ‘goverment’ is NOT doing ‘bitcoin’. CBDC is just another government fiat currency head fake to make the ignorant think so.
Blockchain elections where every vote is verifiable on the blockchain and unable to be falsified would be awesome.
Why don’t you see that your suggestion gets to Musk and True The Vote and Bannon and others?
The question, at least for me, becomes is the alliance of Musk, Ellison and Theil, etal., any more ‘altruistic’ than Gates, Bezos and Zuckerberg? Ad what is the effect if the product of this new allegiance falls into hands that have a different political viewpoint? Is the effect of face recognition in China, say, any different than the effect of face recognition from Palantir??
There will come a time when another obama type is elected. That person/administration will use this technology as a powerful weapon. Facial recognition combined with fractal computing means our freedom from government spying is merely an illusion. A Caste system will eventually emerge from the use of this technology as well.
Don’t know enough about Theil and Ellison, but I trust Musk. He carries his son around on his shoulders. Be assured that everything he does in life is to benefit the life and future of his son, and thus us and our progeny.
As to the first, nope, amazes me some of the cheer leading going on.
Wow! Warp Speed Changes!!!
So that implies their (meaning DS/IC, etc.) identities, actions and associations are also all in digital databases?
It also implies a system-of-systems architecture that is vulnerable.
It’s not game over.
Only two things in my life have worked flawlessly in my life, technologically speaking.
Amazon and PayPal.
Everything else, from renewing my driver’s license, to visiting the doctor and paying my deductible is garbage.
I can’t say that about Paypal. I don’t have a cell phone and they won’t let me back on my page without one.
Two things, in my opinion, slowed President Trump in his first administration and one was having to constant fight off predators. The second of course was the senate with their endless failures to let him have his cabinet. Surrounding himself with protection hopefully will lessen the first but one can never hope the senate to be anything but against the people.
It’s very important to tackle AI/crypto with freedom in mind. It’s coming at us like a freight train – full steam ahead. In the wrong hands, and without sufficient policy to guide it, it will be a nightmare. It has been a nightmare of censorship, debanking, deplatforming, etc. I’m hopeful we can right the ship.
Cash every day you can, not only on Fridays.
Has anyone here mentioned the most important thing? That Sacks is an African-American?
These things will be used for good now and for evil later. God told us the future in advance, not to frighten us, but to reassure us that He is in control and taking care of us. We won’t be here when things get really bad. Understanding all of his should just add to the urgency of reaching everyone with God’s free offer of redemption ASAP. Wrath will be poured out, but being on the receiving end of that is completely voluntary, at least for the time being…..
Why am I supposed to think that AI is a good thing? It’s putting a lot of people out of work.
I suppose we could learn data processing or how to dig a hole to China.
Personally I am not excited about AI at all, it’s grossly overrated and downright stupid.
It is not a good thing. AI is just another thing to make more human beings unnecessary on planet earth. Not all change is progress no matter what the terrifying tech lords believe.
It can be a very good thing. I will dramatically increase the productivity, creativity, and thus the wealth of humans.
I once had a customer ask how a letter got delivered to him that had only his name. Nothing else. And he said when he opened it it was to him. That was 15 years ago or more.
One hopes there is a spike strip at the end of that White House driveway.
I’m on the board of a small bank. We’re quite technologically advanced for our size. But still, it reminds me a bit of Kodak with digital photography on the horizon…. relentlessly and inevitably approaching. I am glad to see some adults moving into these positions. Its going to be quite interesting to watch these changes unfold……
Why is Trump using the term “Czar”?
I didn’t like it when Obama did it, I don’t like it when Trump does it.
A Constitutional Republic does not have “czars”, the title should NEVER be used.
To me this DOGE focus mixed in with highest tech (AI) and a new fiat currency system (Bitcoin) is like a Hail Mary pass to end all passes in the last Superbowl.
How do we get out of 36 trillion in debt to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, etc.? Trump is fighting using finance and technology – Hoping to avoid all hypersonics.
There has to be some individual sacrifices from all of us before we get any kind of real stability. Tricks and shortcuts won’t cut it.
Since most of us are hoping for prices to come way down, my question is what are we willing to give up to leave a sovereign country to our children?
When FEDNOW was set up in 2023 it was the infrastructure for a CBDC. In a crisis could the government force Bitcoin accounts be switched to the federal system??
PS: Correct me if I’m wrong and I’ll take no offense
Crypto has been touted as having the ability to break the whole fiat currency, and I view CBDC as a way to try to continue that Govt control over finance, and greatly increase it, and crypto as a COUNTER to that.
So, as I think the sunlight of the next 4 years will insure we don’t have another Obummer/Biden admin for 100 years, I view this as a positive.
I pray you are right and in the sunlight we have a genuine spiritual revival!
Agree, the problem will be electricity. We need to start building hundreds of the new smaller and much safer nuclear plants immediately.
Or just do away with the ‘DumbVolts’. In Eastern WA. State, the literature from Avista Utilities has Windmills pictured.
Stupidity reigns.
As long as the regulator (Fed) can require banks to hold reserves in dollars or Treasury debt, don’t see how crypto “breaks” fiat currency.
It’s a new world approach to solve bureaucratic bloat. Get on board.
Sounds to me like President Trump has joined the club. Good or bad? Only action in office will tell.
Seems to me like that’s been pretty evident since last spring, and confirmed by most if not nearly all his cabinet picks.
I’m sorry this guy is way too connected as is Musk. He’s not deep state he’s deeper than that. He’s deeply connected to the cabal of the NWO. They have their people in place in Trump’s admin. They will gently and happily “push” Trump in the direction they want him to go to achieve their purposes and Trump won’t even know it. All those banks are not unhappy, they know how the game is played. Oh, they might scream and cry a little and act like their world is coming to an end but they know the plan and are willing to take one for the club so their ultimate goal (world dominance) is achieved. Crypto in whatever form it comes is the end game. Once they have that they have everything. All that you are seeing is the cabal taking their one step back as it were to make the unwashed populace think they’ve won something while they just keep on working. I can’t believe how easy it’s been for them to insert their people into Trump’s inner circle. Make no mistake they are still working their plan, they haven’t stopped and have just barely been slowed.
Some people fear AI because they don’t know what might happen.
I fear… no… better word, I DREAD AI because I know what the results will be. We already know. based on what technologies we’ve already adopted. My favorite and I think most understandable example comes from GPS road navigation. It tells us everything and makes it all more efficient. It even factors in traffic data. Better results right?
The other side of that is whole generations have completely lost a life skill and when needed, they wil 100% fail because of it.
We no longer use the stars to navigate and that’s a sort of improvement. I never had that skill and so I don’t miss it. And yet I know of that skill and how it could probably be useful. But I know how to read maps and if given maps could probably use them to navigate to any place on that map.
My son can’t and doesn’t know where to begin. You could blame me for that failing but I was a young father and didn’t have the perspective on what things are important and which are disposable. I was very enthusiastic about technology and never realized how dangerous reliance on technology actually is.
It’s the difference between survival and death when you have a dependency on technology and that is removed.
Dependence on AI (which is all but inevitable unless people learn to never trust it) will cause loss of skill and knowledge on a level humanity has never experienced before. It is literally intellectual Armageddon for humans.
Ancient knowledge exists because of how it was recorded. Current knowledge can continue to exist so long as they are printed on books and survive the great odds of being destroyed by natural and other disasters. Turns out clay tablets will last thousands of years but modern paper, not so much. Ancient scrolls being somewhere in between. But “digitally recorded” knowledge in advanced consumer formats which requires specific means for playback? Will not survive 10 years very likely.
You might have some old VHS or floppy disks somewhere in a closet, but do you have a VHS or floppy drive to read it? Probably not. How about that “cloud storage”?! And how about those compressed files? How easy would it be to decompress them long after the compression algorithms have been replaced for better ones? Ones which also include copy protection????
We often wonder “why did all of that ancient knowledge disappear?!” Islam was a big part of it. But the ease by which it was destroyed also played a role.
Now think about how easy it would be to lose ALL of the human advancements we’ve made today. Or merely look at how easily we could all lose access to it at important times.
AI will feel like “it makes things easier” but it will cause the minds of its users to atrophy to such a degree, they will simply become drones of whatever AI tells them. And of course some people will control what the AI tells others and there you have it. It’s not so much that AI will “take over humanity and destroy it.” It’s that evil will take over AI and control all who are dependent on it.
It’d be great if President Trump hired some, actual, America First American’s, JD Vance is one. I founded/ran a small DSS/BI consulting company some 30yrs ago, had a good ride for 12yrs or so… Friends and Colleagues complemented me on our ‘UNesque’ line up, we had L’s and a G, probably a few B’s as well, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindi, Atheist, African-American, Chinese, Mexican, Canadian, off the top of my head. So, I’m not a racist, bigot, xenophobe, Fascist, Nazi, Pedophile (never been to Jeffrey’s island), Homophobe, Gigolo, etc…
What bother’s me is that President Trump campaigned on ‘America First’, and from his ‘picks’ and recent comments, it, sadly, feels a whole lot more like ‘Israel First’. We have Friends in Gaza, Christian’s, who have lost two grandchildren from indiscriminate Israeli bombing. MSM is gas-lighting(blatantly lying) about what is actually occurring there. And not giving two-frts what folks think, Israel is committing Genocide in Gaza, and that ain’t cool.