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Here's a short vid from TEDx (2011), author Tyler Cowen:



Peter Thiel and George Gilder debate on "The Prospects for Technology and Economic Growth" (2012)



Peter Thiel, Co-founder of PayPal, Technology Entrepreneur, Investor, and Philanthropist VS. George Gilder, Chairman, George Gilder Fund Management, and Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute.

Thiel's thesis that technological progress is decelerating has been featured prominently as of late in a number of opinion journals and popular magazines, while George Gilder holds to the supremely optimistic premise of his famous 'Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology'.

Interesting to hear Thiel's rationale & thinking from 10 years ago. He gives some good examples.

From a week ago: The End of the Future with Peter Thiel Peter Thiel presents a new explanation for the Great Stagnation: in the mid-20th century, dire dystopian narratives about science and technology began seeping into the culture.

People don't want to feel as if they're building the machines that will destroy the world. Dystopian narratives have been facilitated by the dual-use nature of so many modern technologies.

For example, Thiel sees the turning point on nuclear power as 1975, when India got the bomb after the US transferred its nuclear technology. (?)

But, also entirely pulled out of thin air and based on his feelings and ideology. It’s just a narrative, nothing more. Some interesting evidence for this is that the 1970s saw an explosion of "scientific" models showing the end of civilization was near. E.g., Limits to Growth (MIT study), Population Bomb (Ehrlich), peak oil predictions, co-founder of Earth day saying mass starvation was inevitable, etc. and yet here we are. Thiel is, after all, an expert on this topic; having founded one of the most dystopian listed companies i.e. Palantir.

Probably a good time to revisit this 2014 piece by Peter Thiel...

Quote:You Should Run Your Startup Like a Cult. Here's How (WIRED, Sept 2014)

No company has a culture; every company is a culture. A startup is a team of people on a mission, and a good culture is just what that looks like on the inside. The first team that I built has become known in Silicon Valley as the “PayPal Mafia” because so many of my former colleagues, including Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, and David Sacks, have gone on to help each other start and invest in successful tech companies.

Rule 1: The Best Startups Work a Lot Like Cults

In the most intense kind of organization, members abandon the outside world and hang out only with other members. We have a word for such organizations: cults. Cultures of total dedication look crazy from the outside. But entrepreneurs should take cultures of extreme dedication seriously.

The extreme opposite of a cult is a consulting firm like Accenture: not only does it lack a distinctive mission, but individual consultants are regularly dropping in and out of companies to which they have no long‑term connection whatsoever.

Every company culture can be plotted on a linear spectrum:

The best startups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful startup are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.

This is a link to the movie that has been released titled "Died Suddenly"..https://rumble.com/embed/pj.v1to6s2/
https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier...denly.html

The video is all about the covid vaccines, blood clots, heart attacks, cancer, and the kitchen sink as far as health. Before you dismiss some of this listen to the percentage of increase in these cases to include military casualties
or
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=v...M6QD3l3raI

I really do enjoy this Youtuber (The Why Files) and the way he presents his subjects.

So - My wife & I were standing on the patio, aimlessly discussing something to do with her travel plans for the coming days...and, apparently, a squirrel was perched on the roof, a few feet away - probably trying to catch some juicy gossip (a well-documented vice of perched squirrels)...when...for some reason, the squirrel lost its perch, and fell from the roof...splat...onto the concrete patio, landing flat on its side (no creatures died in this episode).

As I later reflected on this strangeness, the fact that the squirrel dropped from the eave...while (it could'a been) listening in on our conversation (with seedy intent, no doubt) - gave new/double meaning to the phrase "Eaves-Dropping".

What do you think?

I just received this from my brother. I did not even know someone had interviewed him. Parkinson’s had pretty much wiped out his facial expressions, which was causing a lot of the breathless/choking/coughing issues, and his hearing was bad enough that the guys were having to speak pretty loud to him and even then he couldn’t always understand them. He was dead 3 weeks later after 3 strokes. At that point, he was within days of being 95, and he weighed just over 120 pounds, down 60 pounds from his former size. Knowing how weak he was, the effort he was putting out in that video shows how much he wanted to give those guys a memorable talk. A very sad example of a very vital hard working man of 95. At 75 he had to sell his airplane because his sight was getting so bad. Toward the end his sight, hearing, and being very frail made for a guy who tried all his life but old age finally got him. A war buddy of his told me dad was the last man alive in is squad twice mostly because he took over a machine gun position on both occasions after the machine gun crew was killed or disabled.

You will need to turn on the sub titles if interested.
 

Post'em if you got'em.








Guess I'll watch some old shows I never remember watching. Anyone recognize.

"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum." I was originally going to put this in the Movie forum, but I took a hard right turn into the conspiracy sphere as you will soon discover.

I was watching "They Live" (1988) again and noticed that the first unmasked subliminal in the film is a "Control Data Corporation" billboard. What was John Carpenter trying to tell us?


NOS/VE



It’s an ad for CDC’s NOS/VE operating system.

"Transparent computing environment"? Are we already in a simulation? i.e. Digitized economic infrastructure?


Some CDC history...

Quote:Control Data Corporation (CDC) was a mainframe and supercomputer firm. CDC was one of the nine major United States computer companies through most of the 1960s; the others were IBM, Burroughs Corporation, DEC, NCR, General Electric, Honeywell, RCA, and UNIVAC. CDC was well-known and highly regarded throughout the industry at the time. For most of the 1960s, Seymour Cray worked at CDC and developed a series of machines that were the fastest computers in the world by far, until Cray left the company to found Cray Research (CRI) in the 1970s. After several years of losses in the early 1980s, in 1988 CDC started to leave the computer manufacturing business and sell the related parts of the company, a process that was completed in 1992 with the creation of Control Data Systems, Inc. The remaining businesses of CDC currently operate as Ceridian.

During World War II the U.S. Navy had built up a classified team of engineers to build codebreaking machinery for both Japanese and German electro-mechanical ciphers. A number of these were produced by a team dedicated to the task working in the Washington, D.C., area. With the post-war wind-down of military spending, the Navy grew increasingly worried that this team would break up and scatter into various companies, and it started looking for ways to keep the code-breaking team together.

Eventually they found their solution: John Parker, the owner of a Chase Aircraft affiliate named Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation located in St. Paul, Minnesota, was about to lose all his contracts due to the ending of the war. The Navy never told Parker exactly what the team did, since it would have taken too long to get top secret clearance.

The result was Engineering Research Associates (ERA). Formed in 1946, this contract engineering company worked on a number of seemingly unrelated projects in the early 1950s. Among these was the ERA Atlas, an early military stored program computer, the basis of the Univac 1101, which was followed by the 1102, and then the 36-bit ERA 1103 (UNIVAC 1103). The Atlas was built for the Navy, which intended to use it in their non-secret code-breaking centers. In the early 1950s a minor political debate broke out in Congress about the Navy essentially "owning" ERA, and the ensuing debates and legal wrangling left the company drained of both capital and spirit. In 1952, Parker sold ERA to Remington Rand.

Although Rand kept the ERA team together and developing new products, it was most interested in ERA's magnetic drum memory systems. Rand soon merged with Sperry Corporation to become Sperry Rand.

Since the Sperry "big company" mentality encroached on the decision-making powers of the ERA employees, a number left Sperry to form the Control Data Corp. in Sept 1957, setting up shop in an old warehouse across the river from Sperry's St. Paul laboratory, in Minneapolis at 501 Park Avenue. Of the members forming CDC, William Norris was the unanimous choice to become the chief executive officer of the new company. Seymour Cray soon became the chief designer, though at the time of CDC's formation he was still in the process of completing a prototype for the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS), and he did not leave Sperry to join CDC until it was complete. The M-460 was Seymour's first transistor computer, though the power supply rectifiers were still tubes.

In 1959, CDC released a 48-bit transistorized version of their re-design of the 1103 re-design under the name CDC 1604; the first machine was delivered to the U.S. Navy in 1960 at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Legend has it that the 1604 designation was chosen by adding CDC's first street address (501 Park Avenue) to Cray's former project, the ERA-Univac 1103.

Quote:16th October 1959 - CDC Introduces 1604 Computer

Control Data Corp. released its model 1604 computer, the first in the line from the company formed by a group that left Sperry Rand Corp., led by William Norris. The 1604 was the most powerful computer in its day, designed by Seymour Cray, who would go on to a career in building supercomputers. Applications of the CDC 1604 included processing data in real time, controlling weapons systems, solving large-scale scientific problems, and commercial applications.

Quote:KGB Or CIA?

Jobs told U.S. Defense Department investigators in 1988 that during his trip to the Soviet Union he dealt with an international lawyer he felt “either worked for the CIA or the KGB.” These were among the details in a Pentagon background check -- a copy of which was obtained by Wired magazine in 2012 under the Freedom of Information Act -- that Jobs was subjected to for Top Secret security clearance. The name of the lawyer is redacted in the publicly released document, though it cites the Apple co-founder as saying the individual was from Paris and “helped communication between the United States and the Soviet Union.” Jobs noted, however, that he had no evidence of the man's potential ties to intelligence.
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The Mac Revolution

Prior to arriving in Moscow for his two-day trip in early July, Jobs attended a Paris trade show, where then-U.S. Vice President George Bush encouraged him to get computers into Russia in order to "foment revolution from below,” author Walter Isaacson writes in his authorized 2011 biography, Steve Jobs. Merin confirms to RFE/RL that during their Moscow meeting, Jobs told him of this conversation with Bush, as well.

Jobs had already been stripped of major responsibilities at Apple amid the company’s flagging sales. Months later, he would resign as Apple chairman, only to return more than a decade later and launch the series of products, including the iPhone and iPad, that would revolutionize consumer electronics.

Jobs “had pitched [Bush] this idea, which was to try and get Macs throughout the Soviet Union, because if the Soviets had them, the Russian people had it, there would be the possibility of newsletters, and printing things, fomenting revolution, and, you know, all this stuff that would help the United States,” Merin tells RFE/RL.
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A Trotskyite Abroad

While in Moscow, Isaacson writes in his biography, Jobs “insisted on talking about” Leon Trotsky, the Bolshevik leader later forced into exile as an “enemy of the people” and assassinated in Mexico on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s orders. Isaacson writes that a “KGB agent” who was assigned to Jobs during the trip suggested the Apple chairman “tone down his fervor.”

“You don’t want to talk about Trotsky,” the agent is quoted as saying. “Our historians have studied the situation, and we don’t believe he’s a great man anymore.”

Isaacson writes that this only made Jobs more eager to discuss the revolutionary.

“When they got to the state university in Moscow to speak to computer students, Jobs began his speech by praising Trotsky,” he writes.
The Soviet Adventures Of Steve Jobs

Quote:He became a citizen of the United States by an act of Congress and had homes in New York and Paris. The French government made him a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and an Officer of Arts and Letters. The Polish government made him a Commander of the Order of Merit.
Samuel Pisar Dies at 86; Lawyer and Adviser Survived Nazi Camps (NYT, July 28, 2015)

Sorry I was gone a few weeks again. I've been busy with my husband's funeral planning, oodles of phone calls, paperwork, appointments and all that.

My husband's funeral was beautiful, with the full military honors. When the gun salute went off and they started playing Taps, I broke down and sobbed. One of my best friends comforted me. Everyone was so nice. The veteran's cemetary in King, WI is so pretty, lots of hills. 

That was on November 14. Then I had to pick up my husband's things at the nursing home. That was absolutely gut wrenching. They were really nice. They had packed and organized everything. I sobbed the whole time. When I drove past the window where my husband's room used to be, I was crying pretty hard. Once I got home, I only went through one bag. That had my husband's stuffed animals and blankets. The stuffed animals are on my fireplace hearth, and the blankets are in my bedroom and den. There was also one article of clothing in the bag - the Milwaukee Brewers t-shirt that my husband loved to wear. I wore it one day, and it comforted me. I will never get rid of that t-shirt. Everything else went into storage until I'm more ready to deal with it. It could be a long time. 

I cry myself to exhaustion every day. I still talk to my family or friends on the phone most days. I just take things one day at a time. I handle what I'm able to and leave the rest for whenever. I pray daily. I ask God and my husband to watch over me from Heaven. This past Sunday, I drank myself into oblivion. 

I'll be across the street at my friend's house for Thanksgiving. They are wonderful. Some days I feel I'll feel okay, other days like today, I feel like a fucking mess. But I think that's normal for someone grieving. Thank you all again for all your prayers, sympathy, and encouragement over the last few weeks.

I have heard about those who believe we might be living in some type of simulation and have always blown that theory off as quackery by some computer nerds. The following video contains  some of the proofs people accept for such a theory, which I find interesting.

I have read some posts here and there that mention this idea that SARS-CoV-2 and the mRNA vaccines are a dual stage bio-weapon. I searched "two step biological weapons", mulit-stage biological weapons", etc. on DDG and Yandex and didn't find this particular theory in the first 3 or 4 pages of each search. The keywords to use when researching this topic are, "binary weapon system" or "binary biological weapon". These bring up the connection to the "vaccine" conspiracies.

Quote:Synthetic Biology Enables the Design and Development of Biological Weapons

In 1997, a team of accomplished scientists within a group known as the JASONf group met to discuss the future of biological warfare.10 They identified six emerging biological threats that needed to be monitored by military planners and strategists:
(1) the development of binary weapons,g
(2) the construction of designer genes,
(3) the use of gene therapy as a weapon,
(4) the development of viruses that evade the immune response of the host,
(5) the use of viruses that can move between insects, animals, and humans, and
(6) the development of designer diseases.

Quote:Techniques to Enhance Efficacy of Bioweapons
Scientists and genetic engineers are considering several techniques to increase the efficacy of pathogens in warfare.
1. Binary Biological Weapons
This technique involves inserting plasmids, small bacterial DNA fragments, into the DNA of other bacteria in order to increase virulence or other pathogenic properties within the host bacteria (2).
2. Designer Genes
According to the European Bioinformatics Institute, as of December 2012, scientists had sequenced the genomes of 3139 viruses, 1016 plasmids, and 2167 bacteria, some of which are published on the internet and are therefore accessible to the public (6). With complete genomes available and the aforementioned advances in gene synthesis, scientists will soon be able to design pathogens by creating synthetic genes, synthetic viruses, and possibly entirely new organisms (2).
3. Gene Therapy
Gene therapy involves repairing or replacing a gene of an organism, permanently changing its genetic composition. By replacing existing genes with harmful genes, this technique can be used to manufacture bioweapons (2).
4. Stealth Viruses
Stealth viruses are viral infections that enter cells and remain dormant for an extended amount of time until triggered externally to cause disease. In the context of warfare, these viruses could be spread to a large population, and activation could either be delayed or used as a threat for blackmail (2).
5. Host-Swapping Diseases
Much like the naturally occurring West Nile and Ebola viruses, animal viruses could potentially be genetically modified and developed to infect humans as a potent biowarfare tactic (2).
6. Designer Diseases
Biotechnology may be used to manipulate cellular mechanisms to cause disease. For example, an agent could be designed to induce cells to multiply uncontrollably, as in cancer, or to initiate apoptosis, programmed cell death (2).
7. Personalized Bioweapons
In coming years it may be conceivable to design a pathogen that targets a specific person’s genome. This agent may spread through populations showing minimal or no symptoms, yet it would be fatal to the intended target (4).

Quote:Dr. Peter McCullough: ‘whistleblowers’ inside CDC claim injections have already killed 50,000 Americans

June 27, 2021

. . . Dr. Peter McCullough said these deaths have been facilitated by a false narrative bent on pushing an all-new, unproven vaccine for a disease that was highly treatable.

He said COVID was a bioweapon and the vaccines represent “phase two” of that bioweapon.
“As this, in a sense, bioterrorism phase one was rolled out, it was really all about keeping the population in fear and in isolation and preparing them to accept the vaccine, which appears to be phase two of a bioterrorism operation,” McCullough said in a June 11 webinar with German attorney Reiner Fuellmich and several other doctors.

. . . “Now I can’t come out and say all this on national TV today or at any time,” he continued. “But, what we had learned over time is that we could no longer communicate with government agencies. We actually couldn’t even communicate with our propagandized colleagues in major medical centers, all of which appear to be under a spell, almost as if they are hypnotized right now.”

He did not hold back in his criticism of his colleagues in the medical community.
“And doctors, good doctors, are doing unthinkable things, like injecting biologically active messenger RNA that produces this pathological spike protein into pregnant women. I think when the doctors wake up from their trance they’re going to be shocked to think what they’ve done to people.”

Quote:A much more discreet, diabolical and effective method of disabling a country, would be to employ a moderately infectious organism, or combination of organisms (Russian Doll Cocktail), which would pass slowly through the population unnoticed.

Some of the criteria for effective disabling agents are: (they list four of them)

. . . 3. If the disabling agent is a combination of several diseases or microbes, some of which could be genetically engineered, then it becomes very difficult, if not impossible to diagnose and treat.