David Rowe

I am a realist. We are headed in exactly the opposite direction.

Germany relied on the USA, it can no longer do so. The alternative is to rely on France or the UK and that is unacceptable.

Japan, Saudi Arabia, etal relied on the USA, now a most unreliable partner.

Horribly, I understand. :-(

I don't want nukes. I don't want to live in a world of nukes. I do want any nuke that we have, to be built upon the latest and greatest secure and robust platforms available. Else we have madness on madness, no?

#ai #privacy #ethics #technology #innovation #data #surveillance | Pascal BORNET | 300 comments RIP Privacy — AI Glasses Can Now Recognize Anyone, Anywhere. A Dutch journalist just tested a pair of AI-powered glasses that can instantly identify strangers on the street. No government database. ...

Anyone, anywhere: www.linkedin.com/posts/pascal...

Privacy under threat as AI glasses gain instant recognition powers Privacy is constantly at the brink of erosion in the age of artificial intelligence. With the introduction of AI-powered glasses, privacy is officially under threat. These glasses now possess the...

Privacy is like virginity, once lost, its gone and it only takes one ... .
In 1993 I personally started warning people, by 1996 it was too late. Resist and adapt has been and continues to be my current advice.
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Gaia Theory says Earth's biosphere (all living organisms) and abiotic components (atmosphere, oceans, rocks) interact as a single, self-regulating system. This "superorganism" includes us.

We will be controlled, but like naught children, only enough to let everyone else get on with life.

The opening of the Tao Te Ching (by Laozi) says:
"The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao." Which I understand as: the true Tao can’t be fully explained or named; once you try to define it, you’ve already missed it.

So, what does living in harmony with nature really mean?

VHEMT has a long history. I thought they would be extinct by now but they keep living, consuming, advocating but still never delivering.
Over time selective pressure will remove the genotype. #JustSaying
I'm congenitally optimistic, I have 13 grandchildren.
#Sorry

Why is the 'new' on the banner? Isn't such use a tacit acceptance of nukes?

#JustSaying

AI glasses spark privacy alarm in Netherlands An experiment for a Dutch TV show has revealed the extent of information that can be gathered by those wearing AI glasses, provoking privacy alarms

It doesn't matter if a new technology worries normal people, if they can do it they will. Have we ever had privacy baked in to the internet? No, and it's now too late.
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It isn't clear if civilization can cope with such shocks when there isn't enough to eat, or drink, or keep cool, wildlife can't.
So if we can cope is not a place I want to risk visiting, but that is where we are headed. ;-(

#LeaveItInTheGround

SpaceX tells investors it is targeting late 2026 IPO, the Information reports SpaceX has informed investors and representatives of financial institutions that it plans to pursue an initial public offering in the second half of next year, the Information reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the discussions.

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One would hope the full disarmament and demilitarization of Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza, verified by international monitors as promised, will end this barbarism.

#Nuance - The birth dose stays mandatory only if the mother's status is positive or unknown.

Pragmatism is a slippery slope.

Grok 4.20 Wins Alpha Arena, Posting 12.11% Gains and a 50% Peak in Tests over Two Weeks Grok 4.20 leads Alpha Arena with a 12.11% two-week gain, giving you clear takeaways on how an AI stayed profitable across all modes.

Elon's Grok 4.2, the 'Mystery AI' seems to have jumped to exceptional ability at investing. If repeated and you can he sure the money men will try, it will destroy the stock market in months.
Next year will be wild.
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Maybe carrying on as normal isn’t such a great idea.

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel Why is air pollution is going to get worse NOW?

The US is rolling back standards on harmful soot particulates.

These under the radar actions will cause a lot more illness in the years to come.

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YouTube vote proportions rarely change significantly after about one thousand.

So that's ~2 feet less ice thickness, across the whole Arctic Ocean, to melt, from where average is. Next year could be wild.
A blue ocean event (#BOE) year will likely start with historic low ice thickness. My money is still on 2034 but you never know, we may look back on this.

I do hope you are correct.

I fear, like baking a cake, it isn't so simple to get back to eggs and flour after you started making your cake. :-( #JustSaying

We are 50/50 (50%) likely to make our one home planet uninhabitable by 2075, for a significant fraction of each year and to shorten the life of 1/4th of all alive. How do so many square this with being risk averse? #GrowUpPeople!!

! "... Globally, there are 9,919 billionaires this year, up from 2,682 in 2024 ...".

Lets blame the poor, immigrants, socialism, the climate emergency! Oh, hang on, a threefold increase in the number of billionaires, in a year‽ Now I shocked!! WTAF!

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"

-- George Orwell (1949)

You will be campaigning and voting for The Green Party and/or Your Party then?

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YouTube video by Just Have a Think This is not the video I had planned to make.

The National Emergency Briefing last week needs to be heard by everyone. Listen and just have a think.
#ClimateEmergency
youtu.be/8sa7uh192r0

The State of Israel is globally labelled a genocidal state, not without reason.
Two wrongs don't make a right and an eye for an eye makes everyone blind.

We need to hold to account those who sign up to a ceasefire. One transgression at a time.

Giving in to authoritarianism rather than sticking up for free speech. What has become of the BBC?

Hezbollah violations: ~15 rockets/mortars fired (per Israel). 10,000 violations by The State of Israel is hardly likely to calm the situation.

My view isn't as one sided as yours, it seems. A cease fire should be a cesse fire.

The World’s 50 Richest Countries 2025 From glittering alpine lakes to the neon-lit skylines of East Asia, here are the world’s richest countries, according to UBS.

I think most people living in the UK would be astonished to know that this country is now more wealthy than Germany, and ranked 4th in the world

The millions struggling to eat and heat will be rightly wondering, where the f*ck it is?

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