FUTURE FACTS – FROM THINK LINKS

• Musk’s release of internal emails highlights Twitter’s 2020 intentional suppression of news unfavorable to Biden.
• Scientists have now revived a number of “zombie viruses” from Siberian permafrost, including one thought to be nearly 50,000 years old. 
• As far as is currently known, the Earth is the only place in the solar system — past or present — with plate tectonics and active subduction. 
• Russia and Ukraine are fighting the world’s first full-scale drone war. 
• China has the world’s most ambitious cloud-seeding program, with the aims of stimulating rain, halting hail across half the country, and trying to force clouds to rain over the Yangtze River, which is running dry in some spots. 

Joey Korn is one of the most accomplished dousers in the world.  For decades he has explored the outer edges of what can be done with dousing — far more than finding water or underground electrical cables.  He comes to TransitionTALKS in January, with his most important discovery, what he calls Interference Energy and, ultimately, how to clear it.  After conducting many thousands of space clearings — eliminating all forms of negative energy in a specific area — Joey has identified the energy that is the primary and most common cause of problems in people’s lives, homes, and offices.  You have not learned about this unless you’ve heard it from Joey.  His approach eliminates interference energy, which greatly increases negatively in all who attract it — and everyone around that person, especially their families, and pets. 

Joey first found and learned to clear or remove Interference Energy from people and their homes about 16 years ago, and he has helped thousands of people by removing this energy from them, their families, and their homes in his Remote Personal Energy and Space Clearing Sessions. There are two ways to attract Interference Energy:

1. We can attract it directly by entering intense negative states of mind and emotion, in our reactions to difficult and traumatic times in our lives.  Until Covid, this was the most common way to attract this energy.
2. Once someone attracts Interference Energy, others in their family and elsewhere can “catch” it, like an energetic virus.  Since Covid, this has become the most common way to attract it.

With the world governments’ reactions to Covid, spreading fear around the world, and the political dichotomies in this country and many others, including the war in Ukraine, Interference Energy has become what Joey calls a Global Silent Pandemic.  It’s affecting more people and wreaking more havoc in the world than Covid is, but nobody knows about this energy or that it can be easily removed from people and their homes. 

In addition to leaving our energy pattern imprints around our bed, we also leave our energy pattern imprints for a period of time everywhere we sleep like hotels, vacation rentals, etc., so Interference Energy is also very common in those places, and it can spread to others who stay and leave imprints of their energy patterns there. And the same happens when we lie down on a therapy table for a massage, acupuncture, a doctor’s examination, etc.  Joey feels certain that well more than half the people on the planet are either directly or indirectly affected by Interference Energy, yet again, no one knows about it unless they learned about it from Joey.

For 14 years, Joey knew only one way to remove this energy from people, as well as their homes and offices, and it would help his clients greatly, but he had a very difficult time teaching anyone else to do it. However, Joey has recently developed what he now calls his Miracle Blessing Process, which just about anyone can use to remove Interference Energy from themselves, from all in their families, and from many others, with no dowsing experience needed.  Joey will share this blessing process with us, and you will be able to clear Interference Energy from all who may have it affecting you, your family, and it will do much more than that.  His goal now is to spread his Miracle Blessing Process to millions of people around the world in the coming year, and you will be part of that process.

Govt. Database Shows 10,000% Increase In Cancer Reports Due To Covid Vaccines – (Hal Turner Radio Show – December 4, 2022)

China’s COVID Apps: A Primer – (DigiChina – July 14, 2022)

This AI Chatbot Is Dominating Social Media with Its Frighteningly Good Essays – (CNN – December 5, 2022)

Stumbling with Their Words, Some People Let AI Do the Talking – (Washington Post – December 10, 2022)

Scientists Revived Ancient ‘Zombie Viruses’ Frozen for Eons in Siberia – (Science Alert – November 25, 2022)

Why This Mammal Eats Its Own Brain — and Why It Could Matter for You – (Washington Post – November 31, 2022)

Genome Sequencing Trial to Test Benefits of Identifying Genetic Diseases at Birth – (Guardian – December 12, 2022)

How Seaweed Could Replace Plastic Packaging – (YouTube – December 7, 2022)

This 8 minute video clip is sponsored by Business Insider in their “World Wide Waste” series. It showcases a California startup called Sway that focuses on regenerative design solutions for plastic pollution.  Sway makes compostable replacements for thin-film plastic out of seaweed. The company sources raw materials from seaweed farms, which can provide habitat for sea life, combat ocean acidification, and create jobs.  For more the World Wide Waste series, see: Turning Tofu Waste Into Cooking Gas Helps Clean Rivers In Indonesia and How Bricks Made From Milk Cartons Can Help Typhoon Victims.  If you’re looking for reasons for hope, check these out.

We’re in Denial About the True Cost of a Twitter Implosion – (Wired – December 2, 2022)

When I (author of this article) opened Twitter one day a couple of weeks ago, the first piece of “news” I read was that Sam Bankman-Fried had killed Jeffrey Epstein. I was never a super-user, but my feed used to feel more relevant and coherent than that. Things are falling apart. Teams of engineers and moderators have been eroded to nubs. Bugs have begun to multiply as software rot spreads: On Sunday, a tool gone rogue began blocking 4,000 accounts per second. On Tuesday, fleets of influential professors mysteriously lost all their followers. Sewage from newly unbanned, hateful accounts is bubbling out of Twitter’s drains. Twitter, everyone notes, is far from the biggest social network. But if we judge Twitter’s influence by its active users, we underestimate it massively. It has no peer as a forge of public opinion. In political analysis, publishing, public health, foreign policy, economics, history, the study of race, even in business and finance, Twitter has come to drive who gets quoted in the press. Who opines on TV. Who gets a podcast. In foreign affairs and political analysis, especially, it often determines whom we consider an authority. Almost every academic and journalist I know has come to read Twitter, even if they don’t have accounts. Twitter’s economic value as a company is roughly $4.51 billion. But there’s a far, far vaster value beyond that, what an economist might call the secondary value of Twitter. That encompasses the cash people make out of connections or prestige they develop on Twitter, but also the intangible wealth now vested in its communities and in the sense it offers to people of having a place in the world. That human currency cannot just be ported over, unchanged, to Mastodon. There are whole nations whose political discourse occurs mainly on Twitter. The amount of reputational and social wealth that stands to be lost if Twitter collapses is astounding. Twitter currently functions as perhaps the world’s biggest status bank, and the investments stored in it are terrifyingly unsecured. People giddy to see Musk fall on his face might not fully know what role Twitter plays day to day in many other countries. We’ve heard about Twitter’s role in the Arab Spring but less about how the political life of, for instance, Zimbabwe—run by a repressive government that cracks down ruthlessly on physical protests and political speech—now takes place on Twitter. (Editor’s note: We recommend this article, particularly if you are not a Twitter user, for the ways in which it showcases what Twitter has become and how the world uses it.)

AI Image Generation Tech Can Now Create Life-wrecking Deepfakes with Ease – (Ars Technica – December 9, 2022)

New AI image-generation technology allows anyone to save a handful of photos (or video frames) of you, then train AI to create realistic fake photos that show you doing embarrassing or illegal things. Not everyone may be at risk, but everyone should know about it. Photographs have always been subject to falsifications—first in darkrooms with scissors and paste and then via Adobe Photoshop through pixels. But it took a great deal of skill to pull off convincingly. Today, creating convincing photorealistic fakes has become almost trivial. Once an AI model learns how to render someone, their image becomes a software plaything. The AI can create images of them in infinite quantities. And the AI model can be shared, allowing other people to create images of that person as well. When we started writing this article, we asked a brave volunteer if we could use their social media images to attempt to train an AI model to create fakes. They agreed, but the results were too convincing, and the reputational risk proved too great. So instead, we used AI to create a set of seven simulated social media photos of a fictitious person we’ll call “John.” That way, we can safely show you the results. For now, let’s pretend John is a real guy. The outcome is exactly the same, as you’ll see in the article. In our pretend scenario, “John” is an elementary school teacher. Like many of us, over the past 12 years, John has posted photos of himself on Facebook at his job, relaxing at home, or while going places. Using nothing but those seven images, someone could train AI to generate images that make it seem like John has a secret life. For example, he might like to take nude selfies in his classroom. At night, John might go to bars dressed like a clown. On weekends, he could be part of an extremist paramilitary group. And maybe he served prison time for an illegal drug charge but has hidden that from his employer. And here’s the photographic “proof”. Basically, computer scientists have figured out how to generate new photorealistic images of anything you can imagine by teaching AI using real photos, and the technology has accelerated rapidly over the past year. The tech has been controversial because, aside from photos, it has also allowed people to generate new artwork that imitates existing artists’ work without their permission. One of the most impactful AI image generators is called Stable Diffusion. It’s a deep-learning image synthesis model (a fancy term for AI software) that can generate completely new images from text descriptions. It can run locally on a Windows or Linux PC with a beefy GPU, on a Mac, or in the cloud on rented computer hardware. Stability AI released Stable Diffusion as open source software on August 22, 2022, meaning anyone can use it for free, and it has become integrated into a growing number of commercial products. If you’re one of the billions of people who have posted pictures of themselves on social media over the past decade, it may be time to rethink that behavior.

Mighty Buildings Completes 3D-printed Net-zero Home in Southern California – (Dezeen – November 4, 2022)

Mighty Buildings has delivered what it claims is the world’s first 3D-printed net-zero home as part of a 40-unit community in Desert Hot Springs that explores environmental and economic development strategies. The Oakland-based technology company completed the 1,171-square-foot home in September 2022. Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (EYRC) designed the two-bedroom, two-bath home, known as the Quatro, which the team says will produce as much energy as it consumes using Mighty Buildings’ flexible, panelized kit of parts. The exterior composite stone wall panels were 3D printed in a factory in Oakland. The proprietary material – known as Light Stone – is a concrete alternative with four times more tensile and flexural strength, 30% less weight and less carbon dioxide, according to the company. The home’s light-gauge steel roof cassettes and plumbing/mechanical core module were also prefabricated off-site, allowing the home’s components to be installed on its concrete slab foundation in less than a day. Vertical floor-to-ceiling windows fit between the wall panels, while black metal flashing caps the embedded parapet and conceals the foundation connection. The entire home can be constructed within 4-5 months, significantly accelerating onsite completion and resulting in more productive onsite workers and higher returns for developers.

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough a Milestone for the Future of Clean Energy – (CNN – December 13, 2022)

US Department of Energy officials have announced a history-making accomplishment in nuclear fusion: A team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in California produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy they used to power the experiment. The so-called “net energy gain” is a major milestone in a decades-long attempt to source clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion – the reaction that happens when two or more atoms are fused together. The experiment put in 2.05 megajoules of energy to the target and resulted in 3.15 megajoules of fusion energy output – generating more than 50% more energy than was put in. It’s the first time an experiment resulted in a meaningful gain of energy. We are still a very long way from having nuclear fusion power the electric grid, experts caution. The project, while groundbreaking, only produced enough energy to boil about 2.5 gallons of water, said Tony Roulstone, a fusion expert from the engineering department at the University of Cambridge. That may not seem like much, but the experiment is still hugely significant because scientists demonstrated that they can create more energy than they started with.

Tesla Finally Delivers First Electric Semi to Pepsi After Years of Delay – (Ars Technica – November 2, 2022)

After five years, Tesla’s first heavy-duty Semi had been delivered to PepsiCo. The Semi, Tesla announced, would go into production in 2023 and feature an updated version of Tesla’s Supercharger, which uses liquid-cooling technology in its charging cable and is capable of charging the large electric vehicle at 1 megawatt. However, Musk failed to clarify key details like how much the Semis can haul, how much they will cost, and when Tesla will start producing hundreds of Semis for companies that pre-ordered them as early as 2017. Analysts were especially disappointed that Tesla did not disclose the weight of an unloaded Semi, which would have helped them calculate efficiency on the road. The Semi’s powertrain technology relies on three motors to generate “crazy power,” Musk said, by engaging one at highway speed and reserving two for acceleration. Five years ago, when Tesla offered the world its first look at the Semi in 2017, Pepsi promptly ordered 100 trucks. But production of the heavy-duty truck became stalled while competitors beat Tesla to market with rival fully electric Class 8 vehicles. Before this week, the only glimpse that the public got suggesting that the Semi could soon be hitting roads was a prototype spotted in 2018. At the reveal, Musk also teased a new “robotaxi” in development at Tesla and suggested that the fast-charging technology propelling the updated Supercharger would also be used to power the Tesla pickup truck.

These Guys Make Edible Cement from Food Waste – (Good News Network – December 12, 2022)

A pair of Japanese researchers have launched a startup that turns food waste into cement with 4-times better bending resistance than conventional cement. The potential applications are endless, and as well as being potential building material, the material can be used to produce any kind of simple object like tea cups or chairs; but it’s also edible, and aromatic, and biodegradable. Tokyo University’s Kota Machida and Yuya Sakai are the brains behind Fabula Inc,  a project to reduce food waste, help curb global warming, reduce pressure on landfills, and offer a new way of looking at production with their method of turning common types of food waste into a material that’s edible and strong. It took years of development but the method is simple. Food waste is dried, turned into a powder, and then heat-pressed into a mold. The difficulties originally arose from the fact that every food item needed different temperatures and pressures to correctly solidify. Now they can make concrete from Chinese cabbage, coffee grounds, orange rinds, squash and pumpkin waste, banana peels, seaweed, and onion scraps. They’ve turned this into tiles and panels for emergency shelter building, cups, plates, and other things as proof-of-concepts. Chinese cabbage produces the strongest cement, oddly enough, with a 5 millimeter plate capable of supporting over 60 pounds of weight. Fabula is currently working with firms to produce various products like cup sets and furniture, but that Sakai’s aspirations are higher—that of edible emergency shelters in disaster zones. “For example, if food cannot be delivered to evacuees, they could eat makeshift beds made out of food cement,” he said. Indeed the food waste cement is edible, if it is broken into pieces and boiled. For this reason, Fabula say that different mixes of materials, such as spices, can produce different flavors, colors, and even aromas in the cement.

Russia and Ukraine Are Fighting the First Full-scale Drone War – (Washington Post – December 2, 2022)

The war began with Russian tanks rolling across Ukraine’s borders, World War I-style trenches carved into the earth, and Soviet-made artillery pounding the landscape. It has been transformed into a digital-age competition for technological superiority in the skies — one military annals will mark as a turning point. In past conflicts, drones were typically used by one side over largely uncontested airspace to locate and hit targets — for example, in U.S. operations in Afghanistan and the Middle East. In the battle between Russia and Ukraine, drones are integrated into every phase of fighting, with extensive fleets, air defenses and jamming systems on each side. It is a war fought at a distance — the enemy is often miles away — and nothing bridges the gap more than drones, giving Russia and Ukraine the ability to see, and attack, each other without ever getting close. Drones have become so critical to battlefield success that at times they are used to take out other drones. In early September, just days before Ukraine launched an offensive to expel Russian forces from its northeastern Kharkiv region, a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone flew through a gap between two jamming systems near the Russian border. It crossed into Russia and turned north across the Belgorod region, where Russia bases equipment to support its war in eastern Ukraine. The drone spotted a base for Moscow’s own unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), according to overhead images captured by the Ukrainians. In one frame, a Russian Orlan-10, with a trademark propeller on its nose, could be seen sitting in the field beside a house. Then in an “after” photo, the house had a hole in its roof, and an ambulance could be seen driving up. A Ukrainian attack drone had followed the same route as the reconnaissance drone — and delivered a strike on the fleet of enemy “eyes.” The attack dealt a blow to the Russian forces’ ability to see the Ukrainian offensive coming and to counterattack. Article includes information about various specific types of drones and how they are being used by Russian and Ukrainian forces. The most popular drone used by each side can fit in your hand — more a bug than a bird. The small Mavic quadcopter, which like the Matrice 300 is produced by Chinese manufacturer DJI, costs less than $4,000 online. Yuri Baluyevsky, a retired general who served as chief of Russia’s armed forces, called it “a true symbol of modern warfare,” in a book on advanced military strategies published this year. “Two main developments are going to impact future war,” said Samuel Bendett, a military analyst at the Virginia-based research group CNA. “The proliferation and availability of combat drones for longer-ranged, more-sophisticated operations, and the absolute necessity to have cheap tactical drones for close-support operations.” In Ukraine, that future is now. (Paywall waived.)

TSA Now Wants to Scan Your Face at Security. Here Are Your Rights. – (Washington Post – December 2, 2022)

The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly testing controversial facial recognition technology for passenger screening at 16 major domestic airports — from Washington to Los Angeles — and hopes to expand it across the United States as soon as next year. Kiosks with cameras are doing a job that used to be completed by humans: checking the photos on travelers’ IDs to make sure they’re not impostors. The TSA says facial recognition, which has been banned by cities such as San Francisco, helps improve security and possibly also efficiency. But it’s also bringing an unproven tech, with civil rights ramifications we still just don’t understand, to one of the most stressful parts of travel. Everybody wants better safety, but is this really safer — and what are its real costs? For this article, TSA’s Jason Lim, who helps run the program formally known as Credential Authentication Technology with Camera (CAT-2) and Albert Fox Cahn, the founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, or STOP, and one of the biggest critics of facial recognition, were interviewed. Currently the TSA has put some important constraints on its use of facial recognition — but its current programs are just the beginning. The TSA is also running a pilot of a second system at a few airports where you don’t even have to present your physical ID for inspection. Your face is your ID. No, you don’t have to participate in facial recognition at the airport. Whether you’ll feel like you have a real choice is a separate question. (Paywall waived.)

Twitter Censorship Files Expose Partisan Intelligence Officials in Secret Alliance with Complicit Media – (VIVR – December 15, 2022)

For months before the actual consummation of the sale that gave him ownership, Elon Musk vowed to return free speech to the massive social media platform that is Twitter. And there have been some discoveries that are as stunning as they are unnerving. The release by Musk of internal emails highlights Twitter’s 2020 censorship and suppression of the New York Post story a month before the 2020 presidential election.  These revelations make undeniable the blatant conflicts of interest, influence peddling and likely crimes of Hunter Biden and the incestuous complicity of his business partner, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Who persuaded the Twitter brass of 2020—not to mention the corrupt and highly partisan national media—to suppress the story? Two former Democratic intelligence officials, James Clapper and John Brennan.  How did they manage this? By deceitfully issuing a press release that they believed the laptop may have been hacked and its content was “Russian disinformation.” This matters because the revelation of influence-peddling by Hunter Biden just prior to the election was obviously newsworthy given that former VP Biden had repeatedly said he had “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” The emails effectively proved that Joe Biden was not only aware of his son’s business dealings but actually participated in meetings in support of this lucrative, international scheme to sell access to the U.S. Government. Thus, it is demonstrable that Joe Biden lied directly to the American people throughout the 2020 campaign and in the Presidential Debates. Current and former U.S. intelligence officials have authority by dint of access to information that isn’t confirmable by the press, which takes their spin as gospel. As the Wall St. Journal notes, “This is a form of political corruption that needs to be exposed, and perhaps the Twitter documents will help to unlock the story.”

US Prison Labor Boosts Hundreds of Private Companies and Helps Expand the Carceral State – (Naked Capitalism – December 11, 2022)

Tennessee, Alabama, Oregon, and Vermont voted in the November elections to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while Louisiana did not. The votes had to do with the hundreds of thousands of incarcerated Americans forced to work for pennies an hour – and sometimes no wage at all. The four approved initiatives won’t bring about any immediate changes in the states’ prisons, but they could remove some barriers to legal challenges over the brutal treatment of prisoners. There are reasons to doubt much change will come from the votes. Colorado voters made slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional in 2018, but the state’s court of appeals just recently decided that the people did not mean to abolish the state Department of Corrections’ prison labor program. There are also rules in place from the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 that make it nearly impossible for prisoners to enforce what little rights they have in court. The law requires that incarcerated people exhaust purposefully burdensome and opaque administrative avenues within correctional facilities before they can bring a suit in court. As expected, this leads to retaliation from correctional officers. Forced prison labor allows the system to grow without becoming too much of a strain on tax dollars, and it helps private companies maximize profits. Incarcerated workers earn little pay that is often garnished and in seven states they are paid nothing at all for most jobs. Nationally, incarcerated workers produce more than $2 billion a year in goods and commodities and over $9 billion a year in services for the maintenance of the prisons where they are warehoused. The ACLU research found that the average minimum hourly wage for non-industry work is 13 cents with an average maximum of 52 cents. And because incarcerated workers’ wages are so low, families already struggling from the loss of income when a family member is incarcerated and removed from household wage earning must step in to financially support an incarcerated loved one. Families with an incarcerated loved one spend an estimated $2.9 billion a year on commissary accounts and phone calls – which is additional revenue for the prisons.

The Twitter Files – (Scheer Post – December 4, 2022)

This article is a thread of Tweets written by Matt Taibbi on Dec. 2 about Twitter’s content moderation practices—specifically dealing with the Hunter Biden laptop story—after being given internal documents by Elon Musk. Outlets like USA Today have reported they have not been able to verify the authenticity of the emails. The thread was promoted by Musk stating “The public deserves to know what really happened …” In an early conception, Twitter more than lived up to its mission statement, giving people “the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.” As time progressed, however, the company was slowly forced to add those barriers. Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters. Then slowly, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”

Cloud Wars: Mideast Rivalries Rise Along a New Front – (New York Times – August 28, 2022)

Iranian officials have worried for years that other nations have been depriving them of one of their vital water sources. But it was not an upstream dam that they were worrying about, or an aquifer being bled dry. In 2018, amid a searing drought and rising temperatures, some senior officials concluded that someone was stealing their water from the clouds. “Both Israel and another country are working to make Iranian clouds not rain,” Brig. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, a senior official in the country’s powerful Revolutionary Guards Corps, said in a 2018 speech. The unnamed country was the United Arab Emirates, which had begun an ambitious cloud-seeding program, injecting chemicals into clouds to try to force precipitation. As the Middle East and North Africa dry up, countries in the region have embarked on a race to develop the chemicals and techniques that they hope will enable them to squeeze rain drops out of clouds that would otherwise float fruitlessly overhead. With 12 of the 19 regional countries averaging less than 10 inches of rainfall a year, a decline of 20% over the past 30 years, their governments are desperate for any increment of fresh water, and cloud seeding is seen by many as a quick way to tackle the problem. And as wealthy countries like the emirates pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the effort, other nations are joining the race, trying to ensure that they do not miss out on their fair share of rainfall before others drain the heavens dry — despite serious questions about whether the technique generates enough rainfall to be worth the effort and expense. Morocco and Ethiopia have cloud-seeding programs, as does Iran. Saudi Arabia just started a large-scale program, and a half-dozen other Middle Eastern and North African countries are considering it. However, China has the most ambitious program worldwide, with the aim of either stimulating rain or halting hail across half the country. It is trying to force clouds to rain over the Yangtze River, which is running dry in some spots. While cloud seeding has been around for 75 years, experts say the science has yet to be proven. And they are especially dismissive of worries about one country draining clouds dry at the expense of others downwind. (Paywall waived.)

Amid Public Outcry, San Francisco Officials Reverse Course and Reject Police Use of Robots to Kill – (CNN – December 7, 2022)

San Francisco officials have voted against a controversial measure that would have allowed police to deploy robots to use lethal force in extreme situations, reversing course after public outcry against the policy. The about-face from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors comes a week after the board voted to approve the policy in an initial first reading vote, which prompted a protest at City Hall Monday, with some holding signs that said, “NO KILLER ROBOTS!” In the second vote, the board voted to remove text pertaining to robots and use of lethal force, according to Natalie Gee, the chief of staff for the board’s president. The text was initially included as part of a larger ordinance aiming to approve San Francisco Police Department funding and use of certain law enforcement equipment, Gee said. The mayor still has to approve the general ordinance before it goes into effect. Supervisor Hillary Ronen said, “The public outcry helped six Supervisors fully appreciate the gravity of last week’s vote and the numerous unanswered questions about both the ethics and practical implications of allowing police to use machines to kill human beings.”

Earth Has Been Hit by an Unusual, Intense Blast of Energy from Nearby Galaxy That Could Change Our Understanding of the Universe – (MSN – December 9, 2022)

Orion Flies Far Beyond the Moon, Returns an Instantly Iconic Photo – (Futurism – November 29, 2022)

AI Predicts Future Heart Disease Risk Using Single Chest X-Ray

Breakthrough Innovations of the Year – (Atlantic – December 8, 2022)

Artificial Intelligence Is Permeating Business at Last – (Economist – December 6, 2022)

After a Massacre, Stores, Clubs, Offices Confront Whether to Reopen — and How – (Washington Post – December 9, 2022)

Decoupling Spells an End to Corporate Opacity – (FT – December 12, 2022)

We Need to Talk about Why Russia Invaded Ukraine – (Independent – December 8, 2022)

Why Penrose Tiles Never Repeat – (YouTube – December 1, 2022)