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Study warns about male chromosome

An analysis of the genetics of spiny rats may have shown men’s future, scientists say

A study has led researchers to believe that the male Y chromosome might disappear in the future. Such a hypothesis emerged after scientists examined a Japanese spiny rat species.

The rats in question no longer depend upon the old male chromosome to encode male sex characteristics. Instead, a “totally new” one has evolved to take its place, scholars from Hokkaido University revealed in work published last month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

While the Y chromosomes of mammals have been shrinking and deteriorating in function over millions of years, the analysis of the rats found on the Amami Islands indicates that this new chromosome may now switch on male sex characteristics.

Japanese researcher Asato Kuroiwa and other scholars extrapolated the results of the experiment to humanity. “There’s no reason to think our Y chromosome is any more robust than the spiny rat’s,” Jenny Graves of Australia’s La Trobe University told the New Scientist earlier this week. She has previously predicted the Y chromosome will cease to exist within 10 million years.

“When humans run out of Y chromosome, they might become extinct (if we haven't already extincted ourselves long since), or they might evolve a new sex gene that defines new sex chromosomes,” she hypothesized.

Other researchers observed that even if the disappearance of the Y chromosome meant the demise of male mammals, this wouldn’t necessarily spell the end of the species. “Females, by which I here mean organisms that produce large gametes called egg cells, can – in some species – self-fertilize,” Carleton University sex evolution researcher Root Gorelick told Newsweek.

https://www.rt.com/news/567619-spiny-rats-chromosomes-males/

Full list of Israeli high-tech layoffs in 2022==

The financial crisis is taking its toll on Israeli high-tech, with numerous companies parting ways with significant portions of their workforce

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Bizzabo laying off another 100 employees, cutting almost 40% of remaining workforce

Five months ago the event planning platform parted with 120 employees, meaning it has cut more than half of its team since July

Unicorn Trax embarks on another round of layoffs, parting with 8% of workforce

The Israeli company will be laying off another 70-80 employees after parting with over 100 workers in June

Fintech unicorn Rapyd set to lay off dozens of employees

Israel’s highest-valued startup, which reached a $15 billion valuation earlier this year, could lay off more than 10% of its 900 employees

Fintech unicorn Capitolis cuts almost 25% of workforce

The company, which raised $110 million at a $1.4 billion valuation this past March, is laying off 37 employees in total

Similarweb sacks 130 employees, 10% of workforce

“We have made the very difficult decision to reduce our headcount in preparation for prolonged changes in demand,” said CEO Or Offer, who believes the company can become profitable in 2023

Unicorn Yotpo lays off 70 employees, 9% of team

The marketing service is cutting its workforce after significantly increasing hiring following a $230 million funding round at a $1.4 billion valuation in March 2021

Philips Israel laying off dozens of employees as part of global cutbacks

The Dutch technology giant announced last month that it would be cutting 4,000 jobs worldwide

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https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1eqoenoc

'Twitter Files' Fallout Rains Down as Texas Congressman Confirms 'Investigations Are Coming'

Elon Musk’s release of information detailing how Twitter suppressed speech during the 2020 presidential election is only the beginning of the story, according to one Texas congressman.

“Investigations are coming,” Republican Rep. Troy Nehls of Texas tweeted Friday.

Earlier Friday, journalist Matt Taibbi released internal Twitter communications that showed Twitter employees took down tweets at the behest of the Biden campaign and the Trump White House. Taibbi noted that because the Twitter staff was overwhelmingly liberal, there were “more channels” to censor speech available to the left.

As Nehls promised an investigation, others noted that the liberal media was ignoring the release of the “Twitter Files.”

Fox News host Dan Bongino said the censorship revealed by the Twitter Files is troubling.

“The government cannot deputize private actors to do what the government is forbidden from doing constitutionally,” Bongino said Saturday.

“On free speech, this most sacred of rights, you can’t say to Twitter, ‘Listen, you need to do this on our behalf and communicate with government officials because we can’t do it ourselves,’ and do kind of an end-around,” he said.

Bongino said the truly scary issue is that this was only one instance of Big Tech muzzling speech.

“If they don’t like an opinion, they’ll call something ‘missing context’ or whatever,” Bongino said of Facebook fact-checkers.

“It then reduces the reach of your page and shuts you down. And if you get a strike you can be entirely demonetized and kicked off the platform. They never do that to liberals. This war on free speech is real.”

Bongino said free speech should be a unifying issue, citing Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, who the Twitter Files revealed raised concerns with a Twitter executive over the censorship of stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal.

“I’ll go to war with anyone — with the ACLU, Ro Khanna, Bernie Sanders,” Bongino said. “The best counter to free speech you don’t like is other free speech. I mean, didn’t we used to all agree on this? What’s happened?”

https://www.westernjournal.com/twitter-files-fallout-rains-texas-congressman-confirms-investigations-coming/

LIBBY EMMONS: Neuralink Seeks to Transform Human Beings Into Simply Another Data Port in the Internet of Things

Neuralink is coming, and it won’t be pretty. The device, which offers miracle cures for paralysis, also ushers in a new era of human-to-machine interface that has so far primarily been the dark fantasy of dystopian fiction.

The idea is a noble one, and it belongs to that purveyor of grand ideas, Twitter, Space X, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Twitter may usher in a free speech revolution, Space X promises to normalize consumer space travel, Tesla offers self-driving cars, but Neuralink offers an evolution into a new kind of human.

The human of Neuralink is neither human nor machine but a hybrid, and combination of thoughts and gears, for whom thoughts do not generate only from the mind, but can be generated externally, by a device plugged into the brain and affecting internal intellectual interactions.

The device is straightforward enough, and the implications for the disabled are rather staggering. Neuralink is a brain-computer interface, or BCI. At present, human beings interface with computers through the intermediary of both the human body and the computing device. We type with our fingers onto a keyboard, we see the computer screen with our eyes, the body remains separate from computer, and computer stands alone from human being.

With Neuralink, those intermediaries of body and device are done away with, and what remains is a direct connection between thought and data. While the current interface allows information only to be input one way, i.e. humans input commands to a computer, Neuralink will allow two-way communication.

Just as a smart fridge can communicate with local supermarkets and let you know where you can go to restock your soy milk and avocados, Neuralink will be able to communicate with your thoughts to provide data that you have thought of, perhaps, but not sought out. The obvious example of this would be the grand scale of something we already experience, such as doing an internet search for an item only to then be bombarded with ads for that item across social media platforms, but it could also be far more insidious.

Imagine a dissident in an oppressive nation thinking about the best ways to protest Covid lockdowns, for example, such as the Freedom Convoy protestors did in Canada, or the White Paper Revolutionaries in China. Imagine this person coming up with ways to protest, only to have censors tracking Neuralink interfaces to find that person, and then target them with alternative data to veer them into another direction.

Would the dissident know that their thoughts are being moved to align with an authoritarian agenda? Further, what kind of literal, actual thought control could be implemented by the makers, managers, and algorithm creators of Neuralink or the associated apps and software that will likely come along with it? Just as Apple restricted its AirDrop function during the anti-censorship White Paper protests in China, so too could Neuralink interfere with the thoughts and data streams, both input and output, of those seeking to protest oppression, suppression, and censorship worldwide.

That is a distinct possibility, and considering the imaginings for the product, which go far beyond simple medical miracles, it is assuredly on the way. The possibilities for authoritarian control of human beings is multiplying.

If self-driving cars and a central digital currency are linked to brains, how hard would it be for a social credit system to become a thought control mechanism where those who think anti-government thoughts, or thoughts that contain what authorities have decided is "misinformation," could be limited from making purchases, could have their freedom of movement restricted, until their thoughts are altered with curated data that complies with regulators and authorities?

It sounds crazy, but so too did many ideas that have become reality in recent years.

https://humanevents.com/2022/12/01/libby-emmons-neuralink-seeks-to-transform-human-beings-into-simply-another-data-port-in-the-internet-of-things