Good video ..short but worth the watch
Paul McCartney - Good Day Sunshine -Live Hi Quality-Best Performance
GitHub’s Top 100 Most Valuable Repositories Out of 96 Million
What’s shaping our technology world
GitHub is not just a code hosting service with version control — it’s also an enormous developer network.
The sheer size of GitHub at over 30 million accounts, more than 2 million organizations, and over 96 million repositories translates into one of the world’s most valuable development networks.
How do you quantify the value of this network? And is there a way to get the top repositories?
https://hackernoon.com/githubs-top-100-most-valuable-repositories-out-of-96-million-bb48caa9eb0b?source=collection_home—3——3———————
EU On AI Ethics: Must ‘Enhance Positive Social Change’
EU Technocrats define ethics for AI: “Environmental and societal well-being — AI systems should be sustainable and “enhance positive social change.” This is the coveted ‘Science of Social Engineering’ that harkens back to the original Technocracy movement in the 1930s. ⁃ TN Editor
The European Union today published a set of guidelines on how companies and governments should develop ethical applications of artificial intelligence.
These rules aren’t like Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics.” They don’t offer a snappy, moral framework that will help us control murderous robots. Instead, they address the murky and diffuse problems that will affect society as we integrate AI into sectors like health care, education, and consumer technology.
So, for example, if an AI system diagnoses you with cancer sometime in the future, the EU’s guidelines would want to make sure that a number of things take place: that the software wasn’t biased by your race or gender, that it didn’t override the objections of a human doctor, and that it gave the patient the option to have their diagnosis explained to them.
So, yes, these guidelines are about stopping AI from running amuck, but on the level of admin and bureaucracy, not Asimov-style murder mysteries.
https://www.technocracy.news/eu-on-ai-ethics-enhance-positive-social-change/
Brexit Party Takes Wide Lead in Wales, Second Place in Remain-Voting Scotland
The Brexit Party has taken a massive 17-point lead over the pro-Remain Welsh nationalist party in Wales in a poll ahead of Thursday’s European Parliament elections.
The YouGov poll published Monday revealed Nigel Farage’s party to have the support of 36 per cent of voters in the country, which voted to leave the European Union in June 2016.
Plaid Cymru, which advocates for Welsh independence from the UK yet supports being subjugated to rule by the EU, has the support of 19 per cent of Welshmen, followed by Labour (15 per cent), the Liberal Democrats (ten per cent), the Green Party (eight per cent), and the Conservatives (seven per cent).
The news comes as another YouGov poll puts the Brexit Party in second place in Scotland — an extraordinary position given that that country voted Remain by nearly two votes to one (62 per cent to 38 per cent).
The pro-Remain, leftist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) led voter support on 38 per cent, with the Brexit Party following at 20 per cent. The poll also revealed that just one in five Scotsmen would vote for either the Tories or Labour.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/21/brexit-party-takes-lead-pro-leave-wales-second-place-remain-voting-scotland/
Facebook’s Surveillance-Like Software Is Called Audience Network
This may be hard to picture now, but in 2012, Facebook was struggling. The newly public company wasn’t meeting Wall Street’s demands for sales and profit, and the stock price was down from $38 per share at the IPO to $19 per share. Mark Zuckerberg’s ambitions to be a predominant tech company on the NASDAQ were failing. Meanwhile, macro-economic conditions were rosy, so this downturn was especially disappointing to Facebook investors, which in turn, caused mounting pressure for the social network.
It’s important to note that “selling data” is the correct terminology as advertisers buy ads on Facebook for the data, as opposed to print, television or radio ads which are bought based on the content. You are buying the data when you buy a Facebook ad, although Mark Zuckerberg led Congress to believe otherwise.
The betrayal was two-fold. On one hand, a first-party data company boldly entered the third-party data marketplace to broker data, risking the trust of its social media users. Secondly, Facebook did everything in its power to make sure social media users would not find out. Audience Network, which fuels a substantial portion of Facebook’s revenue from the social network, has not been disclosed to the public to this day. It is eerily absent from PR releases and discussions around privacy. Unless a Facebook user was a detective, they would have no reasonable way to know that Facebook operates Audience Network and is selling private data across hundreds of thousands of applications at an estimated 40% of the app market.
https://hackernoon.com/facebooks-surveillance-like-software-is-called-audience-network-56c3e76cdb89?source=collection_home—4——0———————
Rotting Trash Piles Sky-High in LA, Attracting Rats and Raising Concerns of a New Epidemic
After reporting a LA's most notorious trash pile to the city's 311 services hotline, the I-Team was told it could take up to 90 days before it's cleaned up. An expert says there's no time to waste
By Joel Grover and Amy Corral
Rat-infested piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to clean it up, are fueling concerns about a new epidemic after last year's record number of flea-borne typhus cases.
Even the city's most notorious trash pile, located between downtown LA's busy Fashion and Produce districts, continues to be a magnet for rats after it was cleaned up months ago. The rodents can carry typhus-infected fleas, which can spread the disease to humans through bacteria rubbed into the eyes or cuts and scrapes on the skin, resulting in severe flu-like symptoms.
The NBC4 I-Team first told Mayor Eric Garcetti's office about the piles of filth in the 700 block of Ceres Avenue in October. At the time, he promised to make sure trash doesn't pile up like that.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/Rats-Fleas-Los-Angeles-Garbage-Trash-Piles-Health-Mayor-Eric-Garcetti-510171121.html
We need to fight red flag laws head on, not hide
AmmoLand News’ pundit John Farnam recently wrote a thought-provoking article on how gun owners should behave in states that have adopted “Red Flag” laws, where your guns can be confiscated for an arbitrary amount of time-based on someone else’s word that you are a danger to yourself or others.
(Article by Philip Van Cleave republished from AmmoLand.com)
Under Red Flag laws your “due process” won’t come for weeks or months after they have already confiscated all your firearms, with no actual crime having been committed. And how does one even PROVE that they are not dangerous? And if a person is truly dangerous, why don’t the Red Flag laws make any attempt to have the “dangerous” person taken into custody or to get them help?
Red Flag laws violate the the following Amendments to the Constitution:
2nd (right to keep and bear arms)
4th (protection against unreasonable search and seizures)
5th (right to due process, just compensation, self-incrimination)
and 6th (right to confront accusers, cross-examine witnesses, have a public defender).
John and I are looking at this situation from two different angles. John’s advice is meant to keep gun owners from being victims of Red Flag laws by having them stay under the radar. That is a laudable goal meant to save as many gun owners as possible from falling in the unconstitutional Red Flag web. John suggests hiding your gun ownership to as high a degree as possible. Only people with a need to know should know.
https://www.liberty.news/2019-05-15-we-need-to-fight-red-flag-laws-head-on-not-hide.html
Just Beautiful and dam I wish I lived in the land of underground skyscrapers and airports built on the ocean ,, whenever I watch this video kek
Deep Purple - Woman from Tokyo
Supreme Court deals Apple massive blow by allowing antitrust lawsuit to proceed against tech giant’s monopoly over iPhone apps
In an age where just a few companies have control over nearly all of the technology market, it was only a matter of time before consumers got some legal relief from their monopolistic practices.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a consumer-driven antitrust lawsuit against behemoth Apple can proceed regarding its exclusive control over the iPhone apps marketplace, potentially cutting massively into the company’s portion of billions of dollars in sales of software.
As The Wall Street Journal reports:
Plaintiffs, who are suing on behalf of a class of app purchasers, allege consumers pay inflated prices because Apple requires that all phone software be sold and purchased through the company’s App Store. Apps would be cheaper if software developers could sell them directly and bypass Apple as a middleman, the lawsuit alleges.
In most cases, Apple extracts a 30-percent cut of all apps that it sells. In addition, Apple receives 15 percent of subscriptions that are sold via its App Store after a subscriber’s first year as a member.
The suit contends that other App Store rules affect pricing as well like the company’s mandate that every app price point end in “99 cents.” That means app developers can only establish prices in increments of a dollar, such as $1.99, etc.
https://www.liberty.news/2019-05-14-supreme-court-deals-apple-massive-blow-antitrust-lawsuit.html
If memory serve the U'S Government actually told all the athletes to remove phone battery while in china.. because of their ability to listen in and spy.. but that is not on this list
5 Beijing 2008 Olympics Controversies That The 2022 Host City Really Needs To Learn From
https://www.bustle.com/articles/101235-5-beijing-2008-olympics-controversies-that-the-2022-host-city-really-needs-to-learn-from
Google and Big Tech Are Already Implementing Their Chinese-Tested Blacklists on US Conservatives
In November 2018 The Guardian reported on group of Google employees published an open letter on Tuesday calling on their employer to cancel its plans to build a censored search engine for China, the latest expression of worker unrest at a company that earlier this month saw thousands stage walkouts over its handling of sexual misconduct cases.
The Google employees were very upset that Google’s Project Dragonfly would allow the Chinese government to blacklist certain search terms. The employees said, “Many of us accepted employment at Google with the company’s values in mind… After a year of disappointments … we no longer believe this is the case.”
Just months later it is now obvious that Google, Facebook and Twitter are using their own blacklists of prominent conservatives and their supporters.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/google-and-big-tech-are-already-implementing-their-chinese-tested-blacklists-on-us-conservatives/
The get away quick kind kek
They think of everything.and anything to keep control over everyone…dirty bastards
DUMBING Down Of America: SAT Exam Will Now Include ‘ADVERSITY SCORE’ (VIDEO)
Students who take the SAT exam will now be given a secret ‘adversity score.’
SAT exam takers will be given an adversity score between 1 to 100, with a higher score signaling a higher level of adversity.
The adversity score will be determined by 15 different factors, including: The crime rate and poverty rate of the area where the student is from, the household income of the student, and the quality of the student’s high school. Students will also earn a higher adversity score if English isn’t their first language.
The College Board said the adversity score will not consider the race of the student. However, many critics of the adversity score have pointed out that the score seems to use many factors that are heavily correlated with race.
This fall, 150 colleges plan to use the adversity score in their admissions processes.
This new policy has received major backlash from Americans who believe that college admissions should be solely based on academic performance.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/dumbing-down-of-america-sat-exam-will-now-include-adversity-score-video/
NOW YOU KNOW WHY NO BIG NAME ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE… YET… They would of all walked free anyway.. how long have people cried like babies on this board and called Q names because they can't figure this out … NOT to worry their time is coming
Egypt aims to become regional digital centre for date transfer between continents: Al-Sisi
President discusses bilateral, regional issues with Putin in Beijing
resident Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stressed Egypt’s keenness on the strategic partnership with China in view of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which he said addresses vital sectors and priority areas for Egypt within the framework of Egypt 2030 Vision for Sustainable Development.
During his speech in the first session of the roundtable on the BRI annual summit in China, on Saturday, the president stressed the close relationship between the development of infrastructure and the achievement of comprehensive development.
He further called for the urgent need to provide financing for infrastructure projects in Africa in order to achieve development, explaining that Egypt is aiming to become a regional digital centre, for data transfer between continents.
On Friday, Al-Sisi said during the opening session of the summit, that the BRI addresses the upgrading of infrastructure in the fields of transport, energy, information technology, and utility projects.
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2019/04/27/egypt-aims-to-become-regional-digital-centre-for-date-transfer-between-continents-al-sisi/
How did you get my pic.. thought people don't dox on 8Ch.. dam can't trust anyone anymore kek
Monsanto spied on friend and foe alike in several countries to sway opinion on GMO & herbicides
The recently exposed illegal dossier US herbicide maker Monsanto, now owned by German pharmaceutical firm Bayer, apparently compiled to influence public opinion, included people from seven European states and maybe beyond.
Monsanto files listing prominent pro- and anti-herbicide public figures, initially revealed by French media, included “stakeholders in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as regarding stakeholders related to EU institutions,” AFP reported citing Bayer’s statement on Tuesday. The company added that it is currently trying to determine whether similar lists exist in other states and hired a law firm for this purpose.
https://www.rt.com/business/459890-monsanto-watch-lists-eu/
Not really .. actually meant her .. she's beautiful .. hence the worth the watch part kek .. but the space shuttle pics were good 2 kek
Back when Music was good, People were real, and all the bullshit of Political Correctness was Unknown.
The Marshall Tucker Band & Charlie Daniels - 24 Hours at a Time - Volunteer Jam
Monty Python - Lumberjack Song
These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America
This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources.
That's consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983.
NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or Comcast or any media) anymore. So that 6th company is now Comcast. And Time Warner doesn't own AOL, so Huffington Post isn't affiliated with them.
But the fact that a few companies own everything demonstrates "the illusion of choice," Frugal Dad says. While some big sites, like Digg and Reddit aren't owned by any of the corporations, Time Warner owns news sites read by millions of Americans every year.
https://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
KEKEKEK that's funny almost as funny as the I'm not dead yet just hung over one kek