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Google’s Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant

By Marcus Wohlsen
WIRED
01.27.14

Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known for. The web’s most powerful company is filling its shopping cart with artificial intelligence algorithms, robots, and smart gadgets for the home. It’s on a mission to build an enormous digital brain that operates as much like the human mind as possible — and, in many ways, even better.

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2014/01/27

Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS)

Gift Intelligence

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Last Mile Mobile Solutions Program Streamlines Food and Aid Distribution in Real Time

ThoughtWorks, a global technology company, in partnership with the Christian humanitarian agency World Vision Canada, announced that over 137,000 people affected by Typhoon Haiyan have received supplies, including rice and cash distributions via World Vision’s Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS) system. The mobile program empowers mobile users to register recipient information electronically and ultimately produce a bar-coded photo card. When swiped on the same hand-held device, this card produces the information needed to determine and distribute food and non-food items.

Generating reports through LMMS takes just seconds and the time associated with planning and distribution of relief supplies has been significantly reduced. This allows aid agencies to reach more distressed communities in the Philippines with the same human and financial resources. To date, more than 27,500 households in the areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan have been registered through LMMS World Vision staff in the Philippines. In addition, global humanitarian agencies, such as Oxfam, are being trained to implement the use of LMMS in their own relief efforts for Typhoon Haiyan.

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Yoda: The NSA’s Losing Argument

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Impotency, Military

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The NSA’s Losing Argument

The Editors, Bloomberg, 26 January 2014

Of the many questions that still surround the National Security Agency’s vast global spying operations, one seems especially pertinent: Do they actually work? That is, have they helped to prevent terrorist attacks against Americans?

In the case of the NSA’s phone-data program — in which the agency vacuums up information about essentially every call made by Americans — it’s getting harder and harder for the government to answer yes. The latest evidence comes from a report last week by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent federal agency established on the recommendation of the Sept. 11 Commission to balance the right to liberty against the need to prevent terrorism.

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Anthony Judge: Quantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok Thrival in crisis through embodying turbulent flow

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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Quantum Wampum Essential to Navigating Ragnarok

Thrival in crisis through embodying turbulent flow

Introduction
Collapse of confidence, value, meaning, honour, options and patience
Wampum and its modern variants
Transcending the binary framing of confidence
Implications of quantum framing of reality
Enabling radical reframing of reality by non-physicists
Technomimicry as key to a new mode of knowing?
Cognitive constraints on conventional “life raft” design
Interweaving threads beyond the standard model: “life crafting”?
Distinguishing the elements of “quantum wampum” essential to “life crafting”
Circulation of the light: What flows? What circulates? Cryptocurrency?
References

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Robert Reich: Why Revolution is Dead in the USA

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This post originally ran on Robert Reich’s Web page.

People ask me all the time why we don’t have a revolution in America, or at least a major wave of reform similar to that of the Progressive Era or the New Deal or the Great Society.

Middle incomes are sinking, the ranks of the poor are swelling, almost all the economic gains are going to the top, and big money is corrupting our democracy. So why isn’t there more of a ruckus?

The answer is complex, but three reasons stand out.

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Berto Jongman: Atrocities Etcetera + Best of Ukraine 1.7

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence

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9/11: CIA black operation murders Philip Marshall? (Wayne Madsen)

BITCOIN: arrest of operators of two exchanges

BOOK: Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict

CHINA: annual urban exodus tracked by Baida

CONGO: ambush of commander

CONGO: situation worsening

CYBER: cash registers – crime wave

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2014/01/27

John Maguire: Hacking Cold Fusion

05 Energy, Earth Intelligence

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Hacking Cold Fusion

Cold Fusion (aka Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR) is on the precipice of altering the landscape of energy-production, and along with it, the cultural landscape as well. Four separate companies: Industrial Heat LLC, Brillouin Energy Corporation, Defkalion Green Technologies, and Blacklight Power all appear to be on the threshold of breaking into the marketplace with cheap, environmentally safe, and virtually limitless energy technologies. Beyond energy, LENR-based processes hold promise for both the desalination of drinking water and the remediation of nuclear waste. My presentation will focus not only on the technical applications of the CF-LENR phenomenon, but also the sociological and historical implications as well.

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