Society needs to adjust so that people can continue to exist without being tracked by an electronic device in their pocket.

I would rather buy and use a Chinese computer than subscribe to an American compute service. This financialisation/rentier model needs to die.

The Fed has already returned to Quantitative Easing (printing money to buy US government bonds). The US Economy is facing collapse like it has been since 2007. There is no growth in the economy, just share prices being pushed up by new money being pushed into the system. It's why cost of living is in a crisis. Only the wealthy are getting richer and they're doing it at the expense of the poor and middle classes. Watch gold and silver prices. The price of both is going to continue increasing as countries look to dump the US Dollar and hedge the inflation the Federal Reserve is creating.

IRC is set to make a massive return to Australia.

Shouldn't they just wash out the donor face leaving behind the collagen matrix and grow a new face based on the recipient's own stem cells? Seems counter productive using a face that's not bio-compatible with the recipient.

Went to Cisco Live, saw their AI strategy, none of it is generative AI, all of it is about making processes automated/more tools for administrators/users to leverage existing data sets. Everything Microsoft/OpenAI has done has felt like a solution looking for a problem. The Cisco AI tools look nothing like that. Active threat defence, using Splunk and AI to drill down and find people abusing networks and locking them out before automating the PIR write up. The tech demos were impressive as hell. They've also stated their AI processes have to be repeatable and predictable unlike OpenAI's generative mess.

I don't think people hate science but they should and do hate when scientists abuse their position for personal gain. Perfect example: Michio Kaku. This guy's background is in Theoretical physics yet he goes on and talks out of his ass about AI, Computers and the techno-rapture. It's ridiculous. You wouldn't ask a mechanic about your house's electrical work what the hell would a theoretical physicist know about microchip design/trends in computing? There has been zero evidence that AGI is about to exist and the people hyping it up are frauds.

A great example of this is the theory that the universe is a 4-Dimensional particle falling into a black hole in a 4-Dimensional Universe. As it falls it's undergoing spaghettification. This neatly explains the Inflation at the start of the universe, and even explains the heat death/giant rip theory of universe death as it suggests the entire universe will convert into Hawking radiation and evaporate off over time. It's a neat idea. But it's not science. There's no way to prove that this is what's happening. At best it's an untestable hypothesis.

A lot of the physics coming out has been impossible to prove rubbish. Ideas that can't be tested with/verified by experiments. It's a pretty simple bar: If it can be reproduced/matched with lab results it's science. If it can't it's bunkum.

Considering there is no unified theory of economics, just like there hasn't been a unified theory of physics. It seems a bit premature to declare the death of economics teaching.

100% correct, de-banking should be illegal. If we do eliminate cash from the global economy there needs to be a public alternative to private banks. We cannot allow the power to censor to like in the hands of a few wealthy elites.

This is about finance throwing it's weight around and is a great argument as to why cash remains critical in the global economy. We don't need central control busy-bodies getting into everyone's lives trying to force people to conform to their vision of what is right and wrong.

Didn't they already disprove dark matter, they found large webs of hot gas out in the universe between galaxies which are the missing matter. The standard cosmological model fits with the new mass that was found.

I Live in Australia, BYD is everywhere. The cars are popular and we are not heading about defects. There are so many of the cars around we'd be hearing about it. I drive a Mitsubishi Lancer. Japanese cars are still the preferred choice. BMW/Mercedes are still seen as the highest end (outside of ferrari/lambo etc).

I'm making years of progress in minutes, developing tools for open source game development. Asset viewers, asset editors etc. ChatGPT can output a 3D model viewer in seconds when you tell it what API you want to use. My API of choice has been Gtkmm-3.0. I describe the UI I want, usually with a tree view or canvas view. Once I've defined the UI, I define what content I want in it and the system generates it. It is working incredibly well. I've also developed a working Audio control panel for GNUstep that seamlessly integrates into SystemPreferences.app and wrapping pipewire, next will be Network-Manager and and Wayland-randr/X11-Randr Control Panels for monitor setup. It's bringing the dream of a Mac-Like open source desktop closer to reality.