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Covid Round-Up

Details: Category: Covid; Published: 04 February 2025; Hits: 770

2025-02-04

This site has been reporting on Covid since for ever, to the point where we must surely have exhausted the historical facts, but the story has always become more complex as additional layers have been uncovered by independent investigators around the world.

So, far from being a simple instance of a pandemic, it has become an information mine for conspiracy theorists everywhere. Well, if you suspect a conspiracy, you need an conspiracy theorist (or several hundred) to investigate!

James Roguski reminds us of just how far from reality the original "simple pandemic" premise turned out to be.

Read his full article here. It's a useful summary of the main points of what we now know.

Watch the video from the article, or here below:

(31 minutes)

We reported on UK Column's interview with Sasha Latypova in 2022.

Your AI Therapist?

Details: Category: AI; Published: 04 February 2025; Hits: 2881

2025-02-04

Well, AI seems to be all the rage currently so yet another article on the topic may be in place.

As so often it's Martin Geddes who pushes the buttons to persuade AI into topics new. Far-fetched? Maybe not.

And AI is going to be around until it's uninvented, which "could be a while", so best get used to it.

Heck, I'm coming to accept that I may even have to play with it myself ...

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 04 February 2025; Hits: 697

2025-02-04

It does seem that we live in a time of great peril to the ordinary man or woman on the Clapham Omnibus.

AI is on the threshold of becoming ubiquitous in many spheres, but in none more so than in matters of government.

The reason of course is that AI tends to be big complex and expensive, and especially reliant on Big Data, and Big Training. It is also largely beyond the reach of those without Big Wallets Big connections and the aforementioned Big Data.

But it might bring the Big Statute Book within reach of Joe Citizen for specific queries.

So the main customers for AI will be Big Governments and their associated corporate contractors who will provide the interface between us and them.

It is also currently not so easy to comprehend the veracity of its results for any given sphere of enquiry, whilst being well within the means of the usual corporate suspects to design and deploy - and their customer will not be "us", it will be "them".

Should we trust it? How can we trust it? Is it even practicable to challenge it¹? Do we have any protection at all?

What could possibly go wrong?

¹The EU has begun the process of legislating for it. But unless every AI can, together with its results, provide a supporting list of assumptions and facts upon which it relied in order to come to its conclusions, then the chances of challenging them remain miniscule.

The Time of Creative Destruction?

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 04 February 2025; Hits: 666

2025-02-04

As always, this is not financial advice - nor is it party-political - but as usual it does throw some interesting observations on the intersection of politics and economics.

In fact I'm more than ever convinced that politics economics and psychology/psychopathy are just three sides of the same triangle. To learn any one or two without the other is simply to remain ignorant of the operation of the whole.

So today the good folk at Fortune and Freedom bring us not one, but two articles for the reading of one. If we have been following the scurrilous end of the social media channels, we may have been puzzled (especially if we've have been following the in-my-view highly dubious "Trump coin" caravan). So this may be of interest. And they don't come any more political than "the Donald".

Today we can see that we live in a time of the creative destruction of politics, economics, and psychopathy as currently practised ... and perhaps much more, since these in turn depend on our understanding of our historical development. Is our accepted history also bunk?

Whatever, our task is to prepare for the rebuilding that will follow. No pressure ...

Check it out.

Hot Air Meets Cold Air?

Details: Category: Free Citizen; Published: 04 February 2025; Hits: 684

2025-02-04

Can AI help us to understand why when politicians meet engineers, the result is not conducive to high standards and best practice?

It seems that it can, although progress may be dependent upon repeated questioning in order to tease out the full reasoning.

And of course, it depends which AI you choose to use. Fortunately, more AIs seem to be sprouting by the day, some with more specialist emphases. Time to dig in and get familiar?

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