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06-Apr-2018 3:22:28 PM EDT
Q !xowAT4Z3VQ
8ch/qresearch
>>922142
Fake pic push by MSM.
Videos / backup.
Google kill.
YouTube kill.
FB kill.
Twitter kill.
Yahoo kill.
Bing kill.
Instagram kill.
Net will be paused.
HAMMER.
On the clock.
Q
Preserve your digital history
The lesson? Don’t just wait for the worst-case scenario. Preserve those fragments of your digital life that really matter to you. If you’re not exactly sure where to start, here are a few suggestions.
1. Save bits of the web: If you’ve landed on a website with an image you’d like to hang on to, right-click it — or long-press, if you’re using your phone — and save it. (Since not all websites allow this, you may need to take a screenshot instead.)
If preserving individual webpages is more your concern, there are some easy options: On your computer, you could save the page as a PDF, or use a browser extension such as SingleFile to produce a near-perfect copy you can view in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. And if you’re trying save full versions of entire websites, tools like WAIL and ArchiveBox can help — they’re not for the faint of heart, but their results would make an internet preservationist proud.
2. Back up your devices: Between messages, photos, documents, emails, and downloads, gadgets like your smartphone and tablet contain loads of information you’ll probably want to hang on to. We’ve made some quick visual guides for backing up most of this data — you can find them here.
3. Don’t just rely on the cloud: Sure, Apple and Google probably aren’t in danger of imminent collapse. But that doesn’t mean you should trust your personal content to live on in just one place. It’s much better to embrace redundancies, so keep any important files or documents in the cloud and locally, say, on an external drive you can safely store at home.
4. Download those tweets: It’s not entirely clear when — or even if — Twitter will really start deleting people’s old, unused profiles. If the idea of someone’s profile vanishing fills you with dread, there are steps you can take to make sure those tweets and images continue to live on somewhere.
5. Archive voice mails: There are a few ways to do this, like exporting high-quality audio files from your smartphone, or recording from a more basic phone with a speaker feature and computer with a microphone. Either way, don’t let the sound of someone’s voice disappear before you’re ready.
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They thought it was coming yesterday.
They were wrong.
Follow the pen.
Q
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: ac4acf No.2809359 📁
Aug 30 2018 20:39:16 (EST)
Anonymous ID: 2a04a3 No.2809340 📁
Aug 30 2018 20:38:42 (EST)
On fox now,
Ohr kept Weissman in the loop on dossier.
Weissman is Meuller’s bulldog.
>>2809340
BIG!
Q
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 564cef No.2806823 📁
Aug 30 2018 18:56:13 (EST)
Anonymous ID: 11b426 No.2806653 📁
Aug 30 2018 18:49:58 (EST)
>>2806559
Please just keep POTUS safe, Q.
>>2806653
We will gladly end our lives to ensure he lives.
More than you can imagine.
Q
Ripple is rolling out a proprietary platform for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), enabling central banks, governments, and financial institutions to create their own digital currencies
Described as “a frictionless end-to-end solution,” the Ripple CBDC Platform builds on Ripple's Private Ledger, which was first introduced in 2021 for CBDC issuance. It's based on the same blockchain technology as the XRP Ledger (XRPL), which was also designed primarily for payments.
As a trusted partner to several central banks, we believe this platform will help solve problems for many central banks and governments who are devising plans and developing a technology strategy for CBDC Implementations,” said Ripple's vice president of CBDCs James Wallis.
Wallis added that the platform’s innovative capabilities “will help enable instant settlement of both domestic and cross-border payments, reduce risk, and improve the user experience of quickly sending and receiving digital currency on either side of a transaction.”
Despite a warning from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has successfully sold 14 billion Zimbabwean dollars’ worth of gold-backed digital tokens, equivalent to approximately $39 million. The central bank announced that it received 135 applications, totaling 14.07 billion Zimbabwean dollars, for the purchase of the gold-backed cryptocurrency.
The success of this initial sale has prompted the central bank to announce a second round of digital token sales. Applications are requested to be submitted this week for settlement by May 18. Dr. John Mangudya, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, emphasize on local channel that, the issuance of gold-backed digital tokens aims to expand the available value-preserving instruments in the economy and enhance the public’s access to and use of investment products by increasing their divisibility.
Hunan Province, China, has debuted new digital yuan loans for tech startups – with Beijing keen to explore more central bank digital currency (CBDC) financing options.
Per the Changsha Evening News, via JDZ, three startup founders became the first people to be awarded CBDC loans from the state-owned Bank of Communications.
In a first for the Bank of Communications and the province, around $87,000 in digital yuan tokens was granted as loans on May 12.
After years of explosive growth during the pandemic, Home Depot’s revenue during the first quarter fell short of expectations and the company cut its profit and sales outlook for the year, sending shares lower at the opening bell.
Home Depot on Tuesday projected its first decline in annual revenue since 2009 in the aftermath of the bursting of the housing bubble and financial crisis.
Home Depot $HD is a far bigger story than the debt ceiling
The Pandemic Housing Boom, which pushed national home prices up over 40%, coupled with last year’s mortgage rate shock, has resulted in a deterioration of housing affordability.
Fundamentally, every major housing market in the country is overpriced right now,” Matt Saunders, senior vice president of building products research at John Burns Research and Consulting, told Fortune, adding that this is generally true if you’re looking at it from a housing-cost-to-income ratio.
In order to address the affordability crunch, many builders are reducing home size.
“There’s really this active response by the builders to address these affordability concerns head-on, and one of the main kind of levers that they’re pulling is reducing home square footage,” Saunders said.
Looming behind market fears over the prospect of a historic US default is the less-discussed risk of what would follow a deal to resolve the debt-ceiling impasse.
Many on Wall Street predict lawmakers will ultimately reach an agreement, likely averting a devastating debt default, even if it goes down to the wire. But that doesn’t mean the economy will escape unscathed, not just from the bruising standoff but also as a result of the Treasury’s efforts to return to business as usual once it can ramp up borrowing.
Given the narrow trading range observed in the past few days, the markets may overlook this. However, it's worth noting that Jay Powell is scheduled to speak on Friday, May 19, at 11 a.m. This will be Powell's first opportunity to address the public since the May FOMC meeting. While many investors still believe that the May FOMC meeting marked the Fed's final interest rate hike, it's unlikely that Powell will explicitly mention the word "pause."
There is capital flight, deposit flight from the banking sector seeking yield. I fear that, I don’t say this lightly, but in 1934 the Federal Reserve Act confiscated gold from US citizens.
We’re at the point where the Fed and Treasury officials I’m sure are having to consider a gate a lock on US bank deposits.”
AI has been all the buzz in both Silicon Valley and around the world for the last few months, especially after the release of Chat-GPT and advanced generative AI systems. This has triggered somewhat of a frantic rat-race amongst tech giants: everyone wants a piece of the AI pie, and the race to the top is intense.
Notably, Ghahramani also discusses one of the most highly anticipated arenas of impact for AI: healthcare. He delves into Med-PaLM 2, the large language model developed specifically to generate medical insights: “trained by our health research teams with medical knowledge, [Med-PaLM 2] can answer questions and summarize insights from a variety of dense medical texts. It achieves state-of-the-art results in medical competency, and was the first large language model to perform at “expert” level on U.S. Medical Licensing Exam-style [USMLE] questions. We're now adding multimodal capabilities to synthesize information like x-rays and mammograms to one day improve patient outcomes. Med-PaLM 2 will open up to a small group of Cloud customers for feedback later this summer to identify safe, helpful use cases.”
Med-PaLM 2 is outperforming doctors
Google's latest Med-PaLM 2 has been outperforming actual doctors.
It's a version of Googles PaLM model specifically tuned for medical use cases like reading X-rays.
Based on the MedQA test, it achieved an 86.5 rating which is higher than 70% of real physicians.
"In order to help [Sprite] reach a multicultural audience, the campaign ran across Complex and Hot Ones as well as BuzzFeed's Black Identity brand ... We see creators, AI and [identity/cultural] moments as intersectional."
The CEO of OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, told a Senate panel on Tuesday the use of artificial intelligence to interfere with election integrity is a "significant area of concern", adding that it needs regulation.
"I am nervous about it," CEO Sam Altman said about elections and AI, adding rules and guidelines are needed
Yesterday, blockchain startup CANVAS announced the successful execution of its central bank digital currency (CBDC) trial in Australia, using the eAUD to test foreign exchange (FX) transactions.
Tokenized FX settlements hold significant benefits, including round-the-clock trading and instant payments. The test is part of a series of pilots conducted by the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Center (DFCRC).
Ripple, a leading player in the crypto payments industry, has secured a prominent role in Hong Kong's e-HKD Pilot Programme. The initiative, announced by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, aims to explore the potential use cases of the digital Hong Kong dollar (HKD) with a select group of firms from the financial, payment and technology sectors.
HONG KONG & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ripple, the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, announced today that it has been selected to showcase a real estate asset tokenization solution as part of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) inaugural e-HKD Pilot Programme.
The HKMA has adopted a three-rail approach to prepare for the possible rollouts of the e-HKD. As a leading provider offering real world asset tokenization capabilities, Ripple alongside its partners including Fubon Bank – one of the largest commercial banks in Taiwan – will demonstrate its use case under e-HKD Pilot Programme, which will focus on real estate asset tokenization and equity release leveraging the e-HKD. e-HKD Pilot Programme will see a series of pilots conducted with various industry players to gain in-depth research into application, implementation, and design issues related to the e-HKD.
The European Central Bank is inviting experts in identification and authentication to contribute to the development of rules for the digital euro.
A ‘workstream’ is being set up to establish identification and authentication requirements for the digital currency, with the goal of enabling best-in-class user experience and security. Impact assessments for various existing approaches to identification and authentication will also be carried out.
The EU’s planned digital currency is expected to be stored in the EU Digital Identity Wallet, with support for peer-to-peer transactions.
The FDA has given Washington State University (WSU) researchers the green light to feed five gene-edited pigs to people. The approval could help build public trust in CRISPR’d foods and be the first step in a new food revolution.
Now, the FDA has issued an investigational approval to researchers at WSU, giving them the green light to feed people meat from a new line of pigs, which are genetically engineered to be sterile.
North Carolina–based Pairwise is rolling out a new type of mustard greens engineered to be less bitter than the original plant. The vegetable is the first Crispr-edited food to hit the US market.
In April of this year, the Philippines approved gene-edited bananas that ripen but do not turn brown. These bananas were engineered by UK-based biotech company Tropic Biosciences, using its proprietary gene manipulation technology.
Companies like Tropic Biosciences are now focusing on ways to limit the activity of this enzyme. Tropic did this with something called “gene editing-induced gene silencing” (GEiGS) technology. As the name suggests, it combines the power of gene editing and gene silencing.
For the editing, it relies on CRISPR technology to make precise edits to the banana DNA. For silencing, it uses RNA interference (RNAi) to reduce how active a gene is, preventing the production of its corresponding protein.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will join forces with key leadership from companies like Microsoft and Google this week as a secretive meeting of the business and political elite kick-starts in Lisbon, Portugal.
Artificial intelligence will top the agenda as the ChatGPT chief meets with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, DeepMind head Demis Hassabis and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the annual Bilderberg Meeting.
The tech titans will be joined by political heavyweights including former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba for a range of discussions spanning international relations, trade, energy and finance
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Banking system
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Transnational threats
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