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originally posted by: Imbackbaby
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: Imbackbaby
Would you like to explain this?
If you believe that everything is spiritual, then why bother posting since none of this matters. If you wish to push people to be "themselves", without explaining exactly what you mean by this, then you provide a disservice to everyone reading the thread.
Many people seem to think that a caged bird dreams of being free, but in reality, that bird only thinks about when the food and water will be changed. We really should rethink this paradigm.
You asked for it you got it. This is a Q thread where "it's going to be biblical" right? And you question me on spirituality. Maybe you should not post.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: Thoughtful2
So blue things are not burned? It looked to me that someone set those tables up to enjoy the views of the devastation while eating brunch or something.
[1] OWL [1]
Yet we are suppose to believe that if a Civil War happens it will be over migrants.
originally posted by: Thoughtful2
a reply to: Observationalist
Thanks for clarifying that for me. So there is a Blue Lodge Masonry. Maybe that is the reason for the name change?
I always get the feeling that there is more than one meaning or that there are numerous layers. Those two pillars also =11 which is littered all over the place.
Common themes- owls, pillars and the 11's.
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Ripple was recently announced as an official partner of the “cross-border payments interoperability & extension taskforce,” a subgroup within the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures.This represents a major achievement for Ripple and the XRP cryptocurrency at a pivotal time.
The BIS taskforce aims to improve cross-border payments across multiple currencies. As one of the payment industry’s most important standard-setting bodies, the BIS provides significant validation for Ripple’s technology and solutions.
Impressively, even though the new ledger was launched just three months ago, over 8 countries are already building CBDCs on XRP Ledger, blockchain news aggregator CryptoGeek revealed on August 19.
These include Russia, the Republic of Palau, Montenegro, Japan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Uruguay, New Zealand, and Hong Kong.
Last month, James Wallis, the Vice President of Central Bank engagements and CBDCs at Ripple, said the blockchain company is in talks with more than 30 countries to adopt its XRPL-powered CBDC platform.
Given that there are a total of 195 countries in the world, this suggests that more than 15% of global nations are considering using Ripple’s technology for building CBDCs.
Mastercard has chosen tokenized assets solutions company company Fluency to help it speak the language of CBDCs.
The collaboration, announced Friday (Aug. 18), is designed to capitalize on rising interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and puts Fluency in the company of other Mastercard CBDC partners, including CBDC platform Ripple.
As PYMNTS wrote last month, CBDCs are “on pretty much every central bank’s road map,” with 93% of these banks worldwide in at least some stage of CBDC development, according to data from the Bank of International Settlements.
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, will now require X Blue users to submit a selfie alongside a photo of a government-issued ID, according to a report by PC Magazine.
ification process will be handled by Israeli company AU10TIX software which will store the information for up to 30 days.
X said the data collected from a user’s profile will be used “for the purpose of safety and security, including preventing impersonation”.
Many X users were unhappy with the choice of the company to store user data, pointing out its employees’ links to Israeli intelligence. Others expressed their discomfort with giving a company their data when so many data breaches have been reported in the past.
Brain implants have long been trapped in the realm of science fiction, but a steady trickle of medical trials suggests the tiny devices could play a big part in humanity's future.
Billions of dollars are flowing into a clutch of specialist companies hunting for treatments for some of the most debilitating ailments.
In the decade to 2020, investors poured more than $30 billion into neurotechnology more widely, according to UNESCO. The money has continued to flood in thanks, in part, to rapid improvements in artificial intelligence (AI), used by researchers to interpret the data from the implants.
Tech titan Elon Musk has refocused some energy on his Neuralink firm after it received permission in May to test its implants on humans, helping it to raise $280 million in funding.
While most players in the field are exclusively concerned with medical uses for neurotechnology, Musk is different.
The maverick tycoon is touting the possibility of telepathy, using the technology to store memories or to enable humans to continue their existence without their bodies.
"In the future you will be able to save and replay memories," he told a Neuralink event in 2020.
"You could potentially download them into a new body or into a robot body."
He sees implants as a way of enhancing humans - a vital move, he thinks, if our species is to co-exist with superintelligent machines.
"That might be the most important thing that a device like this achieves," he said.
Proposals to a United Nations group reportedly show China wants digital IDs and real-world punishments for actions that occur in the Metaverse.
POLITICO reported on Aug. 20 that state-owned telco China Mobile hasproposed a digital ID for all metaverse and online virtual world users that work with “natural characteristics” and “social characteristics.”
The proposals say “to keep the order and safety of the virtual world” the ID would harbor a slew of personal information and identifiable signs including a person’s job and suggested such data be permanently stored and shared with authorities.
An example of the benefits of the system was provided with a problem user that “spreads rumors and makes chaos in the metaverse” — with the digital ID allowing police to quickly find and punish the person.
The proposal mirrors China’s social credit system — an in-development infrastructure designed to improve behavior that scores and ranks citizens across various metrics. It has also been an enforcement tool.
Siemens plans to invest about one billion Euros in Germany, including about 500 million Euros in a new technology campus in Erlangen. The campus will be the center for technology activities related to the Industrial Metaverse. The investments are part of Siemens AG's global investment strategy. A total of two billion euros will be invested in Europe, the United States, China and Southeast Asia.
Although the hype surrounding the virtual, photorealistic, physics-based replication of the real world has died down somewhat, many large corporations are still working on the Industrial Metaverse.
Recently, Microsoft, despite previous job cuts, declared its commitment to the industrial metaverse. The US giant is developing tools for data management, digital twins and collaboration. Its best-known applications and platforms include Teams and Azure, as well as the Hololens 2 mixed reality headset.
A team of researchers has developed the world’s first humanoid robot pilot. As well as being able to slide easily into the pilot’s seat and use its hands to flip switches in the cockpit, the robot – called PIBOT – uses AI technology to memorize flight charts and emergency protocols.
In addition to being designed to physically sit in the pilot’s seat, the researchers say that incorporating ChatGPT technology provides PIBOT with a distinct advantage. It means the robot can remember Jeppesen aeronautical navigation charts from all over the world – something they point out is impossible for human pilots to do – and has memorized the Quick Reference Handbook (QRH), which contains all the procedures applicable to abnormal and emergency conditions such as a loss of electrical power or system malfunctions. They claim these abilities enable PIBOT to fly without error and respond to various situations quicker than human pilots.
We expect them to be applied into various other vehicles like cars and military trucks since they can control a wide range of equipment,” Shim said. “They will … be particularly helpful in situations where military resources are severely depleted.”
The project is expected to be completed by 2026, at which time the researchers plan to commercialize PIBOT for both military and civilian use.
When looking at the gas pump meter or prices of canned soup on grocery store shelves, many Americans are still feeling a cost of living crunch that’s burning holes in their wallets.
One global economist warned, U.S. consumers will soon have to "hunker down" in preparation for an even more "painful" economy.
"Indeed save your pennies because unfortunately, the economic outlook is going to get worse before it gets better," Piper Sandler chief global economist Nancy Lazar told Fox News Digital. "So being conservative, careful with your credit cards… It is a time to hunker down and to try to maintain your savings rather [than] get further into debt."
A weakening consumer is just one reason why the stock market is poised to continue its decline, according to JPMorgan's Marko Kolanovic.
In a Thursday note, he said consumers have spent down the entirety of their excess savings from the pandemic, which at one point totaled more than $2 trillion. That tailwind is now over, according to the bank, and consumer spending could soften further as student loan payments restart in October.
China's slowing economy is chipping away at some American companies' revenues.
DuPont, Danaher, and Procter & Gamble reported second-quarter revenue and volume drops in China.
Its economy struggles with youth unemployment, falling retail sales, and lower industrial production.