YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Is AI influencing your behavior?
Douglas Rushkoff, author and documentarian, gives his take on whether AI is influencing people’s behavior.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Is AI the new mind control? | Unreported
Some stories make headlines. Others get ignored. On "Unreported," Meagan Medick takes a deeper look at the stories others gloss over or blow off. In this episode, Meagan sits down with Douglas Rushkoff, one of the first in Silicon Valley to sound the alarm about AI. Are algorithms a new form of mind control, similar to MK-Ultra? They dive into questions around whether AI was designed to exploit us as a society and how powerful corporations are the real winners at the end of the day. Find Douglas Rushkoff here: https://rushkoff.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/douglasrushkoff #mkultra #mindcontrol #ai Credits: Host: Meagan Medick Executive Producers: Andy Gipson, Meagan Medick Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson Associate Producer: Will…
NYTIMES (Dana Goldstein) - School Cellphone Ban Study Finds Mixed Results
Cellphone bans got devices out of students’ hands, according to the first large study. But behavior and academics have not improved, at least so far.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Weakness of Will Is Not a Biological Condition
The medicalization of human nature has unwelcome consequences. The post Weakness of Will Is Not a Biological Condition appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Weakness of Will Is Not a Biological Condition The medicalization of human nature has unwelcome consequences. TakiMag (Photo by Joe Martinez for The Washington Post via Getty Images) There is nothing more important than the trivial, as Sherlock Holmes well knew. The smallest indications often (though not always) have the widest implications. One should always be on the lookout for deeper significance while, of course, guarding against paranoia and the siren song of conspiracy theory. There are perhaps few things more trivial than letters to the British Medical Journal, but they sometimes suggest…Open
THEFEDERALIST (Carrie Gress) - How Feminism Created An Insufferable Class Of Supposedly ‘Infallible Females’
The feminists have overplayed their hand. Men and women are finally rejecting their tyrannical, entitled, and condescending mien.
HUFFPOST - 'Meow, Meow': Pilots Reprimanded For Making Animal Noises On Air Traffic Control Frequency
Air traffic controllers were met with even more cat noises and additional barking after telling the unidentified pilots to cut it out.
Air traffic controllers were met with even more cat noises and additional barking after telling the unidentified pilots to cut it out.Open
NYTIMES (Alexa Robles-Gil) - In the Desert, a ‘Cleaning Station’ for Ants
A unique “choreography” between two ant species suggests a distinctive partnership in which one provides a carwash service to the other.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - TV shows may be influencing smoking's comeback: Editor
Smoking has seemed to resurface in many shows popular among Gen Z, and New York Post wellness editor Carly Stern tells Leland Vittert, "Hollywood is definitely influential, and that's an important thing to keep in mind, but people have a personal responsibility as well." MORE: https://www.newsnationnow.com/on-balance-with-leland-vittert/vitterts-war-notes/leland-vitterts-war-notes-looking-for-an-exit-ramp/
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man
The loss of distinctions in dress and speech has made the world sadder and more vulgar. The post The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag The Baseball Cap Maketh the Man The loss of distinctions in dress and speech has made the world sadder and more vulgar. TakiMag President Trump has been criticized, in my view rightly, for wearing a baseball cap at a ceremony for U.S. servicemen killed in the war against Iran. His cap is undignified at best and wearing it at the ceremony was lacking in respect for men who had died carrying out his policy. No doubt by wearing the cap he was showing himself to be a man of the people, and doing so in a sense quite accurately: It is true that much of the population of the Western world has lost any notion that there are…Open
DAILYCALLER (Mr. Right) - Young People Realizing Older Generations Not So Bad As They Adopt Old-School Hobbies, Behavior
Keep it old school...