An AI powered wearable device that translates English to French (and probably many other languages).
Instantly AND in the tone of your own voice. Insanity. pic.twitter.com/g6IwdyPsvo
— Eluna AI (@ElunaAI) April 21, 2023
h/t Mauser
That unassuming Kia may actually be ready for combat.
Shaken by crime spikes and a creeping sense of lawlessness, more Americans are having their vehicles bulletproofed than ever, insiders told The Post.
Until recently, the armored car industry catered almost exclusively to the wealthy elite in volatile third-world nations.
The strike by the Public Service Alliance of Canada – with more than 150,000 members, it accounts for nearly half of all federal government employees – is being described as the largest in Canada since … the 1991 PSAC strike.
Of course, a lot has changed since then. In 1991, the federal government employed roughly 218,000 people (that’s the core public service, not counting agencies such as the RCMP or Crown corporations such as the CBC and Canada Post) for a population of just over 28 million: roughly one federal public servant for every 129 citizens. As of 2022, it employed about 336,000 for a population of just under 39 million: a ratio of one to 116.
Antony Blinken, the US Secretary of State, helped orchestrate a plan to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story, a former head of the CIA has said.
Mike Morell, the former acting director of the CIA, told a congressional committee that Mr Blinken, who in 2020 was a Biden campaign adviser, “played a role in the inception” of a letter asserting that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
Potentially damaging emails found on the laptop, which Hunter Biden had abandoned at a repair shop in Delaware, were first reported by the New York Post on Oct 14, 2020, three weeks before the election.
h/t XC
The two businessmen linked to the Chinese regime who donated to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in 2016 met with federal ministers on several different occasions.
Zhang Bin, president of the regime-backed China Cultural Industry Association (CCIA), and his colleague Niu Gensheng, an adviser to the CCIA, had reached a deal in 2014 to donate $200,000 to the Trudeau Foundation and $800,000 to the Université de Montréal (UdeM), where former prime minister Pierre Trudeau used to study and teach.
The scale of China’s ability to target, disrupt and even capture America’s network of orbiting surveillance and communications satellites in time of war has been revealed in a leaked classified intelligence document.
The CIA-stamped document dated this year refers to China’s ability to “deny, exploit or hijack” an adversary’s satellites, the Financial Times reported.
Volkswagen AG caused a stir in March when it said it had chosen St. Thomas, Ont., as the location for its first battery plant outside Europe. Decades had passed since Canada had enticed a major new global automaker to build out manufacturing operations here.
But the revelations this week that the federal government had lured VW with subsidies that could reach $13 billion, possibly higher, cast the news in a different light. The subsidy package was carefully calibrated to match what Volkswagen would have received in the United States, but its sheer size has raised questions about the feasibility of building an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada.
Elon Musk’s Twitter has dropped the labels “government-funded” or “state-affiliated” from several media corporations, including the CBC.
Nevertheless, calling the CBC government-funded is merely stating the obvious. Last year, the Canadian government provided over $1 billion in funding to the CBC, or about 70 percent of annual operating costs. But as Edward R. Murrow famously observed, “The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
Yesterday morning, BuzzFeed announced that it was shuttering BuzzFeed News, its journalistic arm. Whatever employees of the news division remain after layoffs will be resorbed into the otherwise clickbait-driven site (presumably to be later replaced by an improved ChatGPT algorithm). This was an occasion for wistful reflection on the left and among mainstream-media journalists/academics (but, as the old joke goes, I repeat myself), indifference among the masses (“What, the cat-meme listicle site? They had a news division?”), and grimly smug amusement on the right, whose denizens have long regarded BuzzFeed as the original bad actor in what became “Russiagate.”
MY beautiful 36-year-old daughter Holly took one Pfizer shot in May 2021. It seems by the evidence emerging that doses given in May 2021 were lethal.
As a mother, I tried to protect my children and stop my children taking these lethal injections, I certainly wasn’t going to take any, but the fear created by the government won and all four of my children took them. Three had adverse reactions, one didn’t so I believe he had a placebo. I feel like a failure and useless as a mum. Fighting a lost cause. My husband labelled me as mad.
This week, I’ve been writing about Wednesday’s epic meeting of the new Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD). The board discussed its bold plans for the future of the district as well as the shenanigans Disney masterminded to hold on to its self-governing power after the state dismantled the Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID).
An estimated 20 percent of Russia prisoner recruits are H.I.V. positive. To some, the front lines seemed less risky than prisons where they said they were denied effective treatments.
In Russian prisons, they said they were deprived of effective treatments for their H.I.V. On the battlefield in Ukraine, they were offered hope, with the promise of anti-viral medications if they agreed to fight.
It was a recruiting pitch that worked for many Russian prisoners.
About 20 percent of recruits in Russian prisoner units are H.I.V. positive, Ukrainian authorities estimate based on infection rates in captured soldiers. Serving on the front lines seemed less risky than staying in prison, the detainees said in interviews with The New York Times.
#Ukraine: The Ukrainian 59th Brigade destroyed a Russian T-72B tank with an ATGM strike in #Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/lcoxfKqAAq
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 21, 2023
I saw the future in Bangkok’s departure lounge
There are many things to be learnt from visiting an airport. A trip to Stansted Airport, for instance, will teach you that Stansted is a really dim place to locate an airport. Meanwhile, JFK in New York City will inform you that America is becoming seriously pricey for European tourists.
But a recent trip to Bangkok airport taught me something more profound. There I was, supping some pleasant Singapore Laksa, and I saw this thing hove into view. It was an autonomous robot cleaner, busily keeping all the shiny floors of Suvarnabhumi airport in pristine condition.
Those raising evidence-based concerns about the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines are often labeled purveyors of misinformation, and derided as anti-scientific conspiracy theorists and paranoid kooks. Or worse. Bill Kristol tweeted in late 2021 that, “there is blood on the hands in 2021 of the unvaccinated and especially their enablers and encouragers who know better.” However, there are a number of prominent scientists, doctors, and independent researchers who are wary of both COVID infection and the vaccines. Many of these figures are worried about one particular piece of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: the spike protein, which allows the virus to enter your cells, and which was chosen to be the featured element used in the Moderna, Pfizer, J&J, and AstraZeneca vaccines. The available evidence shows that COVID, especially in light of new forms of treatment, is not as acutely deadly as once feared, and while mortality attributable to the COVID vaccines has not been definitively characterized, it is likely relatively rare. But some scientists are concerned by the potential effects of repeated exposure to the spike protein, and therefore the advisability of further boosters that contain it, given that we are going to be frequently reexposed to the circulating virus. Those voicing these concerns, however, have been subjected to censorship, ostracization, and damaging attacks on their reputations.
A Montana Democrat was censured by the state assembly Thursday after hate-filled comments that accused Republicans of having “blood on your hands” over transgender legislation.
