Google’s AI can accurately predict weather forecasts 15 days in advance

“Googling” today’s forecast could soon be even more reliable.

Just like your friendly TV meteorologist, current weather models could perhaps be a thing of the past. Google has unveiled an AI meteorology tech that is far faster and more accurate than traditional forecasts, per a study published in the journal “Nature.”

Devised by the search engine firm’s AI division, DeepMind, the “GenCast” model can tell if it’s going to rain 15 days ahead of time at a higher accuracy rate than the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts’ ENS (ECMWF) — the world’s top operational forecasting system, per the Google Deepmind blog.

This discrepancy has to do with a completely new monsoon-divining methodology. Whereas current iterations are “deterministic, and provided a single, best estimate of future weather,” GenCast “comprises an ensemble of 50 or more predictions, each representing a possible weather trajectory,” the blog’s authors write.

So how will this be weaponized against the public?

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inArtificial Intelligence, Google is Evil, weather

BLM leader calls on ‘black vigilantes’ to rise up after Daniel Penny is acquitted in Jordan Neely subway death

A Black Lives Matter leader who has been in the courtroom daily during the Daniel Penny subway trial called on ‘black vigilantes’ to step up after the Marine veteran was found not guilty on Monday.

Walter ‘Hawk’ Newsome, who says he is Jordan Neely’s uncle, threatened Penny inside the courtroom during the chaos which immediately followed the verdict.

He shouted ‘it’s a small f**king world, buddy.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in#BlackLivesMatter, WTF?

Freeland promises long-awaited deficit update next week

OTTAWA — Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will give Canadians an updated look at the country’s books next week as the government deals with economic headwinds and some big-spending new initiatives.

The finance minister’s long-awaited announcement comes after goading from Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, who last week offered Freeland two hours of House of Commons time slated for Conservative motions to deliver the fiscal update.

The fiscal update will take place just two days before the House breaks for Christmas.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Is the Universe Designed for Us? Scientists Devise Way to Test the “Anthropic Principle”

The Anthropic Principle, a concept at the intersection of science and philosophy, has long served as a fallback explanation for perplexing questions about the universe. Why is the cosmological constant so small yet positive? Why does dark matter exist in the precise abundance needed for galaxies and life to form?

First articulated in its modern form by physicist Brandon Carter in 1974, the Anthropic Principle attempts to explain why the universe’s physical constants fall within the narrow range required for life. It comes in two flavors: the “Weak Anthropic Principle,” which observes that the universe must allow for observers, and the “Strong Anthropic Principle,” which suggests the universe is fine-tuned for life.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inScience

Western humanitarians: the Islamist avatar

Before disappearing into an Algerian prison, where at 75 years old he now risks ending his days, the great novelist Boualem Sansal gave this last extraordinary interview to the Journal du dimanche:

“Self-flagellation is gaining ground throughout the West and is becoming a danger. I do not understand why governments are not worried about this galloping epidemic and are not taking any action to prevent the disasters that it will eventually cause. We can begin to believe that the West is committing suicide and in the most amusing way. Good deal for the BRICS and the Islamists who dream of a great replacement. We are overwhelmed by fear. And fear causes in man as in animals one or the other reaction, or even both at the same time: the subject becomes violent and attacks or submits to fear and goes as far as mutilating himself to show his submission. Self-flagellation and Wokism are acts of symbolic self-mutilation, they express atonement, submission, preparation for liberating suicide”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

The OxyContin Story

‘Painkiller’ does an impressive job of telling a dark and gripping story about a tragic chapter of modern American history.

The prescription painkiller OxyContin was released by Purdue Pharma in 1995; the six-part TV series Painkiller, created by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster and directed by Peter Berg, was released by Netflix in 2023. During the intervening 28 years, Purdue’s flagship product brought even greater riches to the company’s already rich president, Richard Sackler; brought relief to a good many patients suffering from severe pain that was otherwise untreatable; and brought tragedy to countless families as legitimate patients became addicts and then death statistics and as perfectly healthy people, many of them very young, began using the drug recreationally and, caught in the grip of its addictive power, ended up in morgues all over America.

I watched this flick. It was good. What amazes me is that while the Sacklers have been publicly shunned not one of them has been jailed.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDrug Legalization, Drugs

Tiny Canadian Town, Fined Thousands for Refusing To Recognize Pride Month, Emerges as Flashpoint in LGBTQ Culture Wars

A Canadian mayor is fighting back against a Pride organization that has persisted in a years-long crusade against him and his remote township for refusing to issue a “Pride month proclamation” — as the tiny town has become a flashpoint in culture wars over LGBTQ issues.

The dispute centers around Emo, Ontario — a township along the American border directly north of Minnesota, which in 2020 refused to oblige a local group’s request to formally declare June as “Pride Month” and fly a Pride flag.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Gay

Why Arabs and Muslims ‘Betrayed’ Hamas

Fourteen months after the Iran-backed terrorist group, Hamas, attacked Israel, murdering 1,200 Israelis and wounding thousands more, Hamas has finally acknowledged that it has been abandoned by many Arabs and Muslims.

When Hamas launched the October 7, 2023 assault on Israeli communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, its leaders were hoping that many Arabs and Muslims would join the fight to murder as many Jews as possible to eliminate Israel. Hamas officials expressed hope at the time that the October 7 atrocities would prompt the formation of a large Arab-Islamic battlefront against Israel. The hope was that the Iran-backed Hezbollah organization in Lebanon would launch a similar invasion of Israel, that Iran would unleash thousands of ballistic missiles against Israel, and that tens of thousands of Muslims would invade Israel from Jordan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

City of London investigates its links to slavery

The governing body of London’s Square Mile is looking to commission research into its historical associations with the transatlantic slave trade.

The City of London Corporation has said the proposed work detailing its connections with the trade in enslaved African people “will enable us to understand and own our past”.

The plans have been drawn up ahead of the publication by Lancaster University of its own research into the slave trade, expected in 2026.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inSlavery and Reparations

NEW: How the Biden Administration Spent Hundreds of Millions on ‘Misinformation’ Research Is ‘Disturbing’

As I reported on November 22, the Biden-Harris administration has spent more than a quarter of a billion taxpayer dollars to suppress “misinformation.” According to a nongovernmental nonprofit, much of the spending went toward studying information about COVID-19 and Americans’ response to the pandemic.

OpenTheBooks reported that the federal government has spent $267 million since 2021 on contracts and research grants that include the term “misinformation” in the proposals. During the first Trump administration, just $7 million was spent on grants involving misinformation. That works out to a 44-fold increase in spending under the Biden-run government on a topic about which even experts disagree over what constitutes misinformation and its cousins, disinformation and malinformation.

I ended that article with “Nuff said — until next time.”

Welp, “next time” has arrived.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Joe Sleazebag Biden", Propaganda