Greg Jacob

Director James Cameron on why Big Tech owning AGI is scarier than any science fiction he's ever made: "AGI will not emerge from a government funded program. It will emerge from one of the tech giants currently funding this multi-billion dollar research." And when that happens, he warns, you won't get a vote on it: "So then you'll be living in a world that you didn't agree to, didn't vote for, that you are co-inhabiting with a super intelligent alien species that answers to the goals and rules of a corporation." A corporation that already knows everything about you: "An entity which has access to the comms, beliefs, everything you ever said, and the whereabouts of every person in the country via your personal data." From there, the slide toward something far darker is shorter than most people think: "Surveillance capitalism can toggle pretty quickly into digital totalitarianism." And even the best-case outcome isn't reassuring. Tech giants becoming the self-appointed arbiters of human good is, as he puts it, the fox guarding the hen house. He's not buying the idea that these companies would stay benevolent with that kind of power: "They would never ever think of using that power against us and strip mining us for our last drop of cash." The sarcasm is the point. Cameron has spent four decades imagining worst-case futures on screen. His verdict on this one: "That's a scarier scenario than what I presented in the Terminator 40 years ago, if for no other reason than it's no longer science fiction."

Clashes between British patriots and Islamic immigrants in London. The UK is about to implode.

China is testing EVs that eject their batteries in emergencies in order to promote driver safety.

A NEW DAY IS DAWNING AND A NEW WORLD ORDER HAS EMERGED. Iran has surfaced as a legitimate world power. Many countries around the world are secretly negotiating deals with Iran behind Donald Trump’s back. When the sand clears, US will be isolated from almost every major country except Israel. With friends like Israel who needs enemies? We may have lost our financial dominance of our Petrodollar. Our tourism industry is devastated including the billions cities were expecting to make from the World Cup. Atlanta alone loses one billion. We’ve lost trillions of dollars of military equipment, assets, radar, defense systems, and 13 military bases. Gulf states have been canceling security, defense, and weapons contracts with the US. And signing new deals with Europe and China. Donald Trump has done a what he does best, —bankruptcies. America, according to the US treasury department is officially insolvent. Only took MAGA 15 months. MAGA will go down in history as the biggest LOSER in American history.

Naomi Wolf is truly the gift that keeps on giving. I hope she never leaves Twitter.