An excellent reference on the history of Technocracy and its legacy is Patrick Woodâs 2014 book Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation. After recounting the origins of Technocracy and its initial run in the 1930s, the book shows how its principles were largely adopted by the Trilateral Commission in the 1970s as part of their âNew International Economic Orderâ and later the agendas promoted by the World Economic Forum under Bond villain Klaus Schwab and the larger globalist movement.
Here is James Delingpole interviewing Patrick Wood about Technocracy and its influence on todayâs slavers on a November, 2020 Delingpod episode.
Iâve scanned through the book, and it seems much better than what one would expect from the conspiratorial angle of the podcast. It seems that Patrick M Wood has gone off the deep end with his recent work - or maybe itâs just easier to sell science fiction about reality than the reality itself.
There are some issues with the vision for what the civilization should be: itâs a work in progress. There are a few options, but I think everyone working on it is open to new ideas. Itâs easy to be critical, itâs easy to ridicule, itâs much harder to compose a coherent vision for the future that properly balances multiple hierarchical levels: the individual, the community, the county, the state, the inter-state. When thereâs a lack of balance, things eventually come tumbling down.
and top election officials in all 50 states have affirmed the integrity of the 2020 election
Talk about misleading. How could one affirm the integrity of an election without any investigation? What do these election officials mean by election integrity? There was no cheating? There wasnât enough cheating to impact the outcome? The level of cheating was normal? We cannot detect cheating because we have systemic failures in the election process?
If one used the same argument when there are claims of election discrimination, would it be valid? Claims of intimidation and discrimination are misinformation given top officials in every state have affirmed the integrity of the election.
Elon Musk dismantles BBC reporter James Clayton in a Twitter Spaces audio interview. This recording is of the entire 90 minute interview. The rapid unscheduled disassembly of the reporter, 4 minutes and 12 seconds discussing âhate speechâ and âmisinformationâ, has been copied and prefixed to the recording.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) protested when Twitter labeled their main account âGovernment-funded mediaâ, claiming they were âless than 70% government-fundedâ. Here is how Twitter responded.
Sad but true: If Musk is really interested in TruthGPT, he should be using the Algorithmic Information Criterion For Model Selection. Since he doesnât know what that is and even experts in the field of AIT donât get the practical nuances, weâre in trouble.
The reason experts in the field donât get the practical nuances is they are academics and academics donât understand the need for model selection more objective than âacademic consensusâ. They donât get, for instance, that I was threatened with direct physical violence in close quarters by an authority with the defense industry when I bucked the âconsensusâ about the proper policy of lowering the cost to low Earth orbit â nor that another individual who had been a colleague said I should be taken out in the parking lot and shot over that policy just prior to SpaceX proving it to be indispensable.
They donât get that the âconsensusâ about fusion energy policy which I bucked, with the help of a founder of the US fusion energy program, was that the national labs should be transitioned to a series of prize awards with objective milestones.
They think that the âconsensusâ about, say, âglobal warmingâ should simply hold sway over a cost of $10T/year rather than devoting even 1% of that to prize awards for lossless compression of an agreed-to set of climate-related data.
So it is left to pariahs like myself to try to get through the barriers thrown up by toadies and sycophants to people who need to understand that this isnât about âargumentâ or even âcommunity notesâ.
It is about the proper application of all those transistors, all those motivated trillions and all that motivated wetware in objectively fair contests founded on the most rigorous principles of informationâs relationship to the natural sciences.
To be fair, the âAIâ that discovered those laws from observational data didnât apply the AIT criterion, but rather an approximation of it, since they didnât encode the errors to provide a lossless compression ratio. But then, that is pretty much what all loss functions are doing: Using approximations of the AIT criterion without acknowledging thatâs what theyâre doing. Thatâs why they donât have a good theoretic handle on what those approximations may be causing the resulting models to miss.
Musk has clashed with mainstream media outlets and also said he hates advertising. But Yaccarino represents both those worlds.
Yaccarino has been at NBCUniversal for more than 11 years, returning to the company where she started as a college intern. Before that she was executive vice president/COO of advertising sales, marketing and acquisitions at Turner Broadcasting, which included CNN at that time.
At NBCUniversal, she oversees a 2,000-member global team, according to her company profile. That would be more people on her team than are left working at Twitter, which Musk said in an interview with the BBC last month is down to 1,500 people after multiple layoffs under his watch.
NBCUniversalâs ad sales team has generated $100 billion in ad sales since she joined in 2011, according to her profile, and forged partnerships with many new media companies including Twitter as well as Apple News, Buzzfeed, Snapchat and YouTube.
Forbes notes:
According to her LinkedIn profile, Yaccarino is also involved with the World Economic Forum, WEF, where she chairs the organizationâs taskforce on the future of work and sits on the media, entertainment and culture industry governors steering committee.
The agenda-setting convener of industry, political and civic leaders, perhaps best known for its annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, has long been a lightning rod for baseless conspiracy theories and Yaccarinoâs connection appears to irk some of Muskâs right-leaning or anarchist base, who suggest her background undermines the platformâs commitment to free speech championed under current leadership.
Yaccarino has also partnered with government on several occasions, first helping to promote healthy lifestyles as a member of the Presidentâs Council on Sports Fitness and Nutrition, appointed by former President Donald Trump, and later working with government agencies, the White House and Pope Francis to produce a Covid-19 vaccination campaign in her role as chair of nonprofit advertising group the Ad Council.
The executiveâs connection to a pandemic-era vaccination campaign has also bothered proponents of Twitterâs more liberal content moderation policies, many of whom fear Yaccarino could bring back the stricter bars for misinformation that they struggled to clear before Musk did away with them.
Twitter canceled a deal with the Daily Wire to premiere a movie for free on the platform due to two instances of âmisgenderingâ. The Daily Wire refused to edit the movie to comply with Twitterâs policy, and Twitter responded by limiting the reach of the movie and labeling it as âhateful conductâ. This has caused concern that Twitter is joining other tech platforms in suppressing one side of the trans debate. The Daily Wire plans to post the movie anyway, and it remains to be seen if Twitter will make good on their threat.
If genuine, this is interesting in connection with the recent kerfuffle with Twitter imposing ârate limitsâ to respond to indiscriminate âscrapingâ of its site. I wonder if Meta was making a pre-launch push to determine follow hierarchies on Twitter in order to pre-seed connectivity on their âThreadsâ site and mitigate the advantage of the network effect from which Twitter benefits due to the highly-refined connectivity maps of its users.
Here is Twitterâs robots.txt file. Note that it disallows queries for a userâs followed and following users, prohibiting scraping connectivity. If Meta has been scraping in violation of robots.txt this is certainly, if not illegal, a violation of Twitterâs terms of service (which might not be relevant to a scraper who never agreed to them).
