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No Pets in the Net Zero Future?


Jefferey Jaxen uncovers how the net-zero agenda is creeping into everyday life, even raising alarms about pet ownership. From bans on access to nature to proposals for restricting meat consumption, climate policies are increasingly targeting personal freedoms in the name of “saving the planet.”

It’s Here. AI Has Already Put 300 Million Jobs At Risk: What Next?

Once upon a time, talk of AI stealing jobs from people was science fiction. Today, it’s real life. From graphic design and translation to copywriting and customer service, we have already seen how quickly automation can eat into work once done exclusively by humans. This trend is no longer a problem for the future – it’s already happening. What’s currently unfolding is not just a shift in productivity tools, but a total structural transformation in how the world economy functions. By 2030, the global workforce may look completely unrecognisable, with over 300 million jobs projected to be severely impacted or totally replaced in just the next few years. [Read More]

The Homeschoolers Who Proved That School Is a Waste of Time

“Work expands to fit the allotted time,” the saying goes. And that education is no exception holds a lesson: Some will say when pondering homeschooling, “I’m not qualified to teach my kids.” But, informs homeschooling advocate Brett Pike, it’s not just that you can teach your kids - and splendidly.

It’s that you can do it in a fraction of the time schools do. [Read More]

EU Revives Plan to Ban Private Messaging

The EU is inching toward the biggest peacetime surveillance experiment in its history, with plans to quietly search every private message before you hit send.

The European Union is still wrestling with a controversial plan that would turn private messaging services into surveillance tools. For over three years, talks have stalled over whether providers should be forced to scan every user’s messages for possible illegal material and forward anything suspicious to law enforcement.

The European Commission is still pushing for a universal scanning requirement. [Read More]



Mexico Moves Closer To Biometric ID - Will The People Comply?

As of Thursday July 17th, several new laws went into effect in Mexico which are likely to greatly increase the push towards a digital surveillance state.

The Mexican government says these new laws are aimed at fighting organized crime, drug trafficking, and helping with the search for missing people. The government has also argued that controversial changes to the nation’s telecommunications laws are designed to bridge the so-called “digital divide”, referring to the limited access to internet and cellular service in rural areas compared to urban environments. [Read More]

AI Pioneer Warns: Shut Down or Die

Is AI Going To Kill All Of Us? One Of The Pioneers In The Field Has Warned That “Everyone Will Die” If AI Is Not Shut Down

AI technology has been developing at an exponential rate, and it appears to be just a matter of time before we create entities that can think millions of times faster than we do and that can do almost everything better than we can.  So what is going to happen when we lose control of such entities?  Some AI models are already taking the initiative to teach themselves new languages, and others have learned to “lie and manipulate humans for their own advantage”.  Needless to say, lying is a hostile act.  If we have already created entities that are willing to lie to us, how long will it be before they are capable of taking actions that are even more harmful to us? [Read More]