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Hate Speech & Censorship by ₡ґǘșϯγ Ɗᶏ Ⱪᶅṏⱳդ

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“The term (political correctness) first appeared in Marxist-Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution of 1917. At that time it was used to describe adherence to the policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (that is, the party line).” – Encyclopedia Britannica

The communists killed millions and millions of their people in order to create a utopian society based on equality. In communism, one must be “politically correct.” If you say something wrong you might disappear in the night, never to be seen again. Of course, self-censorship and voluntary compliance are preferred by the regime. Indoctrination keeps an individual within the proper ideological bounds of the state.

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – William Douglas

Many cannot recognize the threat of censorship, because they are ignorant of the crimes of communism. The public is more aware of the atrocities of the Nazis, as opposed to the atrocities of the communists. This is what happens when universities are bastions of Marxism, and professors are fond of Karl Marx. (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto). My grandpa, who went through the Great Depression, used to say, “People go to university to become socialists.” So this stuff is nothing new! This is what leftists call the “long march through the institutions.” The plan was to infiltrate the institutions of the West in order to transform them from the inside out. The Long March of the 1960s sowed the doctrines of critical theory (neo-Marxism). (Critical theory came out of the Frankfurt School). These seeds produced various kinds of critical theory: critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, feminist theory, critical environmental theory, and critical pedagogy. Our children are being taught these subversive ideologies, even though they are rooted in evil. The fruits of these ideologies have produced mass death and misery. They gave us Stalin’s Great Purges and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Indeed, the communists regulated speech, and millions died.

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” – Potter Stewart

Regulating hate speech is undemocratic; it is rooted in totalitarianism. Regulating hate speech is a way of enforcing the politically correct doctrine of the day. It suppresses free speech, and it suppresses open dialogue. It suppresses critical thinking, and it suppresses creativity. And it will eventually lead to the criminalization of ideological opposition.

“Misinformation, disinformation, hate speech and other risks to the information ecosystem are fueling conflict, threatening democracy and human rights, and undermining public health and climate action.” – United Nations

The West is losing its freedom of speech. People in England are being arrested for social media posts. In Germany, they are trying to ban a political party. We saw Western governments colluding with big tech to censor dissenting views during COVID-19. Various politicians want to fight misinformation and disinformation. The European Union also wants to crackdown on what it deems as misinformation and disinformation. What they are doing, however, is fighting against freedom of speech—against freedom.

“The proliferation of misinformation and disinformation threatens to erode the credibility of public institutions and limit their capacity to implement policies that enhance public well-being.” – World Bank

When central bank digital currencies and social credit scores are implemented, you better watch what you say or do. If you say or do the wrong thing, you will have your money frozen. You will be like the Canadian truckers, who had their bank accounts frozen during COVID-19. With quantum computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven technologies, a surveillance apparatus is being built. This Beast system will be an authoritarian dystopia like the world has never known.

“In this case wisdom is needed: Let the person who has understanding calculate the total number of the beast, because it is a human total number, and the sum of the number is 666.” – Revelation 13:18

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Canalizando Qbits by Nᴉɹʌɐuɐ SQ

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...decodificando fotones sobrepuestos.

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Rose’s Law for Quantum Computers by Steve Jurvetson

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[update in 2015: the hardware curve that is "Rose's Law" (blue diamonds) remains on track. The software and performance/qubit (red stars, as applied to certain tasks) is catching up, and may lag by a few years from the original prediction overlaid onto the graph. Updated Graph here]

When I first met Geordie Rose in 2002, I was struck by his ability to explain complex quantum physics and the “spooky” underpinnings of quantum computers. I had just read David Deutsch’s Fabric of Reality where he predicts the possibility of such computers, and so I invited Rose to one of our tech conferences.

We first invested in 2003, and Geordie predicted that he would be able to demonstrate a two-bit quantum computer within 6 months. There was a certain precision to his predictions. With one bit under his belt, and a second coming, he went on to suggest that the number of qubits in a scalable quantum computing architecture should double every year. It sounded a lot like Gordon Moore’s prediction back in 1965, when he extrapolated from just five data points on a log-scale (his original plot is below).

So I called it “Rose’s Law” and that seemed to amuse him. Well, the decade that followed has been quite amazing. I commented on Rose’s Law four years ago on flickr, but I share this graph and some potential futures for the first time today.

So, how do we read the graph above? Like Moore’s Law, a straight line describes an exponential. But unlike Moore’s Law, the computational power of the quantum computer should grow exponentially with the number of entangled qubits as well. It’s like Moore’s Law compounded. (D-Wave just put together an animated visual of each processor generation in this video, bringing us to the present day.)

And now, it gets mind bending. If we suspend disbelief for a moment, and use D-Wave’s early data on processing power scaling (more on that below), then the very near future should be the watershed moment, where quantum computers surpass conventional computers and never look back. Moore’s Law cannot catch up. A year later, it outperforms all computers on Earth combined. Double qubits again the following year, and it outperforms the universe. What the???? you may ask... Meaning, it could solve certain problems that could not be solved by any non-quantum computer, even if the entire mass and energy of the universe was at its disposal and molded into the best possible computer.

It is a completely different way to compute — as David Deutsch posits — harnessing the refractive echoes of many trillions of parallel universes to perform a computation.

First the caveat (the text in white letters on the graph). D-Wave has not built a general-purpose quantum computer. Think of it as an application-specific processor, tuned to perform one task — solving discrete optimization problems. This happens to map to many real world applications, from finance to molecular modeling to machine learning, but it is not going to change our current personal computing tasks. In the near term, assume it will apply to scientific supercomputing tasks and commercial optimization tasks where a heuristic may suffice today, and perhaps it will be lurking in the shadows of an Internet giant’s data center improving image recognition and other forms of near-AI magic. In most cases, the quantum computer would be an accelerating coprocessor to a classical compute cluster.

Second, the assumptions. There is a lot of room for surprises in the next three years. Do they hit a scaling wall or discover a heretofore unknown fracturing of the physics… perhaps finding local entanglement, noise, or some other technical hitch that might not loom large at small scales, but grows exponentially as a problem just as the theoretical performance grows exponentially with scale. I think the risk is less likely to lie in the steady qubit march, which has held true for a decade now, but in the relationship of qubit count to performance.

There is also the question of the programming model. Until recently, programming a quantum computer was more difficult than machine coding an Intel processor. Imagine having to worry about everything from analog gate voltages to algorithmic transforms of programming logic to something native to quantum computing (Shor and Grover and some bright minds have made the occasional mathematical breakthrough on that front). With the application-specific quantum processor, D-Wave has made it all much easier, and with their forthcoming Black Box overlay, programming moves to a higher level of abstraction, like training a neural network with little understanding of the inner workings required.

In any case, the possibility of a curve like this begs many philosophical and cosmological questions about our compounding capacity to compute... the beginning of infinity if you will.

While it will be fascinating to see if the next three years play out like Rose’s prediction, for today, perhaps all we should say is that it’s not impossible. And what an interesting world this may be.

Clean Room by James Neeley

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My son shows one of the masks that will be used in building a 4 qbit chip in the UCSB clean lab. The mask will be reduced 5X and used with other masks to build up the exotic chip used in quantum computing research. It looks a bit like a skull and crossbones to me but he assures me it's not used in piracy! ;-)

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CONGRATULATIONS to D-Wave going public and ringing the opening 🔔 today! by Steve Jurvetson

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D-Wave Systems Inc. is the leader in commercial quantum computing. I graphed their exponential progress in # of $QBTS for the 17 years that I served on their Board of Directors, below.

I notice the Canadian flag next to the American... the company converts from a Canadian to U.S. Corporation today too.

And then some super-cool superconducting mementos... from D-Wave's first quantum computer sale in 2010 to Lockheed Martin, and then Google's first QC in 2013, video here.

Finally, I introduced them to my friend Emil Michael of $XPOA who has taken the board baton for the public company era!

Surveillance from within by ₡ґǘșϯγ Ɗᶏ Ⱪᶅṏⱳդ

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Surveillance society: freedom going down the toilet.

Let’s use aerosolized nano-particulate matter (Where have I heard this before?) to make controllable nano-swarms of nanobots. Once these bio-penetrable microbots enter the body they will be taken into the vascular system where they can create clots (Where have I heard this before?). These nano-parasites will also cross the blood-brain barrier. And just think: these nanites are pretty much impossible to detect.

If you are interested in learning about these kinds of technologies, then watch this lecture by Dr. James Giordano:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxQXMPJcDUs

We will also use inhalables, ingestibles, and injectables (I wonder what could be done with this?) to get these nano-smartbots into your bodies. We will use advanced neuropsychopharmacologics along with nano-particles that are designed to pass into the brain. We will use these nanoid robotics with their various sensors and transmitters to remotely monitor the brain in real-time. We will use these neuro-sensory augmentation nano-devices (programmed closed-loop brain devices) for cognitive augmentation. We will employ nanoparticles, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, and interfaces to augment brain functions and brain circuitry. We will use a multimodal artificial sensory-memory system comprised of sensors that will generate biomimetic visual, auditory, tactile inputs, and flexible carbon nanotube synaptic transistors that will possess synapse-like signals for the processing and modifying of behaviours. We will hack the nervous system, brain and mechanical-electrical communication systems. We will use computational brain-machine interfaces—neuro-net systems/hybrid cyborg systems/biological drone systems—for human-computer interaction. With artificial intelligence, cognitive modelling and neural networks, we will merge DNA systems with quantum computing.

Take the 666 biochip tattoo with its sensitive, soft, and flexible application. Take the Beast cellchip for its fast and biocompatible operation. This 3D printed cybernetic tattoo brain-computer interface only requires a minimally invasive procedure. An automated machine will quickly stitch it into your hand or forehead, thus grafting it into your skin. This procedure will only take a few minutes. This parasitic micro/nanotechnology will run off the energy of its biological host, using enzyme-based biofuel cells to power it. With this Beast-technology we will modify humanity, connecting it to a collective transhuman hivemind system (666). When you hear the command you must collectively bow down and worship the Beast. Then you, along with all transhumanity, will be one with the Beast.

Don’t lose your love for the truth or you will forsake what’s right. Don’t lose your ability to think independently or you will forsake discernment. If you do, you will fall into the trap of a totalitarian system. Then you will be ruled by a tyrant who will impose strict uniformity. In such a system there will be no free-flow of ideas. Instead, you’ll have to follow the collective: be woke and conform! Indeed, a New World Order authoritarian system is in the making. This system will control you via a techno-commerce data system, which will be linked to you in real time. Its motto will be: go woke or go broke! Like the pagan ritual of Burning Man (Wicker Man), we will burn down man; then out of the ashes he will rise up like a transhuman phoenix—born again in the new age—a new global citizen. Burning Man…Building Back Better…666…merging Man and Machine…Transhumanism. Join the Aquarian Decade…the Great Reset…Agenda 2030…the age of new birth! Follow the rising of the false sun: the false christ, the Beast. Walk in the false light. Follow Lucifer the false light-bringer and his false christ.

John 3:19-21 “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.”

World Wide Web by Elena Regina

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Key: cyan, surface web; red, deep web; magenta, dark web.

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E.G.F. Regina 2024: Fastest computers 1940-2029.

J.H. Kirchner & al. 2023: New AI-written text classifier.

G. Brockman & al. 2023: GPT4 technical report.

A. Albert 2023: GPT3.5 DMO v2 prompt.

X. Mi & al. 2021: QPU time-crystalline eigenstate order.

A. Wack & al. 2021: CLOPS measurement.

F. Arute & al. 2019: Sycamore QPU quantum supremacy.

S. Zuboff 2019: The age of surveillance capitalism.

Z. Bauman & D. Lyon 2013: Liquid surveillance.

R.P. Dellavalle & al. 2003: Lost internet references.

S. Zuboff 1988: In the age of the smart machine.

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Crystal Power greebles by infrapinklizzard

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The next wave of Moore's Law was started when quantum computing made its first toddling steps in the laboratory. However, it wasn't until a former New Age guru turned crackpot inventor grew crystals of a very specific (but easy) shape that the speed improvements shot upward.

For the Greeble de Mayo challenge week 1 - use 3 or more colors of greebles.

This uses Chrome silver, Metallic Silver, and a different silver for the ribbed tube, and Metallic Gold, Pearl Gold, Rubber Pearl Gold, and Chrome Antique Brass. And black and white if we want to get technical.

When poking thru my odd parts, the metallic crystals jumped out at me as something I've never used before.

So here's this thing. And only 2 hours and 22 minutes late.

Technology by Daniel Foster

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A close-up of computer technology components.

Computing with Quantum Cats @ RIGB by yahnyinlondon

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A sketchnote from a talk at the RIGB by John Gribbin.

More details here: Computing with Quantum Cats @ RIGB

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CES 2020 (North & Central Hall) by Joe Swallia