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The Great Transformation is destroying the foundations of our lives
The Great Transformation is destroying the foundations of our livesInternational Network - Apr 26, 2024
And aims to transform humans into robots.
Artificial intelligence (AI) – there is hardly a keyword that comes up more often when it comes to visions of a highly technological and progressive society. It is not only supposed to simplify our lives and relieve us of certain tasks: the most daring visionaries of technological development in Silicon Valley, like Raymond Kurzweil and Elon Musk, even hope that it will make the old Faustian dream come true. to go beyond the limits of the human body.
Thanks to technology, man should be able to become a superman and increase his cognitive abilities exponentially, according to Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, the X platform and also Neuralink. Its “Neuralink” chip, directly implanted in the human brain – according to Musk’s own words, a human trial is already underway – should initially help treat serious brain diseases.
And if we are to believe the director of technical development of Google (part of the American technology giant Alphabet), Raymond Kurzweil, technical progress should not only give us eternal life, but also, as part of “the Internet of all things”, leading us to unsuspected knowledge as part of a sudden takeoff of progress, what we call the singularity.
This vanguard of transhumanism wants to achieve eternal life before the end of the world by gradually transforming man himself into a machine or by uploading his mind to a cloud. At the same time, more and more scientists like Geoffrey Hinton and philosophers like Alexander Duguine and Alain de Beonist are warning about the dangers of AI – so it's time to look at the possibilities and dangers of AI.
The Great Transformation
These ideas find enthusiastic support not only in the United States, but also among Western elites, who have coalesced around Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum. As part of their “Great Reset”, proclaimed in the wake of COVID-19 measures in July 2020, Western societies – and, depending on their will, the entire world – must be transformed in the direction of the new liberalism 2.0, which some observers call “billionaire socialism.”
Schwab and his co-author Thierry Malleret speak openly about the need to capture people's consciousness, because that is the only way to drive major social change. A massive green transformation of the economy, a reduction in population and a “climate-friendly” diet with insects instead of meat. “You will own nothing and you will be happy!” is the mocking slogan of the people of Davos. This is precisely where the latest technological developments come into play, intertwining with censorship strategies such as political correctness and “cancel culture”.
The algorithm, the key to the total domination of the globalists
In the eyes of transhumanists, man does not have a divine soul or free will, but is only a set of algorithms – rules of action for solving a problem or an entire class of problems – and can therefore not only be understood as a computer, but also programmed (i.e. manipulated). Political correctness then takes on the function of such an algorithm to limit people's autonomous thinking and transform them themselves into machines obeying the will of liberal elites.
Cybernetics: how people voluntarily become slaves to technology
In the tradition of cybernetics, companies like Google/Alphabet, but also European governments, are therefore interested in collecting as much data as possible on their citizens, not only to better monitor them in the sense of "human transparent” and thus nip dissident movements in the bud, but also to better control them.
Globalist companies like Google/Alphabet – whose name has become synonymous with Internet search – obtain this data with disconcerting ease and without pressure: billions of users every day feed the group's search engine with their data, use their email programs, etc. which Google in turn transforms into hard currency, like social media such as Facebook and Instagram, which sometimes know more about their users than the latter themselves. The voluntary sacrifice of privacy and anonymity makes ordinary citizens potential game for international corporations.
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Google: from May 22, 2024, deletion of content and accounts
Google: from May 22, 2024, deletion of content and accountsThe Media in 4-4-2 - Apr 20, 2024
Google reserves the right to take action against users who violate the Terms of Service, ranging from removal of content to account suspension or termination.
The anti-sectarian law will hurt Google users, which is pretty much everyone. Google reserves the right to modify and delete your account. Not obeying the famous “community rules” could even land you in court. The collapse of freedom of expression and information is announced. Right for the European election campaign.
Google owns 93,18% of online search. Its new conditions of censorship – sorry, its new conditions of use – therefore imply enormous repercussions throughout Europe. From May 22, 2024, right during the European election campaign — how weird! — Google warns you: “[…] if you violate our Terms of Service, our remedies are not limited to suspension or termination of your access to the Services, but may include other remedies under applicable law […]”.
Google knows what's good for you
“We pursue a rigorous product study program. Therefore, before changing a service or no longer offering it, we carefully consider your interests as a user, your reasonable expectations, and their potential impact on you and others. We only change services or stop offering them for good reason. »
Besides, it's that or nothing: “If you do not accept these new conditions, delete your content and cease all use of our services. You can also end your relationship with us at any time by closing your Google account. » And the threat ends with: “Thank you for using Google services! » Break up!
The sects are you, the haters
The law “against sectarian aberrations” aims to “require internet service providers (ISPs) and online content hosts to contribute to the fight against abuse of weakness and the crime of subjection, following the example of what is already imposed on them to fight against academic or moral harassment or even incitement to hatred. » Google therefore complies with the new legislation.
Described as a charlatan by Olivier Véran, Professor Didier Raoult is one of the first targets of the anti-sectarian aberrations law which targets, among others, “deviant” health professionals. There were not many deputies on the day the law was voted on. So who was really interested in it? who wrote it and ultimately who issued Google's new conditions? Maybe McKinsey, but undoubtedly the Pfizer, Rockefeller, JPMorgan, Rothschild, Vanguard, BlackRock & Co. sect. So Google is the victim of a sectarian conspiracy? No, because Google belongs to those who created this law. He is therefore one of those responsible. Very officially, Google is warning you: from May 22, 2024, from now on, you are the sect! And vote well!
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How digital giants “militarize” our lives
How digital giants “militarize” our livesReporterre - March 20, 2024
In “Technopolitics – How technology makes us soldiers”, researcher Asma Mhalla offers a fascinating reflection on the growing political and ideological influence of technological giants.
“Hybrid entities, at once private, military and geopolitical companies”, the technological giants, particularly in the United States, are now establishing themselves as the “technological armed arms of their country” details Asma Mhalla in her fascinating essay Technopolitics – Comment technology makes us soldiers (ed. Le Seuil). The researcher at the Political Anthropology Laboratory of the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (Ehess) develops a stimulating reflection on the growing economic, military, political and geopolitical influence of these “BigTech” and their increasingly close links. close with the States.
This is evidenced by the “leading role” played by Starlink, Microsoft or Amazon in the war in Ukraine [these companies respectively provided information on a Russian cyberattack, portable servers and low-orbit satellites to the Ukrainian government]. Enough to “give a glimpse of the possible birth of an American techno-military complex” and, more generally, bear witness to a “deep redefinition of the morphology of this collective construction called the State”. Under the pen of Asma Mhalla, the State becomes the “BigState”, an omnipotent actor which can “be authoritarian and liberal at the same time”.
In order to navigate this subject with infinite ramifications, the professor at Columbia University in New York and Sciences Po invites readers to discover the field of “technopolitics”, a “multidiscipline at the crossroads of economics and law, philosophy and political theory, international relations and history, cyber and tech.” The idea: to continue and update in the light of developments specific to the 21st century the technocritical work – not to be confused with technophobia, she specifies – of thinkers such as Jacques Ellul, George Orwell or Georges Bernanos, authors which she cites several times throughout the pages.
Tools “far from being ideologically neutral”
TikTok accused of spying on its users, “industrialization” of informational struggles, social networks used as public spaces of influence by tycoons, sorts of “techno-tycoons” who own them, “new cyber conflicts and neo-wars augmented with intelligence artificial"... For the author, it is urgent to radically address these issues, well beyond the timid attempts at moderation and "legal blocking" of "BigTech" implemented in Europe.
Far from being ideologically neutral tools, social networks, artificial intelligence and algorithms developed by Google, Meta and Palantir (a company specializing in analysis and data science) are reshaping — and privatizing — our intimate lives and our societies to act “as disruptive agents of democracy”. Firstly, by tending to convey, voluntarily or not, a far-right and conspiratorial ideology – the case of Elon Musk, owner of X (ex-Twitter), is paroxysmal in this matter. But also, and the subject is no less worrying, by acting “as amplifiers of a form of techno-security State paranoia”: population technosurveillance devices, biometric software, massive data capture, etc.
Taking the example of France and the multiplication of security laws since the attacks of 2015 (“Global Security” law in 2021, massive surveillance and registration of political and environmental activists), Asma Mhalla notes that in this “new regime of truth », “each individual is by default potentially guilty until proven otherwise, thereby justifying generalized surveillance”. All of this contributes, in turn, to the “internalization of the security norm” by each individual, with citizens finding themselves evolving in what the philosopher Gilles Deleuze “prophesized as “control societies”.
Do not “miss our times”
Once this observation is made, what should we do? According to Asma Mhalla, to escape the “technototalitarianism” that could emerge from this chaos, it is high time that we “produce a new vision of the world”. “It is up to politicians to prepare themselves and society for these changes, to avoid the next major structural crisis due to unpreparedness and lack of anticipation”, without which “we will miss our time”.
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NVIDIA earns $277 billion in one day on Wall Street
The Media in 4-4-2 - Feb 24, 2024
In the effervescent arena of the stock market, Nvidia is establishing itself as the star of the moment, propelled by the fever of semiconductors and the challenges of artificial intelligence.
Ah, the delusions of grandeur on the stock market! Nvidia, the undisputed master of artificial intelligence chips, has embarked on a frantic race towards previously unexplored financial heights. Yesterday, the frenzy reached its peak as prices literally exploded, propelling Nvidia into a stratospheric sphere.
Nvidia's epic is that of a modern conqueror, riding the tumultuous waves of artificial intelligence. In this 2.0 gold rush Nvidia takes the lion's share in this bubbling market.
The figures speak for themselves: in just a year and a half, Nvidia's value has multiplied sixfold, lifting the company to the pinnacle of the world stock market, even ahead of giants like Google and Amazon. Yesterday, the ascension reached dizzying heights, with a valuation increase of around $277 billion in a single day. An unprecedented tour de force which relegated the previous record established by Meta a few weeks earlier to the status of an anecdote.
Goldman Sachs' Scott Rubner doesn't mince words when he calls Nvidia "the most important stock in the world." With a capitalization of nearly $2 billion, Nvidia is now positioned as the third largest company in the world, on the verge of challenging the throne of Apple, a giant with a $000 billion capitalization.
In this frenetic race to the top of the stock market, Nvidia is surpassing all expectations, providing a captivating spectacle to investors around the world. It remains to be seen whether this king of AI will manage to dethrone the titan Apple in the near future. The show has only just begun!
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This solution allows you to thwart the surveillance of your private life
This solution allows you to thwart the surveillance of your private lifeMr Globalization - Jul 13, 2023
In 2018, we introduced you to "Eelo", now called "/e/OS", a smartphone operating system designed to protect our personal data and privacy from the appetite of GAFAM.
These issues are more topical than ever since the French government is implementing legal digital surveillance tools! Mr Mondialisation spoke with the computer scientist behind /e/OS, Gaël Duval, Open Source specialist, founding president of the eFoundation and of Murena. Decryption of this simple and practical solution.
We already knew that the personal data of Internet users interested the net giants to be used for advertising purposes, resold to companies or even direct votes as shown by the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. No data left online is harmless, whether it is our personal tastes or more sensitive ones such as our health. All the information collected on an individual makes it possible to classify it for commercial purposes, as Vincent Coquaz, director of Un Monde 5 Etoiles, explained in Soif de Sens.
Monitor political opposition
Connected objects are not only at the service of capitalism. They can also be effective during popular mobilizations, and thus endanger the power in place. In any case, this is what Emmanuel Macron implied about the popular revolts which followed the shooting death of the young Nahel: He came to imagine a possible censorship of social networks by "regulating or cutting".
But the Head of State and the government did not wait for these events to take an interest in our connected life. Under the guise of preserving national security, it is setting up digital surveillance tools such as the remote activation of electronic devices provided for in the Orientation and Programming Law of the Ministry of Justice 2023-2027 which has just been passed in National Assembly.
A measure denounced as soon as it was examined in the Senate by La Quadrature du Net, which rightly fears that its use is not confined to terrorism or organized crime but also serves against activists, in particular environmentalists. The 2024 Olympics become the pretext for authorizing biometric recognition, paving the way for a mass surveillance society.
Protecting yourself becomes suspicious
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Just as alarming, it even becomes suspicious to protect oneself by using digital encryption tools or to refuse the exploitation of our data.
Concerning the case of December 8 implicating seven people for "association of terrorist criminals", the DGSI (General Directorate of Internal Security) thus noted that: "All the members contacted adopted clandestine behavior, with increased security of means of communication (encrypted applications, Tails operating system, TOR protocol allowing anonymous browsing on the Internet and public wifi). »
The use of WhatsApp, ProtonMail, a VPN, Tor… are liable to justify the existence of a criminal project, as alerted by La Quadrature du Net in its article dedicated to this case. And in this list of “suspicious” online behaviors we also find the /e/OS operating system, developed by Gaël Duval.
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“Algocracy”: the new idiocracy of social networks
Mr Globalization - March 07, 2023
Addiction, mass disinformation, polarization of debates, democratic perversion… The grievances against digital platforms are numerous.
Despite their unparalleled informational power, social networks are still largely shaped by the financial interests of monopolistic companies. In his book Algocratie, living free in the age of algorithms published by Actes Sud, Arthur Grimonpont draws up with rigor and pedagogy the daunting picture of the impact of social networks on the whole of society in the XNUMXst century. In order to combine artificial intelligence and current issues, Arthur Grimonpont pleads for a real attention revolution.
Have you ever wondered what life would be like without social media? What would happen if the first instinct of a majority of people when they got out of bed was not to consult their smartphone? If they couldn't content themselves with admiring the latest holiday photos of their loved ones to consider “having heard from them”? If half of our wardrobe hadn't been directly recommended to them by Facebook's targeted ads or their favorite influencer? What if their main source of information didn't come in the form of feeds, posts and shorts?
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The first meeting and blood bank service for the unvaccinated
The first meeting and blood bank service for the unvaccinatedDigital Dawn - Feb 17, 2023
These days, online dating seems less a game of chance than a medical game of truth or daring, given the decisive question: "Are you vaccinated?" »
Businesswomen Shelby Thomson and Heather Pyle, of Maui, Hawaii, found the online dating game a frustrating experience for unvaccinated people at the height of the 19 COVID-2021 vaccine rollout.
Facing discrimination and censorship, many unvaccinated people lost their jobs and relationships because they chose not to get vaccinated. Unvaccinated people "didn't have the opportunity to tell they weren't vaccinated" to potential online dating partners, Ms Thomson said.
In May 2021, the two business partners, moms and best friends launched "Unjected", a dating app for the unvaccinated, on the Google and Apple stores.
However, soon after the app launched, Thomson and Pyle began receiving hate emails and then negative media publicity. Apple has decided to remove "Unjected" from the app store, on the grounds that it provided incorrect medical information.
When Google threatened to follow suit, Thomson and Pyle pulled the plug on the two media giants, and Unjected.com went live using domain name host GoDaddy in August 2021.
According to Thomson, "Unjected" is more than a dating service for unvaccinated people. It is also a blood bank database and a fertility bank for unvaccinated people.
“We all have a lot in common when it comes to being aware of our choices, and we believe there are great connections to be made when like-minded people come together in the same social space. »
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GAFAM and the control of submarine cables
GAFAM and the control of submarine cablesEel under the Rock - Jan 30, 2023
Riddle: how long are the nearly five hundred submarine cables through which most internet traffic passes? Answer: over 1,3 million kilometres. In which the GAFAM are furiously interested.
99% of digital data passes through the submarine cable
Or rather the submarine cables, the specialized site TeleGeography counted 486 of them, against less than half in 2009. The first cables were laid in the 1988th century between Europe and the American continent following the development of the telegraph. Since XNUMX the classic copper cables have been replaced by fiber optics. The geopolitical stakes are obvious, without cable more communication possible, and China and the United States clash openly via their operators.
Traditionally the major telephone operators were the operators of the submarine cables. Related to telephony, they manufactured them, installed them, maintained them, watched them and often operated them. These operators such as Alcatel Submarine Networks, Louis Dreyfus Travocean, Orange Marine, Telefonica, have become a minority or reduced to the rank of associates. Over the past fifteen years, silicone valley companies have invested heavily in it, meeting their growing needs for data transfers, reaching new markets in Third World countries and also enabling information control. . They openly pose a challenge to the digital sovereignty of States.
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Health: how Doctolib took power over our lives
Health: how Doctolib took power over our livesThe media - Nov 19, 2022
What if we were talking about a digital platform used by 37 million French people and which has become almost essential in our daily lives?
I imagine you are thinking of Google, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok… Well no, it's about Doctolib. Doctolib, a site for linking caregivers and patients, which now constitutes a virtual monopoly in France. Paradoxically, we know almost nothing about Doctolib, this giant which managed to be forgotten.
Who is at its head? what are the projects of its leaders? How did they succeed in imposing themselves on a field characterized from the start by strong competition? What are they monetizing? How do they make their investment profitable? In other words, since it's free, are we the product? The journalist Théophile Kouamouo called on the journalist Pierre-Philippe Berson, who investigated, with his colleague Victor Le Grand and for the magazine Society, on this platform which now exercises a form of ascendancy over our healthcare system.
