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Cloning Las Vegas – Digital Twin Cities and the Interoperability Cartel
HELL’S KITCHEN, NY - Patrons of Larry Flint’s Hustler Club in Manhattan might think twice about taking a cab to or from the notorious hot spot if they knew how easy it is for anyone with access to the datasets
February 14, 2022
Gatekeepers of Science, Twitter MDs and the Information War
LAUREL HOLLOW, NEW YORK - Information warfare is being waged on a mostly unsuspecting public through a massive communications technology infrastructure spawned by the American defense industry known as the Internet
January 11, 2022
The New Face of Colonialism | Part II – Building the Green Pipelines
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - In a panel session called 'So, You Want a Green Job?' at the recently-concluded COP26 Climate Conference, the Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills for Her Majesty's government
November 16, 2021
The New Face of Colonialism | Part I – Trafficking in Child Data
AUSTIN, TEXAS - Less than a mile southeast of where the Colorado River begins its erratic journey to Lake Travis on the western edge of the city of Austin, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation stands on its own lot
November 10, 2021
The Eternal Life of Data at the Altar of the Transhumanist Death Cult
MADRID, SPAIN - Two weeks ago, the biggest stars of the Transhumanist universe gathered at the Madrid College of Medicine for the fifteenth edition of an international conference called Transvision
November 1, 2021
Little Man: Why Merck Mercuriadis’ Blackstone Partnership Spells Doom for Human Creativity
LONDON, ENGLAND - Intellectual property (IP), as a legal concept, has its origins in the pharmaceutical industry and in the creative arts industry. Led by Pfizer and other powerful corporations like IBM, Hollywood studios and the top record labels
October 26, 2021
A Permanent State of Exception: The NIST’s Critical Role in Smart City Development
GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND - Located on the outskirts of the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area in a city of barely seventy thousand, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
October 20, 2021
To Believe or Not to Believe: The Origins of Open Source Intelligence and the Stories We Tell
LONDON, UK - Open source intelligence or OSINT was the brainchild of Arnold Toynbee, founder of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), also known as Chatham House and the prototypical think tank
October 12, 2021
Behold, A Dead Horse – The Dark Nexus Between Art, Fashion and Mixed Reality
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS - Terms like volumetric capture, photogrammetry and pluriform pixel-based garments are only a few examples of the industry jargon that is bandied about inside 'digital fashion houses' like The Fabricant
September 24, 2021
Dawn of the Embodied Autonomous Agent Society
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA - Early Thursday morning, a century-long study panel called the "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)" hosted by Stanford University published its second report on the state of AI.
September 16, 2021