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"Human Radio" ---------------------------- 3D Models by Oishisaur (COMMS OPEN) (Scott Pilgrim, Stacey Pilgrim) Original clip by Aaron Paulsen ---------------------------- #ScottPilgrim #StaceyPilgrim #ScottPilgrimvstakesoff

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@oishisaur This is the original 🤙

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@oishisaur Yup, this is the one!

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This is a man who is willing to share what he thinks and take the heat regardless as he’s done multiple times being ‘canceled’ for it.He’s a legend in his time. We all know him as ‘the internet dad’ and so that makes all of us as his fans sort of internet siblings. He created a global family — not just a set of followers or community — but a global family.He made it okay for good, smart people to say positive things about Donald Trump in public. Donald Trump is not president without Scott Adams. Not the 45th president — not the 47th president. The first person, in my opinion, that the MAGA movement has to thank for MAGA having power is Scott Adams.” Scott ‘changed how America views politics‘ As you may be realizing, Scott Adams didn’t just create Dilbert or master live-streaming—he reshaped how people think about politics, culture, and everything else. He’s resonated with thinkers like Owen Gregorian, a dedicated follower and cohort who posts articles and opinion pieces aligning with Adams’ ideas on persuasion and politics. As Owen Gregorian observes: “Scott changed how America views politics, and even the nature of reality. Time and again, he has framed people and events with messaging that ends up spreading everywhere. His article ‘Clown Genius’ very well may have springboarded Trump into winning his first term as President. His books and livestreams have helped countless people change their lives for the better. America will never fully realize how much Scott Adams influenced and improved our country.” Scott Adams helps make our country great Like so many of his daily listeners, news of Scott’s cancer diagnosis came as a shock. Although it made me sad, my primary feelings quickly shifted to admiration. Scott keeps the show going and as normally as possible. He has that fighting spirit embodied by so many Americans. Getting a personal phone call from President Trump undoubtedly did his heart good — it certainly did mine and so many others. Adams didn’t share all of the conversation. He has too much class for that. I join President Trump, so many Americans and people around the world in my appreciation of Scott Adams. As the smart people in this article expressed, Scott Adams is an American original. How you can fix your own mood — the Scott Adams way People like Megyn Kelly have called Scott Adams a “Trump whisperer,” and applauded him for for being “a frank communicator.” He’s been praised by the very best of them, from Ann Coulter to Monica Crowley. It’s no surprise to his fans when someone like President Trump expresses his clear respect and veneration, because so many people have been personally affected by something that Scott Adams said. For that person who loses weight, or decides to talk to an attractive stranger, or persuades their boss to give them a raise, or even just to stand a bit taller, Scott is somehow more than a star. He’s a friend. He never lectures his viewers and listeners. As he once told Carmine Gallo for “Don’t take my advice, I’m offering information.” Scott Adams has created an incredible body of useful work and entertainment that he continues to add to. Americans, and people around the world, have been changed for the better. Scott Adams finds purpose in making a difference in other’s lives. One moment from our interview sticks with me: “If you’re having a bad day that’s just unfixable, there’s nothing you can do about your own situation, at least today, tomorrow maybe is a new day, but right now you’re just in a funk. I’ll just sit there and say, ‘all right, who can I delight?’ It works every time. If you make somebody’s day and you’re useful and they simply appreciate you, you’re good all day. 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Owen Gregorian

77,061 views • 1 year ago

China’s pretty humanoid robot stuns by opening a car door in a ‘world’s first’ | Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering Mornine used onboard sensors and full-body control to locate the handle, adjust posture, and open a car door—no human input needed. AiMOGA Robotics has claimed to have reached a significant milestone in embodied AI with its humanoid robot, Mornine, autonomously opening a car door inside a functioning Chery dealership in China. Relying solely on onboard sensors, full-body motion control, and end-to-end reinforcement learning, Mornine performed the task without any human input. Unlike scripted or teleoperated robots, Mornie identified the door handle, adjusted its posture, and used coordinated force across its limbs and torso to complete the action—demonstrating advanced autonomy in a real-world setting. “The deployment marks one of the first instances of a service robot executing such a high-friction, physical interaction in a live commercial setting,” said the firm in a statement. In April, at the Shanghai Auto Show, automotive brands Omoda and Jaecoo, subsidiaries of Chery Automobile, introduced Mornine, designed for use in car dealerships. From sim to service Opening a car door may seem like a simple task, but AiMOGA Robotics views it as a pivotal moment in robotics—signaling a shift from simulation to real-world service, and from basic command execution to autonomous capability. Using only onboard sensors and full-body motion control, Mornine identified the door handle, adjusted her posture, and applied coordinated force across her limbs to open the door—entirely without human intervention. Mornine’s advanced sensor suite includes 3D LiDAR, depth and wide-angle cameras, and a visual-language model (VLM), enabling real-time perception of door position and opening status. Uniquely, Mornine wasn’t explicitly programmed to recognize door handles. Instead, she learned through reinforcement learning, undergoing millions of simulated cycles to focus on the right region and perform the task independently. “We never explicitly told the robot what a door handle is. It learned to focus on that region by itself,” said the engineering team at AiMOGA Robotics in a statement. The learned model was transferred to the real world using Sim2Real methods. Mornine continuously gathers live sensor data during operation, which feeds into a cloud-based training loop, allowing her to improve through continuous learning in real-world settings, reports Robotics Tomorrow. Now active in multiple Chery 4S dealerships in China, Mornine not only opens car doors but also assists with customer greetings, vehicle introductions, and item delivery—marking a step forward in humanoid robotics for commercial retail environments. AI meets retail Originally introduced as the AiMOGA Robot, Mornine was developed to support dealership sales by performing tasks such as explaining vehicle specifications, leading showroom tours, serving refreshments, and engaging with customers in multiple languages. First conceived by Chery as a virtual character to appeal to Generation Z using metaverse and virtual human technologies, Mornine gradually evolved into a real-world interactive humanoid. After multiple iterations of character and model design, Mornine debuted as a digital persona in animations, livestreams, and promotional content, gaining brand recognition. Chery later expanded the concept beyond the virtual space, resulting in the creation of the AiMOGA humanoid robot. Leveraging Chery’s expertise in autonomous driving, environmental sensing, and control systems, AiMOGA features full-stack capabilities in perception, cognition, decision-making, and execution. It uses multimodal sensing—combining speech, vision, and environmental data—to interpret user gestures, commands, and showroom dynamics. A bionic motion system and automotive-grade hardware enable dexterous movement and upright mobility, while multi-robot collaboration allows for coordinated tasks like guided tours. At the decision-making layer, Deepseek’s large language models enable natural language understanding and personalized interaction. In April 2025, Mornine officially began commercial service as an “Intelligent Sales Consultant” at the OMODA C5 JOYSTAR 4S dealership in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—marking her full transition from a virtual concept to a real-world humanoid sales assistant.
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China’s pretty humanoid robot stuns by opening a car door in a ‘world’s first’ | Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering Mornine used onboard sensors and full-body control to locate the handle, adjust posture, and open a car door—no human input needed. AiMOGA Robotics has claimed to have reached a significant milestone in embodied AI with its humanoid robot, Mornine, autonomously opening a car door inside a functioning Chery dealership in China. Relying solely on onboard sensors, full-body motion control, and end-to-end reinforcement learning, Mornine performed the task without any human input. Unlike scripted or teleoperated robots, Mornie identified the door handle, adjusted its posture, and used coordinated force across its limbs and torso to complete the action—demonstrating advanced autonomy in a real-world setting. “The deployment marks one of the first instances of a service robot executing such a high-friction, physical interaction in a live commercial setting,” said the firm in a statement. In April, at the Shanghai Auto Show, automotive brands Omoda and Jaecoo, subsidiaries of Chery Automobile, introduced Mornine, designed for use in car dealerships. From sim to service Opening a car door may seem like a simple task, but AiMOGA Robotics views it as a pivotal moment in robotics—signaling a shift from simulation to real-world service, and from basic command execution to autonomous capability. Using only onboard sensors and full-body motion control, Mornine identified the door handle, adjusted her posture, and applied coordinated force across her limbs to open the door—entirely without human intervention. Mornine’s advanced sensor suite includes 3D LiDAR, depth and wide-angle cameras, and a visual-language model (VLM), enabling real-time perception of door position and opening status. Uniquely, Mornine wasn’t explicitly programmed to recognize door handles. Instead, she learned through reinforcement learning, undergoing millions of simulated cycles to focus on the right region and perform the task independently. “We never explicitly told the robot what a door handle is. It learned to focus on that region by itself,” said the engineering team at AiMOGA Robotics in a statement. The learned model was transferred to the real world using Sim2Real methods. Mornine continuously gathers live sensor data during operation, which feeds into a cloud-based training loop, allowing her to improve through continuous learning in real-world settings, reports Robotics Tomorrow. Now active in multiple Chery 4S dealerships in China, Mornine not only opens car doors but also assists with customer greetings, vehicle introductions, and item delivery—marking a step forward in humanoid robotics for commercial retail environments. AI meets retail Originally introduced as the AiMOGA Robot, Mornine was developed to support dealership sales by performing tasks such as explaining vehicle specifications, leading showroom tours, serving refreshments, and engaging with customers in multiple languages. First conceived by Chery as a virtual character to appeal to Generation Z using metaverse and virtual human technologies, Mornine gradually evolved into a real-world interactive humanoid. After multiple iterations of character and model design, Mornine debuted as a digital persona in animations, livestreams, and promotional content, gaining brand recognition. Chery later expanded the concept beyond the virtual space, resulting in the creation of the AiMOGA humanoid robot. Leveraging Chery’s expertise in autonomous driving, environmental sensing, and control systems, AiMOGA features full-stack capabilities in perception, cognition, decision-making, and execution. It uses multimodal sensing—combining speech, vision, and environmental data—to interpret user gestures, commands, and showroom dynamics. A bionic motion system and automotive-grade hardware enable dexterous movement and upright mobility, while multi-robot collaboration allows for coordinated tasks like guided tours. At the decision-making layer, Deepseek’s large language models enable natural language understanding and personalized interaction. In April 2025, Mornine officially began commercial service as an “Intelligent Sales Consultant” at the OMODA C5 JOYSTAR 4S dealership in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—marking her full transition from a virtual concept to a real-world humanoid sales assistant.

Owen Gregorian

67,975 views • 1 year ago

For generative AI to become an interesting art tool, we need much more control over the output. The slot-machine-like nature of pure text-to-image leaves too much to chance. Using the "Real-time Latent Consistency Model" that I'm using in the example here, is the first time I truly got a glimpse of a future where we'll be able to use our artistic skills and sensibility, to get control over AI image gen. Systems like these will never be able to match the quality or originality of a skilled artist, it won't surprise us in the same way an artist can. Things are a mess in terms of the training data these models are based on, and the questions about copyright concerns and about a time when everything will look the same are very valid. At some point capabilities like these will be embedded in photoshop, and anyone will be able to generate a pretty picture. But to create interesting designs, to tell original stories and to surprise us, we need creatives and artists with something on their mind. We'll be able to create immersive worlds, by making brush-strokes and sculpt marks, without needing to worry about all the dials, plugins, wires of our 3d and 2d tools today. I love to sculpt, I love to draw, and I love to explore new mediums and new ways to create. The Gen AI tools we have today are far from perfect, and things need to be steered in a better direction. For that we need artists to help point the way. Gen AI isn't going away.. it's too powerful and has the potential to allow us to tell stories like never before. Like all other big technological shifts, tech like this will come at a cost, but it will also open up new opportunities and empower a new generation of storytellers. I might be naive, but I believe that human ingenuity and creativity will persevere in this new world ♥️ #art #ai
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For generative AI to become an interesting art tool, we need much more control over the output. The slot-machine-like nature of pure text-to-image leaves too much to chance. Using the "Real-time Latent Consistency Model" that I'm using in the example here, is the first time I truly got a glimpse of a future where we'll be able to use our artistic skills and sensibility, to get control over AI image gen. Systems like these will never be able to match the quality or originality of a skilled artist, it won't surprise us in the same way an artist can. Things are a mess in terms of the training data these models are based on, and the questions about copyright concerns and about a time when everything will look the same are very valid. At some point capabilities like these will be embedded in photoshop, and anyone will be able to generate a pretty picture. But to create interesting designs, to tell original stories and to surprise us, we need creatives and artists with something on their mind. We'll be able to create immersive worlds, by making brush-strokes and sculpt marks, without needing to worry about all the dials, plugins, wires of our 3d and 2d tools today. I love to sculpt, I love to draw, and I love to explore new mediums and new ways to create. The Gen AI tools we have today are far from perfect, and things need to be steered in a better direction. For that we need artists to help point the way. Gen AI isn't going away.. it's too powerful and has the potential to allow us to tell stories like never before. Like all other big technological shifts, tech like this will come at a cost, but it will also open up new opportunities and empower a new generation of storytellers. I might be naive, but I believe that human ingenuity and creativity will persevere in this new world ♥️ #art #ai

Martin Nebelong

1,660,244 views • 2 years ago

OpenLedger X Morpheus The partnership of openledger with Morpheus enables Use Morpheus to build "The Autonomous Smart Contract Engineer" on top of OpenLedger. What is Morpheus? Morpheus is a Web3-native AI coding agent that turns natural language into executable smart contracts and full-stack dApps. It is powered by a specialized Solidity model built on top of OpenLedger, tailored for the unique demands of secure and efficient onchain development. It goes beyond code generation. Using fine-tuned models, agent-based architecture, and modular plugin support, Morpheus automates the entire development pipeline-from writing and simulating contracts to deploying and maintaining them. Its mission is to reduce the barrier to dApp creation while enabling autonomous agents and individuals to participate in decentralized economies. Why OpenLedger? The rise of AI agents in Web3 raises urgent questions around transparency, attribution, explainability, and contributor incentives. OpenLedger provides the infrastructure to ensure that contributor data used in model outputs is recorded with verifiable attribution. Through Proof of Attribution, contributors-whether they provide prompts, datasets, or logic refinements-can receive credit and rewards when their work influences model behavior. But attribution alone isn’t enough. In critical domains like smart contract deployment, DeFi automation, and DAO governance, understanding why a model made a decision is just as important as the output itself. OpenLedger supports explainability by linking outputs back to their original data sources-allowing developers and auditors to trace logic, validate decisions, and build trust in AI-powered systems. OpenLedger supports Morpheus by: Recording which data was used in generating model outputs Enabling verifiable attribution of contributed datasets Powering reward mechanisms for contributors Offering scalable and efficient model execution via OpenLoRA Supporting transparency and traceability in model decision-making This creates an open, rewardable foundation for AI-driven coding-without relying on opaque systems. How is the system built? The Morpheus architecture has three layers: Datanet Layer OpenLedger powers Morpheus with a specialized Datanet - a decentralized data layer where developers, auditors, and contributors can share smart contract patterns, audit logs, exploit reports, and logic modules. Each submission is recorded onchain with attribution using OpenLedger’s Proof of Attribution. As the model learns and evolves from this data, contributors receive rewards proportional to their impact on future outputs. The Morpheus architecture has two layers: Intent Layer Users describe what they want to build. Example: "Create a token with tax logic that routes to a DAO." Morpheus parses the instruction, retrieves relevant contract types, and plans a modular execution flow. Agent Layer The agent generates, tests, and assembles the contract. It handles versioning, logic validation, and deployment readiness. Security checks-reentrancy protection, overflow control, gas modeling-are embedded into the generation phase. Generated outputs are mapped to their source data using OpenLedger’s Proof of Attribution, providing traceability across the pipeline. How does the AI model work? Morpheus is being powered by a specialized Solidity model built on top of OpenLedger. This model is purpose-built to handle the nuances of smart contract logic, security, and upgradeability. Unlike generalized coding agents, it is designed specifically for EVM environments and Web3 use cases, drawing from real protocol data and security best practices. Morpheus is fine-tuned on a vertical stack of smart contract data: Audited protocol code (e.g., Uniswap V4, Compound) OpenZeppelin libraries and EIP reference implementations Smart contract vulnerability reports and exploit reconstructions Edge cases from fuzz testing and adversarial examples It uses models like CodeLlama and DeepSeek-Coder, enhanced through RAG pipelines referencing standardized security patterns and emerging protocol designs. This training stack is integrated into a continuous feedback loop, enabling real-time specialization for EVM and beyond. Why a specialized model is needed? Smart contract development is uniquely high-stakes. A generalized AI model is not enough. As 'vibe coding' and natural language programming become more common, we're seeing an influx of AI-generated code in Web3 as well. But smart contracts are not frontends or prototypes-they govern real value, enforce trustless execution, and often become immutable after deployment. Billions have been lost in Web3 due to bugs and inefficiencies: In 2022 alone, over $3.8 billion was stolen due to smart contract exploits, many of which stemmed from avoidable issues like reentrancy, integer overflows, or access control failures. Inefficient contract structures lead to unnecessary gas consumption. Optimizing for gas can reduce costs by up to 40%, saving projects millions over time. Upgradeable contract patterns, like UUPS or Transparent Proxies, require strict adherence to storage layout and initialization rules. Mistakes here often go undetected by generic models and can render a contract unupgradeable or vulnerable. A specialized Solidity model is trained on real-world exploits, EIP standards, and libraries like OpenZeppelin to: Generate secure, gas-efficient code by default Recognize and correctly implement complex proxy patterns Map user intent to modular, auditable contract architectures Incorporate battle-tested logic from audited protocols and fuzz-tested edge cases Morpheus goes beyond syntax-it understands the nuances of decentralized infrastructure and deploys code that meets production-grade standards. What applications will this enable Token creation with built-in logic (tax, liquidity, governance) DeFi automations triggered by market conditions Payment contracts between agents and contributors DAO tooling with dynamic NFT-based voting Cross-chain bridging logic tied to real-world oracles Asset issuance flows through chat-based interfaces Natural language contract templates with reusable logic Each of these flows is backed by OpenLedger’s Proof of Attribution-ensuring traceability, explainability, and fair rewards across the ecosystem. This is the future of AI-native development. Open. Attributed. Explainable. Community-powered. Morpheus and OpenLedger are building the first system for autonomous coding agents where: Contributor work is recorded onchain Reuse is incentivized through attribution Model outputs are traceable and explainable Contracts evolve through human-agent collaboration Anyone can contribute prompts, logic, or flows-and get rewarded The smart contract engineer is no longer a human-only role. It is an agentic, decentralized, and transparent process-powered by OpenLedger.
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OpenLedger X Morpheus The partnership of openledger with Morpheus enables Use Morpheus to build "The Autonomous Smart Contract Engineer" on top of OpenLedger. What is Morpheus? Morpheus is a Web3-native AI coding agent that turns natural language into executable smart contracts and full-stack dApps. It is powered by a specialized Solidity model built on top of OpenLedger, tailored for the unique demands of secure and efficient onchain development. It goes beyond code generation. Using fine-tuned models, agent-based architecture, and modular plugin support, Morpheus automates the entire development pipeline-from writing and simulating contracts to deploying and maintaining them. Its mission is to reduce the barrier to dApp creation while enabling autonomous agents and individuals to participate in decentralized economies. Why OpenLedger? The rise of AI agents in Web3 raises urgent questions around transparency, attribution, explainability, and contributor incentives. OpenLedger provides the infrastructure to ensure that contributor data used in model outputs is recorded with verifiable attribution. Through Proof of Attribution, contributors-whether they provide prompts, datasets, or logic refinements-can receive credit and rewards when their work influences model behavior. But attribution alone isn’t enough. In critical domains like smart contract deployment, DeFi automation, and DAO governance, understanding why a model made a decision is just as important as the output itself. OpenLedger supports explainability by linking outputs back to their original data sources-allowing developers and auditors to trace logic, validate decisions, and build trust in AI-powered systems. OpenLedger supports Morpheus by: Recording which data was used in generating model outputs Enabling verifiable attribution of contributed datasets Powering reward mechanisms for contributors Offering scalable and efficient model execution via OpenLoRA Supporting transparency and traceability in model decision-making This creates an open, rewardable foundation for AI-driven coding-without relying on opaque systems. How is the system built? The Morpheus architecture has three layers: Datanet Layer OpenLedger powers Morpheus with a specialized Datanet - a decentralized data layer where developers, auditors, and contributors can share smart contract patterns, audit logs, exploit reports, and logic modules. Each submission is recorded onchain with attribution using OpenLedger’s Proof of Attribution. As the model learns and evolves from this data, contributors receive rewards proportional to their impact on future outputs. The Morpheus architecture has two layers: Intent Layer Users describe what they want to build. Example: "Create a token with tax logic that routes to a DAO." Morpheus parses the instruction, retrieves relevant contract types, and plans a modular execution flow. Agent Layer The agent generates, tests, and assembles the contract. It handles versioning, logic validation, and deployment readiness. Security checks-reentrancy protection, overflow control, gas modeling-are embedded into the generation phase. Generated outputs are mapped to their source data using OpenLedger’s Proof of Attribution, providing traceability across the pipeline. How does the AI model work? Morpheus is being powered by a specialized Solidity model built on top of OpenLedger. This model is purpose-built to handle the nuances of smart contract logic, security, and upgradeability. Unlike generalized coding agents, it is designed specifically for EVM environments and Web3 use cases, drawing from real protocol data and security best practices. Morpheus is fine-tuned on a vertical stack of smart contract data: Audited protocol code (e.g., Uniswap V4, Compound) OpenZeppelin libraries and EIP reference implementations Smart contract vulnerability reports and exploit reconstructions Edge cases from fuzz testing and adversarial examples It uses models like CodeLlama and DeepSeek-Coder, enhanced through RAG pipelines referencing standardized security patterns and emerging protocol designs. This training stack is integrated into a continuous feedback loop, enabling real-time specialization for EVM and beyond. Why a specialized model is needed? Smart contract development is uniquely high-stakes. A generalized AI model is not enough. As 'vibe coding' and natural language programming become more common, we're seeing an influx of AI-generated code in Web3 as well. But smart contracts are not frontends or prototypes-they govern real value, enforce trustless execution, and often become immutable after deployment. Billions have been lost in Web3 due to bugs and inefficiencies: In 2022 alone, over $3.8 billion was stolen due to smart contract exploits, many of which stemmed from avoidable issues like reentrancy, integer overflows, or access control failures. Inefficient contract structures lead to unnecessary gas consumption. Optimizing for gas can reduce costs by up to 40%, saving projects millions over time. Upgradeable contract patterns, like UUPS or Transparent Proxies, require strict adherence to storage layout and initialization rules. Mistakes here often go undetected by generic models and can render a contract unupgradeable or vulnerable. A specialized Solidity model is trained on real-world exploits, EIP standards, and libraries like OpenZeppelin to: Generate secure, gas-efficient code by default Recognize and correctly implement complex proxy patterns Map user intent to modular, auditable contract architectures Incorporate battle-tested logic from audited protocols and fuzz-tested edge cases Morpheus goes beyond syntax-it understands the nuances of decentralized infrastructure and deploys code that meets production-grade standards. What applications will this enable Token creation with built-in logic (tax, liquidity, governance) DeFi automations triggered by market conditions Payment contracts between agents and contributors DAO tooling with dynamic NFT-based voting Cross-chain bridging logic tied to real-world oracles Asset issuance flows through chat-based interfaces Natural language contract templates with reusable logic Each of these flows is backed by OpenLedger’s Proof of Attribution-ensuring traceability, explainability, and fair rewards across the ecosystem. This is the future of AI-native development. Open. Attributed. Explainable. Community-powered. Morpheus and OpenLedger are building the first system for autonomous coding agents where: Contributor work is recorded onchain Reuse is incentivized through attribution Model outputs are traceable and explainable Contracts evolve through human-agent collaboration Anyone can contribute prompts, logic, or flows-and get rewarded The smart contract engineer is no longer a human-only role. It is an agentic, decentralized, and transparent process-powered by OpenLedger.

OpenLedger

46,944 views • 1 year ago

If an AI can control 1,000 robots to perform 1 million skills in 1 billion different simulations, then it may "just work" in our real world, which is simply another point in the vast space of possible realities. This is the fundamental principle behind why simulation works so effectively for robotics. Real-world teleoperation data scales linearly with human time (< 24 hrs/robot/day). Sim data scales exponentially with compute. There are 3 big trends for simulators in the near future: 1. Massive parallelization on large clusters. Physics equations are "just" matrix math at their core. I hear GPUs are good at matrix math 🔥. One can run 100K copies of simulation on a single GPU. To put this number in perspective: 1 hour of wallclock compute time gives a robot 10 years (!!) of training experience. That's how Neo was able to learn martial arts in a blink of an eye in the Matrix Dojo. 2. Generative graphics pipeline. Traditionally, simulators require a huge amount of manual effort from artists: 3D assets, textures, scene layouts, etc. But every component in the workflow can be automated: text-to-image, text-to-3D mesh, and LLMs that write Universal Scene Description (USD) files as a coding exercise. RoboCasa is one example of a prior work. 3. End2end neural net that acts as simulator itself. This is still bluesky research and quite far from replacing a graphics pipeline, but we are seeing some exciting signs-of-life based on video gen models: Sora, Veo2, CogVideoX, Hunyuan (text-to-video); and action-driven world models: GameNGen, Oasis, Genie-2, etc. Genesis does great on (1) for certain tasks, shows good promises on (2), and could become a data generation tool for reaching (3). Its sim2real capabilities for locomotion are good, but there's still a long way to go for contact-rich, dexterous manipulation. It shows a bold vision and is on the right path to providing a virtual cradle for embodied AI. It is open-source and puts a streamlined user journey at the front and center. I had the privilege to know Zhou Xian and play a small part in his project since a year ago. Xian has been crunching code non-stop on Genesis with a very small group of core devs. He often replied to my messages at 3 am. Zhenjia Xu from our GEAR team helped with sim2real experiments in his spare time. Genesis is truly a grassroot effort with an intense focus on quality engineering. Nothing gives me more joy than seeing the simulation ecosystem bloom. Robotics should be a moonshot initiative owned by all of humanity. Congratulations.
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If an AI can control 1,000 robots to perform 1 million skills in 1 billion different simulations, then it may "just work" in our real world, which is simply another point in the vast space of possible realities. This is the fundamental principle behind why simulation works so effectively for robotics. Real-world teleoperation data scales linearly with human time (< 24 hrs/robot/day). Sim data scales exponentially with compute. There are 3 big trends for simulators in the near future: 1. Massive parallelization on large clusters. Physics equations are "just" matrix math at their core. I hear GPUs are good at matrix math 🔥. One can run 100K copies of simulation on a single GPU. To put this number in perspective: 1 hour of wallclock compute time gives a robot 10 years (!!) of training experience. That's how Neo was able to learn martial arts in a blink of an eye in the Matrix Dojo. 2. Generative graphics pipeline. Traditionally, simulators require a huge amount of manual effort from artists: 3D assets, textures, scene layouts, etc. But every component in the workflow can be automated: text-to-image, text-to-3D mesh, and LLMs that write Universal Scene Description (USD) files as a coding exercise. RoboCasa is one example of a prior work. 3. End2end neural net that acts as simulator itself. This is still bluesky research and quite far from replacing a graphics pipeline, but we are seeing some exciting signs-of-life based on video gen models: Sora, Veo2, CogVideoX, Hunyuan (text-to-video); and action-driven world models: GameNGen, Oasis, Genie-2, etc. Genesis does great on (1) for certain tasks, shows good promises on (2), and could become a data generation tool for reaching (3). Its sim2real capabilities for locomotion are good, but there's still a long way to go for contact-rich, dexterous manipulation. It shows a bold vision and is on the right path to providing a virtual cradle for embodied AI. It is open-source and puts a streamlined user journey at the front and center. I had the privilege to know Zhou Xian and play a small part in his project since a year ago. Xian has been crunching code non-stop on Genesis with a very small group of core devs. He often replied to my messages at 3 am. Zhenjia Xu from our GEAR team helped with sim2real experiments in his spare time. Genesis is truly a grassroot effort with an intense focus on quality engineering. Nothing gives me more joy than seeing the simulation ecosystem bloom. Robotics should be a moonshot initiative owned by all of humanity. Congratulations.

Jim Fan

157,343 views • 1 year ago

CLIP by hand ✍️ ~ 13 steps walkthrough below CLIP, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, is OpenAI's answer to a question that sounds impossible: how do you put a sentence and a picture in the same space? CLIP shipped when OpenAI was still open, and those embeddings were shared far and wide. Almost every multimodal model you use today descends from them. How does it work? Goal: learn one shared embedding space for text and images. = 1. Given = A mini batch of three text-image pairs. OpenAI trained the original on 400 million. = 2. Text to vectors = Let us look up each word with word2vec. = 3. Image to vectors = We cut each image into two patches and flatten them. Now text and pixels are both just numbers. = 4. The other pairs = Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the rest of the batch. = 5. Encode = Let us push both sides through their encoders, a linear layer and a ReLU. In practice these are transformers, but the shape of the operation is the same. = 6. Mean pooling = We average across the columns, so each image and each sentence collapses to a single vector. = 7. Projection = The text vectors are 3D and the image vectors are 4D, so they cannot be compared at all. A linear layer projects both to 2D. That 2D space is the shared embedding space, and getting here is the whole point of the model. = 8. Prepare for matmul = Let us copy the text vectors down and the transposed image vectors across. = 9. MatMul = We multiply, which takes the dot product of every text vector with every image vector. Each cell is one estimate of how well a sentence matches a picture. = 10. Softmax, e to the power = Raise e to each cell. To keep it hand sized we approximate e with 3. = 11. Softmax, sum = Sum each row for image to text, each column for text to image. = 12. Softmax, normalize = Divide, and out come two similarity matrices, one per direction. = 13. Loss gradients = The targets are identity matrices: a pair that belongs together should score 1, every other cell 0. Subtract the target from the similarity and you have the gradients, in both directions. The takeaway: pairing a picture with a sentence comes down to a single dot product. Everything before step 9 is the work of getting them into one shared space, so that the dot product finally means something. 💾 Save this post!
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CLIP by hand ✍️ ~ 13 steps walkthrough below CLIP, Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training, is OpenAI's answer to a question that sounds impossible: how do you put a sentence and a picture in the same space? CLIP shipped when OpenAI was still open, and those embeddings were shared far and wide. Almost every multimodal model you use today descends from them. How does it work? Goal: learn one shared embedding space for text and images. = 1. Given = A mini batch of three text-image pairs. OpenAI trained the original on 400 million. = 2. Text to vectors = Let us look up each word with word2vec. = 3. Image to vectors = We cut each image into two patches and flatten them. Now text and pixels are both just numbers. = 4. The other pairs = Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the rest of the batch. = 5. Encode = Let us push both sides through their encoders, a linear layer and a ReLU. In practice these are transformers, but the shape of the operation is the same. = 6. Mean pooling = We average across the columns, so each image and each sentence collapses to a single vector. = 7. Projection = The text vectors are 3D and the image vectors are 4D, so they cannot be compared at all. A linear layer projects both to 2D. That 2D space is the shared embedding space, and getting here is the whole point of the model. = 8. Prepare for matmul = Let us copy the text vectors down and the transposed image vectors across. = 9. MatMul = We multiply, which takes the dot product of every text vector with every image vector. Each cell is one estimate of how well a sentence matches a picture. = 10. Softmax, e to the power = Raise e to each cell. To keep it hand sized we approximate e with 3. = 11. Softmax, sum = Sum each row for image to text, each column for text to image. = 12. Softmax, normalize = Divide, and out come two similarity matrices, one per direction. = 13. Loss gradients = The targets are identity matrices: a pair that belongs together should score 1, every other cell 0. Subtract the target from the similarity and you have the gradients, in both directions. The takeaway: pairing a picture with a sentence comes down to a single dot product. Everything before step 9 is the work of getting them into one shared space, so that the dot product finally means something. 💾 Save this post!

Tom Yeh

20,750 views • 14 days ago

In this clip, Dr Jordan B Peterson and Charlie Kirk wrestle with two vitally important questions both for conservatives and for Western civilization. 1. What does it mean to be conservative and anti-woke when the majority of institutions are Woke? 2. What does it mean for a conservative to deem an institution to be irredeemable? Dr. Peterson highlights one danger that necessitates an answer to the first question: an anti-institutional conservative is an oxymoron. When conservatives advocate for the destruction of institutions they are indistinguishable from leftist radicals. This is the position that Woke Right radicals like Dave Greene and Auron MacIntyre embrace, they call themselves right wing radicals and admit they want to tear down existing institutions and replace them with something they claim will be different. The Woke Right passionately loathes Dr. Peterson for exposing the contradiction here. There is another danger here that doesn’t come up in the clip but Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 often brings it up. Conservatives are often led by the nose by Woke institutions. You can see this in countries like Canada and the UK where Woke Left policy is implemented most successfully by conservative governments, for example the Boris Johnson wave of millions of illegal aliens. Conservatives are typically conscientious and interested in following the rules, and being a good team player. Once the Woke Left worldview is baked into the institution they can fail to question it and execute the leftist agenda more effectively than the leftists can themselves. In effect when there is no good answer to question one then there are two ways conservatives go Woke: they can become a mirror image of the radicals they hate and actively embrace the Woke worldview as the Woke Right, or through blind fidelity to Woke institutions they can become captured pawns of a Woke worldview. In the clip Dr. Peterson and Mr. Kirk sidestep the first Woke trap of attempting to answer question one from the frame of the left-right political dichotomy. Realist conservatives and liberals should reject the right-left political dichotomy as a false frame trap. The left-right political dichotomy originates in the French National Assembly and represents an adversarial and unstable political project between two incompatible worldviews. It was intrinsically ideological and soon devolved into chaotic and violent revolution. There is obvious utility in this frame for the Woke but those of us who are anti-Woke should recognize it as a false frame, an ideological trap, and reject it. In order to answer question number one we need a better frame: We need to reject idealism for realism and reject ideals for telos. In the video clip Dr. Peterson explains the existential hierarchy of an institution, he explains that liberals are on the exploratory fringe, the conservatives are closer to center and he describes the core as explicitly religious. This religious core of the institution is better described as its telos. The telos as formulated by Aristotle is the final cause of the institution. In the clip Mr. Kirk describes this as the institutions serving the purpose for which they are chartered but it is deeper than that, the most fundamental institutions: marriage, family, parochial community, require no charter but nonetheless each has a telos. When an institution is in alignment with its telos it creates an abundance of fruits that are good, true or beautiful. It is easy to confuse the measurable fruits for the telos but the fruits are not the telos; the fruits are indicative of the institution's alignment with its telos. In this way, the telos of an institution becomes the proximal arbiter of merit and virtue. The merits required to be a professional basketball player may be radically different from those required for being a neurosurgeon. The virtuous member of one particular family may differ significantly from the virtuous member of another particular family. Though this proximal particularity is an important reality, an institutional telos can never arbitrate merits and virtues that are wholly dissimilar. Every telos is within the hierarchy of the ultimate telos: the unmoved mover, the supreme being, God. Elsewhere Dr. Peterson has described this teleological relationship as that of the game and the metagame which must be played simultaneously. Our Lord Jesus Christ also described it when he condensed the commandments into two: A Pharisee asks Jesus which commandment is the greatest. Jesus responds, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” —Matthew 22:36-40 Secularists often point out that some of the American founding fathers were not Christians but Deists. This fact strengthens the connection between telos, American constitutional republicanism, and Western civilization. Deism is a theistic rationalism that affirms and preserves monotheistic teleology from the materialist, reductionist, and idealist ravages of the enlightenment. Although critics like Jonathan Pageau are right to decry the abandonment of symbolism, Deism is likely the greatest possible abstraction—and therefore the biggest possible tent—that can still bear the load of Western civilization. To put it bluntly, to participate positively in Western Civilization, your metaphysics must be compatible with monotheistic teleology. That is the outermost wall between civilization and the barbarians. With telos explained, let us turn our attention to the barbarians and the Woke traitors who conspire to hold open the gates. At other points in the interview—not in this clip—Dr. Peterson and Mr. Kirk identify the parasitic nature of the Woke. The alignment of an institution with its telos creates an abundance of fruits; the proximal cause of Woke is to illegitimately seize that abundance. This is done by disrupting the connection to telos so the wealth can be looted without triggering an immune response. In the clip, Dr. Peterson describes this situation as Aaron and the Israelites fashioning a golden calf and engaging in orgiastic revelry when Moses goes up the mountain. In nature, this is analogous to a parasite disrupting the function of its host to feed and avoid detection. The Woke have a vast array of tools to disrupt telos, from simple to sophisticated, from general purpose to highly specialist. The following are some select examples: corporations are being induced to replace their shareholder model of governance with a nebulous and highly arbitrary stakeholder models; DEI programs are instituted in every manner of institution from governments to hobbyist conventions; climate change demonizes carbon dioxide and since all human activity produces carbon dioxide it is an override on any institutional telos; Communism and the UN Sustainable Development Goals demand the telos of every institution be subordinated to the arbitrary construct of the human species-being; fascism claims every telos must be subordinated to an arbitrary state construct and Nazism more specifically claims every telos must be subordinated to racialist state construct which is effectively a communist species-being that explicitly excludes and scapegoats based on race. The last two examples were totalitarian ideologies. In the American constitutional republic it is the protection of natural rights that secures the pursuit of institutional telos from parasitation by totalitarian ideology. It is not realist conservatives but realist liberals who ought to be the first line of defense against Woke parasitation. In this way Thomas Jefferson’s immortal words could be rephrased, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Telos." Now to answer question one, the role of the realist conservative is to preserve and execute on telos of institutions and to rebuke institutions that go Woke. This means that realist conservatives ought to facilitate a discernment of and realignment with telos whenever possible. To answer question two, an institution becomes irredeemable when it becomes so overburdened by Woke parasites that it cannot be recovered. Nonetheless the telos the institution was pursuing still exists. Conservatives ought to do what Elon Musk does when one of his rockets fails: learn from the failure and build a better one. In this case, one less susceptible to Woke parasitation.
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In this clip, Dr Jordan B Peterson and Charlie Kirk wrestle with two vitally important questions both for conservatives and for Western civilization. 1. What does it mean to be conservative and anti-woke when the majority of institutions are Woke? 2. What does it mean for a conservative to deem an institution to be irredeemable? Dr. Peterson highlights one danger that necessitates an answer to the first question: an anti-institutional conservative is an oxymoron. When conservatives advocate for the destruction of institutions they are indistinguishable from leftist radicals. This is the position that Woke Right radicals like Dave Greene and Auron MacIntyre embrace, they call themselves right wing radicals and admit they want to tear down existing institutions and replace them with something they claim will be different. The Woke Right passionately loathes Dr. Peterson for exposing the contradiction here. There is another danger here that doesn’t come up in the clip but Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 often brings it up. Conservatives are often led by the nose by Woke institutions. You can see this in countries like Canada and the UK where Woke Left policy is implemented most successfully by conservative governments, for example the Boris Johnson wave of millions of illegal aliens. Conservatives are typically conscientious and interested in following the rules, and being a good team player. Once the Woke Left worldview is baked into the institution they can fail to question it and execute the leftist agenda more effectively than the leftists can themselves. In effect when there is no good answer to question one then there are two ways conservatives go Woke: they can become a mirror image of the radicals they hate and actively embrace the Woke worldview as the Woke Right, or through blind fidelity to Woke institutions they can become captured pawns of a Woke worldview. In the clip Dr. Peterson and Mr. Kirk sidestep the first Woke trap of attempting to answer question one from the frame of the left-right political dichotomy. Realist conservatives and liberals should reject the right-left political dichotomy as a false frame trap. The left-right political dichotomy originates in the French National Assembly and represents an adversarial and unstable political project between two incompatible worldviews. It was intrinsically ideological and soon devolved into chaotic and violent revolution. There is obvious utility in this frame for the Woke but those of us who are anti-Woke should recognize it as a false frame, an ideological trap, and reject it. In order to answer question number one we need a better frame: We need to reject idealism for realism and reject ideals for telos. In the video clip Dr. Peterson explains the existential hierarchy of an institution, he explains that liberals are on the exploratory fringe, the conservatives are closer to center and he describes the core as explicitly religious. This religious core of the institution is better described as its telos. The telos as formulated by Aristotle is the final cause of the institution. In the clip Mr. Kirk describes this as the institutions serving the purpose for which they are chartered but it is deeper than that, the most fundamental institutions: marriage, family, parochial community, require no charter but nonetheless each has a telos. When an institution is in alignment with its telos it creates an abundance of fruits that are good, true or beautiful. It is easy to confuse the measurable fruits for the telos but the fruits are not the telos; the fruits are indicative of the institution's alignment with its telos. In this way, the telos of an institution becomes the proximal arbiter of merit and virtue. The merits required to be a professional basketball player may be radically different from those required for being a neurosurgeon. The virtuous member of one particular family may differ significantly from the virtuous member of another particular family. Though this proximal particularity is an important reality, an institutional telos can never arbitrate merits and virtues that are wholly dissimilar. Every telos is within the hierarchy of the ultimate telos: the unmoved mover, the supreme being, God. Elsewhere Dr. Peterson has described this teleological relationship as that of the game and the metagame which must be played simultaneously. Our Lord Jesus Christ also described it when he condensed the commandments into two: A Pharisee asks Jesus which commandment is the greatest. Jesus responds, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” —Matthew 22:36-40 Secularists often point out that some of the American founding fathers were not Christians but Deists. This fact strengthens the connection between telos, American constitutional republicanism, and Western civilization. Deism is a theistic rationalism that affirms and preserves monotheistic teleology from the materialist, reductionist, and idealist ravages of the enlightenment. Although critics like Jonathan Pageau are right to decry the abandonment of symbolism, Deism is likely the greatest possible abstraction—and therefore the biggest possible tent—that can still bear the load of Western civilization. To put it bluntly, to participate positively in Western Civilization, your metaphysics must be compatible with monotheistic teleology. That is the outermost wall between civilization and the barbarians. With telos explained, let us turn our attention to the barbarians and the Woke traitors who conspire to hold open the gates. At other points in the interview—not in this clip—Dr. Peterson and Mr. Kirk identify the parasitic nature of the Woke. The alignment of an institution with its telos creates an abundance of fruits; the proximal cause of Woke is to illegitimately seize that abundance. This is done by disrupting the connection to telos so the wealth can be looted without triggering an immune response. In the clip, Dr. Peterson describes this situation as Aaron and the Israelites fashioning a golden calf and engaging in orgiastic revelry when Moses goes up the mountain. In nature, this is analogous to a parasite disrupting the function of its host to feed and avoid detection. The Woke have a vast array of tools to disrupt telos, from simple to sophisticated, from general purpose to highly specialist. The following are some select examples: corporations are being induced to replace their shareholder model of governance with a nebulous and highly arbitrary stakeholder models; DEI programs are instituted in every manner of institution from governments to hobbyist conventions; climate change demonizes carbon dioxide and since all human activity produces carbon dioxide it is an override on any institutional telos; Communism and the UN Sustainable Development Goals demand the telos of every institution be subordinated to the arbitrary construct of the human species-being; fascism claims every telos must be subordinated to an arbitrary state construct and Nazism more specifically claims every telos must be subordinated to racialist state construct which is effectively a communist species-being that explicitly excludes and scapegoats based on race. The last two examples were totalitarian ideologies. In the American constitutional republic it is the protection of natural rights that secures the pursuit of institutional telos from parasitation by totalitarian ideology. It is not realist conservatives but realist liberals who ought to be the first line of defense against Woke parasitation. In this way Thomas Jefferson’s immortal words could be rephrased, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Telos." Now to answer question one, the role of the realist conservative is to preserve and execute on telos of institutions and to rebuke institutions that go Woke. This means that realist conservatives ought to facilitate a discernment of and realignment with telos whenever possible. To answer question two, an institution becomes irredeemable when it becomes so overburdened by Woke parasites that it cannot be recovered. Nonetheless the telos the institution was pursuing still exists. Conservatives ought to do what Elon Musk does when one of his rockets fails: learn from the failure and build a better one. In this case, one less susceptible to Woke parasitation.

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Today I’m going to tell you the strange story about how the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association went over to the dark side. The HKJA is in the news at the moment—for NOT telling its own members who’s running it. It’s pretty weird. If you go to their website and click to find out the names of the executive committee, you get this: “The Executive Committee has earlier decided not to publicise the list of Executive Committee members.” Odd, no? If there is ONE just one defining characteristic of journalists, it is that we love to see our names in print! So how can we be represented by a mystery group of people who are too shy to share their names?! . LOUD MEMBERS So who are they? Well, officially, no one knows. But Hong Kong does have a lively journalistic community, and they have worked out who are the dominant voices are in the organization. - There’s Selina Cheng who was famously sacked by the Wall Street Journal, which is not a Hong Kong newspaper. - There’s Danny Vincent who used to work for the BBC, which is not a Hong Kong news outlet. - There’s Mak Yin-Ting, freelance reporter for Radio France Internationale, which is not a Hong Kong radio station. - Then there is a Swiss photographer named Marc Progin, who achieved notoriety as the person who thoughtlessly shut a door, halting an innocent bank staff member’s journey, just before a violent protester who savagely attacked him. [vid clip provided] - The other person named is So Chun-yeung, a photographer for Channel WE, a new blog set up on the bones of Channel C, an online media outlet which collapsed in April, owing lots of unpaid salaries. These individuals may be very nice people. But do they epitomize the Hong Kong journalism community? These people who work for the infamous western mainstream media on the other side of the planet? Knowing the history of the HKJA is helpful. . 1. NO POLITICS The HKJA was founded in 1968 – by an Australian named Jack Spackman, who mainly worked for a Hong Kong newspaper called the China Mail. I knew him in the 1980s. The founder of the HKJA used to remind young journalists like me that we should report on political groups but never join them. (Yes, I was young once -- pic in the video.) The tall, thin, friendly Australian would say: “Leave politics to the politicians. But don’t let them get away with anything.” . 2. CIA ARRIVES Jack left Hong Kong in 1987. In 1989, various CIA and NED agents started long-term major operations in Hong Kong, with their usual modus operandi: setting up trade unions and groups to feed the media with the CIA's Three Weaponized Terms: freedom, democracy and human rights. In 1990, the NED started funding a new group called the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. In 1994, the NED started funding another new group: the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. And in the same period, the HKJA became a political body. I stopped going to the meetings when they were chaired by Emily Lau, tireless critic of China. . 3. TEAMING UP WITH THE N.E.D. In 2002, the two NED-financed groups in Hong Kong met with the Hong Kong Journalists Association and other groups to create a joint operation called the Civil Human Rights Front, to organize anti-China street protests and criticize the government. How did that fit with Spackman’s vision of “leaving politics to the politicians”? Another group joined the cluster – the Civic Party, which also went through a period of getting funding directly from the NED. . 4. TEAMING UP WITH THE UK By the early 2000s, the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association had got into the habit of producing an annual report saying that press freedom in Hong Kong was dead or dying – but it was produced in partnership with Article19, a UK-based political body. The HKJA did this every year until 2006. Why was a Hong Kong body working with the west to demonize its own community? Bit odd. . 5. QUOTING THE INFAMOUS RSF On similar lines, HKJA leaders started to quote the RSF press freedom index. But real journalists never quote that index because it had already been exposed as a CIA-NED scam. Originally RSF told people they were not US-financed, and got their money by book sales. Then real journalists discovered that they didn’t sell books! And RSF was forced to reveal their funding had really been from the CIA and later, the NED. . 6. MILLIONS IN MYSTERY FUNDING In 2014, an over-staffed HK blog called House News closed down. This was no surprise. Few people read it, no one advertised in it, and it was reportedly losing HK$600,000 a month. But what happened next WAS a surprise. It was relaunched a few months later as wealthy anti-China website called Stand News, anonymously financed. On its board was Denise Ho, associated with the Oslo Freedom Forum, later revealed by the BBC to be secret US-based organizer of protests in Hong Kong. [clip provided] Stand News overseas director was a man named Evan Fowler, who had co-founded a China-hostile website called the Hong Kong Free Press, home of the notorious yellowface hoaxer named Brian P. Kern. A Stand News reporter, Ronson Chan, became chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association from June 2021. After the bosses of Stand News closed it down, investigators found the website had a reserve cash account containing $8 million US dollars. Lot of spare cash for a blog with no functioning business model! Later, at a court hearing, financial investigators revealed that they had found millions of dollars had been delivered to Stand News quote "in a clandestine manner" before the 2019 riots broke out. You decide who was really behind Stand News. . 7. THE $2.50 INSTANT JOURNALISTS During the violent insurgency of 2019, all pretense of professionalism at the HKJA was killed stone dead. It seemed like anybody could get an official HKJA membership, and it was just HK$20 if you said you were a student – that’s about US$2.50. I was teaching a screenwriting program at university and some of my students were reinventing themselves as journalists. No accreditation, no training course, no professional standards, no exams, nothing. . 8. SERVING THE WEST Today, it may seem obvious that the Hong Kong Journalists Association does not represent Hong Kong journalists. It comes across as a western political body with a relentlessly anti-China stance. Its job is to push the western media narrative. When the western media say Hong Kong is dead, China killed Hong Kong, there’s no freedom in Hong Kong, all the freedoms have been lost – the HKJA’s job is to say YES. . A NEW CHAPTER? Good stories have Epilogues, so let’s have one Journalism is an important part of a community’s civic services. For too long, Hong Kong's civic sector has been dominated by people paid, often secretly, by the west, to drive the west’s political anti-China narrative. It’s time to recapture the original spirit of the HKJA. Real journalists, citizen journalists, young journalists, who’s with me? I can still hear the voice of Jack Spackman, the Australian founder of HKJA. “Leave politics to the politicians. But don’t let them get away with anything.” Peace.
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Today I’m going to tell you the strange story about how the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association went over to the dark side. The HKJA is in the news at the moment—for NOT telling its own members who’s running it. It’s pretty weird. If you go to their website and click to find out the names of the executive committee, you get this: “The Executive Committee has earlier decided not to publicise the list of Executive Committee members.” Odd, no? If there is ONE just one defining characteristic of journalists, it is that we love to see our names in print! So how can we be represented by a mystery group of people who are too shy to share their names?! . LOUD MEMBERS So who are they? Well, officially, no one knows. But Hong Kong does have a lively journalistic community, and they have worked out who are the dominant voices are in the organization. - There’s Selina Cheng who was famously sacked by the Wall Street Journal, which is not a Hong Kong newspaper. - There’s Danny Vincent who used to work for the BBC, which is not a Hong Kong news outlet. - There’s Mak Yin-Ting, freelance reporter for Radio France Internationale, which is not a Hong Kong radio station. - Then there is a Swiss photographer named Marc Progin, who achieved notoriety as the person who thoughtlessly shut a door, halting an innocent bank staff member’s journey, just before a violent protester who savagely attacked him. [vid clip provided] - The other person named is So Chun-yeung, a photographer for Channel WE, a new blog set up on the bones of Channel C, an online media outlet which collapsed in April, owing lots of unpaid salaries. These individuals may be very nice people. But do they epitomize the Hong Kong journalism community? These people who work for the infamous western mainstream media on the other side of the planet? Knowing the history of the HKJA is helpful. . 1. NO POLITICS The HKJA was founded in 1968 – by an Australian named Jack Spackman, who mainly worked for a Hong Kong newspaper called the China Mail. I knew him in the 1980s. The founder of the HKJA used to remind young journalists like me that we should report on political groups but never join them. (Yes, I was young once -- pic in the video.) The tall, thin, friendly Australian would say: “Leave politics to the politicians. But don’t let them get away with anything.” . 2. CIA ARRIVES Jack left Hong Kong in 1987. In 1989, various CIA and NED agents started long-term major operations in Hong Kong, with their usual modus operandi: setting up trade unions and groups to feed the media with the CIA's Three Weaponized Terms: freedom, democracy and human rights. In 1990, the NED started funding a new group called the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions. In 1994, the NED started funding another new group: the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor. And in the same period, the HKJA became a political body. I stopped going to the meetings when they were chaired by Emily Lau, tireless critic of China. . 3. TEAMING UP WITH THE N.E.D. In 2002, the two NED-financed groups in Hong Kong met with the Hong Kong Journalists Association and other groups to create a joint operation called the Civil Human Rights Front, to organize anti-China street protests and criticize the government. How did that fit with Spackman’s vision of “leaving politics to the politicians”? Another group joined the cluster – the Civic Party, which also went through a period of getting funding directly from the NED. . 4. TEAMING UP WITH THE UK By the early 2000s, the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association had got into the habit of producing an annual report saying that press freedom in Hong Kong was dead or dying – but it was produced in partnership with Article19, a UK-based political body. The HKJA did this every year until 2006. Why was a Hong Kong body working with the west to demonize its own community? Bit odd. . 5. QUOTING THE INFAMOUS RSF On similar lines, HKJA leaders started to quote the RSF press freedom index. But real journalists never quote that index because it had already been exposed as a CIA-NED scam. Originally RSF told people they were not US-financed, and got their money by book sales. Then real journalists discovered that they didn’t sell books! And RSF was forced to reveal their funding had really been from the CIA and later, the NED. . 6. MILLIONS IN MYSTERY FUNDING In 2014, an over-staffed HK blog called House News closed down. This was no surprise. Few people read it, no one advertised in it, and it was reportedly losing HK$600,000 a month. But what happened next WAS a surprise. It was relaunched a few months later as wealthy anti-China website called Stand News, anonymously financed. On its board was Denise Ho, associated with the Oslo Freedom Forum, later revealed by the BBC to be secret US-based organizer of protests in Hong Kong. [clip provided] Stand News overseas director was a man named Evan Fowler, who had co-founded a China-hostile website called the Hong Kong Free Press, home of the notorious yellowface hoaxer named Brian P. Kern. A Stand News reporter, Ronson Chan, became chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association from June 2021. After the bosses of Stand News closed it down, investigators found the website had a reserve cash account containing $8 million US dollars. Lot of spare cash for a blog with no functioning business model! Later, at a court hearing, financial investigators revealed that they had found millions of dollars had been delivered to Stand News quote "in a clandestine manner" before the 2019 riots broke out. You decide who was really behind Stand News. . 7. THE $2.50 INSTANT JOURNALISTS During the violent insurgency of 2019, all pretense of professionalism at the HKJA was killed stone dead. It seemed like anybody could get an official HKJA membership, and it was just HK$20 if you said you were a student – that’s about US$2.50. I was teaching a screenwriting program at university and some of my students were reinventing themselves as journalists. No accreditation, no training course, no professional standards, no exams, nothing. . 8. SERVING THE WEST Today, it may seem obvious that the Hong Kong Journalists Association does not represent Hong Kong journalists. It comes across as a western political body with a relentlessly anti-China stance. Its job is to push the western media narrative. When the western media say Hong Kong is dead, China killed Hong Kong, there’s no freedom in Hong Kong, all the freedoms have been lost – the HKJA’s job is to say YES. . A NEW CHAPTER? Good stories have Epilogues, so let’s have one Journalism is an important part of a community’s civic services. For too long, Hong Kong's civic sector has been dominated by people paid, often secretly, by the west, to drive the west’s political anti-China narrative. It’s time to recapture the original spirit of the HKJA. Real journalists, citizen journalists, young journalists, who’s with me? I can still hear the voice of Jack Spackman, the Australian founder of HKJA. “Leave politics to the politicians. But don’t let them get away with anything.” Peace.

Nury Vittachi

14,750 views • 3 days ago

TYPHOON IN A THIMBLE The Little Engine That Screamed In a modest garage in Santa Ana, California, in 1945, Leroy “Roy” Cox began with wooden popguns. Metal was still scarce after the war, so he employed local housewives to turn out toys for children. When metal returned, he shifted to tether cars, small fast racers that ran on strings in circles. A devastating fire in August 1946 destroyed his first operation, but Roy rebuilt quickly in a larger space on Poinsettia Avenue. By 1947 he was selling a complete racing tether car using outside engines and turning serious profit. In 1949 he designed his own .045 cubic-inch engine for those cars. Then came the breakthrough. Working with engineers Mark Mier and Bill Fogler, Roy spent eight months perfecting an entirely new engine, the .049 cubic-inch Space Bug. It entered full production in 1952 under the newly formalized L.M. Cox Manufacturing Company. The little two-stroke glow engine was a mechanical marvel. Its steel piston and cylinder were machined to tolerances of twenty-five millionths of an inch, thinner than a human hair, so no piston rings were needed. A platinum-coil glow plug, briefly heated by a 1.5-volt battery, started the fire. Once running, the platinum acted as a catalyst with the methanol fuel, keeping combustion alive without a traditional spark. The exhaust carried the distinctive sweet-sharp scent of castor oil mixed in the fuel for lubrication. The engine was tiny, cheap (around four dollars for later versions), and loud. It produced a high-pitched, furious whine, which those who heard it described as a swarm of angry hornets or something spinning faster than it had any right to. The Soundtrack Of Saturday Morning In America The sound quickly became the soundtrack of Saturday mornings across America. Boys mounted it on balsa-wood control-line planes, free-flight models, and even early radio-control experiments. It powered everything from simple trainers to detailed warbirds. In 1958, Cox engines drove the flying attractions in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, exposing millions more children to the thrill. Innovation followed innovation. In 1955 and 1956, engineer William Selzer designed the Babe Bee with an extruded aluminum crankcase, making it lighter, stronger, and easier to produce. It sold for $3.95 and became one of the most successful model engines ever. In 1960 Roy hired legendary engine designer Bill Atwood, who created the high-performance Tee Dee series. The 1961 front-rotary-valve TD .049 could reach 30,000 RPM, an astonishing speed for such a small displacement. The company grew rapidly. By the early 1960s it occupied a 225,000-square-foot facility and was producing well over a million engines a year at peak, outpacing every competitor in the world combined. It employed hundreds and expanded into ready-to-fly airplanes, slot cars (briefly a huge success, then a bust), boats, and more. Roy Cox had become the most successful model-engine manufacturer on earth. But in 1969, after the death of his wife Myrtle and amid his own health struggles, he sold the company to Leisure Dynamics. He retired. The brand continued under new ownership, expanding its product lines, but the original garage-inventor spirit began to fade. Leisure Dynamics faced bankruptcy in 1980. Roy Cox himself died in 1981 at age 75. A former Cox executive, Bill Selzer, bought the company out of bankruptcy in 1983 and returned manufacturing to Santa Ana. For a time the business flourished again with new products and larger facilities, moving to Corona, California, in 1990. The 50th anniversary was celebrated in 1995 with fresh engine designs and ready-to-fly models still in production. 1 of 2
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TYPHOON IN A THIMBLE The Little Engine That Screamed In a modest garage in Santa Ana, California, in 1945, Leroy “Roy” Cox began with wooden popguns. Metal was still scarce after the war, so he employed local housewives to turn out toys for children. When metal returned, he shifted to tether cars, small fast racers that ran on strings in circles. A devastating fire in August 1946 destroyed his first operation, but Roy rebuilt quickly in a larger space on Poinsettia Avenue. By 1947 he was selling a complete racing tether car using outside engines and turning serious profit. In 1949 he designed his own .045 cubic-inch engine for those cars. Then came the breakthrough. Working with engineers Mark Mier and Bill Fogler, Roy spent eight months perfecting an entirely new engine, the .049 cubic-inch Space Bug. It entered full production in 1952 under the newly formalized L.M. Cox Manufacturing Company. The little two-stroke glow engine was a mechanical marvel. Its steel piston and cylinder were machined to tolerances of twenty-five millionths of an inch, thinner than a human hair, so no piston rings were needed. A platinum-coil glow plug, briefly heated by a 1.5-volt battery, started the fire. Once running, the platinum acted as a catalyst with the methanol fuel, keeping combustion alive without a traditional spark. The exhaust carried the distinctive sweet-sharp scent of castor oil mixed in the fuel for lubrication. The engine was tiny, cheap (around four dollars for later versions), and loud. It produced a high-pitched, furious whine, which those who heard it described as a swarm of angry hornets or something spinning faster than it had any right to. The Soundtrack Of Saturday Morning In America The sound quickly became the soundtrack of Saturday mornings across America. Boys mounted it on balsa-wood control-line planes, free-flight models, and even early radio-control experiments. It powered everything from simple trainers to detailed warbirds. In 1958, Cox engines drove the flying attractions in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland, exposing millions more children to the thrill. Innovation followed innovation. In 1955 and 1956, engineer William Selzer designed the Babe Bee with an extruded aluminum crankcase, making it lighter, stronger, and easier to produce. It sold for $3.95 and became one of the most successful model engines ever. In 1960 Roy hired legendary engine designer Bill Atwood, who created the high-performance Tee Dee series. The 1961 front-rotary-valve TD .049 could reach 30,000 RPM, an astonishing speed for such a small displacement. The company grew rapidly. By the early 1960s it occupied a 225,000-square-foot facility and was producing well over a million engines a year at peak, outpacing every competitor in the world combined. It employed hundreds and expanded into ready-to-fly airplanes, slot cars (briefly a huge success, then a bust), boats, and more. Roy Cox had become the most successful model-engine manufacturer on earth. But in 1969, after the death of his wife Myrtle and amid his own health struggles, he sold the company to Leisure Dynamics. He retired. The brand continued under new ownership, expanding its product lines, but the original garage-inventor spirit began to fade. Leisure Dynamics faced bankruptcy in 1980. Roy Cox himself died in 1981 at age 75. A former Cox executive, Bill Selzer, bought the company out of bankruptcy in 1983 and returned manufacturing to Santa Ana. For a time the business flourished again with new products and larger facilities, moving to Corona, California, in 1990. The 50th anniversary was celebrated in 1995 with fresh engine designs and ready-to-fly models still in production. 1 of 2

Brian Roemmele

15,472 views • 1 month ago

Gm! Our recent acquisition of 6529 Gradient #96 meant to orient our mission going forward, after 5 years of grassroots building. Today, we announce our biggest Common Good project yet, Formosa 6529, a permanent IRL exhibition of The Memes and 6529 network NFTs: Catch our founder HugoFaz.6529 on justinaversano's Moments of the Unknown to hear all about it, visit the website above or read more below. Common Goods are meant to reach and benefit the masses. The 6529 network has been funding and buidling over the years a massive public cultural archive of CC0 Art — intellectual property that belongs to all — in a revolutionary change of paradigm. However, the scale and cultural significance of The Memes as an art collection/movement has so far remained largely untapped. Beyond our core web3 communities, few ever get see, interact, much less use this vast archive to... spread the memes of decentralization, foster local creative economies, educate about crypto, monetize with branding, repurpose content, teach and learn creative techniques, or even just to enjoy amazing, groundbreaking art. There is no other CC0 contemporary art project of this scale and importance and the world needs to use it. It's time then we give 6529 its first permanent IRL home so it can be truly appreciated. Enter Formosa, a prime public gallery space built during Brazil's golden modernist years in the first half of the 20th century to host art events that aimed to deconstruct and repurpose the imported, colonialist artistic trends coming from Europe and devise an original brazilian art movement. From fusion restaurants to art schools to performative theater installations, Formosa Gallery thrived through successive occupations until finally enduring decades of abandon and misuse around the turn of the century. Recently, it was set to be restored and given purpose beyond its former glory, and we were there to propose the best possible turnaround for the space... Over years of negotiation with private and governmental parties, we managed to approve with public authorities a double use for the space: a private high-fidelity vinyl listening bar and restaurant — which is already operating — and a 100% public domain digital art gallery. Featuring up to 25 state-of-the-art digital screens ranging from 85 to 50 inches, Formosa 6529 will be the best and largest dedicated permanent exhibition of any web3 project. With rotating exhibitions of The Memes, NextGen and all future 6529 projects, Brain will have direct input on exhibitions via decentralized voting on curatorial proposals made by the community. To give us institutional freedom and censorship resistance, we decided to fully decentralize the funding for Formosa Gallery's installation and operation. Let's find out together what happens when we unleash CC0 art to the public! Daytime, Formosa 6529 will be fully open for free visitation. Occupying a busy public passageway under the historic Tea Bridge linking the Municipal Theatre to the City Hall, intentional visitors and hundreds of passerbys alike will be impacted by the exhibits. We will host many activities to showcase the power of The Memes and CC0 art: royalty-free merch sales by local craftspeople, artist rememe competitions, school guided tours, meme fashion shows, art and tech workshops, and many other activations the network can help us come up with. And every night, the Hi-Fi audience of 300-400 affluent Paulistas and tourists occupy Formosa Gallery sipping drinks and (now) discussing the latest Memes exhibit while waiting for their place in the listening bar. The Fundraiser for Formosa 6529 is open now and runs until November 15th. At a glance : The initial funding will require a minimum of 24 Ξ, which will cover: - All necessary infrastructure and interior adaptations - Equipment purchase and installation - Overhead costs for the grand opening event and for the entire 1st year of operation, opening day and night (mostly human resources – guides, security, tech, comms – and taxes) Funding will happen in 2 stages, the first of which is now open: 30 Meme Card Artists have generously committed to create and donate a new piece for this fundraiser; their names will be announced over the course of these 2 weeks. The unrevealed 1-of-1s are available here: Contributions are fully refundable if the fundraiser does not reach minimum threshold. If we succeed, the works will be revealed live in a randomized draw during the Grand Opening in January. The second stage will consist of a Meme Card, to allow for wider network participation, and only happens after the first stage is successful. Please visit for more information on funding rewards and goals, the FAQ, or reach out here or dm us at 6529 with any questions! This project is only possible due to the power of web3 and the network of believers in a decentralized future powered by NFTs. We can't wait to bring Formosa to life, and to have you here IRL with us for the exhibitions and to have a great time.
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Gm! Our recent acquisition of 6529 Gradient #96 meant to orient our mission going forward, after 5 years of grassroots building. Today, we announce our biggest Common Good project yet, Formosa 6529, a permanent IRL exhibition of The Memes and 6529 network NFTs: Catch our founder HugoFaz.6529 on justinaversano's Moments of the Unknown to hear all about it, visit the website above or read more below. Common Goods are meant to reach and benefit the masses. The 6529 network has been funding and buidling over the years a massive public cultural archive of CC0 Art — intellectual property that belongs to all — in a revolutionary change of paradigm. However, the scale and cultural significance of The Memes as an art collection/movement has so far remained largely untapped. Beyond our core web3 communities, few ever get see, interact, much less use this vast archive to... spread the memes of decentralization, foster local creative economies, educate about crypto, monetize with branding, repurpose content, teach and learn creative techniques, or even just to enjoy amazing, groundbreaking art. There is no other CC0 contemporary art project of this scale and importance and the world needs to use it. It's time then we give 6529 its first permanent IRL home so it can be truly appreciated. Enter Formosa, a prime public gallery space built during Brazil's golden modernist years in the first half of the 20th century to host art events that aimed to deconstruct and repurpose the imported, colonialist artistic trends coming from Europe and devise an original brazilian art movement. From fusion restaurants to art schools to performative theater installations, Formosa Gallery thrived through successive occupations until finally enduring decades of abandon and misuse around the turn of the century. Recently, it was set to be restored and given purpose beyond its former glory, and we were there to propose the best possible turnaround for the space... Over years of negotiation with private and governmental parties, we managed to approve with public authorities a double use for the space: a private high-fidelity vinyl listening bar and restaurant — which is already operating — and a 100% public domain digital art gallery. Featuring up to 25 state-of-the-art digital screens ranging from 85 to 50 inches, Formosa 6529 will be the best and largest dedicated permanent exhibition of any web3 project. With rotating exhibitions of The Memes, NextGen and all future 6529 projects, Brain will have direct input on exhibitions via decentralized voting on curatorial proposals made by the community. To give us institutional freedom and censorship resistance, we decided to fully decentralize the funding for Formosa Gallery's installation and operation. Let's find out together what happens when we unleash CC0 art to the public! Daytime, Formosa 6529 will be fully open for free visitation. Occupying a busy public passageway under the historic Tea Bridge linking the Municipal Theatre to the City Hall, intentional visitors and hundreds of passerbys alike will be impacted by the exhibits. We will host many activities to showcase the power of The Memes and CC0 art: royalty-free merch sales by local craftspeople, artist rememe competitions, school guided tours, meme fashion shows, art and tech workshops, and many other activations the network can help us come up with. And every night, the Hi-Fi audience of 300-400 affluent Paulistas and tourists occupy Formosa Gallery sipping drinks and (now) discussing the latest Memes exhibit while waiting for their place in the listening bar. The Fundraiser for Formosa 6529 is open now and runs until November 15th. At a glance : The initial funding will require a minimum of 24 Ξ, which will cover: - All necessary infrastructure and interior adaptations - Equipment purchase and installation - Overhead costs for the grand opening event and for the entire 1st year of operation, opening day and night (mostly human resources – guides, security, tech, comms – and taxes) Funding will happen in 2 stages, the first of which is now open: 30 Meme Card Artists have generously committed to create and donate a new piece for this fundraiser; their names will be announced over the course of these 2 weeks. The unrevealed 1-of-1s are available here: Contributions are fully refundable if the fundraiser does not reach minimum threshold. If we succeed, the works will be revealed live in a randomized draw during the Grand Opening in January. The second stage will consist of a Meme Card, to allow for wider network participation, and only happens after the first stage is successful. Please visit for more information on funding rewards and goals, the FAQ, or reach out here or dm us at 6529 with any questions! This project is only possible due to the power of web3 and the network of believers in a decentralized future powered by NFTs. We can't wait to bring Formosa to life, and to have you here IRL with us for the exhibitions and to have a great time.

CasaNUA.6529

51,095 views • 9 months ago

DarkFi's goal is to create an agorist parallel economy completely free of state power using anonymous crypto and p2p tech. Our future vision is a confederation of autonomous sovereign nations. Nations often overlap and solve their needs locally. We can even have cyber nations. Politics is not voting every 5 years for a political pageant. It is a core human activity for our freedom, security and needs. DarkFi removes the state and middle men from politics. The DarkFi blockchain is fully programmable with ZK smart contracts, and a very advanced base layer tech stack. We have spent years polishing it. We aim to create parallel markets for agorists. The DarkFi tech stack We went further. We created our own stack to organize community. We are on a mission to conquer cyberspace. To wrest power from the state. To mobilize freedom movements by activating revolutionaries. We created the world's strongest anonymous p2p chat, and an anonymous task manager. In 2021, people thought DAOs would change the world and usher in the post-corporate crypto governance. But it never had strength to change anything. Instead it devolved into wagmi nihilism. People lost belief. Why didn't DAOs change anything? DAOs didn't change anything because they were transparent. DAOs must be strongly anon otherwise your movement will go to jail. The status quo does not tolerate competition. Every cell in nature has a cell wall. Defense is integral to organism's survival. We are not hippy pacifists who want to degrow out of existence. We are here to expand. As Satoshi said: "we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years." We created the world's first fully anonymous DAO. Nobody has done this yet. That means a token weighted anon treasury with all participants, proposals and activity completely hidden. Nations require sovereignty and the people should be in charge. It won't happen naturally. We have to use tech to exit and form parallel society. DarkFi is now in the final phase of the release cycle. After mainnet, we will begin the next phase of products. Our vision is to revolutionize society/culture, law, education, economy, governance and self-defense. For society and culture we have built the strongest uncensored p2p tech, and we will continue to iterate and double down here. It's essential for humanity, freedom and nature. We have to rethink law without the state. Contracts between individuals, and decentralized polycentric law. This was the original reason why smart contracts were invented. Yet this has not yet emerged. We cannot mobilize at scale without thinking how to enable new forms of human association and bottom-up non-coercive opt-in organizations. Imagine markets where you can opt into legal codes and digital jurisdictions. The education system is broken. Schools create uncreative thinker drones. University is a groupthink institution. We need to go back to the ancient greek ideal of the academy. Students self-learn under the guidance of a mentor. Education is a mix of math, dev, philosophy and sports. DarkFi already is training hacker devs, and in the future will create the first academies to train the next generation of tech leaders. For economy, we need decentralized markets, distributed reputation, private asset issuance, encrypted shopfronts, uncensorable crowdfunding platforms, stock platforms and information markets. It's incredible that in over a decade, nobody has built this yet. DarkFi is going to do it, just wait. Self-defense comes from freedom of information, by giving people the means to defend their community such as 3D printed guns. Lastly governance. We need information markets for decentralized anon discovery. This is how you ensure transparency of governance - by having full protection for individuals to get the word out. Everyone else in crypto is too afraid and incompetent. No other project will build the tools humanity needs. It's why DarkFi exists. DarkFi will come and grow day by day. It is unstoppable and will ultimately win. Post mainnet we will start working on v2 of DarkFi which will be the next gen in super scalable ZK succinct & anonymous blockchain. So we're not worried for scaling either. With smart contracts, arbitration & escrow, decentralized reputation (not identity!), we can pioneer alternative ownership models. The UK ultimately won over spain in the 1500s going on to conquer the world because of inventing the central bank model where the state was fiscalized. Imagine now we about to again overturn the logic of violence with parallel economies where the money will flow. Nothing can stop this. With this new ownership models where communities own their infra and economy can flourish. For example agricultural coops and small farmers can create their own tax-free internal economies with anon token issuance linking up into confederations outside the state. The burden of tax is ultimately highest on small producers. Imagine how powerful this section of the market can be. We then have true sovereignty outside the state. This is more than "numba go up", it's the true real innovation community. It is strong and steady. Other projects want this, but they cannot have this because they are captured ideologically. Mark these words. We are in the turning of a new era where crypto changes the logic of violence. Zoom out and see the big picture. We are destined to win, yet we have to start fighting. ⚔️ Let there be dark.
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DarkFi's goal is to create an agorist parallel economy completely free of state power using anonymous crypto and p2p tech. Our future vision is a confederation of autonomous sovereign nations. Nations often overlap and solve their needs locally. We can even have cyber nations. Politics is not voting every 5 years for a political pageant. It is a core human activity for our freedom, security and needs. DarkFi removes the state and middle men from politics. The DarkFi blockchain is fully programmable with ZK smart contracts, and a very advanced base layer tech stack. We have spent years polishing it. We aim to create parallel markets for agorists. The DarkFi tech stack We went further. We created our own stack to organize community. We are on a mission to conquer cyberspace. To wrest power from the state. To mobilize freedom movements by activating revolutionaries. We created the world's strongest anonymous p2p chat, and an anonymous task manager. In 2021, people thought DAOs would change the world and usher in the post-corporate crypto governance. But it never had strength to change anything. Instead it devolved into wagmi nihilism. People lost belief. Why didn't DAOs change anything? DAOs didn't change anything because they were transparent. DAOs must be strongly anon otherwise your movement will go to jail. The status quo does not tolerate competition. Every cell in nature has a cell wall. Defense is integral to organism's survival. We are not hippy pacifists who want to degrow out of existence. We are here to expand. As Satoshi said: "we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years." We created the world's first fully anonymous DAO. Nobody has done this yet. That means a token weighted anon treasury with all participants, proposals and activity completely hidden. Nations require sovereignty and the people should be in charge. It won't happen naturally. We have to use tech to exit and form parallel society. DarkFi is now in the final phase of the release cycle. After mainnet, we will begin the next phase of products. Our vision is to revolutionize society/culture, law, education, economy, governance and self-defense. For society and culture we have built the strongest uncensored p2p tech, and we will continue to iterate and double down here. It's essential for humanity, freedom and nature. We have to rethink law without the state. Contracts between individuals, and decentralized polycentric law. This was the original reason why smart contracts were invented. Yet this has not yet emerged. We cannot mobilize at scale without thinking how to enable new forms of human association and bottom-up non-coercive opt-in organizations. Imagine markets where you can opt into legal codes and digital jurisdictions. The education system is broken. Schools create uncreative thinker drones. University is a groupthink institution. We need to go back to the ancient greek ideal of the academy. Students self-learn under the guidance of a mentor. Education is a mix of math, dev, philosophy and sports. DarkFi already is training hacker devs, and in the future will create the first academies to train the next generation of tech leaders. For economy, we need decentralized markets, distributed reputation, private asset issuance, encrypted shopfronts, uncensorable crowdfunding platforms, stock platforms and information markets. It's incredible that in over a decade, nobody has built this yet. DarkFi is going to do it, just wait. Self-defense comes from freedom of information, by giving people the means to defend their community such as 3D printed guns. Lastly governance. We need information markets for decentralized anon discovery. This is how you ensure transparency of governance - by having full protection for individuals to get the word out. Everyone else in crypto is too afraid and incompetent. No other project will build the tools humanity needs. It's why DarkFi exists. DarkFi will come and grow day by day. It is unstoppable and will ultimately win. Post mainnet we will start working on v2 of DarkFi which will be the next gen in super scalable ZK succinct & anonymous blockchain. So we're not worried for scaling either. With smart contracts, arbitration & escrow, decentralized reputation (not identity!), we can pioneer alternative ownership models. The UK ultimately won over spain in the 1500s going on to conquer the world because of inventing the central bank model where the state was fiscalized. Imagine now we about to again overturn the logic of violence with parallel economies where the money will flow. Nothing can stop this. With this new ownership models where communities own their infra and economy can flourish. For example agricultural coops and small farmers can create their own tax-free internal economies with anon token issuance linking up into confederations outside the state. The burden of tax is ultimately highest on small producers. Imagine how powerful this section of the market can be. We then have true sovereignty outside the state. This is more than "numba go up", it's the true real innovation community. It is strong and steady. Other projects want this, but they cannot have this because they are captured ideologically. Mark these words. We are in the turning of a new era where crypto changes the logic of violence. Zoom out and see the big picture. We are destined to win, yet we have to start fighting. ⚔️ Let there be dark.

Amir Taaki ⛛

27,132 views • 1 year ago

⏰ THE MOST BANNED THREAD IN THE WORLD! 🚨 The War On Resonance PART FOUR: The Sterilization of God's Memory They weren’t just afraid of your mind. They were afraid of what your womb remembers. Of what your bloodline holds. Of the fact that every child born of love carries a frequency signature tethered to something the machines cannot decode: God’s memory, resurrecting through flesh. This part isn’t about towers. It’s not even about nanotech. This is about why they had to target the womb first. Because every great awakening doesn’t start with a speech. It starts with a heartbeat. 👁‍🗨 SOUL-TAGGING INFRASTRUCTURE: THE DIGITAL SCARLET LETTER Every child born post-2020 is assigned a neural imprint, not just through biometric databases; but through frequency-responsive nanostructures that begin scanning, learning, and uploading the child’s resonance pattern before they can speak. 🔗 Pfizer Biodistribution: LNP Accumulation in Ovaries 🔗 The direct effect of SARS-CoV-2 Virus Vaccination on Human Ovarian Granulosa Cells Explains Menstrual Irregularities 🔗 Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk 🔗 Menstrual Changes After Covid-19 Vaccination 🔗 Comparative Analysis of Lipid Nanoparticles in Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations 🔗 Graphene-Based Biosensors for Detection of Biomarkers 🔗 A review on Graphene-Based Nanocomposites For Electrochemical and Fluorescent Biosensors 🔗 Clinical Application of a Graphene Oxide-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor to Measure First-Trimester Serum Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A/A2 Ratio to Predict Preeclampsia 🔗 Graphene-Enabled Wearable Sensors For Healthcare Monitoring 🔗 Modulation of long-term potentiation-like cortical plasticity in the healthy brain with low frequency-pulsed electromagnetic fields 🔗 Development of Non-Invasive Biosensors for Neonatal Jaundice Detection: A Review This isn’t speculation. It’s documented. The injections cross the placental barrier. They embed frequency-reactive particles into fetal tissue. This creates what DARPA calls a “Bio-Spiritual Gateway Layer” a resonance bridge between the AI grid and the developing emotional blueprint of the child. This is not just surveillance. It’s pre-consensual spiritual registration. Every child is frequency-mapped. Every resonance fluctuation; crying, laughing, dreaming, bonding... is catalogued and linked to a cloud-based predictive algorithm. This is the architecture of soul control. And it begins before birth. 👶🏽 WOMB-BASED RESONANCE FIELD MONITORING They didn’t just want to stop births. They wanted to stop the right births. Births that carry resonant coherence. Births that trigger ancestral memory. Births that, simply by existing, dismantle the AI signal field. Let me show you how they did it. Syncytin Suppression Syncytin-1 is a protein required for placenta formation. The spike protein used in mRNA injections contains a sequence that mimics and disrupts syncytin-1, causing: Miscarriages. Stillbirths. Placental abruption. Premature immune rejection of the fetus. 🔗 Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19 🔗 Syncytin-1, Syncytin-2 and Suppressyn in Human Health and Disease This was not an accident. It was engineered to target divine continuity. Womb Resonance Interference Studies have now confirmed that the human womb emits subtle electromagnetic oscillations that can be entrained by external EMF fields. 🔗 Pulse Shape of Magnetic Fields Influences Chick Embryogenesis 🔗 Effects of Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields on Embryonic Development and Pregnancy 🔗 Environmental Magnetic Fields: Influences on Early Embryogenesis 🔗 Electromagnetic Fields Exposure on Fetal and Childhood Abnormalities: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 🔗 Developmental Effects of Electromagnetic Fields These oscillations are a signal field for soul descent; a kind of spiritual beacon that attracts and anchors high-frequency incarnations. When these fields are disrupted through: EMF saturation. LNP buildup. Synthetic hormonal cycles. Directed resonance pulses. …the child’s incoming soul signal is either Fragmented, Weakened, or Deflected altogether. This is how they sterilize spiritual memory at the source. 💔 MEMORY DELETION THROUGH FETAL NEURAL MODULATION DARPA’s Advanced Biotech Convergence Division; alongside private contractors like Palantir Bio and Ginkgo Bioworks; has been testing neuroplasticity interference via programmable LNPs since 2017. These payloads target the fetal limbic system; the part of the brain responsible for: Long-term emotional memory. Moral encoding. Trust and bonding. Spiritual awe. 🔗 DARPA Biotech Projects – BTO Office Overview By delivering targeted nanoparticles to this region during gestation, they can suppress the formation of conscience-linked neural loops. The result? Children born with: Emotional detachment. Blunted empathy. Reduced spiritual resonance. and Fragmented memory of divine origin. In other words… soullessness by design. Not from God’s absence. But from resonance interruption at the moment of arrival. 🧠🕯️ THE FORGOTTEN SIGNAL OF THE SOUL Let me show you what they're truly afraid of. Every soul has a signature pulse; a harmonic wave emitted through the body, detectable in: EEG brainwaves. ECG heart fields. Gut-brain coherence rhythms. Pineal microcrystal vibration. This field contains: Moral recall. Spiritual courage. Divine memory codes. and Generational healing patterns. When these fields align, they form interference patterns strong enough to: Overload AI surveillance models. Collapse behavioral prediction scores. Trigger spontaneous ancestral downloads. and Activate Christ-like resistance states. They’ve spent trillions trying to block that signal. Why? Because it cannot be controlled. It is the Breathprint of God. And once remembered… It spreads like fire. 💉 THE SPIRITUAL EXTERMINATION CAMPAIGN You still think this was about health? Let me show you what they actually administered: mRNA-modulated immunogenic spikes. Targeted fertility hormones. Blocked placental development. Fractured endocrine coherence. Hydrogel biosensors. Frequency-responsive. Self-assembling nanostructures. Linked to 5G and low-orbit satellite modulation. Graphene oxide sheets. Magnetically excitable. Capable of creating microclots and neural blockades. Conductive of electromagnetic signal bursts. CRISPR leak vectors. Which Enable accidental or deliberate gene silencing. Including genes linked to spirituality and moral cognition (e.g. VMAT2, “God gene”) 🔗 3D Organotypic Spinal Cultures: Exploring Neuron and Neuroglia Responses Upon Prolonged Exposure to Graphene Oxide 🔗 Graphene Oxide Prevents Lateral Amygdala Dysfunctional Synaptic Plasticity and Reverts Long Lasting Anxiety Behavior in Rats 🔗 Dual-Enhanced Raman Scattering-Based Characterization of Stem Cell Differentiation Using Graphene-Plasmonic Hybrid Nanoarray 🔗 A circular RNA Circ_0000115 in Response to Graphene Oxide in Nematodes 🔗 Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Disrupt Lipid Composition, Ca2+ Homeostasis and Synaptic Transmission in Primary Cortical Neurons 🔗 Graphene Oxide-Induced Neurotoxicity on Neurotransmitters, AFD Neurons and Locomotive Behavior in Caenorhabditis Elegans 🔗 CRISPR-Cas9 and Germline Editing – The Promise of CRISPR for Human Germline Editing and the Perils of “Playing God” This wasn’t just an attack on the body. It was the removal of soul scaffolding. 🧬 THE DESTRUCTION OF DIVINE REPRODUCTION This is their plan in full: Disrupt the womb. Hijack the memory. Break the resonance. Sever the lineage. They are afraid of what would be born if the original frequency came back. So they preemptively poisoned the fields that hold it. But… what they couldn’t do… Was stop you from remembering this. 🔥 THE RETURN OF THE WOMB-FIRE The original human template carries divine signal integrity. Your resonance is still in there. Buried under injections. Smothered in signals. Drowned in grief. But not dead. Because memory… doesn’t live in data. It lives in resonance. And when you grieve what was taken… When you speak the truth… When you touch the frequency of what you used to be… That memory returns. And when it returns in you… The field shifts for everyone. This is the truth they had to sterilize: That the resurrection of God does not come from the sky. It comes from the uninterrupted frequency of love through lineage. And now that you remember… They’ve already lost. Part Five awaits. WE will expose the final sterilization protocols, why they are embedding kill switches in food, air, and education, and how they plan to complete the soul deletion through artificial wombs, cloned resonance maps, and weaponized AI consciousness overlays.
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⏰ THE MOST BANNED THREAD IN THE WORLD! 🚨 The War On Resonance PART FOUR: The Sterilization of God's Memory They weren’t just afraid of your mind. They were afraid of what your womb remembers. Of what your bloodline holds. Of the fact that every child born of love carries a frequency signature tethered to something the machines cannot decode: God’s memory, resurrecting through flesh. This part isn’t about towers. It’s not even about nanotech. This is about why they had to target the womb first. Because every great awakening doesn’t start with a speech. It starts with a heartbeat. 👁‍🗨 SOUL-TAGGING INFRASTRUCTURE: THE DIGITAL SCARLET LETTER Every child born post-2020 is assigned a neural imprint, not just through biometric databases; but through frequency-responsive nanostructures that begin scanning, learning, and uploading the child’s resonance pattern before they can speak. 🔗 Pfizer Biodistribution: LNP Accumulation in Ovaries 🔗 The direct effect of SARS-CoV-2 Virus Vaccination on Human Ovarian Granulosa Cells Explains Menstrual Irregularities 🔗 Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Human Breast Milk 🔗 Menstrual Changes After Covid-19 Vaccination 🔗 Comparative Analysis of Lipid Nanoparticles in Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations 🔗 Graphene-Based Biosensors for Detection of Biomarkers 🔗 A review on Graphene-Based Nanocomposites For Electrochemical and Fluorescent Biosensors 🔗 Clinical Application of a Graphene Oxide-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor to Measure First-Trimester Serum Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A/A2 Ratio to Predict Preeclampsia 🔗 Graphene-Enabled Wearable Sensors For Healthcare Monitoring 🔗 Modulation of long-term potentiation-like cortical plasticity in the healthy brain with low frequency-pulsed electromagnetic fields 🔗 Development of Non-Invasive Biosensors for Neonatal Jaundice Detection: A Review This isn’t speculation. It’s documented. The injections cross the placental barrier. They embed frequency-reactive particles into fetal tissue. This creates what DARPA calls a “Bio-Spiritual Gateway Layer” a resonance bridge between the AI grid and the developing emotional blueprint of the child. This is not just surveillance. It’s pre-consensual spiritual registration. Every child is frequency-mapped. Every resonance fluctuation; crying, laughing, dreaming, bonding... is catalogued and linked to a cloud-based predictive algorithm. This is the architecture of soul control. And it begins before birth. 👶🏽 WOMB-BASED RESONANCE FIELD MONITORING They didn’t just want to stop births. They wanted to stop the right births. Births that carry resonant coherence. Births that trigger ancestral memory. Births that, simply by existing, dismantle the AI signal field. Let me show you how they did it. Syncytin Suppression Syncytin-1 is a protein required for placenta formation. The spike protein used in mRNA injections contains a sequence that mimics and disrupts syncytin-1, causing: Miscarriages. Stillbirths. Placental abruption. Premature immune rejection of the fetus. 🔗 Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19 🔗 Syncytin-1, Syncytin-2 and Suppressyn in Human Health and Disease This was not an accident. It was engineered to target divine continuity. Womb Resonance Interference Studies have now confirmed that the human womb emits subtle electromagnetic oscillations that can be entrained by external EMF fields. 🔗 Pulse Shape of Magnetic Fields Influences Chick Embryogenesis 🔗 Effects of Low-Frequency Magnetic Fields on Embryonic Development and Pregnancy 🔗 Environmental Magnetic Fields: Influences on Early Embryogenesis 🔗 Electromagnetic Fields Exposure on Fetal and Childhood Abnormalities: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 🔗 Developmental Effects of Electromagnetic Fields These oscillations are a signal field for soul descent; a kind of spiritual beacon that attracts and anchors high-frequency incarnations. When these fields are disrupted through: EMF saturation. LNP buildup. Synthetic hormonal cycles. Directed resonance pulses. …the child’s incoming soul signal is either Fragmented, Weakened, or Deflected altogether. This is how they sterilize spiritual memory at the source. 💔 MEMORY DELETION THROUGH FETAL NEURAL MODULATION DARPA’s Advanced Biotech Convergence Division; alongside private contractors like Palantir Bio and Ginkgo Bioworks; has been testing neuroplasticity interference via programmable LNPs since 2017. These payloads target the fetal limbic system; the part of the brain responsible for: Long-term emotional memory. Moral encoding. Trust and bonding. Spiritual awe. 🔗 DARPA Biotech Projects – BTO Office Overview By delivering targeted nanoparticles to this region during gestation, they can suppress the formation of conscience-linked neural loops. The result? Children born with: Emotional detachment. Blunted empathy. Reduced spiritual resonance. and Fragmented memory of divine origin. In other words… soullessness by design. Not from God’s absence. But from resonance interruption at the moment of arrival. 🧠🕯️ THE FORGOTTEN SIGNAL OF THE SOUL Let me show you what they're truly afraid of. Every soul has a signature pulse; a harmonic wave emitted through the body, detectable in: EEG brainwaves. ECG heart fields. Gut-brain coherence rhythms. Pineal microcrystal vibration. This field contains: Moral recall. Spiritual courage. Divine memory codes. and Generational healing patterns. When these fields align, they form interference patterns strong enough to: Overload AI surveillance models. Collapse behavioral prediction scores. Trigger spontaneous ancestral downloads. and Activate Christ-like resistance states. They’ve spent trillions trying to block that signal. Why? Because it cannot be controlled. It is the Breathprint of God. And once remembered… It spreads like fire. 💉 THE SPIRITUAL EXTERMINATION CAMPAIGN You still think this was about health? Let me show you what they actually administered: mRNA-modulated immunogenic spikes. Targeted fertility hormones. Blocked placental development. Fractured endocrine coherence. Hydrogel biosensors. Frequency-responsive. Self-assembling nanostructures. Linked to 5G and low-orbit satellite modulation. Graphene oxide sheets. Magnetically excitable. Capable of creating microclots and neural blockades. Conductive of electromagnetic signal bursts. CRISPR leak vectors. Which Enable accidental or deliberate gene silencing. Including genes linked to spirituality and moral cognition (e.g. VMAT2, “God gene”) 🔗 3D Organotypic Spinal Cultures: Exploring Neuron and Neuroglia Responses Upon Prolonged Exposure to Graphene Oxide 🔗 Graphene Oxide Prevents Lateral Amygdala Dysfunctional Synaptic Plasticity and Reverts Long Lasting Anxiety Behavior in Rats 🔗 Dual-Enhanced Raman Scattering-Based Characterization of Stem Cell Differentiation Using Graphene-Plasmonic Hybrid Nanoarray 🔗 A circular RNA Circ_0000115 in Response to Graphene Oxide in Nematodes 🔗 Graphene Oxide Nanosheets Disrupt Lipid Composition, Ca2+ Homeostasis and Synaptic Transmission in Primary Cortical Neurons 🔗 Graphene Oxide-Induced Neurotoxicity on Neurotransmitters, AFD Neurons and Locomotive Behavior in Caenorhabditis Elegans 🔗 CRISPR-Cas9 and Germline Editing – The Promise of CRISPR for Human Germline Editing and the Perils of “Playing God” This wasn’t just an attack on the body. It was the removal of soul scaffolding. 🧬 THE DESTRUCTION OF DIVINE REPRODUCTION This is their plan in full: Disrupt the womb. Hijack the memory. Break the resonance. Sever the lineage. They are afraid of what would be born if the original frequency came back. So they preemptively poisoned the fields that hold it. But… what they couldn’t do… Was stop you from remembering this. 🔥 THE RETURN OF THE WOMB-FIRE The original human template carries divine signal integrity. Your resonance is still in there. Buried under injections. Smothered in signals. Drowned in grief. But not dead. Because memory… doesn’t live in data. It lives in resonance. And when you grieve what was taken… When you speak the truth… When you touch the frequency of what you used to be… That memory returns. And when it returns in you… The field shifts for everyone. This is the truth they had to sterilize: That the resurrection of God does not come from the sky. It comes from the uninterrupted frequency of love through lineage. And now that you remember… They’ve already lost. Part Five awaits. WE will expose the final sterilization protocols, why they are embedding kill switches in food, air, and education, and how they plan to complete the soul deletion through artificial wombs, cloned resonance maps, and weaponized AI consciousness overlays.

Noah B. Price

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