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'The Great Taking': How 'They' Can Own It All | Ellen Brown

The collective wealth of the world is an estimated $360 trillion as abstract impressionist painting -- Bing “’You’ll own nothing and be happy’? David Webb has gone through the 50-year history of all the legal constructs that have been put in place to technically enable that to happen.” [Oct 2 interview titled “The Great Taking: Who Really Owns Your Assets?” Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Oct. 3, ...

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Are NFTs Really Dead And Buried? All Signs Point To 'Yes' | John Hawkins

Various Bored Ape. By Yuga Labs - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-bored-ape-avatars-are-taking-over-twitter/amp, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70061171 ...

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More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota | Ellen Brown

Web of Debt as cave drawing -- Bing Ellen Brown -- Web of Debt Sept. 1, 2023 U.S. banks are again in the crosshairs. Standard and Poor’s has downgraded five new middle-tier banks and put three ...

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BOOKS: ‘Capitalism Is Dead. Now We Have Something Much Worse’ | Carole Cadwalladr

In his new book, Technofeudalism, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home of Aegina, he argues it’s no longer the global finance system that shapes ...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) | Wikipedia

By Prompt by JPxG, model by Boris Dayma, upscaler by Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie et al. - https://github.com/borisdayma/dalle-mini/ BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License])., Apache License 2.0, ...

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Blockchain | Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sept. 25, 2023 A blockchain is a distributed ledger with growing lists of records (blocks) that are securely linked together via cryptographic hashes. Each ...

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US Farmers, Tech Tycoons Square Off Over Plans For Utopian City | Glenn Chapman

Swaths of rural land between San Francisco and Sacramento, in the western U.S. state of California, were secretly purchased by tech tycoons keen on building a new city. Glenn Chapman -- TechXplore ...

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Falling Solar Power And Storage Prices Make Global Climate Transition Cheaper Than Expected | Ulrich von Lampe

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ulrich von Lampe -- Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Sept. 22, 2023 In just the past 10 years, the cost of electricity from solar ...

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Why the Next Crypto Bull Run Will Be Like Nothing We've Ever Experienced | Solo Ceesay

We are on the precipice of what could be the greatest transfer of wealth that has ever happened in human history Solo Ceesay -- Entrepreneur Sept. 20, 2023 Key Takeaways Dumb money following smart ...

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What Are Smart Contracts? | Bing

Aug. 20, 2023 (Bing) – Smart contracts are self-executing agreements that are written in code and run on a blockchain. They allow parties to transact without intermediaries, reducing costs, risks ...

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Climate Conflagration: Maui to Montana | Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan

Amy Goodman Denis MoynihanAmy Goodman & Denis Moynihan -- Democracy Now! Aug. 17, 2023 Climate change-fueled drought and high winds created the perfect conditions for raging wildfires across the ...

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If Google suddenly had real competition in search, how would news publishers’ world change? | Nieman Journalism Lab The tech giant's ongoing antitrust trial raises the possibility of the federal government, Apple, or both giving Google its first meaningful search competition in decades. www.niemanlab.org/2023/10/if-google-suddenly-had-real-competition-in-search-how-would-news-publishers-world-change/

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How creatives can stop AI from stealing their work - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Organizations can manipulate how their data contributions flow to AI systems to ensure more democratic governance. thebulletin.org/2023/10/how-creatives-can-stop-ai-from-stealing-their-work/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=TwitterPost102023&utm_content=DisruptiveTechnologies_Creatives_1003023

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Molecular knots, left and right: How molecules form knots

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FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Saw Missing Billions as ‘Rounding Error,’ Biographer Michael Lewis Says Michael Lewis revealed management failings at crypto exchange FTX and a multi-billion-dollar plan to keep Donald Trump from running for office again, in an interview… www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/02/bankman-fried-saw-missing-ftx-billions-as-rounding-error-biographer-says/

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Nobel in medicine goes to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

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‘Flashing Red Warning’—$33 Trillion U.S. ‘Debt Death Spiral’ Could Suddenly Trigger A Bitcoin Price ‘Vicious Circle’ www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/10/01/flashing-red-warning-33-trillion-us-debt-death-spiral-could-suddenly-trigger-a-bitcoin-price-vicious-circle/amp/?amp_js_v=0.1#webview=1&cap=swipe

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Where Liquid Staking Meets Tokenization The crypto industry is changing rapidly, and liquid staking stands at the forefront of this transformation. www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/09/29/where-liquid-staking-meets-tokenization/

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OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI | Nieman Journalism Lab Some of the funding will go to form a "studio" within the American Journalism Project; the rest will go to about 10 of AJP's grantees. www.niemanlab.org/2023/07/openai-will-give-local-news-millions-to-experiment-with-ai/

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