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GitHub - popularis-project/popularis-platform: “Replace your politicians with code.” — Home of the Popularis Direct Democracy Whitepaper.
“Replace your politicians with code.” — Home of the Popularis Direct Democracy Whitepaper. - GitHub - popularis-project/popularis-platform: “Replace your politicians with code.” — Home of the Popul...
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/POPULARIS-PROJECT/POPULARIS-PLATFORMTags: cybercivilization, zedtopia
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GitHub - jgphilpott/bitgov: An application layer protocol for decentralized digital democracy.
An application layer protocol for decentralized digital democracy. - GitHub - jgphilpott/bitgov: An application layer protocol for decentralized digital democracy.
HTTPS://GITHUB.COM/JGPHILPOTT/BITGOVTags: cybercivilization, zedtopia
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WSJ
China’s Efforts to Lead the Way in AI Start in Its Classrooms
A fast-spreading use of artificial intelligence in schools from kindergartens to universities provides the country with an unrivaled database.
HTTPS://WWW.WSJ.COM/ARTICLES/CHINAS-EFFORTS-TO-LEAD-THE-WAY-IN-AI-START-IN-ITS-CLASSROOMS-11571958181Tags: China, Surveillance State, Police State, Spyware, Adtech, EEG, Brainwave Tracking.
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MIT Technology Review
Tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories is already here
We need new rules to protect our cognitive liberty, says futurist and legal ethicist Nita Farhany.
HTTPS://WWW.TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM/2023/03/17/1069897/TECH-READ-YOUR-MIND-PROBE-YOUR-MEMORIES/Tags: Human Rights, spying on your brainwaves
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💭 Thought by KingArthur 13 days ago. | Public
The World is falling to pieces… things are shaking up… We need natural “free” flowing harmony, not artificially controlled chaos.
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Democracy Now!
“Stand Up for Afghan Women”: U.N. Calls Afghanistan World’s Most Repressive Country for Women, Girls
A top United Nations official said Wednesday that “Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the most repressive country in the world regarding women’s rights.” Since taking power nearly 19 months ago, the Taliban has moved systematically to erase women from public life by banning women and girls from schools, from working with nongovernmental organizations and from traveling without a male relative. “Afghanistan is now effectively one of the biggest prisons in the world for women,” says Zahra Nader, a freelance Afghan journalist who was formerly a reporter for The New York Times in Kabul and is now based in Canada. She is the editor-in-chief of Zan Times, a new Afghan women-led outlet documenting human rights issues in Afghanistan.
HTTPS://WWW.DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG/2023/3/8/IWD_AFGHANISTAN☆ | Be the first person to star this idea.
Tags: Human Rights, Islam, apartheid
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WPEC
'Secret' CIA bulk data collection raises questions about surveillance laws
HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TND) — The Central Intelligence Agency has a “secret” bulk data collection program that could “incidentally” include information about Americans, according to two U. S. senators. ‘WARRANTLESS BACKDOOR SEARCHES OF AMERICANS’ What kind of information? That’s classified. But concerns are being raised the CIA has hidden details about the program.
HTTPS://CBS12.COM/SECRET-CIA-BULK-DATA-COLLECTION-RAISES-QUESTIONS-ABOUT-SURVEILLANCE-LAWS-CENTRAL-INTELLIGENCE-AGENCY-FBI-SPYING-SPY-ON-AMERICANS-NATIONAL-SECURITY-AGENCY-NSA-EDWARDS-SNOWDEN-RUSSIA-WYDEN-HEINRICH-REAGAN-1981Tags: bulk collection
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ZDNET
NSA reform report: End bulk metadata program, no more software backdoors
Two of the 40 recommendations — which the White House can still ignore — hints that private companies should be allowed to report data access figures.
HTTPS://WWW.ZDNET.COM/ARTICLE/NSA-REFORM-REPORT-END-BULK-METADATA-PROGRAM-NO-MORE-SOFTWARE-BACKDOORS/Tags: NSA, bulk collection
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THIS Article is 10 years old but the reforms it mentions are still relevant, just like how Flint, MI still does not have clean drinking water.
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bioRxiv
High-resolution image reconstruction with latent diffusion models from human brain activity
Reconstructing visual experiences from human brain activity offers a unique way to understand how the brain represents the world, and to interpret the connection between computer vision models and our visual system. While deep generative models have recently been employed for this task, reconstructing realistic images with high semantic fidelity is still a challenging problem. Here, we propose a new method based on a diffusion model (DM) to reconstruct images from human brain activity obtained via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). More specifically, we rely on a latent diffusion model (LDM) termed Stable Diffusion. This model reduces the computational cost of DMs, while preserving their high generative performance. We also characterize the inner mechanisms of the LDM by studying how its different components (such as the latent vector of image Z, conditioning inputs C, and different elements of the denoising U-Net) relate to distinct brain functions. We show that our proposed method can reconstruct high-resolution images with high fidelity in straight-forward fashion, without the need for any additional training and fine-tuning of complex deep-learning models. We also provide a quantitative interpretation of different LDM components from a neuroscientific perspective. Overall, our study proposes a promising method for reconstructing images from human brain activity, and provides a new framework for understanding DMs. Please check out our webpage at this https URL. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
HTTPS://WWW.BIORXIV.ORG/CONTENT/10.1101/2022.11.18.517004V1Tags: brain imaging, fmri, stable diffusion, ai, cognitive neuroscience, Freedom of thought, privacy law
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