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Traps of Transhumanism and Posthumanism—From Human Being to Nonhuman Being: Affirmation or Negation of Humanity? - SAR-2-45.pdf

  Traps of Transhumanism and Posthumanism—From Human Being to Nonhuman Being: Affirmation or Negation of Humanity? ..........At the center of these movements is the so-called transhuman and posthuman being who is no longer human but a transhumanoid and/or posthumanoid who has no individuality, personality, or freedom. Some criticisms of those movements are also expressed. The author of this article believes that these movements are the greatest evil that has happened to humanity on a global scale so far. He also proposes a completely different definition of transhumanism and posthumanism with an explanation...... https://sarjournal.org/doi/pdf/10.5005/jp-journals-11005-0044     Traps of Transhumanism and Posthumanism—From Human Being to Nonhuman Being: Affirmation or Negation of Humanity? - SAR-2-45.pdf

Entire Police Force Quits After Mayor Starts Surveilling Them and Tracking Their Movement

    Entire Police Force Quits After Mayor Starts Surveilling Them and Tracking Their Movement ..... As the home of controversial surveillance company Flock Safety, the state of Georgia has nearly 10,000 automatic license plate readers in operation, which are increasingly used by police departments throughout the country to surveil civilian movement without probable cause...... https://futurism.com/future-society/police-force-georgia-resigns-surveillance-tracking   Entire Police Force Quits After Mayor Starts Surveilling Them and Tracking Their Movement

Tech Industry in Denial That the Midterms Show Everyone Hates Them

Tech Industry in Denial That the Midterms Show Everyone Hates Them

AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It's Backfiring

  AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It's Backfiring AI, the results showed, is a political landmine, with even a whiff of Big Tech money being potentially disastrous for a candidate’s image. Three quarters of the likely voters said that they would be less apt to vote for a candidate if they found out they had accepted a donation from an AI Super PAC. Some felt even more strongly than that. A quarter said they would switch parties to vote for a candidate who took a strong stance against AI companies and data center construction.... https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-billionaires-elections-backfiring   AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It's Backfiring

Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society

Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society

The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents

The FTC Is Now Investigating Frontier AI Labs Following Countless Hacks by Out-of-Control Agents

Health care's emerging risk: unauthorized AI agents

Health care's emerging risk: unauthorized AI agents

Unless Flock is Reined In, Mass Video Surveillance Will Grow Even More Pervasive | TechPolicy.Press

Unless Flock is Reined In, Mass Video Surveillance Will Grow Even More Pervasive | TechPolicy.Press Automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems in general, and the high-profile vendor Flock in particular, are facing a moment of public reckoning in the United States. This surveillance technology is provoking major backlash across the country, and becoming a prominent campaign issue. Dozens of cities have cancelled their Flock contracts, and Congress is considering cutting funding. There is even a growing trend of vigilantes destroying ALPR cameras....... https://www.techpolicy.press/unless-flock-is-reined-in-mass-video-surveillance-will-grow-even-more-pervasive/     Unless Flock is Reined In, Mass Video Surveillance Will Grow Even More Pervasive | TechPolicy.Press

Why are communities pushing back against data centers? — Harvard Gazette

Why are communities pushing back against data centers? — Harvard Gazette  ...... The public is concerned about rising electricity rates caused by data centers. They are concerned about the enormous water use that data centers require. They’re concerned about public handouts in the form of tax breaks that are going to data center developers, and they’re also aware that data centers don’t bring meaningful economic development, especially in the form of jobs. I think the public is quite right to be concerned about data centers. My research and other research have shown that these are a bad deal for communities on the local level........ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/04/why-are-communities-pushing-back-against-data-centers/    Why are communities pushing back against data centers? — Harvard Gazette

UNDER The Pyramids in Egypt

(79) UNDER The Pyramids in Egypt - YouTube

Meta glasses captured and shared intimate images without users' consent, lawsuit claims - Los Angeles Times

Meta glasses captured and shared intimate images without users' consent, lawsuit claims - Los Angeles Times