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2023-07-17 07:06:53

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#RFKJr did not say anything about Hospitalization rates.
He was speaking of peer reviewed papers that were looking at the genetic structure of #Covid19 such as this one among 100s of others
"SARS-CoV-2 Susceptibility and ACE2 Gene Variations Within Diverse Ethnic Backgrounds"
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.888025/full
More articles on the topic here:
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/media-twists-rfks-remark-at-ny-press
This is actually what #RobertKennedyJr said:
> We need to talk about bioweapons. …. We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars into ethnically targeted microbes. The Chinese have done the same thing. In fact, COVID-19, there is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately. The races that are most immune to COVID-19 are—because of the genetic structure, the genetic differentials among different races, of the receptors, of the ACE-2 receptors—COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese. We don’t know if it was deliberately targeted or not, but there are papers out there that show the racial and ethnic differential impact of that. We do know that the Chinese are spending hundreds of millions of dollars developing ethnic bioweapons, and we are developing ethnic bioweapons. That’s what all of those labs in the Ukraine are about. They are collecting Russian DNA so that we can target people by race.
Are you against a discussion on #bioweapons ? Because that is what the aim of these types of smear campaings are about: to make the topic unspeakable by tying it to antismitism.
In any case he is not an antisemite. Check out this long discussion with Rabbi Smuley yesterday if you doubt that
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1680444979456487424

2023-07-17 06:26:02

On the development of ethnically targeted #bioweapons following #RFKJr's remarks.
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/media-twists-rfks-remark-at-ny-press
(What else could people developing bioweapons be trying to do? Btw. Obama ordered an end to research in this area, which is why these labs then were transferred surreptitiously to other places outside the US, such as China and Ukraine - which also shows how reckless those people are)

2023-07-05 05:47:05

The perfect case for #digital #sovereignty:
** Amazon locked a person out of their House for a week!**
#LetThatSinkIn
In detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z5pPleEgB0
Rusty Rockets does an excellent jog showing how serious a violation of #privacy this is: the first personally clear example of how #surveillance systems and #IoT will be used against us if they are centrally controlled.
Do you wonder why the major companies are hysterically interested in moral issues suddenly? These companies are building totalitarian systems in the name of moral puritanism -- which has the worst of histories, btw. But it is so convenient to computer companies because they can make judgments by searching for keywords without considering context or being accountable or consistent with their behaviour. All in the name of #security and convenience.
Do they really care about the language you use? What about how much they pay their workers? That is a moral issue with financial consequences, which they don't trumpet that much. Come to think of it, #unions are illegal in Amazon, no?
Furthermore, RR also brings up the tight relationship between the state and these large entities, RR brings up the $10 billion contract the NSA has with #AWS #CloudComputing. So that gives them leverage too.
So while everywhere (even in #Scala land), people turn on one another for misgendering issues, those same people are all too willing to work on #AWS or make money from Big data aimed at eroding people's privacy to build totalitarian systems.
Still, the only way to stop this is to build similar answers with Decentralised Social Networks, of which the #fediverse is the beginning. That is what the #SolidProject I am working on is about.

2023-07-01 07:04:03

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@npub12jq…hq6m Kennedy made the point that in the 1960s Autism, allergies, etc were nearly unknown. Autism was only visible in 1 to 20 thousand children. But now one in 37 children are Autistic. And this goes on for a list of other chronic illnesses in America. This should put research into this at the top of the list of presidential priorities it seems to me because the combination of all of these means 1 in 4 (was that it?) children have a chronic illness now. Of course, obesity (which the WHO called an epidemic https://www.who.int/activities/controlling-the-global-obesity-epidemic ) is very likely part of the problem. (But is this not related to unregulated food advertising? The undermining of social inhibitions against obesity? Ie. all kinds of problems created by reckless capitalism?) So research is needed into the causes. All possible causes. And Vaccines are a reasonable place of inquiry.
Where before Covid I was a true believer, I became suspicious when they started pushing kids to be vaccinated, even though it later turned out that vaccines were not effective at stopping transmission, at stopping one to get the disease, and kids who did not have a chronic illness were not in danger at all. The finding that news cables were sponsored at 75% by the Pharma industry explains a lot.
Here are some links I just found, I have not had the time to look into them all yet. After all, you and I are software engineers, not medical doctors, so we can only look on from the sidelines...But we should allow the doctors to debate.
Dr. Paul Thomas presents #vaxxed vs unvaxxed data https://rumble.com/v10dwcr-dr.-paul-thomas-blows-up-the-conventional-vaccine-narrativeincredible-peer-.html
Vaxxed vs unvaxxed
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268563/pdf/10.1177_2050312120925344.pdf
Health effects
https://oatext.com/pdf/JTS-7-459.pdf?fbclid=IwAR35MFYf_t9FCMcPzMIimzjjVcZvaH6oik3La4a0SLnBxesNwFGa74jjH0w
CHD
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/wp-content/uploads/Vaxxed-Unvaxxed-Parts-I-XII.pdf
German study
https://healthimpactnews.com/2011/new-study-vaccinated-children-have-2-to-5-times-more-diseases-and-disorders-than-unvaccinated-children/#sthash.NWC3sWb0.rbpQoxMN.uxfs

2023-06-30 08:32:37

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@npub12jq…hq6m #RFK also mentioned how Chickenpox vaccines were found to later lead to an increase in Shingles. Peter McCullough, a very well-published doctor wrote the story up here with a link to the research paper. https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/rfk-takes-dr-tariq-butt-to-school
The point is that in medicine the body is so complex having evolved by natural selection over 3 billion years essentially - ie. without an engineering oversight - and that evolution is a process of differentiation so that no two individuals are the same, one should not be surprised if interventions have a lot of unintended consequences.
In medicine one has to start from the reality of complexity, be very careful and keep track of such side effects, so as to be better able to decide when an intervention is worth it.
It is just not unscientific to look at these things.
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/110/632/243/004/873/682/original/2f560df454fa7700.png

2023-06-29 13:51:35

If you want to understand US presidential candidate #RobertKennedyJr's (#RFK) position on #Vaccines, just watch this short clip, where he answers some pretty tough questions during a Town Hall meeting.
It takes someone with a lot of experience attacking government collusion, and taking polluters to court to touch such a difficult topic and emerge out of it intact.
This goes beyond #Covid19 , and addresses the problem of #testing .
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1674266437890744323

2023-06-09 13:44:44

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@npub14eu…vx4x
I am thinking that using "disinformation" to mean "does not agree with the establishment" is a very bad way to use the term, and also very bad for the establishment longer term.
I think one should use the term "disinformation" as something related to "information", which is about the passing of strings of bits from one computer to another without loss. Lightweight additions to such a theory that would allow one for example to express who said what and for whom the message was intended, when it was written, etc is something we in computer science could tackle without requiring us to take over the job of law courts or debating chambers. We software engineers need to provide the framework so that truth claims can be made, the agent making them can make themselves known (anonymous communication should also be allowed) and their relation to legal institutions can be made visible to people out there. This would allow people to understand the legal weight of a claim: is it just some person expressing an opinion, or are they making themselves legally available to criticism if something goes wrong?
https://medium.com/@bblfish/use-cases-for-the-web-of-nations-361c24d5eaee

2023-06-09 13:33:25

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@npub14eu…vx4x
> My position is that truth and falsehood cannot be determined a priori in order to ban falsehood.
We agree. Put in terms of possible worlds (some prefer the notion of models), we don't know which possible world we are in precisely, given that we are finite beings with very finite knowledge. So in a way truth is relative-to-a-world, but that is just as it should be. If the state of affairs were different, different statements should be true.

2023-06-08 22:35:50

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@npub14eu…vx4x For controversial or scientifically disputed topics, the position relative to competing theories of the actual world is in dispute. And so the different positions put forward statements that the opposition, then tries to debunk by finding inconsistencies, in the theory, or by finding facts that contradict it. This is the dialogical conception of the scientific process. It is a process of locating the actual world with respect to different theories through dialogue
Traditionally, if someone disagreed with a proposition P they could say P is false and then defend that proposition. But that is not what is happening when we speak of disinformation. Disinformation is a concept that comes with that of information. And the concept of information originates with information theory, which was about the effectiveness of sending signals over a wire. So there is something very mechanical about the notion of information which, in a way lacks semantics.
Disinformation, it seems is related to a corruption of the mechanical process of transmitting information. Perhaps by trying to make it look like information originates from a responsible news source – IE one that can be made legally responsible for what it says that is in a court of law where the dialogical process holds.

2023-06-08 22:28:23

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@npub14eu…vx4x that is the modal logic point of you in a way. All complete coherent sets of statements, form a possible world. Truth is relative to a world. That is a proposition P is a set of possible world. It is true at a world w if w is a world in P.
Consider
P = bblfish is in Munich
There are many ways the world could be and P be true. There is a world in which it is raining now in Munich and there is a world in which it’s not raining in Munich and I am there. There is a world in which there are n grains of sand on a beach in Normandy and P is true and there is a world in which the number of grains n+1….
Information in so far as it is syntactic is just a set of sentences. Let’s assume these have a conventional interpretation in a language L: that is a mapping of sentences to sets of possible worlds. Whether a sentence is true or not depends on where the actual world is. Therefore, we cannot just by looking at sentences find out if they are true or not, unless they are mathematical statements and so true at all possible worlds.
In so far as disinformation is related to truth or falsity, it can only be determined whether it is true or not by looking at the world.
So part of the answer then is that we cannot determine if some sentences phi is disinformation just by looking at the sentence phi.

2023-06-08 20:34:23

A serious puzzle: how do you tell what is disinformation and what isn’t? Are the bits on the wire different?

2023-06-08 13:31:45

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@npub1xkx…06au hi Linus. I named one of my twins after you. Just a note: The intelligent anti woke folks could agree with you on every point and yet disagree with woke dogma on
* the ability of males to participate in girls sports after having gone through puberty
* the idea of “drag queen story hour” for children seems unnecessarily provocative
* the use of “puberty blockers” and gender surgery on under 18s (Sweden, Norway and early adopter countries have recently made a U turn on these aspects). Also one should be aware of what “gender affirming care” really means
https://twitter.com/DrLoupis/status/1665349252145455104

2023-05-20 19:09:03

The 2nd International Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory
with @npub1tdl…86lh
June 2 & 3 & 4 - VU Amsterdam (in collaboration with Lund University)
https://conspiracytheoryconference.weebly.com
https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/110/402/596/774/706/951/original/8741ed675983b2af.png

2023-05-18 06:01:42

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@npub1m34…njzz @npub14eu…vx4x
Thanks. I will keep that in mind. I am more likely to install my own instance or build my own as I am actually studying this area.

2023-05-16 16:59:57

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@npub14eu…vx4x yes one of the posts where I tweeted about the censorship of a member of parliament was deleted https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1637238423604850688?s=46&t=X9YHssVRB6l0JykPxK7DLA

2023-05-16 16:20:16

Interestingly I can link to individual tweets in the censored thread. Those can each be seen, at present, by anyone, but whenever you look at one tweet, the other two in the thread will be hidden. So here are the three tweets:
1. https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1658345183619031041
2. https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1658347317873836039
3. https://twitter.com/bblfish/status/1658367041714241537
The aim is clearly that any link one sends to a tweet keeps being visible, making it difficult for people to see censorship, but to break up the sequence of a conversation. That can frighten people to remove their own posts as they noticed the missing context.