The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Google to Dump 32 Million Diseased, AI-Bred Mosquitoes on Florida and California Benjamin Bartee The aspirational totalitarians over at Big Tech have seen fit to retrofit 32 million mosquitoes with a bacterial infection, using AI, and then dump them onto California and Florida. The federal government, beholden as ever to the private interests that run it, is poised to give its blessing. Via California Post : “ California could soon become a testing ground for one of Google’s most ambitious public health projects yet . The tech giant is seeking federal approval to release up to 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida over the next two years as part of an effort to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases , including West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever… The project is part of Google’s little-known Debug initiative , launched more than a decade ago to develop new technologies aimed at reducing populations ...

  All Their Stupid Ideas Can be Reversed and We Will Make the Deserts Bloom We will restore the very ground of our being ELIZABETH NICKSON Did none of the Masters of the Universe take Marketing 101? I know it’s a quasi-discipline, much  déclassé , for the peons in flyover country who sell widgets to live, but it does determine the world. What do you want to buy with your disposable income? What food, what house, what car, what do your children lust after?  Shopping decisions determine the shape of the real world, where real things happen. For some people, it’s their only opportunity for self-determination, and take it they will. This fundamental human characteristic is described perfectly by a graph, a chart. The  Marketing Curve  has been around for fifty years, and its one assumption is that human desire is the primary driver of the economy. We are divided into forerunners, innovators, early adopters and late adopters and it holds true for digital product...