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  Blending Reality: The WEF Calls For Creation Of Metaverse Identity In Latest Push For Digital Dystopia Derrick Broze The latest report from the World Economic Forum outlines a vision of the blending of the physical world with the virtual metaverse dystopia, and claims digital identity is a necessary step in this direction. On March 12, the World Economic Forum released a new report titled,  Metaverse Identity: Defining the Self in a Blended Reality  which is ostensibly aimed at exploring the apparent need for a “metaverse identity”. The document, written in partnership with corporate firm  Accenture , calls for “collaborative, interdisciplinary strategy to navigate identity challenges”. The metaverse is a term that is commonly meant to describe the future of the internet, where digital and physical worlds intersect. “The metaverse, poised to redefine the internet, intertwines the digital and physical, emphasizing the pivotal role of “identity” in shaping immersive, human-centric expe

Ultra-Processed People On bratwurst, baby-buying, and the lie of puberty blockers MARY HARRINGTON In news that should surprise no one, the  Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine  (SEGM)  reports  that the supposedly robust evidence base for puberty blockers is not just weak: it fails to replicate. The original Dutch studies on using off-label cancer drugs to halt puberty in gender-confused children claimed doing so afforded modest improvements in mental-wellbeing for some patients. But  a newer study , just published, re-analysed existing data to show that for the majority this drug made no improvements to mental health, and around a third actually deteriorated. This underlines what ought to be obvious. Dosing physically healthy kids with an off-label cancer drug with  side effects  that can include osteoporosis, seizures, cognitive impairment, and sterility is not, as supporters  claim , a safe and temporary intervention but a powerful iatrogenic harm. And it’s being pursued desp