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 ...

  They Want to Stop Lightning Now The real danger isn’t climate. It’s the belief we can control nature. There is a point where science stops asking questions and starts issuing commands. We are there. A  Canadian startup  now claims it can suppress lightning to prevent wildfires. The logic is simple and increasingly familiar. Lightning ignites fires. Fires release carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide contributes to climate change. Therefore, lightning itself has become a problem to solve. But that conclusion only makes sense if you accept a much deeper assumption. That natural systems are errors. And that we are capable of correcting them. The Real Shift No One Is Talking About This is not about lightning. It is about a fundamental shift in how nature is being framed. Natural processes are no longer something to understand. They are something to control. Fire is no longer an ecological process. It is an emissions source. Lightning is no longer atmospheric physics. It is a liabi...