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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-bannon-says-that-john-fettermans-use-of-closed-captioning-makes-him-a-cyborg/
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Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, suffered a stroke earlier this year. While doctors say that Fetterman is recovering well and has “no work restrictions and can work full duty in public office,” the Senate hopeful still struggles with auditory processing, especially when it comes to interpreting spoken words, and has therefore been using a closed captioning device in interviews and during a recent debate.
But to Steve Bannon, the use of closed captioning is a sign that Fetterman has become something else. When Bannon appeared on the “Diamond & Silk Chit Chat Live” program last Friday, the former Trump adviser accused Fetterman of being a “cyborg” because of his use of closed captioning.
“You have a convergence now of advanced chip design, robotics, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology,” Bannon
. “You have the merger of all these technologies at one time onto a point; that point is called the singularity. On this side of that point is Homo sapiens, is God’s creation as defined in the Bible, and as we’ve known for many millions of years.”
“So, you have Homo sapiens made in the image and likeness of God, inspired by the breath of the Holy Spirit, and on the other side of that you have Homo sapien-plus or you have enhanced man, you have something that’s not the original creation,” Bannon continued. “That is the merger of man and actually machine, the computer.”
“What you see in Fetterman and why Fetterman is so dangerous and why Fetterman as a concept is dangerous is here, he had a stroke,” Bannon declared. “What you saw the other night … is that he has a machine in front of him. It’s not a closed caption like you would watch TV and want it to be quiet while you were working on something else and have the closed caption on. No, this is a machine that actually helps his brain think through. Without the machine, he can’t understand human conversations, he can’t engage with people. So, we actually had—we call it a cyborg—you actually had a man-machine merger on that stage the other night." [pix vid]
bannon has long been fearmongering about so-called “transhumanism” and has been attacking Fetterman for months. In August, heaccused Fetterman of having a “satanic” vibe and of exuding “pure evil."
fetterman is in a tightening race against TV celebrity Dr. Oz, who won the Republican nomination thanks to Trump’s endorsement. While Fetterman leads by 5 percentage points according to the latest polling, Oz was able to shrink Fetterman’s lead by attacking his health ad nauseum, a strategy that has been aided by far-right media personalities like Bannon
mma 10 22 paul pelosi? plandemic gates microchip? meme remix?
Conspiracy theories about transhumanism profess that elites are attempting to turn human beings into partial machines that frequently has explicitly anti-transgender ideas. Former Trump aide Steve Bannon has frequently pushed this theory and praised Infowars’ Alex Jones for doing the same. (Progressive transhumanists reject the version of the ideology expressed by Bannon and Jones.)
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EMILY COMPAGNO (FOX NEWS HOST): Not everyone in their homes is safe as Paul Pelosi's situation has now demonstrated, frighteningly, and Jackie, I wonder, you know, is it too late, is the climate of violence, politically motivated or otherwise, again we don't know in this particular situation, is it too far to go back? Have the elected officials not done a good enough job of not only condemning violence across the board, but also turning down the temperature rather than sort of increasing rhetoric all across the board that maybe has people sort of riled up and taking things into their own hands, those sort of unfettered criminals and otherwise?
JACKIE DEANGELIS (FOX BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT): I think that's a great question, and again, we're waiting to find out what the motivation was, but there are two things that we could have in our hands there. You know, a crime situation that just happened more randomly or with some motivation but wasn't really targeted at the Pelosis per se. That shines a light at what's happening not only in San Francisco but all these other cities.If we have a situation where this is politically motivated, you have to step back and say, why is our country so divided? President Biden, you got up to the podium and said you were going to bring us together, and that was one of the things you promised people. It's one of the reasons they voted for you and they backed away from Trump because they did think that he was divisive. So why is this happening and why are we so polarized? It's a huge question right now. [semi-fasc?]
https://medium.com/positive-returns/8-billion-mecosystems-transhumanism-becomes-reality-800ce384cd71
By Erica Orange & Jared Weiner, The Future Hunters, andEshanthi Ranasinghe, Exploration & Future Sensing, OmidyarNetwork
The world is increasingly interconnected through technologies like the internet and IoT (Internet of Things), enabling the concept of a noosphere, or future global “brain.” But there is a parallel track to innovation centered around the individual?—?where people are now capable of becoming their own fully-integrated and customizable bio-digital ecosystem, what we will call a “MEcosystem.”
This is essentially technology intersecting with the physical body, and we see it most prominently in several nascent technological developments?—?advanced wearables (including embeddables, implantables, even ingestibles), 3D printing for human augmentation, gene editing, and many other emerging developments. Advancing technology has the potential to push the evolution of humans forward, beyond their own biology, and potentially toward a transhumanist future where human bodies are optimized with technology, creating 8 billion “MEcosystems” around the world.
Wearables have been evolving into embeddables, implantables, invisibles, even ingestibles, early steps toward a future where humans become more like cyborgs. Subdermal RFID chips can hold personal details, credit card numbers, and medical records. By one estimate, there are 10,000 such “cyborgs” with chip implants around the world. Chip enthusiasts include followers of a transhumanist ideology that seeks to optimize human bodies with technology. Examples include haptic communication that lets users receive messages through the skin on their arms, exoskeleton vests that augment lifting, neuromodulation as an alternative to painkillers, and an e-dermis that allows amputees to feel pain and other sensations.
Advanced 3D (and eventually 4D)printing techniques that use fully or partially organic materials will also help repair and augment the human body. Researchers are using 3D printers to create new strips of healthy skin, “bio-ink”-based corneas, stem cell-infused scaffolds for repairing nerve damage, and even grow-your-own organs technology.
Gene editingis the process through which DNA is inserted, deleted, modified, or replaced in the genome of a living organism. CRISPR, a cheap and easy technique for making targeted changes to DNA, is in research trials as a way to potentially treat diseases. Much of the leading research today focuses on gene editing during the earliest stages of life?—?including on fertilized embryos, culminating in the recent groundbreaking and controversial experiment where gene edits were made to two embryos in Shenzhen. Biologists are trying to go further, applying the CRISPR gene-editing machinery directly into mature human sperm.
But gene-editing experimentation is not confined to a lab, and that is perhaps what is most interesting about it. The process has entered mainstream consciousness and accessibility with devices like theCRISPR-Cas9. Josiah Zayner, a biochemist and biophysicist once employed by NASA, was made famous for being the first person known to have edited his own genes (and now runs a company that sells DIY CRISPR kits). He kicked off a series of public gene-editing stunts, a fad he may now regret. From teens in California to a research team at the University of Alberta that recreated from scratch extinct horsepox, a cousin of smallpox, DIY gene-editing experiments are catching on rapidly around the world. Unencumbered by labs, research institutions, degrees, and regulation, it is the hardest strain of gene-editing to predict, “citizen scientists” would argue the most innovative, and a cornerstone of the transhumanist movement.
If we can push our imaginations beyond currently developing technologies, we can envision a future which consists of transhumanist MEcosystems?—?one in which we can use highly advanced AI as a means to upload our minds and consciousness into dynamic, continuously learning “digital clones” of ourselves. The Terasem Movement Foundation was formed around the hypothesis that we may be able to circumvent aging by placing the parts of us that matter most (e.g., our identity, consciousness, and memories?—?called a “mindfile”) into something like a robot or avatar. These largely theoretical future technologies fall under the classification of “mindware.” As far out as these sound, an experiment is underway to test this hypothesis by uploading a real woman’s memories into a robot called Bina48. Over time, the goal is for Bina48 to grow smarter the more she learns. Inevitably, this type of technology holds the potential for people to not only create one personal ecosystem constrained in part by their own body, but multiple that go well beyond those physical parameters.
Within each of these cutting-edge and controversial developments is a world of opportunity and a minefield of risk. Accessible and personalizing technologies like 3D printers ($400) and CRISPR ($150), even emerging biotech “hackerspaces” like BioCurious, provide the tools needed to potentially bring transhumanist aspirations to nearly anyone. This could result in lifesaving breakthroughs, super-human development, the reemergence of extinct diseases, and irreversible genetic changes inheritable by generations.
Regulation is, typically, lagging, but even if a government deemed it illegal, could one simply travel to another country where regulation is lax or even encouraging? Will some countries try to build a competitive advantage around super-human enhancements for medical tourism? There is talk that it could be the next frontier of cheating in sports. And, ultimately, what does the impact of income and access disparity have on this; could it lead to a class division of gene editing “haves” and “have nots?”
While the application of MEcosystems has centralized around the individual, in a closed “walled garden” controlled by the operator, with embedded technologies like wearables and implantables, each personal ecosystem could be turned on to connect with other digital systems, voluntarily, automatically, or surreptitiously. This opens up a world of cybersecurity and privacy concerns, as well as opportunities like more efficient functioning of “smart” cities.
This is Trend #4 of 5 in Omidyar Network’s Exploration and Future Sensing, 2019 Trends to Watch. View the full series as it publishes here.
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