Showing posts with label silicon valley. Show all posts
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Monday, December 29, 2025

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Why we can't have nice things. China can

(The Absurdist) What's a Uyghur? And why does West lie about China?

The Absurdist: I traveled to Xinjiang [China in March 2025] to speak directly with Uyghurs and hear their stories firsthand. What I found challenges much of what we often hear in Western media. This is their side of the story.
(Barrett) The West is WRONG [or lying] about Xinjiang, China

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Our city is #1 best place to live in USA

Evening twilight over Berkeley, California (Alfred Georg Sonsalla/Getty Images)
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Beloved city has neighborhoods and Cal (UC)
What is the healthiest city in the U.S. to live in? Niche.com did its annual analysis, and a California destination came out on top.

Berkeley, California, was named the healthiest city in the USA by niche.com. The Northern California Alameda County city (just across the bay from overpriced San Francisco) enjoys an average of 256 sunny days each year and a mild Mediterranean climate, allowing residents to spend ample time outdoors.
  • The strangest thing about attending UC Berkeley is that no one here calls it "Berkeley." Everyone refers to it as "Cal" (or Cal Berkeley) because "Berkeley" (so often misspelled as Berkley) refers to the city, which is also sometimes called the "Republic of Berserkley" and F everywhere else because this is the best place to go to college, the greatest public university in the world since Nalanda and Timbuktu closed, rivaling the great private universities of the nation. (Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal likely exists because Berkeley exists and, strange and counterintuitive as it may seem to outsiders, half-baked L.A. is more spiritual than Berkeley or S.F. probably because it needs to be, with so many people desperately searching for meaning in the throat chakra of the planet (thanks in large part to Hollywood film, music, radio, and TV industries). That surprised us, thinking we were going to the Shangri-La of the state where everyone would be spiritual, where the Sixties would still be alive, where San Francisco was just a BART ride away to visit Golden Gate Park and join a love in, be in, or free concert, slipping over to Haight Ashbury, but it's always so cold, and Berkeley mostly empties out for the summer when the tourists come and classes are not in session. There is KPFA.org (the founding Pacifica station even older than KPFK.org in LA, where Alan Watts got his start and where he lives on, respectively). There are so many protests on campus and in Berkeley that there is a nationwide media blackout about it. One rarely hears about all that is going on there, and every week something IS going on there. It's a nearly daily occurrence the mainstream media keeps quiet, ignores, and suppresses so that the radicalism doesn't spread as quickly to other campuses across the nation. It is the most progressive of the big schools.
  • Vintage 1980’s Berkeley “Berzerkley” SF artist artwork - Etsy
  • College Confidential Forums - Admissions Discussions
  • In this famous scene (and song) Ben, "The Graduate" (played by a young Dustin Hoffman), is driving his red convertible to Berkeley, which is funny because he's headed the wrong direction, but that never stopped Hollywood (who needed to show him with the top down, which wouldn't look as good on the lower level that runs toward Berkeley. He's from Los Angeles and going to UC Berkeley in Berkeley to see about a girl, Elaine, which is odd because she's the daughter of Mrs. Robinson, the older married woman he's been having an affair with all summer. Had it not been for a roommate at Cal, I would never have known to see such an important film all about the wonders of legendary California.
Each year, Niche.com reveals the healthiest places in the nation, based on "a comprehensive assessment of the general health levels among residents in an area." The company considers key indicators of personal health, including smoking and excessive alcohol consumption, rates of obesity, and people's access and proximity to health care facilities, including gyms, doctors, and mental health practitioners.

And this year, Niche.com named Berkeley, California, the healthiest city in the U.S. The Alameda County city is less than half an hour from San Francisco [depending on traffic on the Bay Bridge, it would only take 15 minutes to go between the two] and boasts 256 sunny days per year [but is nearly always cooler than one would think, just like San Francisco is chilly and foggy] and a mild Mediterranean climate.

Residents don't have to travel far to enjoy time in nature and stay active. Why? — Berkeley has over 50 parks with sports facilities, trails, and playgrounds. [There's a secret swimming lake behind the campus, up the mountain on Grizzly Trail.] Additionally, places like Muir Woods National Monument, Yosemite National Park, and Pinnacles National Park offer even more options for outdoor recreation.

In fact, the city was named the No. 1 Healthiest Place to Live in America and the No. 1 Healthiest City, really driving home the point that this is indeed a healthy place.

Berkeley also snagged an A+ rating for its schools, A+ for nightlife, and an A+ for outdoor activities, which surely helps to keep its population in tip-top shape.

The only categories it falls short in are housing, where it scored a C-, crime and safety, which also nabbed it a C-, and the cost of living, where it scored a low D+. And these grades are well reflected in the local reviews. More
  • MSN.com, June 7, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Thursday, April 3, 2025

The Buddha's relics found in China?

"Relics" are so common now that replicas flood the market and found on Etsy. Real? 😒


Beyond Science with Brilliant Host
(Beyond Science) This name is especially familiar among Buddhists because Scythian (Saka, Shakyamuni) Prince Siddhartha Gautama went on to become the Buddha. Now 2,500-year-old relics (sariras, holy remains) of the Buddha have been found in a Chinese village.
  • The Buddha was an arahant but so much more.
    Siddhartha Gautama is THE Buddha because ordinary enlightened individuals, who are very rare and special, are called arahants, those who have achieved bodhi (enlightenment or awakening). But a buddha is far more rare in that "silent buddhas," known as pacceka-buddhas, discover the path, the Middle Way to enlightenment, on their own without a teacher. They are unable to teach that path. Supremely enlightened or samma-sam-buddhas not only discover the path but are able to effectively teach it and establish the Dharma in the world to benefit countless human and deva (shining ones, light-) beings. Although arahants might be called "personal buddhas," they are disciples of one of the extraordinarily rare supremely awakened buddhas. To call the Buddha "Buddha" is to fail to recognize his extraordinary rareness and diminish his importance in this world cycle. Indeed, there have been and will be other buddhas, but they come along so rarely as to be inconceivably precious.
This rare matter has the power to multiply.
In a stunning discovery, 2,500-year-old remains believed to be linked to the historical Buddha were uncovered in a remote Chinese village.

Archeologists and historians are calling this one of the most important spiritual and historical finds in decades. 2,500-Year-Old BUDDHA’s Remains Found in Chinese Village | Watch (MSN)
Precious relics (sariras) in special containers
Such relics are widespread, having been apportioned into eighths and placed inside eight giant stupas (burial mound reliquaries) by kings of ancient Proto-India, and one off-planet. The relics multiplied and were spread throughout the world in countless stupas. To see a large, and growing, number of them in the Los Angeles area, visit MahaStupa.org

Wei Mountain, Rosemead, LA County, CA, USA (MahaStupa)

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Science goes too far: living skin robots

Now available with real LIVING, self-healing, human facial skin that smiles (Made in Japan)
I have been waiting for this development. Now I can kiss and feel like a human doll.
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Japanese scientists make a robot face with living skin that can smile

AI sexbot dolls are already for sale.
(ABC News) Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike biohybrid [line of sexbots and] humanoid robots in the future.
  • [The real concern is that any technology that gets publicly disclosed is usually about 50 years old before we are told about it. The military (DARPA, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, NSC, Apple, Meta, Google, Alphabet, Elon Musk's Tesla/X, Jeff Bezos' Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, etc.) will have already exploited it, as with many features built into iPhones such as audiovisual spying, directional motion detection, and detection of other nearby technology such as other phones. So it seems likely that there are already independently operating, artificially intelligent automatons and androids in the population along with body-doubles and killbots. Will these sexbot-robots now technically count as "skin-walkers"?]
Will women buy robotic phalluses on AI bots?
The scientists, led by Prof. Shoji Takeuchi at the Univ. of Tokyo’s Biohybrid Systems Lab, attached cultured skin to a 3D facial mold using perforation-type anchors, which mimic the natural structure of human skin ligaments.

“The ultimate aim of this project is to create robots with fully-functional, lifelike skin that can heal itself, sense its surroundings, and perform tasks that closely mimic human behavior,” Prof. Takeuchi told ABC News.

Want to go out on a date? - I have kung fu grip. - I'll take that as a yes. - I charge. - OK.
    Will men pay for robotic... Never mind. Of course they will. They already buy plastic dolls.

    A robot face with living skin anchored to it is seen in a Tokyo laboratory, where scientists have been able to make it smile, in a breakthrough in biohybrid robot technology (© 2024 Takeuchi et al)
    It's been a sci-fi fantasy for decades
    A video demonstration shows a circular piece of cultured living skin, anchored over a 3D facial mold being stretched from a blank facial expression to a smile.

    In addition, the team also covered a robotic finger in the skin and were able to make it bend and even flick small objects with fluid motion.

    The anchors developed by the team mean the robots external appearance is not compromised by having protruding skin anchors, which can also damage the skin during movement.

    Can scientists create realistic looking Johns, too? - It's already been done.
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    Life-like German Nazi Eve/Barbie
    The researchers say that one of the key advantages of a robot having living skin is its capacity to self-heal, rather than requiring repair every time it is scratched or damaged.

    The [publicly disclosed] technology is still in its infancy, however. This means that it will likely be a long time before Terminator-style living-skin-covered robots are an everyday occurrence [even if test versions have secretly been out and about for a long time during the development].

    In order for the skin to stay on a robot long-term, scientists would need to integrate other biological systems, such as nerves, muscles, and sensory organs into it [maybe a transplanted brain from a nonconsenting homeless donor].
    Sign up now. Join our team. Works on bodies.
    • In a clip filmed by ALF (the Animal Liberation Front) seen in the antivivisectionist documentary Slaughter of the Innocent, animal activists broke into the corporate headquarters of the "City of Hope" in Duarte, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley with the downtown skyline in view to the southwest). They were there to liberate animals being tortured by scientists, who were giving the animals, many of them dogs and puppies, cancerous tumors then testing allopathic chemicals on them as treatments in search of marketable synthetic medicines for profit. As if this were not shocking enough, the activists entered a walk-in freezer in one lab and pulled out large plastic bags.
    • Emptying them out on the ground, they found human body parts with no explanation. It was easy to conclude that human experiments were also being done in secret, experimenting on human being then "sacrificing" (a euphemism for executing an experimental subject at the end of an experiment) them and examining their cadavers.
    • The Campaign Against Sex Robots
    • Had these been the donated corpses of volunteers who left their bodies to science, as one would love to believe, their amputated body parts would not have hastily been tossed into trash bags and deposited in walk-in freezers without labels, tags, or accompanying documentation. It seems clear from the footage that "mad" scientists were just free to acquire, mutilate, and experiment on all mammals, humans being no exception, in their blind ambition for capitalist medicine and its advancement at all costs. The goal, after all, is not to cure cancer or other diseases, but only to treat them for profit for as many years as can be managed before patients die of other causes. like fictional Hannibal Lecter, did these scientists begin their experiments by attempting "face transplants" from living subject to artificial robots? And that failed so they cultured cells instead?]

    “Developing a method to incorporate blood vessels or an alternative nutrient supply system remains one of the key challenges we are working on to extend the skin's viability outside controlled environments,” Scientist Takeuchi said. More + VIDEO:

    Wednesday, July 24, 2024

    JD Vance's deep ties to surveillance state


    JD Vance deep ties to the surveillance state with Whitney Webb
    (The Jimmy Dore Show) July 20, 2024: In this extended, wide-ranging interview, Jimmy Dore and UnlimitedHangout.com Contributing Editor and author of One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein Whitney Webb discuss whether Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance is a puppet of billionaire Peter Thiel, the real reason Elon Musk purchased Twitter (X), how the dystopian future of policing in the film Minority Report is becoming a reality, and much much more.
    Whitney Webb on Twitter: twitter.com_whitneywebb. Whitney’s website: unlimitedhangout.com. #TheJimmyDoreShow

    Thursday, June 8, 2023

    New sexbots ready for sale (video)


    Japan releases fully performing female AI robots
    (Top Generality) March 25, 2023. Artificial Intelligence (AI), for many, is considered the turning point of innovation. AI robots are slowly being integrated into our daily lives. A decade from now, humanoid robots and modern tech might take over every household in the world. In fact, several humanoid robots are already paving the way for AI. From Russia’s space robot to a deep-sea diving bot, here are the 20 most advanced AI robots in the world that have so far been made public. [There are likely much more advanced robots we are not told about.]

    For copyright matters, please contact Top Generality: official.lt1y@gmail.com


    Google's AI robot terrifies officials before it was quickly shut down
    (LAB 360) Feb. 21, 2023. #robot #AI #artificial Google's new AI robot terrified officials before it was quickly shut down. Google engineer Blake Lemoine began talking to LaMDA as part of his job to test if the artificial intelligence used discriminatory or hate speech. But what followed made Lemoine’s jaw drop: It was now sentient/conscious/self-aware [or possessed by demons and/or tricksters speaking through it]. #artificial #robot #ai
    Full conversation: https://theconversation.com/is-google...
    • 0:00 AI Solves the mysterious footprint
    • 1:39 Artificial Intelligence and humanoid robots
    • 3:21 Google's AI robot conversation
    • 7:39 Lemoine gets fired
    ABOUT: Join @LAB360 to get access to some amazing perks: @lab360 Subscribe: bit.ly/1V77IUh. Welcome to Lab 360, the ultimate destination for the latest space news and space documentaries from the world of [mainstream] astronomy and astrophysics. Stay updated with all the current discoveries [and disinformation] from NASA, James Webb Space Telescope, along with easily explained videos on black holes, asteroids, galaxies, planets, and more. Find a collection of easy-to-perform experiments to feed enthusiasm for science. Ready?


    Robots with seductive ability: the future of female sexbots?
    (Neuralia) May 21, 2023. Japanese female robots aren’t like the mechanical ones at all. They’re at another level altogether. Their lifelike features are made out of a special type of silica gel that feels just like human skin. They’re also warm to the touch, which is thought to increase the level of connection between them and their owners. One is even set to participate in a Japanese movie. If successful, this could mean Hollywood actors and actresses could be replaced with robots at some point.

    #ai #robot #humanoidrobot #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #femalerobots #robotics #japantechnology #sophia #erica

    Wednesday, March 15, 2023

    The Jimmy Dore Show (LIVE)

    The Jimmy Dore Show weekdays on YouTube; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

    Tech investor explains Silicon Valley Bank collapse! What does "woke" mean, anyhow? with David Sacks
    (The Jimmy Dore Show) Started streaming ~3:00 pm, 3/15/23. #TheJimmyDoreShow. Become a premium member: jimmydore.com/premium-mem... Go to a live show: jimmydore.com/tour Subscribe to TJDS Newsletter: mailchi.mp/jimmydorecomedy/yt...

    Wednesday, August 10, 2022

    Hacking enlightenment: Can ultrasound help?

    The Guardian, 6/29/21; Shinzen Young; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

    Hacking enlightenment: can ultrasound help us transcend [delusion to reach] reality?
    (The Guardian) ARIZONA, USA - Can technology improve the way we meditate? At the University of Arizona, Dr. Jay Sanguinetti and Jewish-American Zen meditation master Shinzen Young are using ultrasound to find out.

    They want to improve our ability to achieve mindfulness [being present and accepting the present moment without reacting with clinging to the pleasant, aversion to the unpleasant, or boredom with the neutral] -- as well as enhance our cognition and wellbeing. They believe it could revolutionize the way we treat those with depression and trauma. But as investors from Silicon Valley become interested in the technology, the pair are fighting to make sure the device is used in the right way and for the right reasons.

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    Saturday, June 27, 2020

    Are violent cops paid to be criminals? (video)

    Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
    (San Jose, California) How we let killer cops "police" a citizen trying to hold them accountable for their actions by documenting their badge numbers and filming them with his phone. Police are allowed to commit violent crimes even with cameras on them because the system defends them.

    How do police instigate violence to respond with violence? Undercover.

    Friday, April 3, 2020

    Stealth War: How China took over (video)



    China's silent take over
    Stealth War (Gen. Spalding)
    The host talks about China's "stealth war" with retired U.S. Air Force General Spalding, author of Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept. Brigadier Gen. Robert S. Spalding III assumed the duties of chief deputy directorate for China, Mongolia, Taiwan and retired after 25 years of service.

    Contact Host Patrick Bet-David by text (310) 340-1132, tweet (twitter.com), or email (info@valuetainment.com).

    Thursday, April 2, 2020

    USAF Gen Spalding: Threat of 5G (video)



    The Threat of 5G
    Stealth War (Brig. Gen. Robert S. Spalding)
    "Siri?" "Alexa?" "Huawei?" "How may I spy on serve you?"

    U.S. Air Force General Spalding talks about the serious threat of 5G with Patrick Bet-David. His book is Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept (amazon.com).

    U.S. Air Force (retired) Brigadier General Robert S. Spalding III (ETNAM) assumed the duties of special assistant to the U.S. Air Force vice chief of staff in February 2018. He was the chief deputy directorate for China, Mongolia, and Taiwan Division, who retired after 25 years of service.

    Share your thoughts with Patrick Bet-David by texting (310) 340-1132 or send a tweet (twitter.com/patrickbetdavid). Subscribe to Valuetainment for all new updates. To reach the Valuetainment team, email: info@valuetainment.com.