If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Google is facing criticism after users reported that the search engine is refusing to fill in autocomplete results about the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. The search engine giant’s autocomplete system ignored any references to the July 13 event, which has sparked outrage and allegations that Google is manipulating search outcomes favoring the upcoming presidential election. Curiously, the screenshots taken from Google exhibited search suggestions linked to historic events, such as ex-President Ford’s and Ronald Reagan’s unsuccessful assassinations, along with the triggering assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which initiated World War I, and more. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was conspicuously missing. The term “assassination attempt trump” turned up void on Google, according to multiple users’ accounts. Google Search, July 29th 2024. The autosuggest omits references to President Trump. DuckDuckGo Search, July 29th 2024. The autosuggest references President Trump. Brave Search, July 29th 2024. The autosuggest references President Trump. Donald Trump Jr. responded fervently via X, exclaiming, “Big Tech is trying to interfere in the election AGAIN to help Kamala Harris. We all know this is intentional election interference from Google. Truly despicable.” The search engine giant denied any targeted action on their predictive results. A spokesperson stated, “No manual action was exercised on these predictions.” They further elaborated that Google’s systems are designed to filter autocomplete predictions connected to politically violent incidents, which had been functioning exactly as expected before the horrifying act took place. “We are striving to update our systems in order to accommodate such incidents more effectively,” they added. It’s not just Google that is being questioned on its handling of important news. Meta’s AI said that it doesn’t always have up-to-date information and so couldn’t answer the question about President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt but could answer questions related to Vice President Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign which was more recent than the attack on President Trump. As the US presidential election approaches, it’s becoming clear that AI chatbots are steering clear of political discussions and breaking news, showing a hesitance to engage with such topics outside of the basics. Big Tech companies are at the forefront of pushing for an AI revolution, aiming to integrate their AI systems deeply into everyday digital experiences. However, as these AI tools become more embedded in platforms like search engines and social media, their inability to handle politically sensitive content raises important questions about information accessibility and bias. Such omissions could potentially influence public awareness and opinion, particularly in the politically charged environment of an upcoming presidential election. This incident has sparked a broader debate about the role of AI in filtering and shaping political information. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Tech Giants Face Scrutiny As Trump Assassination Attempt is Omitted From Autosuggest and AI appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Shards retrieved from the alchemy laboratory of 16th Century scientific pioneer Tycho Brahe have traces of unexpected elements, not truly discovered for almost two more centuries. This and other elemental traces may give some insight into what Brahe was doing in his basement laboratory, although many questions may never be answered.In an era when science was largely the preserve of a tiny few with the good fortune to be able to devote themselves to study, the boundaries between different fields meant less than today. Tycho Brahe is remembered today as the greatest observational astronomer before the invention of the telescope. The unprecedented precision he achieved in his measurements of planetary positions proved essential to Johannes Kepler’s explanation of planetary motion; which in turn laid the foundations for Newton and missions to other planets. One of the most prominent craters on the Moon is named in his honor for this reason.Brahe was also interested in alchemy. Unlike the more famous alchemists, he did not believe it was possible to turn base metals into gold, instead seeking to use them to cure diseases like plague and syphilis. Mercury, for all its devastating side effects, was the one treatment available for syphilis before penicillin that sometimes worked. Brahe’s cure for the plague was used by his patron, Emperor Rudolph II.Alchemists seeking to make gold were notoriously secretive regarding their methods – they knew the value of their products would crash if everyone else could make them too. Some of this may have rubbed off on Brahe, but secrecy came naturally to him, he nearly derailed his scientific legacy by making Kepler beg for fragments of his astronomical observations.Unsurprisingly, we know little about Brahe’s medicines. What recipes survive include using theriac, a popular medication of the day that included up to 60 ingredients, to which Brahe added even more, after complicated processing.Excavations in 1988-90 at Uraniborg, Brahe’s home, may change this by revealing shards of pottery and glass. The palace was destroyed by royal decree after Brahe’s death in 1601, but he published detailed plans and it is thought these shards are from the basement where he attempted alchemy away from prying eyes.Uraniborg Brahe's palace was both a luxurious home and the world's most advanced astronomical observatory, with an alchemy laboratory in the basement.Image Credit: Public DomainFour glass and one pottery shard have been subjected to chemical analysis. All but one glass shard shows enrichment in nickel, copper, zinc, tin, antimony, tungsten, gold, mercury, and lead relative to background levels, indicating each was used in experiments. Four of these metals are ingredients in Brahe’s surviving recipes, and the others were of interest to alchemists of the day."But tungsten is very mysterious,” said Professor Kaare Lund Rasmusssen of University of Southern Denmark in a statement. “Tungsten had not even been described at that time, so what should we infer from its presence on a shard from Tycho Brahe's alchemy workshop?"It was another 180 years until fellow Scandinavian Carl Wilhelm Scheele described the properties of pure tungsten. Either traces happened to be in the minerals Brahe was using and were caught on the shards, or Brahe was far ahead of his time.The second idea, while exciting, is unprovable. It would also be considered unlikely for most experimenters. However, given what we know of Brahe’s astronomical talents, it would not be completely unexpected if he was also a chemist of rare skill.Moreover, tungsten was not entirely unknown before Scheele. Decades before Brahe, German mineralogist Georgius Agricola reported that tin ores from Saxony contained a mystery ingredient, which he named Wolfram, that made them hard to smelt. That name, meaning Wolf’s froth in German, is the reason tungsten has the chemical symbol W today, to the annoyance of generations of school students and the delight of quiz masters."Maybe Tycho Brahe had heard about this and thus knew of tungsten's existence. But this is not something we know or can say based on the analyses I have done. It is merely a possible theoretical explanation for why we find tungsten in the samples," Lund Rasmussen said.If Brahe was aware of tungsten, we don’t know, and probably never will, whether he got closer to purification than his predecessors. If so, publication of his work might have represented a significant advance for chemistry, short-circuiting the long wait that occurred instead. Given tungsten’s usefulness, for example in making harder steel (and pseudo-lightsabres) it might have led to many practical applications occurring centuries earlier.To Brahe, alchemy and astronomy were not as distinct as they seem to us. In 1588 he wrote a letter in which he claimed associations between each moving heavenly body and a corresponding metal and organ. For example, he linked the Moon, silver and the brain while thinking Venus was connected to copper and the kidneys.Rasmussen has previously analyzed samples of Tycho’s own hairs, indicating he may have consumed his own medicines containing gold, which he associated with the heart and Sun.Blurring the picture further, the elements present on the shards may not have been the result of Brahe’s own work. His sister and brother-in-law were also keen alchemists, and visited Uraniborg frequently. With Brahe’s laboratory possibly the finest in Europe, they may have borrowed it for their own work.The study is open access in Heritage Science.

In 2001, in the Canadian province of Quebec, director William Reeve filmed a documentary called “The Great North,” which focuses on local wildlife. It was only after the film’s release that someone noticed a peculiar creature in one scene, resembling a gorilla or perhaps a yeti. This creature appears for only a few seconds in a scene featuring caribou running along the shore of a pond. In the background, at the center of the frame, a black figure suddenly jumps out, runs for a couple of seconds on bent hind legs, places its forelimbs on the ground, and disappears behind a hillock. From such a distance, it’s difficult to see details, but the front part of the creature’s head and limbs look more like those of a large primate, specifically a gorilla, rather than a bear. It seems that the creature was startled by the large herd of fleeing caribou and sought cover. Initially, it might have attempted to attack the deer but overestimated its capabilities. Naturally, gorillas are not native to Canada, and primates, in general, do not inhabit North America. Additionally, there have been no reports of gorillas escaping from zoos or circuses in Canada. A clip featuring this strange creature was posted on the Internet eight years ago but did not attract much attention until recently, when it went viral. Unfortunately, the film’s director, William Reeve, passed away three years ago. However, he did express his opinion about the creature during his lifetime. He firmly denied the suggestion that it could be a local resident in a fur coat, stating that there was no one in the area except his film crew: “Absolutely not. There weren’t any strangers for hundreds of miles from where we were. It was just us, and we had a very small team of only nine people.” Reeve also dismissed the idea that the figure could be a bear, noting that the area was at the northernmost edge of the bear’s range and that the crew did not spot a single bear during their entire time there. “Furthermore, if a bear were to give chase, it would run on all fours in a horizontal position, but this object appears to be more vertical and seems to be running on two legs.” The post Weird creature spotted in Quebec documentary: Gorilla or Bigfoot? appeared first on Anomalien.com.

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Harris for President is in full swing, the Democrats are getting excited, and we’re getting a good look at where the campaign’s focus is. Whether that focus can win an election, however, is another question entirely. First, Vice President Kamala Harris bedazzled her campaign launch with a get-out-the-vote message recorded on “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” It’s early, with plenty of room for a reboot, but is Harris the politician to pull it off? Then on Thursday night, a two-hour, glitchy Zoom call for “white women for Kamala” began with a poet dressed like beatnik Steve Urkel confronting her privilege. She was followed by a woman who asked, “Are we admitting that we’re white now?” Then the call crashed, and when the campaign got it working again, the pop artist Pink called in from a private jet on the way home from Sweden. Soccer activist Megan Rapinoe showed up, too. Meanwhile on the West Coast, second gentleman Doug Emhoff initially missed the word that President Joe Biden would not be running because, he told a Black Gay and Queer Men for Harris video call, he was out with some gay friends at SoulCycle in West Hollywood. Take what you will from the stories above, but all three point to where Harris and the reconfigured Biden campaign see their political priorities. After weeks of sagging energy and growing dread, these loyal Democrats are eager to get on board with a campaign they think can actually win. Despite numerous crashes, for example, that white women Zoom call raised over $2 million. When you combine 1) the activist push with 2) the news media’s furious effort to rewrite Harris’ history of failures and even her Senate voting record and 3) social-media algorithms pushing a Kamala-is-cool campaign to the kids as hard as possible, you get a formidable boost — but not necessarily a win. You can pump up the vote all day long in California and Massachusetts, but if you’re not moving the needle in Pennsylvania and Michigan, the Rust Belt swing states of “the Blue Wall,” you’re in trouble. The problem this poses to the Harris campaign hasn’t gone unnoticed. “She is stronger among younger voters and voters of color but weaker with older voters and white working-class voters,” Friday morning’s New York Times newsletter noted. “Because swing states are disproportionately old, white, and working-class, Harris is likelier to win the popular vote and lose the election than Biden was.” It will take another week or so to have a clear eye on how Harris’ triumphal reboot will affect polls, but early numbers are putting her a little behind former President Donald Trump — about where her boss was before his debate. If that’s where she ends after the slavish media rollout, the euphoria will begin to fade (and it’s hard to imagine Democrats switching candidates again). It’s early, with plenty of room for a reboot, but is Harris the politician to pull it off? In 2019, GovTrack ranked her to the left of Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (before the site deleted those pages this month). For every video or recording about Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) talking about cat ladies, there are five of Harris talking about defunding the police, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shutting down American energy, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, mandating gun buybacks, and letting the Boston Marathon bomber vote. When you tie it all together, Harris’ Big Gay Rollout starts to look more like a feature than a bug — and the kind of bubble a guy at SoulCycle in West Hollywood might not even notice he’s living in. Splinter: Democrats’ ‘instinct to throw one of their most passionate groups of voters under the bus’ Blaze News: Peter Doocy confronts KJP with evidence of coordinated attempt to protect Kamala Harris from ‘border czar’ record Sign up for Bedford’s newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. The fire rises: The New Criterion: Ghosts of the great The Labour Party is decidedly in charge in the United Kingdom, and not without good reason. Few parties have failed at executing their mandates from the voters quite as effectively as the Conservative Party. But with Labour comes a great danger to one of the kingdom’s great remaining links to its past. From the House of Lords, Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, warns: ... We are surrounded by ghosts in this Chamber, but they are the ghosts of the great. One of the speakers in this debate from the Liberal Benches will be the noble Viscount, Lord Thurso. At a crucial moment for the continued existence of this country, in May 1940, his grandfather, Sir Archibald Sinclair, put party differences to one side to make his old comrade from the trenches, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister. He was Secretary of State for Air during the Battle of Britain. Then, only three months after he left that vital post, his place was taken by Viscount Stansgate, a decorated RAF officer and, of course, the grandfather of our own noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate. Some of the families represented in this House go back to the very founding of our country. The first Duke of Montrose—and we heard that moving statement from the eighth Duke—played a central part in the Act of Union that created the United Kingdom. The greatness and the drama of our national past finds a living embodiment here in this Chamber in a way that does not exist in other Parliaments around the world. Once that link is broken, it cannot be reconstituted. To quote Burke again, “The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists; and calculators has succeeded.” My Lords, I hope that, when the time comes to say farewell to the hereditary Peers, we will do so full of genuine gratitude for the centuries of service that they and their families have given this House and this country.

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