Urtica Ferox

  Yet Another Good Reason for Cancelling Robots As posted on Breitbart: "Facebook users who watched a video from a British newspaper showing black men received an automated prompt from the social media platform  asking  if they wanted to “keep seeing videos about Primates,” according to the  New York Times. " This embarrassing incident just shows how completely inept artificial intelligence is, yet it's rapidly taking over the world, in everything from internet searches to approving bank loans. "Down with the robots", I say. Isaac Asimov saw all this coming back in the 1940s, and Dr Smith had the right idea in the 1960s.  Read more . Harry Wiren

  Is This Misinformation? The Official Covid instructions to New Zealanders for behaviours at Alert Level 3, as at 6 September 2021): The instructions given by the New Zealand Herald , our largest newspaper, at Alert Level 3, as at 6 September 2021): Notice the difference? The official Government statement specifies those areas where “you legally must wear a face covering”, and they don’t say anything about when you are outside. But the New Zealand Herald statement says, “Wear a mask and maintain social distancing of 2m if you go outside”. So there will be people who read one version, marching around the streets with face masks, glaring at those not wearing them, and people not wearing masks thinking mask wearers are virtue-signalling wankers.   What better way to create social division. Harry Wiren