#question
More images have already been generated by artificial intelligence than have ever been taken by cameras. š¤
#ai #technology #humanity #culture #civilization #artwork #art #image #creativity #future #question #society
Hackers Behind the Change #Healthcare #Ransomware #Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/alphv-change-healthcare-ransomware-payment/
I wonder if this is not the breaking point of our system? When well-educated people prefer to develop ransomware instead of working for the common good because the system doesn't offer them better prospects.
#technology #news #security #cybercrime #internet #society #system #question #capitalism #future #problem #economy #finance #hack #Hackers #money
#Reincarnation and #Karma | Order of #Bards, #Ovates & #Druids
by Dr Renata Bartoli
Itās not possible to give a date when the concept of reincarnation first appeared among human beliefs because it seems to be as old as humankind itself and it is present in cultures all over the #world.
Its first manifestation seems to be in Shamanism. From it the belief in rebirth has passed into all major religions that have developed on earth, accompanying and influencing them throughout their evolution.
Reincarnation though transcends the limits of specific, codified religious systems. Nowadays, in a more and more secularised Western society, it is science that enjoys respect and credibility, while traditional religions are constantly losing public interest: in fact, people are in search of a more direct and less structured spirituality. In this climate, interest in reincarnation is not fading but growing and this ancient, primordial belief is now receiving validation and support by just those very scientific milieux that ā traditionally ā have always been the antagonists of religions. I say āprimordial beliefā because looking back to the entire history of human thought, reincarnation is actually the only worldwide concept that has shown continuity and permanence from our origins to the present day.
Eastern religions are well known to hold the concept of rebirth at the very core of their teachings. What is less known is that reincarnation has also always been present in monotheistic faiths and philosophical systems of Western and Middle Eastern societies.
In classical Greece Plato, Diogenes and Pythagoras spoke of reincarnation and past life regressions.
The #Ancient Jews believed that Abel had reincarnated into #Moses, and in the Middle Ages reincarnation appears in the esoteric teaching of #Kabbalah, developed further in later times by the Hassidic movement.
The concept of Karma was introduced to Latin Rome by Ennius, after being imported from the newly conquered Eastern territories, and #Virgil describes reincarnation in his #poems.Medieval Islam was also familiar with the concept of rebirth, and the Persian Sufis have preserved this belief up to the present day. The #Quran itself explains the law of Karma.
What about Christianity? Reincarnation was an integral part of the beliefs of early Christians and there are references to it even in the teachings of Jesus himself. However everything changed in #325 AD when, at the #Council of #Nicaea, reincarnation was condemned as #heretical. The fact is that this council was called in times of great turmoil and insecurity and its decisions were dictated by political needs and not by spiritual considerations; in fact the Council was requested by #Constantine, the emperor of the Eastern #Roman #Empire, and it marked a crucial political turning point in the fate of what would later become Europe as we know it today.
At that time the old empire was disintegrating under the pressure of nomadic peoples coming from the East, bringing with them a completely new and unknown civilisation. Constantine was the head of this vanishing empire and he was desperate to maintain an order which was faltering in the face of the advancement of the chaos brought by them. To do so he needed absolute power and absolute obedience and to obtain them both he needed very strict laws, able to keep order within the threatened boundaries. In such a situation #people were supposed to #obey #without #question, and no challenge to his #authority or the status quo was tolerated.
Reincarnation states that we incarnate over and over again, experiencing all sorts of human conditions, and that someone who had been a king in the past could be reborn as a tramp and vice versa. The precariousness and transitoriness of social status that it taught certainly sounded very subversive to a frightened monarch, and didnāt hold any appeal for him. Constantine used a heavy hand to #eradicate it. He banned it as he did all other ideas or beliefs he felt threatened by, and he didnāt hesitate to #execute their #supporters, mercilessly silencing any opposition.
In spite of all this the idea of #rebirth has never been extirpated and today ā although the traditional religious systems are in crisis throughout the entire Western civilisation ā the belief in reincarnation is growing steadily both in Europe and the USA, as the statistics of the last twenty years show.
Snowden even more so
ā² anonymiss - 2024-03-02 02:56:54 GMT
#assange #question #crime #ethics #law #government #politics #war #collateralmurder #world #freedom #democracy #wikileaks
When people find out that you were in the #CIA, the first question is always: "How many people did you #kill?", nobody asks: "How many people did you rescue?".
#quote #intelligence #politics #mission #USA #torture #blacksite #question
Is a dirty #peace better than a moral #war?
Context: Every war that is currently being waged on this planet.
#question #philosophy #moral #ethics #military #politics #crisis #terror #conflict #victim #collateraldamage #destruction #civilization #future #humanity #humanrights
Is A.I. the Death of I.P.?
Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional #copyright #system.
People loved the A.I.-generated version of #JohnnyCash singing a #TaylorSwift #song, which was posted online last year by a person in Texas named Dustin Ballard. But who owns it? Could Taylor Swift sue? Probably not, since itās a cover. Does the Cash estate have an ownership claim? Not necessarily, since you canāt copyright a style or a voice. Dustin Ballard? He neither composed nor performed the song. No one? Does it belong to all the world?
#AI #Technology #law #economy #question #future #news #problem #creativity #music #internet #justice #innovation #software
This raises the #question of whether Google's search results reflect #reality or whether they have been distorted for reasons of #diversity?
#Google #AI: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/gemini-has-a-problem/
One of the key leaders of #EncroChat extradited to #France with the support of #Eurojust
source: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/one-key-leaders-encrochat-extradited-france-support-eurojust
... supplying or transferring a cryptologic device without integrity control or prior declaration to the authorities.
Did you know that a cryptographic device could be illegal? Doesn't that apply to almost every good messenger that you can easily download?
#cybercrime #crime #justice #question #problem #cryptowars #encryption #EU #news #law
Due to a recent password misadventure I briefly switched pods and noticed that a lot of user's profile pics (specifically) are different from the other pod's view. In some cases users who appear to have no profile pic set on my original pod do have one visible elsewhere. This leads me to believe that there's some kind of issue on my end. Is there a cache I can purge or something like that to have profile pics re-imported from their originating pods?