In Switzerland there are calls for the current Swiss President to resign due to a developing insider trading scandal involving Marc Walder , CEO of Ringier AG, and founder of Digital Switzerland
"In July 2014 Ringier announced the sale of 49% shares of the subsidiary Scout24 Switzerland AG to the American investor #KKR. This partnership was the first of its kind in the 180-year company history of Ringier "
"KKR brought in Bob Bellack , co-founder of Cars.com and a renowned international sector expert, as a new member of Scout24 Schweiz’s Board of Directors"
Margaret Atwood has claimed that, according to her grandmother (maiden name Webster), the 17th-century witchcraft-lynching survivor Mary Webster might have been an ancestor:..
Webster is the subject of Atwood's poem "Half-Hanged Mary", as well as the subject of Atwood's dedication in her novel The Handmaid's Tale ..
"In The Handmaid's Tale, Gilead is the totalitarian, patriarchal theocracy that replaced the United States, established by a fundamentalist group called the Sons of Jacob after a coup. "
Unlike Palantir's explicit defense focus, DeepMind faces internal friction. Some workers have voted to unionize to block DeepMind models from being used in military or sovereign defense contracts. 🤔
Demis Hassabis , Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, has explicitly backed Google’s shift toward national security and military partnerships. This represents a significant reversal from his previous stance when DeepMind was acquired by Google.
"The intellectual arc of William Sims Bainbridge’s career confirms that his studies of 20thC religious cults & his 21st-century engineering of digital architectures are part of the exact same continuity: the systematic mapping, prediction, & control of collective human behavior.
There is a direct chronological and thematic intersection between the concepts in William Sims Bainbridge’s eGods: Faith versus Fantasy in Computer Gaming (published in 2013) and the Gamergate controversy, which erupted just one year later in 2014. 🤔