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USE MUSIC TO TEACH – MUSIC MAKES YOU SMARTER
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Music Makes You Smart: BENEFITS ON TEACHING MUSIC TO CHILDREN: MUSIC AND BRAIN RESEARCH
“Music is Language and Language is Music” ~ Karen Ellis
BITCOIN
10-25-2021 3:57PM 1 BITCOIN = $62,964.00 USD
Centralizing a nation’s money- placing it all in the hands of private bankers and elite wealthy families- is deleterious to any country; For allowing any centralized power to enact control over a population through inflation and deflation enslaves them in perpetuity.
Twitter is testing Android #Bitcoin Lightning tipping
Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency whose transactions are recorded in a public blockchain ledger.
Hacking bitcoin wallets with quantum computers could happen – but cryptographers are racing to build a workaround.
Quantum Hacking: Hacking Bitcoin Wallets with Quantum Computer
Quantum computing can have a direct impact on blockchains. Within a decade, quantum computers could be powerful enough to break the cryptographic security that protects cell phones, bank accounts, email addresses, and also bitcoin wallets.
Fred Thiel, CEO of cryptocurrency mining specialist Marathon Digital Holdings said “If you had a quantum computer today, and you were a state sponsor for example China, most probably in about eight years, you could crack wallets on the blockchain”.
BANKSTERS
“The China ban also demonstrates the resiliency of the bitcoin mining network. As long as there’s one computer running bitcoin, bitcoin won’t die, so we’ve effectively created this new lifeform that’s going to far outlast all of us, and probably humanity.” — Nick Hansen
Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow Says U.S. Third Quarter Growth Was Almost Nil at 0.5
Percent; Wall Street Economists Are Forecasting Over 3 Percent
Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 25, 2021 ~
This coming Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m., the Department of Commerce’s
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will release its advance estimate for U.S.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the third quarter. Some folks are going to
have a lot of egg on their face at 8:31 a.m.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/atlanta-feds-gdpnow-says-u-s-third-quarter-growth-was-almost-nil-at-0-5-percent-wall-street-economists-are-forecasting-over-3-percent/
The Fed Is Subsidizing the Money Market Funds Operated by Larry Fink’s
BlackRock as BlackRock Manages a Big Part of Jerome Powell’s Wealth
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/the-fed-is-subsidizing-the-money-market-funds-operated-by-larry-finks-blackrock-funds-as-blackrock-manages-a-big-part-of-jerome-powells-wealth/
A Forensic Look at Jerome Powell’s “Pants on Fire” Explanation for His
$1 Million to $5 Million Stock Sale
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/a-forensic-look-at-jerome-powells-pants-on-fire-explanation-for-his-1-million-to-5-million-stock-sale/
Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow Says U.S. Third Quarter Growth Was Almost Nil at 0.5
Percent; Wall Street Economists Are Forecasting Over 3 Percent
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/10/atlanta-feds-gdpnow-says-u-s-third-quarter-growth-was-almost-nil-at-0-5-percent-wall-street-economists-are-forecasting-over-3-percent/
LEGAL
Google worked with Facebook to undermine Apple’s attempts to offer its users greater privacy protections, complaint alleges. “Google worked with Facebook to undermine Apple’s attempts to offer its users great privacy protections, 12 state attorneys general alleged in an update to an antitrust lawsuit against the search engine.”
Real Lawyers Have Blogs: Record of Legal Blogs Represents a National Archive of Our Law. “We’ve been stewing over an archive of legal blogs at LexBlog for a long time. Goes back to the early days of LexMonitor and to the current LexBlog.com site. Ratcheting things up, LexBlog is now backing the Open Legal Blog Archive, a database of all credible blog posts, worldwide, that will be both open and syndicated to various portals, worldwide. Legal information – and the law maintained in an open fashion for our society.”
NPR: White House delays the release of secret JFK assassination records, citing COVID-19. “The White House has announced that a trove of remaining records concerning the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy will not be released as planned, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Poynter: How the ICIJ made sense of 11.9 million documents to publish the Pandora Papers. “In early October, the group premiered its latest investigation: the Pandora Papers, a look at the world of offshore finance and the people — and countries — who suffer when illicit money goes offshore. More than 11.9 million financial records were secured in the Pandora Papers. Ensuing stories took readers behind the scenes of a financial company in South Dakota with international clients and an Ohio nursing home — the organizations and the humans behind the data. Journalists say the documents are just part of the reporting process. That’s where the journey begins.”
TECH
Creative Commons: The 2021 CC Global Summit Keynotes Are Here!. “We have exciting news…we published the keynotes from the 2021 CC Global Summit! Alongside the 170+ sessions that took place at this year’s virtual event, we hosted five keynotes from global leaders in the open movement, who shared their work in open data, science and health, software and law. We’re excited to share these recordings of the keynotes with you today!”
Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser
The Chromium team has finally done it – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support is not just deprecated, but stripped from the codebase in the latest stable build of the Chrome browser, version 95.
China: The patriotic ‘ziganwu’ bloggers who attack the West. “Guyanmuchan is among a new crop of bloggers known as the ‘ziganwu’, whose rise in fame on Chinese social media has been inextricably linked with the ascendancy of Chinese nationalism. Their name refers to the infamous ‘wumao’ army of trolls who are paid to spread state propaganda – but the difference is that the ‘ziganwu’ do it for free.”
KILL FACEBOOK
facebook is zucked it’s business model is dead – they are changing their name to rebrand and become a metaverse company instead – so do not get fooled into thinking something will be better about it – they are the just the same as as they were before in real life.
Facebook’s Internal Chat Boards Show Politics Often at Center of Decision Making. “Many Republicans, from Mr. Trump down, say Facebook discriminates against conservatives. The documents reviewed by the Journal didn’t render a verdict on whether bias influences its decisions overall. They do show that employees and their bosses have hotly debated whether and how to restrain right-wing publishers, with more-senior employees often providing a check on agitation from the rank and file. The documents viewed by the Journal, which don’t capture all of the employee messaging, didn’t mention equivalent debates over left-wing publications. Other documents also reveal that Facebook’s management team has been so intently focused on avoiding charges of bias that it regularly places political considerations at the center of its decision making.”
Washington Post: New whistleblower claims Facebook allowed hate, illegal activity to go unchecked. “A new whistleblower affidavit submitted by a former Facebook employee Friday alleges that the company prizes growth and profits over combating hate speech, misinformation and other threats to the public, according to a copy of the document obtained by The Washington Post.”
Associated Press: The Facebook Papers. “COMING MONDAY: The Facebook Papers represents a unique collaboration between 17 American news organizations, including The Associated Press. Journalists from a variety of newsrooms, large and small, worked together to gain access to thousands of pages of internal company documents obtained by Frances Haugen, the former Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower.”
Facebook sues Ukrainian hacker for selling millions of users’ data. “Facebook is suing a Ukrainian national suspected of scraping and selling information from 178 million users on the platform in 2018-2019, according to American publication Insider. According to the court documents, the hacker accessed and sold user IDs and phone numbers, violating the terms of service of Facebook.”
Politico: Facebook lobbying surges to $5M amid whistleblower uproar. “The $5.1 million spree outpaces the company’s big tech peers Google, Amazon and Microsoft. In fact, the only entities that outspent Facebook on lobbying for the quarter were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Realtors, Business Roundtable and the drug lobby PhRMA, according to disclosures filed late Wednesday.” That’s for a quarter of the year. A quarter.
KIDS HATE DISGUSTING Facebook “Internal documents show that the number of US Facebook users under 30 is in decline and that Instagram, which has been phenomenally popular since being bought by Facebook in 2012 for $1bn, appears to be reaching the limits of its growth among younger users.
Mashable: Twitter study says its algorithm favors right-wing parties and news outlets.
TikTock Eating Disorders and Social Media Prove Difficult to Untangle. “On Tuesday, executives from YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat are scheduled to testify before a Senate subcommittee about the effects of their products on children. They are expected to face questions about how they moderate content that might encourage disordered eating, and how their algorithms might promote such content.”
Wired: New Sex Toy Standards Let Some Sensitive Details Slide. “Security researchers who specialize in sex toys have been pointing out the potential risks of ‘teledildonics’ for years. To them, the new ISO standards—which don’t address privacy and barely touch on security—are something of a missed opportunity.”
Sinclair Broadcast hack linked to notorious Russian cybergang
Bloomberg ($): Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the biggest broadcasters in the U.S., was hit by ransomware, forcing it offline for the best part of a week. The company was hit by the Macaw ransomware, believed to be a new strain of the WastedLocker ransomware developed by Evil Corp., a Russian cybercrime group that was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2019. Sanctions make it difficult for victims to pay the ransom (if they choose to), since U.S. companies aren’t allowed to transact with them. Sinclair is one of two companies hit by Macaw this week, the second is Olympus’ Americas
Social media is a threat to democracy