CLEARVIEW AI / SMARTCHECKR:
Clearview AI (formerly known as Smartcheckr) facial recognition software is now being used by the US military:
https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-us-army-cid-criminal-command-tech-2021-8
As of 2020, Clearview claimed to work with over 600 law enforcement agencies:
https://thenextweb.com/news/facial-recognition-company-ceo-says-he-doesnt-need-permission-to-use-your-face
...including the FBI and Interpol:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement
The software works by scraping photos en masse from public social media.
The company was founded by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, who met at the Manhattan Institute. Schwartz is a Columbia University alumnus and was former aid to Rudy Guliani, Trump's personal attorney. Ton-That is a hacker who comes from the royal Vietnamese dynastic Nguyen family.
The Manhattan Institute was founded by William Casey, director of the CIA, and Antony Fisher, founder of free-market think tanks, such as the Atlas Network and Institute of Economic Affairs ("the UK's most influential thinktank"). Fisher was also linked to the Fabian Society's London School of Economics.
Clearview AI is funded by Peter Thiel, who was the first outside investor in Facebook and co-founder of PayPal. He also co-founded Palantir, an AI corporation that is used by US intelligence agencies and the DoD. According to General Mattis "[Palantir] came up with ground breaking technologies that help us make better decisions in combat zones. You are giving us advantages right now that we need." [Source: Palantir website]. Thiel also funded the cryptocurrency startup of Moldbug / Curtis Yarvin, 'Tlon.'
"In 2017, Peter gave a talented young founder $200,000, which two years later converted to equity in Clearview AI"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
According to Time magazine, Clearview was also secretly cofounded by "far-right" figure Chuck Johnson, an associate of Moldbug, who also started a bunch of crowd-funding websites to collect money for people like Richard Spencer and Tommy Robinson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/technology/clearview-facial-recognition-ai.html
Another Clearview guy and Thiel associate, Jeff Giesea, advised people to fund Alt-Right organizations using PayPal in 2016:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160430140506/https://pastebin.com/FDSLKrHc
PayPal (again, co-founded by Thiel) is now officially partnered with the ADL, and is using private user transaction data to map "hate networks" and identify wrongthinkers: "The intelligence gathered through this research initiative will be shared broadly across the financial industry and with policymakers and law enforcement."
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/paypal-partners-with-adl-to-fight-extremism-and-protect-marginalized
According to "ex-white supremacist" Katie McHugh -- who was conveniently in the right place at the right time to witness and report on many Alt-Right shenanigans -- Johnson stated that Clearview's purpose was to “identify every illegal alien in the country.”
https://gizmodo.com/creepy-face-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-sure-has-a-lo-1842740604
“He told me they had a way to identify every illegal alien in the country [...] He brought up facial recognition technology and demanded I call Stephen Miller because he knew Stephen Miller was a true believer.” - McHugh
Various "racists" and "anti-semites" have worked for Clearview. For example, Ricky Vaughn aka Douglass Mackey was a contract consultant for Clearview. He advertised the tool to Paul Nehlen, who supposedly planned to use the it for "opposition research." Clearview supposedly fired Ricky after he was doxed by Nehlen due to a disagreement over Clearview (Nehlen claimed Vaughn did not provide the services promised).
Also, Clearview's lawyer, Tor Ekeland, represented Weev:
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/the-trolls-lawyer/
Tell me there's nothing weird going on here.
Clearview AI (formerly known as Smartcheckr) facial recognition software is now being used by the US military:
https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-us-army-cid-criminal-command-tech-2021-8
As of 2020, Clearview claimed to work with over 600 law enforcement agencies:
https://thenextweb.com/news/facial-recognition-company-ceo-says-he-doesnt-need-permission-to-use-your-face
...including the FBI and Interpol:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-law-enforcement
The software works by scraping photos en masse from public social media.
The company was founded by Hoan Ton-That and Richard Schwartz, who met at the Manhattan Institute. Schwartz is a Columbia University alumnus and was former aid to Rudy Guliani, Trump's personal attorney. Ton-That is a hacker who comes from the royal Vietnamese dynastic Nguyen family.
The Manhattan Institute was founded by William Casey, director of the CIA, and Antony Fisher, founder of free-market think tanks, such as the Atlas Network and Institute of Economic Affairs ("the UK's most influential thinktank"). Fisher was also linked to the Fabian Society's London School of Economics.
Clearview AI is funded by Peter Thiel, who was the first outside investor in Facebook and co-founder of PayPal. He also co-founded Palantir, an AI corporation that is used by US intelligence agencies and the DoD. According to General Mattis "[Palantir] came up with ground breaking technologies that help us make better decisions in combat zones. You are giving us advantages right now that we need." [Source: Palantir website]. Thiel also funded the cryptocurrency startup of Moldbug / Curtis Yarvin, 'Tlon.'
"In 2017, Peter gave a talented young founder $200,000, which two years later converted to equity in Clearview AI"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
According to Time magazine, Clearview was also secretly cofounded by "far-right" figure Chuck Johnson, an associate of Moldbug, who also started a bunch of crowd-funding websites to collect money for people like Richard Spencer and Tommy Robinson.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/technology/clearview-facial-recognition-ai.html
Another Clearview guy and Thiel associate, Jeff Giesea, advised people to fund Alt-Right organizations using PayPal in 2016:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160430140506/https://pastebin.com/FDSLKrHc
PayPal (again, co-founded by Thiel) is now officially partnered with the ADL, and is using private user transaction data to map "hate networks" and identify wrongthinkers: "The intelligence gathered through this research initiative will be shared broadly across the financial industry and with policymakers and law enforcement."
https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/paypal-partners-with-adl-to-fight-extremism-and-protect-marginalized
According to "ex-white supremacist" Katie McHugh -- who was conveniently in the right place at the right time to witness and report on many Alt-Right shenanigans -- Johnson stated that Clearview's purpose was to “identify every illegal alien in the country.”
https://gizmodo.com/creepy-face-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-sure-has-a-lo-1842740604
“He told me they had a way to identify every illegal alien in the country [...] He brought up facial recognition technology and demanded I call Stephen Miller because he knew Stephen Miller was a true believer.” - McHugh
Various "racists" and "anti-semites" have worked for Clearview. For example, Ricky Vaughn aka Douglass Mackey was a contract consultant for Clearview. He advertised the tool to Paul Nehlen, who supposedly planned to use the it for "opposition research." Clearview supposedly fired Ricky after he was doxed by Nehlen due to a disagreement over Clearview (Nehlen claimed Vaughn did not provide the services promised).
Also, Clearview's lawyer, Tor Ekeland, represented Weev:
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/the-trolls-lawyer/
Tell me there's nothing weird going on here.
Business Insider
The US Army is using a controversial facial-recognition technology that uses images from social media to identify people, documents…
Documents from a public-records request show facial-recognition company Clearview AI making bold claims to the military about its capabilities.
I am not trying to present a narrative here, but these are the facts and this is all of the info I found while reading up on the topic.
My question is: What the fuck is going on here? If you have answers, you know where to find me (Twitter, protonmail, etc.)
My question is: What the fuck is going on here? If you have answers, you know where to find me (Twitter, protonmail, etc.)
Admixture analysis showing difference between modern European and Middle Eastern races. The map shows where the ancient source populations originally resided (9000 hours ms paint).
Anatolians contributed significant ancestry to both modern Europeans and Middle Easterners, equal to a parent or grandparent, on average.
Both races also share Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer ancestry equivalent to that of a great- or great-great-grandparent.
The Indo-Iranian invasions of the Middle East brought a small amount of Eastern European Hunter-Gatherer ancestry into the region.
WHG ancestry is under-represented in Europeans because EHG is already 25% WHG.
Anatolians contributed significant ancestry to both modern Europeans and Middle Easterners, equal to a parent or grandparent, on average.
Both races also share Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer ancestry equivalent to that of a great- or great-great-grandparent.
The Indo-Iranian invasions of the Middle East brought a small amount of Eastern European Hunter-Gatherer ancestry into the region.
WHG ancestry is under-represented in Europeans because EHG is already 25% WHG.
Faces & genetics of ancient Europe — some thing I made some time ago but scrapped it cos I didn't think it was very good but maybe someone will like it.
It shows map of migration/history, forensic facial reconstructions, and closest living relatives of Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age Europeans
HD: https://i.imgur.com/oJnh2Dj.jpg
It shows map of migration/history, forensic facial reconstructions, and closest living relatives of Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age Europeans
HD: https://i.imgur.com/oJnh2Dj.jpg
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I have been working with the epic heavy metal artist Christian Sloan Hall again, this time to produce some artwork of Western Steppe Herders for my upcoming video on the Yamnaya people. It is hard to reconstruct eneolithic people of the steppe due to lack of evidence for much of their material culture, but we did our best and drew on many sources to try and get it right. Now I shall explain why he depicted them this way....
Good post from Morgoth on Extinction Rebellion: https://xn--r1a.website/MorgothsReview/1520?single
I'd also add that Extinction Rebellion was almost certainly founded by MI5 or some other spook organization.
It may have been founded by the UK military, since some leading XR figures have military links. The UK military has a specific psyops division that I recently learned was spearheading the UK's COVID propaganda: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-30-uk-information-operations-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/
Many of XR's leading figures have been involved with the United Nations' Agenda 21 project for decades, working on "Digital Inclusion", Digital Society, 5G, and so on. See this youtube video for more info
I'd also add that Extinction Rebellion was almost certainly founded by MI5 or some other spook organization.
It may have been founded by the UK military, since some leading XR figures have military links. The UK military has a specific psyops division that I recently learned was spearheading the UK's COVID propaganda: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-09-30-uk-information-operations-in-the-time-of-coronavirus/
Many of XR's leading figures have been involved with the United Nations' Agenda 21 project for decades, working on "Digital Inclusion", Digital Society, 5G, and so on. See this youtube video for more info
“Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.”
- Sir Roger Scruton
(via https://twitter.com/oldstocky/status/1430910802769453058/)
- Sir Roger Scruton
(via https://twitter.com/oldstocky/status/1430910802769453058/)