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"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:

On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”: File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”"

medium.com/illumination/ms-wor

#Microsoft #AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #MSWord #Privacy #Word

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That's also really REALLY tricky to pull off.
You can abolish agencies like the DOE and ATF tomorrow and nobody would blink. The FDA and USDA could be stripped of their powers and privatized as "industry groups".

But the FED and IRS are really tricky to abolish because they're the funding arm of the whole beast. The income tax might be possible to replace with something more simple like a VAT (with tariffs helping of course), but can't be abolished easily because there's a national debt to pay down.

Of course there's another path, where they just rug-pull the USD and monetize Bitcoin so their debt vanishes, but again, that means destroying THE ENTIRE WORLD FINANCIAL SYSTEM and probably triggering WW3. It would have to be done very carefully, to say the least.

@SuperSnekFriend We still don't know if Trump is going to follow RFK's advice though. He still hasn't denounced Operation Warpspeed, despite RFK supposedly being anti-vax.

Also, RFK Jr supposedly was caught plagiarizing slogans and talking points from Dr. Shiva, but I have no proof of this as I haven't listened to all of Shiva's talking points. I've only briefly listened to Dr. Shiva and he claimed that RFK steals from him.

@beardalaxy @tomie If it's truly double digits worldwide, then that means that you are more likely to get struck by lightning TWICE than to ever come across a person with XY chromosomes that can get pregnant.

@cjd Ending the fed and income tax is a HUGE promise and even if Trump is truly on our side, I don't see it going down that easily.

But I don't expect much from the guy who started Operation Warpspeed and still won't denounce it.

Will Trump (or any of his cabinet) fulfill any of his promises this time?

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"If you've read "The Strange Story of Peter Thiel," then you'll know all about how this deep state-connected "PayPal Mafia" don rose to financial prominence on the back of his remarkable ability to found companies that either undergird the digital financial infrastructure (PayPal) or act as cutouts for the intelligence agencies (Palantir).

And if you've read "Buying Politicians is Easy," then you'll know all about how Thiel has leveraged his ill-gotten wealth to buy himself real-world political clout. And you'll also know all about how he has wrapped the silicon tentacles of next-gen military contractors like Palantir, Clearview AI, Anduril and other Thiel-founded, Thiel-funded and Thiel-adjacent companies around the globe by signing contracts with foreign militaries.

But after learning all of this, we're still left with some important questions. Namely:

What (beyond the sweet smell of deep state blood money) motivates Peter Thiel?

What ideology does he hew to?

What is his endgame?

In other words: Who is Peter Thiel and what is his real role in the deep state?

Let's find out."
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/peter-thiel-is-a-vampire

@beardalaxy @PurpCat @jeff It probably is one, given the mainstream coverage and fake decentralization.

@djsumdog @WakWak This time it's just replacing some cabinets with AI. Not actually shrinking the government.

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I think most are on Hopium, but cognitive dissonance works too ... it's kinda the generic hopium.
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I don't understand why people think this Trump will be any different. He's going to drain the swamp again and fill it with people from the other part of the same swamp ... just like last time .. Larry Fink anybody?!
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the year is 2024. we've come full circle so hard that a program that uses files on your hard drive is considered revolutionary
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_Webb [JWST] Falsified Dark Matter Prediction – And No One Cares_

Modified Newtonian Dynamics survives the objective evidence; "Dark Matter" does not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AagyRrIm2W0

@d9dba0e072bdb353dfb0020de159126af47e69e133ea91bbd48e8bede37320e2 Never played Tony Hawk, but I remember that being the game that the kids at my school would always talk about.

I'm starting to think that those who claim that the 4th generation of video games was the golden age of gaming were probably right, but I still feel like it's a tie between that and the 6th generation.

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@souldessin @PurpCat I think perpetual energy is still possible. If the Electric Universe theory is proven true we can tap the energy from the electric currents flowing through the universe, thus giving us an infinite supply of electricity.

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A bill filed in the Michigan House would take the first steps toward limiting the impact of any potential future central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the state.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/money/michigan-bill-would-take-first-steps-against-a-cbdc

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