CSN EP-51 News Bite (Book of Giants-WEF says future employers will read your mind)

What is up everyone? Thanks for joining me Mixed Strange for your Crazy Strange News Episode fifty one News Bite for the Day. What do we got for you? The Book of Giants describes how Nephelim lived on Earth. The Qualmran Caves, located near the Dead Sea in Israel, were indeed the site of a remarkable archaeological discovery in the forties and fifties. That's nineteen forties and nineteen fifties, folks. The excavation yielded a vast collection of ancient Jewish text sorry, I have a lozenger in my throat, pardon. Collectively known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. These scrolls include various biblical texts, sectarian writings, and other works that were highly significant to the Jewish community of the time. The Book of Giants, or more precisely, the Book of Giants Fragments, is one of the texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. However, it is important to note that the book is fragmented and large portions of it are missing or damaged, which makes it difficult to fully interpret its contents. Additionally, it is written in Aramaic, an ancient Semitic language. The Book of Giants literally speaks of fallen angels, human sins, and the punishment that the giants rest received as a result. It mentions the existence of the Nephilim, who are described as the offspring of angels called the Watchers and human women. The book describes how the Nephilum lived on Earth, suggesting that they were a mighty and fearsome race. They were said to be giant like in stature, being notably taller and stronger than ordinary humans. They possessed exceptional abilities and capabilities, both physically and intellectually. The Book of Giants accounts that the Nephilum introduced war, violence, corruption, and all those good things to humanity. They also taught humans forbidden practices such as magic, divination, and sorcery. They were said to have consumed the flesh and blood of their fellow humans, engaging in cannibalistic practices. However, the Book of Giants also portrays the Nephilim as destructive and morally corrupt beings. Their reign on Earth is described as a time of great chaos, violence and lawlessness. Now, the Nephilim, along with their human allies, oppressed and enslaved humanity, causing widespread suffering and distress. The book also introduces the very known legendary character Noah, who plays a prominent role in other ancient Jewish texts, such as the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. The narrative of the Book of Giants ties in with the biblical flood story, in which the wickedness of the Nephilim and other nefarious entiy tees led God to cleanse the earth, leaving Noah as the beacon of hope for humanity. So a lot of this is, I guess, loosely pretty much on But like a lot of people believe that Noah was spared not because he was like a righteous man or the only remaining, you know, god fearing example on earth. Some suggest that his DNA was the most clean and closest to you know, atoms, and that everybody else in one way or another was either just like really wicked, or because you know, the story goes, he wanted to wipe everyone out, but so that the bloodlines were so corrupt because of the two hundred that fell. Sons of God, you know, came into the daughters of man and created the Nephelom and all these things and corrupted the DNA in God's you know, you know, the whole of God's creation. So that's kind of I kind of believe that as well. So the Book of Giants, shrouded in mystery and fragmentary and nature, offers us a glimpse into a forgotten era. Its existence within the Dead Sea Scrolls showcase the rich tapestry of ancient Jewish history. It provides a deeper understanding of the interplay between mythology and theology and perhaps a lost history. So if you ever, if you really would like to learn more about Nephalom and the two high hundred that fell to Mount Herman, and you know, all the tribes and the genealogy. I believe there was over two hundred try or no, excuse me, twenty tribes of Giants. You should probably check out Gary Wayne if you've not, he's like pretty much he's a rock star right now, especially this field. He's broken the genealogy, the bloodlines down even kind of possibly into modern times, which is an interesting set of theories. But everything that he it's either books related to kind of like companions to the Bible, you know, Book of Enoch, things like this. He does a deep dive. I mean, some of these books are so rare as far as just being print maybe not the age, but the age of you know, it's antiquity and translated through the ages. They're like two thousand dollars, two hundred bucks, five hundred bucks, just these companion series that a lot of people don't get their hands on. But so Gary Wayne has written a book called The Genesis six Conspiracy, and I've just like literally the other day, picked it up and started reading it. I just started. So I can't give you a breakdown on it, but I've heard enough of his interviews and he's like, like I said, he's all over right now. He's pushing the second book. He's making it. I'm making everybody aware that he's got a second book out. He's going to go as far as four I guess, and and he's got some other projects that he wants to do. But he's he's a heck of a scholar man, and he's got like total recall. He can recall just any you fire a question at this guy. It's his mind's like a steel trap and he's rapid fire man. So he's done his homework. He understands the subject, matter, and it's it's truly amazing, you know. I it's staggering. So you should really probably check that out or catch him on some of these podcasts. He's all over. Go to your favorite podcatcher and type in Gary Wayne and do a search. He's everywhere, so very interesting. All right, we're gonna move along. It's we're gonna change, change it up a little bit. I apologize for saying so much. So on we go. Duke professor welcomes the promising future of employer employeers reading your brain. Surveillance for productivity is part of what has become the norm in the workplace, and maybe with good reason. Are you ready for brain transparency? That's the question posed in a lecture given by Duke University Professor Nita Pharaoh farah Hani at this year's annual meeting of the World Economic Form in Davos, Switzerland. My favorite people wef in the party in Davos, and she's she doesn't mean your head looking like one of those see through fish at the bottom of the ocean. Instead, Farahani, a high profile scholar and legal ethicist focused on emerging tech, rather gullibly or excuse me, glibly, predicts a future in which corps, os and governments we'll be able to read your mind. In fact, that technology will be given the ability to decode brainwave activity, and that it's already here. These are her claims. So not talking about implanted devices of the future, she tells her audience, I'm talking about wearable devices that are like fitbits for your brain that can pick up your mind's emotional states, simple shapes you may be thinking of, or even faces. Farah Hawni adds though, that we can't literally decode complex thoughts just yet. I mean, although she's obviously wishing for this, I mean this is where she's a you know, transhumanism boy. Excuse me. To illustrate her vision for the tech, she invokes a tragic vehicular accident caused by a trucker falling asleep at the wheel. If only he were wearing a fancy hat with embedded electrode sensors that tells his employer, on a scale of one through five how alert he was, they could have avoided an accident that was disastrous for the company and cost many lives. Of course, that's that's their priorities. Note the order of priorities. Disastrous for the company and then secondary cost many lives. So that's that's a wef in a nutshell for you. It's all about control, all right, which is why in five thousand companies across the world, employees are already having their brain wave activity monitored to test for the fatigue levels. Again, my position on technology is it's very hopeful and use the right way it's beneficial. Use the wrong way, then it's a world to hurt for us little people. She also cites mining operations, including one of the biggest mining companies in the world, that have their employees wear hard hat and baseball cap like devices that detect fatigue. No mention, of course, of elevating the conditions that lead to over fatigued workers in the first place, A true dad. But never mind safety, she quickly pivots into the all important metric of productivity. Surveillance for productivity is part of what has become the norm in the workplace, and maybe with good reason, she says, citing a survey that found nine out of ten employployees admitted to the cardinal sin of wasting at least sometime at work each day. Ample justification for the growing ambiguity of bossware a type of software that's typically used to surveil what employees, especially those that work from home, do on their computers and don't worry. The tech to monitor employees' thoughts already exists, she notes, like EarPods that purport to detect if an employee's mind is wandering, and can even distinguish between the types of tasks they're focused on doing work versus idly browsing the web. Fara Haunte believes the optimal path forward is a responsive workplace where humans, robots, and AI work seamlessly together. I suspect there's going to be more robots and more AI work in these jobs than humans because you're to be at home everything will You will own nothing and be happy. That's you know, that's what her and her bosses want for the rest of you. So, you know, idle hands and all that. But I digress. An example she includes Penn State researchers who created an Overlord robot AI that can monitor stress levels via brain waves and other metrics in a worker and calibrate the rate they assign them more tasks. Done well, neuro technology has extraordinary promise. Done poorly, it could become the most oppressive technology. We've ever introduced a wild wide scale across society. We still have the chance to make it right. She acknowledges that it also has a dystopian possibility. Everything about the reef is about dystopia. It's total dystopia. Nineteen eighty four is pretty much all the weight in effect. Excuse me, it's already here. Just it's crazy. But we can make a choice to use it well, she proclaims, we can make a choice to have it be something that empowers individuals. Her enthusiasm for this nightmarish tech is off putting but befitting of an economic form. I like this writer. We're on the same page. Yet, perhaps the most sinister thing Farahani presents us with is a false dichotomy, as if our only choices are between employers using brain moditoring technology in an evil way and employers using it in a good way that empowers individuals. If employees get to choose to opt into using evasive brain tech to hold themselves more accountable, rather than their employer formally require them to, then the ethical dilemma is averted. But if employees don't get to make those decisions for themselves, now what makes her think that they will be able to in the future. Ultimately, her rhetoric and the overweeningly presented dichotomies serve to placate us into accepting a future where the wide spread use of increasingly evasive surveillance devices is the norm. They accept it now with naive and vague promises of accountability, and we can avoid a dystopian future. The choice doesn't matter. All that matters is that you're willing to embrace the technology one way or another. And we were talking either last show or the show before. You know what, we've been discussing a lot about AI, but what about and we talked about these tiny quarter size half a quarter size and like a quarter of a dollar, you know, the US quarter of a dollar, the coin. These robots one is half that size and one is just like two thirds the size. They're little bug robots. So once we get this down, you're going to have a housefly looks like a house flies zipping around your house and then you're probably being surveilled, right, And that's kind of a thing that they're not stopping. Innovation's great, but humans tend to use it for you know, nefarious purposes and there's a number of reasons for it, you know, wealth, power, information. You get where I'm going. So we're going to continue and then we'll wrap it up. I'm sorry I keep interrupting, but anytime I come across the WF, the World Economic Form in anyone or speakers, I you know, you know the people that are in the club, not like Argentina's president who you know basically gave him the double barreled middle finger. Love that guy and what he did there, But you know, the crownies just kill me, kill me man. We're uselessly Okay, I'm sorry I tend to rant. Of course, she's not addressing the working class masses here, but a highly select group of business people, investors, economists, and world leaders who will want to make that choice for you, and whether through their own mouths or carefully orchestrated marketing, it'll likely be sold to you using the same rhetoric used here. Better to recognize it now in the hopes of one day making a third choice for ourselves. Kudos to this guy. Kudos well, said franklanymore over at futurism dot com. Yep, spot On couldn't agree more so. I know I talked. There was a little too much common and terry on this news bite episode, but WF always lights me up, So thanks for joining me. I appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed it. Please five star, rate and review, and subscribe and share this, Share the show with your with your boys, your friends, your girls. I've been mixed, strange, and I am out of here.