SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, some news on the threat of cosmic ray disruption of digital microcircuits.
A Cosmic Ray Hit May Have Disrupted A320 Flight Controls
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And here was the airliner manufacturing consortium’s response, in retrofitting 6,000 planes: Airbus update on A320 Family precautionary fleet action.
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Some more reporting, from the BBC: Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft.
Stopping The Growing AI Threat To Our Freedom
SurvivalBlog reader D.S.V. sent this: We Must Stop The Growing AI Threat To Our Freedom.
A Rare Solar Spike
At Space.com: Rare solar flare caused radiation in Earth’s atmosphere to spike to highest levels in nearly 20 years, researchers say.
The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist
I found this piece in the leftist The Atlantic linked over at the Whatfinger.com news aggregation site: The Strange Disappearance of an Anti-AI Activist.
Global Digital ID, AI-Driven Surveillance, & Vaccine Tracking
Over at Zero Hedge: WHO–Gates Unveils Blueprint For Global Digital ID, AI-Driven Surveillance, & Life-Long Vaccine Tracking For Everyone. Here is a pericope from the article:
“In a document published in the October Bulletin of the World Health Organization and funded by the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) is proposing a globally interoperable digital-identity infrastructure that permanently tracks every individual’s vaccination status from birth.
The dystopian proposal raises far more than privacy and autonomy concerns: it establishes the architecture for government overreach, cross-domain profiling, AI-driven behavioral targeting, conditional access to services, and a globally interoperable surveillance grid tracking individuals.
It also creates unprecedented risks in data security, accountability, and mission creep, enabling a digital control system that reaches into every sector of life.”
Zelensky Rules Out Ceding Land to Russia
In The Washington Post, by way of MSN: Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump. JWR’s Comments: Russia is willing to continue to take huge losses. So, with their much larger population, they can beat Ukraine in the long game. This could turn a 3-year war into a 10-year war that will fully decimate two generations of Ukrainian men.
A Scientific Fact Becomes a Thoughtcrime
Some troubling news from Switzerland: A man was put in prison today after he said on social media that men and women have different skeletons.
Warning: Algorithm-Driven Dynamic Pricing Has Arrived
D.S.V sent this: Instacart is charging different prices to different customers — on the same grocery items in the same stores, bombshell study reveals.
The Advent of Safescan Currency Checkers
SurvivalBlog reader L.E. wrote:
“Recently, in spending one hundred dollar bills to purchase items I previously had been able to buy anonymously, I noticed that instead of the clerk using a colored pen to identify whether the bill was fake, now they use an electronic Safescan bill scanner. Upon perusing the Safescan website, the scanner also reveals: where the bill was produced (at what Mint), which bank it came from, whose account it came from, where it was spent, and the day and time, and what items it was used to purchase. The Mark of the Beast is now upon us. I haven’t tried using a smaller bill like a twenty or a ten, but surely that cannot be far behind.”
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Australia Launches Youth Social Media Ban
Australia launches youth social media ban it says will be the world’s ‘first domino’. JWR’s Comments: It is sad that this needed to be legislated. Parents should be proactive and even absolutist in raising their children. That includes limiting their access to worldly pursuits, arts, and devices. They should have no access to them until they can demonstrate sufficient maturity. And for some individuals, that might not be until age 18.
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