DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense The Pentagon's newest toy isn't a fancy warfighting machine – it's a combined supercomputer and rapid response laboratory (RRL) dedicated to beefing up the US's biodefenses. Located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, the new machine, built in cooperation with the National Nuclear Security Agency, …
One of the ironic laughs about the UKs post Covid response was to dismantle the detection, testing and sequencing infrastructure; the necessary precursor to identifying the actual threat the large-scale simulations are supposed to be developing counter measures…
Yes it costs but then so does maintaining Trident and a couple of aircraft carriers…
I wonder if the US has also mothballed or dismantled its bio hazard monitoring and testing capabiiities…
Sounds like a much needed computationally-oriented extension to the S.15-Project Bioshield Act of 2004 (then focused on anthrax, botulinum, smallpox, and radiation).
Notable also that the U.S. Intelligence Worldwide Threat Assessment had figured by 2019 that we were "vulnerable to the next flu pandemic [...] that could lead to massive rates of death [...], severely affect the world economy, [and] strain international resources" -- as COVID-19 did the following year -- and we were still not well-prepared for that then (no masks ...).
Hopefully this computational oomph can help prevent the stalling of our industry and economy, along with supply chain disruptions, that we've seen since COVID, that are still affecting us today (CHIPs Act should help too).
Most importantly though, this initiative will hopefully help keep shelves supplied with toilet paper and Lysol, preventing the severe shortages that so threatened the biosecurity of household bathrooms the world over during the last pandemic, generating the longest-lasting of traumatic PTSDs, in the sun-don't-shine-orifice butt-wiping hygiene management department!
> Most importantly though, this initiative will hopefully help keep shelves supplied
You speak of the supercomputer that is to come after the (RRL) rapid response laboratory supercomputer. A supercomputer whose merest operational parameters no one is worthy to calculate. A supercomputer that can calculate the logistics requires to fly drones to deliver toilet paper (one roll at a time) to all who need it (and answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything) ! And the RRL supercomputer shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called…the Earth 2.0. No sorry I mean skynet, no *ponder* maybe dronenet.
Oh yeah! ... and really, AWS and Alibaba have their pedal to the metal on this one, way ahead of the DoD I think ... someone most definitely needs to step in at once and prevent that next traveling wave of stinky sphincter propagation syndrome. Opportunities are endless on this, for cloudy giants to pre-cognitively curb last-roll-trauma-and-aroma, and save humanity from the threat of ever increasing bio-enshitification, the gut-wrenching eating tax, beyond the bloating and discomfort of selfless preventative constipation, IMHO!
Seymour M. Hersch, Chemical and biological warfare, The Hidden Arsenal (© 1968).
It actually scaled up in the US by orders of magnitude after 9/11, and the work was spread out much wider under apparently-innocuous civilian umbrellas, particularly the NIH & DURC. More recently, the UN knocked it up several notches further in terms of sheer scale & potential impact, dispersed globally, under a very different & proactively Virtuous umbrella. See my comment below.
>called something else
"DURC". That term has been the veil since the original international bioweapons convention. Several virus modification methods are used as standard in vaccine development. So just call it vaccine development, or skim off unwanted byproducts from genuine such. DURC.
The whole bioweapons "industry" went absolutely ballistic in the US after 9/11. Several orders of magnitude above previous. Grifter-assisted by lots of people jumping on the bandwagon and revving it up because massive funding. And more recently, the UN has piled in but even more covertly, hiding truly excruciatingly dangerous work behind the One Health umbrella.
For example re One Health, I am currently having my first coffee of the day half a mile from a major genetic engineering site, UQ/the University of Queensland, which has multiple projects building & releasing custom viruses & custom RNA epigenetic modifiers. Please note: releasing...
Here's one example: https://science.uq.edu.au/event/session/9680 ("creation of chimeric or ‘hybrid’ viruses" plugging very dangerous viruses into "benign mosquito viruses" which will then self-spread the "vaccination"). I attended that session; I may be visible in the audience, I haven't watched the recording. It's actually worse than it looks: she runs through live field trials at one point. Release. Someone asked at end about risk of lab leak. She got flustered and eventually said basically they hoped it never happened. I talked to her afterwards and warned her further that it had been proven at a minimum of 99.8+% significance just from the genome structure that Omicron was a vaccine lableak (look up self-spreading vaccines) (something to think about: all the very senior people shouting very loudly about them vs Covid went very suddenly very quiet mid-to-late-2021. I was relieved at the time. Coupla years later the genome calcs got published), and she went rabbit in the headlights, froze, and sort of stammered that they'd have to be careful.
Now look up BioClay. Coupla buildings over from hers, iirc. Yes, that is WIDESCALE broadcasting of "genetic therapy" epigenetically modifying insects' DNA so that they ... "go away".
Despite their own website's prima facie presentation of it as "new!", you will casually find it being pitched publicly & repeatedly used in the field, over a decade ago.
Consider the Mao vs Sparrows episode. Then consider that insects are a rather larger and rather more important component of the ecosystem.
There is a STARTLING number of people globally doing surreally dangerous work vs "biothreat", funded just by One Health alone, much much larger than just the US DoD biowarfare. Sometimes BSL-4 work done at BSL-2 (your dentist works at BSL-2). I've talked and e-talked to a few of them now, and you realise very quickly they're all just excited about the discoveries and novelties -- they blank out any idea of consequences.
We are living in extraordinarily dangerous times.
Oh, and,
>said no to gain of function... funded anyway.
The only formal ban I'm aware of was Obama buckling to pressure and issuing a formal order.
But Fauci & Collins unilaterally reversed that a coupla years later within the (VA$T!!) NIH umbrella, and you can probably still see online the quiet bland announcement of same. You could, last year, anyway.
EcoHealth ("EgoWealth") was a primary channel for obfuscating it further. But there were others.
>you can probably still see online
Yeah, here ya go: 2017: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-lifts-funding-pause-gain-function-research
(Also perma-archived via the extremely useful censorship-ignoring http://archive.today (URL throws to various geoservers): https://archive.md/NxWam. A useful habit to get into. Archive.org routinely wipes history under pressure.)
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