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MJ Banias

  • Senior Analyst, Sapper Labs Group
Canada, Winnipeg
As seen in: Substack, The Globe and Mail, VICE, VICE UK, Futurism, Popular Mechanics, Yahoo, RealClear Science, Coast to Coast AM, The Debrief Media and
Covers:  Weird news, UFOs, Oddities, Science, Technology and Space
I investigate things and sometimes tell stories. | Investigations Lead at Permanent Record Research | Co-founder @debriefmedia | OSINT is life. 🇺🇦

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Retrospective! A Free OSINT Lesson: Why RUMINT is the Unsung Hero of Intelligence Gathering

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By MJ Banias
| Bullsh*t Hunting
Gossip. Rumour. Innuendo. Humans are naturally hard-wired to love it. It’s built into our DNA, our love for that curious mix of truth and story, where knowledge and information are passed along via tales. This makes sense, though. Humans have evolved to tell stories about the world to shape and understand it. As we’ve moved along historically, we’ve slo…
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Are AI Systems Truly Conscious? This Researcher Says Humanity May Never Know-and Explains Why That Matters

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By MJ Banias
| The Debrief Media
In the race to build ever-smarter machines, one philosopher is asking an uncomfortable question: What if we cannot know whether an artificial intelligence is conscious, and what if that uncertainty itself is the real danger?​ For decades, debates about “conscious AI” have split into two camps: optimists who think a sophisticated enough machine could one day have experiences like ours, and skeptics who insist consciousness is a strictly biological phenomenon.
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Will "Salt-Tolerant Plants" Soon Be Grown in the Lab? New Research Reveals How This Evolutionary Hack Could Happen

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By MJ Banias
| The Debrief Media
A new international study has pinpointed a surprisingly simple cellular adaptation that helps plants survive in saltwater, offering a potential roadmap for protecting crops as sea levels rise and coastal soils become more saline. Published this week in the journal Current Biology, the research shows that mangrove trees, which are famous for thriving in salty, waterlogged shorelines, have repeatedly evolved much smaller, thicker-walled cells than their inland relatives.
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