Sunday, June 26, 2022
The best of both worlds ...
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Friday, June 24, 2022
The Blade Runner
An existential threat
Gilead ...
Demonstrators outside of the Supreme Court in May.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times
Gilead is no longer fiction thanks to the SC gutting Roe on 6/24/22. The next steps to complete the job will include going after privacy to enforce the ban using cell phones and paid informants and vigilantes to make it happen and to curtail contraception as it's against the dictates of this religion-driven court. As stated in BRT, this is an existential threat to this once great nation as now 50% of the populace is now enslaved. Thank John Roberts, Bush I & II, Trump and Mitch in creating the worst SC in history.
The dark age has arrived ...
Read the rest of the NYTimes post to see how the 6 systematically lied to the American people.
11 points & counting ...
Thank Bush I & II, Trump and Mitch for creating this dumpster fire of a SC.
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Not even a dust mote ...
We're not even a dust mote in a vast reality we will never fully understand. As tech advances, the size of the universe/multiverse gets ever larger to the degree the esteemed Carl Sagan could have never imagined when writing Billions & Billions back in 1997.
Read Big Think's detailed piece to see why we are not even a dust mote in the grand scheme of things.
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
NLP ...
To be or not to be, To err as human, two famous quotes, one from the esteemed WS and the second, a divine offering from Alexander Pope, seem most appropriate given the advances AI is making regarding all things relating to writing and art.
To whit ...
That machines should e'er surpass our art.
We are the masters, them the slaves,
They learn, ‘tis true, but they learn
Only what we bid them learn, no more.
They cannot understand the heart
Or beauty of our words, you see.
So let us not give in to these
Tech never sleeps but we already know that but a new player is in town regarding the ability of AI to get close up and personal to art thanks to NLP, Natural Language Processing.
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Theocracy 101
Theocracy 101 looms, thanks to the worst SC in history.
Dangerville to the 1st Amendment looms without question ...
Constitution of United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992)
The smallest spot of anything
Pump & Dumps
Combining conspiracizing with bad investment advice, the WhipLash347 and Quantum Stellar Initiative (which has no relationship with the Stellar network) Telegram channels coordinated to produce a weekly curated list of cryptocurrency assets, claiming that they had access to secret military intelligence and knew which assets were going to succeed. The leaders, WhipLash347 and PatriotQakes (also active in the community under her real name, Emily Tang), capitalized on distrust in both financial institutions and mainstream media to lend credence to the assets they promoted, and bombarded their tens of thousands of followers with misinformation about crypto ventures.
Any questions?
Saturday, June 18, 2022
Mommy, where's the monster?
Again and again. “Mommy, where’s the monster?” This went on for a whole week, apparently.
“The monster that’s killing all the birds, mommy.”
Reminds one of Spielberg's dark AI film but this time it's GW, the monster of our own making, ushering in the 6th great extinction event known as the Anthropocene.
Everywhere, the move away from normalcy is happening at light speed as transitions are never linear, only exponential as seen by the frightening heat map at the top of the page. A Wet Bulb Moment looms.
Friday, June 17, 2022
Peecycle 101 :)
Urine and poop do wonders for plants in a much more beneficial way than fertilizers, something yours truly saw in Korea back in 1971 when "honey wagons" were used to deliver human waste to fertilize crops back in the day. Seems this environmentally intelligent way to increase crop yields is gathering steam and it's about time. :)
Sounds like a plan to me. :)
Type - X
War porn rev XXX ... automatous weapon XX, combined with AI, what could possibly go wrong?
Warms the cockles of one's heart, right?
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Off the rails & crazed ...
In the country of the blind, the one eyed man is king - Erasmus
Off the rails & crazed, the land of the free and home of the brave embraces the crazies thanks to the repugs, where connects to reality no longer apply.
And this ...
From the Pilgrims to QAnon: Christian nationalism is the "asteroid coming for democracy"
Any questions?
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Rent for Life
Years ago, I read the Water Thief, a dark parable about the privatization of everything from water to air and all things in-between, a most frightening scenario without question as this take on 1984 is now turned into a profit driven entity with the great majority of the populace totally controlled by the power elite instead of Big Brother through the con of renting instead of buying all things needed to survive.
Rent for life ...
But what will happen to the price of mattresses when they become investments?
That $600 mattress is worth $3,600 in revenue to you, $3,000 of which is hard profit.
(Or Blackrock just buys all the major mattress manufacturers outright.)
How many people do you know who can afford to pay $3,600 for a mattress?
If this sounds like the biggest scam in economic history, it’s because it is.
And it’s the reason you will own nothing by 2050.
If we let it ...
Banksters + investors + rent-seeking = Serfdom 2.0
Banks loan trillions to investment monopolies.
Investment monopolies devour corporations.
Corporations financialize industries and shift to the rent-for-life model.
This is the equation that will define our lives and our children’s futures.
Because everything is just a commodified investment now.
It's all about the money - Robert E.
Addendum: The word assume is in play here as by 2050, thanks to GW and other such niceties, the scenario may be altogether different as one cannot predict the future thanks to the vagaries of reality.