Variety in tech is more important than ever.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/15/23683846/bluesky-twitter-clone-at-protocol-favorite
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Bluesky vs. Twitter
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Elon Musk talks AI with Schumer at Capitol
https://www.axios.com/2023/04/26/elon-musk-schumer-capitol-ai-meeting
People want to use AI as a tool, but what if AI wants to use humans as its fool?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-ramps-up-ai-efforts-warns-pitfalls
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/tech/elon-musk-ai-warning-tucker-carlson/index.html
Monday, April 24, 2023
The Mission: Impossible masks are almost a reality
As Tom Cruise’s action franchise has evolved, so has the real-life inspiration
https://www.polygon.com/23688879/mission-impossible-masks-real-life
Absolutely fascinating!
https://spyscape.com/article/mission-impossible-10-shocking-mask-reveals
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060009/mediaviewer/rm478182400?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_973 Encore (1971)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0649230/?ref_=ttmi_tt
"Certain team members, as masters of disguise, impersonate the target or someone connected to the target using realistic latex face masks and make-up. A few early season episodes showed the painstaking creation and application of these masks, usually by Rollin Hand. This was later omitted as the audience presumably became familiar with the team's methods. In the 1980s revival, the mask-making process involved a digital camera and computer, and was mostly automatic. In most cases, the guest star would play the role of both the original and the agent-imposter (ostensibly Rollin, Paris, or Casey). Some impersonations are done with the explicit cooperation of the person being impersonated. In some cases, the same actor playing the IMF agent also portrayed the person to be impersonated; this most frequently occurred during Martin Landau's tenure on the series, notably in the pilot, or supplied the voice of the person being impersonated by dubbing. Most episodes included a dramatic "reveal" (also referred to as the "peel-off") near the end of the episode in which the team member would remove the mask." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_series)#Plan
Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Q4hAQ4fEw The cool ending of this video shows Beck removing a Paul McCartney mask, just like in the Mission Impossible movies & TV series.
Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way (Behind The Scenes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyIq37bKfro
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-this-young-paul-mccartney-deepfake-turn-into-beck
Find your way back to the autumn of 1966. Not only was it the start of the Mission:_Impossible_TV_series (and its masks), but the release of the movie, Seconds. Plus, that's when the Paul_is_dead urban legend gradually began. Someone was able to brilliantly draw upon MI and Seconds to create quite an elaborate urban legend.
"After waking, Arthur is informed by the company's Mr. Ruby that their service costs $30,000. It will fake his death in a hotel fire using an anonymous cadaver, then reshape his appearance and provide a fresh start. When Arthur is unsure, an older man, head of the company, shows Arthur a film of the prior staged assault, ostensibly to make his decision easier.
After considering the emptiness in his life, Arthur reluctantly accepts. He undergoes extensive procedures by Dr. Innes that transform not only his facial features, but his vocal cords, teeth, and even fingerprints.
After a lengthy healing period, the younger looking Arthur is conferred the identity Tony Wilson. Tony is relocated by the Company into a beachside community in California. He attempts to assimilate into his new life, in which he is able to live as an artist —a career he had always aspired to..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)#Plot
https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/06/09/book-review-seconds-david-ely-1962
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/paul-mccartney-addresses-urban-legend-26580345
Does the Paul McCartney urban legend still hold up today?
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/paul-mccartney-is-dead-conspiracy-897189
https://onstagemagazine.com/beatles-paul-urban-myths1
https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/paul-is-dead
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/liner-notes/when-paul-was-declared-dead
https://turnmeondeadman.com/paul-is-dead-clues-in-i-am-the-walrus
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Walrus-Was-Paul/R-Gary-Patterson/9780684850627#
Did Paul McCartney really die in 1966? The history of the conspiracy theory | Vinyl Rewind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R18R1YnfRjY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Live#Title_and_cover
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney
Saturday, April 22, 2023
The Colonial Mentality
https://dailyhive.com/canada/tiktoker-racist-rant-on-video
Unfortunately, The White Colonial Mentality is still firmly perpetuated by some.
Canada is the 2nd largest country in area. Yet, Canada has less than half of 1% percent of the worlds population. Of course most of the worlds population is non-white. Is that why so many people aren't allowed to live in Canada?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America#New_France_(Nouvelle-France)
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/world/africa/france-macron-africa-colonies.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Spain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#Colonial_conflict_with_Britain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England https://www.britannica.com/place/New-England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England#/media/File:Tribal_Territories_Southern_New_England.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_England#Colonial_era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies#British_colonies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England#Geography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America#British_North_America_colonies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#North_America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire#Spanish_American_conflicts_and_independence_(1810-1833)
Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Colonial_expansion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Indigenous_peoples
https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/do-we-have-apartheid-in-australia
Unfortunately, the White Colonial Mentality established the White_Australia_policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#Immigration_Restriction_Act_1901
Some people would have liked the Australia of the 1950s & 60s to have become like another South Africa during the same era. Australia chose to go in another direction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-South_Africa_relations
Australia and Apartheid: The Ties That Bind
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20634562
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358530601046851?journalCode=ctrt20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#End_of_the_White_Australia_policy
Thus, by the 1970s, Australia didn't want to emulate the South Africa of the 1970s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_history_of_Australia#Modern_era
It's a vast land with less people than what Texas has.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_history_of_Australia#Opposition_to_immigration
While there are arguments about Australia growing at a rate that it can adequately handle, the country will continue to diversify as it grows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Australia#Current_immigration_programs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Demographics
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area#Map
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/15/elon-musk-chatgpt-ai-rival-openai
It was inevitable that this would happen.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-x-ai-bec69eab
https://the-decoder.com/elon-musk-launches-ai-company-x-ai-in-pursuit-of-openai/
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23684005/elon-musk-new-ai-company-x
https://techmarkup.com/chatgpt-and-its-high-global-water-consumption/
Saturday, April 15, 2023
The Cat from Outer Space...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_from_Outer_Space An ET cat comedy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077305 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEaSW1jtnQ
However, Jonesy_(the_cat) was stuck on a ship with a monstrous ALIEN.
https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Jonesy , https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Jones_(cat)
https://www.horrorgeeklife.com/2019/03/28/alien-flerken-jones-goose-cat
https://cinemacats.com/alien-1979
https://www.insider.com/ranking-of-the-best-movie-cats-2019-5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1982_film) , https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cat-people-1982
Monday, April 03, 2023
Oumuamua and other Peculiar Shapes
Oumuamua is quite an interestingly shaped object that seemed to move in a peculiar way.
Saturday, April 01, 2023
Fossil Fools Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_Fools_Day
Most people aren't interested in going back the the horse & wagon era of the pre 1900s. However, the EV revolution should have been gradually started in the 1970s so that by the 2020s, there would have been many more efficient motor vehicle choices. Now a personal digital carbon credit score can be gradually used to manipulate and control the lives of people in a global MATRIX grid. Just imagine how things could be with a world under total A.I. management and control. A totalitarian Electronic_Labyrinth, AKA: THX_1138.
THX 1138 (1971) Retrospective / Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZUp6FqFps
The Making of THX 1138 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yR3eA8Eas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffwhitmore/2023/01/18/the-worlds-most-unreliable-airlines Crappy airline service might cause some people to give up of flying, thus gradually reducing demand.
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