Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Mysteries and Dangers in National Parks

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysteries_at_the_National_Parks

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/mysteries-at-the-national-parks/episodes

Spring and summer are the most popular times to visit. Unfortunately, things don't always go according to one's plans.

https://newverest.com/blogs/newverest-blog/7-unexplained-mysteries-of-the-united-states-national-parks

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/tenaya-canyon-in-yosemites-cursed-history-18121807.php

Yosemite is full of wonder and some strange things. 

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/category/Yosemite+National+Park

https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/yosemite-the-weird-and-the-wonderful.htm

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/These-13-people-went-missing-in-Yosemite-16629374.php


Top 10 Dark National Park Mysteries That Will NEVER Be Solved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usRnANa_PhU

Park Rangers And Hikers REVEAL The TRUTH About National Parks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBc2Zvc8ruw

Just being out in the elements when things go wrong, then you suddenly realize that you really are far away from civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_National_Park

HORROR In The Grand Canyon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYX4TFPhHuk , https://www.youtube.com/@thrillzone8807/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_National_Park#Geography


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyonlands_National_Park , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_Hours

Saturday, May 13, 2023

Seconds (1966 film) and another Paul McCartney?

Seconds is quite a wild Sci-Fi movie and was released in the autumn of 1966.

https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)#Plot

It's as if someone wanted to take some aspects of the story and start a Paul_is_dead rumor.

"According to Tony Barrow, who wrote about it in his book "John, Paul, George, Ringo and me," the rumours about McCartney's death started circulating in September 1966.[1] At the time, Barrow was the press officer for the Beatles and was responsible for fielding calls from fans and the media. He began receiving a number of dubious calls from people asking about whether Paul was alright, but he denied those claims due to the fact he claimed to have called Paul. In early 1967, a similar rumour circulated in London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a traffic accident while driving along the M1 motorway on 7 January.[2] The rumour was acknowledged and rebutted in the February issue of The Beatles Book.[2] McCartney then alluded to the rumour during a press conference held around the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in May." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Beginnings

Somewhere in-between the fall of 1966 and early 1967 was when the Paul rumor started to take shape.


The Rumor

"Nobody knows where or when the rumor began.

The earliest printed record of a Paul-is-dead story appears in the February 1967 issue of Beatles Book Monthly, the magazine of the official Beatles Fan Club.

It contains a one-paragraph article entitled “False Rumour.”

“The seventh of January was very icy, with dangerous conditions on the M1 motorway linking London with the midlands, and towards the end of the day, a rumor swept London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on the M1. But of course, there was absolutely no truth in it at all, as the Beatles’ press officer found out when he telephoned Paul’s St. Johns Wood home, and was answered by Paul himself ... ”

Speculation that Paul had been killed circulated around London during much of 1967.

McCartney himself alluded to the rumor during a Beatles press conference held in May of that year.

And a subsequent article in the New York Times recounts an incident at a London party in fall of ‘67, at which the Paul-is-dead rumor was joked about in the presence of the reporter.

At this point the trail of documentation goes completely cold.

Then, two years later, the rumor surfaced again..." http://ludix.com/moriarty/paul.html


http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/archive/MayJune00/archive-mccartney.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Premise

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-this-young-paul-mccartney-deepfake-turn-into-beck

http://thelennonprophecy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-beatles-in-nycs-central-park-on.html


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney

Saturday, May 06, 2023

Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)

Orson_Welles had many talents and interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)#Plot_summary


"Renowned actor, writer, and director Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to then-modern explorations of Mars, this film from NASA provides a unique glimpse at life on earth, and elsewhere in the universe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPkg_sJn2rU  Who's Out There - 1975

As diners increasingly turn to delivery, the future of fast food may be one with no human interaction at all.

 https://www.vox.com/food/23711010/fast-food-dining-delivery-automation

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/outside-insights/why-drone-delivery-win-quick-service-restaurants

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/exclusives/ai-robots-and-inventive-future-white-castle What would a totally run AI restaurant eventually be like?

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/reports/pizza-wars-next-chapter Some day, fast food could become 3D_printed. How safe would it be?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)#In_the_real_world

There could be quite a battle between natural food, processed food and AI printed food.

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/fast-food/even-after-record-sales-papa-johns-sees-plenty-upside-ahead

The trick will be to not have pizza tasting like cardboard. 

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Replicator


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_assembler#Grey_goo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo#Risks_and_precautions

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=AI

Friday, May 05, 2023

Alphaville: une étrange aventure de L. Caution

Alphaville was quite an amazing movie when it was released in 1965 and still provides an important warning. The technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville seems to be in a parallel reality or in an alternate universe. https://letterboxd.com/film/alphaville 

https://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/alphaville.shtml

https://en.unifrance.org/movie/2152/alphaville , https://www.filmsite.org/alphaville.html

http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/alphaville-1965.html

http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/Article_Alphaville.html , https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/38-alphaville 

https://www.criterion.com/films/207-alphaville , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UitB6c8QP80


"Alpha 60 is a sentient computer system created by von Braun, which is in complete control of all of Alphaville.

Alpha 60 has outlawed free thought and individualist concepts like lovepoetry, and emotion in the city, replacing them with contradictory concepts or eliminating them altogether. One of Alpha 60's dictates is that "people should not ask 'why', but only say 'because'". People who show signs of emotion are presumed to be acting illogically and are executed. There is a dictionary in every hotel room that is continuously updated when words that are deemed to evoke emotion become banned. As a result, Alphaville is an inhuman, alienated society." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Plot


Before THX_1138 in 1971 and Blade_Runner in 1982, there had to be Alphaville, the AI run city. 


https://nerdist.com/article/alphaville-gave-us-blade-runner-matrix


world in which AI is almost everywhere and linked to the  

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2020/10/the-internet-of-bodies-will-change-everything-for-better-or-worse.html , https://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2020/10/29/what-is-the-internet-of-bodies.html  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bXUxRqy8g


Prepare for the ‘internet of bodies’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHteT1zrSfw


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/05/blog-post_79.html ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxzcD04rwc8 ar


The Future of Ecommerce: 9 Trends That Will Exist in 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjuEygcS3A


https://beaubourg-avocats.fr/en/cryptocurrency-laws-regulations-france , 

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230628-eu-to-take-one-giant-leap-towards-launching-digital-version-of-euro

"La Défense was in 2017 ranked by Ernst & Young as the leading central business district in continental Europe, and the fourth in the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Economy


https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/29/france-luxembourg-test-cbdc-for-100m-euro-bond-issue , 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-singapore-switzerland-jointly-test-central-bank-digital-currencies-2022-11-02 ,

https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-france-2022 , 

https://www.banque-france.fr/en/communique-de-presse/banque-de-france-has-successfully-completed-first-tranche-its-experimentation-programme-central-bank , 

https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/blockchain-laws-and-regulations/france


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepfake 

https://innovation.banque-france.fr/fr/challenges/challenge-banque-france-deepfake?lang=fr


"L'activité du corps humain associée à une tâche fournie à un utilisateur peut être utilisée dans un processus de minage d'un système de cryptomonnaie. Un serveur peut fournir une tâche à un dispositif d'un utilisateur qui est couplé de manière à communiquer avec le serveur. Un capteur couplé de manière à communiquer avec un dispositif de l'utilisateur ou compris dans ce dernier peut détecter l'activité corporelle de l'utilisateur. Des données d'activité corporelle peuvent être générées sur la base de l'activité corporelle détectée de l'utilisateur. Le système de cryptomonnaie de la présente invention couplé de manière à communiquer avec le dispositif de l'utilisateur peut vérifier si les données d'activité corporelle satisfont une ou plusieurs conditions définies par le système de cryptomonnaie, et attribuer une cryptomonnaie à l'utilisateur dont les données d'activité corporelle sont vérifiées." https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&_fid=US291464337

Thursday, May 04, 2023