The Pope on Artificial Intelligence

 https://futurism.com/pope-guide-artificial-intelligence

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/04/20/religion-against-the-machine-pope-francis-takes-on-ai

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2023-03/pope-francis-minerva-dialogues-technology-artificial-intelligenc.html

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdlife/documents/rc_pont-acd_life_doc_20202228_rome-call-for-ai-ethics_en.pdf

At a certain point, AI could almost be everywhere.

Differences between Canada's C-18 and the Australian model

 https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/corporate/transparency/open-government/standing-committee/pablo-rodriguez-bill-c18/differences.html

This should be a time for more information access and distribution around the world.

https://www.acma.gov.au/

https://www.telecomreviewcanada.com/articles/reports-and-coverage/1093-google-reacts-to-new-canadian-law-restricts-news-access-for-canadians

https://www.acma.gov.au/articles/2022-03/australia-and-canada-collaborate-combat-illegal-communications

https://www.iicom.org/event/iic-australian-chapter-may-2017/

https://businesschief.com/leadership-and-strategy/crtc-and-acma-promote-global-do-not-call-list

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/crtc-hosts-first-meeting-between-five-countries-to-combat-scam-communications-874544989.html

https://www.telecomreviewcanada.com/articles/general-news/1100-canada-france-new-joint-committee-boosts-tech-research-collaboration

The MSG Sphere Las Vegas

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSqCBJ7FnRY

MSG SPHERE Las Vegas Largest and Newest Attraction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGOZtx9NMlE

The MSG Sphere Las Vegas Will BLOW Your Mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsLfHQLW-og

Star Trek vs. Star Wars

 https://www.diffen.com/difference/Star_Trek_vs_Star_Wars

While they are each set in a different universe, there are some similarities.

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

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Star+Trek

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Star+Wars

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”

 https://www.tor.com/2023/06/29/some-of-our-yesterdays-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow/

At the very least, time travel episodes can be quite entertaining.

https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-recap-season-2-episode-3-1850546334

Sometimes such subject matter can be very thought provoking.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_(episode)

https://screenrant.com/strange-new-worlds-season-2-episode-3-ending/

https://blog.trekcore.com/2023/06/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-review-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow/

https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/how-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2s-latest-episode-majorly-changed-the-timeline-and-what-the-showrunner-has-to-say-about-it

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Strange+New+Worlds

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds intersection with Khan

 https://nerdist.com/article/how-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-just-rewrote-important-star-trek-history-time-travel-khan/

Of course time travel is a recurring theme in the Star Trek universe.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=time+travel

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Strange+New+Worlds

Toronto air quality is currently among the worst in the world

 https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toronto-air-quality-currently-among-the-worst-in-the-world-1.6458972

Air+quality has its good days, but then the bad days really hit so hard.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/06/28/the-big-smoke-photos-capture-toronto-air-quality-wildfire-smoke/

https://globalnews.ca/news/9798277/southern-ontario-air-quality-deteriorated-wildfires/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-air-quality-wildfire-smoke-1.6891013

It's certainly not any better in Chicago or Detroit.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184746530/why-haze-wildfire-canada-midwest

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/27/chicago-midwest-hit-by-canada-wildfire-smoke/70360124007

Chicago’s air quality index is the worst in the U.S. as Canadian wildfire smoke lingers

 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/poor-air-quality-live-updates-rcna91545

Of course air+quality can vary, but sometimes it's right in your face.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicago-worst-air-quality-canadian-wildfire-smoke-june-27-2023/

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicagos-air-quality-currently-worst-in-world/

https://gizmodo.com/chicago-has-some-of-the-worst-air-quality-in-the-world-1850583194

https://theathletic.com/4646635/2023/06/28/cubs-phillies-wildfire-smoke-chicago/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/28/air-quality-index-map-today/70363547007/

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

Titan submersible recovery efforts continue with help of remotely operated vehicle

 https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/titan-submersible-recovery-efforts-continue-with-help-of-remotely-operated-vehicle/

Unfortunately, this was a disaster waiting to happen.

https://theconversation.com/history-repeats-itself-the-titan-submersible-implosion-mirrors-past-disasters-208420

https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/stockton-rush-was-on-predatory-hunt-for-rich-clients-to-join-deadly-dive-expert/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/titan-submerisble-investigation-1.6889066

https://fortune.com/2023/06/26/titan-sub-accident-investigation/

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a44319369/sub-implosion-detection-underwater-acoustics/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Titan+Sub

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb and the underwater search for a meteor

 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230626-the-underwater-search-for-an-alien-object

Very open-minded or just curious, Avi+Loeb is determined to seek.

https://earthsky.org/earth/alien-fragments-im1-spherules-avi-loeb/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3wwam/scientists-are-hunting-for-alien-objects-in-the-ocean-and-theyve-just-found-something

https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/aliens-most-likely-to-contact-artificial-intelligence-before-humans-over-likely-kinship-expert/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomer-avi-loeb-says-aliens-have-visited-and-hes-not-kidding1/

Titanic sub’s voice recordings, data to be probed as officials mull possible criminality

 https://nypost.com/2023/06/25/titanic-submersibles-voice-recordings-to-be-probed-as-officials-mull-possible-criminality/

There should have been a ROV accompanying the Titan+Sub, just incase anything were to go wrong.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/25/teen-on-titan-sub-brought-rubiks-cube-to-break-world-record/

3 other submersibles visiting Titanic almost suffered the same fate as Titan https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/subs-titanic-expeditions-1.6887824

The U.S. Navy heard the likely implosion of the missing Titan sub on Sunday, June 18

 https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/1183976726/titan-titanic-sub-implosion-navy

Extra days of news media suspense regarding the Titan+Sub, but it all likely ended on June 18.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-coast-guard-investigating-titan-submersible-titanic-acoustic-anomaly-1.6886797

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/23/1183975136/james-cameron-titanic-titan-sub

Bus driver suffered medical episode before 'bizarre' crash

 https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-news-bus-crash-victoria-road-drummoyne/a418d302-dca5-4161-9604-d426a3a35d47

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/tragic-detail-about-young-victim-of-wedding-bus-crash-emerges-c-10982638

Experts raised safety concerns about OceanGate years before its Titanic sub vanished

 https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183408455/titan-missing-submarine-oceangate-submersible

The Titan+Sub implosion shows that there should be much better safety protocols in place.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183249112/missing-titanic-submarine-rescue-pisces-iii

Unanswered questions in the Titanic Sub rescue

 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/titanic-submarine-distress-signal-banging-sounds-b2361470.html

Missing Titanic submarine: Five things that may have gone wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kkns8RCs-w

Either another sub should have tagged along that could have rescued it, or at least have a rescue sub stationed on the surface, just incase anything went wrong.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/titanic-search-wreck-missing-oxygen-b2360999.html

The Titanic Submarine Situation Is Crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tmwpE07CFE

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/canadian-aircraft-detects-underwater-noises-in-search-for-sub-near-titanic.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Titan+Sub

Aircraft detected 'underwater noises’ from search area for missing Titanic tourist submarine

 https://www.foxnews.com/us/canadian-aircraft-detected-underwater-noises-search-area-missing-titanic-tourist-submarine

Missing Submersible: Former Titan passenger says 'it was not safe' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxOV-TQIN2k

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/submarine-titantic-missing-submersible-tourists-latest-b2360568.html

It's not that it was forbidden for the Titanic to have another ship following it no more than a km away, or that this sub should have had an emergency response vehicle stationed on the surface. It's as if there was no reason to think that things might go seriously wrong. Thus, no need to allow for such a contingency.

Even today almost any ship or sub should have the option of being accompanied by an escort-vessel. At the very least, there should have been the equivalent of a tow-truck sub on standby on the surface. 

If even one very wealthy passenger on the Titanic paid for a ship to discreetly follow it, almost everyone could have been rescued. Instead, so many people drowned or froze to death, because it took too long for other ships to arrive. 

If the wealthiest person in the-sub could have paid for an emergency response sub to be stationed on the surface, then a rescue could have been started shortly after communication was lost.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Titan+Sub

I-95 bridge collapse repair efforts are underway

 https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/i-95-philadelphia-penndot-construction-rendering-bridge-overpass-recycled-glass/

https://www.penndot.pa.gov/RegionalOffices/district-6/Pages/AlertDetails.aspx

https://6abc.com/i-95-collapse-philadelphia-highway-temporary-lanes-road-repairs/13400217/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/17/us/i95-reopens-philadelphia-highway-damaged-repair/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/biden-interstate-95-road-collapse-philadelphia-4ccd7455f02e48f62357975b24d78462

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_95#Pennsylvania

I-95

Titan submersible incident

The Titan_submersible_incident is another example of how dangerous any deep dive can be.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate#Titan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate#2023_incident_and_destruction

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Titan+Sub

Biologists create detailed lab replicas of early human embryos

 https://www.science.org/content/article/biologists-use-human-stem-cells-create-embryo-replicas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embryo_(1976_film) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6drHa4KEey4 , https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074475 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKwQ647RDbo

A lot of things can be grown in a lab and some of these things might be spliced and composed of unnatural genetic combinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_(2009_film)#Plot

The movies Embryo and Splice depict secret lab experiments.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-create-human-embryo-like-structures-with-stem-cells/

What really can happen in various labs around the world?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/14/synthetic-human-embryos-created-in-groundbreaking-advance

Most advanced synthetic human embryo models yet spark controversy 

A pair of studies raises ethical and legal questions about the status of lab-grown human embryo models. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01992-0

A bus crashes with a semi in Manitoba

  https://winnipegsun.com/news/provincial/at-least-10-killed-in-crash-on-trans-canada-highway-in-western-manitoba-report

The Carberry_highway_collision is the worst of its kind in Manitoba. Of course even a highway with a concrete divider can still have plenty of crashes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipality_of_North_Cypress_-_Langford

https://winnipegsun.com/news/provincial/families-loved-ones-await-word-on-loved-ones-in-manitoba-bus-crash-that-killed-15

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba-rcmp-say-semi-truck-had-right-of-way-at-time-of-deadly-trans-canada-highway-crash-1.6444026

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/shared-health-update-carberry-mass-casualty-event-1.6879117

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/crash-carberry-manitoba-1.6877826

In canada, several highway intersections still don't have overpasses and have traffic lights instead. At-grade intersections, especially on the Trans-Canada Highway, should be brought up to proper freeway standards.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/06/15/manitoba-bus-crash-canada

A divided highway can be a little safer than one that isn't.

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

Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing in Vancouver, BC

The Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing or bridge, had a chance to be designed to be bigger and better in 1958. Unfortunately, it's just a 6 lane bridge, like the old Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing#Collapse 

Either a new transit bridge with 2 rail rapid transit tracks and 2 bus & 2 HOV lanes should be built beside it, or something like the new Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal). 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champlain_Bridge_(Montreal,_2019-present)#Specifications 8 lanes with 2 train tracks, bike & walkways. 

The Sydney_Harbour_Bridge has 8 lanes, 2 tracks, bike and foot paths.

The Trans-Canada Highway

So much of the Trans-Canada_Highway was just a 2 lane backcountry road. Then eventually the challenge was to make it to become at least a 4 lane divided highway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba_Highway_1 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_System_(Canada)#Manitoba

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/06/15/manitoba-bus-crash-canada

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=highways TCH

Quatermass and the Pit, Aliens or Demons?

Quatermass_and_the_Pit is quite an interesting ancient ET science fiction movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)#Plot

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/24796/five-million-years-to-earth/#overview

Why do so many descriptions of cosmic aliens seem to look demonic?

https://nypost.com/2023/06/10/the-states-most-likely-to-survive-an-alien-invasion-study/

Of course some insects and aquatic life looks like they cold be from hell as well, but that's just how they look.

Vision Pro

 https://www.ludusglobal.com/en/blog/apple-vision-pro-features-price-and-functions-of-the-new-mixed-reality-glasses

https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-vision-pros-biggest-missing-pieces/

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230609-apple-vision-pro-can-it-really-buck-the-trend-of-augmented-reality-flops

https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vision+Pro

California Preps for Digital ID Rollout

 https://www.route-fifty.com/digital-government/2023/06/state-preps-digital-id-rollout/387534/

Digital ID systems are the logical and practical way to constantly track and locate almost anything.

https://www.govtech.com/fs/california-moves-to-test-new-digital-drivers-licenses

https://upgradedpoints.com/travel/digital-drivers-licenses

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/transportation/2023/05/05/electronic-driver-registration-cards--digital-license-plate-frames-could-be-coming-to-ca

https://cdt.ca.gov/digitalid/

Eventually, as more data is gathered and linked to each person, a world Social Obedience Score (SOS) can be determined. Such a score would be determined by AI, of course. Unfortunately, most of humanity might not realize that at a certain point its sovereignty was given over to AI or Digital Intelligence.

NSW, Australia bus crash

 https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/hunter-valley-bus-crash-updates-nsw-police-continue-to-identify-victims-after-multiple-people-killed-driver-charged-20230612-p5dfyd.html

While buses can safely move a lot of people around, once in a while serious crashes happen, unfortunately.

https://7news.com.au/news/nsw/nsw-bus-crash-in-the-hunter-region-killed-ten-people-injures-nearly-a-dozen-c-10949118

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65886519

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/least-10-people-killed-bus-accident-australia-2023-06-11/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-65874374

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/12/hunter-valley-wedding-bus-crash-what-we-know-so-far-greta-nsw-wine-country-drive-region-australia-

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-bus-crash-deaths-injuries-wedding-guests-wine-country/

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Australia/Canada/Transport

Interstate 95 highway collapse in Philadelphia

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Interstate_95_highway_collapse

Unfortunately, the section of I-95 which collapsed is something that can happen at any time, without warning.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=I-95

Doctor Who - Space and Time (TARDIS)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E-wzgx1Vzc

https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/tardis/origins/

Entering The TARDIS (Smaller on the Outside) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHTw-chJ64

https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/tardis

The Doctor Enters The TARDIS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ga6CwyKvr8

https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/tardis/other/

https://www.youtube.com/@DoctorWho/videos , https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/

Apple Vision Pro

Apple_Vision_Pro could be quite a game changer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Vision_Pro#Unveiling_and_release

 https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2023/06/introducing-apple-vision-pro

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vision+Pro

Artificial Life and AI, ETc.

Artificial_life, along with AI and Robotics can make for quite an interesting intersection of technology.

 https://thegradient.pub/an-introduction-to-artificial-life-for-people-who-like-ai

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

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2014.00008/full

Can We Create ‘Artificial’ Life? Future of Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYC7ECDA1jk , https://www.youtube.com/@TheWorldOfScienceCo/videos

Scientists Create Artificial Life That Reproduces In a Strange Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnivFz2rbM4

World's first living robots "Xenobots" can now reproduce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9cciBx_oU

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-aliens-may-be-artificial-intelligence-not-life-as-we-know-it  ET, AI and Artificial+Life.

NASA holds its first public meeting on UFOs

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-hostile-nasa-ufos.html 

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65769172 

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/nasa-ufo-hearing-uap-meeting-today-b2349370.html 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65729356 

https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2018/summer/statement/thousands-years-ago-artists-painted-other-worldly-beings-canyon-rock-walls

The UFO phenomenon has been occurring since ancient times.

https://www.museum-ed.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/talk/20220808143356/

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

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