Saturday, September 30, 2023

U2 brings iconic songs to the Sphere Las Vegas

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/09/30/sphere-las-vegas-u2-opening-night-review/71008238007/

Just some old U2 music from the 1990s? Not exactly, it's an echo of Achtung Baby and ZOO TV in 2023 when a lot more people have become accustomed to smartphones and tablets, VR and AR...

 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/30/u2-review-an-utterly-astonishing-admirably-raw-vegas-extravaganza

The ZOO TV tour in the early 1990s was meant for stadium environments of 50K to 100 thousand people. The Sphere is only around 20 thousand at best, so it's more like an Imax arena thing.

https://www.youtube.com/@U2official/videos  


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV

U2 at the LV Sphere

 Inside U2's Sphere Residency in Las Vegas | Apple Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfUGtUER1yw

Although it's nowhere as big as the ZOO+TV Tour in the early 1990s, its at a whole new level of interactive technology.


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

The Creator (2023 film)

The_Creator is a spectacularly visually stunning movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creator_(2023_film)#Visual_effects_and_post-production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex3C1-5Dhb8

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11858890


AI can be a wonderful tool for humanity, or it could become the most inhumane thing in the world.

AI is Becoming More Dangerous And Threatening! - Mustafa Suleyman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTxnLsYHWuI

ChatGPT Could Be The Start Of The End! Sam Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmlrEgLGozw

Ex-Google Officer Finally Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI! - Mo Gawdat | E252 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-nQ7HF6k4

Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itY6VWpdECc

‘Deepfakes, destruction’: Artificial intelligence's ‘real danger’ to humanity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb7NddXDdxs

How AI Is Changing The Future Of The Human Race | Spark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTXtUoN9Cg

https://www.unitree.com There will be a point when these become ubiquitous and many people will be quite surprised.


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

A Supermarket customer's sweary rant on self-checkout tills

 https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/world-news/supermarket-customers-sweary-rant-self-31046085?int_source=nba

The Self-checkout terminals are certainly great in some ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-checkout#Advantages

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/self-checkout-cashiers-1.6931122

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinessdevelopmentcouncil/2023/04/11/the-rise-of-self-checkout-navigating-the-current-evolution-in-retail/?sh=143e40ac50fa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-checkout#Typical_systems

https://www.soocial.com/self-checkout-statistics/

https://www.business.org/software/point-of-sale/the-pros-and-cons-of-using-self-checkouts/

https://uwaterloo.ca/arts-computing-newsletter/spring-2021/feature/pros-and-cons-self-checkout-technology

https://www.glory-global.com/en-gb/blogs/en_gb/2020/cash-integration-in--retail-self-checkout/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/self-checkout-cashiers-retail-jobs-technology-1.5020299

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/09/business/self-checkout-retail/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-checkout#Disadvantages

https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-self-checkout-is-coming-no-matter-how-much-you-hate-it There seems to be a push to have more automation at the expense of less jobs for people. 

https://www.icxa.org/articles/examing-the-disruptive-innovation-of-self-checkout/

https://mozo.com.au/bank-accounts/articles/australians-shun-cash-in-2020-but-70-still-oppose-cashless-society

https://globalnews.ca/news/9233528/cashless-canada-digital-future/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-are-you-being-served-1.3422736

If humanity realizes one day that its totally under the management and control of AI, will anyone be curious as to when the takeover started?

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Expend4bles Is An Embarrassing...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJvr58ibMA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expendables_4#Critical_response

The Worst Movie Of 2023? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AO_0a37fIc

Expendables 4: One Of The Worst Films... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiPggYJEyzY

It would have been a good idea to take enough time to make a good part 4 of this series.

The Document Sustainability Citizen Identification Digital ID System

 https://blog.hidglobal.com/2022/11/beyond-document-sustainability-citizen-identification-digital-id-systems-part-1

AKA, the conformity and obedience card. Injectable or nanotech versions could be optional, for now.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-obedience-2795894

https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/fighting-the-climate-crisis-with-carbon-credits Getting the world on board so that most people can be conditioned to accept a global human herd management system will make life that much more comfortable for the billionares. 

https://greenly.earth/en-gb/blog/company-guide/what-is-carbon-management Eventually, people can AI through their phone if they have permission to leave their home and go to various places. If their carbon footprint is too high for the week, they might be confined to their local 15 minute area. 

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-asch-conformity-experiments-2794996 Just think how wonderful things could be if things are totally managed by a Global aGi system. Wonderful perhaps for those that want to have a Borg type world. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-borg-villains-history-explained/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg#Assimilation 

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

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg_history Of course science fiction stories don't have to be 100% accurate or fully prophetic. They can be about alternate worlds, situations and timelines, etc.

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


So many people are trapped within a Left or Right paradigm when things are much more complex. Totalitarianism under any name is of no benefit to free people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming You are what you buy or what you eat?

https://www.livekindly.com/poo-legally-allowed-food

A personal carbon_footprint management system run by AI, is a clever way to condition humanity into accepting the inhuman world of technocracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint#Shifting_responsibility_from_corporations_to_individuals

https://greenly.earth/en-gb/blog/company-guide/what-is-carbon-management

Eventually, AI can determine if you can own a car or go on a plane to another country or continent. It can also decide whether or not to grant you a breeding permit.

https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator/


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Sustainability+Citizen+Digital+ID+System

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

The Battle for Las Vegas

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dAp1PmhH8g

LV was almost built from scratch, because there wasn't much there in its early years.

Scam City: Las Vegas - A City with a Seedy Underbelly of Pleasure and Swindlers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr3vtZwztNQ


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Las+Vegas

The North Bay Nazi of Canada...

https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/rota-under-fire-for-honouring-a-north-bay-resident-with-nazi-ties-7592368

 https://www.sudbury.com/around-the-north/rota-takes-responsibility-for-decision-to-invite-a-nazi-war-veteran-to-the-commons-7599198

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/nazi-parliament-standing-ovation WTH?

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2012891/trudeau-calls-invite-for-ukrainian-veteran-who-fought-with-nazis-deeply-embarrassing

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66919230

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/house-speaker-anthony-rota-apologizes-after-inviting-man-who-fought-for-nazis-to-parliament-1.6575593

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/canada-parliament-speaker-faces-calls-to-step-down-after-honouring-nazi

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anthony-rota-ukrainian-veteran-apology-1.6977117

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/holocaust-education-north-bay-1.6623500


https://www.history.com/news/the-7-most-notorious-nazis-who-escaped-to-south-america

https://allthatsinteresting.com/ratlines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)#Ratline_escapes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117093/Secret-files-reveal-9-000-Nazi-war-criminals-fled-South-America-WWII.html

https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/the-perfect-hideout-jewish-and-nazi-havens-in-latin-america/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)#Argentine_connection

The Real Reason Why Nazi Officers Fled to Argentina After WW2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiAR4O7fl-E

The 15 Most Powerful Sith Lords

 https://movieweb.com/star-wars-most-powerful-sith-lords/

The ever expanding STAR+WARS universe has become the epitome of multigenerational entertainment.

Dubai’s Danube Properties announces $680mn Oceanz tower ‘sold out’

 https://www.arabianbusiness.com/industries/real-estate/dubais-danube-properties-announces-680mn-oceanz-tower-sold-out

It's very impressive for a city on the edge of the desert and the ocean to keep building on such a grand scale.

https://www.aninews.in/news/business/business/danube-properties-launch-rs-5600-crore-project-oceanz-in-dubai-maritime-city

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

It's not that there can't be any significant sea level rise in the distant future. However, any such long term sea level increase would likely be in feet, rather than meters.

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

Consider all the approved building permits and then all the required insurance.

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

Such permits and insurance wouldn't be granted if there was going to be any significant sea level increase in the near future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_(archipelago)

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


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

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+desert

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Humanoid Monsters and Beasts

 Such movies can be low budget and silly, but still be interesting, or moderate to big budget classic horror entertainment.

https://thedigitalbits.com/item/blood-beast-terror-kino-2023-bd


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

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Friday, September 15, 2023

DIFC’s first residential project ‘DIFC Living’

"The 186-metre tower of 41 storeys will have more than 170 upscale residences and 9 storeys of commercial space in addition to high-end F&B offerings"  https://www.constructionweekonline.com/projects-tenders/difcs-first-residential-project-difc-living-now-open-for-sale


A 186m or 610 foot building in Vancouver, BC would be the 3rd tallest within its small city limits. Yet, in Dubai it's just another stump building. A 186m tower surpasses any building in the cities of Rio_de_JaneiroSan_DiegoHonoluluCape_Town & Wellington.


Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Could there ever be a big Earthquake in the Big Apple?

https://core-use.verisk.com/Insights/Emerging-Issues/Articles/2020/August/week1/ActuallyItCanHappenToUsBigQuakeintheBigApple

A big enough earthquake could make what happened in 2001 seem like a warm up.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/predicting-the-earthquake-that-could-wreck-new-york

Unfortunately almost any city has the potential of being hit by an earthquake.

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

https://www.earth.com/news/new-york-city-earthquake/

Fortunately, NYC doesn't get the earthquake frequency like Tokyo and LA do.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/new-york-could-experience-a-damaging-earthquake

https://nypost.com/2017/09/09/new-york-city-is-overdue-for-a-major-earthquake/

An earthquake can happen almost anywhere on the planet, even in Saudi+Arabia.

 https://digital-desert.com , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Desert_Hot_Springs_earthquake

https://digital-desert.com/geology/intro4.html

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

https://earthquaketrack.com/p/saudi-arabia/biggest

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/saudi-arabia/largest.html

https://earthquakelist.org/saudi-arabia/

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1227126/amp

https://www.zawya.com/en/world/middle-east/41-magnitude-earthquake-monitored-in-saudi-arabia-w795ldrf

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/some-3800-years-ago-mega-earthquake-tsunami-hit-chiles-atacama-desert-2022-04-06/

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/biggest-earthquake-world-history

Southern Peru desert shattered by the great 2001 earthquake https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0404320101

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/saudi-arabia-earthquake-danger-official-report


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Saudi+Arabia 

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

The Multiverse Concept

Pondering the possibility of a Multiverse has astounding implications about the nature of reality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#History_of_the_concept


The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02602-8

https://www.nature.com/articles/4651010a


Of course it eventually worked its way into fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(DC_Comics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(DC_Comics)#Fictional_history_and_structure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(Marvel_Comics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse_(Marvel_Cinematic_Universe)


The parallel universe that's part of the Mythology of the Fringe TV series

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Fringe#The_parallel_universe

The Fringe_(TV_series) was fantastic science fiction and quite thought provoking entertainment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Fringe#Alternate_timelines

https://collider.com/fringe-tv-show

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Fringe

https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/Observers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Fringe#The_Pattern 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Deutsch#The_Fabric_of_Reality


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+multiverse 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=quantum+mechanics

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Cosmic+Pattern

The TWA pilot who ‘dodged’ 2 hijacked planes on 9/11

 https://nypost.com/2023/09/09/twa-pilot-who-dodged-hijacked-plane-on-9-11-an-unsung-hero-2

In some cases, big or pivotal events in history have intersections with synchronicity. Apparently, people aren't supposed to notice the pattern of the #911, even when its rearranged as 611, 119 or 191...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Airlines_Flight_611 25 May, 2002. Just rearrange the #911 & you have 611.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 July 17, 1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800#Accident_flight "The accident airplane, registration N93119 (a Boeing 747-131), was manufactured by Boeing in July 1971."

https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accidents/N93119 N**119, the last 3 digits are 119, not 911, but still peculiar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Express_Flight_2574 A crash on September 11, 1991.

191 not 911, but ominous nonetheless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_191 August 2, 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 May 25, 1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_191 It seems to be part of a pattern that is beyond human control.


https://collider.com/fringe-tv-show

https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/The_Pattern

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Fringe#The_Pattern

https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/September

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Fringe#The_parallel_universe


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Cosmic+Pattern

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

How Did Paris Become a Global Powerhouse?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJYB8uxnb1w

London and Paris Compared https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gts0T8bSh4

Why Paris Is Strangely Designed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ly4Hxb-WJ4

The Grand Paris Express - Europe's Largest Transport Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I80rRK8Fd8

The Experimental Metro Line Left Unopened Under A Paris Suburb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWxESIzJhCU A lot of cities have incomplete or hidden infrastructure.

London and NYC are economic and cultural rivals.

A mysterious deep-sea creature that no human has EVER seen...

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12490773/Mysterious-golden-egg-discovered-seafloor-Alaska-belong-deep-sea-creature-unknown-science-experts-claim.html

If there was ancient life on Mars, perhaps some of it was also on Earth.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/life-may-have-been-more-likely-originate-mars-earth-180978021/

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/traces-ancient-ocean-discovered-mars/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12490957/NASAs-Perseverance-rover-spots-shark-fin-crab-claw-Mars.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia#Interstellar_or_interplanetary

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

In a way, the movie Life_(2017_film) is like a contemporary story about intelligent organic matter from Mars migrating to Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)#Plot

Of course The_Thing_(1982_film) is also a story about a hostile ET life form crashing on earth, but a very long time ago.

Horror_Express (1972) is another fascinating agressive ET on Earth story.

"The extraterrestrial has been stranded on Earth for millions of years. It kills passengers with specific knowledge that could help it build a new spaceship. Eventually, Cossack Captain Kazan stabs and shoots Mirov. With Mirov dying, Pujardov, believing the creature to be Satan and having pledged allegiance to it prior, allows it to possess him." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express#Plot

Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film) is an interesting story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit_(film)#Plot

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

Friday, September 01, 2023

Hackers Target Telescopes, Forcing Them to Pause Operations

Two major telescopes in Hawaii and Chile and a handful of smaller observatories have been offline for weeks following an apparent cyberattack https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hackers-target-telescopes-forcing-them-to-pause-operations-180982831

There is a mad rush to have almost everything linked to digital systems. The more things that can be digitally interconnected makes for a better global collapse, some day. There should always be backup and redundancy systems. Otherwise, there will be a lot more unnecessary global chaos.


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

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