https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mvynnxzzmo
News & popular culture & observing various ideas & Sci-Fi concepts that become a technological reality. What is reality in general? Some say that it's all part of a cosmic simulation.
Monday, December 30, 2024
Movies and TV Series featuring drones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_drones#List_of_films
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-drones-hollywood-20151008-story.html
https://www.dronegenuity.com/memorable-movie-scenes-featuring-drones/
https://medium.com/@lumaskyshow/how-drone-shows-promote-movies-and-tv-shows-9f43632c8a86
When a drone is controlled by AI, then its robotic technology.
https://coptrz.com/blog/drones-in-filmmaking-the-best-drones-for-the-job/
https://aerialvistaproductions.com/tv-shows-films-using-drones-in-2016/961/
https://www.adorama.com/alc/drones-hollywood-film-movie-industry/
https://scifiinterfaces.com/2015/04/14/military-drones
https://fr.gta5-mods.com/vehicles/combat-drone-from-the-movie-oblivion-add-on
https://marvelstorybook.fandom.com/wiki/Drone_(Oblivion)
https://terrordaves.com/2013/04/23/drones-and-clones-mark-oblivion/
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/inside-oblivion/
https://teradek.com/blogs/articles/westworld-season-2-the-role-of-aerial-cinematography
https://westworld.fandom.com/wiki/Drone_Host
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a19883568/what-are-westworld-drone-hosts/
https://thangle.com/portfolio-item/westworld-season-3/
https://verticalmag.com/features/hbo-westworld-evtol-aircraft/
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Will the Bird flu be the biggest story of 2025?
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-12-29/bird-flu-will-it-be-the-biggest-story-of-2025
https://www.today.com/health/disease/bird-flu-pandemic-rcna183174
There is a HUGE profit incentive for billionaires+and+pandemic+profits, but it's at the expense of human freedom and democracy. Until the 2020s, the notion to shutdown or reduce most of the world's economy, because of a global+health emergency, just wasn't quite practical yet. Then with AI starting to mature and be merged into a global human-digital civilization, a centralized control grid could be applied upon the masses.
In 2020, people were told that after 2 weeks of flattening-the-curve, that would greatly improve things.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2007263
The human world ended up being place under a soft martial situation.
https://www.vox.com/22180261/covid-19-coronavirus-social-distancing-lockdowns-flatten-the-curve
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7392458/
A new state of world control was being unleashed. While social-distancing-and-self-quarantine can be beneficial, there is also a harsh toll that it takes on any free society.
Overall, instead of a 2 week lockdown, many people were broken down or even bankrupt after 2 years. Then tremendous inflation or a devaluation of money started to happen. However, the billionaires still made big profits.
A global economic breakdown from a global pandemic, disasters and wars, could provide the necessary impetus to impose A Great_Reset of the world's economy and civilization in general.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRkkeecg7c
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Nevada vs. Arizona
https://smmirror.com/2024/05/living-comparison-nevada-vs-arizona-in-2024
https://www.55places.com/blog/arizona-vs-nevada-which-southwest-state-is-best-for-retirement
What are the major differences from Arizona and Nevada? Differences Phoenix AZ and Las Vegas NV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1Y_K0QOmIg
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/usa-states/compare/nevada/arizona
The Top Reasons People Regret Moving To Phoenix Arizona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd3ByDl6JZQ
https://www.maxtour.co/can-you-stand-in-nevada-and-arizona-at-the-same-time/
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Billionaires and pandemic profits
https://inequality.org/article/updates-billionaire-pandemic
There is alway a potential for the-very-rich-to-get-even-richer-during-another-pandemic, or some other type of a-global emergency situation.
https://inequality.org/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-over-four-years/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1231107/billionaire-wealth-growth-by-industry/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/economy/billionaires-poverty-oxfam-davos/index.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaires-double-wealth-covid-pandemic/
However, while a very small percentage of people can see BIG financial gains, most people lost out from being in a reduced economy.
https://ips-dc.org/u-s-billionaires-62-percent-richer-during-pandemic
While it was such a big financial win for a small amount of people, most people were left the poorer for it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-rich-get-richer-1.6147415
https://fortune.com/2022/05/23/pandemic-billionaire-wealth-oxfam-poverty-inflation-food
https://pearljam.com/music/song/do-the-evolution/lyrics , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Can+AI+Create+Deadly+Viruses?
Some issues to watch in global health in 2025
https://www.statnews.com/2024/12/26/global-health-three-issues-to-watch/
Any new world wide health emergency that necessitates the need to extremely restrict the movements of people and dramatically reduce the global economy, could be disastrous.
A Human Herd Control and and Management System is one way to organize civilization, but it could lead into a draconian scenario.
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf
There is an immense potential for more huge financial profits, but at the expense of millions-of-people-that-could-fall-into-extreme-poverty.
https://inequality.org/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-over-four-years/
https://www.ehstoday.com/health/news/55249394/health-trends-to-watch-in-2025
The world's-richest-men-could-see-their-wealth dramatically increase again.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1231107/billionaire-wealth-growth-by-industry/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02789-2/fulltext
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/12/27/why-do-the-rich-get-richer-even-during-global
A return to anything like another Covid control shutdown could potentially lead to a medical version of martial law. But just think of all the money that the billionaire class could make from another shutdown, potentially leading to a draconian type of world.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-rich-get-richer-1.6147415
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Can+AI+Create+Deadly+Viruses?
Dozens survive Kazakhstan passenger plane crash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwl1e6895qo
What happened to Azerbaijan_Airlines_Flight_8243?
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/AHY8243
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_family#E-190_and_195
https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/did-russia-shoot-down-azerbaijan-airlines-flight-j2-8243/
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Rod Serling
Rod_Serling figured out ways to get around the corporate_censorship of the day. Thus, Sci-Fi & fantasy stories fit the bill.
Of course writers like Jules_Verne and H.G._Wells really knew how to create Sci-Fi storytelling. Rod_Serling's_The_Twilight_Zone became a fine modern example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone-The_Time_Element_(1958)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Zone_(1959_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Is_Everybody?
The episode Execution_(The_Twilight_Zone) from April 1960, seemed to depict something like a desktop_personal_computer with a flat screen .
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734567/mediaviewer/rm2366755585 Even a decade after this TZ episode the 1970 Datapoint_2200 had a very small screen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_(The_Twilight_Zone)#Plot
Monday, December 23, 2024
Some of the Biggest Myths About the Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ3j4hHMO5E
BlackRock and other asset managers are profiting off of every aspect of BU$INE$$... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZO0jd8VoU
What Aristotle Knew About Oligarchy That We Forgot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMguSl8PHS4
Escaping the Rat Race: What School Failed to Teach You About Money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJpIqD8MGg
The Untold Truth About Money: How to Build Wealth From Nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mRbDEtDoyA
Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to state charges in slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Did Luigi_Mangione simply get fedup and enraged with the US+Healthcare+System?
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/luigi-mangione-arraignment-state-charges/
He wanted to direct his pain, anger and frustration towards someone.
Unfortunately for him, he decided to make a violent and deadly choice.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Luigi+Mangione
Avengers: Doomsday
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Friday, December 20, 2024
California ground squirrels engage in 'shocking' carnivorous activity
This seems like its almost from a Sci-Fi story.
Hopefully, they will never get as big as cars and as ferocious as tigers.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/carnivorous-feeding-squirrels-documented-california
They just seem to be interested in eating smaller rodents, just like rats will occasionally eat mice.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/science/california-squirrels-carnivorous-eating-voles/index.html
Are people next? Not likely, but that is part of a Sci-Fi story.
https://people.com/new-evidence-reveals-california-squirrels-are-carnivorous-8763694
Thursday, December 19, 2024
What's all in the new SUPERMAN movie Trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGcxj-JbwqY
SUPERMAN Official Teaser Trailer Breakdown | Easter Eggs Explained, Krypto, Lex, Hawkgirl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yscVfk7sTME
Who's Who in James Gunn's New Superman Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMm8vdwfKi8
SUPERMAN TRAILER 2025: Green Lantern, Henry Cavill Changes & Things You Missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtqhs7LUWnQ
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Did Google’s Quantum Chip Just Tap Into a Parallel Universe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qEy9fXiecQ
It's been the stuff of Sci-Fi entertainment for quite a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_(TV_series)#Parallel_universe
https://fringe.fandom.com/wiki/Alternate_Universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythology_of_Fringe#The_parallel_universe
https://screenrant.com/fringe-reboot-parallel-universe-setup-original-cast/
Drones spotted near at least 17 military bases located next to Chinese-owned land in US
Nothing like having conflicting reports.
Pentagon Rules Out Threats From Multiple Drone Sightings in New Jersey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv-jUpo4Oo
Batteries Not Included (1987)
Batteries_Not_Included is a silly Sci-Fi movie about some visiting drone size, AI controlled vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteries_Not_Included#Plot
A funny take on ET-AI self replicating or reproducing machines.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/mediaviewer/rm154406657/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/mediaviewer/rm2857897729/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/mediaviewer/rm3931836161/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/mediaviewer/rm1698500353/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/mediaviewer/rm54333185/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/mediaviewer/rm3193442049/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092494/mediaviewer/rm2448450560/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/batteries-not-included-1987
Drone sightings and security concerns: A growing debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyHkfTZaAIw
Confusion Or Coverup: Mysterious Drones Over East Coast Lead To Calls For Military Intervention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29biKwY5baQ
Drones are not tracking missing radioactive material in New Jersey, officials say https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpC8t3oIvu0
Rand Paul Blocks Drone Security Bill Due To Concerns Over Privacy Violations And Overreach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApiXNv9eiXA
The Batman: Part II Gets a Major Update Following Several Setbacks
Cash versus digital payment systems
https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/cash-vs-digital-payments
There is a lot of convenience, but its not convenient if you are locked out of the system.
Digital certainly makes sense for big transactions.
https://www.clearlypayments.com/blog/global-shift-from-cash-checks-to-digital-payments/
However, on a person to person or human level, cash isn't just nostalgic, its essential.
https://www.bis.org/statistics/payment_stats/commentary2301.htm
https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/15255-cash-free-society.html
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
James Gunn on the Set of Superman
https://gizmodo.com/james-gunn-superman-set-visit-interview-clark-lois-lex-luthor-2000538088
Superman has remained somewhat consistent through the decades.
https://thedirect.com/article/superman-2025-movie-synopsis-what-to-expect-dc-studios
The Science of Star Trek with Dr. Charles Liu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CJQKaQ62M4 , https://www.youtube.com/@StarTalk/videos
How Star Trek's Future Works Part 1: Money, Work and Property https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJwWxT269ec
How Star Trek's Future Works Part 2: Social Currency and Government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDFDmk0hoUw
How Star Trek's Future Works Part 3: Housing and Leisure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOs4M9NE04M
Star Trek's TV and "Cinematic" Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kXy2nzqiLs
The Ultimate Star Trek Kelvin Timeline Retrospective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-iiyqiV80
Even More Bad News For The Batman Part 2?
https://gamerant.com/james-gunn-bad-news-the-batman-2
The+Batman movie really deserves a sequel, but certain things still have to be worked out.
https://bleedingfool.com/movies-tv-film/some-conflicting-reports-on-matt-reeves-the-batman-2-script/
https://screenrant.com/dc-universe-robert-pattinson-batman-not-in-james-gunn-agree/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Batman
Monday, December 16, 2024
Saturday, December 14, 2024
The Cryptocurrency Age
"Most People Have No Idea What Is Coming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQBs6XmZcZ8
The Investing & Crypto Expert: "We Only Have 6 Years Until Everything Changes!" - Raoul Pal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyhhwVJB9Z4
Friday, December 13, 2024
Ocean County sheriff: Officer says he saw 50 drones coming off the ocean | Vargas Reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K98A4CLMwf4
Drone sightings reported around the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoRqLTnzdA
What Are These Drones Doing Over New Jersey? A Closer Look at the Mystery | WSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxX56MmFd10
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Trump says it’s ‘fine’ after Ontario's threat to cut energy to border states
Does The Willow Quantum Chip Show That We’re in a Multiverse?
https://manofmany.com/tech/google-quantum-computing
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-makes-quantum-leap-willow-chip-multiverse
https://www.newsweek.com/google-quantum-chip-parallel-universes-willow-1999224
https://www.sciencealert.com/googles-new-chip-could-crack-one-of-quantum-computings-biggest-problems
The+multiverse concept is quite a fascinating theory.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/10-reasons-multiverse-is-real-possibility.htm
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c791ng0zvl3o
https://blog.google/technology/research/google-willow-quantum-chip/
https://www.livescience.com/multiverse
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-is-the-multiverse
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-we-might-live-in-a-multiverse/
Do We Live In a Multiverse? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjE8siMesNE
https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/blog/top-multiverse-theories-niyah-and-the-multiverse/
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Severe pain shaped UnitedHealth CEO murder suspect’s view of health system
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/luigi-mangione-back-pain-healthcare-shooting
Intense pain can drive a person to become drastic.
https://www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangione-back-pain-ceo-shooter-what-we-know-surgery-1998995
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=US+Healthcare+System
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Luigi+Mangione
Healthcare in the United States
If a person is angry with the U$ Healthcare_System, as a result of a botched surgery or other issues, a seething level of rage can grow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United_States#Health_insurance_and_accessibility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United_States#Overall_system_effectiveness
Unfortunately, if a person is experiencing constant back-pain and frustrated with the US Healthcare_System, such a person could go over the edge and take a violent course of action.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/11/luigi-mangione-back-pain-healthcare-shooting
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=US+Healthcare+System
UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder suspect Luigi Mangione
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Trump's talk of 51st state called Canada is an age-old dream, and no joke
"To outsiders, the second-largest country on Earth is loosely governed by people with little interest in developing spectacular resources other countries would love to have" https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-trump-talk-51st-state-canada-dream-no-joke
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-suggests-canada-become-51st-state.html
William vs. the Trog movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_(film)
After 35,000 Years, Scientists Secretly Bring Back Neanderthals on Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaILb1nmOGE
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6316816/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/william-2019
https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/film-review-william-1203183932/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trog , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68JrnoSzgVo
https://monster-and-slashers.fandom.com/wiki/Trog
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/trog-1970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trog#Production , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsIdokqEm4U
Monday, December 09, 2024
Luigi Mangione charged with murdering healthcare CEO in New York
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2zwqqr1ro
Was the murder of UnitedHealthcare+CEO+Brian+Thompson perpetrated by just one person? That will have to be determined in court.
"Mangione was carrying multiple fraudulent IDs and a U.S. passport, Tisch said. One of the IDs matched the fake New Jersey ID that the shooting suspect used to check into a Manhattan hostel before the shooting, the commissioner said." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/luigi-mangione-healthcare-ceo-shooting-what-we-know/
"Mangione was found with a ghost gun — a weapon that can be made at home, and is nearly untraceable — and a suppressor. He also had multiple pieces of fake identification similar to those believed to have been used by the killer, officials said, as well as similar clothes." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/luigi-mangione-brian-thompson-shooting-1.7405958
"Mangione graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, a Penn spokesperson confirmed to CBS News. He received a Master of Science in engineering with a major in computer and information science, and a Bachelor of Science in engineering, majoring in computer science with a minor in mathematics, the spokesperson confirmed." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/luigi-mangione-healthcare-ceo-shooting-what-we-know
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Luigi+Mangione
Suspect (Luigi Mangione) in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
If its proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he is the shooter, or was involved with the murder in any other way, he is facing several decades or even life in prison for the murder of UnitedHealthcare+CEO+Brian+Thompson.
For any young guy going into the big house for the rest of his life, he will likely be heavily used and abused by the very hardened convicts.
He will be their plaything and party toy, but at the end of the day, he will just become another prison boy.
His trial for taking the life of CEO+Brian+Thompson will likely reveal his motive.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Luigi+Mangione
Saturday, December 07, 2024
The Time Element of The Twilight Zone
Long before the Fringe_TV_series, Black_Mirror, Lost, The_X-Files, Kolchak:_The_Night_Stalker and The_Outer_Limits, there was The_Twilight_Zone.
It all started with a TV pilot episode called, The_Time_Element in_1958.
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/479596/the-time-element#overview
Of course time-travel is a key component in several Sci-Fi stories.
https://twilightzone.fandom.com/wiki/The_Time_Element , https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i4844
https://twilightzonevortex.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-time-element-westinghouse-desilu.html
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Time+Travel
The Final Countdown (1980 film)
The_Final_Countdown is an exciting Sci-Fi movie involving the USS Nimitz and time travel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Countdown_(film)#Plot
Over a couple of decades after the movie, some peculiar objects were sighted around the ship.
https://www.history.com/news/uss-nimitz-2004-tic-tac-ufo-encounter
The 2004 USS Nimitz UFO Incident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85OhTbTtK_I
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+USS+Nimitz
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Time+Travel
Friday, December 06, 2024
The UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed and many people had little sympathy
Unfortunately, these huge profit driven healthcare providers always have one main objective. If a person is suffering from a botched surgery, or has other issues, it can be very easy to become enraged with the US+Healthcare+System.
Thursday, December 05, 2024
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot in New York City
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/unitedhealthcare-brian-thompson-death-12-04-24/index.html
Unfortunately, whether such a person walks a block, a KM or a mile, they must have a security team with them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/crmn2ry1224t
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/midtown-manhattan-shooting-hilton-hotel/
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/04/nyregion/brian-thompson-uhc-ceo-shot
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=UnitedHealthcare+CEO+Brian+Thompson
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
China tests carrier-like ship, but mystery vessel’s purpose remains murky
Monday, December 02, 2024
Could artificial intelligence alter what it means to be human?
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/artificial-intelligence-evolutionary-biology-humanity-future
If people start to allow AI to determine how humans should exist, the results could be a most inhumane world.
Sunday, December 01, 2024
The Tesla Bot in 2025 and beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6KtiOmRkn8
Elon Musk's Trillion Dollar Plan For Austin Texas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABBDk0aJSs0