https://theconversation.com/youtube-at-20-how-it-transformed-viewing-in-eight-steps-250083
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, February 17, 2025
Toronto Pearson Airport plane crash
https://globalnews.ca/news/11022300/pearson-airport-crash/
A plane crash is bad anywhere, especially in freezing Canada.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/plane-reportedly-crashes-while-arriving-202716109.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_aviation
https://hollywoodlife.com/feature/how-many-plane-crashes-2025-5366808/
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
The History of YouTube
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube
https://www.britannica.com/topic/YouTube
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Logo_of_YouTube_%282005-2006%29.svg
https://www.vdocipher.com/blog/history-of-youtube/
Where's The Fair Use? - Nostalgia Critic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVqFAMOtwaI
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
The Paris AI summit
https://observers.france24.com/en/france/20250212-macron-modi-ai-summit-paris-fact-check
Of course after most of the world was introduced to a COVID lockdown in 2020, some people might like the idea of smart-cities becoming something like an Alphaville total control zone.
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/us-uk-decline-to-sign-onto-macrons-ai-summit-communique
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/europe/vance-speech-paris-ai-summit.html
https://onu.delegfrance.org/ai-action-summit-10-and-11-february-2025
The Abraham Lincoln Synchronicity with JFK
Of course Abraham_Lincoln was a different person from a different era. Yet, there are some striking peculiarities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln-Kennedy_coincidences_urban_legend
https://ecampus.matc.edu/mulvennk/pdf/coincidences_involving__lincoln_kennedy.pdf
https://halliwell-lhs.co.uk/articles/strange-coincidences/
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-odd-parallels-between-kennedy-and-lincoln
https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/the-lincoln-chair and https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/kennedy-limo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towers_(Ohio_State) Twin towers.
"The Towers were dedicated on November 11, 1965..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Towers_(Ohio_State)#History 11-11 synchronicity.
President Kennedy & Presidential Secretary Evelyn Lincoln https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/jfkwhp-1961-11-14-e#?image_identifier=JFKWHP-KN-19439
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(film)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(film)#Production
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a60553384/covid-simulation
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Abraham+Lincoln
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
In The Room With Robby Krieger and John Densmore of The Doors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0Dssqs44Q , https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato/videos
Ray Manzarek on the death of Jim Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf68Y5G2Po8
Final Days of Jim Morrison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M24qzyCQalU
Jim Morrison: The Final 24 Hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsR298DD5aw
Jim Morrison - Bird of Prey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSncHZG3y34
Reporter banned from Oval Office event over editorial decision not to use 'Gulf of America,' AP says
The Associated Press said last month it would continue to use 'Gulf of Mexico'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gulf-of-mexico-ap-reporter-banned-gulf-of-america-1.7456618
This so stupid, call it, GULF OF THE AMERICAS. Not just Mexico & not just the USA, but the Americas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Americas
https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/everything-to-know-about-the-americas-nbc-tom-hanks-narrator
https://www.britannica.com/place/Americas
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Action_Summit
Where are the guarantees that AI won't be used to turn smart-cities into something like Alphaville?
https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia
https://www.elysee.fr/en/sommet-pour-l-action-sur-l-ia/programme
https://francedigitale.org/agenda/business-day-2025
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/pm-modi-ai-action-summit-paris-9829918/
Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville depicts a dystopian Smart_City scenario.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UitB6c8QP80&t=387s
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alphaville
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/alphaville-film-review-2023
https://thecinematheque.ca/films/2024/alphaville
https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/alphaville
https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=1382&c=572
Wednesday, February 05, 2025
Monday, February 03, 2025
The Matrix Casting Will Smith vs. Keanu Reeves
https://screenrant.com/matrix-will-smith-neo-cast-morpheus-val-kilmer-change-factoid/
For some reason Will Smith didn't want to be in a movie in which he would be up against Agent_Smith.
https://movieweb.com/will-smith-matrix-video-proves-he-was-wrong-neo/
https://deadline.com/2025/01/will-smith-matrix-instagram-1236249483/
Sunday, February 02, 2025
Groundhogs and Woodchucks
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/blog/groundhogs-facts/
Hardly like cute little mice, these are big animals that really like to GNAW.
https://www.britannica.com/animal/groundhog
https://www.hww.ca/wildlife/mammals/woodchuck/
https://www.tn.gov/twra/wildlife/mammals/medium/woodchuck.html
Saturday, February 01, 2025
Supersized AI TVs
Unlike in the 1990s, people can have their own big Zoo_TV or TV matrix zoo set up at home. The Zoo_TV_Tour was all part of the big entertainment theatrics that you could never get a home. However, by the 2020s, big Tvs & big computer screens have made ones home theater & home office experience much more interchangeable, if they wish. Of course there is a dark side to technology.
The AI Telescreen has been the stuff of Sci-Fi for several decades. However, as AI becomes more pervasive the Telescreen becomes more science than fiction. Today the Telescreen is in any 2-way device such as a smartwatch, smartphone, tablet, laptop or desktop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_CCTV#Criticism
https://www.ipl.org/essay/Instill-Paranoia-In-George-Orwells-1984-PJCED9HGZV
https://www.wired.com/2008/02/does-the-technology
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug Of The Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI
Friday, January 31, 2025
Will Smith channels Neo in Matrix-inspired video for new single 'Beautiful Scars' feat Big Sean
Will+Smith probably would have been great in the MATRIX movies.
However, those movies were really made for KR.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Will Smith and Big Sean - Beautiful Scars feat. OBanga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWYQmPZrkOk
It might not be a case of regret for an actor, Will+Smith just occasionally wondered, what if?
Actors always make choices and sometimes many years later, they might ponder if they had made the correct decision.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Will+Smith+channels+Neo+in+Matrix-inspired+video
The ‘Godfather of AI’ predicts that it will take over the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkBE23zDmQ
‘Godfather of AI’ on AI “exceeding human intelligence” and it “trying to take over” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGJpR591oaM
Mo Gawdat on AI: The Future of AI and How It Will Shape Our World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhcNrnNJY54
YUVAL NOAH HARARI: Our AI Future Is WAY WORSE Than You Think | Rich Roll Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jl64f-821o
Possible End of Humanity from AI? Geoffrey Hinton at MIT Technology Review's EmTech Digital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sitHS6UDMJc
Poppy - Time Is Up (feat. Diplo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2pS9KN28U
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
China's DeepSeek AI shakes the industry
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd643wx888qo
Looks like it's time for some else to turn over the AI apple cart.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/deep-seek-ai-markets-nvidia/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/deepseek-ai-startup-1.7442382
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/27/what-is-deepseek-and-why-did-us-tech-stocks-fall
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=DeepSeek
Monday, January 27, 2025
Big Tech in panic mode... Did DeepSeek R1 just pop the AI bubble?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7aCUsWykg
Why DeepSeek AI Will Disrupt Everything You Know About AI & What It Means For Markets | Tom Bilyeu Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y9OdGPz8YI
Deepseek R1 Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3TpcHebtxM
DeepSeek R1 - The Chinese AI "Side Project" That Shocked the Entire Industry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5adgxV0gBE
Who's ready to play hide and seek with DeepSeek?
Will Smith and Big Sean - Beautiful Scars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0HKY-Q6w-A
https://deadline.com/2025/01/will-smith-matrix-instagram-1236249483/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/will-smith-wont-star-matrix-5-1236102605/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Will+Smith+channels+Neo+in+Matrix-inspired+video
Jardine House, HK
The Jardine_House tower was the first building in HK permitted to have more than 50 floors.
Roof | 178.5 m (585.6 ft) |
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Top floor | 168.5 m (552.8 ft) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardine_House#Gallery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong-Timeline_of_tallest_buildings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Hong_Kong#Tallest_buildings
Sunday, January 26, 2025
China’s New AI Model DeepSeek Just Won the Tech Race...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC2J-0vlhy8
DeepSeek R1 Explained... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv8frWeKoeo
How China’s New AI Model DeepSeek Is Threatening U.S. Dominance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEBiebbeNCA
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-room-argument
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room
https://iep.utm.edu/chinese-room-argument/
https://ai.stackexchange.com/questions/39293/is-the-chinese-room-an-explanation-of-how-chatgpt-works
https://mind.ilstu.edu/curriculum/searle_chinese_room/searle_chinese_room.html
The Australia Square Tower
Australia_Square was quite an impressive cylinder of a building when it opened in 1967.
https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/top-of-the-town-20040515-gdixds.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sydney#1960s_and_1970s
The Australia_Square_Tower was the first building permitted to have 50 floors in Australia.
Now it's just an average tall building in Sydney, even if it was in Melbourne or Brisbane. It wouldn't even be the tallest in Perth, but it would be in Adelaide & especially Hobart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Square#Surpassing_of_height
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Sydney#21st_century
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Australia#Tallest_buildings
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Australia+Square
Australia: the Dreamworld and the Nightmare
Luxurious housing makes the most profit for developers.
https://www.upmove.com.au/post/cost-of-living-in-australia
However, it's a small part of the market, when compared to the amount of people requiring basic comfortable housing needs.
Mixed income level buildings could be part of the solution.
https://en.uhomes.com/blog/cost-of-living-in-australia
A lot of developers like to build big and tall and charge sky-high prices.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/world/australia/economy-cost-of-living.html
Perhaps a compromise could make the best of both worlds. The delux housing at the top 3rd or quarter of a tower, with the rest for those seeking a more affordable level of housing. The up side would be more densification vs. urban sprawl. However, the down side would mean that more people would be living in tall buildings with less of a push for more urban sprawl and low rise housing.
Midnight Oil - Dreamworld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcKcjpSWmm0
Midnight Oil - Dreamworld (Ellis Park - The Concert / 1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeIJo_qiJDg
Colonial Abuse
People want to celebrate and have a good time, but it's also important to always be aware of the history of any colonized land.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconciliation_in_Australia
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5248411/Photos-Aboriginals-shackled-chains.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_reserve#History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beds_Are_Burning 1987
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (Ellis Park - The Concert / 1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqkLQYk9Eo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beds_Are_Burning#Composition
Midnight Oil, "Beds Are Burning" (live at the Hultsfred festival 1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiq5QK_SBqs
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (Extended Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1VPf9hjOFM
Midnight Oil - Uluru Statement from the Heart (Read by First Nations collaborators) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWoIgPyQTK4
Republic Day, India
Any country has its problems and various challenges. India continues to become more modern and dynamic every year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Day_(India)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_India
https://apnews.com/article/india-republic-day-new-delhi-indonesia-abd71bfbd60080cff34e671414218f6c
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India#Demographics,_languages,_and_religion
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-india-and-pakistan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_wars_and_conflicts
https://armscontrolcenter.org/history-of-conflict-in-india-and-pakistan/
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2025/country-chapters/india
Australia Day
https://www.australiaday.com.au
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Cities
Men At Work - Down Under https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s
Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECVGN4Bsgg
https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/australia/australia-day
https://nationaltoday.com/australia-day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Australia
https://www.awarenessdays.com/awareness-days-calendar/australia-day-2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Harbour_Bridge#Walk_for_Reconciliation
A modern welcoming nation is the ideal goal, but it's important to remember the Colonial+Abuse mentality and agenda of earlier times.
Friday, January 24, 2025
Some Movies with Robotic Surgery depicted in them
https://aliensoup.com/threads/movies-with-robotic-surgery-in-them.59567
PROMETHEUS "Emergency Surgery" scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUhjlb96mA8
AutoDoc Medical Pod Explained | Passengers Movie Tech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICsn0prjMJ0
https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/330662797639549334/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/robotic-surgery/about/pac-20394974
Thursday, January 23, 2025
Trump shakes things up for the globalists at Davos summit 10 things you didn't know about Davos
Of course when their objective is to F over the world, they still want to have a good F-ing time for themselves.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/13/news/davos-party-secrets-caviar-magic-mushrooms-champagne/
https://nypost.com/2023/01/18/prostitutes-charge-davos-attendees-2500-a-night/
10 things you didn't know about Davos https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46895332
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/t-magazine/plutocrats-gone-wild.html
https://www.npr.org/2012/01/24/145660069/davos-a-super-bowl-for-smart-rich-people
Is Will Smith in The Matrix part 5?
https://screenrant.com/the-matrix-5-will-smith-casting-meta-resurrections-op-ed/
Will+Smith in M5, not likely, but it could have been interesting.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Monday, January 20, 2025
Sunday, January 19, 2025
The Willow Processor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_processor
Google’s Quantum Chip: Did We Just Tap Into Parallel Universes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qEy9fXiecQ
Human organic intelligence and perception might not be able to detect all the facets of quantum mechanical sentience.
Quantum AI
The Hunting Party TV series
https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/the-hunting-party-season-one-ratings-viewer-votes/
Perhaps for people that just want nonstop action or suspense, this isn't for them.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/the-hunting-party-review-nbc-1236110866/
However, based on the pilot episode, there is a lot of interesting potential with this TV series.
https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/watch-the-hunting-party
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Researchers study mice brains with VR goggles
https://www.wionews.com/videos/researchers-study-mice-brains-with-vr-goggles
Mouse VR, WTH?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/15/health/video/mouse-vr-headset-alzheimers-research-ldn-digvid
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-mice-headsets-easier-brain-response.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02540-y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pose_tracking#Optical_tracking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display#Further_development_and_experimental_uses
Mouse Droid | Robot Chicken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbBdixsqC3U
What Do Mouse Droids Actually Do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aacaSFfo4s
Friday, January 17, 2025
SpaceX debris littered islands but no injuries reported
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/science/spacex-starship-explosion-investigation/index.html
https://fortune.com/2025/01/17/u-s-grounds-spacexs-starship-rocket-after-part-of-it-exploded/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/faa-spacex-musk.html
US grounds SpaceX's Starship after test flight explosion https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2yyxrz9kvo
Fortunately, no people were onboard, unlike with the Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster in1986 and the Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster in 2003.
The Truman Show (1998)
The_Truman_Show depicts a guy who doesn't realize that he is trapped inside a giant soundstage. However, he starts to notice various patterns and peculiar clues that are indicative of being inside of a constructed and orchestrated reality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show#Plot
https://www.tastelesspod.com/episodes/2022/9/27/rock-the-boat-the-truman-show-vs-don't-worry-darling
https://medium.com/@stephenblackford561/dont-worry-darling-2022-516ed4f8141a
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Truman+Show
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Don't+Worry+Darling
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
A shocking claim about the mysterious drones that plagued New Jersey for over a month
Various people might be behind this mystery, for different reasons. However, some of the drone sightings are more peculiar than others.
Out of State Fire Trucks Headed to CA Wildfires
While the loss of life seems to be low, the damage and loss of property could be around 250-billion-dollars.
How This Billionaire Couple STOLE California's Water Supply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B19qb1Az94
Los Angeles insurance giant makes chilling prediction after devastating fires
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14285771/los-angeles-insurance-giant-prediction-fires.html
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/californias-insurance-crisis-just-got-whole-lot-worse
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/la-county-inferno-expected-top-250-billion-losses
The Shocking Corruption Behind LA's Water Supply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muB6sOH_QW8
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Canada’s provincial leaders in disarray over response to Trump tariff threats
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/14/canada-trump-tariffs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-poilievre-trump-tariffs-1.7429894
https://international.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/services/trade/policy/good-services
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2024/09/global-trade-in-a-changing-world/
https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub/economics-trade-policy/urgent-need-for-canada-diversi Canada should have started decades ago to establish a business trade with almost every nation.
https://www.asiapacific.ca/publication/canada-prepared-transformed-trade-landscape-asia-four-mega
Staggering image of 100 essential fire trucks idling in a parking lot waiting for repair while Los Angeles apocalyptic fires ravage city
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14282009/fire-trucks-Los-Angeles-fires.html
Why California is Running Out of Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJVtLbg98Yk
Monday, January 13, 2025
Newsom eases building restrictions as theories grow of how fires were ignited
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/newsom-marshall-plan-wildfire-theories
Building it all back better?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/business/dealbook/rebuilding-los-angeles-olympics-2028.html
How and when and for who?
https://globalagents.ca/evergreen/los-angeles-2-0-fact-sheet-california
Water Wasted | What happened to all the water from California's historic winter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5fJJUJMitY
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Friday, January 10, 2025
City on Fire (1979 film)
City_on_Fire is about an out of control oil refinery conflagration that's not necessarily set in the Greater Houston Area or in L.A. County. It's set in a generic North American metropolis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_on_Fire_(1979_film)#Plot
https://www.morrowsheppard.com/blog/worst-refinery-explosions-in-us-history
While most of LA isn't on fire, some key parts of the county are.
https://www.california.com/the-4-coolest-national-forests-in-socal
https://wildfiretaskforce.org/southern-california-regional-profile
LA and Los_Angeles_County is a much larger area than Greater Houston. Some parts of Los_Angeles_County still have a wilderness feel and some parts still have heavily wooded sections or even forest_areas.
https://learncalifornia.org/southern-california-forests/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-fire-maps-palisades-eaton-hurst-2025
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/pacific-palisades-fire-updates-los-angeles
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/los-angeles-wildfires-water-scarcity
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline and empty when firestorm started
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pacific-palisades-reservoir-offline-empty-163924460.html
Of course no one thought that it would be a good idea to make sure that all possible reservoirs, pools and water tanks are full during a heightened time of fire risk.
Apparently, there was a nothing will go wrong attitude, but if it does, this is what ends up happening.
Also apparently, there was no need to put up temporary safety barriers in N.O. while the permanent ones were being repaired.
New Orleans had top-of-the-line barriers to prevent car attacks — but didn't use them on New Year's Day https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-orleans-barriers-prevent-car-attacks-didnt-use-new-years-rcna186012
"Retractable bollards designed to protect New Orleans' French Quarter from vehicle attacks were inactive due to a replacement project at the time of the New Year's Day attack, which saw 15 people killed in an ISIS-inspired motorist rampage." https://www.newsweek.com/new-orleans-vehicle-attack-barriers-replacement-2008442
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/us/bourbon-street-barricades-new-orleans/index.html
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
Thursday, January 09, 2025
Petrolia industrial fire in Ontario, Canada
https://london.ctvnews.ca/industrial-fire-closes-road-for-12-hours-1.7169914
An industrial fire and an urban fire aren't always the same thing.
https://petrolialambtonindependent.ca/2025/01/08/no-one-injured-in-petrolia-industrial-fire/
This is so small when compared to what's happened around L.A.
Authorities warn of extensive damage as LA fires rages
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/09/nx-s1-5253785/los-angeles-pasadena-california-fires
People will use almost anything they can to try to put out a fire.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/southern-california-wildfires-by-the-numbers
While a bucket or a bag of water, or a garden hose can work on extinguishing a very small fire, only professionally grade firefighting equipment is best against any major fire.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/09/california-wildfires-destruction-los-angeles
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/los-angeles-wildfire-victim-dead-b2676480.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/an-actors-guide-how-not-to-pack-your-wildfire-go-bag/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
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Did Joe Rogan Predict these Historic Los Angeles Wildfires?
The strain on the Greater L.A. Area will be felt for quite a while.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
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A California Podcaster Shares Video of 'Arsonists' in Downtown Los Angeles as Wildfires Rage
https://www.latintimes.com/california-podcaster-shares-video-arsonists-downtown-los-angeles-wildfires-rage-571676 Published Jan 09 2025, 1:19 PM EST
Unfortunately, some people get excited by the sight of an out of control fire and want to start some of their own.
Of course several fires can start naturally, but sometimes there are people that want to start some of their own fires.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
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Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Palisades Fire torches 1,000 structures, most destructive in Los Angeles history
https://ktla.com/news/california/wildfires/palisades-fire-wednesday-live-updates/
The Greater Los+Angeles Area should have been much better prepared by now.
https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
Los Angeles disaster preparedness?
https://lafd.org/disaster-preparedness
The Greater L.A. Area really should already have had a series of above and underground water tanks and reservoirs, just in case another big fire broke out.
https://readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire , https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/1346
https://bof.fire.ca.gov/media/4z1o4fhb/rpc-2-b-ii-city-of-los-angeles-draft-safety-element.pdf
https://fire.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ready-set-go_04292021-High-Quality-B.pdf
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/specialpublications/nist.sp.1191.pdf 1191
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
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Why did fire hydrants go ‘dry’ for crews fighting the Palisades Fire?
Thousands flee as wildfires burn out of control and destroy homes across the Los Angeles area
Multiple massive wildfires are tearing across the Los Angeles area with devastating force
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles+fires
Smart LA 2028: Technology for a better Los Angeles?
https://www.itskrs.its.dot.gov/node/212391
All this surveillance and coordination technology can help any city to be more efficient.
However, if ever totally run by AI and not humans, a totalitarian situation could emerge producing inhumane results.
https://www.geoweeknews.com/news/la28-2028-olympics-autodesk-technology-bim-retrofitting
https://dot.la/smart-la-2028-2659008086.html No matter how much high-technology can be applied, if there aren't enough emergency water tanks to fight fires, its pointless!
Technology is a series of tools, but such tools should never be used to turn L.A. or the world into a series of Black+Mirror episodes.
https://ita.lacity.gov/smartla2028 , https://la28.org/en.html
https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2021/07/how-los-angeles-plans-become-smarter-city-2028-olympics People might say that its too expensive to have a series of above and underground water reseevours to fight fires with. Now look at what has happened to the unprepared Greater LA Area.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Los+Angeles
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Greater+LA+Area
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Black+Mirror
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alphaville
Could lake water from Alaska be shipped to L.A., Long Beach ports?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/14/shipping-water-alaska-california/73934396 Almost a decade later and California could really use some of that Alaskan freshwater.
https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fresh-water-as-shipping-commodity/67227
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Fire hydrants ran dry as Pacific Palisades burned. L.A. city officials blame ‘tremendous demand’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/14/shipping-water-alaska-california/73934396 Almost a full decade later and California is still waiting for some of that abundant Alaskan freshwater.
https://www.livescience.com/43176-drought-pipeline-water-projects-arid-west.html
https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/fresh-water-as-shipping-commodity/67227
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