The Digital Labyrinth :: TDL: February 2025

GH was in The_Conversation and Enemy_of_the_State, with suspicious death as being part of the storyline. Now GH might be part of a suspicious death investigation.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Gene+Hackman

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

History of the US missile shield concept

https://www.sandboxx.us/news/the-us-missile-shield-is-reagans-star-wars-dream-coming-true/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-06/trump-s-iron-dome-needs-to-succeed-where-reagan-s-star-wars-failed

Flying car vs. Drone car

https://theness.com/neurologicablog/the-alef-flying-car/

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/1/5/24023892/flying-cars-china-j-storrs-hall-technology-innovation-helicopter

https://faircompanies.com/articles/flying-car-or-big-drone-evtols-are-electric-compact-silent

A very extensive version of AGI-GPS would be required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine#I,_Robot

Perhaps some kind of Emergence might happen.

Hopefully, there will never be a Final+Destination type scenario.

FINAL DESTINATION Timeline and Rules Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K-ndkBGplY

EVERY Secret in the Final Destination Franchise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM_aILLWzzI

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

New 'Mickey 17' Clip Shows Robert Pattinson's Confrontation With His Clone

https://www.filmibeat.com/hollywood/news/2025/new-mickey-17-clip-shows-robert-pattinsons-confrontation-with-his-clone-more-details-445759.html

Mickey_17 is another Sci-Fi, cloning adventure movie.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-pattinson-tries-kill-clone-221130629.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/15/mickey-17-review-robert-pattinson-proves-expendable-in-bong-joon-hos-eerily-cheery-cloning-drama

World’s first flying car hops over vehicle in public test

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/flying-car-alef-aeronautics-range-b2703554.html

With a good propulsion system and GPS working at an optimum level, this is possible.

https://www.flyingmag.com/flying-car-lifts-off-over-the-streets-of-california/

https://globetrender.com/2025/02/25/alef-aeronautics-debuts-flying-car/

https://www.iotworldtoday.com/flying-vehicles/flying-vehicle-company-gets-30m-funding

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cx20nwlqe07o

https://www.jalopnik.com/1798307/flying-car-alef-aeronautics-california-miserable/

https://alef.aero/

https://www.aeromobil.com/

You can be sure that Tesla, Inc. will want to get in on the whole flying+car wave.

Southwest flight narrowly avoids collision at Chicago's Midway Airport

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/02/southwest-flight-narrowly-avoids-collision-at-chicago-airport.html

https://abc7chicago.com/post/southwest-flight-2504-omaha-ne-chicago-lands-safely-go-around-close-call-midway-airport-airline-says/15954269/

https://people.com/southwest-plane-nearly-collides-with-private-jet-at-chicago-airport-aborts-landing-to-avoid-crash-11686225

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_International_Airport#Accidents_and_incidents

Monday, February 24, 2025

The Battle of Los Angeles in 1942

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

https://www.history.com/news/world-war-iis-bizarre-battle-of-los-angeles

The Alien Threat Behind the Battle of LA | History's Greatest Mysteries (S5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbBCIrorYY

How a UFO Caused the Battle of Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAH59Wh-Ymo

https://www.latimes.com/visuals/framework/la-me-fw-archives-1942-battle-la-20170221-story.html

More Billionaire Wealth, Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers

https://inequality.org/article/updates-billionaire/

https://inthesetimes.com/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-pandemic

While another covid shutdown would dramatically increase the wealth of the billionaires, things would be very rough for the general public. The world could go into a total financial depression. So many small businesses and smaller businesses would get gobbled up or simply fold.

https://telegrafi.com/en/how-jeff-bezo%27s-wealth-increased-by-72-billion-dollars-during-the-pandemic/

https://www.thestar.com/business/they-ve-outdone-even-their-wildest-dreams-canadian-billionaires-saw-wealth-jump-51-during-pandemic/article_d2811926-af0a-5ec8-ac3f-0ce522bd9e0e.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/12/27/why-do-the-rich-get-richer-even-during-global

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/dec/19/ten-billionaires-reap-400bn-boost-to-wealth-during-pandemic

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/fortunes-of-10-richest-men-rose-by-540bn-since-coronavirus-struck-march-2020

Fortunately, the world economy hasn't been shutdown for the past 5 years and the global lockdown wound down years ago.

https://news.uchicago.edu/tag/covid-2025

However, given the potential to have another huge financial boost for the billionaires, could it happen again?

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

A relative was denied new heart because she is unvaccinated

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14414581/jd-vance-adaline-deal-heart-transplant-covid-vaccine.html

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1076004339/heart-transplant-patient-unvaccinated

https://nationalpost.com/news/sheila-annette-lewis-alberta-covid-organ-transplant

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/01/unvaccinated-medical-care-hospitals-omicron/621299/

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/can-physicians-decline-unvaccinated-patients

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/new-virus-in-china-hku5-cov-2-what-is-hku5-cov-2-the-new-bat-coronavirus-in-china-that-could-trigger-another-covid-19-pandemic/articleshow/118470495.cms?from=mdr

https://telegrafi.com/en/billionaires-who-are-making-money-from-tests-and-drugs-to-fight-covid-19%2C-their-wealth-increased-by-several-billion-dollars/

Sunday, February 23, 2025

HKU5-CoV-2, the new bat coronavirus in China sparks global concern

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/hku5-cov-2-the-new-bat-coronavirus-in-china-sparks-global-concern-know-its-symptoms-and-how-does-it-spread/articleshow/118527801.cms?from=mdr

Unfortunately, there is always the potential for something bad to get into the general human population.

https://telegrafi.com/en/billionaires-who-are-making-money-from-tests-and-drugs-to-fight-covid-19%2C-their-wealth-increased-by-several-billion-dollars/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Chinese team finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans via same route as COVID-19

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/world/2025/02/501_392740.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehignett/2025/02/22/what-is-hku5-cov-2-scientists-find-bat-virus-similar-to-covid-19

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

Friday, February 21, 2025

COVID-like bat virus discovered by researchers in same Chinese lab accused of leaking deadly 2020 outbreak

https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/world-news/covid-like-bat-virus-discovered-by-researchers-in-wuhan-lab-study/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14421599/coronavirus-potential-cause-pandemic-discovered-china.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/chinese-researchers-find-bat-virus-enters-human-cells-via-same-pathway-covid-2025-02-21/

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3299491/chinese-team-finds-new-bat-coronavirus-could-infect-humans-same-route-covid

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14421799/yale-scientists-covid-vaccine-study-message-victims.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=coronavirus+variants

Thursday, February 20, 2025

China scientists discover new bat coronavirus that poses risk of animal-to-human transmission

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/another-pandemic-china-scientists-discover-new-bat-coronavirus-hku5-cov-2-that-poses-risk-of-animal-to-human-transmission/articleshow/118453245.cms?from=mdr

Bat-infecting merbecovirus HKU5-CoV lineage 2 can use human ACE2 as a cell entry receptor https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092867425001448

Delta Connection Flight 4819, crash in Toronto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Connection_Flight_4819 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1sHnkF-088

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta+Connection+Flight+4819

Monday, February 17, 2025

YouTube at 20

https://theconversation.com/youtube-at-20-how-it-transformed-viewing-in-eight-steps-250083

Toronto Pearson Airport plane crash

https://globalnews.ca/news/11022300/pearson-airport-crash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Connection_Flight_4819#Crash

A plane crash is bad anywhere, especially in freezing Canada.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/delta-airlines-plane-crashes-at-toronto-pearson-peel-police-responding/article_3f6bf1e8-ed69-11ef-a888-43d587f41274.html

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/peel/article/multiple-people-injured-in-delta-airlines-plane-crash-at-toronto-pearson-paramedics-say/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/02/17/delta-regional-flight-crashes-toronto-airport/78983808007/

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/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-u-plane-crashes-2025-195045679.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG2bv96ZYS0yO6YeYDj5PivaCth82jRJHNiwkZcvLtMcY9tEONz_uBrkAgB4OqVDehnAt56m0usKk78bubopfgWxjb83R-Pkaclhc94vShIlU7_VmUpG8jjA4Od3OzdALAnofaHACbC753JuNilSzWff61QvDF4UJfBRFzxHyQLV

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Delta+Connection+Flight+4819

Sunday, February 16, 2025

20 years of YouTube

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2528806/20-years-of-youtube

Flying the U-2 Spy Plane 70,000 Feet to the Edge of Space

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

Fatboy Slim - Sunset (Bird of Prey) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKEWdRPRf3I

Friday, February 14, 2025

YouTube turns 20 years old today

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5296900/youtube-20th-anniversary

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7zx4x0k1eo

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

YouTube at 20: How the Viral Video Site Forever Changed TV

https://www.televisionacademy.com/features/emmy-magazine/articles/youtube-20th-anniversary

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

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/paris-ai-summit-draws-world-leaders-ceos-eager-technology-wave-2025-02-10/

The Abraham Lincoln Bridge

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Memorial_Bridge

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Abraham+Lincoln

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)

Produced by	Steven Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(film)#Production

https://13thdimension.com/the-twilight-zone-dig-these-13-great-time-travel-episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_There 1961 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_There#Plot

https://gamerant.com/twilight-zone-best-time-travel-episodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tall_Target 1951 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tall_Target#Plot

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50

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

https://thedoors.com

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

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/americas

https://www.economist.com/the-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.criterion.com/films/207-alphaville?srsltid=AfmBOooIV1FYO9ttt7fPDHG7MKf2BmNH3Uv__gZ3UtaylN7NeSa9dKEO

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=1382&c=572

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Gamma_60#Legacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city#Motivations

Flying Car vs. eVTOL: Which Is the Best New Kind of Aircraft?

https://robbreport.com/motors/aviation/evtol-flying-car-comparison-1236192206

Flying Cars and eVTOL vehicles could easily be run by AI, but there could be some problems.

There must be a better ATC system run by people with some assistance from AI. Thus, adequate staffing is essential. Otherwise, there might be a push to have a total AI run ATC system without any human oversight.

America’s Deadliest Aviation Disaster in 20 Years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoMiD_ix0aM

Thursday, February 06, 2025

How Does Age Verification Work Online?

https://hyperverge.co/blog/how-does-age-verification-works-online/

https://lauren.vortex.com/2024/12/24/terminology-bypassing-face-age-verification

https://www.pcmag.com/news/experts-heres-why-age-verification-rules-for-social-media-wont-work

https://www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/age-verification-the-complicated-effort-to-protect-youth-online/challenges-with-age-verification/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/online-age-verification-laws-privacy/

Wednesday, February 05, 2025

What if you just keep zooming in on physical reality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88bMVbx1dzM

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

https://tetherow.com/blog/rockchucks-at-tetherow/

Saturday, February 01, 2025

Supersized AI TVs

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/features/sizing-up-your-next-tv-heres-where-big-screens-are-taking-us

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.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90208133/orwell-knew-we-willingly-buy-the-screens-that-are-used-against-us

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