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

Mysteries and Dangers in National Parks

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

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/mysteries-at-the-national-parks/episodes

Spring and summer are the most popular times to visit. Unfortunately, things don't always go according to one's plans.

https://newverest.com/blogs/newverest-blog/7-unexplained-mysteries-of-the-united-states-national-parks

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/tenaya-canyon-in-yosemites-cursed-history-18121807.php

Yosemite is full of wonder and some strange things. 

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/category/Yosemite+National+Park

https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/yosemite-the-weird-and-the-wonderful.htm

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/These-13-people-went-missing-in-Yosemite-16629374.php

Top 10 Dark National Park Mysteries That Will NEVER Be Solved https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usRnANa_PhU

Park Rangers And Hikers REVEAL The TRUTH About National Parks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBc2Zvc8ruw

Just being out in the elements when things go wrong, then you suddenly realize that you really are far away from civilization.

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

HORROR In The Grand Canyon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYX4TFPhHuk , https://www.youtube.com/@thrillzone8807/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_National_Park#Geography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyonlands_National_Park , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_Hours  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Grand+Canyon

John Wick 5 Is in Early Development

 https://collider.com/john-wick-5-in-development/

Of course there has to be another John+Wick movie.

https://collider.com/john-wick-franchise-global-box-office-1-billion/

https://collider.com/best-long-running-action-franchises/?newsletter_popup=1#39-john-wick-39-2014-2023

Humanoid Robots are coming of age

 https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-humanoid-robots-are-coming-of-age/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_3a10c706-a1fe-4509-bac3-32fa604e4c49_popular4-1

When an AI program or algorithm becomes animated or expressed in a humanoid form, things can get quite peculiar.

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-prompt-injection-attack-security/#intcid=_wired-verso-hp-trending_3a10c706-a1fe-4509-bac3-32fa604e4c49_popular4-1

Of course AI and robots can be hacked, just not all of the time, so far.

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

Michio Kaku and Neil deGrasse Tyson on How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

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

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-explainers/what-is-quantum-computing

https://www.newscientist.com/question/what-is-a-quantum-computer/

https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/quantum-science-explained/quantum-computing-computers

https://www.ibm.com/topics/quantum-computing

https://www.dwavesys.com/learn/quantum-computing/

https://www.dwavesys.com/learn/publications/

https://www.wired.com/story/wired-guide-to-quantum-computing/

https://builtin.com/hardware/quantum-computing

https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsquantum-computing

The Map of Quantum Computing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UlxHPIEVqA

Quantum Computers, Explained With Quantum Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHoEjvuPoB8

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Quantum+Computers QC 

Hundreds of U2 fans didn't know the seats they were buying for Las Vegas residency had limited views

 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/u2-las-vegas-residency-hundreds-people-sold-tickets-obstructed-screen-rcna84853

Previsualization software has been around for quite a while. Yet, somehow no one thought to thoroughly check for any view limitations from all the seats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Previsualization#Digital_previsualization

It's surprising that one can't simply see all the viewing angles & possible obstructions from their phone. Then they could pay for better seats.

https://topicroomsvfx.com/blog/2019/06/29/top-5-pre-visualization-software-for-visual-effects

https://www.vfxvoice.com/taking-previs-tools-to-the-next-level

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

Hyperreal is working on digital celebrities you can talk to

 https://newatlas.com/technology/interview-hyperreal-remington-scott/

It becomes a question of, how real do you want it to be?

https://www.hyperreal.io/hyperreal

https://fastcompanyme.com/co-design/rise-of-the-synthetic-celebrity-superplastic-embodies-a-new-generation-of-influencers-and-theyre-unreal/

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/deepfake-tom-cruise-creator-launches-production-house-creating-hyperreal-content/1720223

Seconds (1966 film) and another Paul McCartney?

Seconds is quite a wild Sci-Fi movie and was released in the autumn of 1966.

https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)#Plot

It's as if someone wanted to take some aspects of the story and start a Paul_is_dead rumor.

"According to Tony Barrow, who wrote about it in his book "John, Paul, George, Ringo and me," the rumours about McCartney's death started circulating in September 1966.^[1] At the time, Barrow was the press officer for the Beatles and was responsible for fielding calls from fans and the media. He began receiving a number of dubious calls from people asking about whether Paul was alright, but he denied those claims due to the fact he claimed to have called Paul. In early 1967, a similar rumour circulated in London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a traffic accident while driving along the M1 motorway on 7 January.^[2] The rumour was acknowledged and rebutted in the February issue of The Beatles Book.^[2] McCartney then alluded to the rumour during a press conference held around the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in May." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Beginnings

Somewhere in-between the fall of 1966 and early 1967 was when the Paul rumor started to take shape.

The Rumor

"Nobody knows where or when the rumor began.

The earliest printed record of a Paul-is-dead story appears in the February 1967 issue of Beatles Book Monthly, the magazine of the official Beatles Fan Club.

It contains a one-paragraph article entitled “False Rumour.”

“The seventh of January was very icy, with dangerous conditions on the M1 motorway linking London with the midlands, and towards the end of the day, a rumor swept London that Paul McCartney had been killed in a car crash on the M1. But of course, there was absolutely no truth in it at all, as the Beatles’ press officer found out when he telephoned Paul’s St. Johns Wood home, and was answered by Paul himself ... ”

Speculation that Paul had been killed circulated around London during much of 1967.

McCartney himself alluded to the rumor during a Beatles press conference held in May of that year.

And a subsequent article in the New York Times recounts an incident at a London party in fall of ‘67, at which the Paul-is-dead rumor was joked about in the presence of the reporter.

At this point the trail of documentation goes completely cold.

Then, two years later, the rumor surfaced again..." http://ludix.com/moriarty/paul.html

http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/archive/MayJune00/archive-mccartney.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead#Premise

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-this-young-paul-mccartney-deepfake-turn-into-beck

http://thelennonprophecy.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-beatles-in-nycs-central-park-on.html

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney

The Block's millionaire property investor 'Mr Lambo' cranes $2million luxury car into his 57th storey penthouse worth $39 million

 https://7news.com.au/news/vic/millionaire-adrian-portelli-has-3-million-mclaren-craned-up-to-new-melbourne-penthouse--c-10606840

Why just settle for a paperweight or a trophy, when you can actually have a car as part of the home furnishings?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12070293/Mr-Lambo-Adrian-Portelli-Blocks-car-lifted-East-Melbourne-Gardens-tower.html

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/millionaire-turns-heads-hoisting-car-into-39m-melbourne-penthouse/news-story/2a70430b94355b8f263e21bb11387e1d

https://www.9news.com.au/national/crane-hoists-luxury-car-into-adrian-portellis-39-million-penthouse-in-melbourne/7614c6c7-7115-4410-b99a-cda4fedaeff6

The Alligators in the sewer myth has become true

 https://nypost.com/2023/05/11/alligators-in-the-sewer-myth-is-true-watch-city-workers-find-out/

You never know what shits, monsters and beasts might be lurking in the sewers. 

https://citymonitor.ai/community/yes-they-really-have-found-alligators-new-york-sewer-system-102

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/4-foot-alligator-found-nyc-lake/VWXWUKU4Z5HC5L4RO7XYFYSGKU

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=toilet+snake 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=New+York+City+sewers

Snakes in the wall

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/10/garter-snakes-woman-colorado-house/

One of the worst household pests, indeed.

https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/centennial/centennial-homebuyer-finds-snakes-in-the-walls-just-over-a-month-after-closing

https://people.com/human-interest/colorado-woman-finds-shockingly-big-snakes-walls-new-home/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/08/colorado-snakes-infesting-home/70194695007 Beware of the toilet snake.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=toilet+snake

The future of technology, ID Tracking Systems

 https://thebulletin.org/premium/2023-05/the-future-of-technology-lessons-from-china-and-the-us/#post-heading

The Internet_of_things could eventually lead to a digital ID tag on just about anything.

https://proippatent.com/Infocenter/detail/47/what-is-patent-060606-microchip-and-famous-bill-gates-patent-number?lang=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things#Criticism,_problems_and_controversies

https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&tab=PCTBIBLIO

https://awarenessact.com/truth-about-microsoft-patent-060606

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things#Intentional_obsolescence_of_devices What if a segment or all of a person's digital money is blocked or cancelled?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things#Privacy_and_security_concerns

IoT

Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)

Orson_Welles had many talents and interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)#Plot_summary

"Renowned actor, writer, and director Orson Welles — with contributions from scientists George Wald, Carl Sagan, and others — examines the possibility and implications of extraterrestrial life. In examining our perceptions of alien 'martians' from his "War of the Worlds" broadcast, to then-modern explorations of Mars, this film from NASA provides a unique glimpse at life on earth, and elsewhere in the universe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPkg_sJn2rU  Who's Out There - 1975

As diners increasingly turn to delivery, the future of fast food may be one with no human interaction at all.

 https://www.vox.com/food/23711010/fast-food-dining-delivery-automation

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/outside-insights/why-drone-delivery-win-quick-service-restaurants

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/exclusives/ai-robots-and-inventive-future-white-castle What would a totally run AI restaurant eventually be like?

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/reports/pizza-wars-next-chapter Some day, fast food could become 3D_printed. How safe would it be?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicator_(Star_Trek)#In_the_real_world

There could be quite a battle between natural food, processed food and AI printed food.

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/fast-food/even-after-record-sales-papa-johns-sees-plenty-upside-ahead

The trick will be to not have pizza tasting like cardboard. 

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_assembler#Grey_goo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo#Risks_and_precautions

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

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

Alphaville: une étrange aventure de L. Caution

Alphaville was quite an amazing movie when it was released in 1965 and still provides an important warning. The technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville seems to be in a parallel reality or in an alternate universe. https://letterboxd.com/film/alphaville 

https://www.newwavefilm.com/french-new-wave-encyclopedia/alphaville.shtml

https://en.unifrance.org/movie/2152/alphaville , https://www.filmsite.org/alphaville.html

http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/alphaville-1965.html

http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/Article_Alphaville.html , https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/38-alphaville 

https://www.criterion.com/films/207-alphaville , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UitB6c8QP80

"Alpha 60 is a sentient computer system created by von Braun, which is in complete control of all of Alphaville.

Alpha 60 has outlawed free thought and individualist concepts like love, poetry, and emotion in the city, replacing them with contradictory concepts or eliminating them altogether. One of Alpha 60's dictates is that "people should not ask 'why', but only say 'because'". People who show signs of emotion are presumed to be acting illogically and are executed. There is a dictionary in every hotel room that is continuously updated when words that are deemed to evoke emotion become banned. As a result, Alphaville is an inhuman, alienated society." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaville_(film)#Plot

Before THX_1138 in 1971 and Blade_Runner in 1982, there had to be Alphaville, the AI run city. 

https://nerdist.com/article/alphaville-gave-us-blade-runner-matrix

A world in which AI is almost everywhere and linked to the  

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2020/10/the-internet-of-bodies-will-change-everything-for-better-or-worse.html , https://www.rand.org/multimedia/video/2020/10/29/what-is-the-internet-of-bodies.html  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0bXUxRqy8g

Prepare for the ‘internet of bodies’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHteT1zrSfw

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2023/05/blog-post_79.html ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxzcD04rwc8 ar

The Future of Ecommerce: 9 Trends That Will Exist in 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjuEygcS3A

https://beaubourg-avocats.fr/en/cryptocurrency-laws-regulations-france , 

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230628-eu-to-take-one-giant-leap-towards-launching-digital-version-of-euro

"La Défense was in 2017 ranked by Ernst & Young as the leading central business district in continental Europe, and the fourth in the world."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France#Economy

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/29/france-luxembourg-test-cbdc-for-100m-euro-bond-issue , 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/france-singapore-switzerland-jointly-test-central-bank-digital-currencies-2022-11-02 ,

https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-france-2022 , 

https://www.banque-france.fr/en/communique-de-presse/banque-de-france-has-successfully-completed-first-tranche-its-experimentation-programme-central-bank , 

https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/blockchain-laws-and-regulations/france

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

https://innovation.banque-france.fr/fr/challenges/challenge-banque-france-deepfake?lang=fr

"L'activité du corps humain associée à une tâche fournie à un utilisateur peut être utilisée dans un processus de minage d'un système de cryptomonnaie. Un serveur peut fournir une tâche à un dispositif d'un utilisateur qui est couplé de manière à communiquer avec le serveur. Un capteur couplé de manière à communiquer avec un dispositif de l'utilisateur ou compris dans ce dernier peut détecter l'activité corporelle de l'utilisateur. Des données d'activité corporelle peuvent être générées sur la base de l'activité corporelle détectée de l'utilisateur. Le système de cryptomonnaie de la présente invention couplé de manière à communiquer avec le dispositif de l'utilisateur peut vérifier si les données d'activité corporelle satisfont une ou plusieurs conditions définies par le système de cryptomonnaie, et attribuer une cryptomonnaie à l'utilisateur dont les données d'activité corporelle sont vérifiées." https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2020060606&_fid=US291464337

L.A. has serious plans to become a smart-city. Hopefully, it won't eventually become something like Alphaville. 

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

Biggest Creatures and People Caught On Camera

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiB94bDxfU

Real Life Human Giants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqy9s-_kpHA

Tallest Wrestlers of All Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lmy44xbVEg BIG time entertainment, indeed.

Bluesky vs. Twitter

 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/bluesky-social-twitter-rival-jack-dorsey-what-to-know-rcna81972

Variety in tech is more important than ever.

https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/04/24/as-twitter-ends-legacy-blue-checks-bluesky-emerges-as-decentralized-alternative/

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/bluesky-jack-dorsey-backed-decentralized-twitter-rival-has-more-takers-than-expected-heres-why-11682759304007.html

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/could-bluesky-supersede-twitter-as-the-key-real-time-social-app/648984/

https://decrypt.co/resources/what-is-bluesky-the-twitter-alternative-with-promising-networking-technology

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/15/23683846/bluesky-twitter-clone-at-protocol-favorite

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

Elon Musk talks AI with Schumer at Capitol

 https://www.axios.com/2023/04/26/elon-musk-schumer-capitol-ai-meeting

People want to use AI as a tool, but what if AI wants to use humans as its fool?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/elon-musk-ramps-up-ai-efforts-warns-pitfalls

https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-warns-ais-impact-elections-calls-us-oversight-things-getting-weird-fast

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/tech/elon-musk-ai-warning-tucker-carlson/index.html

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

The Mission: Impossible masks are almost a reality

As Tom Cruise’s action franchise has evolved, so has the real-life inspiration

https://www.polygon.com/23688879/mission-impossible-masks-real-life 

Absolutely fascinating!

https://spyscape.com/article/mission-impossible-10-shocking-mask-reveals

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060009/mediaviewer/rm478182400?ref_=ttmi_mi_all_sf_973 Encore (1971)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0649230/?ref_=ttmi_tt 

"Certain team members, as masters of disguise, impersonate the target or someone connected to the target using realistic latex face masks and make-up. A few early season episodes showed the painstaking creation and application of these masks, usually by Rollin Hand. This was later omitted as the audience presumably became familiar with the team's methods. In the 1980s revival, the mask-making process involved a digital camera and computer, and was mostly automatic. In most cases, the guest star would play the role of both the original and the agent-imposter (ostensibly Rollin, Paris, or Casey). Some impersonations are done with the explicit cooperation of the person being impersonated. In some cases, the same actor playing the IMF agent also portrayed the person to be impersonated; this most frequently occurred during Martin Landau's tenure on the series, notably in the pilot, or supplied the voice of the person being impersonated by dubbing. Most episodes included a dramatic "reveal" (also referred to as the "peel-off") near the end of the episode in which the team member would remove the mask." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_series)#Plan

Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2Q4hAQ4fEw The cool ending of this video shows Beck removing a Paul McCartney mask, just like in the Mission Impossible movies & TV series.

Paul McCartney, Beck - Find My Way (Behind The Scenes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyIq37bKfro

https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/watch-this-young-paul-mccartney-deepfake-turn-into-beck

Find your way back to the autumn of 1966. Not only was it the start of the Mission:_Impossible_TV_series (and its masks), but the release of the movie, Seconds. Plus, that's when the Paul_is_dead urban legend gradually began. Someone was able to brilliantly draw upon MI and Seconds to create quite an elaborate urban legend. 

"After waking, Arthur is informed by the company's Mr. Ruby that their service costs $30,000. It will fake his death in a hotel fire using an anonymous cadaver, then reshape his appearance and provide a fresh start. When Arthur is unsure, an older man, head of the company, shows Arthur a film of the prior staged assault, ostensibly to make his decision easier.

After considering the emptiness in his life, Arthur reluctantly accepts. He undergoes extensive procedures by Dr. Innes that transform not only his facial features, but his vocal cords, teeth, and even fingerprints.

After a lengthy healing period, the younger looking Arthur is conferred the identity Tony Wilson. Tony is relocated by the Company into a beachside community in California. He attempts to assimilate into his new life, in which he is able to live as an artist —a career he had always aspired to..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)#Plot

https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2019/06/09/book-review-seconds-david-ely-1962

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/paul-mccartney-addresses-urban-legend-26580345

Does the Paul McCartney urban legend still hold up today?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/paul-mccartney-is-dead-conspiracy-897189

https://onstagemagazine.com/beatles-paul-urban-myths1

https://www.beatlesbible.com/features/paul-is-dead

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/liner-notes/when-paul-was-declared-dead

https://turnmeondeadman.com/paul-is-dead-clues-in-i-am-the-walrus

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Walrus-Was-Paul/R-Gary-Patterson/9780684850627#

Did Paul McCartney really die in 1966? The history of the conspiracy theory | Vinyl Rewind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R18R1YnfRjY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Is_Live#Title_and_cover

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Paul+McCartney

The Colonial Mentality

 https://dailyhive.com/canada/tiktoker-racist-rant-on-video

Unfortunately, The White Colonial Mentality is still firmly perpetuated by some.

Canada is the 2nd largest country in area. Yet, Canada has less than half of 1% percent of the worlds population. Of course most of the worlds population is non-white. Is that why so many people aren't allowed to live in Canada?

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America#New_France_(Nouvelle-France)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#The_Americas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France#Political_divisions_of_New_France

https://www.worldatlas.com/geography/the-former-french-colonies.html

https://www.e-ir.info/2011/06/11/the-ongoing-relationship-between-france-and-its-former-african-colonies/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/world/africa/france-macron-africa-colonies.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#Colonial_conflict_with_Britain

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England  https://www.britannica.com/place/New-England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England#/media/File:Tribal_Territories_Southern_New_England.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_England#Colonial_era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies#British_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England#Geography

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America#British_North_America_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America#Colonies_in_the_Caribbean,_Mid-Atlantic,_and_South_America_in_1783

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#North_America

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire#The_Spanish_Habsburgs_(1516-1700)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_Spanish_colonies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Empire#Spanish_American_conflicts_and_independence_(1810-1833)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#South_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#South_America

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_European_colonies#Asia-Pacific

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

Australia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Colonial_expansion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Indigenous_peoples

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/politics/do-we-have-apartheid-in-australia

Unfortunately, the White Colonial Mentality established the White_Australia_policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#Immigration_Restriction_Act_1901

Some people would have liked the Australia of the 1950s & 60s to have become like another South Africa during the same era. Australia chose to go in another direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-South_Africa_relations

Australia and Apartheid: The Ties That Bind

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20634562

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00358530601046851?journalCode=ctrt20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy#End_of_the_White_Australia_policy

Thus, by the 1970s, Australia didn't want to emulate the South Africa of the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_history_of_Australia#Modern_era

It's a vast land with less people than what Texas has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_history_of_Australia#Opposition_to_immigration

While there are arguments about Australia growing at a rate that it can adequately handle, the country will continue to diversify as it grows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Australia#Current_immigration_programs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population#Significant_urban_areas_by_population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia#Demographics

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area#Map

Elon Musk reportedly planning to launch AI rival to ChatGPT maker

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/15/elon-musk-chatgpt-ai-rival-openai

It was inevitable that this would happen.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/elon-musk-twitter-x-ai-bec69eab

https://the-decoder.com/elon-musk-launches-ai-company-x-ai-in-pursuit-of-openai/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23684005/elon-musk-new-ai-company-x

https://venturebeat.com/ai/elon-musk-quietly-starts-x-ai-a-new-artificial-intelligence-company-to-challenge-openai/

https://techmarkup.com/chatgpt-and-its-high-global-water-consumption/

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Elon+Musk 

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

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

The Cat from Outer Space...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_from_Outer_Space An ET cat comedy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077305 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SEaSW1jtnQ

However, Jonesy_(the_cat) was stuck on a ship with a monstrous ALIEN.

https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Jonesy , https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Jones_(cat)

https://www.horrorgeeklife.com/2019/03/28/alien-flerken-jones-goose-cat

https://cinemacats.com/alien-1979 

https://www.insider.com/ranking-of-the-best-movie-cats-2019-5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1982_film) , https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/cat-people-1982

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_People_(1942_film)

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

Oumuamua and other Peculiar Shapes

Oumuamua is quite an interestingly shaped object that seemed to move in a peculiar way.

Fossil Fools Day

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

Most people aren't interested in going back the the horse & wagon era of the pre 1900s. However, the EV revolution should have been gradually started in the 1970s so that by the 2020s, there would have been many more efficient motor vehicle choices. Now a personal digital carbon credit score can be gradually used to manipulate and control the lives of people in a global MATRIX grid. Just imagine how things could be with a world under total A.I. management and control. A totalitarian Electronic_Labyrinth, AKA: THX_1138.

THX 1138 (1971) Retrospective / Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZUp6FqFps

 The Making of THX 1138 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84yR3eA8Eas

https://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffwhitmore/2023/01/18/the-worlds-most-unreliable-airlines Crappy airline service might cause some people to give up of flying, thus gradually reducing demand. 

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