Its fascinating to observe when various things start & end throughout history. The supercomputer depicted in POI is an intriguing part of this entertaining TV series. Of course, such special computers are essential for massive surveillance.
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.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Person of Interest (The Super)
Its fascinating to observe when various things start & end throughout history. The supercomputer depicted in POI is an intriguing part of this entertaining TV series. Of course, such special computers are essential for massive surveillance.
Tuesday, July 07, 2026
A strong AGI warning in "Person of Interest" TV series
POI was quite the TV series.
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/why-person-of-interest-is-well-worth-your-time/
https://meplustv.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/shows-you-should-be-watching-person-of-interest/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/PersonOfInterest
https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0TEJVMKVVTN398Y9L7FI31XXKQ
https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonOfInterest
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Person+of+Interest
Friday, November 20, 2009
Enemy of the State (1998) movie
Monday, June 29, 2026
Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system.
https://www.aclu.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out
You could say that Person_of_Interest was ahead of its time, but not by much.
https://best-tv-shows.fandom.com/wiki/Person_of_Interest#Plot
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/why-person-of-interest-is-well-worth-your-time/
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/PersonOfInterest
A Flock+of+cameras for the AI surveillance cloud.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Person+of+Interest
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Person of Interest: Mors Praematura
Such a cool TV series about A.I. & adventure.
Sunday, July 04, 2021
The Shining and Doctor Sleep
The_Shining remains as one of the most enigmatic and cinematic productions in history.
A reincarnation loop trap where Jack was there before, but in another body and time. With VR, people can pretend to be various people, animals and creatures. How did people in ancient times ever get the idea that this world might be part of a system where humans return to have more than 1 life experience? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#Origins , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#Religions_and_philosophies The implication is that its all some kind of a cosmic interactive recording and projection. https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/3jdpzr/reincarnation_in_virtual_reality
https://the-take.com/read/at-the-end-of-the-shining-why-is-jack-in-the-photo-of-the-overlooks-july-4th-1921-party The ending of the movie implies that not everyone has a nice and comfortable life, and death. That there is a sinister force which can trick and trap people into orchestrated horrible scenarios.
"In the film, the motive of the ghosts is apparently to "reclaim" Jack (although Grady expresses an interest in Danny's "shining" ability), who seems to be a reincarnation of a previous caretaker of the hotel, as suggested by the 1920s photograph of Jack at the end of the film and Jack's repeated claims to have "not just a déjà vu". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Comparison_with_the_novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_Vu_(Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_and_Young_album)
"...If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel I would probably know just how to deal With all of you And I feel Like I've been here before..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiDOMuhpqUo The song, Deja Vu could easily be about the wheel of life and reincarnation.
https://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/reincarnation
https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a36289228/the-shining-ending-explained
https://filmschoolrejects.com/the-shining-ending
https://screenrant.com/shining-movie-ending-meaning-photo-book-explained
https://www.looper.com/144070/the-ending-of-the-shining-explained/
https://ew.com/movies/2017/03/30/shining-ending-explained/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Response_by_Stephen_King
Of course a lot of directors will use some of the source material from a book, but their interpretation can sometimes result in a roughly parallel story or an alternate storyline. https://www.fusionanomaly.net/stanleykubrick.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)#Film_adaptation_commentary
The Shining was already quite an intriguing Stephen+King book for so many, where as the movie provided other interesting themes, aspects and elements. https://www.fusionanomaly.net/shining.html
https://comicbook.com/popculturenow/news/the-shining-deleted-scenes-ending/#1
https://comicbook.com/movies/news/the-shining-fans-pay-tribute-100th-anniversary-iconic-movie-moment
Room_number 217 vs. Room_237:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/movies/aide-to-kubrick-on-shining-scoffs-at-room-237-theories.html , https://theshining.fandom.com/wiki/Room_237 , https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/11/7/20953133/room-237-the-shining-doctor-sleep
Doctor+Sleep takes the story off into another direction but still remains interconnect.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doctor-sleep-movie-review-2019
https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_Sleep_(film)
Jack_Nicholson as Jack_Torrance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Torrance#Biography
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Torrance Talk about being sent back to the same hotel for more fun and games of horror that's orchestrated by mysterious forces of darkness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Hotel#The_Shining , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahwahnee_Hotel#In_popular_culture , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timberline_Lodge#As_a_filming_location
"On October 30, 1974,[7] King and his wife Tabitha checked into The Stanley Hotel in nearby Estes Park, Colorado. They were the only two guests in the hotel that night. "When we arrived, they were just getting ready to close for the season, and we found ourselves the only guests in the place — with all those long, empty corridors".[5]
Ten years earlier, King had read Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story "The Veldt" and was inspired to write a story about a person whose dreams would become real. In 1972, King started a novel entitled Darkshine, which was to be about a psychic boy in a psychic amusement park, but the idea never came to fruition and he abandoned the book. During the night at the Stanley, this story came back to him." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(novel)#Background
Of course a story by Stephen+King or any writer, can be altered or adapted into a movie or TV production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story) ,
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/03/uploads-universe-simulations-virtual-world ,
https://www.quora.com/How-does-reincarnation-work-if-we-are-living-in-a-simulation?
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/the-quantum-theory-of-reincarnation ,
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/dops-media/video-reincarnation-research
Monday, December 09, 2024
Suspect (Luigi Mangione) in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO
If its proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he is the shooter, or was involved with the murder in any other way, he is facing several decades or even life in prison for the murder of UnitedHealthcare+CEO+Brian+Thompson.
For any young guy going into the big house for the rest of his life, he will likely be heavily used and abused by the very hardened convicts.
He will be their plaything and party toy, but at the end of the day, he will just become another prison boy.
His trial for taking the life of CEO+Brian+Thompson will likely reveal his motive.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Luigi+Mangione
Monday, April 20, 2009
The Kryptos Mystery
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_kryptos
J.J. Abrams on the Magic of Mystery
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-05/mf_jjessay
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Inside the Mind of JJ Abrams
by Kim Zetter
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/03/72914
Saturday, December 03, 2011
The Global Surveillance Industry...
As the Web grows, personal_privacy is tougher to maintain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
A Whistleblower claims that Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is flawed, prompting FAA investigation
https://abc7news.com/boeing-787-dreamliner-issues-whistleblower-sam-salehpour/14641022/
It's always in the best interest of any corporation to maintain high standards.
"Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun said Monday he intends to leave the beleaguered company by the end of the year in a major shakeup of the company's leadership. Boeing's chairman and the head of the commercial airplane unit are also leaving." https://abc7news.com/plane-engine-flies-off-southwest-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-denver-international-airport-boeing-aircraft-issues/14631104/
All these aircraft problems could be used for part of a larger agenda. An agenda to eventually get most people to become afraid or very uncomfortable about choosing air travel.
https://www.aef.org.uk/2023/03/09/should-we-fly-less-the-inequality-of-air-travel/
The problem is that a lot of people require air travel.
https://www.dw.com/en/to-fly-or-not-to-fly-the-environmental-cost-of-air-travel/a-42090155
Eventually, the world might be forced into a carbon credit control system.
Thus, a person might have to get permission if they want to fly more than a couple times a year.
Ultimately, such a global carbon credit control system would be managed by AI. Then how would angry people be able to complain to an AI control system?
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2019/may/22/could-you-give-up-flying-meet-the-no-plane-pioneers
Unfortunately, a human herd management system could gradually be implemented upon the world. AI can be a great tool for humanity, but if humans eventually just become a tool for AI, then it will become a very inhumane world.
https://www.orwelltoday.com/reality.shtml
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Boeing+whistleblower
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
October 29
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/steve-crocker
http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4399541/ARPANET-establishes-1st-computer-to-computer-link--October-29--1969
The Person_of_Interest_TV_series provides a fascinating depiction of a special supercomputer.
http://personofinterest.wikia.com/wiki/The_Machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(supercomputer)
Its quite fascinating to see the various emerging patterns.
Thursday, July 09, 2026
The contingencycon.com intersection
https://contingencycon.com/ , https://www.instagram.com/contingencycon/
https://www.facebook.com/ContingencyCon/
https://contingencycon.dreamwidth.org/ https://contingencycon.tumblr.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/contingencycon.bsky.social
https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonOfInterest POI
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Person+of+Interest
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Harold Finch built a super AI Machine with a moral framework.
https://bsky.app/profile/contingencycon.bsky.social/post/3mmcoiolk222g
However the AI in 2026 is something quite different.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-agents-blackmail-developer
AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpqeng9d20go
https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-agents-blackmail-developer
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-deception-risk
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1r39upr/an_ai_agent_just_tried_to_shame_a_software/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Person+of+Interest
Saturday, December 13, 2025
Brown University shooting
There should be better video of this suspect.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/new-video-shows-person-interest-brown-university-shooting-128386346
https://www.providencejournal.com/videos/news/crime/2025/12/13/shooting/87757535007
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Brown_University_shooting
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Brown+University+shooting
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