This is a picture of a man who just turned PIG MAN. Actually, he has always been a PIG MAN; but a lot of people did not see it before. (We took the picture with one of those cameras that capture auras and then translate them into what they metaphorically are. ) Notice he is not accompanied by a Cat Lady – because that is the way with PIG MEN. Too bad for them. You might not want him to be near your money, or near your daughters; but right now it seems nearly half the people would vote for such a creature to turn President.
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Last week I saw an article on the “Onslaught of Digital Applications”… later I read about the “Onslaught” of fake images created by AI and various political groups. The first article, I did not read because of a $99 paywall. (There has been an onslaught of Paywall opportunities recently)…and the second article I did not read because I do not have the strength to deal with the onslaught of deep fake, liar, liar, mind control and manipulation businesses. I need to get jacked up on some Mountain Dew before I can carry on with all that’s onslaughtering me.
…So:
- Cryptos: I still do not understand what a Crypto is. I do not understand it enough to have FOMO over it. But it is lasting longer than the Tulip Mania did…and people are making millions and billions with it and scamming other people out of millions and billions of it…and going to jail over it and ramping up energy costs over it and now you can get it on PayPal…and I see there are memes of it and I do not even understand what a meme is…and blockchains, don’t talk to me about blockchains, and how good they are when you can’t even tell me what they are…so I try to get out of the way of the onslaughtering storm.…
- AI DEEP FAKES: Have you seen the onslaught of pictures of people doing things that they did not do? Like posing in the nude, or holding their extended pregnant stomachs when they are not even females, or playing Pickleball with a robot, or praising Donald Trump, or even singing to him? Seeing is no longer believing, nor is listening…and I can’t believe in ‘Crowd Sizes’ anymore…
- PHONE CALLS: I got a phone call the other day, from Switzerland. Stupidly, I answered it, and all that happened was some Dollars of credit which were on my phone account evaporated. I went to my phone Company guy and he told me not to answer any calls unless I knew exactly who it was from. Aka: No money back. So now I do not trust my phone…nor Switzerland, nor anyplace else. It was only a few years ago when it was easy to spot or prevent being taken advantage of by a scam – like that General from Ghana, or Nigeria – I think it was – who e-mailed you and said if you sent him $10,000 today he would share his half million dollars with you when it was released to him from the New York banks which had locked up his funds temporarily for some reason. Even I could see there was something wrong with that; but just answering the phone and getting ripped off? That’s being onslaughtered on if you ask me.
- So you think you have seen the onslaught, have you? The Crypto, the Deepfakes, the Hackers – you have not seen the half of it…Take water for instance…how much of it should you drink? Some say 8 glasses a day, some say more…(Say a glass is 8 ounces, x’s 5 glasses, then multiply by 9 billion people. You do the math). Some say don’t drink it from the tap, it’s got lead in it, or forever chemicals or Round-up in it…but don’t worry there is not much of it left underground anyway. We are sucking it all up for Big Ag and the Colas…and we are draining the Great Lakes and piping all that water from the upper Mid-west for our tomatoes and lawns out in California…something like that…so pretty soon the only water we will have will be from Coca Cola…and that’ll cost you. We are having trouble taking the salt out of the oceans. What with the dead fish and the poop from the pleasure boats confusing the situation…so some people are saying we need to drink less water than we are drinking and everybody is saying or yelling so many different things on the same issue that you have no idea if it’s safe to drink water – let alone go near it.
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A few quotes relating to the times:
- “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” -Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975) German/American Historian/Philosopher, Author of “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
- “There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.” -Hannah Arendt, firm believer in “Active Citizenship” & “Civic Engagement”
- “Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.” -Hannah Arendt (She aught to see what’s going on now)
- “This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.” -Hannah Arendt (I’ve got the first part of that down)
That’s it for the week …and a “Hello” to George, wherever you are…
