Let us amuse ourselves counting from 1823 Terra to 2023 Terra.
Let us amuse ourselves even more and reflect how little our families had a hand in to create this now, for the most part, as possibly any soul on Substack finding this Journal is not from that group. My family on my mother’s side fled from Bremen, Germany in to colonize Kentucky guided by Boone. My father’s from Poland in 1880’s to find a new life. I arise in 1957 from a meeting in a boarding home in Fairborn, Ohio and 6 years of marriage by two Proletarian employees of the Federal government. Fate and sagacity took me to San Francisco and I’m still here and astonishingly with few vices, too poor to flee, I marvel I remain.
The Tele-Everything World.
Asked to consider what life will be like in 2025 in the wake of the outbreak of the global pandemic and other crises in 2020, some 915 innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists responded. Their broad and nearly universal view is that people’s relationship with technology will deepen as larger segments of the population come to rely more on digital connections for work, education, health care, daily commercial transactions and essential social interactions. A number describe this as a “tele-everything” world.
worsen economic inequality as those who are highly connected and the tech-savvy pull further ahead of those who have less access;
enhance the power of big technology firms as they exploit their market advantages and mechanisms such as artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that seem likely to further erode the privacy and autonomy of their users;
multiply the spread of misinformation as authoritarians and polarized populations wage warring information campaigns with their foes.
Here some of the ways AI will take over our lives. These are supposed to be positives; however, these are the very things I have been warning about that will enslave us to machines:
an “Internet of Medical Things” with sensors and devices that allow for new kinds of patient health monitoring
the creation of 3-D social media systems that allow for richer human interaction (sometimes via hologram avatars); mediated digital agents (interdigital agents) gradually taking over significantly more repetitive or time-consuming tasks; a “flying Internet of Things” as drones become more prolific in surveillance, exploration and delivery tasks; ubiquitous augmented reality.
Essentially all of this represents the fall of privacy and the rise of authoritarianism. The individual is being lost in the collective hive, controlled by algorithms. There is a term for this, Digital Dehumanization:
“a process where humans are reduced to data, which is then used to make decisions and/or take actions that negatively affects their lives”.
The timing fits perfectly with the WHO finalizing the pandemic preparedness treaty,wherein every nation will bow to the WHO’s international rules and regulations. But, actually, just like NATO, the nations will really be bowing to the BTR, since it’s the Biden administration that wrote the amendments to the treaty.
What with nuclear war and pandemics will the presidential election in 2024 be “postponed”? I’d be interested to hear my readers’ thoughts.
Paving the way for the world's first RSV vaccine, FDA advisers recommend the shot from Pfizer
The shot is being recommended for the elderly, but Pfizer won’t stop there.
They are testing it on “pregnant people” (yes, you read that right) to see whether the protection can pass to babies in utero. The company said its data suggests the vaccine reduced the risk of severe illness in infants by 82% through their first 90 days of life and by 69% through six months.
Of course, we all remember how the Covid “vax” promised the same efficacy and look how that turned out.
In an article for Politico, We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It’s Not Balloons, Robert Graves, who joined the Navy in 2009 and underwent rigorous training, describes an encounter with unidentified flying objects in April 2014, when two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia.
These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.
Graves says it’s no secret to people in the military and employees like him that “advanced aircraft demonstrating cutting-edge technology that we cannot explain are routinely flying over our military bases or entering restricted airspace.” He compares these encounters to the recent Chinese balloon drama, stating that “there has not been anything near the level of public and official attention that has been paid to the recent shoot downs of the Chinese spy balloon and the three other unknown objects that were likely research balloons.”
The article goes on to say that:
The Navy has also officially acknowledged 11 near misses with UAP that required evasive action and triggered mandatory safety reports between 2004 and 2021. Advanced UAP also pose a growing safety hazard to commercial airliners. Last May, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert after a passenger aircraft flying over West Virginia experienced a rare failure of two major systems while passing underneath what appeared to be a UAP.
Robert Graves is launching Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA), a new advocacy organization for aerospace safety and national security.
Eh, a chance at mass consciousness and convivality raising. Like my metaphysical exercise sessions in Nob Hill Community Garden-let me know when you wish entrance to the personal gardens in a reflective way.
Nothing really left but conviviality. The job generates misery and cash flow. Though is cash flow can pay rent and utilities from time to time. Conviviality being spirit only offers connection.
Kinda think since nothing left for man but the smile of the Cheshire Cat y’all ought visit San Francisco and stay at City expense and vote. Voting is kinda important if shoulder to wheel you educate literacy by poetry.
One poet one vote. https://nyupress.org/9781613321829/risking-a-somersault-in-the-air/
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