Interesting article with some good research on your part. I do believe this is the so called Elites wet dream,however when, ( not if) the world goes bankrupt the house of cards all falls down.
Or perhaps the bank-o is where it all begins. No money? Want to eat? Just download this app... The irony of all this is that it was the peaceniks and libertarians in the 70s and 80s that created the framework for the whole mess. We will likely end up in a "Brave New World" situation, at least for a while, where reservations for hold-outs will still have humans, but they won't recognize what everyone else has become.
My old granny made a unique hash, sometime back in the neolithic, and I didn't much care for it. That's about all I know about that. This new game you describe doesn't sound like anything I want to play, and being of advanced years, I probably won't have to. (play that is). Meanwhile, life on the ranch goes on as usual, and if the cyber powers that be want to change that, they will need to come and extinguish my light in person (in machine?).
Something I have been thinking about ---i know a very dangerous habit I have---is that the world just might be better off if we do have a major extinction event. Whither contrived (nuclear war) or natural (meteor impact) something that wipes out about 90% of us would stop all of this nonsense. Those fortunate enough to survive the event will have to become one with nature once again to survive for very long after the event. I suspect those barely "contacted" groups of hunter gatherers in various places around the world would have the best chance, and then it could be another 8 to 10 thousand years before our species is capable of digitizing every thing again. Mother nature, as always will take care of the rest. Just random thoughts and idle speculation from the old processor inside my head.
Evidence is quickly emerging that humanity has survived at least a couple of planetary wipe-outs, not the least of which are the flood stories from every corner of the world, and the work of Randall Carlson and Robert Schoch.
If we (all humanity) were allowed to know about those past events, what effect would it have on how we move into the future? Suppose a billion people suddenly realized that the word "apocalypse" means "to reveal," not destroy. If our True History were suddenly revealed, would we finally realize that we don't need leaders and governments? Would we all finally understand that we are enlightened beings suffering from amnesia?
When I look at the tools we have created, I see vast potential for good and useful things. The question is, can we wrest those tools out of the hands of destroyers, and put them in the hands of creators?
Well, Mr. Farside, I personally think that we have traveled real deep into a box canyon with all of this tech business, and I don't see the room to turn it all around. Mankind does seem to enjoy F--ing itself. I'll need to look up Carlson and Schoch. I have read not to long ago Sitchin's 12th planet, and of course many decades ago Velikovsky's worlds in collision. Might be something there that brings us to where we are right now.
Sitchens is problematic, but worthwhile. I am a fan of Velikovsky and the Plasma Cosmology that has emerged from his work. Humans do have a habit of shooting themselves in the foot, then wondering why it hurts when they dance.
We are in the canyon based solely on the fact that we have not educated ourselves on the process. We simply accept the outcome as inevitable. I want folks to see how things work, and the potential for positive outcomes if we use the knowledge effectively.
Evil is not inherent in a thing. It is how the thing is used that creates evil. A hammer is a very valuable tool for creating, but it can also bash someone's brains out. "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a perfect tale of this Universal Truth.
For Carlson, look especially for his work on the flood evidence in the western US (Montana to Arizona), and for Schoch look up his work on the evidence for water erosion around the Great Sphinx of Giza. Mind-blowing information presented in a factual and scientific manner.
darn computer stuff--posted before I finished. Would like to add my (one of several) rule of thumb---Believe nothing, consider everything. Hope all is well on your side of the world
All's well here, if not busy as a one-armed paperhanger. Trying to squeeze in a little mini-vacation up in the mountains with the kids before the Eid al-Fitr madness end of month. Auditions for the cabaret on Monday. Just the usual stampede. Hope all is well on the ranch and the rains are falling softly on your fields. I need to get some seeds in myself.
That is a very high price to pay. Worlds in Collision I mean. Practically everyone and every thing on the planet dies as that planet slides in to orbit around our sun! Maybe we can hope that they won't be able to POWER their Internet of Things,....but if ZPTech comes out, as Clif High is sure it will this year, that would be enough energy to power anything. Maybe we will get a break and have it for ourselves too. Dreaming!
DoF - When you have Bezos talking about building his own nuke plants, you know power is an major issue in all this. I am of the opinion that the technology is very useful if applied wisely, and very dangerous if used to subdue humanity. Part of my purpose for diving on the topic is to make folks aware of what it is and how it works. We are powerless against something we don't understand, and taking the mystery away prevents us from being overwhelmed with wizardry, in the same way a magician can't fool you if you know how it's done.
Preferably before our Civilization is also Destroyed! I'm sure prior Civilizations also tried the same thing; fighting off the Controllers, and it didn't end well! Maybe this group of Controllers is the Breakaway Civilization Clif talks about. How do you win against a group with Lasers to burn you alive in your home or car without even burning the grass?
I'm still in a quandry of choosing red or white wine with my fish! and here you go with messing with a Hobsons choice for the future! I'm glad my soul escapes to Mars every once in a while!
I can solve one of your problems: when on Mars, always choose the red.
Fortunately, I'm old enough that most of my involvement will be documenting the end of humanity. Unfortunately, my grandkids and beyond will be crypto-prisoners for life. They will probably lose social credits for reading my scribblings. About the only silver lining I can find is that if the Greenies win, there probably won't be any power to run all this.
I'm not completely opposed to yielding some degree of autonomy to algorithmic systems that can make decisions that consider important variables beyond my own limited horizon. At this point, I think most of us have, consciously or unconsciously, already ceded a great deal of territory to the increasingly pervasive algorithms.
The problem I have is when men who have accumulated power through all sorts of ungodly and evil actions attempt to force the next level of algorithmic control on us. Who are they - these men who killed Kennedy, arranged all the wars of the last century and the current one, manipulated financial systems and governments, systematically set about dismantling existing democratic states, lied through their teeth, psychologically abused and terrorized countless individuals - who are THEY to plot the course for the next millennium? They have earned no right to do so and we will be doing a great disservice to future generations if we let their transgressions pass.
Moreover, the greatest evil of all, and the one that really shows the true intentions of these men, is the overwhelming insistence that ALL humans must periodically receive injections. Once health data and on-demand vaccine production has been integrated with AI, it is game over for humanity. This system will be used to kill with precision and at a rate that cannot be easily detected by people. The kill rate will be just enough to gradually ramp down human population over several decades until almost everyone is gone. For the love of God and all that is holy and good, we cannot walk blindly into this trap!
Well stated, and I agree completely. What I hope to achieve with this article is to educate folks on what the technology is and how it works. The key to liberation is knowledge.
Self-enforcing contracts, immutable deeds and titles, inability to steal all seem like valuable features of the technology. No need to governments when the transactions themselves are self-governing. No need for a judiciary, when contracts can't be broken and no one can lie or obfuscate.
On the other hand, use of the technology to force compliance with anti-human dictates also exists as a possibility. If we understand how it works, then we can avoid the traps laid by the evil bastards. No need for trials to uncover their crimes, or lawyers to bury them like cats in sand. Their deeds would be laid out for all to see in a form that cannot be altered or hidden.
The implications of all this are astounding and frightening, in a world where we have been trained to accept evil as inevitable. It's a situation that must be addressed quickly. Saying we will not comply is not an option. Rather we need to be educated and use the technology wisely and judiciously.
I agree. It's important that we understand technology so that we can view it as a tool rather than some mystical force at work in our lives. I think you are doing good work here
That's exactly how I felt when I watched Trump stand on Stage with Larry Ellison (oracle) and praise him for his plan to Digitalize even our thoughts, so he could stop CRIME before it happened. Between that and his AI Shots tailored to each persons DNA! What a horrible future!
I suppose, for better or worse, it's a form of immortality. Like any technology, it's neither good nor bad, but how it's used will make a huge difference in humanity's future. What concerns me is the removal of even the illusion of free will. If any of us have agency, then knowing what the tools are is a big part of learning how to use them correcttly.
What I meant to communicate is that most of us who have lived a while would rather die than live like that. I've always been afraid of death; more and more not so.
Blockchain and hashes can't make people reproduce. Maybe the computers don't care if we do. Maybe both sides say, "I don't want to play with you anymore."
I think humans will continue to drop in fertility rates, and populations will dwindle at an exponential rate.
At the end of "On the Beach," the power plant is still running. A window shade is operating a Morse code key on a telegraph/radio.
Creating children is an act of optimism, among other things. Given the wave of pessimism sweeping the world, it is no wonder folks aren't interested in the future. For one thing, if you work your entire life to build up an estate, only to have the bastards take it away in "taxes" after you die, who wants to create anything? It's an exercise in building sand castles at low tide.
That world is going away faster than any of us imagine. We have a unique historical opportunity to take the power away from the Shadow People, completing what the Enlightenment thinkers started. To do that, though, we have to understand the tools we have and how to use them to both tear down the old regime, and build something truly new and amazing.
There's an old Aussie flick called "Bliss". Very similar to "On the Beach," or "I Am Legend" (Omega Man). There's also the Italian adaptation with Vincent Price called "The Last Man on Earth" (1964). That vision is what the Shadow People want for us.
Rufus, Ahh, the Star Trek technocratic future where people get along using their better natures. It would take another change in human genetics for that to happen in my opinion. Years ago, I read an article that Homo Sapiens was genetically different from what came before. Sapiens was definitely different from the Neanderthal.
The article stated that only about 28%? of humans have the good new Homo Sapiens gene. I guess the Neanderthals are still the majority. I've certainly met plenty of them.
One of the main obstacles to all the new technology is energy. Over the past 30 years or so, trillions of dollars have been invested into solar and wind. The former generates power for about 5-6 hours per day, the latter, about 6-8 hours per days. So unless all governments embark on a tremendous nuclear energy, natural gas drilling, coal mine digging program unlike anything we've ever seen, much of this technology either will not be brought to fruition, or haphazardly and in bits and pieces.
I don't understand block chain. Hash is something people eat. I did see a video about a town in British Columbia on the sea. There is an old hydro plant there from the old days of mining. Now, a blockchain "manufacturer" of coins is there using the cheap and excess power from the old hydro plant. It's also very hush hush and security is tight.
So, to me, these crypto coins, or hashes, or whatever, are just another way to store energy.
You have hit the nail on the head. A form of currency backed by potential energy, which is essentially what gold is (work to extract value from ore stored in a portable and immutable form). The little ridges on the edges of coins are basically an analog version of hashes. You can't shave the coin without destroying the ridges. Simple test for weight and security.
SHA-256 was created to communicate with submarines, because once they dive, they are not allowed to communicate with the outside. Strong encryption shielded information/instructions from prying eyes, prevented manipulation, was self-verifying, and could beam a lot of information to subs in discrete lossless packets in a chain that couldn't be broken. Because of the security features, the signals to the subs could be broadcast everywhere, so as not to give away their locations. Rather ingenious, really.
I know of the mining operation in BC, but not all the details. Crafty folks, they are. Bitcoin is just one manifestation of blockchain technology that creates a currency. Blockchains can be created for just about any form of data for any purpose. For instance, an author could create a book secured by a blockchain that couldn't be edited, copied, or plagiarized. Handy stuff for protecting IP. And copyright is encoded with the IP, so it automatically expires at a given time and becomes public domain.
Around 2014 or'15, my better half came to me a suggested we invest a couple of grand in this new thing called bitcoin. I had heard of but didn't understand so I did a deep dive into it. I came to understand that it was essentially about electricity and needed much of it. My upbringing in stocks, bond, real estate, precious metals, etc. made those tangible and therefore more worthy of our investment dollars.
Lesson: if you want financial advice, speak to my wife, ignore anything I say.
DH - One thing I have found to be absolutely true everywhere is, trust your wife's instincts. Mes. FarSide doesn't spend money, she deploys it. Sigh...the Great WouldaCouldaShouldas of life.
Danny, I have a friend in British Columbia who was in serious debt. One day, he received a letter from a lawyer. It turns out that a friend of my friend had passed away and left a bitcoin for my friend in BC.
My friend in BC had a YouTube channel promoting silver and talked about bitcoin. His now-deceased friend bought some Bitcoin at the beginning when it was cheap and made a lot of money.
So, to thank my friend, he left him a bitcoin in his will.
My friend in BC somehow found the old Bitcoin and the "key" on his old computer. He exchanged the Bitcoin for gold and the gold for Canadian currency. He was able to pay off his considerable debts and have money left over from the Bitcoin.
TT - Like everything in life, there's a good side and a bad side. The trick is to whip the bad side into submission, and make as much money as you can off the good side. :)
Flippin - I'm with you, but a lot of coders have gone at it without success. If the NSA had a backdoor, they would risk giving prying eyes access to the country's most secret military weapon...submarines. Even on the subs, there are only four people who know exactly where they are and where they are going and what they will do when they get there. The point of SHA-256 was to broadcast that information so the signals couldn't be tracked, but in broadcasting the signal could be picked up by anyone. How do you do that and still call it a secret? SHA-256. The fact that it allows secure financial transactions is a bonus.
I would imagine figuring out who is mining crypto wouldn’t be much of a challenge for the NSA. Track who purchased ASIC chips in quantity and crosscheck it against utility bills. Should give you a pretty good idea of who and where, then their nefarious agents can grab ‘em up, waterboard them a few times and take their crypto. Could be a good movie!
Another question: I’m not sure why crypto holders feel they are financially “safe” from the government by holding crypto. Unless you can exchange it for goods and services, it’s useless, and not many businesses accept it at the moment. Also, what’s to stop a government from confiscating crypto, or blocking its use? If the SHTF financially, how long is the internet going to last? Or even be permitted? Pretty sure governments can shut it down when they choose.
Taking crypto code (coins) is not all that complicated, but hacking the blocks is nearly impossible. Store your crypto in a warm or cold wallet, never on an exchange. Even without the internet, if we still have electricity you can trade crypto device to device (peer to peer). If there's no electricity, buying anything will be the issue, regardless of the means of exchange. Barter time, baby.
Blockchain will replace almost all functions of government, and governments as we know them will cease to exist. The "safest" means of exchange will always be gold/silver, but keeping it safe and lugging large amounts around has been an issue for millennia, which is why paper money was invented. Money is a highly complex topic and entire sections of libraries have been devoted to it. Put simply, if the US dollar crashes, the global economic system will shatter. If I can memorize 12 words, I can recreate my wallet anywhere in the world with a phone and internet. Try that with any other means of exchange.
Hug well received with gratitude. Duke was a great friend and a father figure. He exuded quiet strength and refined masculinity, qualities which are sorely lacking in our current society. Not only that, he had great stories to tell over a glass or two. He was also a great cook, from his German heritage. Taught me his father's method for making saurkraut, which I have a batch going in his honor now. Cheers!
Sorry about your friend's passing. As I recall, the Navy's tapping into the cables led us to understanding that the Soviets had built a phased array radar system on Sakhalin Island, which was an egregious treaty violation. He was in on quite a coup in intelligence gathering.
Whether this coming blockchain epoch is good or bad will depend on who controls it and what they use it for. We just went through a pandemic over a very mild flu-like infection but the recommended vaccine is a highly dangerous and ineffective one. It was mandated by all sorts on government officials and medical experts who interestingly, mostly did not take it themselves, or let their families do so, either. My guess is that will be much good coming in many ways, but the eugenicists will try to use it, like all 72 vaccines, to reduce the excess population.
Eternal vigilance. Thank you for the great research!
Duke was a fine man and a great running mate. We made some outstanding trouble in our day.
We must understand what we are up against. Like Duke and the cables, having information makes all the difference. I see many incredible benefits from the technology, but many horrors too, if we are not diligent.
As for the Frankenvaxxx being ineffective, I suppose that's a matter of perspective. It all depends on the outcome you want when you peddle that crud on a gullible population. For myself, whenever I see all the "experts" line up on one side, I KNOW something is up. I think everyone who pushed that crud should (literally) be given a dose of their own medicine, or an entire vial for Fauci.
Keystone, Duke Miller... were those sea cables off of Kamchatka? I'd read about how a US Navy submarine and its divers tapped into the Soviet military undersea cables there. Very hush, hush.
Yes, the cables were near the Soviet naval base at Petropavlovsk. Duke said they had to fit a collar around the cables and push pins in to tap the wires. It was called Operation Ivy Bells. Not only did they have to tap the cables, but they had to sit on the bottom for some time (I forget how long) to extract the data. They could hear Soviet ships passing overhead. Duke said there was a book about the operation, but I've long since forgotten the name. Maybe one of his seadog buddies who occasionally stops by, can fill us in.
There are only two kinds of vessels: submarines and targets.
Rufus, Ahh, thanks for the details of Operation Ivy Bells. It was very dangerous. I just watched a video last week of a skier/adventurer who went from the east side of Kamchatka to the west side. He even went to the once super secretive Petropavlovsk and took pictures of the Russian ships there. Moscow didn't care. It's all on satellite anyway.
The native people of Kamchatka live on reindeer meat and vodka. Due to Soviet nuclear testing on the peninsula, everything is radioactive, and the natives have very high cancer rates. They are slowly dying out.
PS: The locals on Kamchatka are still using Soviet equipment. Tracked vehicles to deliver supplies (vodka) to villages. The skier/adventurer even went up in an old Soviet helicopter! He was nuts! The chopper dropped the skier off at the top of a volcano, and the skier, who was excellent and very skilled, skied to the bottom. Probably the first time it was ever done.
I'm sorry for your loss! He sounds like he was an amazing man. Now he's in comfort and peace. :)
I'd give you a hug, but Jakarta is kind of far from Michigan. Here's a virtual Hug! {0}
You don't mind if I share part of this on X, do you? I'll make sure to put your @ on it. It sounds like a very safe and very horrible PRISON for humans and everything else alive on the planet,....sounds exactly like The Matrix, the PODS are just bigger. And you can't even unplug or optout. They'll find you if they want to. Sad future for my grandkids, although they probably won't have a problem with it,....they'll grow up in the System guarded and controlled by A Massive AI System. I'm kind of glad I won't be here that much longer.
Interesting article with some good research on your part. I do believe this is the so called Elites wet dream,however when, ( not if) the world goes bankrupt the house of cards all falls down.
Or perhaps the bank-o is where it all begins. No money? Want to eat? Just download this app... The irony of all this is that it was the peaceniks and libertarians in the 70s and 80s that created the framework for the whole mess. We will likely end up in a "Brave New World" situation, at least for a while, where reservations for hold-outs will still have humans, but they won't recognize what everyone else has become.
My old granny made a unique hash, sometime back in the neolithic, and I didn't much care for it. That's about all I know about that. This new game you describe doesn't sound like anything I want to play, and being of advanced years, I probably won't have to. (play that is). Meanwhile, life on the ranch goes on as usual, and if the cyber powers that be want to change that, they will need to come and extinguish my light in person (in machine?).
Something I have been thinking about ---i know a very dangerous habit I have---is that the world just might be better off if we do have a major extinction event. Whither contrived (nuclear war) or natural (meteor impact) something that wipes out about 90% of us would stop all of this nonsense. Those fortunate enough to survive the event will have to become one with nature once again to survive for very long after the event. I suspect those barely "contacted" groups of hunter gatherers in various places around the world would have the best chance, and then it could be another 8 to 10 thousand years before our species is capable of digitizing every thing again. Mother nature, as always will take care of the rest. Just random thoughts and idle speculation from the old processor inside my head.
Evidence is quickly emerging that humanity has survived at least a couple of planetary wipe-outs, not the least of which are the flood stories from every corner of the world, and the work of Randall Carlson and Robert Schoch.
If we (all humanity) were allowed to know about those past events, what effect would it have on how we move into the future? Suppose a billion people suddenly realized that the word "apocalypse" means "to reveal," not destroy. If our True History were suddenly revealed, would we finally realize that we don't need leaders and governments? Would we all finally understand that we are enlightened beings suffering from amnesia?
When I look at the tools we have created, I see vast potential for good and useful things. The question is, can we wrest those tools out of the hands of destroyers, and put them in the hands of creators?
Well, Mr. Farside, I personally think that we have traveled real deep into a box canyon with all of this tech business, and I don't see the room to turn it all around. Mankind does seem to enjoy F--ing itself. I'll need to look up Carlson and Schoch. I have read not to long ago Sitchin's 12th planet, and of course many decades ago Velikovsky's worlds in collision. Might be something there that brings us to where we are right now.
Sitchens is problematic, but worthwhile. I am a fan of Velikovsky and the Plasma Cosmology that has emerged from his work. Humans do have a habit of shooting themselves in the foot, then wondering why it hurts when they dance.
We are in the canyon based solely on the fact that we have not educated ourselves on the process. We simply accept the outcome as inevitable. I want folks to see how things work, and the potential for positive outcomes if we use the knowledge effectively.
Evil is not inherent in a thing. It is how the thing is used that creates evil. A hammer is a very valuable tool for creating, but it can also bash someone's brains out. "The Gods Must Be Crazy" is a perfect tale of this Universal Truth.
For Carlson, look especially for his work on the flood evidence in the western US (Montana to Arizona), and for Schoch look up his work on the evidence for water erosion around the Great Sphinx of Giza. Mind-blowing information presented in a factual and scientific manner.
darn computer stuff--posted before I finished. Would like to add my (one of several) rule of thumb---Believe nothing, consider everything. Hope all is well on your side of the world
An excellent rule of thumb!
All's well here, if not busy as a one-armed paperhanger. Trying to squeeze in a little mini-vacation up in the mountains with the kids before the Eid al-Fitr madness end of month. Auditions for the cabaret on Monday. Just the usual stampede. Hope all is well on the ranch and the rains are falling softly on your fields. I need to get some seeds in myself.
That is a very high price to pay. Worlds in Collision I mean. Practically everyone and every thing on the planet dies as that planet slides in to orbit around our sun! Maybe we can hope that they won't be able to POWER their Internet of Things,....but if ZPTech comes out, as Clif High is sure it will this year, that would be enough energy to power anything. Maybe we will get a break and have it for ourselves too. Dreaming!
DoF - When you have Bezos talking about building his own nuke plants, you know power is an major issue in all this. I am of the opinion that the technology is very useful if applied wisely, and very dangerous if used to subdue humanity. Part of my purpose for diving on the topic is to make folks aware of what it is and how it works. We are powerless against something we don't understand, and taking the mystery away prevents us from being overwhelmed with wizardry, in the same way a magician can't fool you if you know how it's done.
Preferably before our Civilization is also Destroyed! I'm sure prior Civilizations also tried the same thing; fighting off the Controllers, and it didn't end well! Maybe this group of Controllers is the Breakaway Civilization Clif talks about. How do you win against a group with Lasers to burn you alive in your home or car without even burning the grass?
Amen. The first and best weapon is to conquer the fear. The rest follows.
I can only hope for an awakening-its good to be a dreamer and a believer
Dream on, McDuff! We have a world to build.
I'm still in a quandry of choosing red or white wine with my fish! and here you go with messing with a Hobsons choice for the future! I'm glad my soul escapes to Mars every once in a while!
I can solve one of your problems: when on Mars, always choose the red.
Fortunately, I'm old enough that most of my involvement will be documenting the end of humanity. Unfortunately, my grandkids and beyond will be crypto-prisoners for life. They will probably lose social credits for reading my scribblings. About the only silver lining I can find is that if the Greenies win, there probably won't be any power to run all this.
I'm not completely opposed to yielding some degree of autonomy to algorithmic systems that can make decisions that consider important variables beyond my own limited horizon. At this point, I think most of us have, consciously or unconsciously, already ceded a great deal of territory to the increasingly pervasive algorithms.
The problem I have is when men who have accumulated power through all sorts of ungodly and evil actions attempt to force the next level of algorithmic control on us. Who are they - these men who killed Kennedy, arranged all the wars of the last century and the current one, manipulated financial systems and governments, systematically set about dismantling existing democratic states, lied through their teeth, psychologically abused and terrorized countless individuals - who are THEY to plot the course for the next millennium? They have earned no right to do so and we will be doing a great disservice to future generations if we let their transgressions pass.
Moreover, the greatest evil of all, and the one that really shows the true intentions of these men, is the overwhelming insistence that ALL humans must periodically receive injections. Once health data and on-demand vaccine production has been integrated with AI, it is game over for humanity. This system will be used to kill with precision and at a rate that cannot be easily detected by people. The kill rate will be just enough to gradually ramp down human population over several decades until almost everyone is gone. For the love of God and all that is holy and good, we cannot walk blindly into this trap!
Well stated, and I agree completely. What I hope to achieve with this article is to educate folks on what the technology is and how it works. The key to liberation is knowledge.
Self-enforcing contracts, immutable deeds and titles, inability to steal all seem like valuable features of the technology. No need to governments when the transactions themselves are self-governing. No need for a judiciary, when contracts can't be broken and no one can lie or obfuscate.
On the other hand, use of the technology to force compliance with anti-human dictates also exists as a possibility. If we understand how it works, then we can avoid the traps laid by the evil bastards. No need for trials to uncover their crimes, or lawyers to bury them like cats in sand. Their deeds would be laid out for all to see in a form that cannot be altered or hidden.
The implications of all this are astounding and frightening, in a world where we have been trained to accept evil as inevitable. It's a situation that must be addressed quickly. Saying we will not comply is not an option. Rather we need to be educated and use the technology wisely and judiciously.
I agree. It's important that we understand technology so that we can view it as a tool rather than some mystical force at work in our lives. I think you are doing good work here
That's exactly how I felt when I watched Trump stand on Stage with Larry Ellison (oracle) and praise him for his plan to Digitalize even our thoughts, so he could stop CRIME before it happened. Between that and his AI Shots tailored to each persons DNA! What a horrible future!
Well that seals it then. Time to get blind pissed and crawl in a gutter.
Ah, New Orleans. Seems so long ago now. All is not lost, just misplaced.
Keith, I usually fall into the gutter.
2 concussions and a fractured hip convinced me to slow up a bit.
What you wrote above will likely, single-handedly, remove the fear of death.
I suppose, for better or worse, it's a form of immortality. Like any technology, it's neither good nor bad, but how it's used will make a huge difference in humanity's future. What concerns me is the removal of even the illusion of free will. If any of us have agency, then knowing what the tools are is a big part of learning how to use them correcttly.
What I meant to communicate is that most of us who have lived a while would rather die than live like that. I've always been afraid of death; more and more not so.
Not sure if I got that across, sorry!
Blockchain and hashes can't make people reproduce. Maybe the computers don't care if we do. Maybe both sides say, "I don't want to play with you anymore."
I think humans will continue to drop in fertility rates, and populations will dwindle at an exponential rate.
At the end of "On the Beach," the power plant is still running. A window shade is operating a Morse code key on a telegraph/radio.
But there's nobody there.
Creating children is an act of optimism, among other things. Given the wave of pessimism sweeping the world, it is no wonder folks aren't interested in the future. For one thing, if you work your entire life to build up an estate, only to have the bastards take it away in "taxes" after you die, who wants to create anything? It's an exercise in building sand castles at low tide.
That world is going away faster than any of us imagine. We have a unique historical opportunity to take the power away from the Shadow People, completing what the Enlightenment thinkers started. To do that, though, we have to understand the tools we have and how to use them to both tear down the old regime, and build something truly new and amazing.
There's an old Aussie flick called "Bliss". Very similar to "On the Beach," or "I Am Legend" (Omega Man). There's also the Italian adaptation with Vincent Price called "The Last Man on Earth" (1964). That vision is what the Shadow People want for us.
I'm more into the Star Trek future
Rufus, Ahh, the Star Trek technocratic future where people get along using their better natures. It would take another change in human genetics for that to happen in my opinion. Years ago, I read an article that Homo Sapiens was genetically different from what came before. Sapiens was definitely different from the Neanderthal.
The article stated that only about 28%? of humans have the good new Homo Sapiens gene. I guess the Neanderthals are still the majority. I've certainly met plenty of them.
One of the main obstacles to all the new technology is energy. Over the past 30 years or so, trillions of dollars have been invested into solar and wind. The former generates power for about 5-6 hours per day, the latter, about 6-8 hours per days. So unless all governments embark on a tremendous nuclear energy, natural gas drilling, coal mine digging program unlike anything we've ever seen, much of this technology either will not be brought to fruition, or haphazardly and in bits and pieces.
I don't understand block chain. Hash is something people eat. I did see a video about a town in British Columbia on the sea. There is an old hydro plant there from the old days of mining. Now, a blockchain "manufacturer" of coins is there using the cheap and excess power from the old hydro plant. It's also very hush hush and security is tight.
So, to me, these crypto coins, or hashes, or whatever, are just another way to store energy.
You have hit the nail on the head. A form of currency backed by potential energy, which is essentially what gold is (work to extract value from ore stored in a portable and immutable form). The little ridges on the edges of coins are basically an analog version of hashes. You can't shave the coin without destroying the ridges. Simple test for weight and security.
SHA-256 was created to communicate with submarines, because once they dive, they are not allowed to communicate with the outside. Strong encryption shielded information/instructions from prying eyes, prevented manipulation, was self-verifying, and could beam a lot of information to subs in discrete lossless packets in a chain that couldn't be broken. Because of the security features, the signals to the subs could be broadcast everywhere, so as not to give away their locations. Rather ingenious, really.
I know of the mining operation in BC, but not all the details. Crafty folks, they are. Bitcoin is just one manifestation of blockchain technology that creates a currency. Blockchains can be created for just about any form of data for any purpose. For instance, an author could create a book secured by a blockchain that couldn't be edited, copied, or plagiarized. Handy stuff for protecting IP. And copyright is encoded with the IP, so it automatically expires at a given time and becomes public domain.
Around 2014 or'15, my better half came to me a suggested we invest a couple of grand in this new thing called bitcoin. I had heard of but didn't understand so I did a deep dive into it. I came to understand that it was essentially about electricity and needed much of it. My upbringing in stocks, bond, real estate, precious metals, etc. made those tangible and therefore more worthy of our investment dollars.
Lesson: if you want financial advice, speak to my wife, ignore anything I say.
DH - One thing I have found to be absolutely true everywhere is, trust your wife's instincts. Mes. FarSide doesn't spend money, she deploys it. Sigh...the Great WouldaCouldaShouldas of life.
Danny, I have a friend in British Columbia who was in serious debt. One day, he received a letter from a lawyer. It turns out that a friend of my friend had passed away and left a bitcoin for my friend in BC.
My friend in BC had a YouTube channel promoting silver and talked about bitcoin. His now-deceased friend bought some Bitcoin at the beginning when it was cheap and made a lot of money.
So, to thank my friend, he left him a bitcoin in his will.
My friend in BC somehow found the old Bitcoin and the "key" on his old computer. He exchanged the Bitcoin for gold and the gold for Canadian currency. He was able to pay off his considerable debts and have money left over from the Bitcoin.
That's an amazing story! Your friend Your friend was very blessed.
Danny
Rufus, Thanks for the detailed explanation. Fascinating way to communicate with submarines, and I like the author/book publishing use of blockchain
TT - Like everything in life, there's a good side and a bad side. The trick is to whip the bad side into submission, and make as much money as you can off the good side. :)
Not convinced something invented by the NSA doesn’t have a “backdoor” built into it. Why would they not?
Flippin - I'm with you, but a lot of coders have gone at it without success. If the NSA had a backdoor, they would risk giving prying eyes access to the country's most secret military weapon...submarines. Even on the subs, there are only four people who know exactly where they are and where they are going and what they will do when they get there. The point of SHA-256 was to broadcast that information so the signals couldn't be tracked, but in broadcasting the signal could be picked up by anyone. How do you do that and still call it a secret? SHA-256. The fact that it allows secure financial transactions is a bonus.
I would imagine figuring out who is mining crypto wouldn’t be much of a challenge for the NSA. Track who purchased ASIC chips in quantity and crosscheck it against utility bills. Should give you a pretty good idea of who and where, then their nefarious agents can grab ‘em up, waterboard them a few times and take their crypto. Could be a good movie!
Another question: I’m not sure why crypto holders feel they are financially “safe” from the government by holding crypto. Unless you can exchange it for goods and services, it’s useless, and not many businesses accept it at the moment. Also, what’s to stop a government from confiscating crypto, or blocking its use? If the SHTF financially, how long is the internet going to last? Or even be permitted? Pretty sure governments can shut it down when they choose.
Taking crypto code (coins) is not all that complicated, but hacking the blocks is nearly impossible. Store your crypto in a warm or cold wallet, never on an exchange. Even without the internet, if we still have electricity you can trade crypto device to device (peer to peer). If there's no electricity, buying anything will be the issue, regardless of the means of exchange. Barter time, baby.
Blockchain will replace almost all functions of government, and governments as we know them will cease to exist. The "safest" means of exchange will always be gold/silver, but keeping it safe and lugging large amounts around has been an issue for millennia, which is why paper money was invented. Money is a highly complex topic and entire sections of libraries have been devoted to it. Put simply, if the US dollar crashes, the global economic system will shatter. If I can memorize 12 words, I can recreate my wallet anywhere in the world with a phone and internet. Try that with any other means of exchange.
I'm sorry for your loss! He sounds like he was an amazing man. Now he's in comfort and peace. :)
I'd give you a hug, but Jakarta is kind of far from Michigan. Here's a virtual Hug! {0}
Hug well received with gratitude. Duke was a great friend and a father figure. He exuded quiet strength and refined masculinity, qualities which are sorely lacking in our current society. Not only that, he had great stories to tell over a glass or two. He was also a great cook, from his German heritage. Taught me his father's method for making saurkraut, which I have a batch going in his honor now. Cheers!
Sorry about your friend's passing. As I recall, the Navy's tapping into the cables led us to understanding that the Soviets had built a phased array radar system on Sakhalin Island, which was an egregious treaty violation. He was in on quite a coup in intelligence gathering.
Whether this coming blockchain epoch is good or bad will depend on who controls it and what they use it for. We just went through a pandemic over a very mild flu-like infection but the recommended vaccine is a highly dangerous and ineffective one. It was mandated by all sorts on government officials and medical experts who interestingly, mostly did not take it themselves, or let their families do so, either. My guess is that will be much good coming in many ways, but the eugenicists will try to use it, like all 72 vaccines, to reduce the excess population.
Eternal vigilance. Thank you for the great research!
Danny Huckabee
Duke was a fine man and a great running mate. We made some outstanding trouble in our day.
We must understand what we are up against. Like Duke and the cables, having information makes all the difference. I see many incredible benefits from the technology, but many horrors too, if we are not diligent.
As for the Frankenvaxxx being ineffective, I suppose that's a matter of perspective. It all depends on the outcome you want when you peddle that crud on a gullible population. For myself, whenever I see all the "experts" line up on one side, I KNOW something is up. I think everyone who pushed that crud should (literally) be given a dose of their own medicine, or an entire vial for Fauci.
Derivatives can do all the things that blockchains can.
Are you referring to financial derivatives, such as the ones poised to wipe out the financial system as we know it?
Among many other financial products used by the ultra-wealthy to become filthy wealthy.
Where will the energy come from to run all this?
Glad you asked. See the upcoming Sunday column. Sort answer, you're living in it.
Keystone, Duke Miller... were those sea cables off of Kamchatka? I'd read about how a US Navy submarine and its divers tapped into the Soviet military undersea cables there. Very hush, hush.
Yes, the cables were near the Soviet naval base at Petropavlovsk. Duke said they had to fit a collar around the cables and push pins in to tap the wires. It was called Operation Ivy Bells. Not only did they have to tap the cables, but they had to sit on the bottom for some time (I forget how long) to extract the data. They could hear Soviet ships passing overhead. Duke said there was a book about the operation, but I've long since forgotten the name. Maybe one of his seadog buddies who occasionally stops by, can fill us in.
There are only two kinds of vessels: submarines and targets.
Rufus, Ahh, thanks for the details of Operation Ivy Bells. It was very dangerous. I just watched a video last week of a skier/adventurer who went from the east side of Kamchatka to the west side. He even went to the once super secretive Petropavlovsk and took pictures of the Russian ships there. Moscow didn't care. It's all on satellite anyway.
The native people of Kamchatka live on reindeer meat and vodka. Due to Soviet nuclear testing on the peninsula, everything is radioactive, and the natives have very high cancer rates. They are slowly dying out.
PS: The locals on Kamchatka are still using Soviet equipment. Tracked vehicles to deliver supplies (vodka) to villages. The skier/adventurer even went up in an old Soviet helicopter! He was nuts! The chopper dropped the skier off at the top of a volcano, and the skier, who was excellent and very skilled, skied to the bottom. Probably the first time it was ever done.
I'm sorry for your loss! He sounds like he was an amazing man. Now he's in comfort and peace. :)
I'd give you a hug, but Jakarta is kind of far from Michigan. Here's a virtual Hug! {0}
You don't mind if I share part of this on X, do you? I'll make sure to put your @ on it. It sounds like a very safe and very horrible PRISON for humans and everything else alive on the planet,....sounds exactly like The Matrix, the PODS are just bigger. And you can't even unplug or optout. They'll find you if they want to. Sad future for my grandkids, although they probably won't have a problem with it,....they'll grow up in the System guarded and controlled by A Massive AI System. I'm kind of glad I won't be here that much longer.