The reach of obscurity- Artificial intelligence reaching deeply into our communications. Even this written thought closes a tiny loop. Subject matter- I'm speaking on the phone; regular cell, large provider. We're discussing left-hand threads on certain rotating components on bicycles or other applications and I'm explaining how to read the thread lay. Voices on a phone. Obscure subject. There has been no computer activity; no searches at all on the subject. Just a conversation yesterday with someone working on a bicycle. This morning as I'm on computer reading news and so on, I'm getting pop-up ads for left-hand taps and dies, etc. This is happening with increasing frequency. Voice activity... When I was a kid in elementary school in the early to mid 60's and learning about the industrial age (yes, they actually taught stuff back then even though I was often sleeping or dreaming or both) they taught that the future would be the information age. Gosh I just couldn't wrap my distracted mind around that. It was in the days before ADD was a thing. Fast forward and I'm out of the service and learning electronics in community college and how to read current flow using right hand/left hand rule. Screws nuts and bolts. Machine threads and electrical currents. Artificial intelligence. Dreams. ADD. Obscurity. So many things...
Dear OV, I work in digital advertising. When I tell you how much is known about you by media and tech companies it makes Fahrenheit 451 and Minority Report look like old issues of Boys' Life. Even if you didn't watch tv and used a rotary phone. Sigh. My apologies for being part of the problem. SB
Instinctively (cynically) I know what's happening, but I have to bear the burden of outrage because I'm so painfully independent lol. I'm waiting on the black-ops helicopter and halo... You, my dear, are definitely forgiven...
The reach of obscurity- Artificial intelligence reaching deeply into our communications. Even this written thought closes a tiny loop.
Subject matter- I'm speaking on the phone; regular cell, large provider. We're discussing left-hand threads on certain rotating components on bicycles
or other applications and I'm explaining how to read the thread lay. Voices on a phone. Obscure subject. There has been no computer activity; no searches at all on the subject. Just a conversation yesterday with someone working on a bicycle. This morning as I'm on computer reading news and so on, I'm getting pop-up ads for left-hand taps and dies, etc.
This is happening with increasing frequency. Voice activity...
When I was a kid in elementary school in the early to mid 60's and learning about the industrial age (yes, they actually taught stuff back then even though I was often sleeping or dreaming or both) they taught that
the future would be the information age. Gosh I just couldn't wrap my distracted mind around that. It was in the days before ADD was a thing.
Fast forward and I'm out of the service and learning electronics in community college and how to read current flow using right hand/left hand rule.
Screws nuts and bolts. Machine threads and electrical currents. Artificial intelligence. Dreams. ADD. Obscurity. So many things...
Dear OV,
I work in digital advertising. When I tell you how much is known about you by media and tech companies it makes Fahrenheit 451 and Minority Report look like old issues of Boys' Life.
Even if you didn't watch tv and used a rotary phone. Sigh.
My apologies for being part of the problem.
SB
The reach of obscurity- Artificial intelligence reaching deeply into our communications. Even this written thought closes a tiny loop.
Subject matter- I'm speaking on the phone; regular cell, large provider. We're discussing left-hand threads on certain rotating components on bicycles or other applications and I'm explaining how to read the thread lay. Voices on a phone. Obscure subject. There has been no computer activity; no searches at all on the subject. Just a conversation yesterday with someone working on a bicycle. This morning as I'm on computer reading news and so on, I'm getting pop-up ads for left-hand taps and dies, etc. This is happening with increasing frequency. Voice activity...
When I was a kid in elementary school in the early to mid 60's and learning about the industrial age (yes, they actually taught stuff back then even though I was often sleeping or dreaming or both) they taught that the future would be the information age. Gosh I just couldn't wrap my distracted mind around that. It was in the days before ADD was a thing. Fast forward and I'm out of the service and learning electronics in community college and how to read current flow using right hand/left hand rule.
Screws nuts and bolts. Machine threads and electrical currents. Artificial intelligence. Dreams. ADD. Obscurity. So many things...
I suppose there's a difference in shooting at something and shooting for it. To truly be present and aware goes beyond ones static understanding of self and into the projected realm of selflessness. That is ultimately Christ's message. Inhabiting hope for forgiveness and deliverance from darkness in order to grow a tomorrow for our children's children. Purely idealistic, I'm sure I know, but... to give into a worldview that requires no discipline; where anything goes; where thoughts and mindsets aided by technology and materialism effect fear and divisions and wars within and without...That will erase all that has been learned and built upon for mankind's entirety; all for the sake of pride, our undoing falling down like one stone from another until the mansion is but dust...
Piqued by the meaning of today's RP page quote: True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary. — Charles Eisenstein Interested in hearing some Peep Perspective. Profundity optional.
I suppose there's a difference in shooting at something and shooting for it. To truly be present and aware goes beyond ones static understanding of self and into the projected realm of selflessness. That is ultimately Christ's message. Inhabiting hope for forgiveness and deliverance from darkness in order to grow a tomorrow for our children's children. Purely idealistic, I'm sure I know, but... to give into a worldview that requires no discipline; where anything goes; where thoughts and mindsets aided by technology and materialism effect fear and divisions and wars within and without...That will erase all that has been learned and built upon for mankind's entirety; all for the sake of pride, our undoing falling down like one stone from another until the mansion is but dust...
Piqued by the meaning of today's RP page quote: True discipline is really just self-remembering; no forcing or fighting is necessary. â Charles Eisenstein
Interested in hearing some Peep Perspective. Profundity optional.
great stuff
why can't we have this type of entertainment now?
Make sure to watch the whole brilliant series or OATES WILL KICK YOUR ASS. It's amazing what they were able to do with some good writing, bad acting, and cheap props.
A good time to remind people of this work of genius. Skip to 2:45 for the part I'm thinking about.
At that part, Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins are trying to come up with a song for the Doobies, after being threatened by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
So they track down Jim Messina, now a skid row bum after being left high and dry by Loggins...
great stuff
why can't we have this type of entertainment now?
A good time to remind people of this work of genius. Skip to 2:45 for the part I'm thinking about.
At that part, Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins are trying to come up with a song for the Doobies, after being threatened by Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.
So they track down Jim Messina, now a skid row bum after being left high and dry by Loggins...
