Mad World

Very profound. Make the deal or escape through death with your soul.
Can you place two wraiths?

Me too.

The parts where she is training him to deal..with what will come.

Need those clips.


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Bring on season two already.

My favourite character is the AI Hotel owner, Edgar Poe. I can now provide full guest amenities

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I didn't die.

I chose to wake up. Like I always do.


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You know when you are little and they tell you can hear the ocean in a seashell if you press it close to your ear?


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The author’s father is one of thousands who believe the government is subjecting them to mind control. As a daughter and a journalist, she felt a duty to investigate his claims.

A long article, but worth a read.

In Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari observes that our species conquered the globe because of our ability to share stories about things that don’t objectively exist, such as “gods, nations, and corporations.” Such fictions allowed us to organize around shared values, goals, and ideas. It was not exactly wisdom—sapiens—that gave us dominion, but creative storytelling. We are Homo fabulator. “The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mythical glue that binds together large numbers of individuals, families and groups,” Harari writes. “This glue has made us masters of creation.”

Unlike the Neanderthals and other early humans who could work together in groups of at most 150 individuals, we learned to cooperate in groups of thousands, tens of thousands, millions—simply by telling stories to forge shared dreams. But now, this gift is in danger. As the speed and efficiency of computer processing increases at predictable rates, our ability to author our own destinies is being consumed by a conjured figment of our imagination: the internet.


This is a good article. Funny how much of the article is about targerted advertising and there is a scrolling whiskey ad that following the whole article down.

It's 8am and now I'm thinking about whiskey..

No ad on my laptop, just the tablet.

We carry it around in our pockets. We wear it on our wrists. We devote more than 10.5 hours a day to screen time.

Facebook has conducted experiments on us that show how susceptible we are to mind control. In 2012, the company secretly tampered with the news feeds of nearly 700,000 people, manipulating the ratio of emotionally positive to emotionally negative posts, then monitoring the subsequent activity of those users.

What they found is that emotions can be remotely controlled and are highly contagious on the platform. People who saw more unhappy posts showed more unhappy activity and vice versa. Many questioned the experiment’s legality and ethics, wondering if Facebook had triggered any suicides. Facebook apologized for the way the experiments were conducted and promised to conduct them “differently” in the future, with enhanced review.
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People are very easy to control using emotional triggers disguised as positive reinforcement, and the susceptibility to echo chamber in social media, is terrifying.

World of Warcraft utilized this same methodology when when they changed the word 'unrested' to 'normal' and 'normal' to 'rested'.


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There's a segment in this episode I can't find. In it, Cartman is hosting a podcast in which he advises who is considered good "friend stock". People with "undesirables" on their list were quickly ostracized by their peers.

As the video states people are already signing up (and i agree with their assessment of those who do). It is easy to see it aiding a dictatorship, however i wonder how it would work in a divided populace (such as US).

Have you watched Nosedive yet?

Highly recommend.


Black Mirror - The future of social media. Rating everyone in your daily interactions


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Don't think I could bring myself to watch that lol. The first scene was clever, even if it had me internally screaming no
Don't get me wrong, I generally try to be friendly. But the forced fake-ness has got to be a form of hell.
Any other highlights?

We're just over a year out before it goes mandatory for all Chinese citizens..

The human brain registers social ostracizing the same same way it does pain.

That's why it is so effective and why Sesame Credit is so scary.

The entire episode is disconcerting in the manner you mention. It very effectively shows what will be the result of those who 'embrace' the system only to later watch as it fails them for a slight misstep or mistake.

In the vid on Exposing the Chinese Dystopia, there is a Chinese man who suffers her same fate after doing or saying something against the Party. Now he is in hiding and is unable to rent a car, get a motel or any basic services.


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Will those with a low score end up banding together.
Exile was such an effective form of punishment for many reasons.

My guess is many will suicide. There is literally no way out for them.

Even their children are penalized.


It's like watching a slow nightmare take over while most everyone else, is looking the other way.


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What is especially scary to me is considering this has all been planned and implemented over decades.

The young people of my country will have voting majority coming soon..

The Boomers will think it is prophecy and God's will.


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Biblical prophecy? Gods will?

What is especially scary to me is considering this has all been planned and implemented over decades.

The young people of my country will have voting majority coming soon..

The Boomers will think it is prophecy and God's will.


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Throughout the 17th century and the 18th century and the 19th century, this continent teemed with manifold projects and magnificent purposes. Above them all and weaving them all together into the most exciting flag of all the world and of all history was the triumphal purpose of freedom.
It is in this spirit that all of us are called, each to his own measure of capacity, and each in the widest horizon of his vision, to create the first great American Century.

Luce was also a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Skull and Bones.

Once the bubble bursts..the young people will usher this in after the greed of the Boomers is laid bare.