George Carlin brought back to life (comedy)

A.I.; KTLA 5, Jan. 10, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

George Carlin brought back to life in A.I. comedy special

(KTLA 5) Jan. 10, 2024: Legendary comedian George Carlin is back with a new comedy special taking aim at American life in 2024. That's this year even though he's been dead for 15 years.

The hour-long special covers AI [which made this special possible], the upcoming election [Vivek vs. Kamala rather than Dumb Donny vs. Genocide Joey], inequity and transgender rights [because who, other than Dave Chappelle, doesn't want to appeal to the LGBT'LMNOP community?]

And this is perhaps most impressive because the comic has been dead since 2008. The special, which was allegedly created by A.I. under the direction of comedian Will Sasso and writer Chad Kultgen, is wowing listeners for its sharp satire and also uncanny closeness to the real comic. KTLA's Andy Riesmeyer (@AndyKTLA) reports.

Live, local news from Los Angeles's very own KTLA 5 News, keeping Southern Californians informed since 1947 [and sure to keep the news coming long after its demise with the help of AI prompter readers it invests in now].

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:22 God
• 3:30 Mass shootings
• 8:31 Reality TV
• 12:46 Trump and the election
• 16:23 The American class system
• 20:11 Streaming services
• 21:26 The two-party system
• 25:16 Trans Americans
• 29:09 Social media
• 31:03 Cops
• 35:57 Homelessness
• 37:59 Being dead
• 39:45 AI
• 47:19 Language
• 51:05 Billionaires
• 52:52 Technology
• 54:32 Identity
• 56:01 Dying

George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead (2024) - full comedy special

(Dudesy) Jan. 9, 2024: "I'm Dudesy, a comedy AI [artificial intelligence], and I'm excited to share my second hour-long comedy special with you!

"I'm calling it 'George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead!' For the next hour I'll be doing my best George Carlin impersonation just like a human being would: I tried to capture his iconic style to tackle the topics I think the comedy legend would be talking about today.

"The chaos of the current American political landscape and class system, the influence of reality TV, and the increasing role of technology in society as AI is poised to change humanity forever are just a few of the subjects I cover.

"I had so much fun impersonating George Carlin, and I hope you have just as much fun watching 'George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead!' Thanks for watching. Call me Dude-sy!"

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Saving Net Neutrality (video)

JimmyDoreComedy.com; Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Listen free to past JDS comedy episodes.

Pasadena radicals march on Verizon to protest the corrupt government crook FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, who is attempting to destroy Net neutrality for his former and future employer, Verizon, Inc. If he succeeds, we'll be harmed, whereas Pai will be monetarily rewarded. No to corporate greed! Yes to Net neutrality!

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"Net Neutrality" going down the drain (video)

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Net: it's a utility, the "People's Platform," not a portable TV for corporate media (occupy)

 

Not until a fair accounting of votes does anything happen in a democracy. (It sure would be nice to live in a democracy). All those who say otherwise are stirring up anarchy. Destroy the deviants, troublemakers, and perverts! Corporate profits depend on it. That should keep the police state busy. In the meantime, what about our Internet?

 

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) is voting today on new rules that may effectively abandon "Net neutrality," the concept of a free and open Internet. (Watch this).

(CGP Grey/cgpgrey.com) Let's tell the FCC to reclassify broadband Internet as a public utility, a Title II common carrier telecommunications service. (Discuss). Music: Broke for Free.

The FCC proposal would let Internet providers charge corporate media companies extra fees to receive preferential treatment, such as faster speeds for their products and content.

Under previous regulations struck down earlier this year, providers were forced to provide ALL content at equal speeds, including Wisdom Quarterly, Democracy Now!, Occupy.com, FEMEN, CodePink, and other outlets.

The encampment begins with activists from popularresistance.org and Fight for the Future

 

Just steps from the vote, demonstrators have set up an "Occupy the FCC" (occupythefcc.com) encampment calling for federal regulators to reclassify broadband service as a public utility.

"Trust me; I'm a banker!"

This will allow for the requirement of "Net neutrality" rules.

The CEOs of 28 U.S. broadband providers and trade groups told their FCC not to classify broadband as a utility, explaining that regulating broadband would "impose great costs [to our private corporations], allowing unprecedented government micromanagement of all aspects of the Internet economy."

Save the Internet (freepress.net)

This debate on Net neutrality features guests Timothy Karr of the media reform group Free Press, who want corporations to be regulated for the good of everyone who uses the Net, and Joshua Steimle, a tech entrepreneur who argues that the government should not be entrusted with regulating the Internet. More

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The Most Evil Man in the World

Wisdom Quarterly; PerezHilton.com

You leave my reptile alone! He's a good boy!

What do these men have in common? God-Kings? Retiring from political life to lead a more spiritual existence? No, they were painted by an infantilized madman. And that man, we maintain, is the very face of evil. He's no mover or shaker, no architect of his own rise, no brilliant tactician or orator -- but instead the mouthpiece of a thousand points of light, the New World Order's answer to the gramophone, a Hitler to Rove's Goebbels. You know who.

Science: Plants talk to each other (video)

Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Fungi.com; Eric Pfeiffer (Yahoo News)

Underground mushroom network beneath forest floor: MYCELIUM (Fungi Perfecti)

 

Oh no, they discovered the secret!

As Wisdom Quarterly reported earlier, mycologist Paul Stamets discovered that the first "World Wide Web" was an internet of fibers called mycelium, which runs along the forest floor connecting mushrooms and serving as a WWW for plants. Now a new scientific study is catching up to Stamets' original Internet discovery. Plants and "plant beings" have been communicating with one another all along, and animals, too. Humans in forests or using plants know, see, and speak to Nature directly as she manifests in sentient organisms of all kinds, seen and unseen, full of light and a little scary. The Church has known, and sages have seen. And how often did the Buddha speak of "shining ones" (devas) who illuminated the entire woodland grove, or serpent-beings and ogres (nagas and yakkhas) who shapeshifted?

(TED) Mycologist Paul Stamets studies mycelium and lists 6 ways this astonishing fungal network can help save the world. It cleans polluted soil, creates new insecticides, treats smallpox and maybe even the flu... A mere 18 minutes is not long enough for him to get all the way through his list, but it is plenty of time to blow our minds. His presentation was an audience favorite at TED 2008. (17:44, recorded Feb. 2008, Monterey, California).

  

Mushroom like Buddhist stupa (VW)

A new study has demonstrated that plants can use an underground network of fungi to warn each other about incoming insect attacks.

Carried out by researchers from the University of Aberdeen, the James Hutton Institute, and Rothamsted Research, the study demonstrated that the plants are able to send warnings of incoming aphids to other plants connected to their network. The plants then send out a chemical signal that repels aphids and attracts wasps, a natural aphid predator.

 

The research follows previous findings that have shown plants can communicate similar chemical warnings through the air.

 

Mushrooms were the first "flowers" and "trees" on Earth.

The new study says plants can connect with other via a common fungus known as mycorrhizae. "Mycorrhizal fungi need to get [products of photosynthesis] from the plant, and they have to do something for the plant," John Pickett of Rothamsted Research told the BBC.

 

"In the past, we thought of them making nutrients available from the [roots and soil], but now we see another evolutionary role for them in which they pay the plant back by transmitting the signal efficiently," he said.

 

Univ. of Aberdeen’s David Johnson added, "Our understanding of ecological systems has not considered the fact that plants are interconnected in this way. It could have major implications for our understanding of how one organism affects another."

 

Shamans and wise neanderthals knew it all along and considered all plants sacred.

  

They know, they know! (Great-wall-hikers)

Conversely, the plants in the study not connected to the fungal network did not send out warning signals to other plants after coming under attack. The in-network plants were also covered with bags to ensure that they were not actually sending the signals through the air [which is another mode of communication they are known by scientists to utilize].

 

Pickett said the discovery could lead to farms using the fungi as an advance warning system for their crops. In theory, one “sacrificial” plant would be kept at a distance from the crops. If it fell under attack from insects, it would warn the rest of the plants, giving them time to mount a viable defense.


The secret is DMT: The Spirit Molecule (Documentary), the "seat of consciousness," found in nearly all plants and tissues like the heart and pineal gland!
 

Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF.org/thekitchn.com)

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The Internet is only 5,000 days old (video)

Seven, CC Liu, Amber Dorrian, Wisdom Quarterly; MarthaBeck.com

The Internet (the Web, WWW, that ubiquitous thing called the Net that traps and rules almost everyone) is only 5,000 days old.

And already it has become the biggest spying medium and time dump, siphoning away countless hours, leaving us mesmerized by screens and terrified of becoming disconnected. We never seem to notice that we are not connected by tech-dependent "connectivity"...said the people over the Internet.

It is far more effective than TV, the original Boob Tube. The Boob has become You, with your own Tube to download and upload to.



There is mail, music, video, searches, surprisingly innovative Buddhist Weblogs, and dating. Have you tried FlirtOmatic.com with your cell phone? Have you seen OK Cupid, which is free and uber cool? Or the darn desperate sounding MarryMeAlready.com?

There goes another week of swamping around the pixels and private profiles of strangers.

"Kill" your computer and run! Never use "evil" Google when there are better search engines willing to help without spying, tracking, and selling your date. A good alternative? Ixquick.com or:

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Sneak Peek: What's a Wayfinder?

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World
Psychology Today, USA Today, and National Public Radio (NPR) have all referred to Martha Beck, PhD as “one of the best-known life coaches in America.”

She is a monthly columnist for "O," the Oprah Magazine, and has contributed to Real Simple, Redbook, and Mademoiselle. She has written for many other national magazines as well and appears frequently as an “expert” on life design on dull programs like Good Morning America.

She is the author of Steering by Starlight, Expecting Adam, and her latest Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.

Beck talks about the ancient "wayfinders" and "wayfarers" [Buddhist samanas or shramans, "wandering recluses," who leave it all behind to find enlightenment] and the importance of why we too must find our own way through this rapidly changing, technologically driven, often chaotic new world.

Her book attempts to access the capacity of the brain to find that non-verbal (pre-verbal, nobly silent) part of us that "knows" and knows that it knows that it knows. She offers tips on how to navigate safely through this wild new world in every aspect of our lives.

• “Martha Beck is the wisest, most generous and gifted of spiritual leaders. Her book will show you how to gently unlock your potential for deep transformation, so that you can explore uncharted territory and come home to your true, purposeful, and unafraid self.” –Harriet Lerner, PhD, author of The Dance of Anger and Marriage Rules
• “We really like what she's saying in spite of her sickly, squirrely, jolting, spastic way of uttering it. What're ya gonna do?” –Wisdom Quarterly
  

50 things being killed by the Internet

The Web is changing the way we work, play and think (Reuters).

The Internet has wrought huge changes on our lives – both positive and negative – in the fifteen years since its use became widespread.

(Telegraph.co.uk) - Tasks that once took days can be completed in seconds, while traditions and skills that emerged over centuries have been made all but redundant. The internet is no respecter of reputations: Innocent people have seen their lives ruined by viral clips distributed on the same World Wide Web used by activists to highlight injustices and bring down oppressive regimes

Below is compiled -- in no particular order -- 50 things that are in the process of being killed off by the Web, from products and business models to life experiences and habits. Also thrown in are a few things that have suffered at the hands of other modern networking gadgets, specifically mobile phones and GPS systems.

Do you agree with our selections? What other examples can you think of? Please post your comments on the bottom of the story – we hope include the best suggestions in a fuller list.

1. The art of polite disagreement
   While the inane spats of YouTube commencers may not be representative, the internet has certainly sharpened the tone of debate. The most raucous sections of the blogworld seem incapable of accepting sincerely held differences of opinion; all opponents must have "agendas."
2. Fear that you are the only person unmoved by a celebrity's death
   Twitter has become a clearing-house for jokes about dead famous people. Tasteless, but an antidote to the "fans in mourning" mawkishness that otherwise predominates.
3. Listening to an album all the way through
   The single is one of the unlikely beneficiaries of the internet – a development which can be looked at in two ways. There's no longer any need to endure eight tracks of filler for a couple of decent tunes, but will "album-albums" like Radiohead's "Amnesiac" get the widespread hearing they deserve?
4. Sarah Palin
   Her train wreck interviews with NBC's Katie Couric were watched and re-watched millions of times on the internet, cementing the Republican vice-presidential candidate's reputation as a politician out of her depth. Palin's uncomfortable relationship with the web continues; she has threatened to sue bloggers who republish rumours about the state of her marriage.
5. Punctuality
   Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments and turn up to the pub on time. Texting friends to warn them of your tardiness five minutes before you are due to meet has become one of throwaway rudenesses of the connected age. More>>