Showing posts with label digital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital. Show all posts
Monday, February 9, 2026
Monday, July 28, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Will Trump survive 5/27? (The Simpsons)
Can The Simpsons really predict the future? No. When has it ever? Yeah, well, except for those times, but that was pure coincidence, luck of the draw, and anyone could have seen those things coming. Why should this be any different? The King is well-fed; long live the King!
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Secret underground cities built by rich
Catherine Fitts: Power grids, bankers vs. West, secret underground bases, extinction events
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| I found one of their secret (naga) tunnels |
- Inside Facebook's Mark "Meta" Zuckerberg’s top-secret Hawaii compound | WIRED (He has advance warning of the cataclysm that's coming)
- Survival of the richest: The billionaires building doomsday bunkers | The Gentleman's Journal
The Daily Show's Desi Lydic on Tucker Carlson
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| Derinkuyu, Turkey, ancient underground city |
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| We allocated that money for [elite] infrastructure: continuity of government |
- How much is $21 trillion? It's exactly 21 times larger than the staggering quantity Americans call a trillion, which is 1,000 billion. So it's $21,000,000,000,000.00 (21,000 x billion).
- Catherine Austin Fitts' website: solari.com
- Catherine Austin Fitts says U.S. spent $21 trillion on 170 secret underground cities for elite near-extinction survival (DeepNewz)
- Secret $21 trillion city: Catherine Austin Fitts exposes elite safe haven: secret underground cities
- Where's my futuristic open world sandbox? (NeoGAF)
- There already is a subterranean city of Elengubu, Derinkuyu, Turkey (Anatolia, Turkiye)
CHAPTERS
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| Survival of the richest: The billionaires building doomsday bunkers (The Gentleman's Journal) |
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:11 The attempts to control the world’s currency
- 12:09 The two things that lead to inflation
- 16:17 Central Bankers vs. the West
- 25:01 What you should know about the Bank of International Settlements
- 29:48 The banker’s plan to conquer space
- 32:27 Are we approaching an extinction event?
- 35:57 Secret [Deep] Underground [Military] Bases all across US
- 44:49 The government’s secret energy sources [free energy, perpetual motion technology]
- 56:42 Who are the masterminds behind the central banks?
- 58:26 The real reason American universities are failing
- 1:06:25 The global depopulation plan
- 1:13:20 The housing crisis
- 1:24:40 How to stay joyful in dark times
- 1:25:37 The missing $21 trillion
- 1:30:30 America’s debt is a symptom of something much bigger
- 1:39:36 Global money laundering
- 1:45:06 Where can people learn more about this?
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| We're paid not to ask questions, just build cities |
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| C. Austin Fitts exposes elites on Tucker Carlson |
- BOOK: Dillon Read and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits
- BIO: Who is Catherine Austin Fitts? (Coast to Coast)
- VIDEO: Scientists from McGill University in Mexico discover 600-year-old “frozen in time” Zapotec Lost City
- Catherine Austin Fitts (solari.com), Tucker Carlson, April 28, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Monday, January 20, 2025
Trump inaugurated? No hand on Bible
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| Trump's 'stupid'...well not him himself, just his town hall (The New York Times Opinion) |
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| Bibles? To GDH with your Bibles... I don't have to swear on no stinkin' Bibles |
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| Republicans love Mr. Trump. He, however... |
Jon Stewart on Trump’s inauguration and Elon Musk's Nazi salute | The Daily Show
Monday, November 18, 2024
Monday, September 9, 2024
The Entire History of Pornography (video)
The ENTIRE History of Pornography | documentary
Whether one is a history enthusiast, a sociology student, or simply curious about the subject, this exploration promises to be both enlightening and thought-provoking.
#HistoryOfPornography #EroticArt #AncientCivilizations #PrintingPress #VictorianEra #EarlyCinema #SexualRevolution #Censorship #InternetPorn #DigitalAge #AdultEntertainment #CulturalImpact #EthicalDebates #Sociology #HumanCulture
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Happy Int'l Women's Day 2023: DigitALL
ClickView; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Int'l Women's Day theme
(Prof. M.THANGA DARWIN) Feb. 20, 2023. Happy International Women's Day! The theme this year is “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality.”
What is International Women’s Day? It is celebrated every year on March 8th – but why is this day important? What does it signify? This Miniclip explores the origins of women’s suffrage (voting rights) throughout the United Kingdom’s modern history, including the impact of WWI on women's rights and the granting of voting rights to women. It also discusses damaging stereotypes for both girls and boys, the presence of gender inequality that still exists today, and how to celebrate the women in our own lives.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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Lion's Roar; Ananda (Dharma B Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| The Buddha's declaration of attainments |
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Sunday, July 3, 2022
What Uganda’s gold could mean for crypto
Andrew Singer (cointelegraph.com, 6/24/22); Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Uganda’s gold discovery: What it could mean for crypto
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| Blockchain has a future, Bitcoin likely does not. |
Questions arise.
These are fraught times for the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector, so it isn’t surprising that industry proponents might seize upon any promising news to help charge flagging markets.
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| US e-cash: digital currency like cash without Fed |
Bitcoin has periodically laid claim to being digital gold largely on the strength of its [artificially] strict 21 million supply limit, which makes it non-inflationary and a good store of value — in theory.
Gold, of course, is the store of value par excellence, with a limited supply and a solid track record that goes back millennia.
But if Uganda is sitting on 31 million metric tons of gold ore, as the government declared, might not that substantially boost the world’s gold supply? That in turn could lower the price of gold — and make it a less secure “store of value” generally.
Gold’s loss could be the cryptocurrency’s gain.
Some drew encouragement from this notion. Microstrategies CEO Michael Saylor, for instance, posted a video on Twitter about the Ugandan discovery of “huge gold deposits,” which might net 320,158 metric tons of refined gold “valued at $12.8 trillion.”
As Saylor noted on June 17, 2022: “#Gold is plentiful. #Bitcoin is scarce," further telling CNBC:
“Every commodity in the world has looked good in a hyperinflationary environment, but the dirty secret is you can make more oil, you can make more silver, you can make more gold…Bitcoin’s the only thing that looks like a commodity that is scarce and capped.”
But perhaps there is less here than meets the eye. The 320,158 metric tons of refined gold that the Ugandan mining ministry spokesman said could be produced from the new deposits in the country’s northeastern corner would far exceed the 200,000 metric tons in above-ground gold that exist in the entire world today.
One gold mining trade publication went so far as to suggest the Ugandan government may have been confusing metric tons with ounces in its projections. More
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
What makes it a civilization? (insight LA)
Trudy Goodman Kornfield (insightLA.org); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Several of us Insight in Action teachers have been working with iACT (iact.ngo) for a few years, traveling to refugee camps in Eastern Chad in Africa, Greece, and Cameroon to teach mindfulness skills.
Together during this frightening time, we safeguard human flourishing and compassion for all beings everywhere, without exception. This is Teacher Appreciation Week. Please join me in gratitude for all dedicated teachers; gratitude is a powerful antidote to fear and sadness.
Find a gratitude buddy at insightLA through our Digital Dharma Pals program. Helping each other through difficult times is where civilization starts – and where love flourishes!
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| American anthropologist Margaret Mead with baby in Africa holding a doll (inquirer.com). |
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| Sunday Morning Practice Group with founding teacher Trudy Goodman (insightla.org) |
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| Margaret Mead, what's the first sign of civilization? I bet it's pottery! - No. (forbes.com) |
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| Help, I broke my leg and I can't swim!!! |
A friend told me that anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a student what she considered the first sign of civilization for a culture.
The student expected her to talk about clay pots or grinding stones. But Mead said that the first sign of civilization was a thighbone (femur) that had broken and healed.
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| Hold on...I just gotta check something first. |
Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You can't run from danger, get to water to drink, or search for food… No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
“A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts,” Mead said.
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| Partners Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman |
In this spirit InsightLA.org launched a community fund for "Giving Week" to offer a hand if anyone is experiencing hardship. Insight in Action programs have pivoted online to serve.
My heart is full, witnessing much goodness and beauty all over the world as people care for one another. I’m touched by participation with iACT to provide public health information so refugee camp leaders can prepare their communities, isolated from heath care, for the pandemic.
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| Mead loved the people she studied, and they loved her: Taking Note doc (store.der.org). |
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| What if I could get my own film festival? |
Yesterday my friend Oumda Tarbosh, a community leader who literally saved thousands of lives during Darfur's genocide, sent the following message to everyone. It’s especially poignant knowing how little food they have:
We start to see big changes in the community, and I have a hope that the situation is going to be good. Refugees are knowing more [about] health and hygiene. Yesterday, I was doing mindfulness. I closed my eyes and… I started seeing my beloved brothers and sisters, friends and parents [dying] around the world[.] I don't know even [their] names... and my mind was changed. After a certain moment, I cried so much and start my prayer. Yesterday, I didn't eat food, my friends. So I encourage all supporters, donors, refugee camp leaders [for] all we are doing for our communities. I have a hope, together as one, we will win! Thank you all.
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| Why love all people? (thoughtco.com) |
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| Cultural anthropology |
Join me for a 6-night ONLINE retreat through Spirit Rock beginning on May 20th with Anam Thubten, James Baraz, and Jill White Lindsay. This is the only weeklong retreat I'm teaching in 2020!
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
When is social media too much? (cartoon)
Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Tom Tomorrow (thismodernworld.com)
Keen has long been known for the position he has taken on the addictive Internet, claiming that it is having an adverse effect on society and people personally. After voicing this position in his book The Cult of Amateur, he has been given nicknames like the "Net's supreme cyber-grump" and the "Antichrist of the Silicon Valley."
Speaking to WebProNews he explains that, while he supports the Internet and social media, he is concerned that the public nature of the social age is resulting in "losing something essential about what it means to be human."
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| If teens have been peddled to and become addicted and obsessed with social media, what are they really after? It used to be "being part of the group." Now it's all about money and FAME. |
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| Stimulating the brain's reward centers with addictive devices (thismodernworld.com) |
In a day and age obsessed with
social media and spying technology, it's hard to picture life without them.
Is that good or bad or neither? According to Andrew Keen, author
of the book Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us, the Internet, and
particularly social media, is changing society in a way that is worrisome. (Christians agree).
Keen has long been known for the position he has taken on the addictive Internet, claiming that it is having an adverse effect on society and people personally. After voicing this position in his book The Cult of Amateur, he has been given nicknames like the "Net's supreme cyber-grump" and the "Antichrist of the Silicon Valley."
Speaking to WebProNews he explains that, while he supports the Internet and social media, he is concerned that the public nature of the social age is resulting in "losing something essential about what it means to be human."
(The National, Feb. 2014) How are teens being affected by social media? Research suggests the impact is emotional - bullying, obsession with money and fame (defined as likes), and sexting.
"One of the problems, I think, with social media is that it isn't very social. It's really just an aggregation of individuals," he says. As he explains, many of our actions on social networks aren't pro-social. The movements that have developed are not coherent, viable movements. For example, Occupy or the movements in the Middle East, are atomized and radically individualized not "social" movements. Most social networks, instead,
represent "just an aggregation" of people.
To avoid a potential harmful impact, Keen says the Internet needs to become more civilized and habitable. He also suggests that government regulation regarding privacy protections against spying could help prevent the concerns from getting worse.
To avoid a potential harmful impact, Keen says the Internet needs to become more civilized and habitable. He also suggests that government regulation regarding privacy protections against spying could help prevent the concerns from getting worse.
- The problem is not loving Facebook; it's hating it but still using it: Top 10 Reasons to Quit Facebook (Diggnation Daily)
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Finally, Bitcoin EXPLAINED (comedy)
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| Bitcoin is not a coin but a virtual, well, a... |
(Team Coco) Bitcoin may be too much for puny minds to comprehend; luckily this training video explains all. Bitcoin's COO Marcus Ortmann explains what bitcoin is. Team
Coco is the official YouTube channel of late night host Conan O'Brien. More
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Sex in the Digital Age: Sad and Solo
Jeremy Hsu (LiveScience.com) with Wisdom Quarterly commentary
Sexuality in the Digital Age can mean sexting on smartphones, hookups through Craigslist and Facebook, and transmitting lewd photos like Weiner.
Sexuality in the Digital Age can mean sexting on smartphones, hookups through Craigslist and Facebook, and transmitting lewd photos like Weiner.
But while humans continue to define the do's and don'ts of online lust, a new generation of computer programs may have already figured it out. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, a scandal like Anthony Weiner's doesn't even necessarily need two humans anymore.
Online chat bots already send come-hither messages to users of social media or dating websites. Video games and online programs also offer virtual girlfriend (or boyfriend) experiences on smartphones and handheld video game consoles.
The crude connections may signal a "robotic moment" for society where humans begin turning to artificial intelligence to fulfill emotional needs, said Sherry Turkle, director of MIT's Initiative on Society and Self.
"I did find people who were interested in artificial boyfriends and girlfriends, in artificial spouses," Turkle told InnovationNewsDaily. "They were not being ironic. They felt that people had failed them. And that a robot would be a safe choice."
Virtual lovers
Such "seduction by social robots" forms a key theme in Turkle's latest book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Basic Books, 2011).
She found that some people can desire what robots offer -- either in virtual form or as crude sex bots -- even if it marks a step below emotional fulfillment with other human beings. More
Such "seduction by social robots" forms a key theme in Turkle's latest book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Basic Books, 2011).
She found that some people can desire what robots offer -- either in virtual form or as crude sex bots -- even if it marks a step below emotional fulfillment with other human beings. More
All over America there are men with a bizarre unspoken fetish. Welcome to the sex robot scene where femme-bots are becoming a reality.
Inventor unveils $7,000 talking Sex Robot
(CNN) To some men, she might seem like the perfect woman: She's a willowy 5 feet 7 and 120 pounds. She'll chat with you endlessly about your interests. And she'll have sex whenever you please -- as long as her battery doesn't run out.
Couple's robotic child does everything (is it legal?)
Make Love, Not Robots
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
It seems like the end of the world. This is a terrible idea. But it makes it obvious how easy it is to sell anything: Accentuate the positive; dismiss the obvious.
What people do, whatever they do, that's fine. Why would anyone else worry about other people's business -- unless it affects us, unless they are part of the Sangha (or some other select group with inherent rules)?
Often it would happen among Buddhist monastics that, in ancient times, one would say to another, "You don't tell me what to do, and I won't tell you what to do." That comment alone is a violation. Outside of the rarefied atmosphere of a monastery, family, or coherent group, however, who can argue with this laissez faire attitude? Free trade, rough trade, who's to say?
Is it "sexual misconduct"?
Sexual misconduct (kamesu micchacara) is defined, technically, as sexual intercourse (penetration) with someone when you are not free to consent (because of living in dependence on someone else such as a parent, guardian, or spouse) or with someone not able to give consent (because that person is living in dependence on someone else).
This detailed definition (found in the Numerical Discourses, Book of Tens, Sutra 206) is not the whole story. The Five Precepts are defined at different levels: In the most basic sense, they are the bottom line. But the reality is, there is more to it. Although it is frequently mentioned, no precept says one abstains from lying. That's what people say based on not reading primary documents and instead relying on loose translations. One abstains from "false speech." And false speech goes a lot farther than mere lying.
As an unsuitable translation, "sexual misconduct" is defined as "adultery." But our modern view of this word (a married person having extramarital relations) is not mentioned at all. What's mentioned is much wider, what we would call "cheating," seducing someone in a relationship. But usually we do not hold that person as having done much by Judeo-Christian standards, even if we despise such people at a gut level. Kamesu means sensuality. Sexuality, its most exaggerated form, stands for less serious manifestations of it (such as gluttony or abuse of any of the other five senses). The worst "false speech" (musavada) is bearing false witness (perjury).
The Five Precepts were not invented by the Buddha but realized by him and revealed as crucial to keep -- if one would be happy now (through peace of mind) and in the future when one meet with the results of karma. What makes something "bad"? If it harms the doer (when the action bears its result, which is rarely right away), if it harms another (which is usually right away), or both (which seems to mean society or everyone involved not merely the two principals, e.g., sex with someone dependent on parents involves many more people that the two having sex.
Who's harmed by sex with a bot?
There is no way to have sex with a robot without engendering a habit of lust and its expression. This will not be helpful in life. The excuse, completely unfounded, that it is a "release valve" for sexual energy is flawed. Eating more does not make one less hungry. On the contrary, one grows fatter and hungrier. Be that as it may.
If one chooses to become obsessed with sex -- Internet pornography, prostitution, pandering, or prurient interest in "interactive technology" -- that individual is alone in that. But none of us are alone. The illusion of separation is deluded, but there is no convincing anyone in the grip of it that it is anything but true. All we do affects others, and to a greater or lesser extent we are responsible for that.
Sex with robot -- even robot "children" -- may be legal. But is it a good idea? This commentary cannot go any further than to say to the individual, Think twice. Lot's of things are legal that are not a good idea.
Masturbation (which is what sex with an inanimate machine is) and the realization of the fantasy envisioned in West World makes us all more isolated, unempathic, and enmeshed in unsatisfactory pursuits that science (for profit) hails as a technological breakthrough to advance the world. This is what happens when socially-ostracized nerds rule the world.
Help save the world -- offer nerds affection so they won't spend their time inventing things like automated kissing machines.
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