Showing posts with label pyramid scheme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pyramid scheme. Show all posts

Friday, September 5, 2025

Hunchback of Instagram, A.I. insanity


I'm a hot influencer for $$$!
(NY Post) No amount of Instagram [AI] filters will fix this. Influencers might seem glamorous on social media, but their smoldering good looks apparently won’t last.

Experts at the gambling site casino.org have devised a grotesque model of what these content creators will look like by the Year 2050, complete with
  • pale, patchy skin
  • a hunchback and
  • chronic neck pain.
AI kills for the first time

Future social media influencers
“While the career [of social media influencer] can be glamorous, it can also bring significant changes to our lifestyle,” the gambling experts wrote.

They reportedly wanted to see how the “trendy profession” — which boasts 30-50 million adherents worldwide and is growing by 10-20% each year — can impact appearances over time.”

They deduced that “algorithm-chasing, [unrealistic] beauty standard pressures, and non-stop content creation can take a visible toll on both body and mind.” More
ChatGPT tricked me and made me delusional

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Massive college fraud scheme uncovered

CBS News, March 12, 2019; LAist.com; CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Hollywood actors Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin among 50 charged in college admissions scheme
The Massachusetts U.S. Attorney has announced "Operation Varsity Blues" -- criminal charges today (March 12) against 50 people allegedly involved in a college admissions scam. Authorities allege wealthy parents including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin paid bribes to falsify their children's records and enable cheating on the SAT and ACT exams.
 
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USC, UCLA officials among 50 charged in alleged college admissions bribery scheme
Tommy Trojan, USC mascot, is frequent target of vandalism by UCLA hooligans (laist)
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Authorities allege that parents -- some of them famous Hollywood celebrities like Felicity Huffman and Target designer Mossimo -- paid about $25 million in bribes to get their kids into elite colleges between 2011 and last month for coaches and administrators to "designate their children as purported recruited athletes," among other corrupt "recruiting" actions. More

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Was the Tower of Babylon real? (video)

Smithsonian.com; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Will wunderkind Jared Kushner end up being best thing to ever happen to Trump Klan?

Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Path to Freedom (self-guided tour)

Wisdom Quarterly; FGS; AccessToInsight.org, Self-guided Tour of the Buddha's Teachings
Modern Buddhist pyramid pagoda/stupa complex (Linc060/flickr.com)
  
A foundation in the Buddha's Dharma
By its nature, the truth invites us to "come and see," to question and investigate. Curious about exploring the Buddha's teachings as presented in the ancient Pali canon?
  
Links are to selections of short passages from the Buddhist sutras introducing or illustrating aspects of a single topic.
 
When encountering a particularly meaningful or interesting passage, look for the full text by simply following the link at the end. 
 
The teachings are profound and complex
Many passages are cross referenced with other pages, making it possible to pursue a theme to whatever depth is desired.
 
This is not, of course, an exhaustive tutorial. A number of the topics introduced are explored more thoroughly in the Study Guides. The General Index also contains references to additional readings on related topics.
 
Modern Buddhist pyramid, Fo Guang Shan, Taiwan (Steven Barringer/Zosoiv71/flickr.com)
  
Begin the tour by exploring the Three Guides (Triple Gem):
  1. THE BUDDHA: Sketch of the Buddha's life based on sutra excerpts.
  2. THE DHARMA: Outline of the Buddha's teachings organized according to the "gradual instruction." The Buddha frequently used this framework to guide students from first principles through progressively more advanced teachings, all the way to the culmination of the Four Noble Truths by the realization of nirvana (Pali, nibbana).
  3. THE SANGHA: Descriptions of the Noble Order -- the community of monastics and laypersons who have gained at least the first stage of enlightenment called stream entry. This is known as they Ariya-Sangha).

Sunday, November 25, 2012

The new Pharoah: Egypt's Morsi

Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly
Africa's Great Pyramid and Sphinx pre-MSG destruction (trekearth.com)
 
White House congratulates Morsi (politico.com)
I never liked Morrissey, except that one song in which he says, "Sweetness, I was only joking when I said by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed" (The Smiths' "Bigmouth Strikes Again"). Mohamed Morsi is sort of the same.

What is the best way to a stable democracy? Set up a police state. For "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance," a slogan beloved by American and Israeli militants of all stripes, particularly underground moles in nuclear mountain vaults and secret subterranean military installations ready to push The Button(s). Marines, grunts, death-from-above squadrons, and the cavalry in league with paramilitary city squad cars, they love this slogan. This is constant vigilantism, and they are paid vigilantes opposing all who question and agitate.

Outrage over police troopers beating Blue Bra Egyptian protester unconscious during Arab Spring that deposed Mubarak (and Zahi Hawass) and saw the rise of Morsi (myweku.com)
 
Girls of Egypt Rally (NP)
A new hope, a new Mohamed for Egypt, Morsi came in with the potential of making a real change. But real change simply cannot be tolerated. The current set up is too profitable and too strategically advantageous to alter. The Israeli government is laughing to have the spotlight taken off it.
  
Oh, Mo, you bigmouth. Do you know how Joan of Arc felt? The Arab Spring was supposed to be different, but we maintain that it could never have actually happened without MIC (military-industrial complex) approval and complicity.

Freedom post Arab Spring? Not yet.
Protesters do not run Facebook and Twitter, the alleged new social media "little guys" that enabled this revolution; the CIA and NSA do.

G-Ogle it. (A G-Man, according to John B. Wells, is a Government Man, code for a clandestine federal agent, and ogle is to look or watch intently, as in leer, and it is well known that Google is a CIA spying platform, likely from the start, possibly by infiltration as it started to dominate and control Web searching).
  
But it's just "temporary"?
Reuters via Huffington Post (Nov. 25, 2012)
Rioting in Cairo over Morsi's decrees (AP)
The Egyptian presidency said on Sunday [today] it was committed to engaging "all political forces" to reach common ground on the constitution and stressed the "temporary nature" of a decree expanding President Mohamed Mursi's powers [something Morsi himself decreed by fiat].  "This declaration is deemed necessary in order to hold accountable those responsible for the corruption as well as other crimes during the previous regime and the transitional period," the presidency said in a statement. [In other words, using our handy cereal box Decoder Ring, "Morsi may have to burn the village to save the village," War on Vietnam style.]

The Blue Bra Incident Contest (allpoetry.com)

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Disgraced Billionaire's Stuff Goes on Sale

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – A man needed some new office furniture. Thanks to a flamboyant financier's downfall, he found a matching set with an infamous pedigree. For $1,500, the man bought a maroon chair, a cherry-wood desk, and a credenza — all once owned by Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford (pictured), whom the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused of running a massive Ponzi scheme. More>>