No, that's M-0. Pandas as teh super-cute-furry Environmentalist Flag-ship species has a long history that has no actual impact on their ecology nor does saving them actually help any other species (and, China charges ~$1-10 mil / annum to host one of the little buggers).
It's a known and commonly derided misstep of the more 'mainstream' Green / Conservation groups that's been argued about since... oh... like 1982 or so.
Sane Policy: STOP FUCKING KILLING SHARKS, YO, THAT SHIT RUINS ENTIRE ECOLOGIES
Saatchi and Saatchi Policy: HERE'S SOME CUTE BEAR SHIT, FEEL THE FEELS, BTW, DON'T LOOK TOO HARD INTO PALM OIL AND SO ON. CHINA IS ALSO A CLIENT, SO LOOK HOW GREAT THEY ARE SHIPPING THESE EVOLUTIONARY DEAD-END-BEARS ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR HARD DOLLARS. HERE: SHORT VIDEO SHOWING HOW CUTE THE FUCKING THINGS ARE, IGNORE ECOLOGY, IT'S NOT IMPORTANT.
M-1 level is this:
Sad Panda is internet slang used to describe someone who is sad or depressed. The phrase was originally used in the popular animated series South Park and has since been used in pictures, videos and forum posts. It has been commonly used in sentences like “This/That makes me a sad panda”.
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Super Ethical Reality Climax, anyone?
How's about: Super Unethical Psychopathic Irreality Non-Climax being run by sociopaths?
“and was taken to the Forward Docks and a big, brightly lit hangar, where the Psychopath Class ex-Rapid Offensive Unit Frank Exchange of Views was waiting for her. Ulver laughed. 'It looks,' she snorted, 'like a dildo!' 'That's appropriate,' Churt Lyne said. 'Armed, it can fuck solar systems.”
]]>If you're over 40, perhaps. Or just being a GOON.
Anyone under 40 from a Western Country will immediately spot many of the jokes.
558M.I.B is a long con type UFO conspiracy that was probably used to silence/threaten people for real (back in the 50's) that then morphed into its own Conspiracy Theory (no doubt helped along by such organizations as the Scientologists etc who loved that side of things, as well as the CIA etc - c.f Operation Snow White)
"Oh Lucky Man!" was the middle of the triptych films loosely built around if.... and Britannia Hospital.
Why?
In parallel with Travis' experiences, the film shows 1960s Britain retreating from its imperial past, but managing to retain some influence in the world by means of corrupt dealings with foreign dictators. After finding out his girlfriend is the daughter of Sir James Burgess, an evil industrialist, he is appointed Burgess' personal assistant. With Dr Munda, the dictator of Zingara, a brutal police state which nevertheless manages to be a playground for wealthy people from the developed world, Burgess sells the regime a chemical called PL45 'Honey' for spraying on rebel areas (the effects resemble those of napalm). Burgess connives at having Travis found guilty of fraud, and he is imprisoned for five years.
Oh, and by placing the reference to that in 1973, when Marfen was in service and you were a sprightly youngster shows we were attempting to give your MIND a cultural reference you'd understand.
You know, more emotional labour.
559Do a GREP.
Do a search for "Weaponized Autism and chan culture"
Do some work at the very least
Try to understand the "why" to Japan having ~33% on under 35 males virgins / jobless / hopeless / locked in their bedrooms
560The film "Meet Joe Black" is a story about Death (YES, PTERRY SAYS HELLO AND WONDERS AT YOU ALL) coming to Earth to experience 'life', falling in love and helping an aged Industrialist not lose his Empire / Support while the younger generation are attempting to ruin his daughter's life and his business.
With reference to HOST, you might find the Irony.
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Tie those three threads together.
It's kinda funny.
Every time she is caught being totally wrong, or threatening someone, then it is, respectively a "joke" & "you don't understand".
Sigh, they're not threats, that's the point.
Actually, I've just had an idea, given her level of disconnect from reality, denial of threats & deliberate lying ...
Actually Greg, my grip on fucking reality is waaaaaaaaaaaay fucking larger than yours even with massive handicaps and people running fucking APE GAMES. You know, that "REAL WORLD" stuff you like to pretend isn't happening. So, Would You Kindly stick to non-judgemental stuff?
Your fucking Generation just killed the World, we're all a little tired of the fucking Message of Closed Minds, Hate and so on with the extra dollop of Ignorance.
Not YOU, but you can't even bother to try to understand, which is the bad part.
p.s.
Merfin - Lying Cat
]]>Aziz Light! YT, Film: The Fifth Element, 0:09
Here's another one (you could GREP about Whales and an Arch-Angel talking to them if you really wanted to weird yourself out or spot a hidden joke): Humpback whale “super-groups” – A novel low-latitude feeding behaviour of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Benguela Upwelling System PLOS, 1st March, 2017 - full paper, text. - this is newly observed behaviour and considered deeply weird (along the lines of "Holy Crap, why aren't they in the Antarctic?!"). They're all off the coast of South Africa (serious nose wiggle) and in groups of up to 200, mostly adolescents, which is odd. Oh, and thing to note: Humpback hunting practices, like Orcas, are learned behaviours.
Which nose wiggle feeds into current Conspiracy Stuff (the harmless variety, non-weaponized, as opposed to all the negative horror stuff being pushed by [Redacted] galleries) about who and why everyone is going down there. (One of the oldest and best known Conspiracy FUD merchants has been putting out all kinds of "Arc of the Covenant" stuff about this issue, as well as Russia sending down politically connected Orthodox figureheads; it's very weird to track).
Patriarch Kirill visits Bellingshausen Russian Antarctic Station The Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relations, Feb, 2016 (mostly for the lovely pictures, including said Patriarch attempting to blend in with penguins). And yes, that really is their Official web site.
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If you're wondering what this has to with Host's question: echoes and ghosts of ancient languages etched in silicon as summoning spells no longer understood apart from the esoteric Minds of his readers. Made me smile, at any rate.
Or (we're in a lot of trouble anyhow, so meep, meep) [REDACTED].
]]>Here's the rather infamous FB study that drew raised ethical eyebrows: Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks Cornell University, March 2014, full paper, html
Points to America
SF time: let's presume that absolutely nothing in the spectacle is doing what it says on the tin. Everything is designed with ulterior motives at heart. Someone is playing a Siren Song (globally) designed to create despair / destruction. (cough Furies cough).
Everything being done, including the massive transport bills the President is running up (c.f. bankrupting the State level via use of Emergency Deployment of troops is a little known, but highly used tactic that the GOP have used) is designed to pull a Samson.
Why?
[Note: on a serious level, people not processing Metaphors tend also to be the ones wearing nasty black boots and who like squishing Minds like mine. :sad panda: ]
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Onto the weird:
Some other beards put it this way (I quote): “All known computer malware was created by human beings. But what we’ve got here is a new form of digital essence: Alien computer life infiltrating Earth – specifically, its Internet – via meteoroids, which clearly represents a momentous historic event. Without doubt, it confirms the theory of the initial duality of biological life on Earth – one part of which came about of its own accord, the other part – implanted from without, from space. Thus, we can deduce that today on Earth there simultaneously exist, not two, but three parallel forms of bio-life: terrestrial, extraterrestrial, and also hybrid.”
New viruses from Chelyabinsk so advanced they blow the mind EUGENE KASPERSKY, April 1st, 2014 [Yes, it's an April fool]
But it's an interesting April fool to run with:
Artificial Satellites Around Mars (April Fool's Day - 1959) Museum of Hoaxes, April Fool collection (very fun little project).
The CIA and the U-2 Program, 1954-1974 CIA. gov link, PDF WARNING, long 272 pages, now declassified.
The Hypnagogic State: A Critical Review of the Literature Harvard, Psychological Bulletin, 1976 - PDF. [Note: hopelessly outdated, but used for a reason].
You can find mention of "Soviet Mind Viruses" all over the place if you so desire.
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Tied up in a bow: amongst all those piles of yellowing plastic there lie Weapons, not just in the sense of PCBs etc.
Take the links and form a picture to see what's actually being said.
]]>Many outlets have mis-reported that the i.Con’s data is automatically shared on social media, which is very much not the case. Users have the option to share their data (anonymously or, if brave enough, not so anonymously) or can keep the info happily behind closed doors. The device isn’t just a data measuring tool, it’s also there to be used to help promote safer sex.
Tinder / Grinder, now with automatic App data pushes showing just how virile you are! Note: the creepy part is that the device claims to be able to detect STIs, which is all kinds of dubious / "disrupting"... what happens if the device (which certainly is not medically sanctioned) pushes data automatically to the cloud flagging up a partner as having a STI by accident?
watches Lawyers drooling
]]>If you want to be shocked / amused / thrilled these days, you need to step up your game a little:
This 'smart condom' will measure your performance in the bedroom Independent, 4th March, 2017
And yes, the product is actually named the "i.Con". And no, it's not April 1st just in case you wondered.
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Post-Satire World.
]]>Lars Loekke Rasmussen, the prime minister of Denmark, blocked Turkish prime minister Binali Yilderim in response to Erdogan’s “rhetorical attacks on the Netherlands”.
In a statement Mr Rasmussen said that "under normal circumstances” it would be a pleasure to greet Yilderim in Copenhagen.
Now DENMARK blocks Turkish ministers from official visit as tensions continue to escalate Daily Express, 13th March, 2017
Denmark wants to postpone Turkish PM’s visit over referendum rallies row RT, 12th March, 2017
Source used because Richard Desmond and RT (Moscow) are having some really strange synergies. e.g. The Daily Express being used by Americans / Troll bots on Reddit.
One would almost suspect that being pro-UKIP and pro-Moscow were somehow linked...
p.s.
Dutch, Danes, same first letter. Same number of letters even.
It's more that the core EU politicians have likely decided a rather more unilateral stance against Turkey and are in the process of rolling it out, but sure:
Mad Old Witch is totally Bonkers!, news at 11.00.
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Sturgeon is wearing her Red Dress[tm] that gets covered by the Daily Fail constantly (Have you not got anything else to wear, Nicola? First Minister Sturgeon dons her favourite red suit twice in a week (and it's a very familiar outfit) Daily Mail, 13th March 2017)
They've covered this Red Dress shit since before 2015.
But now with an NICE ILLUMINATI / EYE triangle cut into the neck line.
HOW MORE OBVIOUS CAN IT BEEEE?
Political Symbolism, 101 - oh look, Turkey is accusing Denmark of being involved with Bosnia/Serb genocide. No really, go look it up.
Seriously.
Mad Max: Fury Road YT: Film, opening sequence, 5:40
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Oh, and you owe me £150 for all that Dante / Medical prognostication paying off - GOP is burning it down, 24,000,000 without insurance etc. The real sharks know what we know and are acting on it.
Yep, they're literally going to do what I said they would, counting on zero-coke revolution.
]]>Boy, we were weaving webs when your lot was working out bronze working.
Questions:
1 What happens when a ShadowRun Operative uses an innocent? For 10+ years or so 2 Degradation of the web: interesting one - at what point does "FAKE NEWS" (which is, to be blunt, almost all News Media at this point, at least from the big seven US corps) start polluting your algos and hurting your bottom line? (C.f. FB and Germany and his attempts to push for at least Senate in 2020). 3 All of my names have meaning. Most of them at least on the M-3 level. Only one has been a "normal" name. What did it cost to use that "normal" name, and what did it mean?~
Ask better questions.
]]>Yes, well, you hit on the third level of joke / irony there.
Quite impressive, and we do love your tortoise shell and your Mind has been a great delight to us.[1]
So, a film you've probably not seen, but a taster for your edification: Joe is an IRS agent scene YT, Film: Meet Joe Black, 5:08
A slight little film, almost tawdry in its schmaltz, but saved by the performances of the Actors and the genuine ethical stance behind it[2].
[1][And, serious: you're ALL important in the ecology]. [2] And yes: if you didn't read this and hear the voice of Anthony Hopkins, well. You rather miss most of the metasphere and what we do.
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Meta - you're not good at it.
]]>Poachers break into Paris zoo, shoot rhino dead and steal its horn Independent, 8th March, 2017
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Stuff not mentioned so far:
1 Shodan into infrastructure is an old one, but now, the physical is better.Oroville Dam Spillway failure Imgur, via Reddit - numerous HD drone footage shots
Hint: California isn't out of drought, massive wet stuff on snow-pack leads to a worsening of conditions, derp.
Tech highlight? Intern who published some of the early pictures was fired.
2 EPA / NOAA / NASA and even weather data being restricted. Oh, and UN budget slashed.Yeah, that's not good.
3 Not mentioned in thread so far, ultimately very important: critical infrastructure costs / maintenance of entire undersea cable lines (hello Pigeon):Real question: what happens / who owns / who is responsible / who governs the entire fibre networks that allow modern Banking / Trade etc?
Now, if those start to degrade... well. That's an interesting one. [Note: fairly sure they'll never be allowed to degrade, but it's an interesting thought piece. What would happen if someone introduced a biological or mechanical vector to start degrading undersea FO cables? Apart from the usual sharks just nibbling?]
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Massive Spoilers there boys.
]]>No, that's not what happened at all. On multiple occasions you missed a lot of the jokes.
The message wasn't actually at you at all.
It's M-3/4 level.
Put it this way: not very nice what you/they just attempted to pull off. (Where you/they is not you on a personal level).
Think back to posts about those lone wolf 4GW/5GW stuff and so on. Someone (hello, Space Whales - Culture Orcas are the mirror, see?) was pushing at something a little bit nastier than their average Mind fuck / twist and burn.
p.s.
Meme you should be aware of: "The irony, it burns!".
]]>Men in black Wikipedia
Men In Black YT, Music, Will Smith, 3:52
It's a joke, as well as True on various Meta Levels.
You are ex-Military, are you not?
The implication is that "your kind" are using this kind of stuff in the wild. Not personally and "you" here is being used in the Latin Plural case sense.
O Lucky Man! YT, Film trailer, 3:29
p.s.
The joke is that you're being absolutist / determinist about my meanings when they're multiple, and you're refusing to see the multiple meanings to attempt to enforce your Mind on ours. And, while leveling a rather offensive insult which you didn't address, then attempt to turn it back on us as an example of our bad behavior shrug
]]>Axioms:
1 All routers are insecure and back-doored by absolutely everyone( Glenn Greenwald: how the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers Guardian, May 2014 - but also anything made in China) 2 Most consumers don't treat their WiFi as anything but a dumb dongle - so the # of firmware upgrades done is probably minimal. Also, most people are unaware that most modern routers come with ~64 / 8 meg of RAM / Flash memory. (What Are Throughput & RAM/Flash Memory on a Wireless Router? Flashrouters, chosen because of the name). Users rarely turn off their routers. 3 WiFi signals themselves can be used to perform metadata predictions (Wisee uses wi-fi signals to recognise body gestures BBC, June 2013RF-Capture: Capturing the Human Figure Through a Wall MIT, SIGGRAPH Asia 2015)
4 Facial Recognition is already out in the wild (Russian Trolls Find A New App For The Same Old Harassment Vocativ, April 2016) but less well known but also in the wild is gait recognition software (Gait analysis for human identification University of Maryland, PDF, technical paper) 5 At the ISP level, with all the new idiocy being pushed (Snooper's charter: Bulk internet data collection ruled illegal by EU court City.Am Dec 2016) there's a potential goldmine. That's without assuming that 5-EyEs etc haven't already trawled it all.~
So, posit:
Everyone under the age of ~30 or so has spent most of their lives online. Anyone under 20 with a phone?
Most of the people in this very thread probably have a box in the attic with old game systems (ZX81 and beyond) but also piles of outdated routers etc. (Well, presuming you've not recycled them).
At what point do you consider that an automated algorithm hasn't already trawled your Unique ID / Gait / Facial Recognition data (presuming you were one of the 80%+ of people silly enough to use Facebook etc) and is just sitting there, waiting to write the story of your life?
Now picture those mounds and mounds of routers sent to Africa to be rendered down (E-Waste Republic Der Spiegel, long-form indepth report, using video, graphs, hard data and photography. 100% class piece).
Not so much "Ghosts in the Machine" as "Ghosts of Colonialism revisited".
So, it's not Gibson cyberpunk, it's something else and a little more depressing.
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