"I See You"

The Celerity of Days

A Christmas Story

Planet Ponderings

"BREAKING NEWS: DEEPFAKE a Reality!"

Bahahahahahahaaaaaa!!

***Sorry, still laughing at this one...***

***wiping tears from my eyes now***

***trying to catch my breath--
this is serious laughter, friends!***

Okay, okay...
(clearing throat for serious effect.)

And...excuse me...how--...?
Are we to take this seriously...?!?!

What's 'news' here, really?
Oh, is it the terminology?

"Yes, it's true:
DEEPFAKE VIDEO, people!"

Raise your hand if this is
'News' to you--

Anyone?
Anyone?

CNN Newsroom?
Yes, I see, hands everywhere!

Well, bless your hearts, then.
Your news is truly news to you.

Good job, crew.
Gold star it is for you!

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/business/pentagons-race-against-deepfakes/

And This Year: A Conjectural Warning of Sorts

What an incredible time to be alive!
This year, already, we have seen
Quite the astronomical accomplishment
Coming out of Japan!

Photo-taking rovers have landed
On the surface of an asteroid
Three light years away--
And we're seeing images we've never seen before.

And this year, we are cheering
For such incredible scientific accomplishment--
"Look what we did with brains and brawn
And unlimited resources!"

And this year, we are dreaming
Of all that is to come--
Of all there is yet to explore:
Where next to go, what next to discover?

And this year, we are hoping
This technology isn't hijacked
By any number of global tyrants
Interested in profit and power.

But somewhere, this year, perhaps e'en today,
In an undisclosed location, nervous minds
Meet to discuss the gold mine
That will be these incredible rovers:

"How soon can we get them equipped
With timing devices and detonators?
When will we have the precision we need
To take out entire cities, countries or continents?"

For the truth ever is, friends,
That some great minds are interested
In exploration and discovery
While others plot devastation and demise.

And this year, it's not surprising, then,
That we read such headlines
With both pride in the human race
And a fearful, mortal dread of it.


News Article:
https://www.businessinsider.com/two-rovers-just-sent-photos-of-an-asteroid-3-light-years-away-2018-9

"Your Social Credit Score": Another Cultural Inevitability

Thank God for Freedom in this country,
For the Red, White, and Blue!
Am I right...Who's with me?!

Thank God we're not living in a Communist Manifesto,
A place where everything we do is used against us--
Can I get an Amen, anybody?!

Fourth of July and Apple Pie and Baseball
And you get a phone and I get a phone and
We all get a phone, right, everybody?!

But it's happening, right now,
Out West from us--a wilder, wilder West from us--
And it's headed our way, whether we like it or not.

It's coming for us.
(Crickets chirping app, somebody...)

Nobody's so worried, right now, just now,
About Facebook and SmartPhones, Siri and Alexa,
But we should be, shouldn't we?!

One day they're going to eat our lunch,
And determine our comings and goings for us.
But let's not think about that, right?!

That's all about them, across the world,
They asked for it, the Commies, because that's what they do!
They're not at all like us, after all.

After all...
After all...
Quick--! Bury your head in the sand!

It's coming for us.
(Crickets chirping app...Anybody?)


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This post is based on the article found on FoxNews.com, June 20, 2018, "John Stossel: Forget Facebook, Here's What I Worry About Much, Much More..."
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/06/20/john-stossel-forget-facebook-google-heres-what-worry-about-much-much-more.html