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"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/
***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/
Monday, September 24, 2018
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
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
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
"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?)
------------------------------------
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
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?)
------------------------------------
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
Monday, June 18, 2018
Rewriting Inconvenient History: A Swiftian Musing
So...
I had a student last semester
Who informed me that his little sister
Was learning that the Trail of Tears was
Was a "mutual agreement" between
The Natives and the U.S. Government.
Yes, of course it was!
Who wouldn't jump at the chance
Of being relocated to unknown lands
Teeming with limitless possibilities,
Land hitherto "untouched" by the
Countless migrants over the centuries?
That's called "greener pastures," baby!
These Natives left all they knew
And launched off, with their limited resources,
To prove they were not intimidated by
The encroaching pale faces, with all the gusto
Of those in a modern-day Survivor episode.
It's all been a reality show, brother!
The starvations and deaths were unfortunate
Consequences of moving in the wrong time of year
And a lack of reliable resources
In their marathon trek to mid-America;
But definitely a "character-building" moment, as they say.
There's a real lesson to learn here!
The following song is to be taught to the children
Of this generation, so they may never know
Why their history books are unique versions
Of all those that came before them--
Sung to the tune of a nursery rhyme:
(singing) When it is inconvenient history,
(shouting) We will rewrite it!
(singing) When its horrors cannot be ignored,
(shouting) We will rewrite it!
(singing) When no one wants to admit their sin,
(shouting) We will rewrite it!
Yes, children, yes!
I had a student last semester
Who informed me that his little sister
Was learning that the Trail of Tears was
Was a "mutual agreement" between
The Natives and the U.S. Government.
Yes, of course it was!
Who wouldn't jump at the chance
Of being relocated to unknown lands
Teeming with limitless possibilities,
Land hitherto "untouched" by the
Countless migrants over the centuries?
That's called "greener pastures," baby!
These Natives left all they knew
And launched off, with their limited resources,
To prove they were not intimidated by
The encroaching pale faces, with all the gusto
Of those in a modern-day Survivor episode.
It's all been a reality show, brother!
The starvations and deaths were unfortunate
Consequences of moving in the wrong time of year
And a lack of reliable resources
In their marathon trek to mid-America;
But definitely a "character-building" moment, as they say.
There's a real lesson to learn here!
The following song is to be taught to the children
Of this generation, so they may never know
Why their history books are unique versions
Of all those that came before them--
Sung to the tune of a nursery rhyme:
(singing) When it is inconvenient history,
(shouting) We will rewrite it!
(singing) When its horrors cannot be ignored,
(shouting) We will rewrite it!
(singing) When no one wants to admit their sin,
(shouting) We will rewrite it!
Yes, children, yes!
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