If it were that easy then many people would not have done it. I think if you can, make it so your transactions are as private as you can make them, that would be good. But is bitcoin an acceptable form of payment in many places? How do you have your own "wallet" in order to make transactions that they can't see. Because the only way it works is if it is encrypted on both ends using the blockchain technology.
I don't have an answer. I'm trying to figure out what I can do, one person, to stay out of the WHO. Seems like a lot of countries want to defer to the WHO to do their thinking for them.
I was talking someone close to me, in her seventies. She was lamenting that she believes her ability to communicate is going. But I wondered if simply she can't recall things because the internet has made her rusty and out of practice. If I don't burn calories trying to remember who played the lead character in the movie "Any Which Way But Loose" from the 1970's, then it is no wonder that I will be stuck not recalling things because I no longer use strategies to recall it.
I have AI writing proposals for me that I customize. A lot of it is procedural things. But I wonder, how much am I losing out of my mental fast ball by using AI to do these things?
Masks. How were the masked speeches? Was it hard to listen to? I find it hard to listen to masked people because of the constricted sounds they make wherein they must over annunciate to combat the muffling. But yes, it is a sad commentary on who are becoming medical professionals. And this is Japan which I thought had taken over excellence in education. Might as well announce "I believe in superstition" if you wear one.
As an unmasked person, I would go up, and try to mimic the sounds by those making masked speech and if questioned about it I would say "I self identify as wearing a mask."
Concerning not being marked present if you forget your ID. I can see many different ways this can go bad. One of the Dark Mirror or Black Mirror episodes was becoming a "non person." But I also hear about other things that didn't happen because there was no id code associated with it. For instance, for death certificates there is no ID code apparently for vaccine injury, so deaths are marked as being due to some other cause than the vaccine.
Jan 24·edited Jan 24Liked by Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.
I hate to say it but it will be darkest before dawn. Dawn is still a far away, and most people have yet to realize where we are yet, and where we are going. The equilibrium will be sliding towards more authoritarianism, and less freedom for vast majority of the world. It all has the historical feel of post ww1. We actually have the academia/elites/.gov questioning "freedom" and "human rights". This is before we are in a bad situation.......
The QR code toilet is special. I'm glad to say that this is not something I have yet encountered. I am curious to know what the QR codes decode to, whether they are unique, and whether it is possible to hack them (I expect the answer is yes).
In some ways Japan is a remarkably unsurveiled country compared to the rest of the world. Cash is still acceptable almost everywhere. You don't need to show "photo ID" to board domestic airplanes or check in to hotels (unless you are a non-resident foreigner) or many other times that this seems to be required in other countries.
A 61-year-old man is suing US retail giant Macy's and the parent biz of chain store Sunglass Hut for $10 million, claiming he was mistakenly arrested in a robbery case after an inaccurate facial-recognition identification match, and subsequently sexually assaulted in jail.
In 2022, two men robbed a Sunglass Hut kiosk inside a Macy's in Houston, Texas, and stole sunglasses and thousands of dollars in cash at gunpoint. While Houston cops investigated the crime, the head of loss prevention for EssilorLuxottica – the multinational that owns Sunglass Hut – reportedly identified Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr as one of the suspects, based on the conclusions of some facial-recognition software, and accused him of carrying out two other robberies.
The AI software analyzed camera footage from the store, and wrongly matched Murphy to one of the suspects using "old" photos of him, according to his lawyers, who claimed the technology involved was "error prone and faulty."
As well as the AI matching, one of the store's workers also picked out Murphy as one of the robbers from a set of photographs presented by investigators. He was arrested when he tried to renew his driver's license at a DMV and thrown in jail.
Good to hear from you!
Non compliance.
If it were that easy then many people would not have done it. I think if you can, make it so your transactions are as private as you can make them, that would be good. But is bitcoin an acceptable form of payment in many places? How do you have your own "wallet" in order to make transactions that they can't see. Because the only way it works is if it is encrypted on both ends using the blockchain technology.
I don't have an answer. I'm trying to figure out what I can do, one person, to stay out of the WHO. Seems like a lot of countries want to defer to the WHO to do their thinking for them.
I was talking someone close to me, in her seventies. She was lamenting that she believes her ability to communicate is going. But I wondered if simply she can't recall things because the internet has made her rusty and out of practice. If I don't burn calories trying to remember who played the lead character in the movie "Any Which Way But Loose" from the 1970's, then it is no wonder that I will be stuck not recalling things because I no longer use strategies to recall it.
I have AI writing proposals for me that I customize. A lot of it is procedural things. But I wonder, how much am I losing out of my mental fast ball by using AI to do these things?
Masks. How were the masked speeches? Was it hard to listen to? I find it hard to listen to masked people because of the constricted sounds they make wherein they must over annunciate to combat the muffling. But yes, it is a sad commentary on who are becoming medical professionals. And this is Japan which I thought had taken over excellence in education. Might as well announce "I believe in superstition" if you wear one.
As an unmasked person, I would go up, and try to mimic the sounds by those making masked speech and if questioned about it I would say "I self identify as wearing a mask."
Concerning not being marked present if you forget your ID. I can see many different ways this can go bad. One of the Dark Mirror or Black Mirror episodes was becoming a "non person." But I also hear about other things that didn't happen because there was no id code associated with it. For instance, for death certificates there is no ID code apparently for vaccine injury, so deaths are marked as being due to some other cause than the vaccine.
I hate to say it but it will be darkest before dawn. Dawn is still a far away, and most people have yet to realize where we are yet, and where we are going. The equilibrium will be sliding towards more authoritarianism, and less freedom for vast majority of the world. It all has the historical feel of post ww1. We actually have the academia/elites/.gov questioning "freedom" and "human rights". This is before we are in a bad situation.......
Talking of tracking.
https://www.emerald.tv/p/bill-gates-launches-global-tracking
I think (hope) there's a fair amount of warning about stuff that hasn't happened yet, but I don't see any reason why it won't happen in the future
The QR code toilet is special. I'm glad to say that this is not something I have yet encountered. I am curious to know what the QR codes decode to, whether they are unique, and whether it is possible to hack them (I expect the answer is yes).
In some ways Japan is a remarkably unsurveiled country compared to the rest of the world. Cash is still acceptable almost everywhere. You don't need to show "photo ID" to board domestic airplanes or check in to hotels (unless you are a non-resident foreigner) or many other times that this seems to be required in other countries.
Masks, wow, just wow.
And now QR codes to go to the bathroom!
Like they say, conform or die.
Another problem with surveillance, what happens when it goes wrong?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/24/macys_sunglass_hut_facial_recognition/
A 61-year-old man is suing US retail giant Macy's and the parent biz of chain store Sunglass Hut for $10 million, claiming he was mistakenly arrested in a robbery case after an inaccurate facial-recognition identification match, and subsequently sexually assaulted in jail.
In 2022, two men robbed a Sunglass Hut kiosk inside a Macy's in Houston, Texas, and stole sunglasses and thousands of dollars in cash at gunpoint. While Houston cops investigated the crime, the head of loss prevention for EssilorLuxottica – the multinational that owns Sunglass Hut – reportedly identified Harvey Eugene Murphy Jr as one of the suspects, based on the conclusions of some facial-recognition software, and accused him of carrying out two other robberies.
The AI software analyzed camera footage from the store, and wrongly matched Murphy to one of the suspects using "old" photos of him, according to his lawyers, who claimed the technology involved was "error prone and faulty."
As well as the AI matching, one of the store's workers also picked out Murphy as one of the robbers from a set of photographs presented by investigators. He was arrested when he tried to renew his driver's license at a DMV and thrown in jail.