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Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:59:00 GMT

It was 2000 when Rob Halford released his solo album Resurrection. In the song Cyberworld he pretty much nailed the world we're living in now. He was a fan of the book 1984 and that inspired the lyrics for Judas Priest's 1982 song Electric Eye. Cyberworld grew on that idea and eerily predicted the current surveillance technology industry that is taking over much of our world today.

Your information's what I steal
I scan you till you are unreal
Transmit your power into me

Cyberworld, cyberworld
I'll steal your mind
Cyberworld, cyberworld
For all mankind, yeah, yeah

You're dying in my cyber world

and now we're stepping into the world of "Artificial Intelligence" which really should be called "Simulated Intelligence". It is not intelligence. It cannot think. It can only simulate thought through algorithms. Yet we're going to hand over our thoughts to it. Let it do our work. Let it write our books. Let it create our art. Let ourselves, our minds wither into atrophy.

I've heard it said that our phones are amazing. We can hold our cognitive abilities in our pockets. We can use our phones to think about the little things, thus freeing up our minds to work on the deeper things. Only that's not the way our brains work. They are like muscles. If you want them to grow, you have to pump iron. If you want to have large thoughts, you need to work on the small ones. Use it or lose it. We are losing our minds.

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Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:12:41 GMT

Hi Friends!

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It's a brave new fucking world

Mon, 17 Apr 2017 01:53:43 GMT

Haha, I'm doing the import. Why? Because I'm bored and I feel like doing stuff on the computer.

Well really, I was reading up on some of my old entries and getting all emotional. Also they're not as horrible as I remember them being. I always assume I write the most horrible entries. It's kind of neat going back and remembering stuff. It wouldn't be the end of the world if I lost all of those entries, but it would also be a nice thing to have around to look back on.

The next big question... to cross post or not to cross post? As much as its tempting to dig in my heels and be like, "I'm a LiveJournal user for life!" I do also know how to look at reality and what LiveJounal is becoming. I mean one of my LJ friends made a good point that just because I don't agree with the rules the Russian government is putting on the site, I shouldn't hate on the Russian people that own on the actual site just because they have to work within those constraints... but really they made the choice to move the servers there. Also, for me personally I don't enjoy the increase in ads. Luckily I'm still ad free when I use my laptop, but on my phone, and other devices, they're all over the place. It feels like the site is going way more commercial. I kind of always liked how the place was so, not commercial. This place seems more like that.

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Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:38:26 GMT

Hello. It would be silly for me not to have something here in case LiveJournal becomes unusable.

...or perhaps bans me. I kind of want to see if I could get banned there by making public political posts.

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