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THE BEADY EYE SAYS: NOTHING STAND STILL BUT ARE WE NOW ALL ON THE MOVE TO NO WHERE.? .

30 Wednesday Jun 2021

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(Five-minute read) 

When you look at the world man has set out at tremendous speed–to go nowhere.

The aim of life has been forgotten.

No one knows where we are going, and the end-all has mostly been left behind. 

Is this the price we are paying or the price we are going to pay to live at the pace of technology development? 

We now have a constellation of huge man-made threats, that cannot be dealt with one at a time which is coming together to imperil our very existence.

Some say that we may be entering the end game of human history. That civilization, and maybe even our species, will not survive the compound dangers we are accruing for ourselves.

That with technology, we’re just opening an ever greater distance between where we’re running to and where we are going. 

What is true is that these problems must now be solved in conjunction with all that life represents and that we are a long way off an agreed species-wide action to prevent a future that no one wants.

 

Almost certainly we have the technical ability to change but at what speed because we are still  “in denial” about its sheer scale.

E. O. Wilson, warns “We are tearing down the biosphere” – the very thing that supports life on this Planet. 

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How fast are we going?

Yes, the world is going faster. And yes, we in turn are also going faster. The older one gets the faster time seems to slip by.

When you’re five, a year represents 20% of your life. When you’re fifty, it’s a measly 2% of your life.

But the important question no one asks is this:

When does faster become too fast?

This question is still to be answered with today’s technology in as much as it is responsible for personal and societal dysfunction as any other single factor.

In Quantum Physics by leaving out time altogether, speed becomes irrelevant becoming an entanglement phenomenon of atoms, electrons, and protons – warp speed – teleportation – is not in the distant future.

With Social media/ the internet turning our species into zombies anything today that can’t keep up with Artificial Intelligence becomes the cultural equivalent of roadkill. 

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The average person uses 100,000 tons of fresh water, 750 tons of soil, 720 tons of metals, 5 billion energy units, and emits 300 tonnes of greenhouse gas. No wonder resources are becoming scarce and landscapes worldwide being ruined to obtain them.

There used to be is a natural rhythm to the universe. When we are in sync with this rhythm, life unfolds seamlessly till along came Quantum Physics and the Hadron Collider collecting around 300 gigabytes of data a second.

We humans will be unable to keep up unless there is a balanced time that helps us to see forward to the next light trip to be taken. Then we will go forward by remembering the future in a balanced time that serves the past.

Only then can one get back on track by remembering the future in the light of the past.                

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Where are we with speed at the moment?

Nature is always in resonance with life and we humans, are incredibly resilient and tenacious, but at some point, we get so exhausted and stressed out that we have no choice but to eventually surrender.

When we depend solely upon electronic devices to manage our information time is a runaway train without any certainty of course of direction. If we try to force it and rush toward a destination or goal, we actually move faster than the speed of biological life.

You would go around the earth seven times in a second at the speed of light ( which is 186,282 mph in a vacuum).

The sun’s energy speed to earth is 147 million to 152 million km depending on where it hits. 

Every year the world spins faster.

So what is the fastest thing on earth?

Here are a few other competitors.

Data travels close to the speed of light. (about 186,282.397 miles per second).

Automation will be one of the most profound and disruptive forces in human history.

Tachyons are hypothetical particle which is believed to be faster than the speed of light. Recent studies and calculations have found that, unlike ordinary particles, tachyons gain speed while their energy decreases and vice-versa. The slowest speed achieved by tachyons is the speed of light.

Pilobolus fungus – which lives on horse-dump.

The spores of these fungi can reach from 0 to 20 mph in 2 millionth of a second. The acceleration it experiences is a staggering 1 million times the gravity.

Thus, it is the fastest living thing on planet earth.

If we calculate the speed over very short distances, and if we assume the living being to start from rest, nothing in the whole wide world can even come close to this fungi. 

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Yes, you can google what is the fastest thing on earth you will get a list with no mention that we are traveling at 66.660 mph around the sun while spinning at 1037 mph, depending on where you are standing,  while the whole solar system orbits the milky way’s galactic center at about 447,000 mph. 

We don’t feel it because we are all hurling around at the same speed.  

Now, the question stands what other things present in our surroundings are qualified as fastest.

Is it:  Usain Bolt – 100 meters in 9.58sec- 23.15 mph – Rockets – 17600 mph – Fighter Jets –  3500 km/h up to 7300 km/h – Juno Spacecraft  – 165 0000 mph – Concorde – 1,354 mph- Helios 2 – 356,040 km/h – Neowise Comet – 17,500 mph – The Kreutz sungrazers comets – speed unknown – Corona Virus 40mph for a sneeze –Electricity – 670,616,629 mph. 

It all begs the question do we really know where we are going?

Now get your head around this if you can.  

According to the latest studies, the universe is expanding at 45.5mph for every 3.26 million light-years – that is, every 3.26 million light-years further away we look we find the universe is expanding at 45.5 mph faster. At this rate distances between cosmic objects are likely to double in another 9.8 billion years. 

Back on earth. 

Humanity’s chemical emissions are four times greater even than our carbon dioxide emissions.

Every day, every child on our planet is poisoned by man-made toxins. The whole of humanity and indeed, all life on Earth, is mired in a toxic swamp of 250 billion tonnes of annual chemical emissions from human activity.

It is essential that money, politics, and the human narrative are reinvented. Otherwise, technology will sabotage the very actions essential to our continuance leaving no time for human values or input. 

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. JUST WHAT IS AN mRNA VACCINE IN LAYMAN TERMS?

14 Monday Jun 2021

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(Five-minute read) 


Now before I start trying to answer this question I wish to make it crystal clear that I am no doctor, scientist, or professor of Epidemiology.


Over my life, I have visited countries that have to require one to be vaccinated for everything from Yellow fever to you name it.

The one thing that is stopping some people from getting vaccinated is not understanding how mRNA technology works and its long term effects ( Yet to be seen)

So I am going to try to explain in layman terms the difference between an mRNA vaccine and a traditional vaccine.

There are three sorts of vaccines.   

Live, attenuated vaccines are the closest to a natural infection. They contain a weakened version of a living virus or bacteria

Subunit vaccines contain only parts of a virus or bacteria instead of a whole pathogen.

Inactivated vaccines contain an inactivated or dead version of a virus or pathogen.

Most vaccines up to now work by presenting your body with a weakened or dead version of a virus or some of the proteins found on the surface of the virus.

By showing the virus or parts of the virus to your immune system, the vaccine teaches your body to recognize the pathogen and turns on the production of antibodies, which are proteins that attach to the virus and allow killer immune cells to gobble it up.

In other words, traditional vaccines teach the immune system to make memory cells.

So if you are exposed to a virus at a future date, the immune system has the ability to rev up the production of antibodies rapidly and fight off the pathogen again.

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The coronavirus pandemic infected millions of people in a matter of months and vaccines usually take years, and sometimes even decades, to develop, test, and approved for public use. 

For example: 

Smallpox – several centuries.

Plague – to date no vaccine.

Typhoid – around thirty years.

Yellow Fever – around thirty years.

Influenza –   around thirty years – ineffective today because of seasonal changes.

Measles/ Mumps –  around eleven years.

Anthrax  – around 58 years

Polo-  around sixty years. 

Chicken Pox – around thirty year

Shingles – around forty years. 

Hepatitis B –  around twenty-four years.

mRNA vaccines have existed for more than 10 years and have been used with the Ebola and Zika viruses. What is new is in terms of how widely it’s being used on the market.

When the COVID-19 epidemic arrived, never before in modern history, has the entire world and all of the governments in the world banded together to get a vaccine to market so quickly.

Researchers worldwide sprang into action to identify and insert the correct genetic code into the mRNA platform.

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This of course raised questions. 

How a vaccine can get put together in such a short time? 

Were corners cut?  

Is the trial period too short? 

Will there be side effects in years to come? 

These are questions that can not fully answer.  Time will tell. 

In layman’s terms, the technologies already existed, and with vast amounts of money made available to produce a vaccine, it happened in months not years. 

The result was mRNA vaccines which use what is called RNAi research that is widely used by researchers to silence genes in order to learn something about their function.

The result is siRNAs that can be designed to match any gene, can be manufactured cheaply, and can be readily administered to cells.

In other words, a cellular mechanism that uses the gene’s own DNA sequence of the gene to turn it off.

However, RNAi is much more than a research tool that encompasses an array of ancient and sophisticated cellular mechanisms that regulate a variety of biological functions. 

The advantage of RNAi is the ability to design precisely targeted medicines for almost any gene, regardless of the function of the gene.

So each different vaccine aims to use a slightly different approach to prepare your immune system to recognize and fight SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Think of your DNA  as the “instruction manuals” in genes that tell a living thing—what to do.  

The mRNA helps cells to read those instructions. It is synthetic there is no COVID virus in this vaccine.

You can not get COVID-19 from the vaccine as mRNA vaccines never enter the nucleus of the cell, where our DNA is stored. Rather than presenting your body with the dead virus or parts of the virus, mRNA vaccines show your body the blueprint needed to make a viral protein.

The difference with mRNA vaccines is that it gives a recipe to our immune system. 

Your body uses this blueprint to make the SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins without including any part of the virus itself.

However, unlike less virulent or killed vaccines, the person is not infected with a virus, not even one that’s been weakened or killed.

mRNA is a small fragile fragment of genetic information that’s rapidly broken down within the bloodstream and within cells.

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Finally, the world will need several different vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic as the virus mutates.

Of course in the short term, there are billions to be made by not sharing. But in the long term, it is taxpayers’ money that has helped the development of the vaccine.  

At the moment we have a handful of drugmakers dominating the global coronavirus vaccine race. 

To fight a global pandemic these companies must be made to share or waiver any patents, along with sharing the manufacturing process worldwide.

The Data from all Vaccines must be shared.  

While world governments must remove any trade barriers blocking the production of the vaccine. 

So far 75% of the world’s Covid -19 vaccines have been distributed in just 10 countries. 

It is a glaring fact that we are not going to end this pandemic anywhere until we do it everywhere. 

It is also a glaring fact while the virus spreads Covid mutants will evolve to trick our immune systems.

It is also a glaring fact that unless Inequality is tackled on a world basis we humans will struggle with any future pandemics that are coming with climate change.  

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS : IT IS NO LONGER WHO YOUR ARE ITS WHERE YOU ARE.

08 Tuesday Jun 2021

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(Six-minute read)

“Who are you?” What are you? Where do you come from? Are you contagious or not?

Freedom in modern society has come to become a loaded term.

The current covid pandemic is showing us that we are living in an infinitely

connected world and most of us are using biometric technologies every day.

 

However, the whole concept of authority when it comes to freedom seems to

be in conflict with the principles of self-determination.

As a result, Biometric technology is now going beyond human ability and will be used for many more physical and behavioral characteristics to identify them.

The implementation of digital IDs/Passport systems carries far-reaching implications for individuals with access to services and livelihoods so the question of what is meant by freedom is now in the hands of Artificial Intelligence.  

Mostly we don’t notice these limitations because we’ve been programmed to not even think about being released from them.

It turns out that our freedom to make even the simplest of choices may not just be more limited than we think—it may not exist at all.  

You could say so what! we are already tracked.

I have no prejudice to those that are, but no pass should assume everyone is because society takes that as one meaning only.

The part of our minds we identify as “us”—is now powerfully influenced by technology. 

It really is an indignity to have to carry a document that explains the difficulties one might have. Proving one’s identity is one thing knowing where you are in another sort of measurement without the same level of reliability.

The difficult truth is that “we” aren’t free even from our unconscious selves. 

The argument is that Biometrics is the most suitable means of identifying and authenticating individuals in a reliable and fast way through unique biological characteristics. But the question is. 

Should people be informed about the use of these technologies as a biometric template is a representation of an individual’s unique traits?

As biometric characteristics are immutable, when a biometric template is stolen, that characteristic is compromised for good.

Biometric templates cannot be updated or renewed.

Biometric identification is a computer-controlled analysis that identifies an individual by measuring some biological traits scanned by sensors and matching them with the data stored in a database. 

So should we have the power to apply for the Canceling of Biometric ID that allows us to revoke a compromised biometric template as if it was a stolen password?

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Biometric identification schemes and “immunity passports” are already being rolled out.

Programs for tracking tracing and surveilling the entire population are already being beta-tested and the digital payment infrastructure; the system of financial exclusion that will allow governments to turn off our access to the economy at will is being put into place. 

This is not about the world that we are living in but about the one that we are being thrust into.

Biometrics perceives human beings as subjects of biometric data collection, which offends human dignity. Not only dehumanizes the person, but also infringes bodily integrity, leading to human indignity.

Biometrics severely infringes privacy.

It is way more complicated than tracking your online activity or placing cookies on your phone or computer. Business organizations have already been collecting biometric data of their users and the fate of this data remains uncertain.

Biometrics is a technology-based identification and authentication approach, which may require several other systems to work together to stay operational. Despite all technological advancements, downtimes and system failures are still a reality.

If you have made it this far, it is incumbent on you to help inoculate those around you against the corrupt ideology of morphological identifiers before our ability to speak out against this agenda is taken away for good.

Morphological identifiers are another thing altogether and time is not on our side.

Why? 

Because not everyone in the target population can be fit for biometric identification, which will lead to discrimination and exclusion.

Morphological identifiers will be used to find out subconscious emotional structures behind everyday human experience and behavior.

95% of all purchase decisions are made subconsciously deep down in customers’ minds.

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Both forms of ID will result in discrimination on a global scale.

What would you do if being in a continuously authenticated state is a necessity?

The day is not far when your car and even the refrigerator will be able to identify you as you hold the handle to open the door.

To quote  Jonathan Haidt’s metaphor from his book The Happiness. 

Hypothesis—needn’t only be made to do “our” bidding against its will, but that we can also train it to want what we want. Perhaps then the greatest potential for freedom lies in creating as much unity between our conscious and unconscious selves as possible.

So, you may be asking yourself at this point, “well if I can’t choose for myself how to live my life, how am I free?”

In answering remember that freedom and opportunity are not the same.

We cannot properly assess the quality of our freedom until we have established whether and to what extent the choices we make are based on adequate understanding.

Freedom is something we say we want, but what sort of freedom would be worth wanting?

Take freedom of movement for instance.

With a growing disregard for individual and collective abilities to properly understand those choices and their broader context by allowing the introduction of Biometric identification schemes we are in fact allowing the erosion of whats is left of Freedom. 

Liberty means being free to make your own choices about your own life, that what you do with your body and your property ought to be up to you. Other people must not forcibly interfere with your liberty, and you must not forcibly interfere with theirs.

Across the years of wars around the world, no single issue unites people more than freedom and no other issue is more important but it remains hard to see just what freedom a human being is supposed to possess.

No matter.  There is one certainty and that is a world without freedom is too cruel to live in.  Of course, freedoms aren’t absolute.

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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S. ARE MEETINGS SUCH AS THE G7 ANYLONGER REVELANT IN A WORLD THATS IS DRIVEN BY TECHNOLOGY?

04 Friday Jun 2021

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( One minute read) 


When the world is dominated by emerging technologies and data power what is the point of old powerhouses polluting countries meeting, other than navel-gazing?

The obsession with nation-states does not fit the reality of today’s highly-clustered knowledge economy, centered in and around global monopolies AI Tech companies.

With access to IT not equitably distributed around the globe Technology (IT) has become ubiquitous and is changing every aspect of how people live their lives.

What should happen? 

It should announce what sort of Co2 cuts are required to stop global temperatures from rising.

It should announce an increase in global aid to poor countries. 

It should announce the global distribution targets of the Covid vaccination.

This is what will happen because it’s an obsolete Institution.

The meeting will show that it has little to do with achieving green economies, or distributing the covid vaccinations global and more to do with raising revenue by way of tax on large multinationals such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

The G7 has been there before.

Unable to secure any competitive advantages they will wring their hands but do nothing,  before they hotfoot it back to the Airport tested or not.

At the end of the meeting, we will see the usual group photo.  

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S . RACISM CAN NEVER BE ERADICATED.

03 Thursday Jun 2021

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(Five-minute read) 

As long as there are human beings around there is no way to eliminate or even prevent it and before I write any more words on the subject I declare that I am a white human and it doesn’t matter what color, creed, culture, class, rich or poor if you talk about it you are racist.

Where to start?

The very mantra “Black lives Matter is in its self racist” as all lives matter. 

For thousands of years, most religions promoted a sort of “them versus us” mentality. Although both the Christian bible and the Muslim Koran advocate that we are all equal in the eyes of God, bar a select few, the vast majority of religions considered their adherents to be “chosen.”

Unfortunately, we have never “bought in” nor will we, into the notion of equality for all. 

Why? 

Maybe because we have (in our own minds, at least) suffered economically due to the efforts of others to secure equality for all; or because we simply refuse to recognize the right of all to ” life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. 

Racism might not exist as once it did in Colonial times when numerous wars were fought because of race. Today it remains virtually impossible to go a week without hearing about some sort of racially motivated attack.

So the whole point of this post today is to raise an ethical issue related to AI that is often overlooked when it comes to Racism. 

Although AI might be the single most tremendous technology revolution of our days, with the potential to disrupt almost all aspects of human existence it is and will widen inequalities the main reason for racism in the first instance – gaps of opportunity. 

So what is racism?  

~ Oxford Dictionaries Racism: The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

Racism and capitalism are good friends, dependant on one another. Now with Artificial intelligence industrial colonialism, we are witnessing it and hearing of it every day.

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It’s a shame to say that racism is rife in such a modern and progressive world, but it is and it can’t be fought by some UN declaration that is purely symbolic.

If we had an idea to work towards, that would bring us a whole lot closer to being able to live together racism would be diluted.

This is not possible as our social evolution has been far outpaced by our technological development which if left to its own development will systematically erase people of color from our vision of the future. 

Given that society has, for centuries, promoted the association of intelligence with white Europeans, it is to be expected that when this culture is asked to imagine an intelligent machine it imagines a white machine,” said Dr. Kanta Dihal, from the university’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI).

The ethical impact of AI.

Racism is now related to the generalization of specific characteristics to all the members of a race. Generalization is a key concept in Machine learning and this is especially true in classification algorithms.

People are categorized in one form or the other; this is a way of life and we have to live with it. Ultimately racism (as indeed all prejudice) is about fear, fear of the other, fear of difference.

If the data used to train the model are biased, the model will produce a biased result.

One day we may evolve past this ugly human characteristic but until then Big Tech and white culture as a whole examine their own uncomfortable complicity in creating the systems and structures that create two distinct camps: The oppressors and the oppressed, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past.

Rather than pay lip service to the politically correct and moralize about race, the United Nations would do better to address the question of regulating the growth of Artificial intelligence as most of our current organizations are driven by people who are blind to the impact that race and racism are having on shaping, not just technological processes but also our lives.

People should be taught to unite on the values that they hold about life.

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So here we are some two hundred years on from the Tulsa massacre with a pandemic that is not racist, mortgaging our future to pay off the present, with a robot on mars looking for salt, while the planet is in Climate turmoil, facing a future that only artificial understands.

The Danger is obvious when it comes to AI. 

Technology itself is not neutral. 

Why?  

Because many of these systems we are developing are only looking at pre-existing data. They’re not looking at who we want to be … our best selves.

We can massively limit the amount of racism in our society, but this will never happen whilst governments simply say we are not racist. 

In tackling racism, one of the first tasks must be to disband all organizations that have been set up to deal with racism!

The importance of data collection and data organization will determine future racism.

Why? 

Because when these two actions are performed poorly, ethical and cultural biases can be encoded in the machine learning model. 

Up to now some of the perpetrators of the worst abuses of human rights have been allowed the loudest voice. 

Divisions over Zionism, reparations for slavery, and other issues seem insurmountable.

Any measures taken have to be reasonable and relevant to the world we live in today, because where white racism stops black/ Asian racism starts.

Today, refugees, migrants, and so-called “foreigners” have become some of the primary targets of hatred and racial profiling. There will be no telling what we will label Climate \Change migrators. 

We are rapidly approaching the day when an autonomous artificially intelligent may have to make ethical decisions of great magnitude without human supervision.

The UN used to recognize Zionism as being a form of racism until 1991.

If we can’t agree on how humans should act how will we ever decide on how an intelligent machine should function.

AI Racism, in my opinion, is inevitable.

Yes, or No:

Every person is entitled to human rights without discrimination. If you said yes, you’re definitely in sync with the modern age.

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