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The Oreo Diet
Healthy diets for healthy people.
Clockwork
Jungle Mystic
Epilepsy trigger warning.
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Another VJ mega-mix from another visual artist inspired by manga and jungle.
Clockwork
Blog>Inspiration
Deus Ex Machina
Just some visual inspiration that caught my eye. Very nice hard mix of manga and hard-techno.
Epilepsy trigger warning.
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Blog>Current Events
Google is Preparing for a Sensitive Event (TOS update)
design Ruth Kedar, image used without permission.
So there is a video circulating on social media with some pretty drastic news;
“February 2024, Google will update the inappropriate content policy for unforeseen ‘sensitive events’ – including civil emergencies, natural disasters, public health emergencies, terrorism, and related activities, conflict or mass acts of violence”
“Potential Planned Crisis Incoming. Google Is Preparing for a ‘Sensitive Event’“
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The jist of it is;
“Examples of what’s prohibited: products or services that exploit, dismiss, or condone the Sensitive Event, including price gouging, we’re artificially inflating prices that prohibits, restricts access to vital supplies, sales of products, blah blah blah. Okay. So, my buddy’s like, ‘It’s on. They’re prepping. They’re ready to do it.’”
“Potential Planned Crisis Incoming. Google Is Preparing for a ‘Sensitive Event’”
Then straight from Google’s February 2024 Terms of Service;
“Examples of Sensitive Events include events with significant social, cultural, or political impact, such as civil emergencies, natural disasters, public health emergencies, terrorism and related activities, conflict, or mass acts of violence”
“Google TOS, February 2024“
Seems pretty drastic; but the scenario starts pointing to the fact that you should have 2 weeks of supplies in your house and that there may be a re-alignment of the banking system and finances. This could be a 2 week blackout of the financial system; credit cards, pay-pal, and bank-transfer; mitigate the consequences by having 2 weeks of food and cash in your house. Understand that power, food and internet could be down for a few weeks.
This is just a news report coming from Google, they are not Pay-Pal / Mastercard or some major banking concern. This TOS change does not necessarily have something to do with the banking system and the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). It’s unclear if this just a media policy or something that will play out on our timeline. It’s hard to predict whether Google will push through this TOS (Terms of Service) change as described in the video and whether everyone who is posting more abstract predictions will be affected by the change. Will it become a TOS violation to talk about ‘earth changes’ and ‘health events’ as predictions, as opinion?
“Now, the idea of talking about being prepared, thinking a little bit ahead – you’re a doomsday prepper. Exactly. It totally gives it a negative spin. […] Great reset – in the back of my head […] This tradition right?”
“Derrick Broze on The Greater Reset“
SOURCES
“Derrick Broze on The Greater Reset“, ≈Feb. 2022. Cabin Talk. Online interview. Accessed 7.02.2024.
“Google TOS, February 2024“, Jan. 9, 2024. Google. Official press release. Accessed 24.01.2024.
“Google Announces Updates to ‘Sensitive Event’ Policy“, Jan. 14, 2024. New Tang Dynasty. Temenes, Kos. Online article. Accessed 24.01.2024.
“Potential Planned Crisis Incoming. Google Is Preparing for a “Sensitive Event”, Jan. 13, 2024. Forbidden Knowledge TV. Bruce, Alexandra. Online article. Accessed 21.01. 2024.
“Heads up Truthers: Google Plans to Censor more Truth…“, Jan. 16, 2024. Project Camelot. Cassidy, Kerry. Online article. Accessed 21.01.2024.
Blog>Current Events
Government Spying and the Social Credit System
“Hacking has increasingly become what governments consider a legitimate investigative tool. They use the same methods and techniques as criminal hackers. And what this means is they will try to remotely takeover your device. Once they do this, by detecting a vulnerability in the software that your device runs, such as Apple’s iOS or Microsoft’s Windows, they can craft a special type of attack code called an exploit. They then launch this exploit with the vulnerability on your device, which allows them to take total control of that device. […] Everything that you ever typed into that search box, Google has a copy of. Every private message that you’ve sent on Facebook, every link that you’ve clicked, everything that you’ve liked. They keep a permanent record of.”
Snowdon, Edward
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SOURCES
“Edward Snowden On Trump, Privacy, And Threats To Democracy“, Sep. 17, 2019. Snowden, Edward. Online interview. The 11th Hour, MSNBC. Accessed 17.12.2023.
“Top 5 Hacking Tools with Former Black Hat Hacker“, Nov. 23, 2023. Shawn Ryan Show, online interview. Accessed 24.01.2024.
“This Black Ops Unit Is CIA’s Best Kept Secret“, Dec. 17, 2023. Tacticore, online video. Accessed 27.12.2023. At 2:48 Edward Snowdon is credited with outing NSA / CIA survellience of Chancellor A. Merkel of Bundesrepublik Germany.
Also see “Internet Freedom: Verweghistan“.
A Definition (or two)
THE PIXELSHIFT: A DEFINITION (or two)
1. In classical webdesign (which has been around all of 6 years or more), there was an inherit difference/fault between Internet Explorer, Navigator, Safari, Opera and Firefox. This fault (aptly dubbed a ‘feature’ ) by certain developers that I know, caused a shift in a floated layer (.div), which would be interpreted differently in each different browser, and thus causing a layout to break.
Things like margins, paddings and the complexity (amount of nested layers in the layout) amongst other things would influence the effect of this shift. It is also the reason why most front-end webdevelopers today still prefer using seperate CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for IE and different clusters of browsers.
2. In digital cameras (camcorders) with CCD chips. Pixelshifting is used to raise the resolution of lens image to digital data. The CCD chip is moved half a pixel vertical and horizontally in steps to have a finer sample method. A higher resolution of sampling to approach full-HD via with CCD chip with less physical CCD. It is interesting to note that a CCD chip takes a snapshot of the entire frame and a CMOS sensor takes a gradual snapshot called a rolling shutter, effectively making it less responsive for higher frame rate sampling.