Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Mabel Katz .
Mabel Katz is an international leader of major stature
who has developed a committed and global following
for her ability to radically change lives in just a few
days, based on her profound Zero Frequency®
teachings.
Rooted in the ancient Hawaiian art of problem solving
called Ho’oponopono, Zero Frequency® enables
people to be at peace, not matter what is going on
around them…relieving all the day-to-day worries,
anxieties, projections, fears and self-esteem issues.
And clearly able to hear and live by the guidance and
wisdom offered by the Universe.
It was in discovering Ho’oponopono -- studying for 12
years intensively with the Master Ihaleakalá Hew Len,
Ph.D.-- that Mabel transformed her own life.
Born in Argentina, Mabel moved to Los Angeles in
1983 where she became a successful accountant,
business consultant and tax advisor. In 1997 Mabel
started her own company, Your Business, Inc., which
grew to prosper. Nevertheless, she was not fulfilled,
and found herself discontented. When Master Hew
Len retired, he encouraged Mabel to take up his work,
and she immediately found herself at home…Helping
people transform their lives had been at the core of her
personal dreams.
Traveling around the world and building on the initial
teachings, she developed the body of work that is Zero Frequency®. Fluent in English and Spanish, she
has now taught workshops and seminars in 40+ countries, and is a sought-after keynote speaker for
corporations and other organizations.
The best-selling author of The Easiest Way; Solve Your Problems and Take the Road to Love,
Happiness, Wealth and the Life of Your Dreams and several other books, Mabel has seen her books
translated into English, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Swedish, German, French, Russian, Chinese,
Hebrew, Romanian, Italian, Czech, Japanese, Croatian, Polish and Hungarian.
Her children’s book The Easiest Way to Grow, Messages You Will Be Glad to Know, filled with beautiful
illustrations and inspiring messages for children ages 3 to 100, has also been in great demand around the
globe.
Now her newest book Zero Frequency®, The Easiest Way to Peace, Happiness and Abundance
encapsulates her full body of work, and brings forward her mastery more fully to the English-speaking world.
A star in LA's Latino community, Mabel hosted the popular radio and television program, called Despertar
(Awakening), and the Mabel Katz Show where she empowered Latino’s by giving them the tools to start or
grow a business, have fulfilled relationships and find financial success. She was Business Woman of the
Year by the LA Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. She has also received the Sol Azteca Award and the
prestigious Latin Business Association's Members Choice Award.
Her work has naturally led Mabel from the micro world of inner peace to the macro world of world peace.
Mabel was honored as a Peace Ambassador for her world-peace initiative, Peace Within Is World Peace,
which was launched at the United Nations in Vienna. On January 1, 2015, she was awarded the prestigious
Public Peace Prize. She has spoken in front of national senates and other influential government bodies
and has presented at the United Nations, as well as addressed multi-cultural audiences, including those of
WENDI FRIESEN -WENDI.COM
I am worldwide leader in creating rapid change for life's difficult problems. Since 1994 my site at Wendi.com has influenced the lives of millions worldwide and brought insight, wisdom and spiritual growth to people in need. I can help you.
I am often described by my colleagues as a powerful healer, teacher and a creative marketing expert, and they tell me I am one of the most loved transformational trainers in the world.
As a flat broke single mother of two, with no resources, money, help or partners, I created a transformation business for devoted followers who seek real change.
My work caught the attention of the media and I quickly became an authority on how to make rapid and massive change in your mind, body and spiritual life.
Wendi.com grew to experience millions in sales in a short time, reaching the hearts and minds of people who understood how her sincerity and passion could transform their lives.
Wendi has created over 300 programs on audio and Video that will teach you how to really use your brain! The programs lead you through a process of changing your brain's neural networks, the chemicals of depression, and the habitual and compulsive thoughts that prevent them from being happy.
I've been called a miracle worker and have helped doctors who refer their patients to me to do what they might consider impossible.
My work with the medical hypnosis has freed people from chronic pain, ended debilitating phobias, released the effects of PTSD, ended the torture of relentless migraines, and cured many so called incurable conditions.
It is remarkable what the mind can do when given the right stuff. My recorded programs use powerful therapy that rewires the neural pathways in the brain
and results in amazing outcomes. I am committed to breaking new ground in the treatment of addiction. After numerous frustrating attempts to help my son with years of addiction, I created a powerful program that is based on the new science of how the brain can be changed through meditation, hypnosis, NLP and energetic methods.
Everything that you experience affects your ability to be effective, happy, motivated and successful. Life is full of ups and downs and how you manage your experiences will determine how you react to new experiences in your life. You can be devastated by an event or empowered and determined. My experience with hypnosis has taught me how to shift the way the brain reacts and how I respond to life’s experiences.
Wolf Conservation Center -https://nywolf.org
The Wolf Conservation Center teaches people about wolves, their relationship to the environment and the human role in protecting their future.
Founded by Hélène Grimaud in 1999, the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit environmental education organization working to protect and preserve wolves in North America through science-based education, advocacy, and participation in the federal recovery and release programs for two critically endangered wolf species - the Mexican gray wolf and red wolf. The WCC's three 'ambassador wolves' reside on exhibit where they help teach the public about wolves and their vital role in the environment. Through wolves, the WCC teaches the broader message of conservation, ecological balance, and personal responsibility for improved human stewardship of our World.
To best prepare the critically endangered wolves who are candidates for wild-release, the center's 21 Mexican gray wolves and 18 red wolves reside off exhibit within the WCC's Endangered Species Facility.
Website -https://nywolf.org
MARTHA HUNT HANDLER -AUTHOR- WINTER OF THE WOLF
Website -https://marthahunthandler.com
WOLF CONSERVATION -https://nywolf.org
Book LINK -https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winter-Wolf-Martha-Hunt-Handler/dp/1626347182/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5K14MFQVPZ92&dchild=1&keywords=books%2Fmartha+hunt+handler&qid=1600763426&sprefix=Martha+hunt+h%2Caps%2C182&sr=8-1
I see magic at work everywhere around me. I don’t believe in coincidences, only co-incidents: things that you hear, see or feel that help remind your soul of its path. I appreciate the phrase, “Grow or Wilt.” I think that’s what we’re all here for – to continually expand our hearts and minds as we navigate our way through the plethora of experiences we are presented with for this purpose.
Raised in Northern Illinois, I began to see wolves in my dreams from a very early age. Always a nature girl, I spent my free time either swimming in a lake near my house or roaming around in the Enchanted Forrest near my home. It was here I first heard nature speaking to me; asking for my help while promising guidance in this endeavor. After earning a degree in environmental conservation at UC Boulder, I worked as an environmental consultant in D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles.
While in a bar in Cozumel, Mexico I magically (okay, tequila shots were involved) met the love of my life, Rich. Admittedly, this was not my initial reaction but thanks to Rich’s patience and unrelenting persistence, literally from one side of the country to the other, I eventually came around! I’m sometimes stubborn. What can I say? I’m definitely a work in progress.
We had four kids in five years and in my rare moments of solitude; I began to write creative pieces, which I found immensely soul fulfilling. When our family moved to New York in 1996, another serendipitous/magical moment occurred when I heard wolves howling. Curious, since I’d known they’d been wiped out of New York state more than 100 years prior, I ventured into the woods behind our house and found three grey wolves in a large enclosure. I soon learned that these wolves were to be the initial ambassadors for the Wolf Conservation Center (nywolf.org), a non-profit that was being formed. I immediately jumped on board, literally (I’m now Board President), to help them fulfill their mission of education and as a breeding and pre-release facility for the two most critically endangered wolf species in North America.
With my adult children now grown and flown, I’m able to focus on pursing those passions that most pull my heartstrings: wolves and writing. I spend weekdays in Tribeca, New York and weekends near the wolves in South Salem, New York. My first novel, “Winter of the Wolf,” will be published by Greenleaf in July, 2020.
Monday, 21 September 2020
Hypnotize Your Lover, the erotic hypnosis book that will teach you everything about hypnosis and sex. Learn covert hypnosis, secret sleep hypnosis technique, erotic stories by Wendi Fresen .
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You can hypnotize your wife or husband, hypnotize your girlfriend or boyfriend, learn covert hypnosis, learn hypnotic seduction, even find out how speed seduction works.
There are a lot of scripts, language patterns, hypnosis seduction scripts and methods you can use to make yourself more charismatic and magnetic. Read Wendi's stories about how she makes a woman have a hypnotic orgasm with just a touch on the hand. Read the sensual story that helps a women love giving oral pleasure to her man. Learn how to install a magic pleasure spot on your lover that you can touch anytime, anywhere!
You will even learn HypnoSleep where you can use erotic suggestions to enhance many sexual hypnosis commands.
This book is a classic! From the basic hypnosis training, to the very advanced hypnotism for sex techniques, you will become an expert lover that will make your lover come back again and again!
Read the table of contents. It is out of this world!
BOOK REVIEW.
WELL THIS IS A BOOK IS INSPIRED; INTESTESTING, WORTH A TRY IF YOU NEED TO ADD A LITTLE BIT OF SPICE IN YOUR LIFE .
5_5 STARS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY GHOSTMAN RADIO STATION.
WINTER OF THE WOLF MARTHA HUNT HANDLER
BLURB
A tragic mystery blending detective work & spirituality. An exploration in grief, suicide, spiritualism, and Inuit culture, Winter of the Wolf follows Bean as she searches for the truth of her brother Sam's ""suicide."" Unconvinced her loving brother could commit such an act without warning, Bean pulls herself from her grief to become a part-time detective and shaman. With assistance from her friend Julie, Bean retraces Sam's steps and delves into his Inuit beliefs, seeking clues from beyond material understanding. Both tragic and heart-warming, this twisting young adult novel will not only have readers diving deep into the customs of native peoples, but also gaining a greater understanding of the effects of suicide and loss. Bean is an empathetic and driven fifteen-year-old who readers will quickly gravitate toward and follow as she struggles with family tragedy, high school drama, and understanding the people around her. Through Bean's eyes, Winter of the Wolf urges readers to seek out the truth-no matter how painful-in order to see the full picture. An environmentalist and award-winning author, Martha Handler has brought together two important pieces of her life-the death of her best friend's son and her work as president of the Wolf Conservation Centre-to craft an empathetic and powerful story with undeniable messages. Martha's passionate debut novel will capture the hearts of a young audience.
BOOK REVIEW
THIS IS A POWERFUL; INSIGHTFUL; INTESTESTING READ AND DRAWS YOU IN FROM THE FRIST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK.
5 _5 STARS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY GHOSTMAN RADIO STATION
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Product information
| Hardcover | 264 pages |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1626347182 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1626347182 |
| Product Dimensions | 14.99 x 2.54 x 22.61 cm |
| Customer Reviews | 4.9 out of 5 stars 29Reviews |
| Publisher | Greenleaf Book Group LLC (28 July 2020) |
| Language: | English |
| Best Sellers Rank | 702,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) |
Sunday, 20 September 2020
Dairy by Mark Antony Raines
Well it's back like a very bad nightmare,the second wave of Covert 19.
Instead of playing the blame game on the government who have made mistakes this time it's driven totally by human behaviour of those who don't even try to comply and think it is not going to happen to them.
what I think will happen
restrictions on travel,-curfew of 10pm on pubs,restaurant,if told have covert 19 legally have to stay at home or expect fines,if none of this works a full lockdown for at least 3 weeks.
All shops must know enforce wearing of masks,no mask no entry,it's going to go back to only 6 people at a time,I believe all shop assistant s should wear a mask .
am I scared yes,I carry on doing my big
W ear a Mask-Wash your hands -keep a safe social distance
Strange News -Holsworthy
NEWS
New species discovered in Bicol, described as 'secretive, delicate, slender-bodied'
Manila Bulletin
The new species, according to the researchers, nested within the P. brevipes clade. “In this study we report on the discoveryof a second Luzon Island ...
Botanists unearth new 'vampire plant' in UK carpark
Phys.Org
It goes to show that you don't have to go to a remote tract of rainforest to discover new plant life—new species can be hiding in plain sight. Next time ...
Newly discovered fish species named after Sooke fossil hunter
Times Colonist
In a scientific paper recently published, Russian scientist Evgeny Popov concluded the fossil was a new genus and species in the Chamaeridae family, ...
New plant species discovered in Mt. Arayat National Park
CNN Philippines
DENR-Central Luzon executive director Paquito Moreno, Jr. said in a statement the discovery of the new species indicates that the 3,715-hectare Mt.
Arunachal: New orchid species named after ex-CM Late Dorjee Khandu
EastMojo
Her recent discoveries are the three species from Corydalis family which are found in high altitude. Chowlu discoveredthese species along with Dr.
No new fatality, 1 recovery, 1 new COVID-19 case, among overseas Filipinos — DFA
Manila Bulletin
A new species of Philippine False Gecko, named Pseudogekko hungkag, discovered in Bicol has been officially announced after its thorough study ...
New flowering plant grows on Mt. Arayat
INQUIRER.net
The species Pyrostria arayatensis was found by a team of researchers led by Marlon Suba in a lowland forest of the 3,715-hectare park in eastern ...
DONNA SINGER -DONNA-SINGER .COM
WEBSITE -http://donna-singer.com
Powerhouse performer Donna Singer has wowed jazz lovers around the world through her recordings and live performances at festivals, concert halls and jazz clubs. Her European concerts include dates in Paris, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy and Wales. She has performed at the Metropolitan Opera Guild Recital Hall in Lincoln Center, Central Park's Naumburg Bandshell and The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach.
She has engaged audiences in many U.S. cities including Phoenix, Miami and Nashville. Her U.S. festival appearances include the Nebraska International Jazz Festival, Bethany College Jazz Festival in Kansas and the Saratoga Arts Festival in New York. Whether performing in an intimate gathering with her trio, with an 18- piece jazz orchestra, or with the 90-piece Boynton Beach Gold Coast Band, she's sure to wow audiences.
Growing up in Upstate New York, she and her siblings were introduced to the world of jazz. She and her twin sister, Dawn, were raised in a family of jazz enthusiasts who listened to the music of great jazz artists like Nancy Wilson (“Guess Who I Saw Today,”) Billy Strayhorn, (“Take the A Train” with Duke Ellington), Sammy Davis Jr, (“Hey There,” and Count Basie (“April in Paris”). Her great love for the music helped her evolve into a powerful jazz vocalist whose music has been played throughout North America, South America, Europe, Australia and Africa.
A graduate of the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts, Donna also studied at The Juilliard School and has kept music close to her heart. She established Dr. Donna's School of Song where aspiring musicians can begin their journey in the world of music. She shares her gift with young and adult students by providing mentoring and training in piano and voice. She has been a member of The National Guild of Piano Teachers (a division of the American College of Musicians) since 2006.
From 1998 to 2004 she hosted the weekly gospel show, "Down by the River" on WJFF FM in Sullivan County, NY. Donna performed for 15 years as the lead vocalist in the Swing Shift Orchestra, a 17-piece big band featuring the music of Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and many more. The Singers and their only son, Christopher, recently moved to West Palm Beach from the lush Catskill Mountains.
Donna's voice is showcased in five recordings which have consistently climbed high in U.S. radio charts. She has also enjoyed international airplay. Donna's CD’s are available on all major music outlets and her YouTube videos have been seen by over half a million viewers. Her music is heard on the playlists of hundreds of terrestrial radio stations worldwide, as well as on Internet stations. Her most recent recording is a special jazz CD for children. Look for It's An Art To Follow Your Heart, available from fine retailers everywhere. In order to release her albums globally,
In order to release her albums globally, Donna Singer knew she needed a record label behind her to support and utilize her talent. In 2011 she became a recording executive, creating her own label, Emerald Baby Recording Company. The label has handled distribution of her music with great success. Her voice can be heard on jazz stations on many continents around the world: North America, South America, Africa, Australia and Europe.
Saturday, 19 September 2020
SOCIAL DILEMMA
Welcome back to Pattern Matching, OneZero’s weekly newsletter that puts the week’s most compelling tech stories in context.
In the opening scenes of The Social Dilemma, the popular new Netflix docudrama about social media’s dark side, a series of nervous-looking interview subjects appear to stumble over a simple question: “What’s the problem?”
The film and its subjects — former employees of Google, Facebook, and other tech giants, along with a few outside critics such as the Harvard professor and The Age of Surveillance Capitalismauthor Shoshana Zuboff — spend the next 90 minutes throwing everything they have at that question. By the end, the viewer is left persuaded that there absolutely is a problem, and an urgent one at that, even if it’s a tricky one to pin down in a few words.
Yet, as we’ve seen time and again — most recently, with a former Facebook employee blowing the whistle on the company’s failures to stop election interference and misinformation campaigns around the world — sounding the alarm that social media is broken is easier than fixing it.
The Pattern
The people who helped to build social media now want to save us from it.
The problem, in The Social Dilemma’s reckoning, is that the advertising-based, engagement-fueled business model that has come to dominate the internet is fundamentally built on manipulation. Social media apps manipulate our brain’s psychology to keep us checking our devices and refreshing our feeds. The feeds themselves are full of content that in turn manipulates our emotions to maximize engagement and sell us things. And that targeted manipulation, which exploits our fears and biases and vanities, is not only bad for us as individuals, it’s tearing whole societies apart.The film works best as a wake-up call to a mass audience that something is very wrong with the basic structure of social media, and that it’s infecting society at large as a result. It’s the sort of film that people knowledgeable about the tech industry’s workings will criticize, and find frustrating — and, in some cases, recommend to their less-informed friends and relatives anyway. As a polemic, it’s powerful, provided you can get past the LOL-inducing cheesiness of the staged dramatizations, which depict a hapless family haunted by push notifications.But if The Social Dilemma largely succeeds in answering its opening question (“What’s the problem?”), there’s a second, crucial, stage-setting scene that the film seems to forget about as it goes on. It’s when the film’s central real-life figure, the “humane tech” advocate Tristan Harris, recounts how he grew disillusioned with his work as a young designer at Google, and eventually wrote an explosive internal presentation that rocked the company to its core — or so it seemed. The presentation argued that Google’s products had grown addictive and harmful, and that the company had a moral responsibility to address that. It was passed around frantically within the company’s ranks, quickly reached the CEO’s desk, and Harris’ colleagues inundated him with enthusiastic agreement. “And then… nothing,” Haris recalls. Having acknowledged ruefully that their work was hurting people, and promising to do better, Googlers simply went back to their work as cogs in the profit machine. What Harris thought had served as a “call to arms” was really just a call to likes and faves — workplace slacktivism.The lesson seems clear enough: Deep, structural change to the internet industry probably won’t come from within. The companies that have become the richest and most powerful in world history by building a money-minting manipulation machine can’t be counted on to voluntarily chuck it out the window. Oddly, this lesson seems at times to have eluded Harris himself. In a clip from a Senate hearing near the end of the documentary, Harris told a senator that the answer to the problems wrought by social media was “to have the platforms be responsible” — responsible for protecting elections, responsible for the mental health of the kids who use their products. It sounds like a hard-nosed stance until you realize it implies that the platforms should be the source of solutions to the havoc they’ve wrought.Even if they understand the problem on some level, the tech giants face overwhelming incentives to preserve the business model that sustains them.After all, if they don’t build the most engaging platform, some other, perhaps less-scrupulous rival will. And so they downplay the harms, or justify them by pointing to the positives, or shrug them off as regrettable but inevitable, a product of human nature rather than their own design decisions. In other cases, they acknowledge the harms but present them as fixable with various tweaks: hiring more content moderators, partnering with fact-checkers, building A.I. to detect hate speech. And they make the same basic case for smartphone addiction: more user control over push notifications, apps that track your screen time. Some of these tweaks have been adopted at the urging of the advocacy group that Harris co-founded after leaving Google, called the Center for Humane Technology.There’s another unexamined lesson from Harris’ story about trying to change Google from within. It’s that diagnosing the problem isn’t enough to start a “revolution,” as he claimed to want to do. You also have to offer solutions. That’s a hard task, and one The Social Dilemma barely attempts. The film spends 80 minutes convincing the viewer that social media will destroy the world unless we act fast. Only in the final 10 minutes does it take a stab at what that action might look like, in a series of interview clips that come across as an afterthought. Several subjects nod to the importance of “regulation” without ever specifying what sort of regulation they have in mind. That’s frustrating, since the conversation in policy circles has already surpassed the film by moving into the details of what antitrust and privacy legislation should look like.As the closing credits roll, the subjects toss off a litany of #protips for social media use that in most cases are laughably incommensurate with the scope of the problem the film has just described in detail. “Turn off all notifications,” several suggest, as if it’s a radical idea. “Never accept a video recommended to you on YouTube; always choose,” counsels virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier. When one person suggested installing Google Chrome extensions that block recommendations, I was ready to throw my Amazon Fire TV remote through my Netflix screen. You spend a whole film convincing people social media is an existential threat to humanity, and your solution is installing a Google Chrome extension?This brings us to the film’s core problem: The Social Dilemma largely reflects the perspectives of Harris and like-minded techies. Most of them, it has to be said, are white and male. That might help to explain why they devote so much time to problems of smartphone addiction and political polarization — the breakdown of the social order — and so little to how social media works or doesn’t work for the marginalized and vulnerable. Algorithmic discrimination, hate speech, and revenge porn merit only passing mentions. And it might help to explain why their proposed solutions are so half-hearted and unimaginative.As the activist Evan Greer of Fight for the Future points out, the film almost entirely ignores social media’s power to connect marginalized young people, or to build social movements such as Black Lives Matter that challenge the status quo. This omission is important, not because it leaves the documentary “one-sided,” as some have complained, but because understanding social media’s upsides is critical to the project of addressing its failures. (I wrote in an earlier newsletter that the BLM protests should remind us why social media is worth fixing.)To be fair, the film’s decision to most prominently feature former technologists might lend it more credibility when it comes to sounding the alarm to a mass audience. People who have long ignored the warnings from journalists and academics, perhaps writing them off as ill-informed or agenda-driven, might have a harder time ignoring the same warnings when they come from the very people who built the systems.But these technologists’ blinkered outlook was part of the problem in the first place. Asking the same group of idealistic, Stanford-educated, youngish white men to diagnose and address the problem that they and their friends created also risks replicating the mistakes that led us to this point. A couple of the film’s subjects briefly nod to this problem — “We’re allowing the technologists to frame this as a problem that they are equipped to solve,” says the mathematician and author Cathy O’Neil — but the film itself fails to take it to heart. This isn’t just a matter of optics or identity politics: Women, and women of color, in particular, have consistently been ahead of the curve in identifying online platforms’ biases, failures, and injustices. Yet the voices of critics such as Safiya Umoja Noble, Meredith Broussard, and Ruha Benjamin are missing from The Social Dilemma.This point is hammered home in an impassioned takedown by Zachary Loeb’s blog Librarian Shipwreck, which argues that the tech leaders who built this mess should be held accountable for their screw-ups, not elevated to the status of saviors just because they’re now sorry. Loeb, a Ph.D. candidate in the history and sociology of science, points out a revealing moment in which Harris tried to distinguish between social media and other forms of technology by riffing on how “no one got upset when bicycles showed up.” In fact, lots of people got upset when bicycles showed up, as any real student of tech history would know, or at least suspect. “What makes Harris’s point so interesting is not just that he is wrong, but that he is so confident while being so wrong,” Loeb writes.One more critique worth reading comes from Paris Marx, the host of the left-wing Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. Whether or not you share his politics, Marx concisely makes the case that The Social Dilemma misidentifies social media as the primary source of contemporary strife by overlooking “the underlying economic conditions: four decades of neoliberalism, rising inequality, and corruption.” This critique echoes some of the key points in Cory Doctorow’s new online book How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, which contends that what Zuboff called “surveillance capitalism” is better understood as simply “capitalism.”For all its failings, there’s a case to be made that a mass-market documentary like The Social Dilemma — which was produced and heavily promoted on Netflix, the world’s biggest streaming service — was needed to convey to a wider audience the sense of urgency that social media’s critics, and even many of its former evangelists, already felt. From this standpoint, the fact that film was so light on solutions might be for the best, given that its main subjects aren’t the people we should be relying on for solutions anyway.The biggest risk here is that people come away with the impression that the answer involves deleting Facebook — as some are already doing, per CNBC — or asking it to do better, as the film’s own feeble calls to actionsuggest. The answer, as the film manages to make plain in a few of its more lucid moments, has to involve dismantling the business incentives that power the entire system. How to do that without ruining what’s worth keeping about social media, or making things even worse, is the real “social dilemma.” The best-case scenario is that some portion of people who watch this film will now be ready for a different film — one that actually takes that dilemma seriously.
Undercurrents
Under-the-radar trends, stories, and random anecdotes worth your time
The Trump administration’s latest step to crack down on TikTok and WeChat might be its most misguided yet. Under the current plan, as of this writing, the administration was planning to ban the apps from U.S. companies’ App Stores, effective September. 21, but allow them to continue operating until November. 12. As people with a basic understanding of cybersecurity were quick to point out, that means that users will be unable to download any updates that might be needed to patch security flaws in that time frame. “Trump Protects TikTok Users’ Security By Cutting Them Off From Security Updates,” as Motherboard put it.Somewhat overshadowed by its perpetual scandals, Facebook is pursuing a wildly ambitious vision of augmented reality. Project Aria, announced at its Facebook Connect developer conference this week, involves using smart glasses to map the world around you, and using that contextual data to mediate your digital life. “Imagine a digital assistant smart enough to detect road hazards, offer up stats during a business meeting, or even help you hear better in a noisy environment,” Facebook mused in its press release. “This is a world where the device itself disappears entirely into the ebb and flow of everyday life.” My OneZero colleague Dave Gershgorn called the concept “Google Maps for your entire life.” In Slate, privacy attorney Joseph Jerome notes that building a digital duplicate of our physical world would be a step toward a “total surveillance state,” and calls for regulations to serve as “a new rulebook for how the digital world can be mapped and annotated.”
Strange News -Holsworthy
NEWS
New gecko species discovered in Ganjam
The New Indian Express
BHUBANESWAR: A team of researchers has discovered a new species of gecko, commonly known as lizards, in a sacred grove near Humma in ...
University researchers discover new plantspecies in Mt. Arayat National Park
INQUIRER.net
DENR-Central Luzon executive director Paquito Moreno, Jr. said that the discovery of the new plant species is “an indicator that Mt. Arayat National ...
Beneath the Canopy, Lichens Shroud Alaska's Coastal Rainforests
Hakai Magazine
Some 10 percent of the lichens couldn't be categorized into a known species and 27 new species were discovered. Though coastal Alaska is a lichen ...
120000-Year-Old Human Footprints Have BeenDiscovered in Saudi Arabia
ScienceAlert
... following the discovery of ancient human and animalfootprints in the Nefud Desert that shed new light on the routes our ancient ancestors took as ...
Frog tales: Finding an alter ego a thousand kilometer away
Research Matters
Researchers discover a visibly different individual of the Eastern Ghats cricket ... Well, a relative of this frog, belonging to the same species, was first found ... in India, new species of which are increasingly being discovered, to drive ...
Invasive, Blood Sucking Parasites on Shrimps Continue Moving Northward
Science Times
The mud shrimp parasite, a bopyrid isopod, was discovered by the ... RELATED: New Species of Shrimp Discovered in Panama's Coiba National Park ...
Chinese paleontologists discover oldest knownanimal sperm in Myanmar amber
ecns
"This new discovery is indisputable evidence that giant sperm is at least 100 million years old, and probably much older," Robin Smith, an ostracod ...
No Entry To Midwich
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