REASON MAG: Welcome to the Naked Future

This is really a fascinating REASON story.. and really frightening too.

We are not “close” to the future where privacy is dead, we are in it. The information age and been pushed aside.. hubris and selfishness and selfies have led to people releasing every possible thing about themselves on every app they can.. and all the while, alphabet agencies in the police state are showering themselves with your person information.

It’s here, baby. Welcome to your future.

From REASON, reporting no a new book called THE NAKED FUTURE: WHAT HAPPENS IN A WORLD THAT ANTICIPATES YOUR EVERY MOVE by Patrick Tucker, the money quote: 

To illustrate just how naked we all soon will be, Tucker opens with a vignette from the near future in which your cellphone wakes you with a text message alerting you that on your way to work you will run into an old girlfriend who is going to tell you the happy news that she is engaged. The phone tells to you to act surprised at the news. This scenario unfolds as predicted, but instead of waiting for her to tell you, you blurt out your congratulations. As it happens, she not yet made her new romantic status public and is quite alarmed by your mistimed felicitations. The phone did warn you to act surprised.

Tucker then explores the early technologies that are combining to make this future a reality. Consider how the phone knew that you would run into your old girlfriend. Tucker discusses database investigations conducted by University of Rochester researcher Adam Sadelik to predict where people will be in the future using Bayesian software techniques. Parsing a database of 26 million tweets, of which 7.6 million were geotagged, from 1.2 million people in Los Angeles and New York, Sadelik tried to learn about the locations of people who did not geotag their tweets. He found that if non-geotaggers have two real friends who do allow their tweets to be mapped, his system “can predict your location at any moment (down to 328 feet and within a 20 minute time frame) with 47 percent accuracy.” That’s nearly a 50-50 chance of catching you, even if you think you’re opting out.

….welcome to your life.

REASON MAG: Welcome to the Naked Future

Faceless Slender Man Linked to More Slashings, Shootings

A fictional horror creature popularized by Internet memes is now linked to three violent crimes.

Another link that may help the anonymous questioner a few hours ago that tried to say I am making things up.. 

And to another questioner who called me names  (so I will not publish that one): I know Slenderman is not real.. I get he was made up. But the meme and tupla existed far longer than the Slenderman of internet fame.. the powerful image of a faceless tall man has been around for some time.

The real issue here is not that Slenderman has come alive and taken over minds, the real issue is that the media is going to sensationalize a monster that is not real..

Remember: There were never knives in apples on Halloween, even though we check every year.. And Slenderman is not real. Even though three crimes are now being blamed no him by mainstream media..

Faceless Slender Man Linked to More Slashings, Shootings

Rats are capable of feeling regret, scientists say

Rats are capable of feeling regret about their own actions, an emotion that has never previously been found in any other mammals apart from humans.

So .. does that make you feel a bit more guilty about rat lab experimentation? Maybe they’d feel guilty about it..

This is a pretty important study in my book.. If I had a book about studies, I suppose.

Rats are capable of feeling regret, scientists say

I see NOTHING in the article that one of them dressed as Slenderman or any photos of it. Calling bullshit on your click bait about it BIG TIME.

I think you were referring to my latest post about the Las Vegas shooter reportedly dressing as Slenderman.. 

I think you need to click through to an article I linked, such as this from CNN: 

While authorities have yet to identify them, a woman who says she lived near them told CNN affiliate KTNV that the married couple liked to dress up as the villainous Batman characters Joker and Harley Quinn.

The neighbor, Krista Koch, told the station the man also sometimes dressed as Slenderman, a fictional horror character that recently surfaced in the stabbing of a 12-year-old girl in Wisconsin.

Hope that helps.. And perhaps absolves me of ‘click bait’

This is an amazing shot.. a ‘red rainbow’ appeared over Atlanta last week after a storm.. Beautiful. 

It looks eerily like the cover of UNDER THE DOME by Stephen King.. 

MORE Slenderman related crimes!?

Yet ANOTHER story that has a Slenderman tie in is making news today.. it was reported hours ago that a girl in Ohio who was fascinated by ‘Slenderman’ tried to stab her mother.. this after a Wisconsin stabbing a week ago by two 12-year-olds who wanted to visit Slenderman at his forest mansion.. And now this: A shooting occurred Sunday in Las Vegas.. Two right wing extremists yelled “this is a revolution” before they killed two police officers.  Then they ran into a Walmart and a killed a shopper before the wife killed her husband and then herself..  IT seems to have been political in nature, but there is a weird tie-in to Slenderman.

The couple reportedly named: Jerad and Amanda Miller (no official confirmation on the names yet). A neighbor told media that they dressed as the JOKER and Harley Quinn… and the Jerald reportedly dressed as Slenderman…..

A manifesto has apparently been found..

This is getting bizarre.. for a few reasons.

First off, this is not the first time the JOKER has been a meme involved in a crime.. nor, obviously, is it the first time that Slenderman has been, either.. 

In a random world of chaos.. this happens

I am always perplexed by the ‘coincidences’ that fill our headlines and litter our histories.. Things that should not happen simply because the rare occasion of them occurring would need stars to line up and miracles (or the opposite) to occur.

One such event made news in Texas.. A head-on collision took place on Road 87 North and FM 2379. Both drivers were pronounced dead.. both drivers, in separate cars, were married.. the husband and wife had their respective lives extinguished at the hands of each other..

There are three children that survive without a mother and father now. A tragic accident.. a strange series of events that caused both to be at the wrong place at the right time.. both now dead at the hands of some force or fate that often destroys people and ruins lives. With is this yin and yang we call life? What is this series of unfortunate events we call coincidence? 

Hearts out to the grieving relatives and friends.. But I am still amazed and confused of the chances of this occurring and the fact that it did..

Truck driver blamed for crash that left 1 dead and Tracy Morgan in critical condition had been awake for more than 24 hours, officials say

Truck driver blamed for crash that left 1 dead and Tracy Morgan in critical condition had been awake for more than 24 hours, officials say

I am not nearly as fearful of a fake Slenderman as I am the overdone sensationalized news coverage of him

I am not nearly as fearful of a fake Slenderman as I am the overdone sensationalized news coverage of him

"Ghostbusters" celebrates 30th anniversary

Unbelievable.. 30 years already.

"Ghostbusters" celebrates 30th anniversary

The SIMPSONS seems to predict a June 22 2014 nuke attack.

The SIMPSONS seems to predict a June 22 2014 nuke attack.

Be careful if you re-tweet

The CIA is now on Twitter.. Their first tweet saying they could neither confirm nor deny its their first tweet exploded in popularity.

Don’t tell me for a second you wouldn’t excrete a brick if they followed you.

Chris Brown’s getting out of jail party features red cups and porn stars.

HUSTLER BUST

A few months ago HUSTLER magazine was trying to court Justin Bieber. Now, because of the boy no-wonder’s 15-year-old racist rants, Larry Flynt is turning away.. The man child star may have lost his chance for HUSTLER fame.

We missed the beast from the east.. Hopefully there's none in the west

Yet another massive asteroid—this was called ‘the beast’— sailed its way past the earth without fanfare or incident.. Thankfully.. if HQ124 hit, it could have been monstrous.  The troubling part about the Beast—along with many other asteroids lately—is how they get discovered just before they may potentially strike. This was in April.. The size of this one has many scratching their heads as to why it took so long to see..

‘Beast’ Asteroid That Will Buzz By Earth Big Enough To Wipe Out A City

‘Beast’ Asteroid That Will Buzz By Earth Big Enough To Wipe Out A City

More on the Tracy Morgan tour bus wreck..

Not all facts known at this time.. but here is what has been made public and collective through various sources:

One person is dead in the accident.. 

Six were injured when the tour bus carrying Tracy Morgan overturned.. While alcohol was not said to have played a role in it, there is still an investigation into that .. 

The wreck involved two tractor trailers and an SUV..

Not much information has been revealed by the hospital where Morgan is at due to medical privacy issues, but various news organizations have confirmed that Morgan was involved and is in critical condition.

NBC 10 in Philadelphia has reported that Morgan is in ICU at this hour.. This strange and tragic  turn of events came hour after Morgan had a large audience for a stand up comedy show in Delaware.. 

Rising seas disturb Japanese war dead on the Marshall islands.. 

Perhaps one of the scariest Clyde Lewis programs *and radio shows in general* took place last night.. Lewis took GROUND ZERO deep into the paranormal with a show about why we fear clowns. But things got a bit weirder.. during the program, Lewis also had a live online broadcast of a clown.. A camera was fixated on a lone clown doll locked in a room in the radio studio. And yes.. the clown did move.  Certainly worth the listen on Soundcloud if you have the time..

Comedian Tracy Morgan Injured in Car Crash, Say Police

Preliminary information indicates actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was injured in a car crash early this morning, a N.J. State Police spokesperson told ABC News.

An obvious developing story..

Comedian Tracy Morgan Injured in Car Crash, Say Police