Special Edition, 7/5/24

Blockchain, AI, Digital Twins, RFK Jr.

Blockchain, AI, Digital Twins, RFK Jr and the Digital Enclosures being implemented.   A digital twin is a replica of a person,  which resembles the person more and more as more info is gathered.  Like the MN908947  computer model which supposedly stands for SARS-CoV-2,  but a model of a human, except based upon behavior and a limited physical information (not the genetics per se). Per Amazon, "A digital twin is a virtual model of a physical object. It spans the object's lifecycle and uses real-time data sent from sensors on the object to simulate the behavior and monitor operations.” Digital twins are being formed via engagement on Blockchain platforms, informed by sensors (increasingly with implants or wearables)  in education, health care, interactions with government (including Digital IDs!) and the like, with all these combining to form complete models of humans, to be managed by AI. 

Starting with a music piece, Machine Messiah by Yes, on its 1980 album “Drama.” This was the first album post Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson, and featured a sound which had heavy metal and new wave influences, a marked change. The band disbanded for a good while after it. I thank my friend Michael Bryant for this.

 

Run down a street
Where the glass shows
That summer has gone
Age, in the doorways
Resenting the pace of the dawn.
All of them standing in line
All of them waiting for time.
From time, the great healer,
The machine-Messiah
Is born.

Cables that carry the life
To the cities we build
Threads that link diamonds of life
To the satanic mills
Ah, to see in every way
That we feel it every
Day, and know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons
And alter our stance.

Friends make their way into systems of chance
(Reply- friends make their way of escape into systems of chance)
Escape to freedom I need to be there
Waiting and watching, the tables are turning
I'm waiting and watching
I need to be there.

I care to see them walk away
And, to be there when they say
They will return.

Machine, Messiah
The mindless
Search for a higher
Controller
Take me to the fire
And hold me
Show me the strength of your
Singular eye.

History dictating symptoms of ruling romance
Claws at the shores of the water upon which we dance
All of us standing in line
All of us waiting for time
To feel it, all the way
And to be there when they
Say they know that
Maybe we'll change
Offered the chance
To finally unlearn our lessons
And alter our stance.

Machine, machine Messiah.
Take me into the fire

Hold me, machine Messiah
And show me
The strength of your singular eye.

And, a new blog post by Alison McDowell and an embedded video which can also be viewed on You Tube. It’s her and her friend in Dallas Lynn Davenport (a friend of mine too), a public school activist and renegade Republican. She is good, keeps Alison from excessive speed and running off on tangents, is well-informed.  They often tie the discussion  to the RFK Jr./Nicole Shanahan presidential campaign.   

Blockchain Badges and TikTok School Choice Deep In The Heart of Texas, Alison McDowell, 7/4/24.

This three-hour chat with my friend Lynn Davenport of Dallas, Texas was initially triggered by my frustration with a recent RFK Jr. video promoting blockchain as the future. [The show’s video is embedded at this point in the text, i posted a You Tube link for it at the end of this item. I also posted there the link to the  RFK Jr video]

While I wanted to deconstruct the silly nationalist tone of his video, promoters of decentralized ledger tech know that the whole point is peer-to-peer communication and  borderless payment processing, we ended up having a much deeper conversation with many updates around education policy in the Lone Star state, including Open Education Resources (see our playlist of videos on that topic here) and manufactured culture wars that are serving as a major distraction from getting people up to speed on the ethical implications of linking AI to hive mind, swarm intelligence protocol layers in the name of radical democracy.

I know most people are not going to make time to listen to the whole thing, so I pulled two short teaser clips. One is about the OER being blockchain badges, not Bible-study paper print outs as some Texas representatives would have you believe. [OER = Open Education Resources, a Blockchain system] The other is my frustration over the Diane Ravitch / Badass Teachers Association brain boxing and the perils of manufactured heroes and structured teaming. I am indebted to both, however, for giving me the eyes to see the role of RFK Jr. and health freeDOM influencers in steering consciousness and sheep dogging folks into the box canyon of Web3 quantified self wearables and wellness key performance indictors. 

Today is Red White and Blue day – if you celebrate, please remember the superorganism has no flag! It’s time to get serious folks. Step away from your assigned team and start thinking for yourself.

[The teasers follow, they’re each only a couple of minutes long. They made me wanna watch the whole thing. A bunch of links to related items also follow]

The program is also at

 

Blockchain Skill Badges: Deep In The Heart of TikTok Texas, Alison McDowell, 7/3/24. three hours and 41 minutes.

"A wide-ranging conversation with Lynn Davenport about school choice, SEL chaplains, and Bobby's promotion of blockchain in the Lone Star State."

My comments.  Lots of stuff, including Charles Hoskinson of Cardano Blockchain, an RFK Jr supporter,  on how the company’s system has already placed 5 million school kids in Ethiopia.on a Blockchain platform, everything tied together, i.s. education ledger, health ledger, interactions with the state, including digital IDs. And the goal is to do the same for all 100 million people in the country.   Lynn’s testimony regarding Dallas College, the consolidated junior colleges system in Dallas County,  re Blockxhain programs for it by The Texas Blockchain Council. Lynn has been attacked by Republican politicos for her public opposition to Blockchain plans, basically labeled a leftist infiltrator, whereas those on the left who take this position are often attacked as right wing extremists. Oral Roberts University and the development of Blockchain religion. This matter is not about China or the US,as  this is a global system which is being imposed.  One thing i do disagree with Lynn about: she thinks money saved by Texas schools not implementing the Blockchain will save enough money to fix the problems faced by the electric grid. The problems the grid faces can’t simply be fixed by throwing money at them, as all the money in the world cannot make up for dwindling energy and raw materials resources, as much as Alison and Lynn may believe that all shortages are contrived. 

The short RFK Jr video is here,

 

RFK Jr.: Blockchain Is The Future, Robert F Kennedy Jr, , 6/23/24, s minute snd 45 seconds. 

"Do you really think President Trump and President Biden have the savvy to deal with emerging issues like blockchain and Artificial Intelligence? We need a president who is thinking about those things- one who works to mitigate risks posed by unregulated AI and who sees the value in blockchain companies–rather than forcing them to relocate overseas.”  

He implores viewers to not let Blockchain and AI businesses leave America, just as “we” were smart enough to not let Silicon Valley leave America.  

Ending this Special Edition with an item i was alerted to by my friend Jesse Zurawell, regarding the actual use of digital twins by industry.

Ontario using digital twins to enhance infrastructure projects, 6/27/24.

The Ontario government says it is using digital twins to enhance the planning and delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects to improve worker safety and save taxpayers money. The $5-million project is focused on three projects: the Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital redevelopment, the Ontario Place rebuild and the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension.

The digital twins will help identify and resolve problems before work begins, which the province says could help avoid costly and dangerous utility conflicts. This could also improve worker safety and ensure projects are completed on time and on budget. By using a digital twin of the underground utilities, the province can avoid costly and dangerous utility conflicts.

“Our government is exploring innovative new technologies to help build critical infrastructure faster and more cost-effectively,” Infrastructure Minister Kinga Surma said in a statement “From start to  finish, digital twins will help ensure that project partners involved in the building process have access to timely, accurate and state-of-the-art data to advance the delivery of Ontario’s infrastructure for our growing communities.”