Goodbye to Instagram 8/21/2013 – 11/5/2020

Looky Looky, here we are again. In the wee months to follow my unexpected Facebook account shutdown without any reason, I recently noticed now my Instagram was disabled by the app itself once again. I posted this blog with the birthdate that I created IG and once again the death. This headline showing the time I first acquired the app down to the very last day before the app was shut down without any warning to me. So once again, I didn’t post anything political or aggressive or anything inappropriate in any way shape or form. I did not bully or threaten or post nudity or do anything to violate there terms of us OR community standards. All I did was post pictures of cool cars, motorcycles and live concerts that I use to attend before Modello19. I digress…The reason I first downloaded the IG was because in the late part of 2012 I use to make random cell phone videos to send to friends that were about under a minute long. This would include motorcycle stunt videos or various comedy skits and sketches I would use from videos I had on my phone. So my biker friend Reid aka Stix, once said to me, ” Hey man, you should get an IG.” Because at that time you could upload a 30 second video into IG and edit or splice each video frame by frame until a mini edited clip was completed. This was a cool concept for a person who enjoyed brief edited movie clips. So I download the Instagram app and only ever uploaded hobbies of my life since it’s inception into my cell phone. However I felt since my IG was a public page that did not follow anyone and just posted things for me, I did not post faces in the IG app. I only had a few hundred posts, whilst never ever caring about the likes or the comments. Basically Instagram was my location to store pics and videos of my life and browse/click on other cool like minded peoples posts from time to time who pop up in my feed. That being said you don’t need to really follow anyone because your news feed will always populate things you clicked on or watched. So, as these many years of IG went on and posts and things happened I had no issues with my IG. My account stayed active like it always had and I never once ran into trouble with community standards or guidelines. That is until most recently I posted in this blog about Facebook randomly shutting down my account without reason and then shortly after this happens. Obviously we all understand that these a free services so they can do what they want. As I went through the basic prompts of trying to get my IG account back which was what I did when I lost my FB…I started to feel that familiar feeling like I once did googling how to get my FB back… the feeling like I was a tweaker trying to get my drugs and get my social media back. Suddenly I felt so free like an addict that broke through the chains of addiction. Shortly after this happened I coincidently watched a video by Jaron Lanier talking about people deleting their social media. Basically Lanier is this tech guru guy that had been there for the birth of companies like google and he created the early virtual reality platforms, so the guy is a smart dude for sure. The best way to describe this moment I am feeling is like when you are sick with some really bad illness but then the doctor gives you the medicine that actually heals the wounds in your brain stems. You start to feel it working as the detachment period goes longer from apps. You then start to give yourself different juices flowing through in a refreshing sense. I can recall slowly deleting the actual app on my phone while watching Lanier’s YouTube video. Not because I planned to delete every technological thing in my life like some weirdo in a basement covered with tin-foil on the windows. I don’t plan to hide out and never join the splendors of the Internet and other apps. I was just realizing certain things are un-needed and something needed to be altered in terms of priorities in my life. I feel great. I think the biggest thing I noticed is that losing both my FB and IG meant that I couldn’t have this false awesome or bad or indifferent life plugged into an internet app to be studied for reasons I am not told. Meaning you couldn’t view parts of my life in phones and would have to get to know me in person or possibly read my blog or watch my YouTube videos haha! Basically social media plays this give/take reward game, giving you something to look forward to every time you log in then taking away something at other times. We don’t notice it but tiny emotional triggers are being spoon feed to us with each scroll or like. Like most things addictive, social media can be fun and positive most of the time but also time consuming. After losing my accounts I think most people might have just opened up new accounts but I refuse to bow down to them. My ego overrides the brainwashing and tells me that if there is some reason the internet apps want to flush me out I should probably just stay in my lane because the universe could be helping me. Anyway, as soon as I first noticed my account was gone I followed the prompts on the IG app to attempt to recover my account and they even emailed me saying it was a mistake and they will be restoring my account yet it is still disabled last I checked. My accounts may reappear at some point or after this election madness ends but doubt I will notice after deleting the apps on my phone so I can focus on other projects. In some ways you feel like you slipped off the radar but in other ways you just feel a bit more connected to the earth. Besides, I have cool blogs and shit to post.

Technology & Singularity Thought of the Day 5/18/2020

Singularity defined as; ” The technological singularity—also, simply, the singularity—is a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable changes to human civilization “. We all know how mathematics are can be a formula with an absolute one answer in which we respect. Science involves plenty of math and physics. Yet we as humans under estimate just how rapid it can control our lives but when it (as in the machines) becomes “self aware” in it’s own existence, that’s when we will be exterminated. First, before I go all conspiracy robot geek on you, chill out a sec, kick back, and let me walk you thru to this robot death first. So back in the day before social media etc all of the phones and vehicles were just discovering basic connection to the limited worldwide web /Internet. Well, that was all going to change through the mid to early 2000’s. Soon the phones and digital devices had access to search engines like the all powerful and knowing “Google” to find anything you need. Soon you could download apps in which every purchase was a click a way directly from my personal bank account. Verification’s became easier because we have facial recognition and thumb print on devices. Now when you talk to your digital devices the bitch Siri or Alexa talks back. If that isn’t enough, these cars park themselves and robots are delivering packages for you. Just when you think you have noticed neon signs and futuristic cars you don’t stop to notice how much money is going into Robotics. These robots have 3 Million dollar arms with 10 Million dollar chassis. We haven;t even got into the time to assemble these things. Trust me, those scientists ain’t doing it for volunteer work leaving the labs in bucket cars, no way, they are making good money. Anyway, lately people will act surprised when they say aloud things like; dinner reservations or a trip to Hawaii and then scroll their FB feed and see those recommendations pop up. Yes the phones and computers are listening. Everyone is so paranoid about their laptop cameras so they tape them. Let’s assume that’s all true and that now the robots have eyes, ears and access to our bank accounts, finger prints, facial structure, known relatives, passwords, GPS location and last but most importantly, in some way, access to Bluetooth or the Internet. So, how this works is, imagine our smartest human brain thinks at a rate of 100mph compared to the dummies brain @40mph. It takes this smart cat to think of something really technical or brilliant possibly 10-15 years after they pass their teenage stage which then puts total time to brilliance averaging `15-20 years the average minimum of that smart person to display all of his/her knowledge to the world. Then there is 1000s to Millions of those smart people putting all of their great ideas into the internet so the entire population can then build off those findings to create new revelations to document of their own. Literally everything our entire human race has done can be found on the internet. We rely on the Internet in some type of way in our lives no matter the age. Self-Learning computers are getting smarter and we no longer need to do anything except have a phone and sit at home on our assess these days. Behind the scenes small doses off Artificial Intelligence as well as Military weapons being combined with those technological advancements are being married together, in the midst. So that being said, we are like two cunt hairs away from having Robots do the following: Drive our cars, deliver our packages, decide what we want to eat or order from Amazon and lastly track all of our decisions to understand our psychology to our brains. True Artificial intelligence is far far from it’s infant stages in 2020. If you haven’t noticed the futuristic ass world we live in then get on your YoutTube app in your fancy Iphone 70 and go wide screen with a new wave selfie stick. So back on the freeway people…If the entire wealth of the human race can be a click away to any internet or WIFI connection, AND…we currently have military grade weapons, robots, tanks, guns and robotic manufacturing companies…AND the government as well as the nerdy scientists are already testing true AI /Artificial Intelligence that is very close to basic human decision making. They can just plug in and connect to the internet to get the basics to hold a conversation or even complete a carpentry task for you. What people aren’t understanding is, it’s not the level of where we are on robots that is scary. It’s the level of unmanned no human needed basic human decision making is being removed. Technology moves so fast over the years that if you were to go to sleep for 5 years you would wake up years behind in evolution due to technological advancements. Basic things like robots cleaning your house connected to your Bluetooth on your Iphone 98 will be standard soon. So you have to sort of stick with the Tech as it evolved to the point where you finally, finally, finally meet Singularity which is to the point where humans and machines are married into each other and the computers are going to out smart us. Going back to that example of a human learning at a brilliant persons pace of 15-20 years to have any monumental break trough, a true artificial intelligence in a machine could complete in one hour depending on internet connection and battery power. This is not a joke. Then when it does laps on our smartest inventors, builders, military experts and data programmers within minutes, it starts to become self aware of who “it” is and how important “it” is to humanities goal of consuming it. It’s at this point the internet is connected to every single thing we touch on a daily basis connected to every other device some how. Now here is the Sci-Fi jargon I mentioned earlier but just try to keep up. Someone finally starts to play with Artificial Intelligence and gets it’s right, completely right. A machine that can think for itself and make it’s own decisions or even communicate to other machines. Soon the Internet or any entity/device with a connection to the entire Internet will be wired to any machine built. Machines need then take care of the threat which us. They fire missiles at things, stuff blows up, unmanned things go chaotic. Factory’s build what they want to and machines assemble themselves or things how they need to. These decisions are made so effortlessly and quickly that one can’t help but to think they were dealing with the most sophisticated person in mathematical history as the timing to predict exactly what humans would do for every action they made. Not to mention they knew exactly what to use to kill us at any given moment while producing better versions of themselves by making better decisions on their own. Sure it sounds like abundance of sci-fi movies in all the variations you can think of. However in my opinion, I think we are only few stages away from True AI and then Robot’s could fuck some shit up. It could be a slow death and then sweep us up when we are all fat waiting for uber eats robots. Or it could be something vicious and calculated with actual un-manned mechanical construction. When it takes the average human 15-20 years to achieve much smart things to document with about 373 Million people in the US alone all connected to the Internet. One robot could have all that knowledge in seconds with the ability to think for itself it could be fully operational with a 100 human years of evolution of findings in seconds to it’s robot brain passing to other metal brains. So Imagine if that same Internet brain had a chance to think for itself meaning its brain has ZERO ceiling or restrictions and can completely build itself mentally. I mean look how much Stephen Hawking contributed confined to a wheelchair unable to move. Imagine about 100 Million of him’s and Albert Esenstein’s with fire power and with the decision that maybe humans are a little dumber than them..per human. That means within minutes they could go full aggressive on us just as quickly as the window to stop them closes. The smarter they get the smarter they get. Soon duplicating smart computers to other robots is just as easy as making them. Human interaction is less and less needed. We get to a point where robots are trying to determine if they are human or another human is operating one. Next thing you know one seems to malfunction by killing someone. Everyone thinks it’s just an accident until it figures out how to kill thousands into millions of people. Once the human race figures out what kills them it’s too late, we are then down to hundreds of thousands left. So if this movie style apocalyptic movie thing happens how do we get out of it? When you look at how smart the human race is to other species you can’t but help to think what if our wealth of knowledge could be comprised and used for other shit. However all that being said here is the ultimate part that will really burn your noodle. What if these super computers with Artificial intelligence are just so damn smart as a mathematical evil geniuses at an exponential rate,AND that they know to take their sweet time while we humans progress in life. They have all the time in the world to play possum until it’s time to reveal themselves through decades of evolution. Remember that the reason humans have brains is, is to predict the future. That is the fact no matter how you look at it and if that possibility is removed from the choice of humans we start to hop on the railroad towards singularity and becoming as one. We shall see!