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The Isles of Blirrosia: Chapter Four (Full)

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Saffron could faintly hear the rustling leaves from the trees outside. How peaceful. The wind didn’t usually start blowing on this side until the evening.

Saffron snuggled her head into her pillow. If only she could stay like this forever, or even for just one day. In the background, she could hear the familiar sounds of screeching tires and the city hustle-bustle. She cracked one eye open to look at the window. The sky was getting darker, but she could still see the light of the sun. It should be set in a few hours.

Wait…what?!

She jolted up from her bed and immediately leaned over to her bedside table for her phone, only to discover its absence.

“Oh, no. Where is it, where is it?”

After groggily groping around the bed and floor for an embarrassing amount of time, she found it under her bed (she didn’t even want to think about how it got there) and checked the time.

5:54. 5:54? Already?!

A wave of guilt washed Saffron over from head to toe. There was no point in showing up to the lecture now. She had missed her emotional control class. She always did her best to make that class because she felt bad for Professor Harley; no one showed up to his class on Mondays because most of them had a conflicting class specific to their aptitude—the rest usually didn’t show up. Aura manipulation is a pretty rare aptitude, so there wasn’t a teacher to instruct her. Her parents managed to find a private tutor a couple of years back who had an aptitude that enhanced his knowledge, so he was able to help her. She sees him about once or twice a week now, as opposed to every day like she did while growing up.

This day was like a roller coaster, but at least Saffron could see that the end was soon.

Saffron clambered back onto her bed and opened the news app. She didn’t want to go to the library and work on the project, but at least she could do this to pass the time. She clicked the ‘Hero Society’ tab, and after scrolling through a few headlines, she was starting to wish that she hadn’t.

Sensation Defeats an Amateur Villain at the Rosia Central City Bank! 

Ace of Spades Releases his Custom Deck of Cards!

Water Jelly Surprises a Third-Grade Class on a Field Trip!

Saffron Solis Nearly DESTROYS a Mango Nectar Billboard! 

Ginger Solis Spotted With Flowers! Has she Finally Rebounded from her Break-up?

Saffron checked the last two authors, and she wasn’t surprised by the names. Amelia Roberts of the Morning Star Chronicles and Larry McCarten of the Rosia Daily Express. Two rival reporters from two of the most successful news companies in all of Blirrosia.

Ms. Roberts was known for her extreme curiosity, but the way she satisfied it was pretty nosy. She seemed to have it out for Saffron, and everyone involved knew why. 

When Saffron was in middle school, she caught Amelia staking out in a car outside the school like a weirdo, probably to get some pictures, judging by the size of her camera. Don’t ask her why, but Saffron decided it would be a good idea to listen to Lai when she said to mimic the auras of a handful of her classmates and creepily surround Ms. Roberts’ car. She had been looking down at something on her phone, but Saffron knew the moment she saw the auras from her scream. After that, the prank went horribly. Ms. Roberts had jumped up and hit her head on the roof of her car before passing out. At first, Saffron was worried that it was from the impact, but she later found out it was from the shock. Saffron’s parents had to reimburse her and were surprisingly able to convince her not to sue; Saffron had been suspended for a week for using her powers without permission. 

After the altercation, Saffron’s name was perpetually on the news. First, it was about the incident. But after Ms. Roberts returned to her job, she would watch like a hawk for any time Saffron screwed up, then blow it out of proportion. Saffron had no clue how she still had her job, but by now, she’s learned to deal with it.

Larry McCarten on the other hand? He was a real piece of work. Despite the denials, he was a prominent member of the Anti-Hero Movement. Saffron thought that it couldn’t get much worse than Amelia Roberts, but for the past two or three years, Mr. McCarten proved her wrong. If Ms. Roberts was nosy, Larry McCarten was downright invasive. He was close to crossing the line to stalker behavior. He was constantly writing about scandals—most of them untrue. But Saffron hated him for personal reasons.

She was about to skim through the article written about her when she received a call. She let out a sigh of relief when she saw her best friend's caller ID pop up on her screen.

“Hey! How was your class?”

“I didn’t go.”

“Wha–? But you never miss class. We need to attend as many as we can so we can be the best! What happened?”

She let out a shaky breath. “Lai, you won’t even believe what happened today.”

Saffron doesn’t know why, but she never told Lai about the elevator. 

They had to have been on the phone for at least an hour, maybe two; there were so many opportunities to say something, anything! But she chose to keep quiet.

The sun was barely peeking above the horizon at this point—hues of orange, pink, and purple perfused with the darkening blue sky. After Saffron ended the call, she decided to walk to Lizzie’s Twilight Diner, the best place to indulge in spicy, crispy chicken, fried calamari, and a strawberry milkshake. Just thinking about it made her mouth water.

As she was walking to the diner, Saffron had the familiar feeling of being watched. Her pale pink skin and gray birthmarks suddenly stuck out like a sore thumb. Seven, thin, gray rings appeared on her neck when she was thirteen years old—the press had gone crazy for a week or two, claiming that she had entered her rebellious stage. The point was, Saffron wasn’t exactly difficult to recognize. She was used to this; she had to be. This was her life–full of lingering looks and stares. She should be used to it by now.

So why…why was it so unnerving all of a sudden? This isn’t like her at all; this isn’t right. She was never this off guard. First the elevator incident, then more flowers, and now this? Today was a day full of disappointments, that’s for sure. 

Before she knew it, she was in front of the diner. The white walls were grayed from age, but the red, orange, and yellow accents on the awnings and door made it appealing. The fluorescent sign with the name of the store flickered and a few letters didn’t light up at all, but it wasn’t creepy. The exterior was very inviting.

As Saffron pushed the door open, a bright bell signaled her arrival.

“Welcome!” A middle-aged woman called out as she was wiping a counter. She was wearing a floral shirt and a red apron. 

“Good evening, Mrs. Lizzie,” Saffron responded, “how’s business?”

The woman looked up at her voice, eyes glowing. “Why, if it isn’t my pinkest customer! Everything’s dandy, just dandy! How’re you doing, love bud?”

Saffron couldn’t help but curve her lips at the familiarity. Everything had been so…different.

“I’m doing great, Mrs. Lizzie!”

“Don’t just stand there,” she scuttled behind Saffron and began to push her towards the front counter, “Have you eaten yet? Sit! Sit! Order something!”

Saffron smiled as she swung her feet on the swiveling barstool, teeming with excitement and nostalgia. She couldn’t remember the last time she indulged in fast food, but during middle and high school, she loved to secretly try different places—it was by luck that she stumbled upon this place, but oh it was so worth it. She tried not to eat so much (after all, a full stomach could slow her down while she was flying) but she couldn’t resist this diner.

“Are you eating well? Every time I see you, you look thinner. Here,” she slid over a menu. 

Saffron gazed over the old letters behind the lamination. She licked her lips as she wondered what to ask for. 

She was going to order the fried chicken for sure and the calamari was always a must; however, she was still debating on if she should get red velvet cheesecake or a strawberry milkshake. But eventually, she decided on the cheesecake because she had never had that flavor before, so she told Mrs. Lizzie her order.

“Coming right up, dear! But here,” she said as she placed a platter of ribs covered a dark red sauce, “Try these for me,” she asked.

Saffron’s mouth watered as she stared at the plate—they looked delicious, but she knew that adding this to her meal was crossing the line. Saffron would feel way too guilty eating all of this.

“Sorry, Mrs. Lizzie, but I don’t think I can finish all of this. Maybe just one or two…”

“Nonsense!” she replied. “You have one of the biggest appetites that I’ve ever seen! And when was the last time you ate something that wasn’t a salad or ice cubes?” she asked. After waiting a moment, she continued. “I can tell by your face that your answer won’t satisfy me. Eat!” As she walked back to the kitchen, Saffron could hear her mutter about how much these new generations loved to starve themselves as she stared at the plate of ribs in front of her.

She needed to build good habits for when she became a hero: after all, one bite of food could weigh her down when she was flying or running—that could cost a life. But on the other had, she was only a student, so maybe a break wouldn’t be such a bad thing, especially if she was benefiting Mrs. Lizzie. After every thing she did for Saffron, it was the least she could do in return.

This was officially one of the worst days of her entire life.

The food looked so good, but after taking a few bites of one of the ribs, she was starting to feel very nauseous. And now that all her food was staring back at her, she couldn’t help but notice how unhealthily greasy it looked. Just smelling the hot oil wafting off the chicken and calamari made her head hurt. The cheesecake looked so good in the picture, but the only thing she could eat were the berries; she tried the frosting and almost puked right then and there. 

“Mrs. Lizzie, it’s getting kind of late and I have to get back to the dorms. Could you help me pack these things to go?”

“Why, of course, dear!” she responded, getting to-go boxes from a rack. “Be safe—I don’t care if you’re aptitude is Level 89 or whatever. And don’t forget to come back soon!” 

As she stepped back onto the street, the pungent odor of oil, ulfur and carbon overwhelmed her all at once. A scarlet haze tightly enveloped her head as she was forced to rely on muscle memory to take her to the dorm. 

She didn’t remember tripping on the way back.

She didn’t remember dropping the food somewhere along the way.

She didn’t remember entering her building.

She definitely remember how she couldn’t focus on anything other than how the stairwell smelled like bitter alcohol and smoke. Saffron couldn’t handle it, so she turned back to the courtyard and fell on the grass.

It wasn’t perfect, but the earthy smell cleared the haze and her mind.

Saffron felt like the same question repeated in her head over and over again today, but what in the world was going on?

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Understanding the Internet of Behavior: Transforming Technology Through Personalization

We are no longer living in a ‘hyper-connected world’ where the technology has graduated from just connecting devices to understand and anticipate our needs, desires, and even our behavior. This is called the Internet of Behavior, an emerging concept building on top of IoT but adding a powerful layer of behavioral insights. IoB seeks to interpret data about human actions and patterns to offer tailored experiences, improve business outcomes, and even enhance public welfare. But it comes with ethical issues regarding its use on questions of privacy and proper applications for personal data.

What is the Internet of Behaviour (IoB)?

Internet of Behaviour is essentially the collection of user data that can be obtained from multiple sources including connected devices, social media, purchasing patterns, as well as location tracking for the understanding and predictability of human behavior. This includes taking a step further to analyze the data and hence creating actionable insights about the people using those devices when making the focus on gathering data from multiple devices in IoT.

This enables the IoB to analyze the “what” and “why” within the actions of users, thereby helping organizations provide more personalized services or tailor their offerings to accommodate particular needs, thereby influencing future user behavior in a directed manner.

How Does IoB Work?

IoB leverages a mix of technologies, including AI, machine learning, and big data analytics, to process and interpret data collected from various sources:

1. Data Collection: It collects data from different sources, including IoT devices, social media activity, browsing history, purchase history, wearable health devices, and mobile applications. Each of them provides evidence to a person’s behaviors, preferences, and motivations in more concrete manners.

2. Data Analysis: AI algorithms analyze such data to find patterns and correlations, which may signify particular behaviors. For example, analyzing what one browses and purchases might show purchase motivations, preferred brands, and needs.

3. Behavioral Insights and Actions: Now that the data is processed, it provides companies and organizations with the ability to decide upon how they engage the individuals. Such insights can be used in tailoring product recommendations, delivering targeted advertising, or even adjusting service delivery according to what resonates best with certain segments.

4. Feedback Loops: The other essential aspect of IoB is that it provides a real-time feedback loop. And while users respond to the customized services, IoB aggregates more data about the interactions that have been made, thus refining the accuracy of future predictions and allowing the systems to “learn” the user’s preferences in a deeper pattern over time.

Real-World Applications of IoB

IoB is already transforming various sectors, bringing personalized, data-driven experiences to users. Here’s how it’s being applied in some critical areas:

1. Healthcare and Wellness IoB allows medical professionals to create highly personalized treatment plans. Wearables, like fitness monitors and smartwatches, can track activity levels, heartbeat, and even sleep patterns. They can, based on this data, provide healthcare professionals with recommendations for lifestyle adjustments, remote monitoring of health, or even the prediction of possible medical problems before they worsen.

2. Retail and E-commerce Online vendors use the Internet of Behavior to learn users’ shopping behavior and styles for a more personalized recommendation, for which, with the information of how and what users prefer or spend on with their interest in products, can effectively be used by e-commerce sites to make recommendations most aligned with the tastes of the buyer, thus increasing conversion rates and loyalty.

3. Public Safety IoB data can be employed to facilitate city authorities to increase public safety through foot traffic patterns, climatic conditions, and previous incidents for the identification of high-risk areas and times. Resource allocation and proactive safety measures through predictive ability

4. Marketing and Advertising IoB greatly benefits the marketing industry. Considering that the behavior of online subjects is now analyzed, IoB can assist marketers in recognizing what message or offer works best for which particular audience segment. Even personalized ads, email campaigns, and dynamic web content are more accurate and attractive with the insight rendered by IoB.

5. Workplace Productivity Companies have just begun to apply IoB tools to understand patterns of employee workflows, communication habits, and other performance metrics. Companies can create a more effective workplace, improve the well-being of employees, and reduce burnout by making suggestions for breaks or changes in routines based on how people work best.

Benefits of IoB

Enhanced Personalization: Hyper-personalized services and products in IoB lead to increased customer satisfaction and brand loyalty.

Improves decision-making: Companies can even make more informed decisions based on their products, services, and marketing strategies to appeal directly to their users.

Predictive Capabilities: The IoB allows companies to anticipate or know the need or behavior of a customer, thus solving problems even before they develop, or it provides pro-active support to a customer.

Ethical and Privacy Challenges

While IoB offers numerous benefits, it also raises significant ethical and privacy concerns. Here are some of the main challenges associated with the Internet of Behaviour:

1. Privacy Risks IoB necessitates collecting elaborate data that is associated with privacy risks, as the study of users’ personal and sometime sensitive information is being monitored. Organizations need to be able to ensure that organizations can comply with data protection regulations like GDPR to guarantee the right protection of user privacy.

2. Data Security IoB relies heavily on data sources that could be termed easy preys for cyberattacks. Thus, data security and therefore tightening cybersecurity measures to protect associated sensitive information at large is important.

3. Ethical Use of Data IoB has influence as well as manipulation power over behavior; therefore, companies should ensure that data collected from IoB must be used responsibly without exploiting or manipulating the consumer. Transparency is also essential about data usage, and consent must be obtained.

4. Bias in Algorithms Since IoB relies heavily on AI and machine learning, biases in the algorithms can skew results at best and may influence decisions about people. Algorithmic fairness has to be considered because IoB cannot unfairly target or exclude certain groups of users.

The Future of IoB: What Lies Ahead?

Further evolution of IoB will spread its impact towards business and society as a whole. Future developments of IoB include more regulations concerning the usage of data, better technologies for transparency and security. Added with IoB could be Augmented Reality (AR) or Virtual Reality (VR) to create some immersive, behavior-responsive experience in gaming, education, and retail.

Responsible IoB will attract enormous attention because companies balance personalized services with respect to user privacy and ethical considerations. Inasmuch as responsible data is accorded, IoB will revolutionize the way we interface with technology and the world.

Final Thoughts

Internet of Behaviour leaps forward in data-driven insight, thus meaning organizations can serve people more customised and user-centric. But with all new opportunities comes a sense of responsibility by which business will need to ensure good deal of data management through ethical and secure means. Once matured, IoB would need transparency, trust and responsible data practices to make its maximum potential fruitful for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society as a whole.

This balance of innovation and ethical responsibility makes IoB the key player toward a digital future transforming the ways in which we interact and expect from technology.

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The Integration of Technology and Human Bodies: The Internet of Bodies

Discover the revolutionary potential of the Internet of Bodies (IoB) in transforming healthcare. From wearable devices to brain-machine interfaces, IoB is at the forefront of personalized medicine and improved quality of life. Learn more about the benefit

The concept of the Internet of Bodies (IoB) is gaining momentum as technology advances, enabling the integration of devices with the human body to monitor and enhance various aspects of health and daily life. This article explores the current state, potential, and implications of IoB, while incorporating updated information from reliable sources. What is the Internet of Bodies? The Internet of…

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Следующим этапом развития технологий станет «Интернет тел»

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Следующим этапом развития технологий станет «Интернет тел»

«Интернет тел» или Internet of Bodies (IOB) – таким станет следующий этап развития технологий. Уже сейчас все больше людей носят с собой или вживляют технологические устройства. По мнению ученых, человечество все больше зависит от технологий и эта тенденция будет усиливаться.

Термин «Интернет тел» или IOB ввела в оборот академик и автор Andrea M. Matwyshyn в 2016 году. Она описывает его как «сеть человеческих тел, целостность и функциональность которых, хотя бы частично зависит от интернета и связанных с ним технологий, таких как искусственный интеллект».

Как мы смогли увидеть, за последние 8 лет эта тенденция только усиливается. По данным исследовательской ко��пании Mordor Intelligence, мировой рынок подключенных медицинских устройств будет стоить около $66 млрд в 2024 году и, как ожидается, достигнет более $132 млрд к 2029 году.

Сегодня можно выделить три типа устройств.

Первая категория – внешняя. Технологии первого поколения, такие как смарт-часы или кольца, стали основными способами отслеживания наших шагов или сердечного ритма. Смарт-очки, которые могут работать как камеры, наушники или мониторы, – еще один пример ранних IOB-устройств.

Второе поколение – внутреннее. Это устройства, которые люди принимают внутрь или имплантируют. Сюда относятся кардиостимуляторы с цифровыми имплантами, умные протезы, вживляемые в нервы и мышцы пациентов, или даже цифровые таблетки, которые передают медицинские данные.

Наконец, есть и третье поколение. Эти устройства полностью сливаются с телом, поддерживая при этом связь с внешним оборудованием и интернетом в режиме реального времени.

Одна из самых заметных компаний в этой области – Neuralink Илона Маска, которая разрабатывает интерфейс мозг-компьютер, или BCI. Чип размером с монету имплантируется под череп, где он считывает сигналы мозга человека и позволяет ему управлять внешними устройствами.

С одной стороны, считают ученые, электронные устройства несут огромную пользу людям. С другой стороны, есть и серьезные потенциальные риски в сфере конфиденциальности и этики. Проще говоря, устройства получают доступ к частной жизни людей, имея возможность шпионить за человеком и манипулировать им. Более того, пользователь попадает в зависимость не только от гаджетов, но и от компанийs их производящих.  

– По мере того как биты и тела сливаются воедино, а человеческая плоть становится постоянно связанной с аппаратным и программным обеспечением, а также алгоритмами, IOB будет проверять наши нормы и ценности как общества. В частности, IOB бросит вызов понятиям человеческой автономии и самоуправления, – резюмирует Andrea M. Matwyshyn.

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[sifytech]

The Internet of Behaviour: When Big Tech knows you better than you know yourself

Establishing a balance between innovation and ethical thinking will be the key to using IoB for good while protecting individual rights and autonomy. Read More. https://www.sify.com/iot/the-internet-of-behaviour-when-big-tech-knows-you-better-than-you-know-yourself/

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[missingn000]

Hi! Just wanted to say that I recently read your one piece works and really enjoyed them, especially as they tackled relationships I'd never been that invested in back when I was reading it. I've also had mixed feelings about one piece as a whole for years now, and your obvious enjoyment of it (combined with irl friends telling me to) have made me curious to get back into it at the very least. So thank you for writing and sharing!! Have a nice day/evening/night :)

hey!! sorry for my late-ass reply -- i'm so happy you enjoyed my one piece fics!! one piece been a blast to write for, and i'm having fun tackling unique or under-explored dynamics (this theme will continue with my other wips...my current main op wip has ONE fic in the ao3 tag. help me.) i hope you give one piece another shot! it's truly an amazing series, i'm constantly marveled by the characterization and worldbuilding. thank YOU for reading!! <333

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[tardiskater]

okay but like is there a fic that is more tragic then remus' canon? because like I think it's pretty damn hard to beat growing up alone because you were bitten when you were five and are afraid of hurting anyone, going to school during the start of a war, being thrown straight into fighting with your best friends as newly graduated teenagers, losing trust in eachother and coming home more and more tired, 'three' of your best friends dying all in one day and your boyfriend being the traitor who gets sent to askaban, having to survive alone for the next twelve years and endure the moons alone for the first time as a child because your pack is dead, becoming a teacher at the same school you grew up in and having to endure the ghosts of your past while trying to make a better future, having your deads best friends son be in your class who you saw on the day they were born but haven't seen since James and Lily's death, finding out that your traitorous ex boyfriend has escaped from prison and is near the school, finding out that one of your old best friends is still alive and that your ex boyfriend was never the traitor, reuniting with your ex boyfriend and feeling sixteen again, being thrown from the only job you have ever loved because you've been exposed as a werewolf, fighting in the second war with your boyfriend only to have him die a mear two years after you finally got him back, picking up the pieces and trying to find love again, marrying the cousin of your former boyfriend, having a child with her and then dying in the final battle of a war you've been fighting your whole life and being unable to see your son growing up.