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Young Justice: Torch Song

Warning, Spoilers Ahead…

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 The return of Young Justice begins with the release of the first two issues of the prequel comic.

Let’s begin…

My boy Conner is on the cover.  Along with Miss Martian.  Can we please end this unhealthy relationship?  Both Conner and Megan need to expand their circle of friends and, more importantly, romantic partners. Preferably in a non-obsessive capacity.

The issues are titled “Torch Songs”. That doesn’t sound promising for the duo’s continued relationship.

The Watchtower, Team Year 6: August 8.

Miss Martian, Beast Boy, and a non-paralyzed Batgirl are at the Watchtower.

Superboy arrives. Megan appears excited until Superboy states “Huh. Didn’t know you’d be on this mission.”

Yeah, I’d say the reunion from last season’s finale didn’t last long.

Batgirl begins the mission briefing: Psimon has returned to the United States. Batgirl, Superboy, Miss Martian, and Beast Boy are team Alpha.

Megan confidently states she can handle Psimon.

Conner questions: “How?! By putting him in another coma?!”

“No! I wouldn’t do that!”

“Meaning you wouldn’t do that again.”

“No…you’re right…I won’t do that…again.”

While the duo bicker, Babs ask Gar: “What’s up with them? I know things were bad after their breakup, but I thought they were friends again.”

“They were. They got along great on Mars. I even thought they were heading towards couplehood again.”

“Well, something’s changed because they don’t look like a couple now.”

If I had to guess, I would say once the adrenaline wore down, Conner realized he still couldn’t trust Megan.  Not only was Megan destroying the minds of villains she attempted to alter Conner’s free will and memories.  That doesn’t even include Megan’s season 1 molding and manipulation of Conner to fit into her fantasy life.

Very unhealthy relationship.

Shouldn’t Babs have a stronger reaction to the “you wouldn’t do that again” line?  Megan escaped any consequences of her mind-destroying spree.

Were the Justice League even aware of Megan’s actions?  I can’t believe they were or Batman would have evicted her from the team. DC has established Batman’s feelings on tampering with a person’s mind.  It would also cause great concern for J’onn J’onzz. Megan’s actions would not only violate J’onn’s personal and cultural ethics on the use of telepathy but it would also reinforce the initial misgivings he had of bringing a White Martian to Earth.

What about the Young Justice members – even the founders? Megan was warned about the misuse of her telepathic abilities in an early season one episode.  Even if the team overlooked Megan’s excessive use of her telepathic powers on villains, an assault on her fellow teammate would surely provoke a response.

Poor Arsenal suffered a PTSD flashback and Dick kicked him off the team.  How does Megan keep escaping from the consequences of her actions?

The Alpha team arrives in Hollywood at a classic film festival.  Megan has shape-changed into a human appearance, Babs is in civilian clothes, and Conner, true to form, is having nothing to do with subterfuge and is rocking the “Superboy” shirt. Gar has turned into a mouse and is hiding in one of Megan’s pockets.

Megan and Gar sneak into a panel that showcases an actress that appeared on the “Hello, Megan” show.

Conner has snuck into the auditorium and encourages Megan to ask a question: “M’gann, you’re the bravest woman I know. Are you really afraid to ask a question?”

Please, Greg Weisman, do not continue this relationship. It’s all I ask.

Megan asks about Marie Logan.  Gar admits Marie was his mother.

Megan thanks Conner for the encouragement: “Happy to help. I mean, ‘cuz…we’re still teammates. Just teammates.”

Babs, the only one actually working on the case, encounters Psimon. The other three Young Justice members are chatting with the actress when Psimon attacks.

Psimon projects the team – minus Babs – into the “Hello, Megan” show.  Starring Miss Martian as Megan.

Gar freaks out: “Oh my god! We’re trapped inside Hello, Megan!”

Conner disagrees: “No. We’re trapped inside M’Gann’s mind.”

Conner and Gar struggle while trapped inside Megan’s mind.

Babs doesn’t believe Psimon has the ability to trap Megan.

Psimon gloats: “All I did was guide her to a pocket of emotional safety hidden deep within her psyche. Now, Little Miss Powerful’s own insecurities keep her trapped there.”

Psimon then attacks Babs.

Gar realizes Megan needs Conner’s forgiveness to break free from the “Hello Megan” fantasy life.

Conner confides to Gar: “She tried to psychically mess with my memories…”

“Oh my god, Conner, that’s horrible!”

“Don’t overreact, when I caught her, she backed off immediately. She had the power to force things. She didn’t.”

“That doesn’t make it okay.”

Yeah, Conner, do no try to justify abuse!  I’ve known too many abused men and women and heard way too many variations of this type of justification.

Conner continues: “I know. That’s why we broke up. But c’mon, that was months ago. We’ve been through a whole alien invasion since then. She took full responsibility and apologized.”

“And you forgave her?”

“More or less. You know what? Fine. I’ll tell her I forgive her right now.”

“Conner, you don’t have to forgive her. But if you do, you have to mean it or…”

“Or she’ll know I’m faking ‘cuz she’s psychic.”

“She doesn’t have to be psychic. You two were together for five years. Long enough for her to know when you’re sincere.”

“So can you really forgive her or not?”

Megan sings a song lamenting her woes over her former relationship.

Conner confronts Megan: “I need to talk to my best friend. I need to tell her that I don’t know where were going or what’s going to happen but that I forgive her for anything and everything. And no matter where we go or what we do or who were with, I will always love her.”

“Really?”

“Really, that is, if she can forgive me.”

“We got so close on Mars, it scared me, and I pulled away. I’m sorry for that.”

The trio is freed from Megan’s fantasy life. Psimon has escaped.

Megan thanks Conner: “We’d have been stuck in that fantasy forever if not for you.”

“Hey, we’re a team, aren’t we?”

“Always.”

The issue ends with “Never the end”.

First, Conner’s apology/confession/forgiveness made me throw up in my mouth.  

If the genders were reversed, and the abuse was physical and not psychic, no one would support this pairing. See Hank Pym, who slapped Jan in the midst of a psychotic breakdown, and has never been forgiven by the fans or the comic book creators.

Megan attempted to forcibly alter Conner’s mind out of pure self-interest, convenience, and cowardness, and’s it just hand-waved away.

“Bravest woman I know”. Please, Megan has consistently shown an avoidance to truth and accountability for her own actions.

Second, the “that I don’t know where were going or what’s going to happen but that I forgive her for anything and everything. And no matter where we go or what we do or who were with” along with the “never the end” tagline.  Please do not give us another season of “will Conner and Megan get back together or not?” Season two was more than sufficient for that storyline.

I can accept this ending if the “forgiveness” allows for a clean break, settles accounts between the two, and allows Conner and Megan operate as functional teammates with no sniping and longing looks between the two.

If the first two issues are setting up a full reconciliation between the duo, I will not be happy. I might be over sensitive to abuse justifications as I’ve sadly known so many victims of abuse but the Conner-Megan sends the wrong message to abuse victims.

Third, Conner – you’re absolute, for real, soulmate is on your team.  And it’s not Megan. His name is Tim Drake – he’s the slender boy in red. Check it out – expand your horizons.  TimKon for life!

The cartoon debuts tomorrow. It will be interesting to see the time gap between the comic and the cartoon. So excited despite my mixed feelings over the prequel comic.

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What Occurs the Computer That Continues You Alive also Put You In Prison?

Whilst Ross Compton’s Ohio domestic caught hearth remaining September,

The story he advised police was that he grabbed a few matters and rushed out of the residence, hurling necessities out a bed room window he broke open together with his cane earlier than scrambling out himself.

Police, although, have been suspicious. Compton’s few things had included a Computer, a suitcase packed with clothes and the charger for the external coronary heart pump that he needed to live on. It seemed unlikely that a fifty nine-year-antique guy with a pacemaker and a coronary heart pump would be capable of gathering all the one’s things and make it out of a burning residence alive.

But police were stumped on how exactly to make arson costs stick.

In the end, it was his pacemaker that did him in.

After acquiring a seek warrant for all of the electronic information stored in Compton’s pacemaker, police decided that his tool did not corroborate his tale. His coronary heart price, pacer call for and cardiac rhythms all counseled that Compton had no longer in reality quickly bundled up all his maximum prized possessions and left in a hurry as his residence went up in flames. closing month, with the assist of the pacemaker records, he turned into indicted on expenses of aggravated arson and coverage fraud.

His coronary heart price, paper call for and cardiac rhythms all counseled that Compton had no longer in reality quickly bundled up all his maximum prized possessions and left in a hurry as his residence went up in flames. closing month, with the assist of the pacemaker records, he turned into indicted on expenses of aggravated arson and coverage fraud.

Closing month, with the assist of the pacemaker records, he turned into indicted on expenses of aggravated arson and coverage fraud.

  Privateness issues are transferring beneath our pores and skin—now the gadgets that keep us alive and healthful Can also be used towards us within the court docket of law.

In 2014, a Canadian regulation firm used a patron’s Fitbit records to help make her case in a private injury claim, in a first-of-its-type approach.

In 2015, statistics from a Fitbit changed into used to undermine a girl’s rape declare. Now court instances regularly include proof gleaned from fitness trackers.

It makes sense.

The era we use is programmed to serve dual masters, folks that use it and those who make it. Sometimes, the interests of these two parties battle. Think Fb time out gay customers as a way to higher goal advertising or Yahoo scanning person emails on behalf of the federal authorities.

Think Fb time out gay customers as a way to higher goal advertising or Yahoo scanning person emails on behalf of the federal authorities.

However, Compton’s case breaks a new barrier—flesh. Whilst you can delete your Facebook account or go away your Fitbit at home in case you’re going someplace you’d instead now not be tracked, you can’t genuinely turn off your pacemaker. no longer handiest does deactivate a pacemaker require a physician, in a few instances medical doctors clearly refuse. What Happens While Privateness violations are devoted by way of devices inside people, gadgets that we can’t simply flip off through settings?

No longer handiest does deactivate a pacemaker require a physician, in a few instances medical doctors clearly refuse. What Happens While Privateness violations are devoted by way of devices inside people, gadgets that we can’t simply flip off through settings?

What Happens While Privateness violations are devoted by way of devices inside people, gadgets that we can’t simply flip off through settings?

“EFF is concerned that as era advances, the erosion of individual Privateness in in my opinion identifiable fitness records increases,” Stephanie Lacambra, the digital Frontier Foundation’s crook defense legal professional, said in an announcement to Gizmodo. “Americans shouldn’t need to make a desire between fitness and Privacy. We as a society fee our rights to hold Privateness over personal and medical facts, and compelling citizens to show over protected fitness statistics to law enforcement erodes those rights.”

“Americans shouldn’t need to make a desire between fitness and Privacy. We as a society fee our rights to hold Privateness over personal and medical facts, and compelling citizens to show over protected fitness statistics to law enforcement erodes those rights.”

Said in an announcement to Gizmodo. “Americans shouldn’t need to make a desire between fitness and Privacy. We as a society fee our rights to hold Privateness over personal and medical facts, and compelling citizens to show over protected fitness statistics to law enforcement erodes those rights.”

And compelling citizens to show over protected fitness statistics to law enforcement erodes those rights.”

There are extra than two hundred,000 humans within the US strolling around with pacemakers, and they aren’t the best ones with tiny computers inside of them. The insulin pumps that diabetics depend upon to maintain their blood sugar contain Computer chips. Thousands of people with Parkinson’s ailment depend upon chips embedded deep of their mind to manipulate violent tremors. Advanced prosthetics also increasingly more incorporate microprocessors that allow folks who wear them to transport more certainly.

Tech titans like Apple and Google are investing closely in health tech to allow us to not simplest gather information about our own our bodies, the However, proportion that statistics greater easily with people like docs. Privacy watchdogs have forged these forms of ventures as “scientific surveillance.”

The proportion that statistics greater easily with people like docs. Privacy watchdogs have forged these forms of ventures as “scientific surveillance.”

“If we’ve computer systems in our-our bodies designed to deal with us as adversaries, it amplifies all of the powers of inequality that can send us to prison alive” Ryan Calo, a regulation professor at the University of Washington who specializes in rising technology, stated that evidence from devices like pacemakers shouldn’t even be admissible in court. Like DNA proof before it, Calo said the danger of the use of it to wrongly implicate a person in a Prison is just too high.

Like DNA proof before it, Calo said the danger of the use of it to wrongly implicate a person in a Prison is just too high.

re’s an inclination to agree with that due to the fact something is recorded by means of a gadget it is gospel,” Calo said.

In Compton’s case, there is other evidence to suggest he dedicated thePrison: not most effective did he % up to a suitcase and numerous luggage of things earlier than he left the house, he had fuel on his clothes. Nevertheless, the medical statistics, which turned into analyzed with the aid of a heart specialist, represented “key portions of evidence” inside the case according to police.

Nevertheless, the medical statistics, which turned into analyzed with the aid of a heart specialist, represented “key portions of evidence” inside the case according to police.

“The concept that a random heart specialist is going that allows you to read the records in a pacemaker nicely sufficient to tell whether a person committed a criminal offense is so fantastic,” Calo stated. “there may be a threat in not knowledge what this records absolutely tells you.”

Calo stated that, at least for now, when it comes to medical devices and implants, he’s more concerned approximately hacking. The software is copyrightable, which means that manufacturers can save you customers from changing or maybe doing simple safety studies on it.

which means that manufacturers can save you customers from changing or maybe doing simple safety studies on it.

Meaning that in implants there may be regularly bits of code that even the ones making them cannot see. people have finished hacks via net linked gadgets like tea kettles and baby video display units. What if that hidden code had a backdoor that allowed a hacker to turn off your potential to show off your insulin pump?

What if that hidden code had a backdoor that allowed a hacker to turn off your potential to show off your insulin pump?

Just closing fall, Johnson & Johnson warned diabetic sufferers of an illness in one in all its insulin pumps that might theoretically permit such an assault. a few years in the past, former Vice chairman Dick Cheney opted to cast off the wi-fi functionality of his own heart, fearing a similar attack.

Former Vice chairman Dick Cheney opted to cast off the wi-fi functionality of his own heart, fearing a similar attack.

“There may be in reality is the possibility of ubiquitous sensors,” Calo stated. And the extra sensors there are, the more vulnerabilities in them that there are to take advantage of.

“There’s a bent to consider that due to the fact some thing is recorded by way of a machine it is gospel.” “If we have computers in our-our bodies designed to deal with us as adversaries, it amplifies all the powers of inequality,” technology fiction creator and Privateness activist Cory Doctorow these days informed Gizmodo.

Doctorow said he first started to worry approximately implantable era after attending an illustration by using MIT biomechatronics professor Hugh Herr. Herr, a double amputee himself, become leaping round on stage to expose off a new bionic leg that might run, climb and dance.

It became a feat of engineering—something that could provide folks that had misplaced limbs the opportunity to do things that have been previously unthinkable, like climb a mountain.

However, Doctorow thought of memories approximately the catastrophes that had passed off When automobile mortgage lenders began genuinely turning off people’s motors after they failed to make a fee.

like, climb a mountain. However, Doctorow thought of memories approximately the catastrophes that had passed off When automobile mortgage lenders began genuinely turning off people’s motors after they failed to make a fee.

A device set up in the motors allowed lenders to not only flip them off after a ignored charge But monitor their location. One female becomes left stranded Even as looking to get her daughter to a clinic throughout an allergies assault.

Others located their vehicle suddenly indisposed Even as at stoplights or even Whilst riding on the toll road. the one’s vehicle mortgage catastrophes, of the path, mainly affected excessive-danger consumers that could only wrangle subprime loans.

Others located their vehicle suddenly indisposed Even as at stoplights or even Whilst riding on the toll road. the one’s vehicle mortgage catastrophes, of the path, mainly affected excessive-danger consumers that could only wrangle subprime loans.

“What in case you leave out a charge and abruptly your leg switches off,” Doctorow said. “Or the authorities turns you off and says, ‘We’ve immobilized you, we’re coming to get you.’”

This may appear a chunk a ways-fetched, However, payment is usually a barrier to getting access to crucial services. Hospitals even Occasionally weigh whether an affected person pays for hospital therapy in figuring out whether to maintain existence aid.

Technology is each progress and peril. Each possibility it brings ought to be balanced with the results of the brand new vulnerabilities it creates with them. It may give us greater corporation over our own our bodies. Or It is able to land us in Prison.

Closing week, Ross Compton pleaded no longer guilty to setting his home on the fireplace. He instructed a nearby Television station that the research had “long gone manner out of manage” and that he had “no purpose whatsoever to burn down my house.” His hearing is set for later this month.

In an interview with the Washington Publish, the Middletown, Ohio officer who responded to the scene of Compton’s alleged Prison marveled at just how useful that pacemaker records had been.

“It became lots extra informative than we notion,” he stated.

It became the first time officers in Middleton had trusted pacemaker statistics to assist make a case. Considering then, they have got used pacemaker data again. Two times.