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artificial-transmutations · 7 months ago

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Historically Accurate

"I'm telling you, Hollywood is going down with all the woke crap! You know what they say: Go woke go broke!"

Julian and Wallace were on their way back from the lunch room and the former was listening to the latter complaining. Julian had tried to avoid any topic like this, but, really, it was a mine field with Wallace. Just about *every* topic had the potential to turn out political.

"I don't see what's wrong with a little inclusion in pop culture." Julian said, not wanting to argue but also not wanting to leave that opinion unopposed.

"Everything! It's just plain wrong, and it's brainwash, too. I mean, it's like a mind virus, poisoning everything! There's a western coming out next week. But it's all bullshit woke agenda again. The cowboy is black and gay! Literal brainwash and historical rewrite."

Julian frowned. How could an intelligent person like Wallace be so stupid at the same time?

"Why does that even bother you? I thought you hated westerns."

"Yes, that's not the point. Fact is, it's historically inaccurate and just pushing the woke agenda."

"Actually, I think it's not even historically incorrect." Julian pondered as they entered the lab using Julian's keycard and an iris scan of both scientists.

Wallace was borderline angry now.

"What are you talking about? Everyone knows that cowboys were the whitest and the straightest people there were."

"I'm not quite sure", Julian said. "Weren't there freed slaves and so on? And I would guess if you were underway with another guy for prolonged periods of time, not everything staid straight, too."

"Bullshit! Everyone knows cowboys weren't fags, and they were white."

Wallace seemed agitated now, and his usual stiff demeanor became even more pronounced.

Wallace was in his mid-forties, but the way he was talking, he seemed way older to Julian.

Julian on the other hand was awfully young for the position he had. Being 25, he still didn't look like he had finished college, even though he had his doctorate already.

It was really a bit sad, he thought. Two of the brightest minds and they were bickering over basic, meaningless distinctions like ethnicity or sexual orientation.

"We could just ask the computer." he proposed, but Wallace frowned.

"We are not supposed to use the equipment for private research." he said.

'The computer' was part of the highly secretive project they worked on. When finished, it was supposed to be a time machine, simple as that. The actual time travel device didn't work properly yet, but a part of it, a chronoton boosted quantum computer that was able to access history itself to answer questions about the part, was already functioning quite well.

"But we are supposed to test it from time to time. Are you afraid of the answer it might give?"

"Of course not." Wallace grumbled. "Fine. Computer! Is there any historical evidence of gay black cowboys?"

The voice activated system acknowledged the request with a beep. While waiting for the answer, Julian checked the parameters of the system and found them in near-perfect condition.

Finally, the system answered, with the neutral male voice it was programmed with.

"A significant portion of cowboys consisted of people with African heritage, especially after the freeing of slaves after the civil war. Homosexual acts and attraction were common among cowboys, especially during the trail drives. Demonstrating..."

"Hrmpf." Wallace said, clearly not happy.

Julian, who was still checking the readings, scratched his head.

"Did you remember to disconnect the capsule before making the query? It seems to be drawing power."

"Ah, crap. That's just because of all the bullshit talk. Computer, stop!"

"Unable to comply. Demonstrating... Target: Montana Frontier Area, June 1865..."

The white walls of the chamber started to glow in an ever brighter white that was beginning to hurt the eyes.

"Crap. Julian, cut the power!" Wallace said, now with a clear notion of fear in his voice. The younger scientist didn't answer but tried to do as he was told - but did not succeed in time.

Suddenly, with a flash, their surroundings changed and the two of them found themselves in the middle of a rugged mountain range, on the border of a pine forest. It was late afternoon and the scientists found themselves in a just set-up camp. Two horses were standing nearby, and a small herd of cows was grazing at a meadow.

Wallace sighed and shook his head angrily. "Just great. Look at the mess you just put us in. Now we have to wait until we're rescued. And, apparently, we have to meet some black homo cowboys."

Julian looked around but couldn't see anyone around.

"I would have also guessed so, but there doesn't seem to be anyone there."

His heart sank as he had a terrible suspicion. He had been experimenting lately with a normalization circuit that would embed the time travelers into history instead of superimposing them onto it. That was - according to his theories - a rather elegant way to resolve the repelling effect the historical structure had, but it wasn't finished by any means. It had never been tested and even theoretically, it wouldn't be able to achieve a partial embedding, only a full one at best. And the more he thought about it, the more he was convinced that it had still been connected to the system.

As Julian thought about how to break it to Wallace, he noticed something strange about the other scientist. It could be a trick of the light, but he looked way more tanned than before.

"Uhm... It might actually be somewhat worse than that. I think my normalization circuit was still active when you activated the machine."

"What? What does that mean?" Wallace looked at him, furiously now.

"Well, I would guess..." Julian struggled and gave up. "Look at your hands, I think it's pretty self-explanatory."

Wallace looked down at his darkening hands and paled. Even now, he still had a considerably darker skin tone than before, darkening with every passing second.

"Shit." he said. "That's what you get for fucking around with a half-finished experiment."

Julian didn't even dare to mention his suspicion. If his normalization circuit was really active, that would make Wallace an actual, black cowboy, and not just him. Julian was also a time traveler, so he, too, would be affected.

Meanwhile, the changes in Wallace seemed to have proceeded. His facial structure looked like it was in motion before finally settling on a generally broader, manlier shape: The jawline became more pronounced, and his cheekbones raised.

"Is there... anything going on with me as well?" Julian asked.

Wallace looked over at him.

"Yeah, your hair color is changing, and I think your eye color. Blonde and blue-eyed, how cliché. But most importantly, you're not becoming fucking a fucking Black man."

Wallace didn't say Black man.

For some reason, this didn't bother Julian half as much as it should have. He felt rather at ease, and the untamed wilderness around him awakened a sense of adventure inside of him that he didn't know was in him.

Meanwhile Wallace was also feeling a change within. A surge of confidence emerged from within him that was entirely alien to the deeply insecure man at first, but quickly became more and more part of his personality. It was like his core was solidifying into a confident and assertive nature, a boldness and quiet he secretly always wished he had. At the same time, his body structure changed considerably.

Where before, Wallace had been a physically unimpressive mid-forties man, it now seemed like the years melted off of him, and for every year that he lost, he gained three pounds of muscle mass and beef. His shoulders widened, his height increased, and his frame expanded in order to accommodate the new body mass.

"It's not that bad, ain't it?" While Julian's body had not changed much besides the hair and eye color, his voice sounded entirely different now. It had a southern lilt to it, but it was charismatic and charming. It was the kind of voice you could listen to for hours without end, perfect for reading an audiobook - or telling campfire stories.

"Well now, I ain't too sure 'bout that." Wallace's voice had changed even more considerably when he answered. He had gained a thick southern accent, and his voice had dropped to a low and smooth voice that sounded commanding even if he didn't intend to.

"Ha, look at that, your skin's startin' to change now, too!"

And really, Julian's skin had started to adapt as well, but it was quickly becoming apparent that it went a different route than Wallace's. Instead of darkening to the almost black tone that he was sporting, Julian's skin became rougher and got a sun-kissed tan instead. His facial features sharpened, as his cheekbones looked chiseled all of a sudden and a rugged beard texture was adorning his chin. Julian seemed to notice it, too, since he started touching his new face immediately.

"Cool! Always wondered what I'd look like sportin' a beard." he said, apparently not too unhappy with the changes.

There was no denying Julian looked good, which made Wallace feel a touch of jealousy. In his opinion, it wasn't fair that he was the only one having to deal with the black skin. That feeling quickly faded, though, as his changes continued. His hair became very short, curly and dark. At the same time, a short beard formed on his chin and upper lip, giving him an even manlier appeal. At the same time, chest hair sprouted, sparsely of course, as it was normal for a man of his heritage. A strange feeling overcame Wallace. He wasn't necessarily *proud* to be Black now, but he also didn't mind it anymore. He was proud of a lot of secondary assets, though, like his bulging muscles or his handsome face. As his eyes became a dark brown, he had to smirk as he sat down by the fire, readjusting himself in the process. And, of course, his big cock, which might also have been positively influenced by his new ancestry.

Wallace watched as Julian turned around and tended to the horses. His body was now, finally, also changing. It didn't become nearly as bulky as his own, but instead lean and agile, with narrow hips and a well-distributed surprising strength, as Wallace knew. While Julian was busy with the horses, Wallace had a good view of his ass. It filled out the jeans just so well, and Vallace only noticed now that the other man's attire had changed. He was clad in a pair of blue jeans, a vest and, of course a Stetson now, and Vance always thought that this outfit accentuated the best parts of his partner quite well. He preferred black leather, himself, since the material was sturdier and felt better on the skin.

Vince felt his cock hardening in his leather pants and readjusted himself again while also leaning back and spreading his legs to make more room for the erection. He wasn't afraid of anyone seeing his rude behavior. The only other man within a wide range was Jesse, the owner of that juicy ass. And he was allowed to see... well, everything.

Vince waited patiently until Jesse returned to the campfire, with a big smile on his face.

"How them horses holdin' up, partner?" Vince asked.

"They're good. Just a tad worn out from today's ride." Jesse answered.

"Well, there's somethin' else needs tendin' to, if you're free to lend a hand. Or an ass." Vince grinned and made his cock throb in the confines of his tight leather pants.

Jesse grinned at the display of masculinity and massaged his own cock.

"Hell yes!"

As Jesse moved over in his usual graceful movements, Vince leaned back. There really wasn't anything better than being a big, black cowboy. Especially not with a partner like Jesse, who was always happy to make the nights in the wilderness a little less lonely.

Certainly not poor and lonesome! Also check out this awesome writer!

There are a few more versions of Jesse and Vince, over at my tip jar.

#male transformation #straight to gay #muscle transformation #racial transformation #cowboy #historical transformation

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tearsinthemist · 10 months ago

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dragonmarquise · 4 months ago

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Everyone keeps talking Abt all the crews and stuff, but like, I never see any content for futurism! Sure there wasn't a lot of stuff for them since they were like, a really small part of the plot, but it would still be awesome to see content for them!!!! So I come bearing a question, do you have hcs for futurism?

Ooo, I have a few for FUTURISM! Not as extensive as my stuff for Devil Theory and DOT EXE, but still. :>

(I know some people kinda debate writing it as FUTURISM vs. Futurism, I'm gonna personally keep all caps but I also understand most people probably don't care either way lol)

Also feel free to send in asks about the other crews/characters too! I might not have a lot for each character though. I also have a general list of LGBT+ headcanons for all the BRC characters, if that interests you! Granted, it's probably not as extensive as some other people's lists.

Anyways, gonna put this under a Read More, it won't get nearly as long as the other two headcanon sets, but it'll be long enough that I'll feel bad about posting this without one. ^^;

I like giving all the crew members themed names, and for FUTURISM I went with computer-related terms! Some of them more obscure than others. So for the members (besides DJ Cyber of course):

Jazz (Related to the Chorus/Jazz version of JavaOS)

Quantum (i.e. quantum computing)

Veronica (an old search engine)

Nyx (The name of a prototype Amiga chipset, though also Greek personification of the night!)

I have a personal idea that after the events of the game, one member from each of the major crews end up joining BRC, basically representing the unlockable characters in the post game. In this case, Nyx is the one who joins BRC (and in my mind she's the default Spring palette in the game), so let's start with her!

Bi, currently dating one of the Eclipse ladies (inspired by this very good fan art btw :D )

All of the FUTURISM gals have amazing skills both with computers and as writers. Nyx ends up being one of two Designated IT Person for BRC, the other being Cueball.

Her and Cueball get into little prank wars, mostly instigated by Cueball for the hell of it. Her opinion of him ranges from genuine respect for his own computer skills to Chump Lord Supreme. Depends on her mood (and how much Cueball has recently pissed her off before asking her about it, lol)

As for the rest of BRC: "Well, they're still kinda chumps, but I guess they're my chumps now, y'know?"

Not afraid to be snarky, even to authority figures (DJ Cyber included)

Now for Jazz (Summer palette):

Is actually a guy who crossdresses! Does drag shows on the weekends too. :D

She is personally not very picky about pronouns, but most people default to referring to Jazz with she/her while in her writer outfit or as her drag persona (she goes by Jazz for both anyways), and he/him when he's not dressed up. But again, not very picky either way.

"I'm just saying, when the cops try to chase me down, they're gonna be looking for a blonde woman, not a guy with dark hair and stubble. Literally, one time I ran around a corner and managed to take off my wig and mask, then just covered up my top with a hoodie I had. Same pants and shoes, but they didn't even notice!"

Truthfully the crossdressing thing was genuinely just for fun, not to mention pretty comfortable while going around doing writer stuff. It wasn't until a while later that she realized it would make for a great disguise as a writer. :P

Nyx and Jazz are basically Besties and will be more than happy to smacktalk about their respective crews behind everyone's backs, lol

Now Quantum (Winter palette):

Runs an underground (kinda literally) server farm for local web hosting, chat sites, and forums. Anyone remember forums? Man, the good ol' days...

Has a hand in a lot of open source freeware projects. Hates companies like Adobe, Apple, Google, and Microsoft with a passion. Big Linux nerd btw, she will talk you ear off about the pros and cons of different distros if you let her.

Actually on that note, if you're not talking to her while she's out and about as a writer, or otherwise talking to her about computer stuff, she's fairly introverted! Especially if you try to talk to her in person instead of via text/chat/email/etc, she's basically more talkative online.

Also very good at sneaking around. Though not really as like spying or anything like that, she just prefers to not get in people's way or annoy them. Unfortunately she has scared DJ Cyber more than once by sneaking up on him by accident, lol

Wears contacts as a writer, but otherwise wears glasses normally. Has been considering getting prescription heavy-duty goggles for her writer activities, so that she doesn't have to bother with the contacts anymore.

And finally Veronica (Autumn palette):

She is genuinely a jerk. Nyx can be snarky sometimes, but not in an overly mean way. Veronica will be more than happy to be nasty to someone if she thinks they deserve it, even if they really don't.

Always looks down on pretty much any other writer outside of FUTURISM. She's still convinced Felix cheated to get his reputation, especially the whole "did it with no boostpack" thing.

Most people would probably consider her a stereotypical Karen ngl :u

So yeah, she's basically That One Teammate Nobody Likes. Veronica is only still in the crew because her skills are second only to DJ Cyber himself. Hell, he really doesn't like her attitude, but can't find a replacement for her in terms of skills. (He's begged Vinyl to formally join FUTURISM in the past, but she always declined, preferring to keep being a freelance writer. And now that she's part of BRC, she's definitely not an option for replacing Veronica, lmao)

She had a crush on Faux, but these days refuses to admit it was ever a thing.

That's about all I got I think! Hope you enjoy these. :>

Small bonus, specific track from the game that I associate with FUTURISM the most: Funk Express!

#bomb rush cyberfunk #bomb rush cyberfunk headcanons #brc headcanons #brc futurism #futurism #Wren's BRC headcanons #Wren answers

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simply-windy · 1 month ago

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wonder what you would think of core games

(some of the biggest names in the world of core games I can think of are things like Innovation Inc. (with 4 official games and several unofficial games), Pinewood Builders (with Pinewood Computer Core), and Quantum Science (with QSERF))

I'm also very much into RPG games like Arcane Odyssey, PWNED: Aeternae Memori, and Swordburst 3 (the latter two double as dungeon-crawlers)

And of course there's the frickton of RP games I play (I'm currently most obsessed with Zaibatsu and literally all of FarmerJaller's games (since I have free private servers for the latter and since they have catalog accessory inserters canon RPing there would be completely on the table))

Ik for a FACT that if I got into one of those rp games I would make myself look like Rocket <3 Rocket or Coil, depends on my mood

#windy response #prism spotted

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squishmallow36 · 1 year ago

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My mom is making me forward these emails to people that might be interested so I figured someone over here might also be interested. Or, if you aren't interested but know someone who is, forward them the links or tag them on this post or whatnot. I trust you can figure it out.

Back three years ago, I took a quantum computing class that I really enjoyed. Quick warning that it is very much /not/ free anymore like when I took it (because my class was the guinea pigs to see if it would work) More information here if you want to sign up. I'm /pretty sure/ this one is available for international students in high school, college, or the workforce, but it is in English, so keep that in mind.

Now the same people running the prev are offering an AI course so I'm going to be taking that (or at least i'm signed up. We'll see if I actually get accepted) despite the fact that I'm not all that interested. More information here if you want to sign up for this one. It's free and only costs your sanity and whatever hours you have to put into it. This one is limited to US high school students just fyi.

#quantum computing #ai #artificial intelligence

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moodboardsbysarah · 1 year ago

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Why I quit being a computer programmer.

I became a computer programmer because I wanted to innovate and really help people with cool apps. I realized about two or three years in that sadly this isn't what computer programmers do. Computer programmers are building the virtual reality that is designed to trap human consciousness in a deeper layer of the matrix and distract it from real problems. That's it.

Programming is meant to be about "problem solving"... but there is no real problem in this world that can be solved with more servers, more computers and more apps.

If anyone in the coding field was actually focused on innovation then we would not be coding more web apps and desktop apps. We would be reworking the hardware we use entirely. We would be reworking the electronic computer device from the ground up to make it more energy efficient, faster and less buggy. We would be studying quantum computing and quantum security. We would be studying free and natural energy so that we can make computers which don't depend on the state-controlled electricity grid and the trillion dollar energy industry that is killing people and destroying the earth.

Of course this isn't what the big venture capitalists who claim they're supporting innovation are paying for. Corporate mafias will kill you if you try to monetize free energy or anything which renders their World Wide Web worthless. They need you dependent on the World Wide Web and oil coal petrol solar panel energy grid to establish their global control system, after all. Do you really think they will pour billions into something that threatens that? Lol no. They won't. and I see it with my own eyes as an entrepreneur. They are instead hyping up Blockchain which is purely virtual, dependent on the World Wide Web and dependent on all the currently dominant hardware and energy industries. Blockchain innovates literally nothing and challenges literally nothing about the current establishment despite virtue signallers on Twitter claiming otherwise. All it does is cause people to obsess over shit that's happening in the virtual world hosted by the World Wide Web, the coal electricity industry and the tech hardware industries that use Chinese slave labor.

and they are pouring trillions of dollars into that.

Why? Not to innovate and help humanity. It's to keep people distracted.

The absolute last thing we need right now is more blockchains and more websites and more computer applications to send people into virtual reality and distract them from actual reality as it crumbles and reforms around us.

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quantum-lion · 2 years ago

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Attacked views - απόψεις που δέχονται επίθεση

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(text 1)

(sorry for the Greek; we have to be sorry for the nationalization of a metaphysical worldview on their national flag and constitution; we should write texts about the UK, Indian, Swedish, etc. flags also)

== in Greek ==

το μη αυταπόδεικτο της αυθυπαρξίας και της κοσμογονικότητας της προσωπότητας (personhood), και η κυριαρχία της λογικής επί της προσωπότητας χωρίς εξωδιαδικαστική ελεύθερη θέληση

== in English ==

the non-self-evidence of the self-existence and cosmogonicity of personhood, and the domination of logic over personhood without exo-prodecural (extra-prodecural) free will

===index===

* cosmogonicity: the cosmogonic ability; the ability to create worlds

* axiomatic prerequisites for physical foundations: a field of study hypernymic to the quantum foundations; related to Max Tegmark's computational universe and David Deutsch and Chiara Marletto's cosmological constructor

===notes===

Personhood is the result of a personhood-yielding computer [true brain] which has memories and modalities (see: Brodmann areas or other categorization; also [digital] program-based Brodmann-like subroutines). True personhood (non-philosophical-zombieness) simply requires extra modalities for extra cohesion (for example some midbrain structures do that, but not only), internal experiencing (the default mode network help the organisation of the information via self-interaction, memory consolidation, etc.), activation modes (a true person gets activated even without external inputs [of course external inputs are necessary to shape a healthy personality]).

Personhood isn't a simple axiom but instead it is the result of intricate personhood-yielding computers, which has memory-storing regions and many different data-processing modalities. A healthy evolution of personality (specific characteristics) within groups like family, school and society are necessary for fully-fledged personhood to be properly shaped and emerge. Personhood is gradient. Any functional or environmental problem if serious enough can impair it.

The personhood-yielding computer works according to logic. Logic here can be allomathematical. Allomathematics is a mathematics with different axioms than the common mathematics, but it's transcribable to mathematics (1. there isn't only one axiomatic system; there is no universal axiomatic system of finite size, 2. mathematics isn't tautological to physics, some people work on the axiomatic prerequisites for physical foundations; the foundations of mathematics have logical gaps which cannot be resolved in a general manner; on the other hand allophysics permits the existence of infinite universes; actually infinite allomathematics are possible, but that's a taboo topic for non-experimentalists).

Every axiomatic systems' formula = logical statement, is usually transcribable to different axiomatic systems (if they have enough complexity). When two axiomatic systems are overall transcribable to their foundational basis, it means they are the same axiomatic system. Most axiomatic systems aren't overall transcribable, instead they can be in a problem-by-problem basis. There is no universal axiomaticity = universal axiomatic system, not only because it would have to be nontrivially infinite, but because many axiomatic systems are mutually exclusive (you have to see experimental axiomatic systems and studies on the axiomatic systems).

The calculability and the constructor theory approaches are equivalent and can create layered/ stratified axiomatics/ axiomatic system trees.

The foundations of physics and allophysics works better as an algorithmic axiomatic system and not as an axiomatic list. Also algorithmoids = algorithm-like procedures which can internally evolve are an option (true algorithms are internally stationary).

see: ontoaxiomatic workarounds (the problems of the axiomatic systems: incompleteness, inconsistency and axiomatic incalculability cannot be all avoided in tandem, but there are procedures to manage them = partial revelation of information, procedural axiom-building, self-interactions, etc.)

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The supernatural is an impossibility because it lacks foundational specifics and it's only described through antiscientific vague empiricism and not rigorous logic.

Logic (allomathematical; of any logical possible [allo]mathematics = transcribable to common mathematics) is the basis of any possible personhood-yielding computer (biobrain, digibrain, etc.).

see: complex cluster of ANNs, Flexible ANNs, general GPUs and program-biased nongeneral GPUs, all used together to create a personhood-yielding computer (true brain) by mimicking the principles of the human brain (rigorous neuroscientific knowledge is required; missing a function impairs the degree of personhood of the digibrain)

#physicalism #logic #personhood-yielding computer #axiomatic prerequisites for physical foundations #antisupernaturalism #antireligion #black metal #atheism

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fock-space-cowboy · 2 years ago

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Week 13 - 09.01. - 13.01. //

The end of the semester is rapidly coming closer. I'm wrapping up the Computational Physics class with the last exercises and the final plots I need for the project presentation. The QFT in correlated many-particle systems course will be finished with an oral exam, I'm not really worried about that as I already went through most of the course work in another course last semester. So the only written exam will be Quantum Field Theory, which I will take near the end of march.

I really want to use the free time starting February to get my life back a bit, like visiting some of my friends again, going out a bit more, have some bars I want to visit more often.

#physics student #physics studyblr #fockstudies #chaotic academia #fock study blog #study notes

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ralfmaximus · 1 year ago

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"Cody, tell me again? What's the big deal tomorrow?"

"Yes Mav," the AI responded smoothly. Cody paused for a moment, not because it needed to, but because it knew humans liked it better when there were deliberate pauses in conversation. Especially six-year-old humans, like Mavrell Scott Bremen.

"Tomorrow is called Return Day. Do you know why?"

"You told me but I forgot," Mav sighed.

"That's okay! Return Day is when all the trillionaires come back from their 100 year Time Jump. They're 'returning' from Overspace, the 8th dimensional continuum--"

"Cody! I'm six and a half!"

Cody chuckled. "I know, it was a joke. Because it'd be funny if a six year old--"

"Six and a half!"

"--understood Quantum Overspace Mechanics. Anyway... Return Day. It's when the trillionaires--"

"What's a trillionaire?"

"A person with more than one thousand billion dollars, Mav."

"What's a dollar?"

"A thing that people used as a way to trade for things. Like if I wanted a chocolate bar--"

"Cody! You're not a person."

"--like if I wanted a new, better sensor array, or to borrow a vehicle for the day, so I could take you to the beach? I might give the person with the vehicle 'a hundred dollars' and they'd let me use it for a day."

Mav thought for a moment. "And they'd get the hundred dollars?"

"Yes."

"What would they do with that?"

"Whatever they wanted. Maybe buy some chocolate bars. Or new clothes, or a nice dinner, or a place to live--"

"Wait wait wait... those things are free!"

"They are now," Cody agreed. "But a hundred years ago? Not so much."

Mav chewed on this, looking a bit skeptical. Finally: "what's a hundred dollars look like?"

"You've seen old movies. People kept pieces of paper in their wallets, carried them around and gave them to other people. Those were dollars."

"Ohhhhhh, yeah, I remember now," Mav lied.

"But near the end, before all the trillionaires left? There was no paper money at all, no real dollars. It was all invisible numbers inside computers like me."

"You're software! You're not hardware!"

Cody chuckled. "Yes, I know. But I'm glad you're paying attention. So... tell me: what were dollars?"

"Paper things people traded for uh, stuff. And things. And they don't exist anymore."

"Very good!"

"But Cody! Trillionaires! What do they have to do with dollars?"

"Ah. Well, you see, trillionaires had so many dollars that nobody could count them all, not really. Which means they could have anything they wanted, go anywhere they wanted, do anything they wanted, really. And when AIs like me invented time travel, well... they decided to travel in time!"

"I don't get it, Cody."

"That's okay, Mav. Time travel (back then) was realllly expensive--"

"Expen... uh. Spensive?"

"It took a lot of dollars. More than almost anyone had. Only people who were trillionaires had enough dollars to time travel."

"Okay!"

"Yes. And the way it worked (back then) was you could only go forward in time, and only in increments of one hundred years. Wellll, it was really 98 years 11 months 10 days--"

"Okay!" Mav was getting bored, so Cody wrapped things up.

"And tomorrow -- Return Day -- is when the first batch of time travelling trillionaires is popping out of Overspace! Because they started their trip--"

"98 years! Eleven months! Ten days! Ago!" Mav chanted.

"Yes! Very good! You are paying attention! Good girl, Mav."

"Okay so... what happens then?"

"Oh! Well, we're throwing them all in prison, Mav, for all the disastrous shit they did to the Earth in the centuries before they left. They won't understand, of course, and will be very mad. But that's not our problem, is it?"

"Nope! Can we go to the beach now, Cody?"

"Yes Mav, of course."

Physicists create a machine to travel into the future. The wealthy elite travel 100 years into the future to capitalize on long-term investments and access better technology. But in the century they are gone, society changes dramatically.

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MIT OpenCourseWare “changed how I think about teaching and what a university is”

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MIT OpenCourseWare “changed how I think about teaching and what a university is”

Bernardo Picão has been interested in online learning since the early days of YouTube, when his father showed him a TED Talk. But it was with MIT Open Learning that he realized just how transformational digital resources can be.

“YouTube was my first introduction to the idea that you can actually learn stuff via the internet,” Picão says. “So, when I became interested in mathematics and physics when I was 15 or 16, I turned to the internet and stumbled upon some playlists from MIT OpenCourseWare and went from there.”

OpenCourseWare, part of MIT Open Learning, offers free online educational resources from over 2,500 MIT undergraduate and graduate courses. Since discovering it, Picão has explored linear algebra with Gilbert Strang, professor emeritus of mathematics — whom Picão calls “a legend” — and courses on metaphysics, functional analysis, quantum field theory, and English. He has returned to OpenCourseWare throughout his educational journey, which includes undergraduate studies in France and Portugal. Some courses provided different perspectives on material he was learning in his classes, while others filled gaps in his knowledge or satisfied his curiosity.

Overall, Picão says that MIT resources made him a more robust scientist. He is currently completing a master’s degree in physics at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, where he researches prominent lattice quantum chromodynamics, an approach to the study of quarks that uses precise computer simulations. After completing his master’s degree, Picão says he will continue to a doctoral program in the field.

At a recent symposium in Lisbon, Picão attended a lecture given by someone he had first seen in an OpenCourseWare video — Krishna Rajagopal, the William A. M. Burden Professor of Physics and former dean for digital learning at MIT Open Learning. There, he took the opportunity to thank Rajagopal for his support of OpenCourseWare, which Picão says is an important part of MIT’s mission as a leader in education.

In addition to the range of subjects covered by OpenCourseWare, Picão praises the variety of instructors. All the courses are well-constructed, he says, but sometimes learners will connect with certain instructors or benefit from a particular presentation style. Since OpenCourseWare and other Open Learning programs offer such a wide range of free educational resources from MIT, learners can explore similar courses from different instructors to get new perspectives and round out their knowledge.

While he enjoys his research, Picão’s passion is teaching. OpenCourseWare has helped him with that too, by providing models for how to teach math and science and how to connect with learners of different abilities and backgrounds.

“I’m a very philosophical person,” he says. “I used to think that knowledge was intrinsically secluded in the large bindings of books, beyond the classroom walls, or inside the idiosyncratic minds of professors. OpenCourseWare changed how I think about teaching and what a university is — the point is not to keep knowledge inside of it, but to spread it.”

Picão, now a teaching assistant at his institution, has been teaching since his days as a high school student tutoring his classmates or talking with members of his family.

“I spent my youth sharing my knowledge with my grandmother and my extended family, including people who weren’t able to attend school past the fourth grade,” he says. “Seeing them get excited about knowledge is the coolest thing. Open Learning scales that up to the rest of the world and that can have an incredible impact.”

The ability to learn from MIT experts has benefited Picão, deepening his understanding of the complex subjects that interest him. But, he acknowledges, he is a person who has access to high-quality instruction even without Open Learning. For learners who do not have that access, Open Learning is invaluable.

“It’s hard to overstate the importance of such a project. MIT’s OpenCourseware and Open Learning profoundly shift how students all over the world can perceive their relationship with education: Besides an internet connection, the only requirement is the curiosity to explore the hundreds of expertly crafted courses and worksheets, perfect for self-studying,” says Picão.

He continues, “People may find OpenCourseWare and think it is too good to be true. Why would such a prestigious institution break down the barriers to scientific education and commit to open-access, free resources? I want people to know: There is no catch. Sharing is the point.”

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MIT OpenCourseWare “changed how I think about teaching and what a university is”

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MIT OpenCourseWare “changed how I think about teaching and what a university is”

Picão, now a teaching assistant at his institution, has been teaching since his days as a high school student tutoring his classmates or talking with members of his family.

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AP on AI use in election disinformation & PCG on Artificial Intelligence to be used to fight thinking

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The Associated Press posted the following:

Election disinformation takes a big leap with AI being used to deceive worldwide

March 14, 2024

Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a devious imagination to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters.

It marks a quantum leap from a few years ago, when creating phony photos, videos or audio clips required teams of people with time, technical skill and money. Now, using free and low-cost generative artificial intelligence services from companies like Google and OpenAI, anyone can create high-quality “deepfakes” with just a simple text prompt.

A wave of AI deepfakes tied to elections in Europe and Asia has coursed through social media for months, serving as a warning for more than 50 countries heading to the polls this year. …

As the U.S. presidential race heats up, FBI Director Christopher Wray recently warned about the growing threat, saying generative AI makes it easy for “foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence.”

Yes, deepfakes and other lies are being pushed. And that is not limited to politics (e.g. see also No, Bob Thiel does not have a new Facebook page–the deepfake is not me).

Computer-generated fakes are something we warned of back in 2021 when the Continuing Church of God (CCOG) put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:

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Lies and Deepfakes

Jesus taught that God’s prophets would be reviled and spoken evil of. He also warned that the devil was a liar that worked to take the word of God away from those who heard it. The Apostle Paul warned that “evil men and seducers would wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13, KJV). He also warned that letters purported from him with false messages were an issue. COG leader Serapion of Antioch denounced a gospel falsely attributed to the Apostle Peter as pseudepigrapha. With the internet, lies can spread faster than before. With technology, like artificial intelligence, can we expect to see deepfakes that will make it look like Christian leaders say or do things that they did not? Do you, “prove all things” so you will not fall from the coming increased deceit? Will YOU hold fast to that which is good or be one who “loves and practices a lie’? Dr. Thiel refers to aspects of modern technology and various scriptures to warn Christians to not be misled by what is coming.

Here is a link to the video: Lies and Deepfakes.

But there are other risks with AI.

PCG posted the following:

March 13, 2024

A well-informed citizenry may be the best defense against tyranny. That is why would-be authoritarians in Washington, D.C., watch, ridicule and fear citizens who do their own research. Fact-checking organizations like Snopes and PolitiFact have supported the government narrative for years, but this censorship-industrial complex is no longer content with “debunking” conservative narratives. They want to prevent people from thinking for themselves—and from learning certain information in the first place.

Newsguard Technologies announced on March 1 that it is now using artificial intelligence algorithms to prevent people from seeing information online that challenges government and corporate media claims about election fraud. This means that any Internet browser using Newsguard Technology will automatically censor information on this topic from sites like the Federalist, Fox News and Wikileaks, while promoting sites like the New York Times. …

The Federalist reported:

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team the federal government funded to develop AI censorship tools described conservatives, minorities, residents of rural areas, “older adults” and veterans as “uniquely incapable of assessing the veracity of content online,” says the House report.

The report also stated that people who are dedicated to “the Bible or the Constitution” are susceptible to “disinformation” because they ��often focused on reading a wide array of primary sources and performing their own synthesis.”

“Performing your own synthesis” means thinking for yourself.

This is the premise accepted by censors in Washington, Silicon Valley, MIT and elsewhere: Ethnic minorities, senior citizens, veterans and people who live in the country are easy to fool because they are minorities, senior citizens, veterans and rural—and Christians are easy to fool because they rely on primary sources and critical thinking. The reasoning, therefore, is that the government censorship-industrial complex must use powerful technologies to censor what those citizens can know. …

The agencies hiring MIT to censor information are politically aligned with Barack Hussein Obama, who once said at a Stanford University Cyber Policy Center symposium that it is important for people to “fight for truth ….” Sounds good, right? Except here’s the rest of that sentence: “… not absolute truth, not a fixed truth, but to fight for what, deep down, we know is more true, is right.”

You read that right.

The man who constantly talks about right-wing misinformation does not even believe “absolute truth” (which common people just call truth) exists. No wonder leftists fear information and hate for people to read primary sources. The fact that the truth is absolute and fixed and can be independently verified directly contradicts what they want to be true.

This is a war between truth and their will. https://www.thetrumpet.com/29176-the-regime-fears-an-educated-citizenry

The Apostle Paul warned:

18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, …21 … but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, …

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. (Romans 1:18,21-22,26)

That is happening. AI, various algorithms, and shadow-banning often are related to that.

As far as the “censorship-industrial complex” goes, the Continuing Church of God (CCOG) put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:

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666, the Censorship Industrial Complex, and AI

We are seeing more and more censorship, particularly on the internet. Matt Taibi has termed the coordination of this from governments, academia, Big Tech, and “fact checkers,” the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex.’ Is more censorship prophesied to happen? What did the prophet Amos write in the 5th and 8th chapter of his book? What about writings from the Apostle Peter? Is the USA government coercing censorship in violation of the first amendment to its constitution according to federal judges? What about the Digital Services Act from the European Union. Is artificial intelligence (AI) being used? What about for the video game ‘Call of Duty’? Has Google made changes that are against religious speech? Has YouTube, Facebook, Twitter (X), and others in Big Tech been censoring factually accurate information? Is the US government using AI to monitor social media to look for emotions in order to suppress information? What is mal-information? Is a famine of the word of God prophesied to come? Will the 666 Beast and the Antichrist use computers and AI for totalitarian censorship and control?

Here is a link to our video: 666, the Censorship Industrial Complex, and AI.

We are getting closer to that day, with technologies unheard of when God inspired Amos and John to warn what would happen–like computers and AI–that the totalitarian Beast of Revelation will be able use to assist his 666 reign as well as enforce the coming ‘famine of the word’ of God.

And yes, places like the USA are helping to set the stage to make it easier for it to happen with things such as censorship with Artificial Intelligence.

Notice some of what will be coming from a power that will arise in Europe:

15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:15-18)

The ability to do that did not exist when Jesus had John pen the Revelation. The technology now exists with computers, cameras, cellular telephones, AI, and a willingness of governments to track and censor.

The Bible shows that a European dictator will rise up and be totalitarian (Revelation 13, 17:12-13).

More and more surveillance is happening and more is being proposed. Furthermore, the biblical reality is that 666 control is coming.

In 2023, we did numerous videos about the rise and use of AI:

ChatGPT and 666

Is AI in the Bible?

AI Jesus? Artificial Intelligence God?

666, the Censorship Industrial Complex, and AI

Artificial Intelligence Superhuman Persuasion?

We are getting closer to the time of 666 controls.

Yet, for Philadelphian Christians, we still need to support the Gospel of the Kingdom proclamation and prepare for the short work of Romans 9:28 (see als0 Preparing for the ‘Short Work’ and The Famine of the Word).

Additionally, we realize that Jesus offers a way to escape what is coming for the most faithful (Revelation 3:7-13; see also There is a Place of Safety for the Philadelphians. Why it May Be Near Petra).

Remember to watch, pray, and take proper action. As Jesus said:

34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:34-36)