Once again, we see that the most accurate of any of the classic sci-fi writers – more accurate than either George Orwell or Aldous Huxley – was Philip K. Dick.

Dick was the only one who really understood how much corporations and the advertising industry would play a role in shaping the direction of the enslavement technology, and how the goals of the corporate marketers would overlap with the goals of the tyrannical governmental entity. Dick was also the only one who grasped the level of absurdity we would be dealing with during the end times, and the role that sheer, base stupidity would play in the unraveling of the traditional social, political and economic order.

BBC:

The advertising industry is now turning to technology that can seamlessly insert computer-generated images.

So items can be digitally added to almost any movie or TV show. For example, advertisers could put new labels on the champagne bottles in Rick’s Cafe in Casablanca, add different background neon advertising signs to Ocean’s 11, or get Charlie Chaplin to promote a fizzy drink.

And then a few weeks, months or years later the added products can be easily switched to different brands.

One of the firms that has developed the ability to do this is UK advertising business Mirriad. Its technology is now being used by a Chinese video streaming website, and the makers of hit US TV show Modern Family have also tried it out.

Mirriad’s chief executive Stephan Beringer expects such digital product placement to become widespread. His firm came up with the process after previously making movie special effects.

“We started out working in movies,” he says. “Our chief scientist Philip McLauchlan, with his team, came up with the technology that won an Academy Award for the film Black Swan.

“The technology can ‘read’ an image, it understands the depth, the motion, the fabric, anything. So you can introduce new images that basically the human eye does not realise has been done after the fact, after the production.”

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Roy Taylor, the chief executive of Californian-based business Ryff, says his firm is taking digital product insertion one stage further.

It has developed the technology whereby the product placement is targeted at individuals, and changes depending on who is watching.

So if you like wine then the hero of a film could be drinking a particular bottle that you might be tempted to try. Or if you are teetotal the star might be sipping on a bottle of branded water.

Ryff can do this if you are watching a film on a laptop, smartphone or smart TV, by tracking what you previously bought or looked at online. It works in the same way that online adverts pop up on websites based on your past purchasing or viewing history.

This is being developed as an advertisement technology, but the potential for social manipulation is limitless.

We have often talked about the fact that individuals will be targeted by algorithms, and that their entire concept of reality could be uniquely tailored. That is what they are talking about here – tailoring individual realities. There is no reason that a news reader can’t read different news items to different people, showing different events which will psychologically affect them differently. In a society of total alienation, which is what the virus regime is, people will not be able to check notes with others in a meaningful way.

This could and will also induce psychosis, where people’s memories stop lining up with what they’re seeing, and they believe they are going insane. There is nothing that makes a person more likely to go insane than believing they are going insane. Of course, their mood can be monitored, and what they receive on TV and through internet media can be targeted to stimulate an emotional response.

Facebook has been caught doing this, actually.

They proved that they were able to manipulate people’s emotions using just their news feed. They were also able to gauge their emotions based on their internet activity.

Advertisement has always been a nightmare system of unwinding the human psychology into a series of loose strings and then tying them up into knots.

It was bad enough when the girl of your dreams was trying to get you to buy the latest Sonic remake.

You could end up in a situation where your dead grandmother pops up on your phone screen and says: “honey, I just wanted to remind you it’s time to go to get your vaccine booster shot. You’re always forgetting things, so I just thought I’d remind you. And while you’re on the way, you might as well treat yourself to a nice cool glass of Coca-Cola.”

There are no conceivable limits to this.

That’s… yeah, I’m not going to comment on that. You can watch the video and see for yourself.

Daily Mail:

An unnerving new video that appears to show Steve Buscemi’s face seamlessly molded onto Jennifer Lawrence’s head is yet another example of the worrying advancements of ‘deepfakes’ videos.

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Deepfakes are digitally-altered videos that use sophisticated machine learning algorithms to create human masks that are then overlaid on top of real footage.

This past spring, a similar video appeared to show former president Barack Obama calling Donald Trump a ‘total and complete dips***.

And, numerous celebrities have been the victims of deepfakes porn, including Gal Gadot and Emma Watson, in which their face has been superimposed to that of a pornstar in a video.

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Experts have increasingly warned that the technique could soon fuel the spread of misinformation.

Deepfakes hobbyists have used the controversial video-editing technology to create short clips of world leaders, including Trump, Russian president Vladimir Putin as well as presidential candidate and former first lady Hillary Clinton.

Some experts have said the videos could be realistic enough to manipulate future elections and global political as soon as 2020.

What those “experts” are actually saying is that the videos made by enthusiasts and average people could be realistic enough to manipulate upcoming elections.

If the government or some other body with millions on hand decided to produce one of these, they would be able to produce something no one could recognize as fake. There would be people claiming it was fake, but there are already people doing that.

And it’s only a couple of years before any random jerk-off will be able to make a totally convincing fake video of anyone saying or doing anything.

Video of something happening will no longer be proof that it happened. And I guarantee you, there is going to be a period of time where people suffer severe consequences for this, before it is decided that we just have to basically abandon the medium of video entirely. Meaning we will be going back to a previous reality, where the only way you could be sure something happened is if you saw it with your own eyes.

And from there, we will very quickly move into a reality where seeing something with your own eyes is not proof that it really happened.

In such a situation, reality itself will actually stop existing, as all reality actually is is a series of agreed-upon premises.

We live in very interesting times, that’s for sure.

When I first read this article, my first thought was “Why would you give foreigners access to your country’s technology, especially foreigners from a country that is your biggest rival in almost everything and who steals your tech on an industrial scale?”

But then I realized how insanely bigoted I was.

Because this guy wasn’t Chinese, he was American – the second he set foot in America the magical dirt turned his DNA into 100% deep-fried apple pie.

Newsweek:

A scientist from China has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in the United States for stealing seeds of genetically modified American rice, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

The Chinese scientist, Weiqiang Zhang, 51, was a legal permanent resident living in Manhattan, Kansas. He was working as a rice breeder at Ventria Bioscience, a biopharmaceutical company that creates genetically modified rice. He stole hundreds of rice seeds from the company that had cost millions of dollars and taken years of research to develop, according to the Justice Department. He kept the seeds in his home.

But why did you hire a Chinese in the first place, ESPECIALLY to work on rice?

#allyourricearebelongtous

Then in 2013, United States Customs and Border Protection agents found the seeds in luggage belonging to researchers who visited Zhang from China.They were on their way back to China with the seeds.

In February, he was convicted of three counts: Conspiring to steal trade secrets, conspiring to transport stolen property across states lines and transporting stolen property between states.

Why did it take 5 years to convict him?

“Weiqiang Zhang betrayed his employer by unlawfully providing its proprietary rice seeds to representatives of a Chinese crop institute,” Acting Assistant Attorney General John Cronan said in a statement. “Today’s sentence demonstrates the significant consequences awaiting those who would steal trade secrets from American companies.”

How dare he betray a faceless, greedy (you know they hired him because it was cheaper than hiring an American, right?) corporation from a deracinated society that believes in nothing for something as petty as the advancement of everyone who shares his looks, culture and DNA?

Shame on him!

Also, about the “consequences” of stealing your trade secrets – wouldn’t it be better to try not to have them stolen in the first place?

Because you know for every one of these guys you catch, there’s at least two or three you don’t, right?

The conclusion of the years-long case comes as President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to punish China for what the White House has said is the theft of intellectual property by that country. In a tweet on Wednesday, the president put the annual amount of intellectual property theft at $300 billion.

300 billion is “3” followed by eleven zeroes, like this: 300000000000 .

That’s a lot of zeroes.

You’re working on fixing it, right?

FBI Director Christopher Wray has also warned about China. Asked during a Senate intelligence committee hearing in February about the counterintelligence risk from Chinese students in the U.S., Wray said, “The use of nontraditional collectors, especially in the academic setting, whether it’s professors, scientists, students we see in almost every field office that the FBI has around the country…. They’re exploiting the very open research and development environment that we have.”

Why is it so (((open))) in the first place?

And why wouldn’t you expect other people to take advantage of your stupidity?

I don’t really care about the Chinks doing it, that’s normal.

All countries steal stuff from each other all the time, especially technology, it’s just common sense.

Actively letting them do it on the other hand, like the Western world does today, is completely insane, and shouldn’t be tolerated.

I mean seriously, how many times does this have to happen before you start rethinking the magical dirt theory?