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Mudy the Waters

"Well if you think the phrase fake news would hurt me, then I would use the exact phrase against you. Then nobody would care about the 'fake news' because it's everywhere."

"When you think anonymous sources would hurt me then I would have them too. The nobody would believe in them any more."

Watch the master at play.

Meditation Avoidance

I have been doing everything I can just to avoid meditation. With everything happening to this world, to my world not particularly, and to me personally, meditation is becoming harder and harder everyday.

I'd love to listen to something, anything, with people talking something preferably, like a podcast. So I've just exhausted all my subscribed podcasts. I thought 40 or so of them would keep my mind busy for a while but, no. Music is fine, but without people talking, meditation is hard to avoid.

Games. Videos. Endless live shows. Books. Just don't leave me alone in a room. Don't leave me sitting somewhere doing nothing. Anything would do. I just set a sleep timer to my internet radio app. I don't need to meditate before sleep. WNYC is fine.

Even in dreams, these days I get to experience some of the most bizarre nightmares. Woke up and even jumped out of bed before, set another timer so that I won't be meditating.

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Your Clown President

Your clown president is here, America. No matter what you may do or say or protest or resist. He is here to stay.

In fact for a long time I never know anybody, let alone a politician, can be so shameless. Oh, some of you call that honest. And most main stream media still won't call lies lies. That's refreshing. Can't block all the exist while setting fires I guess. What if the worst is to come?

Blame globalization. Blame automation. Blame the incoming AI. Oil can't save jobs. Making air conditioners can't save jobs. Nobody knows for sure what's he or she is going to do for a living in 10 years for sure, and that fear is real. But going back can't save ya.

But, on the other hand, this clown, and the size of the protests, the media no matter fake or not, are all part of the democracy that makes America. Similar stuff would break a country. Similar crowd would call for tanks. A clown like this would break a civil war but not in America.

And that's the best part.

Why WhatsApp And Signal Not Blocked In China

Winter is coming for people living in China.

China is not famous for its internet openness. It's quite useless to keep track of how many top 500 websites and internet services are currently being blocked in China. And with recent developments it's quite obvious that while blocking services outside China, the government is encouraging local companies to develop similar ones, and collecting all kinds of data from its users, i.e. basically all Chinese. Some would argue it's a process that the internet itself is heading towards, what the Chinese gov is pushing, is a experiment that only this gov can do.

IM services, like Facebook messager, are among the most heavily blocked. It's understandable. First of all communication itself is dangerous for a gov like this one. Second, controlling communication is power. But what's wired is, among those IM with encryption as a selling point, like WhatsApp, signal and telegram, only telegram is blocked. In fact today, inside China, WhatsApp and signal is usable and pretty reliable. That's unbelievable in itself.

My theory is, there are 2 possilities to explain it all:

Unlike telegram, WhatsApp and signal are using AMAZON's cloud servers. China just can't simply block this one all together. AMAZON's cloud servers are so important once blocked the after effect would be so serious.

These 2 IMs are being activity used among Chinese government personnels as well. Their encryption is pretty strong. And apps are pretty well built. So why not use them instead of building something from scratch?

The thing is, most of Chinese don't bother with these encrypted IM services. They live in a different world and in that world, tightly controlled IMs actually are giving small benefits and enjoying a much much more bigger user base. If more and more people are using encryption, well let's say blocking these 2 will take the GFW about 5 minutes.

Whatever the reason is, I am happily using them on a daily basis. And I think a lot more people are using them too. Although I am aware of the fact that, encryption, is against the fundamentals of how this country is currently governed. Some day in the future they will be blocked out. Well I will build my own OTR server then. This is the internet, the math can't be beaten.

Freezing Cold!

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Rogue One In 3D

I think this movie is not for the first time viewers or even not so hard core fans. Rogue One is more like a fan movie than a serious star wars movie. I am not saying I am disappointed in it. No. Production quality is excellent but, the story line is kind of poor, and the ship, Rogue One, is a more than normal empire shipping ship and destroyed soon after it is named. Oh btw almost everybody is dead in the end. How could anybody be happy with this?!

And the IMAX 3D, I was skeptic towards 3D in the movies. Now that 3D is almost dead in the TV market I though 3D is bond to disappear in a year or two. But I wonder why my local theatres only provide 2 versions of this movie, one is normal 2D, and the other is IMAX 3D. I just want to watch it on a IMAX screen but in 2D but hey, there is no such option.

At first about 20 minutes into the movie my girlfriend felt sick and had to take off the 3D glasses. Then I myself felt silly because, in a 3D movie you can only see what the director wants you to see, like the character who is talking or the ship that is flying away. In a traditional 2D setup, when people get bored they can look at other things, the sky, the building in the distance, etc. But now in 3D everything in the background is blurred out. That's, frustrating. When things move around on the screen you are gonna be frustrated even more because you are forced to move around your eyeballs just to get a clear focused picture.

Anyways, I think next time I am going to a 2D. 3D is dead to me. And as for the Rogue One? Well let's forget about it.

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