The end of the world as we don't know it Flashcards

Science and tech, art and music

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Philadelphia orchestra changing attire

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PhilOrch

Mattias Tornapolski - president and CEo
Splendour of whitetails and ties that can create barriers
The looks represent white elitism and draws the modern newer generations away from the orchestra
San Francisco symphony and NY phil also changes their looks
PhilOrchs conductor (Kannik Nezert Seguin) wore black t shirt to the concert once
Stanford Thompson and David Fray support this whereas
Boris Balter and Robin Mitchell oppose this.

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Lady gaga top 21 outfits

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yellow coat and use Charlie Mindu headpiece

Flaming Bra and studded body suits for Much Music awards

Soaked in fake blood for the mtvs VMA awards

A dress made out of hair off stage for Much Musics Video Awards

Theatrical makeup for met gala (4th outfit of the night)

Artistic spicy piece by Jack Irving for Paris

At a 2009 party she wore a spiked hairdresser and a custom body stocking

Futuristic dress and mask at Glastonbury 2009

Ret latex dress to meet the queen

Fluffy parlor bear like ensemble

custom cat suit for her birthday

Bubble dress for house of blues

Rig Mask

Robe and angular headpiece for the VMA’s performance

opaque catsuit at the 2010 brits

Fiary god mother inspired for grammys

THe meat dress

Am for an outfit 88 pearls

2020 MTV and VMA outfit was a couture parka and clear fishbowl helmet

Shaksperean type gown for “a star is born”

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Cultural history of UFO’s

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Us government releases a article on how now its called UPA ( unidentified air phenomena)
IDea of aliens from ancient times but reporting of flying ships overhead since the 19th century
Arnold reported that while he was flying around, he saw some sort of glimmer that caught his eye, concerning him he was about to collide with an object. But when the glimmer came closer, he realized he was staring at 9 oddly shaped objects flying in a formation. Upon landing, Arnold immediately went to authorities to explain what he saw, and was later led to some reporters.
He described the objects moving as “They flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across water.” These words were later twisted into the headline ‘Flying Saucer’, which although Arnold never said, was now the leading line of the UFO theorists.
This was the beginning of what some people call the Flying Saucer Era, serving as the base of all future UFO theories.
Upon this building interest, two things happened simultaneously. First, government sponsored investigations into what exactly was being seen. The government was worried that this could be a threat to national security, either from the Soviet Union or from other external sources. Meanwhile, the general public was absolutely fascinated by the idea of flying saucers, with the first ideas of aliens, or outer planet species being thrown around.

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Alien Phenomenon

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Picture an alien today. You’re most likely imagining that weirdly shaped big head small body green alien with goofy eyes. That is the image that has been put in all of our heads about aliens, but where did it come from?
On August 21, 1955, an extended family called the Suttons reported a bizarre story at the Hopkinsville police station about an alien encounter. This was the most detailed and baffling instance ever reported, with the most number of witnesses being around a dozen. As well as that, the distance reported between the humans and aliens was the shortest, at just a few feet. All these factors culminated into this becoming a story broadcasted on regional and even national news.
The story goes as follows. At around 7 pm on a Sunday evening, a Sutton family friend Billy Ray Taylor was fetching water from the backyard well, when he noticed a silver light in the distance. This light then came closer to reveal an object, which flew just above the house, stopped in the air, and then dropped to the ground. Billy, scared, ran inside the house and told the account to the family, who laughed it off.
An hour later, the house dog started barking, which is when Billy and Lucky went to the back door and saw a small humanoid creature. He had an oversized head, was around 3 feet, and had extremely long hands. In the moonlight, the creature seemed to have a silver body with a yellow glow.
Frightened, the two men brought out guns, and fired at the little man. The creature brought its hands up, like at gunpoint, then flipped and scrambled.
The story then escalated, to the point where the men called the police station for backup.
A week after the incident, after widespread news, many curious tourists came to the Sutton family house to view the scene of the incident, and although were told to leave by no trespassing signs, were then asked to pay 50 cents to view, 1 dollar for information, and 10 dollars for photos. The family was soon blasted as fortune seeking fabulists.

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How did UFO reportings change overtime

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Morkls like comets viewed through religous views used to be but debunked in the 19th century

First sightings are mainly genuises building devices

German zepplins also reported after germanies surrender opver sweeden

Former US Marine Air Corps DOnald Keyhoe published article “The flying saucers are real”

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Two little men in a flying saucer

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music by Ella Fitzgerald
about aliens coming to earth and hating it and going back

Commercial jingle

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Come sail away

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song by STYX

about flying away from earth and being free

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Riding on the rocket

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Song by Shanon Knife
Upbeat song about riding on a rocket

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Mothership connection (Starchild)

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hints how some societies are created by aliens in the western society

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Aliens Exist

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By Blink

Questions if aliens are real

About The CIA withholding information

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Space Invaders

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Song by Ace Frehly
about being invaded and giving up the planet

saying planet is in danger

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How was mathew perry depicted

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Mathew was an American Naval Officer who commanded one of the largest fleets of ships at the time. He was the one who went on a month-long journey to Japan, and forced them to enter trade and diplomatic relationships with the west. He accomplished this huge feat in 1854, which was a big deal since Japan had closed its trade its borders two centuries ago and was only just opened.
There are many inaccurate depictions of Mathew as painted portraits, with many of them showing different versions of him. A majority of them are believed to be severely wrong as the artists who created them relied on word by word travel of information and details about Mathew from across the world. These artists were located in the USA while Mathew and his team spent most of his time closer to the East, near Japan.
Perry’s voyage began in 1853, and he had two steam driven frigates and two sloops, with a total of approximately 65 guns and just less than 1000 men. Upon his return to the USA in 1854, his fleet grew to 9 vessels, 1800 men, and over 100 cannons.

Shiwonodo Renjo actually met him and created a more realistic and respectful art which was more western but still has the root japanese qualities

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How were Mathey perry’s ships depicted

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9 ships
ships seen as grand

mathew perry has major role in mechanizing the us navy

The had a foreign and intimidating presence

They were also technologically superior where they were steam powered which showed how far behind the Japanese were from the world

also showed western imperialism

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The new Ai influencer

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LING
has 130k followers on weibo

Brand deals with the likes of tesla and more

Engineered to perfection

Created by shangai Xmov information and beijing cultural media company

people don’t feel the responsibility to compare as she is litterally perfect

John park and Alish other examples

it is expensive to create a new personality from scratch though

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Ottawa travel recomendation

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Microsoft recently published an AI generated article about top tourist attractions in Ottawa. The article, titled ‘Headed to Ottawa? Here’s what you shouldn’t miss!’ was pulled from the internet and made unavailable to the public. Why? The article boasted off Ottawa’s food bank as the top 3 places to visit.
The place was captioned ‘We observe how hunger impacts men, women, and children on a daily basis, and how it may be a barrier to achievement. People who come to us have family and children to support, as well as expenses to pay. Life is already difficult. Consider going into it on an empty stomach.

New Zea Land supermarket Pak n Saves survey meal bot was powered by GTP 3.5 which recommends things to make with the ingredients at home

ended up recommending rat poison sandwich to somebody

Michai Kaku not a fan

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Problem with amazon results

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If you check out the Amazon website today, you might find a few oddly named products. By simply searching terms like ‘I cannot fulfill that request’, you can find a library of apparently rejected products that weren’t supposed to be on the page. They are still purchasable today, due to mistakes made by the Amazon AI.
For a temporary period, products that were to be rejected by the website, went through checking by Amazon AI, OpenAI. This artificial intelligence, instead of rejecting the products, changed the name to the error message which was supposed to be delivered to the seller.
Mistakes like this allowed for unofficial products to reach the Amazon market, many of which are untrustable or go against copyright marks. This posed a huge issue for Amazon, causing them to spend thousands of dollars and countless hours taking down these products to fix their mistakes.

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Google search result issues

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The battle against SEO spam is majorly being fought by Google. The search engine results of google are getting overrun by businesses and products spamming reviews. Take for example, you search for headphones. The top few results will most likely not be great quality, or price, or discount, and will instead for some reason have a crazy amount of reviews. These are artificially created when sellers make fake reviews, and its easier than ever today. There are countless AIs that can make this process more seamless and convenient than ever before, and it is destroying the search engines. Google is attempting to make changes to its own AI programs to detect these fake reviews, but they are too advanced and sometimes impossible to differentiate.

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Dea internet theory

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The dead internet theory simply states that the vast majority of internet traffic are AI or bots, and not real humans. It says that human trends and opinions no longer shape the direction of the internet world, since it is controlled by fake people and humans who don’t exist.

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Ghost of versailles

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  • Premiere: The Metropolitan Opera premiered John Corigliano’s “The Ghosts of Versailles” in 1991.
  • Plot: The opera features Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and others in the afterlife, with playwright Pierre Beaumarchais attempting to change history by writing an opera.
  • Opera-Within-an-Opera: Beaumarchais’ opera is “A Figaro for Antonia”, based on “La Mère Coupable”.
  • Characters: Includes Figaro, Rosina, Almaviva, Susanna, and villain Bégearss.
  • Musical Style: Eclectic, blending atonal, neo-Classical, and neo-Romantic elements.
  • Key Scenes: Includes Marie-Antoinette’s aria and a love quartet.
  • Orientalism: Features a scene at the Turkish embassy.
  • Performance: Notable performances by Patricia Racette (Marie-Antoinette), Christopher Maltman (Beaumarchais), and Lucas Meachem (Figaro).
  • Direction: James Conlon conducted with skill.
  • Reception: Admired for its musical diversity but critiqued for lacking emotional depth.

You can read the full review here.

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Waifu bots

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released in Takyas Akibnobara district, the 158 cm tall animated figure names Hikar Azume is the creation of inventor Minaru takechi

sold by gate box

virtual partners becoming life partners

males like them because they respond favorably and can be molded into whaever they like

manly liked by the otaku (young male audience who likes anime in japan)

around 400 men have wed their waifus

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Recent hollywood strike

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After what feels like an eternity, the Hollywood writers’ strikes have finally come to an end. They have been somewhat successful in the parts of the writers, with them getting new terms and guidelines which will be set for all studios in the coming years.
Most of these guidelines revolve around the use of AI in production, mainly in script generation and holograms for minor actors. New guidelines have set massive restrictions on the use of AI in both sectors of production, with studios now not allowed to use AI and call their work original.
Experts say that Hollywood won’t be the only industry to be battling AI, with everyone in creative industries such as artists, singers, and everything in between needing to be prepared for the upcoming struggles.

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The AI poet

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Sheila William, an editor at Asimov’s Science Fiction usually receives 700-750 short stories a month. Recently, a short story titled ‘The Last Hope’ came across her desk. She treated it as any other, reviewed it, and sent it away. A few weeks later, another story with the same title, but from a different author and email address came to her. She was shocked, but she read it, reviewed it, and sent it away.
Then, in a matter of 2 weeks, she received countless other stories with the same title, which after a lot of thought, gave her the realization that they were all AI generated. Now, she gets anywhere from 900-1000 stories a month, and the 250 story increase is mostly artificially generated ones.
Shiela, an expert in her field, can now identify a human story from an AI one within the first few words, which poses a real problem. Almost all AI generated stories are just too similar, with them often using the same names, plots, and characters.

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Poems created by code DaVinci

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“Electronic Flower”, “[learning]”, and “Digging my Father Up”,

All poems show self-actualisation and the ai hating humans and experiencing complex emotions