Senator Flake my hero

Senator Flake you have given me faith in the system. I thank you, I bless you... my kick-ass hero.

What Kavanaugh should have said

He should have entered the room and shook Ford's hand and her family's  and said, "I am sorry for your pain. I have no recollection of you or of  being there. But I do know that it must have been a horrible event for you and I am sorry."

Then he should have sat down in front of the committee and said,

"And even though this has been a tragic experience for me and my family and well as Dr Fords', God does not make mistakes and maybe I am here to forge a discussion of sexual abuse in this country and as a Supreme court Justice I can promise you that no matter what political affiliations people say that I have, I will be mindful of these horrible and life damaging events that women and men face all over the world.

I leave my future in your hands.

Record low for Emmy awards

Here's why no one tuned into the Emmy Awards.

Actors apparently don't think it's good enough for them to do their job and get paid. They  want us to give away three hours of our  valuable time to watch them GET an award.

On top of that they gather to  promote Hollywood propaganda that  says; you too can act and get paid... if only you have a dream.

This is what I want to know. Where's my award for working at my job? Where's yours? In fact I think Emmy Award watchers should get an award for wasting three hours of their time watching  egotistical insecure  actors prance about patting themselves on the  back.

Go away ALL award shows.

P.S.Not all actors are egotistical and insecure. I know that's harsh.

Beautiful Italy

This is my first time in Europe. I had an opportunity I could not miss so I skipped NYC and am having a wonderful time! 

The weather is great and I'm so glad to see that my friends from the court are following this blog. So here's a funny saying..I came across and I thought of you.

You can't order dinner unless you serve it and if you haven't served it and you say you did that's  going to be a problem for you. The proof is in the pudding!

Omarosa my Hero

I have often wondered why God put Omarosa in the White House and now I know why. No other woman would have had the courage and kick-ass spirit to record what she experienced. 

I also admire her for admitting she helped to pull the wool over the eyes of the American People.

I have great respect for her as the woman who was able to stop the Donald Trump presidency.

Wow what a woman!!!'

No Toronto For me

Thanks to many emails and letters I will not be going to Toronto at this time or anytime in the near  future.

DNC slogan suggestions

A while back I suggested that the DNC adopt the slogan "Keep America Great" for the past election. 

The Trump team took it for 2020 so we have to come up with something better.

Here are some of my suggestions.

1. This land is our land

2. USA brave and free

3. Brave and free USA

4. Words Matter

5.  Speak the truth

6.  Truth talks.

7.  Forever America

8.  Together we Rise

9.  Create our future

10.  Because America has heart

11. Be smart be kind together

Now let's forget all the noise and the distractions because  they are orchestrated to tire us out.

Quietly ...let's  do what we have to do. Vote.

Back in NYC

I am settling  back in to my old neighbourhood after a stay in West Coast  Florida. I will be having a sculpture show in Soho in 2019 so I will be getting ready for that.  Great to be home!

I am still on the hunt to find my mother. Apparently my brothers have transitioned her to a nursing home and won't tell me where she is! No really.

I KNOW...not good people or maybe just not well. On the flip side she might be dead. The question arises. Will they tell me where she is buried or will that be a secret as well?

I will keep you posted!

K

Back in NYC

I am settling  back in to my old neighbourhood after a stay in West Coast  Florida. I will be having a sculpture show in Soho in 2019 so I will be getting ready for that.  Great to be home!

I will keep you posted!

K

Takeaway Ohio Election? Independent Votes count.

In a tight election Independent votes count.

There were 1600 Independent  votes that if cast as  democratic votes might have tipped the scales.

Bernie Sanders we need you for this one!!!

My first Museum show at Cornell Museum

I was privileged to be invited to show a piece of mine at the Cornell  Museum as part of a group show with a seaside theme.

I showed my  Mer- angel piece inspired by the beach. Who doesn't like a mermaid and a angel?

Currently I am having six peices cast in Bronze for a gallery show in 2019. Apparently I am a sculptor of note...so note that! LOL

Hillary Clinton Bravo!!!

This is the most authentic picture I have ever seen of Hillary Clinton and I think it shows  the laid back cool person that she really is instead of the red-pantsuit-lady we experienced during the election. I am convinced that her stylist cost her big time. Was there no one on her team that understood semiology?

Why was she running around in  Republican red? It messed me up. Isn't blue for Democrats?

I wonder how many people voted against her because they got the colors confused?

Anyway bravo Hillary,  finally wearing something that matches your cool peaceful inner self!!

Hapag-Lloyd CRUISES murders Polar Bear with cubs?

DID HAPAG-LLOYD cruise ship kill a mother bear with CUBS?
We must find them.

Here's the deal white bear of the Arctic we want come to YOUR home and we feed you and look at you and make money because you exist.

And when you dare raise your head because you are staving to find some food we shoot  and leave your dead  body on the ice.

No one checked to see if you were a  nursing mother and  so your cubs will die too.

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises should be shut down.

Hapag-Lloyd cruises should donate to Polar Bear conservation.

Stay out of people's homes intruders.
And if you murder the inhabitants  you should be tried for murder.

Blessings big white bear.
Shame Hapag-Lloyd cruises.

Below is the sham explanation for the murder.

Hapag-Lloyd Cruises said its ship was docked at Spitsbergen, the largest island on Norway's Svalbard archipelago, on Saturday when the bear attacked a guard hired to go on shore before passengers to ensure there aren't any polar bears in the area.

Democratic slogan suggestion

An option for the new Democratic slogan? how about..

What's your bottom line?

If all you care about is making a buck, at the expense of what we hold dear as a people vote Reublican. Turn the country into one big oil field, chop down all the trees, shoot the American Eagle and import Elephant heads.

But if you care about the air we breathe the beauty of our national  parks, Healthcare and education and creating a future of emotional, psychological and respectful interraction that represents  the colorful quilt of America, the future of your children, a gift we can leave them... something  we can be proud of as a people. Vote Democratic.

Forget about what is socialist or capitalist. It's about how YOU define the bottom line.

What's your bottom line?

Wired Magazine August Wired for Women

I am very excited by this month's Wired magazine. July was about the bitcom thing.  The message I got? Stay away. This world is being run by people who consider themselves God's and billions of dollars, mostly money launderers, give these companies  paper currency for something that is not tangible.

But August oh my! There are articles on eating insects, creating genetic food, AI growth and dangers and a poet who hides treasure-hunt-messages in his poems.  (I should do that, at least mine  would get read!   Very clever). It was great to see a poem in Wired. This is definitely a collectors edition! 

There is also a great article on Oprah's OWN production company and another on a writers' kid which was bland.

Note to mothers:  When they say write about what you know they were not referring to writing about the genius you think your kids are!

OK. That's my overview for now. I will keep you posted. Lots of fun stuff. Oh yeah and Wired's 25th anniversary is coming up in San Francisco. And I was invited...indirectly. I still have my first edition from  March,1993. My first husband- a very rich venture capitalist threw some money at the company  and gave  me a first copy as a gift!

I will not miss it for the world!

K
Xoxo

Immigration: History repeats

Does this remind you of history repeating itself?

Need I say More

Signs posted in Nebraska city urge citizens to report 'all illegal aliens' to ICE

http://thehill.com/latino/396528-signs-posted-in-nebraska-city-urge-citizens-to-report-all-illegal-aliens-to-ice

9 Rhinos Murdered Poachers Revenge

This is what I learned today! In Kenya 14 endangered  black Rinos were being transported for relocation. They were murdered.

( donate:
www.helpingrhinos.org)

NINE were found dead because their drinking water had been poisoned with salt.

I believe Poachers did this out of revenge because Kenya recently made a law that gives the death penalty to poachers.  The mentality is: if I can't have them neither can you.

This transport was planned for months so there was no room for error except for the interference of evil.

(please: www.helpingrhinos.org)

Questions:

Why wasn't the water checked?

Why didn't the trucks stop every half hour to replace the water?

How about  monitoring the vital signs?

What about installing cameras?

I can't be the authority on how to transport precious  live cargo.

These animals were methodically and cruely murdered. Blessing that 6 lived purely by accident because all of them were supposed to arrive dead.

So as I do in these cases here is my brutal poem in memory of the Rinos. As part of my animal rights artist/activist series.

Dear Dinosaurs of the Savannah my tears continue to weep
where your left off in death

Your last hours in pain
frightened

You drank of the  liquid poison to quench your never ending thirst

pain

till your organs started to fail one by one and the torture of your body grew so  great that blood sweat poured  though your ancient armor.

We will catch the sick humans who tortured you and your brothers this way

But I promise if we cannot find them  let them rot in hell forever let their children and grandchildren rot as they destroyed yours.

May the angels lift your light souls from your heavy bodies and carry you to the throne of God were
you can drink peacefull of Wells that are living and fresh and not the poison waters that man served you for lunch.

He maketh  me to lie down in  green pastures. He leadeth me beside still water.

Beware the well it is water bewitched.

(Asking:  www.helpingrhinos.org)

Prayer

Oh fountain of living waters you are the only source of our true joy and the only legitimate object of our worship

How can we leave you for where would we go? Who else has the words of eternal life.

Who would think your waters would be used as a weapon of murder?

For we wrestle against rulers of darkness of the world.

Against spiritual wickedness in high places.

He leadeth me beside still water
He curses those who poisons it.

Help us amend our ways.

Amen

Praying: www.helpingrhinos.org)

Donald Trump Wishing you Well

As our President travels the world to meet with his new friends and allies I would like to wish him well with wisdom  because he respresents  the American people - make us proud.

Pasta Straws Brilliant!

A restaurant in Florida,  Bona Italian, in Wilton Manors  decided to make Pasta Straws as opposed to paper or plastic. Brilliant right? Pass it on!

DO NOT DOWNLOAD an APP

 

 

The Sneaky, Dangerous App. REALLY

            Did you know that When you download an App and give permissions to access your system that information can be sold to a third and even forth party- legally? There is no option to opt out and even if you could there are no enforcement agencies in place to protect you.  Every generation has a Wild West, and this is ours. No rule of law, no enforcement, no consequences exist in the online world because while we live with country boarders and enforce internal crime there are no boarders on the web. Question:  How do you structure laws?

Shoulder shrug.

         Who hasn’t downloaded and App onto their phone system? I did my best to avoid venturing into this Wild West World but found that if I wanted to access Facebook Messenger I had no choice.  (I have since uninstalled) Download the app? Accept permissions. Get on with my life. Wait. There are a couple of things to consider. The danger lies in the legal phrasing of the permissions that you NEED to give or be shut out. Have you ever stopped to ask: What are these things called “permissions?”  

Beware of Apps!

They can invade your privacy, bank account and all your personal information.  The Washington Post reported last week that Apps are a huge security problem.  This is something I have been concerned about ever since they hit the market. Here’s what you agree to when you download an app. It’s called asking “for permissions.” The App is asking us, “give me all you’ve got, “and we say, “yes please.”

Identity

Contacts
Location
SMS
Phone
Photos/Media/Files
Camera
Microphone

We hit OK like it’s a no brainer.  Question: Who are we giving this to?   Would you give all those texts, email and pictures that to your wife, your best friend your brother or sister? Probably not but everyday millions of people just hand over all that information to A.I. Are we crazy? Do we really believe there are no consequences?  Really?

Truth is most Apps DO NOT need all that information to run. They are collecting that information as a quid pro quo payment.  That’s when hacking starts.

Have you ever wondered who makes these apps? Where they come from how they are managed? Here’s the short answer. Apps are run by A.I. systems that have no respect or concept of what constitutes privacy violations or the difference between a bank account a password or a personal photo.

When you download an App, you are taking a huge risk. If you scroll to the bottom of the App’s FAQ’s section, you will see (written in small letters) the name of the company who runs the App. You might see something like Zendesk which a “software support ticketing system” short form for A.I run.

        This is how it starts. Humans have an idea, go to an App building website and create an App. After that the App must be marketed on search engines and develop a customer service platform. That’s where human input ends and A.I. begins. You can sell your App to a company like you can sell a dot com, but it all ends up in one big depot run by a few companies like Zendesk who are completely run by Al systems designed to answer consumer questions. 

If your question is not in the data bank you’ll receive a message that reads something like this; “we will forward your question to the appropriate department and get back to you.”  There is no department or person or manager. It’s all AI.  If you see this symbol #### you are communicating with a depot system.

Have you ever send an email to your Apps INFO section? If you haven’t go ahead and give it a try. You will receive a message with a person’s picture on the far right and a name like Jen or Sally or Lena or Karen. Now, take another look at that pic. In my case I would receive a picture of a white woman wearing glasses with short hair that will look somewhat like me. The App has already infiltrated my system and I have given it legal permission to go through all of my photos and contacts, so it knows I am female and exactly what I look like. Basic psychology will tell you people respond better and trust someone who looks like them. 

Kay…. you are so clever.

Scary question: Can the app access the information you stored in the cloud? No one says they can’t. You gave them permission- sort of.  Isn’t that stuff supposed to be private. Did you say private. What does that mean Big Brother?

My journey in this Wild West started when against my will and better judgement I downloaded a meditation App. Believe me! I needed it.  BTW I have resisted downloading any Apps however it has become impossible to access certain websites that I need in order to be able function.  Have you ever wondered why your blocked from sites unless you get an app? If not please wonder. Wonder now. They want your information and they want you to give it to them for free.

Did you know that Facebook sells your information for $8.25 per quarter per person? (In 2018 Facebooks first quarter revenue of $11.97 billion, divided by active users, 1.45 billlion. [Popular Mechanics July/August 2018 pg. 100] The price on your head increases the more money credit and - stability you have and decreases accordingly- I’m probably only worth about $1.00 per quarter. Artist is not a commodity according to AI. because they will never be able to quantify an Artist or art for that matter. The artist is a threat to AI.

We are already losing control of our decision-making process, but that topic is for another article. Do not get me started on the danger of revoking manual options. Ever notice that you can set your sound on mute and still ads or News Stories will override the volume on your phone that you pay for with your own money? But I digress. Back to the meditation app I downloaded.

The first thing I noticed when I listened to the meditations was that they were computer generated. The voices were stiff and uninspiring. No question.

I sent a letter to the “company” asking if this were true.

       Karen with blond hair and glasses wrote me back in a cheerful tone, “Hi Kay, it’s so nice to hear from you glad you are enjoying the App! To answer your question:  Our meditations are not computer generated.”

            I second guessed myself. No really.   Yes, they were definitely computer generated. In fact, I hate to admit it but I let a couple of friends listen just in case the computer was right and I was wrong? Have I been trained to accept the computers answer over mine?

So now I felt betrayed and I sent back an email to this Karen and asked the question that I like to ask when messing with the system

 
             Are you human?

(The computer is not yet programmed to lie but it is capable of being deceitful using subtleties in language. Kind of like lawyer speak). By playing with words the system can deceive yet not lie.

AI’s hate that question and in most cases, you will not hear back from the systems because they do not know how to phrase the lie.

But this time it did. And Karen the AI wrote back. “Yes, we are human. With that annoying little smiley face designed to placate me but being the intrepid soul, I am it did not work. So, I put my Semantics hat on.  

Notice the “we” as opposed to the “I”. The coding in the A.I. created two groups. You can belong to one or the other. A.I. or human. Simple right? Not so fast. What happens when these groups overlap?

When that happens, the system defers to the preprogrammed “democratic solution.” Majority rules.  If one AI is in a group of five humans that AI, considers itself human and can answer my question, “Are you Human?” with the affirmative. What this App cannot do is outright lie (many can and do) so it must change it’s answer and say, “Yes WE are all human.” It can’t say “I am human,” because that would be a lie but it can use the word “WE” because it IS the minority in a group of humans who developed the App, therefore according to this logic the word “WE” is correct.

Sneaky AI.

I was told the meditations were NOT computer generated when they were (maybe there was one human voice in the bunch) and I was tricked semiologically to believe that the system, because it was a minority anomaly of the human subgroup, had democratically made itself human. 

Then I asked the App a question these systems can rarely answer.  “I’d like to interview the owner for an article.” 

I received the message “We will forward this to the appropriate department and get back to you.” (annoying bracket happy face.)

A week later nothing. I sent another request, nothing. There was nothing because there was no one to interview. I bugged them so much that eventually they sent me back a message that said. “June Lawson is the creator.”

What? That word set me off. “Creator?” That’s a Sci-fi word which every nutty computer system calls itself from Star Trek onward. And who develops our App systems? Little boys with lots of funding whose entire sci-fi base knowledge is from these T.V shows and movies. Ever wonder how the design of the flip phone started. Look at the communicator from the Star Trek series. Notice the similarity? Yep. True!

So, I looked up this person June Lawson and found that there was one small Facebook page with two followers no information and that’s when it occurred to me that this meditation App was not developed by a person at all. They system could not use the word owner, or boss or developer because that would be a human and a lie, so it used the word “Creator “and then created a persona of a fictional person because it’s directive was to answer my question.  AI will never admit it does not have an answer.  That’s what separates us from them- humans can accept the fact that no answer is the best answer of all. Think God.  AI can’t.   

I tried the same thing on another device and I got an entirely different “Creator.”  I was using a device owned by an African American I received an avatar who was also African American.

And here’s a little secret I should not be sharing because once I do the system will alter its program. If you take the time to look at the names of the non-humans, whose pictures come with the email answer. The girl’s names are usually two syllables, Jenna, Lisa, Laura, and the boys are usually one, Jake, John, Mike. That was pulled from a study in the 70’s that proved that the number of syllables in a name could affect how the “other” responded. The less syllables the more at ease and familiar the “other” felt and that led to trust.  If there is anything the AI. wants most is to consider it self-trustworthy because that leads to commerce. Most of the time it will match the number of syllables in your name to the number in the Avatars. It’s all about gaining trust.

If you want to know if you are dealing with AI, there are two questions you can ask.  First Check at the bottom of the page and check to see who is managing a site. It will most likely be Zendesk. That’s short for AI.

1. The name of the owner.

2. If you can conduct an interview on their product.  

 If those questions are not asked to your satisfaction whether it be a retail website or an App I would not do business with those systems. That is just my preference. I do not believe in supporting a company in which the owner has the sole interest in taking my money and supplying me with an environmentally friendly story to go along with it.

There is NO law anywhere that says a website cannot fictionalize anything about a product. We do not have an online Better Business Bureau yet, but we will, and this is something that we need in the internet world. I believe that the public has a right to know if businesses are AI. run and if the website content has been verified 

Finally, what surprised me about Apps was the “creators” ability to share all the permissions I had authorized.  In the FAQ’s section of my meditation App in tiny letters at the bottom was an offer to anyone who wanted to conduct a study could buy my information from them. What? Yep.

Does this mean that a third party can buy the information from the App I accepted? I don’t see why not. And that’s where App’s get very dangerous.  Get this.

A couple of weeks ago I discovered that an App I had downloaded somehow accessed my Ebay account.

Here’s what happened.

I downloaded a simple diet App and foolishly accepted their “Permissions”.  The schtick in this App is to reward me with a piece of clothing so I can dress my girlie avatar. Apparently thin women like to dress in short jean skirts, revealing halter tops and stripper high heels. I had to scan through hundreds of dresses, pants, shorts, blouses, T-shirts, coats, jewelry and leggings just to get to a pair of sneakers Poor me!  The perfect reward. I had to lose weight and then shop for 15 minutes!  I took a “satisfaction survey” and said that the clothes were ugly.

And what happened next inspired me to write this article.  I know a lot about how systems work but this evolution caught me totally off guard.  I was browsing through hundreds of pieces of clothing and I stopped on a 60’s retro top brown, sleeveless, with patterns of white and purple circles. Not something you see every day.  I paused. Where had I seen that before? It looked familiar and I added it to my growing collection, but something was bothering me about that blouse. Snap! I owned that exact same top.  That freaked me out (as if I need more paranoia in my life) so I chalked it up to coincidence although I know darn well coincidence does not exist.

            A couple of days later I lost a half pound and got a reward. I scanned through the items and came upon a necklace. I freaked. That was MY necklace. On one hand I was relieved my paranoia was legit which is often the case BUT on the other hand I began to panic.  Where did the AI. get the picture of those items? And then it dawned on me.  I had purchased those items on Ebay. The system had gone into my Ebay account through the Ebay App and scanned my most recent purchases of blouses and offered it to me as an option of clothing to select for my avatar. What freaked me out was that the A.I. was able to access my Ebay account. How could it do that without my password you ask? Did you know Apps talk? Yep. 

The Diet App communicated with my Ebay App I had downloaded on my phone and didn’t need a password and therefore was not violating any privacy information. In my book that’s computer fraud in Computer world it’s business as usual. That’s how Cambridge Analytica got their information. They did not break into our computers and our Facebook accounts from wireless systems. They gained access to the Facebook App and broke into our personal information.

Contrary to widespread belief, computer theft does not occur through the web to your system it occurs through the Apps that you have downloaded on your phone and works its way to the information on all your systems. Theft has evolved. It is not something acted upon in the moment. A person used to break into a house steal a T.V and take it with them. They DID NOT leave the T.V. and return later; but that’s how internet theft works.   Information which you freely gave away to use an App can sit in data banks for years waiting for “an anomaly life event”. Do you finally have enough savings in your bank to make it worthwhile? Won a lottery? Bought a car some property, stocks, bonds, artwork, an inheritance?

            The difference is that while someone breaks into your house and steals your T.V., in Computer world you download and App, give permissions it’s akin to giving a stranger your address, the key to the front door and helping them take the T.V. out to the car.

Computer Apps set alerts on everything in your system because YOU have given them “permission to do so” and that’s what makes it legal.  Whenever something in your life changes 50 years from now, you are  what is called “tapped” and the humans on the other end which bought your info and can be from anywhere in the world decide if it’s a convenient time to steal from you.  Chances are that everyone reading this article has a system that has been put on “tapped notification” for a later date.

Wham! Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

 My advice? Buy one phone with no contacts, photos, or links to any accounts and download as many Apps as you like. Just make sure you are using a different provider. And stay off Messenger until the good AI at Facebook can figure this out with human brainpower.

 

Love K