Sunday, November 07, 2021

COMMUNICATION SAGA -- QANON -- NON-HUMAN

Another exciting week in which what follows are only a few events during which I also received my Pfizer booster shot, anti-Covid ..... but this has nothing to do with my receiving the vaccination.  This is a flight of fancy!

I've succumbed!  I've been seduced!  I'd always said, "No!" before, but I finally gave in.  Actually, I was in a non-compromising position and could no longer resist.  I expect to hear from some, those words, "What took you so long?", and I may even wonder myself, but avoiding the inevitable for some time, if I could, seemed to be the better part of good judgement for me.

I hope you won't think any less of me for giving-in.  Who knows, I might even come to like it.  I didn't do this just because I kept being told, "It's safe, its okay, everybody's doing it."  I know that doesn't make it the right thing for all to do.  Still, the pressure is off now.  I've done it and there's no turning back.

I'll have to live with the consequences, whatever happens -- adapting my life, adjusting, coping with frustrations.  Facing a whole new way of life may be what I must accept.  Will I continue to oversee my life, or will dictates come from elsewhere?

This is, after all, "a smart phone" -- smarter than me?  Has artificial intelligence, aka AI, taken the device over which, in turn, will conspire to take over me?  Will my thoughts, my time, my whole being be devoured as reportedly seems to have occurred with some who are owned, er-r-r-r, I mean, that own these little devices?  You see, already I'm giving this little invention powers possibly beyond realistic entitlement.

Have I been brain-washed with tales dispersed full of conspiracies composed of unmitigated falsehoods formulated in deep dark dungeons ... spread by the unknowing, uneducated, and the un ... un .... un, whatever? 

Will truth ever emerge?

(I don't actually have this little devil phone in my possession yet, but meanwhile, my good ol' landline remains very operative which I will keep along with the "smart phone".   This may allow the fastest way in some areas for my exact location to be determined should I need to call emergency 911, or possibly if there is a power outage.)

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I really had intended continuing with another topic at this point, but in recent days I've had reason to feel concern that word of this "Smart Phone" coming to my house may have unleashed a troubling event, causing me concern there could be more issues materializing.    Thursday I discovered my bedside clock radio had already turned back one hour.  But the daylight savings time change wasn't to occur until the coming Sunday, Nov. 7th at 2 a.m.   What happened?

This premature time reset on my clock prompted me to form a theory much like those promulgated by QAnon.  They may well want to adopt my speculation to spread among their citizenry as fact to those susceptible to such ideas.

I am speculating that the digital devices in my home may be communicating with one another.  Maybe my computer has spread the word a "smart phone" is coming, having deciphered an exchange of messages I had with my son ... but why, and has the word spread even further?  Perhaps to my clock radio, for one, a device that now has chosen to demonstrate a long-awaited increased sense of pending power.  What does this indicate could happen in the future?  

I'm discreetly, but closely, watching my TV, microwave, and oven.  Perhaps, even my dishwasher, clothes washer and drier received the word and pose additional risk.   The refrigerator, too?  Surely not the toaster oven.  Of course, the coffee-maker was, years ago, the forerunner of all these self-operating devices ... and then it went digital!  Now where is technology taking us?  My "smart phone" is coming!

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Alitlweird comment on youtube site reports between the four girls they play 50 different instruments; their music is acoustically produced, aside from electric sound amplification.   

 

As if my "smart phone" isn't enough, I've now been told on my landline phone, that I'm not human!  Not human? -- I didn't know! -- Am I a robot, an alien and only now learning this?  The digital devices with the smart phone in control are really the forces in charge?

Typically, if I have reason to answer a phone call and it's a recorded message, and there has suspiciously been an increasing number of them, I immediately disconnect without even listening.  Also, any calls with a real live but unknown person on the line, who instructs me at any point to press another key to answer questions or access a different contact, I don't do that either.  Who knows to what I might be acquiescing!

Sneaky ways some spammer, or scammer, tries to accost people include this example in a recent call I received.  I noted it was from a "Wireless Caller".  (I chose to answer this for personal reasons I won't try to explain here.)  The recorded message said, "This is an important call for ... (they accurately gave my name).  If you are (my name again) then press 5, if not press 3".  I did neither.  Following a silent pause, the message continued, "Sorry, you have revealed you are not human!"  Then the call disconnected.  

I consider all the newer inventions that I haven't acquired yet, but eventually may be the only ones available, like the "smart" TVs and appliances, cars that drive themselves, even houses equipped to do lots of things, and who knows what else.   What are the implications of these for our future?

So, here I am, in the autumn of my life, having been described as being not human, with a clock radio seemingly out of my control, and a "smart phone" possibly capable of doing who knows what coming into my home.  What lies ahead for us humans, assuming some of us are humans?   What am I to think or do?  What do you think and what are you going to do?

19 comments:

  1. Ha ha,don't forget to put tinfoil on you head to block the signals:)) Luckily, I have no cell service where I live so a smart phone is not in my future. I never answer numbers I don't know so I haven't been called "not human". Now I am curious to try. That clock falling back an hour by itself though is interesting. I know atomic clocks do that and I wish all mine were Atomic. Especially that one high on the wall.

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    1. Oh yes, the tinfoil — i must do that! I still don’t know what to make of that clock changing when it did.

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  2. You will find you have a love hate relationship with your phone. It will be useful in many ways. It will be a time sink as you look for some app, tool, setting and hours later give up. Depending on how smart it is you will get ads that you do not need. I have not gotten spam calls and have had my phone for many years. But hubby gets spam. Enjoy the contagion.

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    1. I can hardly wait. May have my phone by the end of this week. I guess I’m old-fashioned, as I like devices I can just plug in, need only to learn a few quickly mastered steps to use, then never have to think about them again. Not so with all this technology today — we spend hours, days and never-ending amounts of time as they make changes only techies could love, being able to use these devices.

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  3. It was only because my cell phone company told me they were sending me a free smartphone to replace my obsolete cell phone that I switched to a smart phone a few years ago! This reminds me that I was one of the last people I knew to buy a telephone-answering machine all those years ago. I never purchased a land-line cordless phone that could be carried around the house. My sister laughed at me when I told her I still had a "princess phone" with the dial pad in the handset until I let go of my land-line and began using my cellphone exclusively.

    I'm still a hold-out, even though I have this smartphone. For the most part, I only use it to make phone calls, write texts, and take photos. Due to my low income, I can't afford to pay for more data than I get for $36 per month, much paying for the unlimited data required for extensive app use. So I have very few added apps -- only those that I find I have to have.

    I continue to rely on my MacBook Pro for all those things for which so many people now go to their smartphones. Only recently have I begun to take my smartphone with me when I leave my home because it would be so easy for me to put it down somewhere and walk away. I can't afford to lose it!

    So many people now are using their smartphones rather than purchasing laptops. Because of all the writing I do, I don't foresee a time that I would be without some sort of laptop. I like looking at a screen much larger than that on a smartphone.

    Once I learned how to use my smartphone, I really liked it. Learning it was actually fun. I'm still learning things I didn't know and didn't feel the need to know until I discovered them or someone told me about them.

    Hope you enjoy using your smartphone!

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    1. Interesting to learn how others use and adapt to all this new technology we're having. I guess some want to be among the first to use these devices, as a friend of mine has been with computers, phones, etc. thinking I was missing the boat by not doing the same. I really have come to resent these tools to some extent as there seems no end to the learning curve with constant change. I like learning about new things but tire of it having to be constant learning to operate ever-changing devices. I simply want to learn them, then just plug them in and use them without having to give another thought to them, so I can then devote my time and energy to all that's going on in the rest of the world.

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  4. The not-human reply is a new one on me. We get a lot of spam wanting to get us to sign up for a new automotive warrantee. Once G pressed 1. He told them the age of our car and truck. Hung up. Then they called back 11 more times. We don't press anything any more. LOL

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    1. I get those pitches for a new auto warranty, too, saying mine had expired. I never had such a warranty and the age of my car wouldn't be acceptable to them either. I also get a lot of persistent recordings, often 3 or more times a day, starting out with a line sounding very official about energy which, if I bothered to listen, would be pitching I get a government-backed loan to purchase, install or remodel for all sorts of energy-saving devices or whatever.

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  5. You have succumbed to getting one while I am seriously considering giving up mine and going to a simple basic non smart cell phone which can be used only for telephone calls and SMS messages.

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    1. The cell phone is what I’ve had and would be perfectly happy to continue with, but since I’m on my son’s plan which he is changing I need to change, too, so we’ll see how this goes.

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  6. Some help here and maybe tinfoil hat removal for a few seconds. Europe went on DST a week before we did, the reason I know this is that the Sunday family Zoom was confusing as to time last week as we are scattered through the world. So perhaps your clock was influenced by its European cousins?
    XO
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    1. Who knows — anything may be possible! All help is appreciated. That time difference must have been really confusing for your family and you.

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  8. I haven't yet succumbed to a smartphone, though Jenny has had one for ages. I simply don't have enough close friends or relatives to make it worthwhile. It would just gather dust somewhere.

    As for the future and new inventions, they haven't had much impact on me so far. I doubt if self-driving cars will ever be a reality, and I don't think there are many household tasks that could be done efficiently by a robot. A new invention that meant you could avoid recorded messages and speak to a human being would be wonderful.

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    1. The only reason I'm getting a smart phone is my son has changed providers on whose account I am and, apparently, this was a change for me he thought best. My situation is similar to yours that I no longer have any local close friends or relatives here and previously it would not have been worthwhile. I still don't expect to use the smart phone for other than much the same way I used my cell phone.

      I had to laugh when I read about your wish for an invention allowing us to speak to a human being to eliminate those recorded messages. I'd like that, too. The choices they offer seldom are ones that address the reason for my call and getting a human being can be almost impossible many times, even not at all sometimes.

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  9. What a funny post! And a coincidence, as I recently purchased an iPhone XR and have written a post about it, scheduled for Friday. Have fun with yours. It certainly is convenient to have.

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    1. Glad you thought my post funny as I know my sense of humor is a bit quirky at times and not all appreciate it. Those music video antics I thought were hilarious. Have fun with your iPhone. I must have missed reading what you wrote about the phone and will have to find it on your blog.

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    2. Just realized I misread when your iPhone post would be published -- so have since read it. You have a point about emergency calls I will have to consider when I get my iPhone and any calls coming to it.

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