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Remember Pokémon Go? You know, that cute game where you And! Battle . . . Pokeballs? . . . to capture . . . .monsters in a gym? . . . or something like that. Anyway, the point is, people went bananas over this augmented reality nonsense eight years ago and of course those crazy conspiracy kooks at places like The Corbett Report had to rain on everyone’s parade by warning them about the app’s shady, intel-connected origins. Well . . . guess who just got proven correct again. (SPOILER: it’s the crazy conspiracy kooks who were just proven correct again.)
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POKÉMON GO – What You Need to Know
Everyone is going crazy over Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go is a viral phenomenon
Pokémon Go – Vaporeon stampede Central Park, NYC
Pokémon Go Came Out In the US, Let’s Catch ‘Em All
The CIA’s ‘Pokémon Go’ App is Doing What the Patriot Act Can’t
The CIA helped sell a mapping startup to Google. Now they won’t tell us why
Pokémon Go to The Military Industrial Complex
Building a Large Geospatial Model to Achieve Spatial Intelligence
‘Pokémon Go’ Players Are Training AI Models To See The World
The Drone Wars: You Are Not Prepared
BELLINGFEST DAY 1 (Niantic exec questioned on potential military use)
Niantic Exec Comments On Governments Buying Pokémon GO Data
Episode 145 – You Are Being Gamed
Most Disturbing Presentation Ever: Our Tech Nightmare (“Skinner Box”) DICE 2010
Once I started realizing how Nintendo actually worked, I dropped it all and never looked back.
Funny thing is that I knew a church where they actually had an issue with cars pulling up and parking while the drivers battled pokemon….one of the guys tried to take over the pokestop or whatever its called to stop it.
I also was working at the library one time and heard an old black lady telling the librarian about the app on her phone that paid her money 9or some kind of crypto) to walk place. She was all enthusiastic about being remote controlled, though in her defense she probably got a ton of exercise from it and sounded like she had absolutely nothing else going on. i know some one who has a bird thing on their phone that reminds them to do stuff, its permissions are not extensive but I guess it makes a decent connections heat map as well as having a big ”mental health” component that encourages users to write little notes about how they are feeling and such.
It reminds me that that all the way back in the days of the short lived Barvarian Illuminati people were working on ways to ferret out how subjects thought so they were predictable and controllable. The members were ment to journal in a special book their supiriors kept jold of. Funny enough EM Jones says that psychoanalysis was freuds updated version of the same technique. Alledgedly Weishaupt got the idea from the jesuits.
Also amusing is that Detective ”Pikachu” turned out have a transhumanist plotline, which was quite a surprise, lol.
Thanks for the report
It’s a shame it was evil, because that excitement of meeting so many strangers in the real world with a common (albeit frivolous) purpose was very real. Maybe something could be learned about getting strangers together for less evil and frivolous purposes?
reminds me of a Terrance Mckenna quote, which I cant find, so I’ll have a go at an adaptation, with pre-apology for any malapropisms:
something like,,, humans have a bifurcation code running a split between generosity and greed. When theres abundance, its like an everyman for himself grab what you can and the other be dammed slime mold with no need for coherency, whereas when theres scarcity, if there was a landslide on both ends of the pacific highway, the people caught in-between would coalesce into a cooperative structure to share what was available,
The 03/22 floods in central east coast oz inspired an enormous out pouring of support for those in trouble, for at least a week. At the moment the same, what was a small town, is bursting at the seams with idyll rich urban lockdown refugees, and still more throngs trying to swoop in and serve them to catch some of their excessive cash, which makes the once sweet spot an overridden often disfunctional panic/mess.
yes, get out there and meet the neighbors