November 10, 2026 · 06:21

Misdirection

That is what it feels like and it does that because I looked into these things from a surprise point. You see, in the last two years I looked at the Hajj, not because I am a Muslim, but because of the Saudi responsibility that they took for their pilgrims. A pilgrimage that takes care of over 1.8 million people in 5 days is a huge undertaking and as far as I can tell, they had less health victims then a Taylor swift concert having 500,000 attendees. Consider that 300% more attendees and less victims. They had arranged for cooling spots with water and shade settings. It would still have been hot and there is no denying that. There is just one thing. The attendees must have an official Hajj Pass. It is the only way this is possible, there are just too many people to deal with and that is the directive that the Saudi government gives. You mist be registered and you need to have a Hajj permit. The Guardian gives doubt on this and the story of Zirrar Ali’s story by making it a climate breakdown. My reasoning for this is “If your group hasn’t organised transportation, you have to walk between three places, wearing sandals. They’re quite close to each other, but because of traffic and lack of transportation, half an hour away becomes four hours.” We were all clearly told that there was busses organized for all holders off the Hajj pass. The Hajj pass gave you access to the busses, then we get a debatable setting “You can’t rehydrate or get shade. The heat quickly becomes dangerous. Volunteers give away cold water. I would get a bottle of water and down it in about five seconds, feeling like I’m going to pass out.” That is debatable, because of the two images we are all given:

Where we see that these tents are shaded and even included an organized setting of zircon units.

Then we see a tent setting where people stayed overnight and it is the biggest tent setting I ever beheld (on a picture) but I have never seen anything like this.

But there is one hitch, they are meant for the holders of the Hajj permit. And I saw the website where all the registration could be done, it was by far one of the most impressive sites I ever beheld. It was wholly impressive. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah had delivered (in my eyes) pure perfection. They had years of experience, but the perfection I witnessed was still overwhelming. So as I see “There’s a fight for any shade. There are people sleeping in the compartments where you put the luggage in buses. People are trying to find one little angle where the truck or the car will give you shade. That’s the difference between getting heatstroke and not. Elderly people are passing out under a tree or near the entrance of the mosques.” I see that the Guardian is claiming pure nonsense, if this happens it is because of people who didn’t want to go the pure way, the Hajj permit way. People who got duped by dodgy tour operators and they should have done a much better job of their journalism, not making it a “This is climate breakdown” story. I reckon that when you get to “You spend that night sleeping outside in the open, on pebbles and dirt with thousands of people. We went from being very individualistic people into one cohesive body. At the start of the hajj, I’d seen people jumping queues to get on to buses and fighting. By the end of the five days, you realise: “No one else is going to help us. We have to help each other.” This is no longer: “I’m from country X, therefore I’m more eligible for this than you are.” You give advice, you give your umbrella, you give water. I realised this is what I came for.” The Hajj gives all kinds of options and busses, so this is utter nonsense. I might accept that Hajj permit owners might want to stay the night at Mount Arafat, I reckon that is a purity feeling of a Muslim, but that feeling would be one of a Muslim, I am not one. But I have seen (wth my own eyes) the extent the Saudi Government went to to make every Hajj a decent experience, from military kitchens that bring more perfection than the kitchens of the United States Army does (not disrespecting the kitchens of the US army) but even YouTube shows how some of the kitchens are managed and it is impressive to see. We see the tents and yes there are volunteers in the field and some might hand water to non pass holders. It is up to them. But this article is all about deflection and misdirection. The one issue we do not see is that “About 83% of the deceased were unregistered pilgrims who lacked official permits.” So 1301 victims, in a Hajj where 1.6 million attended. This means that the Hajj had 221 victims in an event where 1,600,000 attended. I think that this number is unbelievable. It comes down to 0.0138125% fatalities in a setting of almost 2 million. That is almost unheard of and I see it as a clear sign that the Hajj is managed to utmost perfection and the Guardian had no business doing the article they did, especially when they leave out the factors I just mentioned. You don’t have to be a Muslim to admire the achievement the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah delivered here. Just my take on the issue.

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November 9, 2026 · 10:02

My name is nobody

No, I am not terence Hill, but the title makes sense, you’ll see. I saw the news from a few outlets and they brought some thoughts to the forefront. Lets start with (source: https://tech-insider.org/au/oracle-shares-fall-microsoft-ai-capacity-wind-down-australia-2026/) which gives us ‘Oracle Falls 4% as Microsoft Reportedly Ends AI Deal [2026]’ then we get to FXLeaders who (at https://www.fxleaders.com/news/2026/11/08/microsoft-cuts-oracle-ai-cloud-lease-threatening-100-level-for-orcl/) gives us ‘Microsoft Cuts Oracle AI Cloud Lease, Threatening $100 Level for ORCL’ I saw these two at the same time, but the stories gives me different thoughts. So when we get in the first story “The timing still matters. It lands days after Oracle priced a large equity and debt raise, and just after Oracle AI World pushed a long list of new multi-cloud and AI announcements. It also follows a separate reported cancellation of a Tencent chip lease, so investors now have two reported pullbacks from large AI-capacity customers to weigh. This analysis sets out what is confirmed, what is only reported, and what Australian teams should check this week.” As well as in story two “Oracle Corporation shares (NYSE: ORCL) faced renewed selling pressure following reports that tech giant Microsoft is winding down a major contract to lease artificial intelligence computing capacity from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The move has sent tremors through Wall Street, sparking concerns that Oracle stock could test the critical $100 psychological support level as hyperscalers re-evaluate third-party cloud rentals.” Let’s take a small tour through memory lane as that Telly Savalas clone told us in April 2025 ‘Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI’ (I’m sure his name was Satya, not Telly), as such does this ‘partnership ending’ make sense? Does Microsoft have the computing powers to dot it all alone? No, the bubble is making waves, the fear is that Microsoft (at present) 3.94 trillion, might be the first one who dips below 3 trillion. As such they need to dump whatever they can and whilst we see Microsoft in some green light trying to make Oracle to look like the weak player and I am not having it.

The bubble is coming to an end, the large corporations are dumping what they can and soon we will get the predictive analytics settings will take less computing power, but the harm is done and as someone in IBM is telling us that there is 8 trillion in infrastructure that no one can pay for. I was way ahead of the person in June and optionally even earlier but at that earlier point I had no idea that they were gambling with stakes that high. I would think the big short of 2008 would have been a good learning moment. It seems to me that they were doing that again. Hoping to bluff their way to the upper echelon. But IT demands proof and it was not coming. So then we get to Reuters (which was behind a paywall, so no go there) then we get Barnhart who in a likely unrelated side give us (at https://www.barchart.com/story/news/8724636/oracle-just-walked-away-from-a-7-billion-tencent-deal-heres-what-it-means-for-orcl-stock) ‘Oracle Just Walked Away From a $7 Billion Tencent Deal. Here’s What It Means for ORCL Stock.’ Where we see “The Crash Nobody Saw Coming, Let’s talk about the pain first. ORCL hit a 52-week low of $111.6  on Thursday.The reasons are many. Broader market sell-off; immense capital expenditure costs are being seen in terms of AI data centers. People are too ticked off about their debt. The Tencent cancellation now brings additional uncertainty to the nervous market.” Well, then my name is nobody and I got there by the simplest reason of all. One of the older saying is:

You can fool some of the people all of the time

You can all of the people some of the time

You can never fool all of the people all of the time

This is one of the older settings and in all this this is what all this fake AI is about. Predictive Analytics is real and it is a powerful tool, especially when it is done in combination with LLM. But in the end it is simply fake AI. This fake AI needs data, as such Oracle is needed (only people from the brand Disciplus Simplex believe that Azure or whatever Amazon uses might suffice) the only tool that does the best setting is Oracle, as such I remained faithful to Oracle. Even when the people figure out that ‘True AI’ (to give it a recognizable name requires Trinary data, Oracle will be able to jump that data (when the hardware is ready) from binary to a binary-trinary system. How this will go is still out in the open. I personally believe that binary systems will get an added AI-coprocessor (an epsilon co-processor if it will be stated as such) the completely create trinary servers will take a lot longer and as such this way you can have both whilst a data drive will be dedicated trinary data. This is a presumption by me, not a given fact.

So, as I see it, the larger corporations are now in a bend they want to avoid a complete burst of the bubble and they are all trying to back out of some of the parts they can and as I see it, the media is assisting them. And in the Oracle-Tencent deal we see “Earlier this year, Oracle inked a five-year agreement with Tencent involving the deployment of approximately 100,000 chips of state-of-the-art AI at data centers in the Southeast Asian region. The estimated value was $7 billion. Tencent decided to pay about 30% in advance. Then, Washington got involved. US authorities were concerned. Oracle listened. The company walked-off.” Knowing how the United States are anti-Chinese this makes sense, but that also sets Oracle in a deeper well, because seven billion ain’t hay as the expression goes, so Oracle needs to find new revenue fields and will they? Time will tell, but I remain pro-Oracle in my mind, because they have been evangelizing data for over 30 years and they earned there marks. So whilst we listen to whatever is in charge of Microsoft try to swim back the “as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI” because we can go two ways from there. You see, predictive analytics can only go where the data can take them and as 30% comes from that, there is every indication that Microsoft is about to get riddled with zero day issues. This is NOT a given, but speculatively that makes sense. So what will business do when they are confronted with such a dangerous premise? They go somewhere else and that is why I see that Microsoft is likely the first to dip below 3 trillion and that much of a dip will hit Microsoft in several places and all at the same time. Oracle?  Well it is only 351.96 billion, sounds like a little (it is when you say it fast) but they will not take this much of a dip and when Microsoft and Amazon make such dips, Oracle and Snowflake will be the only contender in the field, the anti Chinese sentiment in the United States and EU make it so, so n the cleaning phase Oracle is surviving fine and now they need to get as much rehired as they can especially in the normal DB world. Personally I reckon (and am happy) that these levels of stupidity will hurt Microsoft plenty (yay me) but I digress. Perhaps IBM with its Database systems (IBM Db2) will pick up parts of this fallout too. It was never (talking about 80s) very user friendly but it was robust and good quality, both elements one might not state about Microsoft.

So, consider that one source gave us “The Crash Nobody Saw Coming”, what a joke. When reading the works of Alan Turing it was clear that what we saw was not AI and he wrote that setting 75 years ago, no matter what marketeers say, the setting is that it was not AI, it was (what I call) fake AI and that gives you the setting you need. So you have a great day and should you get that Nespresso and it starts the machine 30 seconds before you press the button, the moment of AI comes a little closer and that is a test you can do yourself.

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November 8, 2026 · 11:11

Drowning

That is how it feels, so I also changed subject mid article. The drowning feeling is the setting that people do not have time to play a dozen games. It gets worse, they never did have that time. Even students need to reserve time for non-gaming intent. In 2027 dozens of games are being released for almost every console. I would get it if there is a mere 4-6 games in 2027 and I get it that not every game is for everyone. I am not a GTA player and many others are. So consider that you have GTA6 and a dozen other games to play. How many games will you actually play in 2027? And that is disregarding some other games that are getting rereleased. It seems like they are all in the understanding that every game is getting played, but the population of each game will vary. I’ll make it ‘worse’ There are decent AAA games coming up, but I would put them aside to see Bethesa’s Fallout 3 on the PS5 (if it comes there), we all have out personal priorities. And this setting is getting weird. In the ‘old’ days we all had our CBM Amiga and Atari ST, some people had a playful PC, but there were three systems. Then the Nintendo and PlayStations were added and some games were released on every console, because it offered them all the game play they got and that is OK. But now ‘everyone’ wants to go into gaming, because the market states that there is “The global video game market is estimated to reach $367.9 billion in 2027, according to industry forecasts” and they all want a part of that slightly over $365 billion dollars, that’s a billion a day. But until we see the granularity of that data we realise that the young people asked the question get to hear that they want to play EVERYTHING and that comes with two setbacks. The first one is they don’t have that kind of time and the second part is that they (or their parents) cannot afford all that. And that number is ‘tainted’ with advertisement revenue ‘hidden’ in mobile gaming. This is my speculation, not my understanding.

No matter how we look at it, there is a rather rough frontal hit between gaming and revenue hitting. I still believe that Bethesda is in a good place, they created a massive following (before they became a Microsoft product) and now? Microsoft started the doubt, because they wanted everyone on the Microsoft console. By creating that doubt I decided to put my gaming IP free to all non-Microsoft developers. Let’s call that ‘directed’ discrimination. The funny part is that if Microsoft objects, it means that they spend around $100 billion to non producing companies. It makes them looking like a failure (a bonus I like) if they want to buy it, I get paid. Two directions I like, even though I like Sony buying my IP a lot better, an elderly man needs to pay their debts and pay for the lollies to make him enjoy life in the sun on a porch of balcony. But as I see the amount of people ‘making’ their gaming solution I do not feel drowned out. I know the expertise I gained over 40 years. But these massive amount of firms are going to get a real reality check soon enough and I reckon that this will be in 2027. To see anyone do decent in an age of GTS6, God of war: Laufey, Tropico 7, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, Fable is massively delusional. And that is before the ‘real’ RPG’s come out. If you think that you are making a decent penny, the only option is to make a mobile game and hope for the payout of the advertisement revenue it brings.

Change the routine

Yup, that was enough of gaming (for now) you see energynow.com is giving us ‘Canada to Fast Track Oil Pipeline Designed to Diversify Economy Away From US’ we see (via Reuters) the setting “Canada will fast track the approval process for a new proposed crude oil export pipeline to its west coast that could generate over C$20 billion ($14 billion) a year in GDP, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday.” Which bluntly means that the United States is using additional revenue, and gaining the loss of oils. Good news for Canada, and optionally EU as well, because in this way they are gaining an oil route. So whilst we are given ““A pipeline to the west coast is part of our mission to transform our economy, to double our non-U.S. exports over the next decade… (and) to unlock our full potential as a global energy superpower,” he told reporters in Fort McMurray, hub of Alberta’s oil sands industry.” I personally fully support this, this administration shows the world what happens when you become the slave of banks and the interest that is due and I don’t believe that the democrats will do any better in that regard. The debt of $40,000,000,000,000 will suffocate any budget as close to 30% is needed to pay the annual interest and it will merely get worse. I feel no sympathy for that, I told them this situation over 25 years ago. As early as world animal day (October 4th 2021) I wrote ‘Utter insanity’ (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2021/10/04/utter-insanity/) I gave the setting and now the debt is over 250% more. So whilst we see the United States coming up with the Trump blame, a better kind of trump card. The setting was a lot older. He definitely didn’t help matters. So whilst some will say the United States is unbeatable, it will get better. Consider that all fake AI is not the golden egg. Consider that the world is catching on the the markets took a $2.4 trillion dollar hit, all wiped out. And when the few conifer that there is a market for predictive analytics, they will survive and some papers stated that AI has not brought any revenue to most of them. Now consider these losses whiles commodities are now largely ‘seemingly avoiding’ the United States. Some through hostilities of weapons (Iran) some through hostilities of politics (Canada) and all that, they called it ‘Cheap oil’ is vacating to different shores. So now the United States has Brent Oil and it has one price, one price for all. As such the United States is likely to be a lot less mobile in the next three-five years.

So where do these lost revenues go to? They will get to a stage where the The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be more powerful than the United States Department of Defense and its 5 sided building (Pentagon). You think I am kidding? Think again.

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November 7, 2026 · 17:25

Procreating from media to media

That has always been the case. Gaming was a direct setting to movie and TV. They had a lot of similarities. And whilst we remember the first time we activated Tomb Raider on the Playstation, there was no surprise that a movie became a fact less than 5 years later and it came starring the sequence on ‘hotness’ of the 90s Angelina Jolie. Yet it wasn’t all sweet gaming. That same year gave us Resident Evil where in almost the same time span Milla Jovovich got to wield her killing skills. Gaming and media are connected in many ways. I was realising this whilst I was making a list of the games whilst I was rewatching season 1 of Fallout. So whilst we see the upcoming God of War an d Death Stranding. We wonder where it could go. I don’t think anyone realized the amazing hit Five nights at Freddie’s became, or where the sequel took us and now there is a third movie in design. The larger part is what media designers had to content with because these games all had a massive lore behind it to make the game as versatile as possible. As such Bethesda had the largest goldmine to prosper from, but they were not alone. Fallout became a huge success, in part due to the cast, in part to the storylines they evolved. But they were not alone. I always wondered why no one engaged with Richard Garriott on his Ultimate series. It predates elder scrolls by at least a decade and the lore that Ultima 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and X held, together with the Ultimate Underworld series. It could make for some fabulous seasons. The setting that Ultima 4 introduced makes for a larger setting towards episodes. Especially as the 8 characters (7 plus your character) gets to set a trail of episodes. Love, Justice, Courage, Honor, Honesty, Sacrifice, Spirituality and Humility. So as the series digs into those, whilst taking out some badasses and monsters. There is a simple setting that could evolve over time using the right scriptwriters, whilst staying true to the original sentiment of Ultima. So whilst we look at what comes next, we need to consider what was done before and done with almost spectacular precision. Zo whilst now we see Fallout season 2, with the Tyrannosaurus rex which we saw in Fallout: New Vegas. We forget all the things Fallout introduced us to in Fallout 3, it was more than the Brotherhood. There is a setting that could be transferred in Ultima. There we had mantra’s and stones. What if you start with one stone Perhaps Blue (Honesty) which would allow you into two directions Green (Justice) or Purple (Honor) it is one way to shape a story and it could be a larger way to shape any series, whilst the entries of a game are open to the settings. The limitations of the story could direct any setting in another way and whilst we draw out the map. Which was done really well by Richard Garriott. The intent could be shaped by the writers where the story evolves. And I have always be a true believer in the slogan of FX ‘The story is everything’ and Ultima has a larger setting than nearly anyone else (Bethesda being the obvious exception), but as I see it, these production houses have their hands full and as such there are options in several directions and as I see it, the Ultimate series is a predictive first.

Have a great day today and if you have your own series consider how that series is transformed into an almost award winning series.

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November 7, 2026 · 00:14

What we mentally reject

That is where I am at. People who know me have known that I have always ben on the side of the UAE and I am ready to reject the premise that the Deutsche Welle gives us, but it is not that simple. They give us ‘Iran war turns Dubai into a Ghost city’ and I hate to admit it, but Iran has thrown the hatchet down to the UAE. I would still stand with the UAE and I did by handing the UAE my military IP free of charge (as well as Saudi Arabia) it is yet another example that eradication of Iran is becoming an essential thing. I do not fault them for attacking in retaliation to the US and Israel, these are legitimate targets because of the events that took place, as ‘my’ bible educates me to turn the other cheek, I see that as a legitimate reason to destroy Irans refineries, their harbours and their manufacturing options. Seems merely fair play. However, we can see that the terror vision of Iran is making an impact, that is beside the Bitcoin bitches that ran for their life on day one shouting that their lives were in danger. There is a solution, because these 10 images are direct, but could be made in several ways. To counter one is to create YouTube videos, almost everywhere. Like they did months ago. This time, it could be the UAE population giving us the views in the malls, the sites and the walkthroughs of places, beaches, entertainment sections, malls, Dubai has a population of 4,807,185. These people got somewhere? Why not film these events and make sure that Dubai remains on the video map. In 2024 Abu Dhabi had a population of 4,135,985. Same thing applies here. Last year the tourists were making videos of great places and theme parks. So why aren’t the locals doing that? And the numbers are out there “As of 10 May 2026, the UAE has intercepted and destroyed 551 ballistic missiles, 2,265 drone attacks and 29 cruise missiles fired from Iran” but the important numbers were missing, you see as far as I know less then 1% made is through and only 1% of 1% hit something substantial, which implies that my ‘criminal’ act of jay walking has a better odds of creating a self inflicted issue. I have no real numbers, but the statistics of getting hit in such a way is seemingly a lot less than getting hit by an attack in the UAE from Iran. As such these films should bare out that the UAE (particularly Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah) should be a lot safer that the images make them out to be. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for destroying the infrastructure of Iran, but it seems to be that with a ‘presented’ damage of $600 million a day, it seems to me that doing something about that takes priority. OI reckon that ‘flooding’ YouTube with videos of how sweet life in these places are and optionally setting the same videos to Instagram, TikTok and Rednote (sometimes called Redbook) as such, as we see the ‘statistics’ for TikTok (which is 1.36 billion to 2 billion monthly active users worldwide) and Youtube gives us an approximate of 2.58 billion monthly active users globally. It seems to me that these two alone gives us half the planet. As such there is a reason for Emirati’s to take their camera to the streets. And it seems more ‘pacifistic’ to embrace peace, but I feel a righteous anger to inflict massive damage on the harbours and railways of Iran. The UAE government might even address the knowledge levels of the Emirati’s by making sure that they have the skills to edit and Ill bet you dollars for doughnuts (an American expression I actually love) that the local population might love showing the people on this planet just how lovely theses places are. The idea of teach a population the options of creating excellent video’s on your Android Mobile (yes, I know Apple has its own system, but I am an android person). We can accept the news in Deutsche Welle (which might be absolutely accurate at https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-turns-dubai-into-a-ghost-city/g-76454537) but we could see these images in another light.

  1. A man sitting sad outside his shop.
  2. Someone browsing the news in a fashion shop.
  3. An empty street at the back of a building. For all I know it was taken behind a building on Al Marabea’ St.
  4. A shot of an empty beach, the UAE which could have been taken at 06:00 (when most people are emulating saw machines, aka snoring)

I am not saying that this is what happening, but it could be. These images might harm tourism as well, but the alternative is to go to the United States, an option much less appealing. I still have great hope that I could spend a few hours floating on a tube down the Al Raha River (it is a very nice idea). I think it is important to counter the article in the Deutsche Welle and I am not saying that the article is a lie, but at present there isn’t anything showing us detailed views of what is happening and when the tourists stay away, we will not see a lot of videos on the locations and subjects. As such I think it is a good idea to show food courts, foods, like the options in AlBaik Dubai Mall (also on my bucket list) If there is nothing, people start speculating in every direction. When we see a mall filled with people (with 4,807,185, at least 1% goes to the Dubai mall, meaning that there are at least 48000 people in the Dubai mall in a day. So why aren’t we shown that? And I say that these videos would trump the millions that Iran is throwing away, we can still deal with their infrastructure on a video break, as the expression would go.

And as idea go, I don’t think it is the worst idea to have.

I reckon I am giving the Emirati’s something to this about today and as it is just past 5PM, plenty of Emirati’s are likely out and about to have tea, coffee, ice creams and other snacks (I apologise for not knowing what times mosques are to be attended).

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November 6, 2026 · 02:58

No longer as usual

That is what I realised. I saw the clip of RRR yesterday and its amazing clip Naacho, Naacho which is the most amazing choreography I have ever seen. But as I was watching the 4K version of Oliver (1968, Carol Reed) something occurred to me. You see, as the age of DML (Deeper Machine Learning) is used in shows using tools like Claude. It occurred to me that additional tools like Choreography in dancing, music, fighting (like the Hidden Dragon of Oz and the Wizard of Crouching Tiger) in an artificial element they will need additional libraries and you can either hope to create such a movie, or create the tools that these directors will need. You see, this is the start of a whole new field, but the larger elements are not created yet. Now you can design your library (and many will do), but the work requires more and elements where the actors have the ingrown knowledge (Michelle Yeoh) through years of training, but in the world of artificial designs that knowledge is missing. And now you can design the setting for each character, or consider the setting that the bar dance by Shani Wallis can be added to the setting in a mere click. It isn’t that simple (because there is something like copyright) but the elements are open and could be collected in a setting where these elements are added to an art work of your own. There are likely some tools, but when something like Claude gets implemented, it will require tools. And in these beginnings, those who create these tools will have a leg up from the rest that follows. And it looked to me that at present there is a larger need for knowledge libraries of all kinds and this world tends to not take notice of the second place, unless it carries massive new features that the first one overlooked. As we were given two days ago “McKinsey & Company estimates that the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence in film and television could result in $60 billion in annual revenue being redistributed across the industry within five years of mass adoption” when that much money is involved, it becomes important to supply that world with the first tools and make a name for yourself. Because people will not remember Jonathan Gay, but mention Adobe Flash and almost everyone remembers what that was. And as they ‘call’ it Artificial Intelligence in film and Television, that setting will require a whole new range of tools and that range is being thought of at present. The additional use is that these tools might flower up Game production as well and that is at present is valued at approximately $200 billion to $214 billion in annual revenue as of 2026. I reckon that some hungry for fame and fortune (particularly fortune) might be looking at this world and look at what is  currently missing.

Just a thought that was passing my mind while enjoying the work of Carol Reed with Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Jack Wild and Oliver Reed. Well, next up is the 4K version of First Contact, whatever will I think of next?

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November 5, 2026 · 11:17

Nothing comes for free

A mere 360 minutes ago we were ‘alerted’ to ‘How to opt out of Meta using your Facebook and Instagram posts for AI training’ (at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-11-05/meta-facebook-instagram-changes-using-data-to-train-ai/107335708) and we see “There was a furious public backlash in mid-2024 when it was revealed Meta was using photos, posts and comments stretching back to 2007 to train its AI”. Now I have a decent ‘philosophy’ “Nothing comes for free” and even sunlight now gets a charge. As for Meta, I dropped it from my list after they acted with levels of stupidity and as such I went ‘bye bye Facebook’, I never used Instagram. I am not that kind of a person and there was a chance I might get arrested for blackmail under the guise of “Pay a Bitcoin or I’ll publish more pictures of me” as I have been told that people pay serious money not having to look at me (or hear me sing for that matter). As such Meta is not an issue. Although, should the evidence from some of the class actions bear fruits, I might hit Mr. Zuckerberg up for a few millions (preferably over $15 million post taxation). But that is a matter for another day.

So basically we are given “Meta has quietly introduced a way for Australians to stop it from training its AI on their user data, but the company never announced the change. An “objection” form has been available for more than a year, but digital rights advocates believe Meta does not want people to find it.” Im in the middle of that, as Facebook became so much more complex the statements from digital rights advocates might be true, or might not be exactly accurate. It is up for debate. So whilst we are given “But ABC News has learned an “objection” form has been available locally since July 2025, buried within privacy settings. “You have to go digging through their privacy policies and their support pages … certainly they haven’t been doing outreach to users,” said Tom Sulston from Digital Rights Watch.” Here my response is that this is a free service and whilst many people come to the comedy moment in the senate hearing where Zuckerberg tells the senate “We sell ads” there is a clear setting that their would be more, there is always more, especially as Facebook had $200.966 billion USD revenue in 2025. I still giggle when I opted for this in 2002 to my bosses, they told me to stick to my work. Don’t worry my idea was not as advanced as Facebook was from the beginning and I am not holding any sour grapes against Zuckerberg or anyone. I merely had an idea The fact that I can look at my former bosses seeing the millions they passed on, I get a good smile on my face and I have had over a dozen ideas in the mean time, so I am happy (still poor though).

And whilst we see “And you can understand why. There’s a commercial imperative for [Meta] to get their hands on as much of our data as they can.” And how is that different from what Microsoft does? Lets not forget that is not a freebee. We need to pay for that software and whilst we ponder “The objection form has been available in the EU since 2024, but the ABC has confirmed that no separate announcement was made when it was added in Australia a year later. Nor have there been any reports of users being notified directly by Meta.” And I come back with. This is a free service, so why do they need to? So, whilst I get some of the opposition, the setting of “So it lets them meet some obligations … but at the same time, it doesn’t really fundamentally change anything.” I am of the mind that a free service leaves ‘obligations’ at the front gate. When they start charging $2 a month (or perhaps $5), the setting of ‘obligations’ becomes an actual reality.

So as I see it, we see a lot of hay and no results. I reckon there is a lot more to be had going after these US politicians who have been filling their pockets whilst leaving veterans and victims at the side of the road. At that point we see that there was an opportunity for Meta and they took it, offering a free service. It is everyones favourite setting, but they never want to hand over anything or pay for the privilege. And not once did the ABC article mention the word ‘free’ because that implies that you handed over rights. Is there a case that Meta abused that freedom? Perhaps, but that takes massive amounts of data to get through it all and give us a better judgement on it all.

Have a great day today.

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November 4, 2026 · 20:59

Off topic

There was an advertisement I saw (I think it was in LinkedIn) and it grabbed me to some extent. It was an advertisement to get a job at Claude walking of kids shows. It was an idea that has merit and more over, the implications. Could be a lot further than a kid show (but you have to start somewhere) Now I have said over and over aging that ll AI is fake. But most of these graphical fake AI are working on the premise of DML (Deeper Machine Learning) and at times in conjunction with LLM (Large Language Models) it does not make it AI (or even Fake AI) but it becomes a tool with applications and a growing setting of traction. I softly spoke of it in ‘Fat of the meat’ two days ago (at https://lawlordtobe.com/2026/11/02/fat-of-the-meat/) moreover, I thought it might give my scripts a new life as such it goes beyond kids shows. And the application could go towards Saudi Arabia and the UAE as these productions could be made in local languages. Or with subtitles. Another setting that could spell life for some scripts. At present I have two ready and the working setting to two more. As such I would contemplate this (if it could work on a MAC) a whole range of traction that Claude could gain. They seem to be heading in that direction anyway and when these scripts are absent of a lot of production costs, the setting increases, because when a production has a lack of overhead, there are a lot more people easily swayed to give it a chance. I am not hijacking away actors, not special effects as they script was at first rejected. But I also see that there are thousands of rejected scripts. Some might be actually good and now a new terrain (optionally with Oscars) is created. As such, why am I (likely the only one) considering this? Perhaps the makers of Claude are already on that page, they merely lack the settings to make it work.

As I see it, it is also a setting that takes Hollywood away from that equation, and as such studios in Canada, the EU, the Commonwealth and the Arabian peninsula could seek such a solution. There is a field and it is (as far as I can tell) rejected in favor of short term ideas. The idea is however a field that has a larger implementation in TV, Shows and all kinds of directions, from Music Clips and short term videos. All directions that could benefit from those direction. And that is even before we get to the adult entertainment, because there are options there too. All directions that could bring a possibility of revenue, and isn’t that the golden standard in any business? And from there we get the added benefit that it could be remade in any other language almost instantly. And make no mistake, I am talking into my own directions. Because some might ‘worry’ of a script that scares the Jiminy Cricket out of Anne Keast-Butler (GCHQ), John Ratcliffe (CIA) and General Joshua M. Rudd (NSA) but these ‘actors’ are in the clear when they are made with Claude. It opens up a whole range of ideas and ‘shortcuts’ And there is a benefit. As the library of locations are added, the end cost goes down and we could get the three ‘leaders’ digitized and change some facial features that they do not look alike (whilst everyone knows who we are talking about) and as far as I can tell there is a lot more surfacing soon enough. There was my script on ‘How to assassinate a politician’ it has the secondary title ‘Essay’ which played in Dammam (Saudi Arabia), Amsterdam and the Hague (Netherlands) now consider these costs of that series and if Claude could manage it ‘lifelike’ enough, how much costs will it be then? And that is how new studios are created in new ways, because several corporations just dumped thousands of IT people, all ready to learn new skills. Then there is ‘Information Overload’, a simple attempt to give the ‘rulers’ of the CIA, NSA, GCHQ and the DGSE a new for of nightmare (you can’t blame me for that) but that gives us two stories that have merit towards that setting and I reckon that Hollywood have thousands of scripts that never saw the daylight, but now there is a new revenue stream and as too many people respect money above ethics, I think that we have a new playing field and those who enter first have the best chance to make a decent penny (read: Dollar, Pound, or Euro) I reckon that there is a lot of Swedish appeal to make a new Pippi Longstocking, in Swedish no less and if that appeals several other languages would come forward.

So think of this as Off Topic, because the midterms in the USA are too boring, not for the Democrats, but this was the only outcome that would have made sense and for now they will need over a decade to clean up the mess that was left behind and they are doing it without allies, that part was taken care of by the present administration. So, I look at other ways to set revenue towards nicer shores and this administration of the United States that any shore is nicer than the shores of the United States and as I see it, there are options for Canadian movie makers as well.

So have a great day and consider where you might find another path to revenue.

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November 4, 2026 · 01:31

Visions

We all have them, they could be mirages of our imagination, they could be subconscious ramification of facts we were exposed to, whatever the reason. Whatever the reason, it tends to be a decent reason to take heed. So first I see all kinds of news that the AI bubble has burst in China. I was unaware that they had put such a massive amount in that, but whatever. Hours later I see a splash of newscasts from all over the western world that something here is shaking too. First off there was the ‘fact’ that the fortune of Larry Ellison had dipped by $11 billion (its not a lot when you say that fast) then I see Bloomberg giving us ‘Oracle Is Near $10 Billion Share Sale at 11% Discount’, which sounds nice, if you are into those kind of things. Then about 5 hours later I see ‘Oracle, along with Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, has disclosed a combined $3.3 trillion in future spending commitments.’ And suddenly the picture changes. As I personally see it, the bubble is bursting now here too and these 5 big spenders are ‘combining’ their spending (to each other) to make the bubble not happen. It is like a game of High Stakes Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) game of poker. I am not too knowledgeable on poker in general (except Aces High, not the Iron Maiden song) and we get a setting because PLO uses four hole cards (and you must use exactly two from your hand and three from the board), equity distributions run much closer together. Favored hands frequently sit at 60% to 65% pre-flop rather than dominant 80%+ leads and then one card in the middle is the Joker ‘AI’ so they are all out to get a setting of that with this poker setting that they each want to get the winning hand, but as I said it, all AI is fictive for close to 15 years, too now wonder what they are doing. Because these 5 (with Nvidia as and optional sixth) are all out in the open showing what bluffers they are and whilst we are looking we might see the common denominator in this. And the setting is ‘in future spending commitments’ because off this bubble bursts they will not be able to spend anything, the 3 trillion that they were ‘planning’ to spend will be gone with a massive amount of trillions that were always in the pot through all kind of means and suddenly no one needs the thousand or so data centres. So let that sink in.

And they are all facing more. In the first we see Meta with ‘Meta’s $25B fine left out accountability for the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal’ also one that I am partially on the side with Meta on that. It was ‘‘What I eat in a day’ videos landed Amelia in hospital. Now they are landing Meta in court’, so can anyone tell me how this falls on the head of Meta? (It’s a locked article) but it comes down that in the Covid era she (and others) started to share their eating habits. So, how is that Meta’s problem? Did Meta film her, or did she do that herself and was it to anyone with a medical degree or to a bunch of other near-teen people, all wanting to outdo each other on social media? This last one is not on the AI pile, but these settings tend to overlap legally and these parties are all out to get the most from their targets. (Its a legal setting) where the parties want to emulate their victim setting emulating through Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] UKHL 100 (26 May 1932), which is a famous torts case. And they all face these secondary measurements (likely Microsoft more than others) but they are all hindered down because of it. You see Microsoft is (apparently) valued at 3.77 trillion. All whilst one source gives us ‘Why is Microsoft raising $25 billion in debt when it already has $76.8 billion in cash?’ Sounds reasonable, until you see the expected debt off the books and into parties that will take the hit. It almost sounds like Party X in the late 1895 get a ‘friend’ to invest in Whaling oil, there is one big haul to get. And that friend agrees, but the dangers aware to Party X were never disclosed. Because it was June 1896 “Sperm oil prices dropped from a peak of $1.77 per gallon in 1856 to 40 cents by 1896, failing to compete with refined petroleum” and his friend now faces a decline of 78%, it was too late for him and friend X kept his head up because of all the losses he faces, well his bank did, but he scored a nice retirement. We are entering this last game of AI now. People are aware there isn such think like AI and it is merely predictive analytics, a more advanced form of it, but it is still massively dependent on data and there is the shoe that just doesn’t fit. The data is the problem mostly because of an absence of validation and verification. Also I reckon that these validation settings (whatever there is) is pushed thought several parties and they all have their own validation metrics. So there are numerous problems that many are ignoring and I saw that first hand but they are all shouting AI together and ruling up the audience. So when we go to that person who claims that those ‘believing’ that’s only idiots believe in the AI bubble are like founder Masayoshi Son and SoftBank have pivoted heavily toward artificial intelligence. They will take a massive hit soon enough, although they are also in robotics, chip design which might make it thought, but the heavy capital allocation into OpenAI might not do so well. But take the word of Masayoshi Son over me a nobody. And invest right ahead and don’t mind the shark swimming underseas, because they nibble. And it is fair to question my word who reacts to the headlines and events that the media is giving us, but ask yourself. What real reasons was there to ‘Oracle, along with Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, has disclosed a combined $3.3 trillion in future spending commitments’? And how is that split up? And also where is that going? You see, the first headlines with the $100 billion mentions are optionally inspiring, but now we see “As of May 2026, there had been no further progress on the project beyond the letter of intent, with Argentina’s Economy Ministry stating that they had not received a formal application for their large venture incentive scheme.” (Source: Buenos Aires Times) so what else is in the and at present, because we were given “OpenAI and Sur Energy signed a letter of intent to explore the development of an AI data center in Argentina’s Patagonia, named Stargate Argentina. This project, the first Stargate site in Latin America, would represent an estimated investment of up to $25 billion and have a capacity of up to 500 megawatts” and as I see it, at present Argentine has about Argentina has an installed electricity generation capacity of about 44.2 GW, is that where the 500MW is coming from, and if so, why was an additional $25 billion required? Wherever you look it leads to more questions and in this game of PLO is it the intent that everyone looks at the cards, not the noise and why that noise does not seem to make sense and it is all due to secondary noise, not part of any of this, but these companies are too large to ignore this. So who is making a tally, because as I see it, none of them have the cajones to put up their own market value to this, why is that? So don’t become the patsy nesting in whaling oil when it is too late or perhaps too soon is also available, in 1820 was massively riddled with dangers. So whatever you do, ask questions and read up, because at present the entire (fake) AI setting is riddled with dangers and no one is looking beyond the headlines and into the data it is supposed to deliver.

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November 3, 2026 · 08:47

Troubling thoughts

This happens and it is not always ‘mind boggling’ or even global catastrophically and yes this implies it is not about that guy who will lose the midterms in a most auspicious day. One source makes claim that President Trump is Jesus, or so the impression goes. It was placed on hist own truth social (why would anyone read that channel) So whilst that happens. Tries of people called it “as blasphemous or self-aggrandizing”, he says he was a doctor. But it lost him approximately 20% of the christian voters. So there is some form of justice there I suppose. No, it is nothing like that. The time the source is Tom’s hardware who gives us ‘Sony’s final 4K Blu-ray player listed as out of stock in Japan, firm may be preparing to abandon standalone players — retailers reportedly told not to expect new stock of its remaining model’, the article can be read (at https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/sonys-final-4k-blu-ray-player-listed-as-out-of-stock-in-japan-firm-may-be-preparing-to-abandon-standalone-players-retailers-reportedly-told-not-to-expect-new-stock-of-its-remaining-model) and I am left with a disturbing sight. First the PS6 comes without a drive, then we hear that Sony is disbanding its physical format and that is happening in a few places. Last year Sony Pictures Entertainment had a revenue of US$9.92 billion. You do not walk away from that. That is in its current form. Considering what a Blue-Ray of 4K disc can hold. Is it possible that Sony is going the way of the Nintendo cartridge? The last part of the article gives us “But it’s important to note that 4K Blu-ray demand has not collapsed in the same way as the wider physical disc market. Figures laid out by the Digital Entertainment Group show that overall U.S. disc sales declined by roughly 9% in 2025. Spending on 4K discs, however, climbed by 12% over the same period, before climbing another 18% in the second quarter of 2026. That said, for existing Sony owners, there is no reason to panic just yet. A player that works today will continue playing the discs already in a collector’s library — and there is no evidence that Sony plans to push an update that would stop existing players from reading movies.”

Now consider that A 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc can hold 50 GB, 66 GB, or 100 GB (depending on the layers) and discs can be damage by careless handling them. Now consider that you could surpass that with 2 cartridges (they hold 64GB each) and consider that any movie could have a single spot or a dual spot. And you cave tonnes of space in your living room and cartridge are a lot harder to damage and usually it is only done through intentional action. Or perhaps Sony is creating its own cartridge holding 128GB. The would make sense, it would drive all kinds of Sony Hardware and there is a time (like now) when ‘mums’ the word and that might have been the intent of Sony all Along. Then there is that setting of optionally buying all the great games again in a much better package (smaller too). That would make perfect sense and a little unsettling. We all went with the DISC version of gaming since the Original Playstation (Tekken, Tomb Raider, the good old days) and perhaps Sony has a new format coming up for their PS6 (and we might not hear this until release time) I reckon that these cartridges would enable Sony to add features to movies in the ways of sounds and overlapping commentary at the push of a button and the neat thing is that it gives a reason for every household to consider the PS6 as the central device (so, goodbye Microsoft) and lets face it when you name your new console after a deadly disease, you have it coming. Microsoft might make the claim that “Microsoft’s upcoming hybrid hardware initiative designed to merge Xbox console gaming with open PC ecosystems”, but we know better. We saw the bodies pile up in Antarctica.

Still the idea that Sony is going for a new format is not far fetched, especially as they see the impact these cartridges had on the Nintendo and with a Sony designed cartridge, the amount of copy kittens of these original games might see the their time is up too. I also think that this would liven up the second hand sales (but Sony might not care about those). I still think it was a bad idea to drop the physical media, however. In light of this setting, it might make sense in a few ways and consider all the Japanese cars having a cartridge slot to let kids in the back watch their favourite series and for one, such a cartridge could hold a whole season of ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’ or something according to those lines. Although Japanese parents might want the view of their young ones limited to ‘My Neighbor Totoro’, to each their own I say and the more I think of it, the more I see this as a likely development in the Sony region. Dropping physical media never made sense to me. There are too many rural gamers in the world and setting this up for clouds will bring pressures to the entire cloud (even the small cumulus clouds) But about that another day.

So they might be troubling thought, but not necessarily negative ones (perhaps a nightmare to Microsoft). Time will tell because we have not seen any official ‘release’ news on the PS6 and with the news that Tom’s Hardware gives us as a most reliable source, the setting is taking a different turn, like seeing a new highway open up whilst the construction was kept secret.

So, you all have a great day.

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