Su 4/11/21

 Su 4/11/21

945 am. 415 pm. 1025 pm. 

Up 8 am: Showers and overcast most of the day with temps to the upper 50's. Bright and clear by 330 pm.

Watched 'THE SIGNAL' (Netflix). Three computer geeks go after a 'bad hacker' and connect with an alien entity at a secret installation near Area 51. Beautiful locations and some scenes were shot at the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge near Taos, New Mexico. I had seen this one before and some of it I remembered in detail, but the 'big twist' at the end completely escaped me; with Patrick Davidson, Brenton Thwaites, Olivia Cooke, Lin Shaye, and Laurence Fishbourne. 'Extraterrestrial Biological Entity'- E.B.E

I ordered three books by Jonathan Lethem from Amazon and they were all free due to Bonus Points. I wonder how long before they run out or somebody wakes up; The Wall of the Sky, The Feral Detective, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse.

140 pm: ON THE TREADMILL...Finished JIM BREUER on J. R. E and began TOM SEGURA on The Joe Rogan Experience.

220 pm: The Weekly Cleaning and then read/napped until 415 pm- watched 'SOMERSAULT' (Amazon Prime). A young girl is caught having sex (by her mother!) with her mother's boyfriend and she heads to the Australian boonies to start a new life. She tries to do the right thing, but loneliness and intimacy issues bring her down. Mom comes back to save the day; with Sam Worthington and Abbie Cornish- her performance saved the film. The only movie I think I've ever seen that was set in Australia in the wintertime; Kambah, Canberra and Jindabyne, Australia. Jindabyne is an inexpensive year round tourist destination in Australia. 

7 pm: ON THE TREADMILL 2 Miles at 3.4 pace and watched more TOM SEGURA on JOE Rogan.

750 pm: In the tub with HARRIS and listening to THE CANNED HEAT, THE PAUL BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND. 

Watched 'CODED BIAS' (Netflix).  The rich get the fancy toys first and then the new innovations go to the poor, but with Artificial Intelligence the most punitive, most evasive, most surveillance focused tools are used on the poor first. People in China are now using facial recognition to process credit card transactions. You just look at a camera in front of the register and you are 'approved' or 'denied'. In China facial recognition is used for social control, and in the west, it is used to sell products. But in the west, the governments takes a 'hands off' approach. A very interesting documentary about the need to understand and control the new algorithms.