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essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/07/big-spammer-is-watching-you-3-tripod.html.
It surprises me that I have another story to tell you in this series so soon after the last; but then again, maybe the last one has just made me more alert and so I spot these incidents more often. A few days ago I did a livestream on Not My Rabbit Hole with Tere Joyce, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/08/ben-emlyn-jones-and-tere-joyce-8.html. During our conversation on the previous one, the subject came up of a Netflix TV series called Untamed. This is a murder mystery series about a policeman's search for the killer on an unknown victim in a remote wilderness. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRwV1k-abZo. I had never heard of this production before and certainly therefore had never searched for it. How surprising then that the next time I logged into Netflix after talking to Tere it was immediately recommended to me. It's as if somebody overheard us. You might argue that this series is a new release and therefore is always going to be at the top of any user's feed. This is possible, however the programme was launched on July the 17th, several weeks before our show, and there would have been previews beforehand. If this is another example of Big Spammer watching me then it is surely the most concerning. It didn't even involve emails or ad panes. What's more my Streamyard account and Netflix account are not connected in any way. They use entirely separate emails. Tere and I joked that it's as if they can read our minds. Maybe that's not funny. It is actually now possible to detect people's thoughts to a certain extent using an fMRI or PET scanner. It turns out that when we think of different things different parts of our brain are active. This way the scanner can work out, to a limited range, what we are thinking about. These machines are very bulky and cost millions of pounds, but then so were hoovers and refrigerators when they were first invented. In the future these machines will become smaller and cheaper until there might even be a portable mind reader which could be fitted to personal computers so that the internet knows us completely. Our thoughts are the keep of our personal fortress, the last line of defence from tyranny, as George Orwell described so brilliantly. We must not let it fall.
It surprises me that I have another story to tell you in this series so soon after the last; but then again, maybe the last one has just made me more alert and so I spot these incidents more often. A few days ago I did a livestream on Not My Rabbit Hole with Tere Joyce, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/08/ben-emlyn-jones-and-tere-joyce-8.html. During our conversation on the previous one, the subject came up of a Netflix TV series called Untamed. This is a murder mystery series about a policeman's search for the killer on an unknown victim in a remote wilderness. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRwV1k-abZo. I had never heard of this production before and certainly therefore had never searched for it. How surprising then that the next time I logged into Netflix after talking to Tere it was immediately recommended to me. It's as if somebody overheard us. You might argue that this series is a new release and therefore is always going to be at the top of any user's feed. This is possible, however the programme was launched on July the 17th, several weeks before our show, and there would have been previews beforehand. If this is another example of Big Spammer watching me then it is surely the most concerning. It didn't even involve emails or ad panes. What's more my Streamyard account and Netflix account are not connected in any way. They use entirely separate emails. Tere and I joked that it's as if they can read our minds. Maybe that's not funny. It is actually now possible to detect people's thoughts to a certain extent using an fMRI or PET scanner. It turns out that when we think of different things different parts of our brain are active. This way the scanner can work out, to a limited range, what we are thinking about. These machines are very bulky and cost millions of pounds, but then so were hoovers and refrigerators when they were first invented. In the future these machines will become smaller and cheaper until there might even be a portable mind reader which could be fitted to personal computers so that the internet knows us completely. Our thoughts are the keep of our personal fortress, the last line of defence from tyranny, as George Orwell described so brilliantly. We must not let it fall.