Loab

 

Artificial intelligence. Everybody's talking about it. I am also interested in it, but I do consider it something of an overrated subject. A lot of the dread associated with it I doubt is justified. I don't think the electronic overlords are going to take over the world anytime soon; in fact they can't even read a train timetable properly. See here for details: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/03/should-we-welcome-our-ai-overlords.html and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/07/free-will.html. That being said however, occasionally a story comes out of the global cyber-brain world that gives me a chill. In April 2022 an artist from Sweden reported that something extremely sinister had happened when she was messing around with a text-to-image AI model. There was a lot of mystery surrounding this matter at first. The artist originally only called herself "SuperComposite", but it was later revealed that her real name is Stephanie. Her story is that she entered the prompt to make her a picture of the actor Marlon Brando. She then took that image and asked for the opposite of it. She was shown a strange poster-like tableau with a skyline and some unintelligible words. She then asked for the opposite of this second image, perhaps hoping for it to return to some more Brando impressions, but instead something else happened. A picture appeared showing a very ugly and frightening looking woman, illustrated above, something like a witch or zombie. Stephanie called it "Loab" after a word that appeared in an earlier render from the series. When she used the image as a prompt she received a number of increasingly unsightly and disturbing images, all of them depicting some version of the Loab character. When she published these artworks they shocked the world. How on earth did an electronic system possibly generate such a phantasm? It is difficult to know because modern computers are so complex they are essentially chaotic. What's more Stephanie has kept much of Loab's origins private. She won't reveal exactly what software she used or what her exact text prompts were. If she had then lots of people could go out and create their own version of Loab. As it happens they can do this anyway now because Loab has become a viral meme and there are so many online variations of her that all art AI's are able to tap into that from her second-hand popularity. There is even an AI written interview with Loab. Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/ai-image-generaotr-loab-cryptid-supercomposite/.

My guess is that Loab is one of these strange and unpredictable artefacts that emerge out of the near infinite permutations of electronics, something like the Mandelbrot Set, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvTKBYBMFY. Possibly Loab was created deliberately by Stephanie as a prank. Her reticence over the character's origins does indicate that. However, there may be another explanation that is rather worrying. Is Stephanie's computer haunted? Could some kind of occult intelligent force be using artificial intelligence to interact with our world? This would make it similar to the electronic voice phenomenon or instrumental trans-communication, for details see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/03/gary-sudbrink-phone-calls.html. If that is the case then what kind of intelligence is it? Where does it come from? What does it want with us? Is it safe? Will AI therefore become some kind of Ouija board, potentially dangerous, leaving us vulnerable to possession and manipulation? It could be that AI itself is not a threat, but something else could use it as a tool to invade our universe. In the past lots of other methods have been used to generate portals or bridges that allow dark entities to access our reality. I'm not going to be alarmist, but we do need to be careful about such things.
See here for more information: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/12/ben-emlyn-jones-on-nocturnal-frequency.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/12/third-rail-radio-programme-131.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/07/ai-created.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/09/seriously-strange-2024-by-neil-ward.html.

Amelia Earhart Plane Update

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/01/amelia-earhart-plane-found.html.
Deep Sea Vision have returned to the location with better searching equipment, along with a ROV, a remotely operated vehicle, that dived down to the place where the strange object was seen. It built up a more detailed picture of the anomaly and unfortunately it turned out to be a pile of stones. The plane must be down there somewhere, but where? As I said previously, Amelia's low fuel status and the fact that the coastguard found no debris or bodies suggests that she carried out a controlled landing on the ocean surface. There was a life raft on board, but clearly she either failed to escape with it before the plane sank or she and Fred Noonan deployed the life raft, but that also sank before help could arrive. Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-thought-they-found-amelia-earharts-missing-plane-it-turned-out-to-be-a-plane-shaped-pile-of-rocks-180985603/. This is disappointing, but the search will go on. What this saga reveals is the incredible difficulty of finding things on the seabed. It is worse than finding the proverbial needle in a proverbial haystack. One problem related to MH370 is, how could we know if the plane is simply not there? It has taken eighty-eight years of fruitless searching and we still cannot find Amelia's Lookheed Electra; and we have a better idea of where that crashed than we do Malaysia Airlines' Boeing 777, if the Inmarsat method is correct. How much of the Indian Ocean abyss do we need to comb until we can prove the negative, that MH370's wreck is not laying there? The answer is probably never. Every failure just means we have to look a few miles further from the 7th arc or scan the places we already have one more time. This also means that people who dispute that the lost airliner is in that region, like me, cannot demonstrate our case just by waiting for Ocean Infinity to give up.
See here for more background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

Stranger Things- Season One

 

Until recently, Stranger Things was for me a bit like Game of Thrones; everybody seemed to have seen it except me. A lot of my fellow conspiratorialists kept asking me if I'd watched it and were strongly recommending it to me. My first real introduction to the series, beyond second-hand descriptions, was when I visited the fan shop in Las Vegas USA, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/11/meadows.html. I saw shelves of merchandise that consisted mostly of designer 1980's televisions, radios and other household appliances, together with models of a frightening monster with a head shaped like a flower. My curiosity got the better of me and I eventually ended up watching it. At the current time I have watched the first season and a few episodes of the second. It didn't take me long to understand why Stranger Things is so popular in the Woo-o-sphere. I was also not surprised to learn that when it was in pre-production, its working title was "Montauk". Anybody familiar with that strange period of history at the tip of Long Island USA will recognize the scenario. It has an ensemble cast, but in the first season the central figures are four young boys, aged in their early teens. Despite this fact, the series is definitely aimed at adults and probably some of its horror elements are not suitable for younger viewers. It also addresses subjects like the occult, non-consensual human experimentation, child abuse and mind control by the state, embodied by Eleven. Some of the actors are probably a bit too old for their characters, such as Barb. The setting is a small town surrounded by forest and nearby is a government laboratory; in this sense it is very like Dark, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2023/12/dark.html; and there are many other plot parallels between the two series. It is also like Dark stylistically; for example there are the same interlude scenes with music and vignettes. The laboratory is a sinister and furtive place with a tense and slightly fearful relationship to the local civilians that reminds me of Alice Spring, Australia and its nearby compound, Pine Gap. There is good reason for this because it turns out that the laboratory has experiments running into supernatural and psychic powers. It ends up opening a portal into a different dimension that they call "the Upside Down". When this portal is opened, all kinds of strange things happen. This element reminds me of Stephen King's The Mist, see: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/11/mist.html. There are incursions by the denizens of the Upside Down into our world and vice versa. At one point, one of the young boys makes a pet out of a creature from that realm. Another of the boys, Will, is psychologically transformed by his visit to the Upside Down and is compared to Phineas Gage, a railway construction worker who suffered a traumatic brain injury in 1848. Gage's friends and family said that although he didn't lose any mental abilities his personality became very different afterwards. Stranger Things is very multi-faceted and on top of all its other elements it is also a nostalgia movie. There are many throwbacks to typical 1980's culture. Simple but fun computer games, Dungeons and Dragons, off-road bicycles; and, in one episode, the four boys dress up as the Ghostbusters for Halloween. From what I've watched so far, Stranger Things is very good and well worth watching. As with Dark, it's best to binge-watch it rather than leaving it and coming back. That way you won't lose track of the complex storyline and multitude of characters. Manifest went downhill in the second season, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2024/05/manifest.html; I hope Stranger Things doesn't.

Morgoth Doxed

 

A bunch of fascists who dare to call themselves "anti-fascists" have doxed Morgoth. They have published an article which reveals his real name, hometown and some photographs of him taken by a hidden camera concealed on the body of an undercover reporter at a conference in Oxfordshire. The article itself is one of the most libellous pieces of writing I've ever come across. It is loaded with gross misrepresentations, quotes out of context and some vile defamatory descriptions which are transparent rubbish, as anybody who knows Morgoth and is familiar with his work will realize instantly. But for anybody who doesn't know him, they will get the impression that he is some kind of duck-bothering cannibalistic KKK serial killer from Hell. I will not aid and abet his persecutors' sordid mission by providing sources. These nosy and spiteful goons have been "unmasking" as many people as they can; for example, Millennial Woes whom I mentioned a few days ago, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/04/osa-woes.html. For all the years they have been snooping and smearing, Morgoth always evaded them, until now. They have finally found the ace of the pack. Their hope and intention is that this will ruin Morgoth's life. Although he has committed no crime, the effect is almost the same in the modern world. Morgoth has left his home in the English northeast and now lives in Northern Ireland. Maybe the worst of this can wash over him if he applies for an Irish passport, for which he is eligible with an address in the province. However, if he moves to Eire, how long will it be before the bureaucrats in Dublin target him? I'm truly sorry this has happened. Morgoth has done nothing wrong except criticize tyranny, globalism and anti-white racism. I really hope he'll be alright.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.

Joe Biden's Cancer

 

It has just been revealed that Joe Biden has cancer. Somehow this has hit very few people as surprising. In fact I suspect his doctors knew this several years ago and it has been kept out of public knowledge. Unlike his dementia, there are no manifest symptoms that TV viewers and colleagues can notice. Now he is safely out of the White House the people can be told. His cancer is pretty serious. It started off in the prostate and has spread to the bones. At his advanced age his body will find it difficult to resist it. Even Biden's staunchest political enemies have expressed dismay at this announcement. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Tweeted: "This is very sad news. We are praying for his recovery." Source: https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1924202851317768590. President Trump Truthed: "Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden's recent medical diagnosis. We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery." Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114530973523345791. There has been a lot of gloating among the rank-and-file social media users; I not going to join in with them. Gloating in general is an undignified action and I try to resist the temptation to do it. People have made the correct point that his administration has been an enemy of America, effectively treacherous; however, to be criminally responsible you need a working mind that can think and make decisions. Biden lost that many years ago. The real culprits can be found elsewhere and I'm sure they will one day be held accountable. What should be done now? Well, I think the first thing to do is stop making Joe Biden take part in interviews and public speeches. It's time to put him away somewhere quiet so he can spend his remaining days with his family.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/donald-trump-portal.html.

Tennent's Hero

 

See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/04/powergen-bob.html.
And: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/03/scary-tv-ad.html.
Television adverts for beer are generally the best. They usually include the most creativity, humour and have the most memorable slogans; "I bet he drinks... Probably the best lager in the world... It reaches the parts other beers cannot reach" etc. We've explored adverts that make you scream, those that make you laugh; but there are a few that try to hook you in emotionally. This ad is only forty-one seconds long, but it feels like a condensed movie. Actually I think it might be based on a feature film; in fact some of the shots are almost identical. The story is of a young man arriving by helicopter in a charming seaside town. He is clearly somebody important. He has with him a folder containing a picture of an unspoilt cove with a transparency showing what it will look like when some kind of factory or power station is built there. The man is an engineer or official for the company that is planning the facility. He goes into a pub and studies the images, but then clearly has a crisis of conscience. He can't bear to ruin the natural beauty of the area and break up the human community. There is no dialogue, but it is very obvious what's on his mind. After a period of internal conflict, he rips off the transparency and throws it on the fire, indicating that he has decided to do the right thing and refuse to build the plant, no doubt getting him into trouble with his bosses. The other men in the pub then approach him and make friends with him. The music in the score is Nobody's Perfect by the super-group Mike and the Mechanics. Considering he's so heroic, he is entitled to the ultimate reward, a pint of Tennent's Extra. The tagline for the entire marketing campaign is "When you deserve something extra. Tennent's Extra." Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgS-m2Xltnk. The film it is based on is called Local Hero, a very acclaimed Scottish film from the '80's about an American oil company executive who is tasked with converting a traditional Wester Ross village into an oil refinery, but finds he cannot do it; and the experience transforms his life, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ4taEgxplg. Is there anything wrong with advertising? It is about persuasion and inducement; they want you to buy a product. This does involve a degree of manipulation, the drawing in of human interest and, in the case of this beer, engendering sentimentality. I don't know what the answer is to that conundrum. However, there's one thing not open to doubt; you know how bad TV has become when the adverts are better than the programmes.

Paranormal Peep Show on Location

 

I have been to a social meeting of Neil Ward from the Paranormal Peep Show. We were joined by his wife Monica and our friend Gary Robinson.
See here for the audio version: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/paranormal-peep-show-rendevouz-in-reading--66099718.
And here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyOjVCqOCo0.
See here for my previous appearance on the Paranormal Peep Show: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/04/ben-emlyn-jones-on-paranormal-peep-show.html.