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History of Man | Percy Jackson Retelling

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SUMMARY: Helen Snow has spent ten years at Camp Half-Blood, ignored by the gods and unclaimed. Despite her bitterness, she would never betray them—until she's blamed for a betrayal she never intended. Caught in the web of fate, Helen's life mirrors the tragic story of her namesake, Helen of Troy. With a prophecy hanging over her, she wonders: can she escape the cycle of history, or is she doomed to repeat it? In a world where gods pull the strings and mortals bear the consequences, Helen must choose—fight fate or surrender to it. The men start wars, yet Troy still hates Helen. Can Helen break free from the patterns of the past, or will she be trapped in the same cycle of heartbreak and betrayal that defines the history of man?

Helen's Handbook of People to Help Mr D Remember Them

ACT ONE: LETHAL WOMAN 00. My Brother & I Almost Die in a Car Crash 01. I Should Apparently Not Fear Accidental Incest 02. My Two Best Friends Trick Me Into Making a Deal with the Devil 03. How I (Almost) Met My Mother 04. My Best Friends & I Throw a Rager in the Woods 05. I Get Dragged into Babysitting Two 12-Year-Olds & A 24-Year-Old 06. My Existence Even Confuses a Gorgon 07. I Lose Children in St. Louis & Find My Brother 08. I Call in a Favour From an Ex 09. My First Time in Vegas & I'm Sober 10. Los Angeles, More Like Los Demonios 11. My Mother Finds Me 12. I Watch a Child Almost Die 13. I Get Summoned to Mount Olympus 14. I Watch a Child Almost Die, For a Second Time 15. I Make a Choice (Against My Will)

Glory & Gore | Percy Jackson Universe

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SUMMARY: In the world of Percy Jackson, four demigods are called to save the gods—by collecting powerful relics hidden across the globe. Cordelia Blake, the responsible leader, teams up with her best friend Margot, wine-loving Charlie, and sarcastic Sean. From jungles to deserts, they race against time, battling monsters, curses, and their own issues. With a shape-shifting van and the weight of the prophecy on their shoulders, they’ll discover that glory and gore go hand in hand. They may be demigods, but survival requires more than just divine blood—it takes heart, and a lot of fight.

The Characters

01. Cordelia: The Gods Ruin My Day (And Probably My Life) 02. Margot: So Apparently, We’re Saving the World? Gross. 03. Charlie: We Get a Van, and It Immediately Develops an Attitude 04. Sean: New York is Expensive, So We Steal Everything and Leave 05. Cordelia: Florida: Where the Wildlife is Just as Dangerous as the Gods 06. Margot: A Ghostly Sea Monster Tries to Drown Me, But Jokes on It—I Can’t Swim 07. Charlie: Mexico City Almost Kills Us Before Breakfast (Rude) 08. Sean: Bat Gods, Ancient Curses, and My Declining Will to Live 09. Cordelia: The Jungle is Full of Bugs, Monsters, and Bad Decisions 10. Margot: I Accidentally Make a River God Cry, and It’s Not My Fault (This Time) 11. Charlie The Amazon Has Fire Ants, Angry Spirits, and No Wine 12. Sean: Sweden Has a Very Judgmental Tree, and I Take It Personally 13. Cordelia We Meet a Goat, and It’s Smarter Than All of Us Combined 14. Margot: Greek Ruins? Cool. Fire Traps? Less Cool. 15. Charlie: My First Time in Egypt, and I Already Have a Curse (New Record!) 16. Sean: The Sphinx Does Not Appreciate My Trivia Skills 17. Cordelia: Beijing is Cool, But the Forbidden City is a Bit Too Literal 18. Margot: Japan Has Beautiful Shrines and Water Demons Who Hate Me 19. Charlie: The Van Gets Seasick, and So Do I 20. Sean I Accidentally Gamble with a Volcano Goddess (And Lose) 21. Cordelia: Australia: Where the Spiders, Snakes, and Gods Want Me Dead 22. Margot: We Recruit an Aussie, and He’s Disturbingly Chill About It 23. Charlie: The Hangvan Decides We Deserve to Suffer 24. Sean: The Final Piece is in a Place That Shouldn’t Exist, So Naturally, We Go There 25. Cordelia: The Gods Want a Fight, and I Was Not Given a Weapon or a Choice 26. Margot: I Become the Ocean’s Problem (Again) 27. Charlie: The Hangvan Goes Out in a Blaze of Glory, and I’m Taking Credit for It 28. Sean: A Lost City, an Old God, and the Worst Field Trip Ever 29. Cordelia: Nine Demigods Walk Into a War, and None of Us Are Laughing 30. Margot: Glory, Gore, and Charlie's Stupidest Victory Speech in History

The Prophecy | The Hunger Games

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SUMMARY: Welcome to the 25th Hunger Games! In The Prophecy, the 25th Hunger Games take an unexpected turn when the districts vote for their tributes. Kassandra Caducus, an 18-year-old girl who feels like a lesser woman in a world that keeps throwing bad things her way, is thrown into the arena with the Covey twins, Livia and Icarus Clade. Struggling to survive, she feels like she’s just on her knees begging the world to change her fate. With each betrayal, each loss, she wonders if she’s doomed to play out her life like fools in a fable. But in a world built on broken promises, Kassie starts to question: Who do I have to speak to to change the prophecy?

Meet the Tributes & Mentors

PART ONE: The People Have Spoken 01. The Vote is In, and I Am Unfortunate 02. My Boss Chose Me Over the Girl Who Steals Thread 03. Valeria Panza Has No Faith in Me (Neither Do I) 04. The Capitol Prefers Their Victims Well-Dressed 05. A Stylist’s Job is to Make Me Look Less Doomed 06. I Am Paraded Before the Masses Like a Prize Lamb 07. I Shake Hands With My Executioners 08. The Only Girl Who Likes Me is Watching Me Die 09. The Others Train for Battle, I Watch and Learn 10. I Hold a Knife for the First Time, and It Feels Wrong

PART TWO: A Cage of Our Own Making 11. The Zoo Gates Open, and We Are the Exhibit 12. The First Rule of the Games: Do Not Be Seen 13. A Panther Stalks the Cornucopia, and So Do the Careers 14. The District 12 Tributes Are Unlucky in Every Way 15. A Tiger Watches Me from the Dark—Then Walks Away 16. Hiding is Easy When You’ve Spent Your Life Doing It 17. A Monkey Brings Me Berries, and I Trust Him More Than People 18. The Gamemakers Are Growing Impatient, and So Are the Wolves 19. A Stampede Reminds Us That We Are Not the True Predators Here 20. It Ends the Way It Began—With a Choice

PART THREE: Welcome to Your New Nightmare 21. I Have Won, But I Do Not Feel Like a Victor 22. They Dress Me in Gold and Expect Me to Smile 23. District 8 Calls Me a Survivor. They Mean It as an Insult 24. I Tell the Families I Am Sorry, Though It Means Nothing 25. Venus Hadriana Shows Me How to Live With Blood on My Hands 26. President Snow’s Kindness is a Warning 27. I Am the Capitol’s Latest Creation, and I Must Play My Role 28. A Victor Belongs to the Games Forever 29. The Quarter Quell Was a Test, and We All Failed 30. I Leave the Arena, But It Follows Me Home

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I love how we all pretend Gwen was the cool suave one in ITSV as if she didn’t introduce herself as “GwaaaaaaaGwanda. My names...

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a random child asks Batman “How many times a day do you think about the Roman Empire?” for the meme and accidentally unlocks a...

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Kinda obsessed w how Ganke was 0% on board to be Miles’ guy in the chair. Kid was Thee #1 Spiderman fan in the first movie but...

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DP x DC AU where the entire JL thinks Danny a dead high school student tragically still haunting his school and pretending to...

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One U.S. state stands out in restricting corporate use of biometrics: Illinois

Privacy advocates warn that the swift, largely unchecked growth of tracking technologies has outpaced existing laws in most states, leaving individuals vulnerable.

ST. LOUIS — When night fell, a clerk at a bustling 24-hour MotoMart flipped a switch from behind the counter.

Electromagnetic locks sealed the doorway. A window sign, now illuminated in red, warned “facial recognition technology in use” and directed customers to “look up at the camera.”

On this recent weeknight, a woman who wanted cigarettes was locked out. Confused at first, she quickly realized that she needed to remove her medical mask. After her unobstructed facial image was scanned into a store computer, then screened against the company’s photo archives of previous customers convicted of store-related crimes, the doors clicked open.

Just a few miles away, across the Missouri state line in Illinois, such screening is against the law under the toughest privacy laws in the country. Private companies must obtain written consent before stockpiling facial images or any biometric identifier — fingerprints, palms, eyes and voice.

The contrast speaks to America’s digital privacy divide. On one side is Illinois, along with two other states and several U.S. cities that currently require some form of public disclosure or consent to biometric screening. On the other is the rest of the country, including Missouri, where private sector uses are by and large unrestricted.

Illinois’ law prohibits private sector companies and institutions from collecting biometric data from unsuspecting citizens in the state or online, no matter where the business is based. Data cannot be sold, transferred or traded. Unlike any other state, citizens can sue for alleged violations, which has sparked hundreds of David-and-Goliath legal battles against some of the world’s most powerful companies.

A Reuters review of nearly 750 individual and class-action suits filed in Illinois since 2015 found widespread evidence that private companies, without disclosure or consent, have collected, tagged and categorized biometric data gleaned from millions of unsuspecting Americans. Most suits have been filed since 2019, when the Illinois Supreme Court, in a bombshell decision, ruled plaintiffs did not have to show harm to collect damages.

Privacy advocates warn that the swift, largely unchecked growth of such tracking technologies has outpaced existing laws in most states, leaving individuals vulnerable to identity theft, invasion of privacy and discriminatory practices. Unlike a credit card or driver license, a person’s biometric data is unique and cannot be changed or replaced.

The MotoMart system is designed to protect privacy with tamper-proof software that prohibits owners from importing or exporting biometric data involving any outside source, said Thomas Sawyer, a retired St. Louis police detective. He co-founded Blue Line Technology, LLC, which created the store’s face recognition system, with a group of former and active law enforcement officers.

“We want people to know they are being watched,” he said. “That’s why we have signs and a flashing light.”

Court records show that many companies use biometric systems to track employee and student performance or monitor customers in order to develop marketing and sales strategies. The suits detail how companies or institutions allegedly used a fingerprint database of amusement park visitors, including children, to look for signs of ticket fraud; examined college students’ eye movements and typing cadence for signs of cheating; and monitored employee interactions — whom they talked to and for how long — and frequency of their bathroom breaks.

Cases are also pending against global web-based giants including Amazon, Apple and Alphabet's Google, as well as brick-and-mortar corporations such as McDonald’s. The food chain is accused of recording voices of some drive-thru customers to track purchasing patterns, according to the suit. Complaints against the four companies are pending. All four declined to comment.

In court papers, Amazon, Apple and Google denied any violation of Illinois’ law, maintaining that privacy disclosures were provided to all users. Also in court filings, McDonald’s disputed the accusations against the company and asserted that voice data was used for training purposes and “not to identify individual speakers.”

If a company is found to have violated Illinois law, citizens can collect civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation compounded by the number of people affected and days involved. No state regulatory agency is involved in enforcement.

Some companies have opted for staggering settlements. Facebook settled for $650 million last year following accusations that the social media giant collected millions of facial photos without proper consent. Earlier this year, Tik Tok’s China-based parent ByteDance settled for $92 involving similar allegations. Neither company acknowledged wrongdoing and neither responded to Reuters requests for comment.

At least half of pending suits involve regional or local companies. A court verdict or settlement — even for violations that did not result in measurable harm — could be financially crippling and lead to layoffs, said Jack Lavin, chief executive officer and president of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce.

“Illinois law has been weaponized,” he said. “It’s created a cottage industry for suing companies.”

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform labels Illinois a “judicial hell hole.”

Fingerprinting at the grocery store

It seemed like an idea out of science fiction: using a fingerprint scanner to buy groceries. But in 2008, a California company swept into Illinois with just such a futuristic online marketing pitch: “Imagine this. At checkout, you place your finger on a small scanner. Instantly you see a list of your payment accounts on a screen, checking account, credit or debit card … no cards, checks, cash — or hassle.”

Soon after shoppers signed up, the company declared bankruptcy. Court filings revealed that the company planned to liquidate inventory, including the fingerprint database, to outside companies.

The Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union leapt to action and sponsored legislation that became the Illinois Biometric Information and Privacy Act, or BIPA. The California company’s fingerprint database was destroyed.

“We aren’t trying to ban technology,” said spokesman Ed Yohnka. “We want to put protections in place to control, manage, inform and obtain consent.”

Only two other states currently enforce comprehensive biometric privacy laws. Texas and Washington regulate compliance through a government agency, like an attorney general, a Reuters review of state records show. However, both states’ laws are generally viewed as weaker than Illinois’ mandates by privacy advocates; agencies often seek voluntary reform if violations are substantiated. California will implement more comprehensive privacy protections in 2022, which will limit how data is collected and create a new state regulatory agency focused on consumer privacy laws.

Meanwhile, pro-business groups are fighting to modify Illinois’ law.

In January, the Chicago chamber of commerce sponsored legislation to soften financial penalties and eliminate citizens’ right to sue, known in legal parlance as a “private right to action.” The measure failed for lack of support.

"We could do all kinds of stuff with this!"

The Missouri MotoMart was the first store in the country to install the surveillance lock-out device created by Blue Line. The firm represents one of dozens of nascent companies in America that are struggling to gain prominence in the facial recognition industry, focusing on small businesses with tight budgets.

Blue Line launched in 2015 after Sawyer visited his friend, Marcos Silva, a former military software programmer who now works as a St. Louis police detective.

“Do you want to see something in my garage?” Sawyer recalled Silva asking.

Silva demonstrated a prototype for a face recognition program. Sawyer said he blurted, “We could do all kinds of stuff with this!”

Today, Blue Line oversees about 50 systems, which cost about $10,000 each, in convenience stores and gas stations in 12 states. A private Catholic high school in suburban St. Louis also uses the Blue Line system to verify student identities before they can enter the building.

But Blue Line confronts a shifting regulatory landscape. A Portland store abandoned its system after the city council voted to prohibit private sector use of face recognition beginning this year. The ban does not apply to government or law enforcement.

Dozens of cities are now weighing new biometric restrictions. New York City modeled much of its new privacy law this year after Illinois; businesses are required to publicly and prominently disclose when biometric systems are used.

Cities should “press pause” on allowing biometric technologies until laws require public transparency and corporate accountability, said Alan Butler, executive director of Wash. D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Without legal safeguards, he said, real-time face recognition systems like the one developed by Blue Line represent a “systemic threat to privacy.”

But Sawyer said he has proof Blue Line’s program works. He showed Reuters a six-second video from July 2018 at an AM/PM convenience store in Yakima, Washington.

At 1:20 a.m., two young men wearing ski masks dashed to the store’s front door. Both appeared to clutch handguns under dark clothing. One man pulled the door handle, locked by Blue Line’s system. Both men turned and ran.

Kush Hans, the owner of the store, said he installed the Blue Line system in 2017 after a masked robber fatally shot a 25-year-old clerk, a family relative.

Since face recognition has been installed, there have been no more robberies, he said.

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With 20 years of experience helping clients develop brands, Birk Creative CEO JinJa Birkenbeuel feels that “many business owners have trouble seeing the forest through the trees because they are so busy looking down, grinding it out. It’s one thing to have an idea. It’s another thing to execute. I’m all about the execution and turning your ideas into a brand.” It was for this expertise that Tesla tapped Birk Creative to create and develop a branding initiative for its SolarCity Diversity and Inclusion Department. As Tesla’s solar energy subsidiary, SolarCity was tasked with creating internal and external awareness to maintain a diverse workforce. To carry out the mission, Birk Creative developed a brand identity, tagline, value statements and visuals to serve as effective recruiting tools for potential employees for whom affinity with co-workers is important.

Beyond the success of an individual company, effective branding can have a deeper impact for an entire community, as proven in our partnership with NextLevel Health. Designated by the State of Illinois as a Medicaid managed healthcare plan, the startup hired Birk Creative to redevelop its brand strategy and message, and clearly articulate its brand promise and unique voice. A full-package rebrand, based on research and results, humanized NextLevel and gained the trust of thousands of potential Medicaid consumers. To bring NextLevel Health’s new tagline to life, “A healthier you. A healthier community,” Birk Creative developed a new brand identity, logo, web system, full media/ad buy in all mediums, social/print collateral and expansive guidelines for consistent brand support. Ultimately, through our collaborative partnership, rigorous creative process and outstanding brand messaging apparatus, we brought NextLevel Health to the next level-—it was acquired by Centene, the St. Louis-based Medicaid managed care operator that controls the largest Medicaid market share in Illinois.

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Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Web Development: Innovation with Responsibility

Innovation is the driving force behind groundbreaking digital experiences with web development. However, as developers, we bear a profound responsibility to ensure that our innovations are not only cutting-edge but also ethically sound. Balancing innovation with responsibility in the digital sphere is paramount for creating a positive impact on users and society as a whole.

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is decentralization good ?

First of all, I've been working 24/7 lately to build a stable open-source decentralized ecosystem... so I support decentralization but lately I saw some other view points and they see decentralization as a bad thing, and I wanted to address them as they make sense somehow.

when you say decentralization, the first thing comes to people's mind is web3 and cryptocurrencies, but this is not our scope right now, we'll be talking about decentralized networks, databases, and apps.

illegal activities

Some argue that decentralized networks prioritize privacy to an extreme extent, making it challenging for authorities to detect and prevent illegal activities such as terrorism, child exploitation, drug trafficking, and more...

cyber threats

and some suggest that decentralized networks are more susceptible to cyber threats and attacks due to the distributed nature of data storage and communication.

What do I think ?

let's start from illegal activities, first of all, these activities are already being done on the dark web and web3, and I don't support both of them, so when I say we're building a decentralized ecosystem we won't see thousand criminals writing code to build a network for their drug trafficking activities, without saying that a lot of corrupted authorities are the ones managing it so... let's stay out of it :)

and when it comes to security, that's true, and it's the main purpose I started the ddeep ecosystem project. most decentralized networks are vulnerable and they lack stability... making it a hard choice for developers to go to.

Soon this won't be the case, in a paper published by Washington University in St. Louis in 2019, they talk about internet decentralized systems, well they mentioned IPFS, SSB, and BitTorrent, and we are now in 2023 and I think all these systems are not the right road to go if we want to build a free decentralized internet and we need to take things to another level.

After all, what about technologies like smart homes, internet of things, and social media... well these technologies should absolutely get decentralized, just think about it for a moment.!

thanks for reading. appreciate it!