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[Maurice Ali]

I have the bare bones of the letters I will send out. Remember that this is unsolicited mail so don't expect anything.




You should look at this effort as a last ditch effort at dissemination with a tiny chance of reply. Now if it fails here, then it starts up with the new Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General.




This idea of "quietly" embedding a voting "tool" in the Secretariat as an "opt in" service does have some merit. If a war seems imminent the tool could be activated for the general public to contribute with numbers to help show the feeling "on the ground" and thus help to avoid wars - just as one example. This way we do not face a big pushback from the detractors as we would the other way - and the job of starting this I guess could be initiated before the end of the year?




I always smile when I see someone checked out my book at a library!



Some may ask what happened to the Positive Mandate for Humanity? It is still being advocated for, but the global vote has to come first. For those new to this there is a short summary on what that is:



https://youtu.be/d1OxmTR-RU8?si=XCfywRyGAO6MExF7



This effort is worth it even as a "Hail Mary". Sending letters to these two people puts you in their position as you write this and consolidates a strategy that only happens when you put an outlandish effort into being - it is worth it!



So on it goes. I will try to finish up the rustproofing in the Mustang and the Enclave this weekend. Maybe some last-minute work outside of both homes before the snow starts to fall.




Goodnight.....





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[Maurice Ali]

The two letters are ready to be put into their IAIJ templates and then I just keep looking at them. They go out early next week and after a few reads you just send them. Nothing will ever be perfect but if you don't send it nothing happens and time is important here.



There is a good chance that even if read it may be too late to do anything. However, it could also be the best time to do something as contentious as this. So it goes out in a few days.



I'm nobody's fool when it comes to human nature. But it just seems so close to me that any improvement in humanity nature brings such an unfathomable reduction of unhappiness and pain, that you just have to keep lobbing "Hail Marys" and see what sticks.




UNESCO IN Paris, France!



https://youtu.be/twGeYTGSZJ0?si=qEAgY5YAjgkARSud



What will they say about my life. Probably nothing as I will die as an unknown. Just make me a player on the world stage. Some will say you already are given how few there actually are doing what you do. But some kind of score would cement that goal or identity. The journalist stuff at WSIS+10 was not my dissemination as I was brought in as the "poster boy" for citizen journalism at the time. Those rights and freedoms and protections for citizen journalists and other online workers are now international policy as voted on by a majority vote at the United Nations. I was there for most of that from UNESCO Headquarters to the General Assembly Hall. However, this was not my initiation like the other stuff.





My speech in General Assembly!



https://youtu.be/tuuCKyCrcT0?si=hgv0JqN3ZKYOavB5


https://youtu.be/T4Xf2Efb6_w?si=2JlauFHKN6Hf3-qE


To operate in this realm you sort of have to be Genghis Khan but appear to be Mr. Rogers to the world. I am a monster because of my past, but a monster beholden to a moral imperative to do good. So far this has taken me places and defined my identity, so no chance of stopping the experiment. I am the experiment.....








Goodnight.....





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[Maurice Ali]

Meh.....



I didn't feel like posting - but - the letters to the Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General have been sent to the United Nations!



That was the plan and it got done.....



I checked out the new Apple Duo foldable and I was surprisingly impressed with just how solid and premium it felt. The sold-out thing is them making a change in the production and it probably is about some screen issues? While
at the mall I saw kids in Halloween costumes going store to store and getting the candy that way - now that's an interesting way to do it! On my way home I noticed my street was full of kids and houses giving the candy away. Heck my neighbor had two banners at the front saying "Trick" and the other "Treat".
One funny sight was this neighbor who had this tail sticking out of her butt, not dangling but standing proud which was entertaining if she walked.....


Sunday I got serious about sending the letters out. It took all day until about five and I was now a free man. Free to wash my car before the sun set.....



And that was the weekend. I did not get to cut my hair or even finally transfer photos and video from the iPhone from the UN trip last September. I'll do
it tonight for sure. I did download the AI versions of Adobe software a disgruntled Adobe customer did as revenge for Adobe being total dicks about their proprietary software. My beef is that just to view a pdf you have a huge Adobe app that wants to be signed to and track you just to read a pdf. Well the dude got AI to reproduce the PDF app for free. Now all sorts of people are helping this open-source alternative stick it to Adobe. I started with an unused laptop Saturday night. Then checking things out I put it all on the Lenovo Yoga. That's it until they really refine the apps and then I'll put it on a real computer with some grunt to it.....




Goodnight.....





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[Maurice Ali]

Ha - I was going to upload pics of my envelopes sent to the UN but I did it on the S25 Ultra and now I'm back using the iPhone 17 PM. Anyway it is sent. Remember this is a "Hail Mary" event, it is unsolicited mail but even so you never know.....


I bought a new Ridge Wallet as a treat for getting the UN stuff done. It should arrive Monday. I got it on sale sixty bucks off in Stonewashed titanium. But even at 140.00 CAD it is still a rip-off so I returned a bunch of unwatched DVD/Blurays back to a Walmart and got back 67 bucks to take off that Ridge Wallet. Even at 79.65 it's still a rip-off but at least I do not feel violated. People return these things like crazy because of the price, so I figured the sales items are returns. Some just come in a bag with no accessories. But I have all that so bring it on!


I am also now drafting our written statement to the Commission for Social Development. That should be done before the deadline of November 12. A few days before we will conclude the Worldwide Vote on the Commission's topic this upcoming session. Note that you can still vote through our apps or online:



https://worldwidevote.org/Page_3.html



That will be another vote "proof of concept" event to make the statement that a global vote can work at the United Nations.









So there is now talk about the WIPO getting involved in the example of what happened to Adobe having its apps recreated in a "clean room" senario using Claude as the AI. The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) is a United Nations (see why the UN is so important to me) Specialized Agency like the ITU and is based in Geneva with its Own Director General. FOFSTOCK may get involved at this place since music is under attack! Realize that all the hoopla is mostly about the first real public example of this, and to an old jaundiced eye if you were going to sort of copy popular apps you would start with one like Adobe that so many people hate. You would start there and not some humanitarian app made by some not-for-profit, nobody will be cheering that on!



So while nobody is crying tears for Adobe and Microsoft, don't take your eyes off the other more liked players in this realm. I'm not taking a side, just noting that Adobe was the first target of this and the easiest to do in public opinion.



Like I said, in true journalist fashion I'm not taking sides. I don't use Adobe for video as I use Avid and Davinci Resolve. And I have actual licenses for Photoshop and Microsoft office though these are all old versions. Anyway, these are interesting times!




Goodnight.....





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[Maurice Ali]

Not much to say today except about the speed of AI.



They say about 12% will lose their jobs to AI. I hope that's the number but I fear it may be higher. Physicists and mathematicians - of all people - are now being relegated to fact checkers of new material being made by AI. Many of these people were some of the most arrogant (and racist) people around, now their talent is almost valueless as the AI will probably end up doing the fact checking and is it better and cheaper.


Manual coding by humans is no longer a job anymore as AI does it better, cheaper and faster. It goes on and on. At some point we have to
realize that society is for people and people need a reason to exist. Humans are, by themselves, the ones making themselves irrelevant - just how funny is that.....



If you don't believe it, watch some YouTube videos about it. And then realize that the voice behind the cartoon graphics is most likely AI.....



I did get my stonewashed titanium Ridge Wallet! Even on sale and with me returning some DVDs - it's still a ripoff. But now I have a nice shiny accessory that I carry around.



The written statement starts today in earnest.....




Goodnight......





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