Anybody's Autos October 2020

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Facebook -
Their Roots and Legacy
by Traci Bennett
Is Facebook Working with the
Defense Department to Create
Advanced Weaponry Using Your
Memes?
Have you ever felt like the government
was watching you? Well, they
are. In fact, they’ve been watching
you since the late 1990s, and for a
minute there, they were planning
on using your information to create
advanced technological weaponry.
Just kidding! They’re still planning
on doing this. Oh, you thought we
were kidding about the weaponry?
Nah, that’s real. And get this, they’re
doing it all through Facebook. Yes,
seriously. They’re not even denying
it any more, either.
Wait, that’s just a paranoid delusion,
right? It turns out, there’s more
truth in paranoia than there is in the
MSM (MainStream Media). Ever
heard of DARPA? If not, you should
know that DARPA is The Defense
Advanced Research Projects
Agency. They’re a research and
development agency of the United
States Department of Defense.
These are the fine people sponsible
for the development of emerging
technologies for use by the military.
Well, in around 2004, DARPA
had an initiative designed to track
American citizens, and catalog their
information. This was done in all
kinds of jenky and illegal ways, and
due to its obvious infringement on
civil liberty, was shut down. That’s
right, on Feburary 4, 2004, DARPA
officially shut down this intelligence
gathering operation. Simultaneously,
on Feburary 4, 2004, Facebook
was launched. Coincidence? No, it
actually wasn’t. At all. In fact, the
head of Facebook even hired on a
few DARPA employees to keep the
ball rolling. As stated by TIME:
“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
announced April 14 that Regina
Dugan will guide Building 8, a new
research group developing hardware
projects that advance the company’s
efforts in virtual reality, augmented
reality, artificial intelligence and
global connectivity.
Dugan served as the head of the
Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency from 2009
and 2012. Most recently, she led
Google’s Advanced Technology and
Projects Lab, a highly experimental
arm of the company responsible for
developing new hardware and software
products on a strict two-year
timetable.”
The point is, Facebook was
launched in close correlation with
the DARPA group to gather all of
the information that they couldn’t
get without legally notifying citizens
of the United States. Ever signed a
Facebook User Agreement? Well,
there you go. It’s still working
closely with DARPA today, so keep
that in mind the next time you like
a status, post a meme, or accept a
friend request from a bot.
https://steemit.com/discussion/@
boodles17/is-facebook-dervivedfrom-darpas-lifelog-project
https://www.google.com/amp/s/
www.wired.com/story/darpa-total-informatio-awareness/amp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/
time.com/4294095/facebook-research-lab-building-8-darpa-regina-dugan/%3Famp%3Dtrue
OCTOBER
Make Education f
Susan P. (Peppi) Bennett
www.ANYBODYSAUTOS.net
Make Education f
Susan Bennett graduated Summa Cum
Laude in 1981 with a bachelor degree
in education and a teaching certificate
from the state of Florida. Shortly after
that she moved to Campbell County
with her husband, Hugh
… editor
I quickly found myself teaching in
CCSD with some of the best staff I
could imagine. Teachers were being
recruited from states all over America
with varied excellent skills, ambition
and a love for students, trustworthy
and enthusiastic about providing kids
with a quality education. Many of the
schools in Gillette were brand new,
as the district was challenged with a
booming population. The parents and
students were enthusiastic, committed
and quite supportive overall. It was
exciting as there was a sense of building
a community together. We seldom heard
of suicides or drug addictions, guns at
school, declining achievement, etc.
Students had strong work ethics and
were involved in the community. They
actually expected homework each
week. There were personal teacher
aides to assist them as they directed.
The teachers set their own schedules,
helped each other out and met the
curriculum objectives with their unique
skills and toolkits. There were no forced
PLC (Professional Learning Community)
meetings and it was before cell
phones, laptops or ipads. Classes were
at maximum numbers and there was a
lot of natural camaraderie among staff
and families as we were all working
together for the best of our new found
lives here.
Meanwhile, the district administration
experimented on us it seemed, asking
us to implement the latest techniques
and trends in education. Things like
Open Classrooms, Madeline Hunter,
phonics to whole language, cooperative
learning, SALSA language, to
name a few. It seemed like just when
we were beginning to make progress
with a curriculum, a new one would
be adopted and we would spend
countless hours learning to master
that one. Despite the well-intended,
continual changes, the staff
of highly qualified teachers were
jumping through hoops as fast as
they could, while raising their own
families, yet despite the constant
interruptions and expectations, we
still produced great results as we
invested in Gillette.
Continual Changing Trends take
their toll:
Over the years it has become obvious
that all the quickly changing
trends etc. have taken its toll on
our education, not only nationally,
but locally as well. Teachers seem
overworked, tired, worn out and
less than enthusiastic. Student
achievement needs improvement
and much
of the emphasis is
on testing now, it
seems students
have spent more
time on testing
than learning. So
what happened?
It seems like
public education
is failing us.
More students battle
suicide than we have
ever seen before. Parents are searching
for alternatives. The government seems
to continue to throw more money at
the problem with things like “No Child
left behind” and “Common Core”, fund
every student with a device, yet the lack
of improved results seems to indicate
more wasted time and money.
From my experience I would suggest
that throwing more money at the
problems is not the answer. Perhaps
we should go back and study what has
worked, learn from our past successes.
There are many things that can be
addressed to improve the situation. Let’s
take a look at just 3 things that have no
doubt contributed to higher achievement
and more success with students
and schools, that have been lacking or
diminished in today’s public education
system.
First it is extremely important to realize
our greatest resource in education:
Our great teachers.When teachers are
no longer respected and treated as
professionals by the administration they
lose their enthusiasm, dedication and
their unique creativity that cannot be
replaced by technology. Great teachers
are those who have a competitive edge,
utilize high expectations, give generously
and freely of their time and talents,
as they love to see their parents and
students succeed. However when administrators
act or think like they know
more than the professional educators, or
take advantage of the teacher’s limited
time, we have problems.
Mandating teachers and students all
stay on the same page, at the same time,
as is expected with “common core”,
or forcing teachers to attend countless
meetings to collaborate with peers
when their time is limited to begin with,
instead of allowing them to set their
own schedules to collaborate as needed,
stifles excellence, competition and
creativity. When administration treats
their teachers as if they know more than
their teachers do. Or when they do not
respect them as the professionals they
are, to trust them to create and manage
their own time and schedules, we lose
our great educators. It seems administration
may sometimes be justifying
their positions by pushing new trends,
etc. on educators continually while failing
to recognize and respect the limited