Cyber Space / Twitter

It’s a funny situation, somebody an expert of IT made a practical joke and created

hundreds of my Twitter accounts (all under Yoshizen’s name but different account code and

pass-word which I don’t know hence I can’t access or Tweet back) and sent-out automatic

“Following you” click to thousands of Twitter user, thence thousand of Twitterers followed

back (me) = Hence, I’m receiving “The person is following you” automatic notice. Everything is

run automatic (programmed) = completely out of my hand and out of my concern. ( the person

seemed to have tested his “Net promotion program” me as a guinea-pig :-D)

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Even funnier is, it seems tens of Twitterer are sending direct message “ This person is saying

dreadful things about you” kind, expecting me to click back their link though, I’m a Zennist.

I don’t give a damn to those = If anybody really saying anything dreadful, let the person say.

And most likely no such things could ever happen, because very few people know who really I am

hence not a kind of dreadful real story could ever be created.

If a funny picture of me has been uploaded, let it be there = make others smile is good

things, but I don’t need to give a glance at all.  —– In fact, I made a setting of

my Email  [***  has sent you direct message]  is automatically goes into trash.

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This is the syber space / false environment = Everything is just a stream (in fact, compact packet)

of electronic pulses.   And how true its information is = Who knows.

And this is why, everybody just saying “How nice” and others are reply the same almost

automatically. = Scratch the back and others will scratch your back automatically = hence, making

up the number of followers, hit, so-called friends automatically high. = Nothing is serious.

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Among the animal, Mankind is only a creature having a false environment.

Thanks (goodness) to have huge memory bank in our (semi-artificially) enlarged brain, we can

accumulate huge past patterns. And with the algorithm we figure out to forecast future or other’s

response based on the information from the memory bank. = in other words, we are living in the

false environment based upon a speculation. = imaginary sphere.

Seeing the number of [followers] or so-called [friends], thousand of it may make the person feel

happy = congratulation.

Since we have the said [imaginary sphere] include the image of oneself, we are very very

self conscious, we are very conscious about what others are saying or seeing you.

Because of we have no confidence of the [imagined Self] —– whether it is true

or illusion = we need to know the proof from others.

This is almost an obsession between the Ego and the fear of failure.

(Though, it exclude Zennist = Zennist has no Emotional Attachment to the SELF,

not mention the self-conscious to pay attention what others say about “ME”

= Zennist doesn’t have imaginary sphere).

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With those reason I don’t have an account of Face*** something or Twitter (myself) in fact

any of so-called SNS. —– (though, I had to make Google+ account when I found I couldn’t send

Email with attachment any more, —– I couldn’t solve the problem with any change of setting

= I thought “may be Google is harassing me, because I don’t use real name, location etc”

= I needed to try please Google though, I’m not doing anything there since then. 😦 and 😀 )

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I wonder, how others is living with Twitter = is it useful or made you any happier 😀

(Isn’t your happy feeling = false ? —– Think deep)

—– Because of its ease of communication, Net is giving you a false impression that

you are in the circle though, in fact, in real term, it is making the people

more and more isolated. (and made a person immobile and obese  😀 ) 

—– think deeper.

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CYBER SPACE — (and Z80 mini-computer)

It is 25 years  since  Dot Com was first created,  and 20 years since  WWW  was invented.

One of my old colleague,  Camera Critics,  Kazuo Taira  was one of the pioneer of the PC networking, using

acoustic telephone modem and he organized the Photographer’s Computer Network in Japan.

It’s shame Mr.Taira  is no longer with us.  Unfortunately  we in the creative field tend to lose the friends who

tend to be a heavy drinker.  ( Do you know,  the average life-span of Rock musicians are 38 something,

of cause it may not caused by the alcohol alone )

And since then, our lives are more and more entwined with the Computer and the Internet.

Nearly 20 years ago,  I made a small computer using Z80 CPU,

designed from the scratch.  ( Left  Photo)

( I would say, it’s a half sculpture, half computer )

Its operates on only 10 MHz clock speed and having 512 Kb memory,

which needs to be programmed by Machine Code.

—– In electronics, to design and to build is one thing and

to make it works is the another.

Eliminate all the glitches and instability etc etc are the hard part.

—– As the definition,  computer operates on the data in the

memory,  once the memory was corrupted,  it needs to re-program from the start.

( It was the time of  UV erasable  memory,  before easy to re-program  Flash-memory )

After this experience,  I became a computer skeptic ” Computer can make mistakes ” hence, even now

I don’t use Credit Card and I rather like to use hard-wired design,  not soft control.

In this reason, I honestly admire the person who can design and manufacture a  10 GHz device which works

in any environment  reliably.

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In another side of the revolution,  the Internet is becoming almost a monster, and the Necessary Evil.

Since  I  started to use Email,  I wrote very few letters  which  needed to be a signed evidence.

—– The trouble of Net is their intrusive activities.  As everybody knows,  Google / Gmail is

watching our use of web and the contents of communications word by word. ( Cookies, hidden files etc)

When I heard about  Facebook,  I instantly felt their dubious nature  ” Why do they need to have so much

detailed personal information ? “—– obviously they are  the salable commodities.

Without having such profitable return,  what is the point to provide free service.

Personal info’ used to be sold to the marketing / direct mail company before.  Now the Internet provider,

social networking site are the Marketing/ Advertising/ Direct-mailing/ Delivery Service  All-in-one.

(When  I got an Email from one of our Old-boy telling, he has reached to the grand age, the Ads on right hand

column are all cheap Funeral service and the international flower delivery — Great, thank you very much :-D)

So that from the beginnings I didn’t use my real name to open Email account, and never sign up the

Website which asks Date of Birth.  ( Still, now Yahoo knows my DOB, obviously from the content of

the mail between me and my friend. )

With full name and the DOB, the one can hack-in and get the information of National Health, and

together with the Address,  it is possible to access the Banking information.

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To live in peace, we have to be aware ” We are in the battle field ” which the Buddhists call  Samsara.

With technology and the Internet,  we opened the Pandora’s Box.   It’s a funny situation, as in the Informations

we are becoming almost naked,  in the same time our contact itself becoming even more indirect.

Just by  the chain of characters on the screen, a 30 years guy pretending as a 15 years old boy,  chatting

with a 40 years woman who pretending 13 years old girl. —– Yuck,  how  beautiful,   😀

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Zen  rely on the Direct Transmission,  still what I’ve been trying here, is the triple, quadruple indirect

communications.  In order to type, I converted my feeling to the lingual form, and express it in the

bloody English, which typed chain of ASCII code traveled through unknown node here and there and

end up —– how do I know where.

As I thought,  I never met Buddha himself,  or  I have any idea , how many times the Mantra was translated

or re-written,  and  2500 years apart, someone try to reach the same conclusion as Buddha,

( in the point of indirectness, this is the far-most remote situation )

still, if its works,  a talk to others through  Internet may works too.

Thats what I’m thinking.

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