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Been looking through your "fu yao and nan feng are real" au and I keep imagining a scene similar to brooklyn 99's famous "BONE" scene but it's FY yelling MQ him and FX just need to fuck and NF is suffering
bruh it’s a miracle he’s still alive to be doing ts 😓😓
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put a finger down if you were babysitting your drunk sad rival one day and he said you’re lucky to be a cold hearted sworn never to love bitch and you answered “yes I am” confidently instead of screaming “why am I here with you now then?!”
fengqings weapons are so satisfying to me because I’m so used to media giving bows to the "fragile, pretty characters" as if using them doesn’t require a shit ton of strength. but no this guy who became a literal god for purely his martial skills is given the bow and the guy who is described as pretty and delicate is given a fucking 8 foot long sword that other people had trouble even lifting
you know he can’t get a concussion right
He panicked
No, You’re Not Paranoid. Yes, They Are Watching You
No, You’re Not Paranoid. Yes, They Are Watching You
Not so long ago the defenders of government surveillance—wire taps and suchlike—could make the reasonable argument that “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”
The state of both the law and surveillance technology were such that it just was not cost effective to waste agency resources on ordinary citizens—even those who were as annoying to the government establishment as Minnesota’s cattail mosquitos.
Legal guard rails made approval cumbersome. Supervisors had to approve. Courts had to issue warrants. Even if you could watch or listen to the masses, sorting through the chaff would take years, even with the best data processing available.
Those days are gone in the United States. Yes, they can and are watching you.
The Trump administration has blasted through the legal guard rails. The technology has overtaken us.
The “Mosaic” Method
The so-called mosaic method or concept aims to take advantage of the enormous analytical power available in new computer technology (think quantum computers) and artificial intelligence (AI) to overcome “stovepipes” and integrate all data from all sources, public and private, into comprehensive analytical structures, or algorithms.
Masses of data that would have taken years to sift through can now be sorted and articulated in mere hours.
An example of the potential use of the mosaic method was reported in The New York Times in February 2025. CIA officials sent to the Office of Personnel Management by unclassified email a list of all employees hired by the agency within the last two years. White House officials said not to worry: the list only contained first names and initials.
"But former officials scoffed at the explanation, saying that the names and initials could be combined with other information — from driver’s license and car registration systems, social media accounts and publicly available data from universities that the agency uses as recruiting grounds — to piece together a more complete list."[i]
The concept of the mosaic method was further analyzed in a Lawfare post inspired by the Times article.
"For example, enrollment data from academic institutions may be combined with flight data from travel providers, attendance lists from non-governmental conferences, lists of published materials, social media inquiries about medical conditions, and commercially available credit information. Carefully sorted and correlated, this information can enable an adversary to identify individuals with access to sensitive information who may be amenable to approach or recruitment, and to craft the most effective means by which to contact them and develop a relationship."[ii]
The point here is that the mosaic method also can be used to parse and organize detailed information about ordinary citizens from their many routine interactions and daily transactions. Emails and text messages, credit card transactions, cell phone records (including GPS data about the owner’s movements), banking records, and so forth can all be mined for information.
The Outer Limits—China
China uses the mosaic method and is often cited as the most comprehensively surveilled country in the world:
"In 2005, the Chinese government began placing surveillance cameras throughout the country, in a plan called Project Skynet. After Xi Jinping came to power, China rolled out an enhanced version, Sharp Eyes, envisioned as a system of half a billion cameras that were 'omnipresent, fully networked, always on and fully controllable.' In Beijing, virtually no corner went unobserved. The cameras were eventually paired with facial-recognition software, giving the authorities a staggering level of intrusiveness. At toilets in Beijing’s Temple of Heaven Park, facial scans insured that users could take no more than seventy centimeters of toilet paper at a time."[iii]
The Chinese government combines camera monitoring with social media monitoring, facial recognition, and an infrastructure that provides integrated information real time to government authorities.[iv]
"Not only has 'Sharp Eyes' been combined with facial-recognition technology, but also it has required QR codes to be placed on the exterior of houses; cars to have a GPS tracker installed; cell phones to be 'registered' with the government (and are frequently inspected); and most invasively, all residents within a certain age range must provide the state with biological data samples, including DNA, blood, fingerprints, voiceprints, and even iris patterns."[v]
Surveillance in the United States
Today the United States may be behind China in terms of surveillance. But a sample of only three widely used methods demonstrates the range of government monitoring of folks on America's Main Streets. (None of this addresses the enormous ocean of private sector resources routinely used by the U.S.government--data bases, surveillance tools, etc.)
Washington is catching up with Beijing.
Facial recognition technology may be the most widespread means of surveillance in the United States. Individual “faceprints” are used for unlocking access (to cellphones or secure locations), speeding up processing of large groups of people (passport control and airport security screening), and criminal investigations (matching images captured at crime scenes with suspects or data bases). In 2024 over 100 police departments had subscribed to facial recognition services.[vi]
Social media platforms are routinely monitored by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies, such as the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the State Department. The uses include criminal investigations, threat identification, and screening travelers and immigrants. This largely unregulated monitoring “has become a significant source of information for” these agencies.[vii]
Monitoring of citizen movements appears to be a relatively new development. The U.S. Border Patrol has been monitoring millions of Americans through a secretive program using hidden roadside cameras and vehicle license plate records. The agency's “predictive intelligence” program flags vehicles to be stopped based on “suspicious” travel patterns. The agency has not revealed the criteria by which it judges any given pattern to be suspicious.[viii]
Public Opinion
"Resistance" and privacy rights activists often think that if the people "only knew," they would rally to the cause.
Nope.
As recently as 2022, a plurality (48 percent) of Americans thought that “widespread use of facial recognition technology by police would be a good idea.” Another 27 percent thought it was a bad idea, and 27 percent were unsure whether it was good or bad. Adults who are 50 and over were more likely to think it was a good idea than those under 50.[ix]
[i] David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes, “C.I.A. Sent an Unclassified Email With Names of Some Employees to Trump Administration." The New York Times, February 5, 2025.
[ii] Jonathan M. Freeman, "The 'Mosaic Method and the Value of CIA Names to U.S. Adversaries." Lawfare (February 10, 2025). https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the--mosaic--method-and-the-value-of-cia-names-to-u.s.-adversaries.
[iii] Raffi Khatchdourian, “Surviving the Crackdown in Xinjiang,” The New Yorker (April 5, 2021). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/12/surviving-the-crackdown-in-xinjiang.
[iv] Darrell M. West, "How AI can enable public surveillance." Brookings (April 15, 2025). https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-ai-can-enable-public-surveillance/.
[v] Samantha L. Shamhart, “The Mosaic Theory: How the Intersection of Mass Surveillance and Facial Recognition Is Provoking an Orwellian Future,” 51 Capital University Law Review (2023). https://www.capitallawreview.org/article/89888-the-mosaic-theory-how-the-intersection-of-mass-surveillance-and-facial-recognition-is-provoking-an-orwellian-future.
[vi] Gloria Lyu, Matthew Spero, and Connor Henderson, “Facial Recognition Technologies.” The Regulatory Review, December 28, 2024. https://www.theregreview.org/2024/12/28/seminar-facial-recognition-technologies/; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Facial Recognition Technology: Current Capabilities, Future Prospects, and Governance. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/62.
[vii] Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Harsha Panduranga, and Faiza Patel, "Social Media Surveillance by the U.S. Government." Brennan Center for Justice, January 7, 2022. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/social-media-surveillance-us-government.
[viii] Byron Tau and Garance Burke, “Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns.” AP News, November 20, 2025. https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd.
[ix] Reem Nadeem, “Public more likely to see facial recognition use by police as good, rather than bad for society.” Pew Research Center, March 17, 2022. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/03/17/public-more-likely-to-see-facial-recognition-use-by-police-as-good-rather-than-bad-for-society/.
Source: No, You’re Not Paranoid. Yes, They Are Watching You
I’ve had this shitpost in my head for way too long
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@aceofdivinechlorophyll You know I would die for Meng Mo????? I would! Everyone go read Inappropriate Use!!!
"top feng xin" "top mu qing" you're all WRONG. They're both switches and make it a competition
The thing about Mu Qing is that a lot of the time we see him, he doesn't have much but he offers all he has and beyond.
All he had were the few cherries he picked at the cost of being beaten and humiliated and called a thief (as the only poor disciple among many rich kids who could have bought those cherries any time they wanted) to give to his mother and yet when the poor children surrounded him he gave those cherries to them.
He had a cursed shackle and yet he was the only one who offered to accompany Xie Lian, Hua Cheng & and Mei Nianqing to Mt. Tonglu. (even though Jun Wu had told him that his friends would assume that he was a traitor and leave him to die and MNQ & Hua Cheng obviously hated him and he thought that XL & FX hated him, too.) He not only had a cursed shackle but burnt hands and feet and injured legs and yet he threw himself in the lava to fight and buy time for XL. He could barely walk but attacked Jun Wu head-on with his Zhanmaodo. The shackle tightened around his hand and it was draining his blood and his spiritual powers were sealed and his injuries and burns weren't healing and he was dangling from a freaking cliff and his hair had nearly touched the lava and yet! Right when MNQ wanted to help him up he asked him to send him further down so he could retrieve XL's sword for him!!
When XL had just saved Mu Qing and Bai Wuxiang dragged him down Ruoye, which earlier was explained wouldn't do pointless things (and when asked by XL to grab onto something firm and reliable grabbed onto FX & MQ after HC) made a lunge for Mu Qing, because it knew that Mu Qing would grab it and maybe could do something to save Xie Lian. And Mu Qing, having just been saved, balancing on a sword on burnt legs in the middle of running lava grabbed onto Ruoye with burnt hands and didn't let go even when he was overpowered and dragged along with Xie Lian.
And for all of these, he never expects anything in return! No gratitude, no credit, no friendship, and no affection. He just does these things because that's the kind of person he is.
He's the kind of person who refuses to recruit child soldiers, he's the kind of person who sees a random lady going through forced abortion and tries to save her and the baby, he's the kind of person who even when he's chased out of the house by a broom by his friends, leaves the rice he brought with them, he's the kind of person who even if he assumes XL threw the clock on him & pretended not to know him on purpose disguises himself and goes to XL's help, he's the kind of person who tries to save FX even when he has a cursed shackle, he's the kind of person who not only doesn't abandon his friends under Jun Wu's threats but goes after them knowing that at every step Jun Wu will try to frame him and as far as he knows, his friends don't trust him or like him and he doesn't even think they're friends. he's the kind of person who couldn't bring himself to steal one golden leaf from the prince who had hundreds of them in the depths of his poverty to help his mother yet doesn't blame XL for trying to steal that one time because he understands, he's the kind of person who claims that "truly, there's no point in being a good person" but still helps every time everywhere he can. He's the one who when he can't do anything, when he's lost his attacking powers after going for Jun Wu all he can think about is XL who is grabbed by Jun Wu and calls out for XL to run even as he throws up blood. He's the god who when he ascends what we hear of his followers are: "General Xuan Zhen is generous and kind!"
Just...Mu Qing and his unfailing kindness!
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Feng Xin: yeah I didn’t have many relationships while young, I was an ugly teen-
My Qing: no, you were not
Feng Xin: …?
Mu Qing, panicking: I mean!…. you had premarital sex! you’re a slut!-
guys look they are talking!
They are having a deep therapeutical conversation. Yes, like this.
Kinda astounding that this is my first time drawing Kaizenix art??!
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can someone please explain to me if being Jewish is a race or religion because i am honest to god SO CONFUSED. like if u need to explain this with like a history lesson or something go right ahead, just help me understand 😭
