#fire staff

[thedandyray]

I don't remember why I went so hard on this image (though I suppose one doesn't always need a reason)

Nevertheless, big Wilson P. Higgsbury fan here, hehe. He may not be my main, but as a character first (outside of gameplay) he's my favorite. Maxwell is a close second, hehe.

Love a little guy thrust in to situations.

[raine-tempest]

Fire Staff doodle🔥🔥

My Least favourite out the four but still awesome looking :D

[stargore]

dude you seem so cool you fucking SPIN FIRE??!? thats fucking epic

heheh thank you!!!!!!!! yes i spin fire!!!! here are some pictures :)

i don’t have a ton of photos because until i have enough money to buy my own staff, i can only light up at summer camp. at home i use a practice staff which can’t be lit up!

i started spinning over a year ago, and i only do staff. i’m interested in learning poi or mini staff, but honestly i don’t think they’ll be as fun to me as normal staff!

makes ya feel like a fantasy book or video game character, it’s great. highly recommend learning, you can make a practice staff with just an old broom, tennis balls, and duct tape. (i’m sure there’s more in-depth tutorials out there!)

[Photo ID start.] Four pictures of a young white trans man with black, slicked back hair and dark makeup around his eyes. In all photos, he is holding a long stick. Both ends of it are on fire. He is also shirtless, wearing transtape and bleach splattered jeans. Various others stand around him, also with flaming fire weapons. The first three photos are so dark that no background can be seen, but in the fourth he is in a grassy clearing at night, trees towering over the fire spinners. [Photo ID end.]

[shytimelady]

"average college student goes through 3 bottles of Dawn a semester" factoid is incorrect. the average student goes through 0 bottles. Fire performers Georg, who regularly comes home doused in kerosene and has to decontaminate, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[cassiachloe]

Deepfake and AI video recreation is in the public mind a lot. This is a legitimate concern for the public on multiple levels, and one of the more important aspects is not focused upon – that is the way in which AI can be used to enforce Orwell’s dictum.

PRISM (as leaked by Snoden) has demonstrated partially a degree to which the existing state-capitalist institutions of control embed in to internet and other media platforms (primarily focusing on how your data is harvested). What is not considered is the multi-directional control of media platforms, not merely through algorithm manipulation, but by direct interference.

Something I have witnessed personally (as a tortured and trafficked slave it appears I am used as a guinea pig for a variety of novel tech and methods) is the live manipulation of videos already loaded on to Youtube by AI. Whilst I have witnessed targeted posts designed to influence me specifically based on my personal data (this includes using targeted ads or pages controlled by propaganda and mind control factions), I have now witnessed the modification of videos for mind control on YouTube and other platforms.

This does not only include the creation of New AI videos to specifically influence me or the public, BUT also the modification on past videos on the platform. Theoretically, this could be achieved in a targeted way to myself by direct end devices hacking on my laptop (which is achievable due to entrance in my home which I have documented), but also it may now be possible to modify past videos already uploaded to these platforms to entirely rewrite history.

The rewriting of history has never been easier; The mere modification of pixels on a screen can change the entire narrative. Entire sentences never spoken by an individual could be placed in to their mouths with AI. No longer would we have to hunt trough libraries and rip out pages not agreeable to the current regime, but worse. What does this mean? The real truth of the near past may exist only in the living memory of a few, but when they pass, this too will be gone.

Now, theoretically, AI falsification can also be detected with AI tools, and what we could see is a continued spiralling of development; AI becomes better at video falsification, then AI powered AI fake detection becomes more accurate, and this could go on and on (totally throwing the possibility of human detection way out the window). But, I question if there is enough of an incentive for power to (permit or) develop AI fake detection tools as they have the most to gain from AI fakes. Meaning a further power imbalance.

Moving away from public mind control, the manipulation of the past and the propaganda narrative, I would like to focus on an even more dangerous, disturbing and harmful use of the tool of video falsification: that is the tampering of security footage.

This becomes especially concerning when we recognise the edge state-capitalist institutions have to create less-detectable fakes, combined with the knowledge of institutional violence. A poignant example is the fact of sex traffick and rape infiltrating powers, including paedophilia and slavery (look to the Epstein case or Kincora boys). Rape, abuse and paedophilia is hugely profitable, and states have control over (and directly profit form) this cruel, degrading and inhuman black market.

My ultimate fear is that alongside other advancements in technology, such as neural interfaces, we could see entire schools rendered temporarily unconscious or amnesiac, to be mass raped for profit by ‘elites’. And then, due to the hacking capacities of the institutions and AI fake development, all security footage will be undermined, and it will appear as if such crimes did not occur.

And remember, many do not hold security footage for longer than 3 months, and presuming that the state-capitalist rapists have at least a 3 month technological edge, meaning their AI-fake will not be detectable by AI-powered AI-fake detection within that period, the footage will then be deleted.

Tom Keenan Photography

Taken at Hanna & Guy's Wedding

Cassia Chloe Fire Dancer, Pyro Show & Circus Performer

[ang-m-wong]

IgNight Flow Arts Retreat 2018 in Joshua Tree, CA.

[cosmic-equilibrium]

Found an old video while clearing out files. There was always something so amazing when you have two fireballs spinning around you.

[isolatenmedicate]

Some photos of me & my staff by @/alone.media on ig