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« on: December 31, 2023, 05:35 »
Some speculate that this can only mean we are some form of resource like vitamins or cattle.
I would think they could find something much more nutritious and tasty than us. Maybe there are just no cards to show...
Have ro wait and see what January brings. If the hype is to be believed its going to be rather shocking. But what is shocking? Would it be shocking that we are being visited. Or that we are being abducted. Or that there is growing concern that there is a increasing number of 'spheres' being logged around the world by military forces. This is a fact that Kirkpatrick admitted and is a matter of record. They appear to be probes. They are being witnessed by all nations. None seem to know the source and claim it isnt theirs. They can't be caught, or shot down. Although other craft have been. Alaska being the latest well known craft. What would shock the human race to panic. The answer is unknown and this is being given as a reason for the secrecy but it is now widely known that whatever timetable there was has been significantly moved up. Danny Sheehan believes this will resolve in the next 10 years which personally I do not believe. It cannot take that long given the extreme releases and claims over the last 6 months. Unchallenged as well. Encouraged in fact. This points to a significantly shorter time frame and at best full disclosure at that rate means 2024. Certainly enough that the populace will be left in no doubt that there are others out there. Other races. Unless a couple of books can be squeezed out of it in the meantime by the usual suspects that is. But increasingly I think Grusch is going to decide to just rip off the bandaid. I hope so.
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« on: December 28, 2023, 02:44 »
I now have a banner - up to 8 weeks.
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« on: December 19, 2023, 02:14 »
following the failure of the Schumer Rounds ammendment to make it through in its entirety (factually made impotent) those calling for disclosure have been left realising that this is no longer a cover up. But an open secret in the halls of power and among the media with zero ability to expose anything for fear that the truth is something so terrible that we can't handle it. Some speculate that this can only mean we are some form of resource like vitamins or cattle. And increasingly the wording being used is implying this more and more. And that the technologies involved are so advanced as to render us or our abilities to stop it happening - pointless. Many who have fought tooth and nail for truth seem to have backed right off. Not only have they gone silent but they have literally begun posting completely opposing positions. Defending the actions of those senators who have thwarted this bill. In less than two weeks. Coulthart, delonge, corbell and Knapp. Whatever they have learned isn't good. They aren't dropping it as if they had learned its all a shame and don't want to sink with it. They are backing off and u-turning regarding the secrecy. But it's running away with itself with even main stream media smelling blood. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/16/opinion/ufo-whistleblowers-government.html
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« on: December 11, 2023, 08:27 »
Each page has 100 results and in this example you have 4 pages of video results for - Scorpion
Fly. How many pages would you be willing to search through to get the right footage?
Beacuse page 1 of 4 has .... 66% of the results which are not even insects. Birds, fish, food, and dragons. Many are insects which arent a scorpion fly
It is tragic - https://streamable.com/p5rhgo
And that was just the video results.
The search results are actually not that bad. Most of the top results actually feature scorpion flies.
You can filter out the unwanted results by putting your search terms in quotations marks: "scorpion fly". Then you get only 33 results but almost all the results show scorpion flies.
You can also search with the scientific name for the family Panorpidae or the most common genus Panorpa.
And if you search for scorpion fly in images and sort by relevance, the first page shows almost exclusively scorpion flies. If you switch to sort by new, then the first page looks quite different. So the algomrithm actually does a pretty good jobs to show the relevant images first, when sort by relevance.
Oh I know there are tools you can employ to retrieve what you want from the search results but how does a dancer end up there straight off the bat and bare in mind this is niche. It's 4 pages of quite an obscure insect. If you do butterflies by name its pages and still only insects. It shouldn't happen really. I guess it should be caught at review but pfffff they are all human right 🤣
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« on: December 11, 2023, 05:22 »
When we upload our assets and eventually get them approved and then they enter the catalogues. Users and buyers are at the mercy of "luck" whatever luck is. A.i./algorithms etc. But the reality is quite brutal and this is a simple example. If you search for something A.i. isn't very good at - insects and choose one that is quite common and select video you would expect to get examples of that insect (on this ocassion). Each page has 100 results and in this example you have 4 pages of video results for - Scorpion Fly. How many pages would you be willing to search through to get the right footage? Beacuse page 1 of 4 has .... 66% of the results which are not even insects. Birds, fish, food, and dragons. Many are insects which arent a scorpion fly It is tragic - https://streamable.com/p5rhgoAnd that was just the video results.
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« on: December 09, 2023, 18:02 »
Journalist Christopger Sharp and International attorney J. P. Hague discuss the finer details of what the failure to bring disclosure legislation into law. The causes and the outcomes with some interesting revelations. Christopher is fairly new on the scene but has garnered some significant sources and really does give a no nonsense journalistic rigor to any discussion. https://www.youtube.com/live/ADuRE_oDmxw?feature=shared
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« on: December 09, 2023, 07:19 »
why do people say this stuff. There is a fresh content tab and filters. It isnt some magical luck of the draw thing.
Actually it is. Will your asset get picked up or not mostly depends on luck, especially lately.
Source: stock contributor since 2009, I spread out assets from my shoots over numerous batches over weeks, and sometimes an asset gets picked up by the search, gets a few initial downloads in the first day, and the propels it further in the search rankings. If you don't get any views/downloads in the first few days of assets being online, it's much less likely it will be picked up. And no, the asset that gets picked up is in no way shape or form superior to the ones that don't get picked up. So yeah it's luck.
I have a particular photo. It has been on page 1 slot 1 for about 2 years and has allegedly never sold. Some times it falls to slot 5 page 1 when new stuff comes in. Then back up it goes. So the algorithm or whatever it is that puts it there isn't by being purchased. In fact I've got about 5 photos on that first page. I think one has ever sold once. Does make you wonder doesn't it. Edit: In that image search there are 3300 images that are similar.
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« on: December 08, 2023, 16:31 »
Senator Schumers UAP disclosure act remains but has been neutered by Mike Turner and colleagues. Eminant Domain - stripped Civilian review board of UAP material held - stripped Subpoena power for non compliant bodies and people - stripped This has rendered the language of the amendment impotent to a great degree and now the question being asked is "if there is nothing to this why has Turner and crew fought to remove the parts of the amendment that can help them prove that there are no craft held or back engineering programmes. Danny Sheehan discusses the outcome- https://youtu.be/A5BihKg2mOs?feature=shared
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« on: December 06, 2023, 09:38 »
So the schumer rounds bill has
been rejected
been gutted of the powerful language written in it
is being strengthened further and will be passed intact
is being desperately fought for as well as discarded.
The conflicting information coming out of there is mad. However a high powered law firm have made it clear that unless it passes in tact they will take matters into their own hands and a date has been set for final votes on an in tact or gutted bill by Decemeber 21st. Unless it gets extended. If all parties are happy it will be given to Biden earlier or later depending how it goes.
If it passes unchanged it will begin a rapid disclosure process that will be a paradigm changer but by rapid they mean by 2034. If it gets thrown out a "catastrophic disclosure" plan is in place to shuffle things along with no restraint. Apprently way too many people are now in the loop and there is zero hope of putting the sh*t back in the horse. Literally none because vast chunks of it are very open secrets. So many know the facts allegedly that everyone is waiting for it to be leaked so they know what course to take.
I am not in the loop. Or I'd have just gotten it over with. 🤷
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« on: December 06, 2023, 09:27 »
Going on 5 weeks now. Is this the new normal? Not seeing the upside
They're already accepting ~200k images per day. Are you sure you want the review process to be faster?
How do you think your image will be found when it's fighting against 100s of millions of old assets in the collection, and 200k that were approved on the same day as yours?
The issue is too low of a rejection rate, not review times.
why do people say this stuff. There is a fresh content tab and filters. It isnt some magical luck of the draw thing. They don't need to reject more or slower, they do desperately need to trawl through all the garbage titles written in no language in particular and nonsese keywords. And allow obvious keywords that they don't. For example "pond, life" for dragonflies which at present they won't unless a pond is present in the photo. Moronic but there it is. Endless examples. That's what helps people's stuff to be found.
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« on: December 01, 2023, 03:17 »
In my opinion, a much better strategy would be to hold reviewers accountable. When other contributors report stuff like that, the best response isn't "we don't discuss other accounts", it's accepting that it was a mistake to let those images slide through, remove them, and interally look at which reviewer let those images get into the public facing database. Then educate the reviewer so they don't make the same mistake again.
If the same reviewer is later found responsible for other errors in the review process, and they were already educated, then it's time to let the reviewer go. They're causing harm to the company, to the contributors, and to the buyers.
But then again, I'm not the CEO of Adobe and I can only cosplay as one on a small internet forum. Too bad tho.
An excellent suggestion. Finding this stuff to prove a point, proved to be too easy to do. And contributers would probably do it for free for Adobe. Like Alex R used to hunt portfolio thieves for S. Again for free and it became ridiculously easy for him to do. SS response was like Matts - they banned him from the forum. Thieves portfolios sell and make money just like genuine contributers. If Adobe started actually searching and pulling large swathes of rule breaking imagery from their bloated servers - they might hurt the piggy bank and find things they'd rather leave. And I've no doubt their man power is pathetic. They should use A.I. to review their catalogues for duplicates but Matt has said its all human ....... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 ... ghasp for air .... 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 .... oh boy sorry about that phewww.... anyway yeah if only they could do that instead of using A.I. to create pregnant women with a monkey paw and a hump on their back to get that "wow" factor.
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« on: November 30, 2023, 03:16 »
I will not ever discuss portfolios of contributors that are not actively involved in a public discussion and are not asking for a critique. Personally, I feel that is a weak way to make an argument about your own portfolio and why your content should be online. I would rather lift others up and encourage, than the opposite. Regardless of the subject you are shooting and submitting, you should be seeking the WOW! factor for each and every image. It's a highly competitive space and you should be doing everything you can to create the best content possible.
Focus on what you can do to improve YOUR own portfolio with unique, sellable content that meets current trends. Autumn leaves sell well every year. That said, there are a LOT of images of Autumn leaves in the collection already. Focus on finding content gaps. Create what isn't there, but should be.
Good luck,
Mat Hayward
It isnt a weak argument at all stop talking nonsense. It is a fact. I showed clear rules breaches. Nothing more nothing less. Being the ardent defender of the contributer no doubt you'll be rushing to correct that "rare" anomaly. You misunderstood. I couldn't care less. 1. It bloats Adobe's catalogues. 2. It is against your policy. 3. It hides gems in a sea (no pun intended) of duplicated dross. I don't care about it, it isnt my money being wasted on storage. Have at it. But the advice you gave is patently false. It couldn't be more false clearly. The portfolios I picked on aren't some list I have ready to throw out there. That was an educated guess. Swimming pool water photos on your platform number in the millions. That is in no way the worst offender. One user had 117 pages or more of just looking at pool water. And your response is "poor show" ... really? That's got a wow out of me. Dirt, clouds, grass, hills, toys, food, every subject you can think of has users that have at least a whole page of of exactly the same subject. I only showed the yellow swimming pool inflatables. They have other colours in that port alone lol. I've said this before that the similars rule is rediculous. It doesn't spawn creativity it hampers it. You cannot light things differently to create a sinister look and then a sunny look with happy warmth. You can't do any of that. You can't join in with photos of Autumn leaves because "they need the wow factor" another rediculous generalisation. What is the wow factor with leaves that will "raise them up" ... colour them neon blue and affix a cowboy hat perhaps? It's as if the "new content tab" doesn't even exist or filters for colours. But we can leap into A.I. and churn out elephobsters, avocinaples, and sunny family BBQ shots with dear gran proudly displaying her extra arm growing out of her nether regions as she holds a glass of wine with her rabbit paw. Flipped. cropped, sunrise, sunset and wearing a different dress. As has been already stated but obviously too subtly - rules are great. Let's all follow them or don't. It can't be both. Don't try and shame me for pointing out provable facts on a significant scale over a significant time scale.
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« on: November 29, 2023, 17:35 »
I know that AS has a very strict policy on similars. I seem to recall that a change of angle is usually not acceptable when submitting more than one photo of the same subject. Though what if I changed the distance? For example, with a small subject, I stood further back for the first photo and then moved 1 - 3 feet closer for a second photo. Would this be acceptable?
You need to make sure that each asset you submit offers unique value to a potential customer. If the changes you describe in your post could be just as easily accomplished by a customer with a simple crop, then it's likely too similar. If it's a genuine difference in the image that could prompt a customer to buy both variations, then you are fine.
-Mat Hayward
So its all about the money. 6 pages of money all in the same port, calculators and clocks? So similar but not, but near but far enough different ...  okie dokie
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« on: November 29, 2023, 09:09 »
Yeah this doesn't apply to autumn leaves. Golden and Red maple leaves are too similar apparently. Rejected.
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« on: November 29, 2023, 04:31 »
So the Schumer amendment is floating in a void at present.
After rumours that Mitch McConnell has been running around claiming the bill is a dead duck suddenly certain congresspeople have risen up to make their stance known.
Those who are deeply opposed and allegedly running around trying to turn the tide to have the amendment thrown out:
Mitch McConnell - Senate Minority Leader
Mike Turner - House Intelligence Chair (Ohio) and home of Write Patterson AFB which is the location for many of the rumours of retrieved craft being housed there along with "biologics"
Mike Rogers - United States Representative
Mike Johnson - Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
But despite the pushback they are trying to garner more senators are also making their voices heard following contact from their constituents. And it doesn't help that this information is freely available. Senator Mike Turner receives significant funding from aerospace organisations who have allegedly been given retrieved crashed UAP for analysis and have done for years.
It isnt a great look when you are trying to destroy a piece of proposed legislation which would force organisations to hand over crashed craft and biologics and data to the US government when those same organisations fund you. And yet that's what's going down.
It looks as though the eminent domain part of the disclosure act may be being removed.
Mike Turners funding
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« on: November 26, 2023, 18:35 »
Rumours already surfacing that Mitch McConnell approached senator Schumer and told him "Its gone, its out, your UAP amendment has been thrown out"
And because of that a redundancy is being put into motion.
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« on: November 25, 2023, 18:38 »
in less than 72 hours Senater Schumers amendment is due to be either passed or thrown out. It is a brutal amendment and requires any and all to make known what they hold regarding UAP - material, bodies, evidence, retrieved craft and so on. The wording of the amendment leaves almost zero wiggle room. It has been swiftly going through the various stages being pushed along by a large group of senators who want to know the truth.
However senator Mike Turner who's campaign funds are made up of mostly all the military contractors like Lockhead Martin (known to be in possession of at least one craft) and other major defence contractors, had privately been running around attempting to get the amendment thrown out. When this was made public earlier this year he was exposed and forced to go on camera to call it all nonsense.
But despite his claim he has renewed his efforts to prevent the amendment being passed and is fighting tooth and nail to get it thrown out. If there was no truth to the amendment it wouldn't matter if it passed. And yet he is determined to get it thrown out.
These are the last hours you have to contact your senators and let them know how you feel. If the amendment doesn't pass black budget money will be funnelled with zero congressional oversight. None.
This from Chris Mellon -
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« on: November 21, 2023, 18:08 »
Whistle blower David Grusch 2 hours 40 minutes on the Joe Rogan experience dropped a couple of hours ago. Any infantile comments will be ignored. This man is beyond reproach. His credentials are beyond reproach. His information is beyond reproach and has been investigated fully by congressional members, Intelligence leaders past and present and lawyers. Be extremely careful what you write regarding him because not only will you make yourself look rather stupid anything vaguely iffy legally will be traced. Have no doubt at all that anything regarding this man on any platform is being scraped and monitored. Zero doubt. This isn't paranoid delusional nonsense, this guy has been vetted and investigated to death and they've found nothing to discredit him. They've (all the 3 letter agencies, Congress, Whitehouse, everyone who matters). https://open.spotify.com/episode/6D6otpHwnaAc86SS1M8yHm?si=8UHFEs39SoOU_AcQpFDHHw
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« on: November 12, 2023, 14:15 »
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« on: November 11, 2023, 12:22 »
Sean Kirkpatrick head of AARO until next month at least has given an off camera round table After affirming that he has attempted to interview David Grusch several times and been declined (a claim David Grusch denies strongly as does his lawyer) he goes on give more information obtained from those he believes David Grusch may have obtained his claimed information from ... Q: One quick follow up question. So, you said you think you've all talked to the same people David Grusch did. Are you able to expand on that? What did they share with you all? DR. KIRKPATRICK: No. For a variety of reasons, so we -- we, obviously, we are obligated to protect all these people's identities for for all kinds of reasons. What they are reporting, we are documenting. They are reviewing and then revalidating that this is what they want to say. We then research all of that collectively. There is a there is a, if you think of it as a story arc, there's a number of people that kind of fit into this story arc. But then there's these little offshoots and variations on themes. We're investigating each and every one of them. We're cross-referencing those. There are some bits of information that are turning out to be things and events that really happened. A lot of it is still under review, and we're putting all that together into our historical report.Not vague at all but assuming he means in the context of the congressional hearings under oath it doesn't leave much that wasn't extraordinary to pick from aside from funneling money off for black projects which wouldn't be under the congressional oversight because that funnelled funding went to private defence contractors. We shall see and fairly soon I believe. Details here https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3575588/aaro-director-dr-sean-kirkpatrick-holds-an-off-camera-media-roundtable/
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« on: November 10, 2023, 10:34 »
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These new medical examinations follow on from previous ones which although doen live were literally laughed at by American news outlets because they were "mexicans" ... just lovely. Nice bit of racism. Well we shall have to see where it goes.
please show references where this occurred
the results were laughed at because they were nonsense, not for any racial bias
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These new medical examinations follow on from previous ones which although doen live were literally laughed at by American news outlets because they were "mexicans" ... just lovely. Nice bit of racism. Well we shall have to see where it goes.
please show references where this occurred
the results were laughed at because they were nonsense, not for any racial bias
You again have no idea what you're talking about as per usual. The rough quote was ... "They've been examined by some Mexican doctors apprently and they claim that they are real and haven't been adulterated but I wouldn't go to Mexico for treatment for as much as a cold" The source is on page 22 which has the link to the latest investigations. They don't claim that they are aliens and neither did I.
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« on: November 09, 2023, 05:58 »
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« on: November 09, 2023, 05:58 »
There is no such thing as a prehuman race related to lizards.
What do you think they are? I thought these mummies had been debunked. Then it transpired these were not the amalgamated ones. Now none of them appear to be. So what are they?
I have not spend a lot of time reading up on them, but from what I have read, it still seems to be the most likely that they are some kind of fraud.
They are definitely not pre-humans related to lizards, though.
Humans and lizards are on different branches of the land vertebrate evolutionary tree. Humans are mammals and so are all pre-humans.
Lizards are usually categorized as reptiles (although that is a paraphyletic group). They are more closely related to birds than to mammals.
The fraud claim came from a single utube clip. That's all it took. And from some time ago and took on a life of its own. Jamie Musshain is actually apprently a very good rigorous reporter but has become less reliable because of that video and his claims now. These new medical examinations follow on from previous ones which although doen live were literally laughed at by American news outlets because they were "mexicans" ... just lovely. Nice bit of racism. Well we shall have to see where it goes.
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