Orwellian

Yeah.

Little Orwellian, you know what I mean? Gandhi gets assassinated.

Okay.

Not that Gandhi, folks.

But somehow...

in this like 1984, um, Orwellian world we live in the word flipped meaning.

And somehow it became this idea of the American virtue of like, you make yourself by yourself from nothing.

You get yourself over the fence by your bootstraps by yourself.

Photo matching, where relevant information on a photo ID document, such as a passport, is checked against a live image taken during an age check.

Hmm, that doesn't sound in any way Orwellian, does it? Banking-based checks, which involves the information a financial institution has on record regarding a user's age.

FaceAge estimation technology, which the regulator argues has recently improved.

And finally, digital ID services, which enable people to digitally prove who they are or provide information about themselves, such as their age.

But I find the ones that are so good, they have equal parts humor in them.

You might go to a movie and it's drama, you know, or sci-fi, but there's just like, there's some levity through either the character or has some humor or there's something like, um, I'm, I'm reading Animal Farm right now by George Orwell and it's, um, it's Orwellian, it's dark, it's, but I'm laughing out loud.

It's funny.

It's funny.

You're totally right.

There's so much Orwellian potential here, I'll

say.

This is not as

Senior CCP officials are connecting the project to AI and what they call the vision of digital China.

And remember, folks, this is the same regime that has been murdering its critics for decades, operating the most Orwellian censorship regime in the world.

Here's the kicker.

The project is headquartered in Shenzhen, where Beijing is also promoting the initiative for global governance.

So it's a bigger problem.

We've created this Orwellian government.

Again, there's not an innocent side to this.

So one of them is creating all of these wonderful sweetheart deals.

I've read so many wonderful books.

I absolutely adored Elizabeth Strout's latest book, The Things We Never Say, which is... essentially about a man, a very decent man, to use an Orwellian term, a very good-hearted, decent man who's a history teacher trying to stay decent and caring in Trump world, basically.

And it has the most extraordinary moments of human connection and compassion in it.

I really loved it.