3/18/24 Report - Magazines: Treasure Diver, Treasure Quest and Shipwrecks. Hunting Natural Gold. Rehearsing 2024.

 

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Vol. 1, No1 Issue of ShipWrecks Magazine.

Remember these?  There was a time when you either bought treasure magazines at the local detector store or subscribed and received them monthly in the mail.

Shipwrecks was published in 1990 near what I would think was near the end of the golden age of magazines.  E. Lee Spence was the senior editor/publisher of this one.  I don't think it lasted very long.  I think there were only a few issues. 

April 1990 Issue of Treasure Diver Magazine.

Treasure Diver Magine was on the racks around the same time but a little before Shipwrecks Magazine. It lasted longer than Shipwrecks.  

Spring 1994 Issue of Treasure Quest Magazine, 

And here is the Spring 1994 issue of Treasure Quest magazine.  

Of course there was Treasure Magazine, Lost Treasure, and Western and Eastern Treasures. all of which produced quite a few issues.  I authored articles that appeared in two or maybe all three of those.

Lost Treasure magazine, for example, began in 1966 and had a long run, unlike magazines shown above, which began just as the internet took over and replaced magazines.  The first issue of Lost Treasure talked of Mel Fisher turning his attention to the Atocha, which he found a couple decades later.

I did a lot of reading and research back in the day of books and magazines and made tons of photocopies and notes.  

One of the good things about books and paper magazines is that I still have them around and can refer to them at any time even though searching through pages of paper isn't nearly as quick as searching on the internet.   Of course, computer searches aren't always quick and easy either.

I am a bibliophile and look at books and other ephemera as art and artifact.

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A couple evenings ago I watched America's Backyard Gold.  It was on again Sunday.  In that program, Dave Turin visited with some people running small scale gold operations.  I think the most successful was a fellow that was metal detecting some great nuggets.  Others were using other techniques.  There were a couple gold snipers that seemed to be doing well too.  I enjoyed the program and think you will too.

The same program also featured Happy Camp, which has been around for a few decades and was often advertised in some of the old treasure magazines.  You can join the organization and do some gold mining on their properties along the Klamath River.  It seems to be called the New 49er's Prospecting Club.

Here is the link for general information.  » General Information (goldgold.com)

They have a one day free guest

FREE One-day Guest Passes: Anyone and everyone is invited to spend a day along60 miles of gold-rich mining properties to find your own gold (between May 1st through September 30th).

I've never done that, but it sounds like fun.  

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I like natural gold nuggets (of course!).  Wouldn't mind a trip to Happy Camp, but was lucky enough to find a few natural gold nuggets on a  1715 beach, which for me was an unexpected and real treat.  I showed one in an old post. 

See  The Treasure Beaches Report Direct From Florida's Treasure Coast.: 3/17/14 Report - Shipwreck Gold Nuggets, Gold Nuggets In General & Black Sails 

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Practicing the 2024 Election Deepfake Strategies.

... This simulated scenario was part of a recent exercise in New York that gathered dozens of former senior U.S. and state officials, civil society leaders and executives from technology companies to rehearse for the 2024 election.

The results were sobering.

“It was jarring for folks in the room to see how quickly just a handful of these types of threats could spiral out of control and really dominate the election cycle,” said Miles Taylor, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official who helped organize the exercise for the Washington-based nonprofit The Future US.

Dubbed “The Deepfake Dilemma,” the exercise illustrated how AI-enabled tools threaten to turbocharge the spread of false information in an already polarized society and could sow chaos in the 2024 election, multiple participants told NBC News. Rather than examining a singular attack by a group or hostile regime, the exercise explored a scenario with an array of both domestic and foreign actors launching disinformation, exploiting rumors and seizing on political divisions.

The organizers and participants in the war game spoke exclusively to NBC News about how it played out...

Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election (nbcnews.com)

Interesting!  Wonder why they didn't name the names of the deep fakers... I mean "experts that participated?"

And wonder who is the hostile group or regime?  NBC has been telling you that for a long time now.

If you looked up some of the members of the Washington-based nonprofit The Future US referred to in the article you'll get an idea of who they are.  The first person on the list listed credits which included the following.  

Strategic Advisor
Burning Man Project
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022 6 months
Future of Burning Man Strategic Advisor: Distributed Governance for Coherent Global Culture

Exactly the kind of thing I was expecting to find.

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