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In the race against dying pixels, a single lens don’t cut it.The Pro 11 model features a 12MP wide-angle alongside the telephoto and standard lens.#behindthelens#pigeonsarentreal

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Biotech is one of the greatest advancements in human history. It’s the reason we have antibiotics.But like with many technological breakthroughs, there is dark in the light.Who's heard of the Pigeon Patrol? With London’s dangerously high levels of pollution, pigeons have been recruited to collect data on air quality. That feels familiar.This campaign made headlines in a bid to put a positive spin on biotechnological data collection. But the news story is the air pollution and the danger to our health. A small minority of good that can come from using pigeons like drones. On the flip side, biotech has essentially weaponised some insects by genetically modifying them to deliver a virus.Back to the point, the most valuable resource on this planet is data. If you give it away freely you’re a pawn in society. The view that it doesn’t singularly effect you is shortsighted. The Cambridge Analytica exposé has illustrated how a ‘democratic society’ can be manipulated via thought control. This has had a powerful impact on the world, from the Trump campaign to the Brexit vote.If organisations continue to abuse private data, we enter a future under the microscope. Every decision recorded, every purchase tracked, every connection analysed. Behavioural data is already being used to predict your actions before you think them. Who supports that? Or is our culture just fully blind to the truth.Saying this, I’m a great fan of tech. Telling your lights to switch off is cool. What I don’t want is light bulbs recording my commands for an algorithm to work out my sleeping patterns.The ultimate irony of all this, is our thirst for technological advancements is killing the planet. The pollution will be the end of us all. Excited for the release of 5G networks? Yeah cool, we’ll be able to consume more shit in less time. 5G also comes with enormous costs to infrastructure and energy requirements. That means a greater strain on resources and more destruction of the environment. Then we can send up some more pigeons to measure how fucked we are on a scale of 1 to nitrogen dioxide.So while you go about your polluted lives, consider the dark in the light.#pigeonsarentreal

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Originally Project Pigeon but later renamed Project Orcon (for “organic control”) was another stage in the early development of surveillance pigeons.During WWII it was discovered that pigeons had a natural ability to track and identify. Thanks to an American behaviourist, B.F.Skinner, pigeons were recruited to control a guided missile. Long before radar and electronic guidance systems, pigeons were the pilots in the hot seat.Another victim of war.Little did they know this paved the way for something much more sinister.But how did pigeons guide the missiles?Their natural sense for identification was used to train them in recognising a target. The pigeon was then harnessed in front of a screen with a projected image. The screen was mounted on pivots so that it would move in relation to the nose of the missile. Any deviation of the missiles path from the intended target would move the image on the screen. The pigeon would peck at the target, controlling sensors that guided the missile back on path.Boom.Obviously technology has come a long way since WWII. Satellite and radar controlled systems have replaced the need for pigeon guided missiles. But the pigeons natural ability to track and identify has been developed in other ways. Loaded with surveillance kit, their natural abilities are harnessed for collecting private data from the public. Once a pigeon drone has you in its sight, the camera and recording equipment does its thing.The decades of human control over pigeons is far from over as technology improves and private data increases in value.Project Orcon is still a threat.#pigeonsarentreal

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We’re all very familiar with the unnatural sound of a pigeon. The coo. That sort of soft vibration that echoes out from beneath the railway bridge.However.A little known fact is the word COO is not derived from the sound a pigeon makes. It is actually an acronym for the protocol which manages the wireless transfer of surveillance data. This is the Communication Of Observations.Our enslaved city drones spend the majority of the day recording and processing data internally. The latest pigeon cameras are now recording in 4K with full audio. They are creating over 100GB of raw content every day. These files are getting so large that each drone has to filter and compress their surveillance data before it can be wirelessly transmitted. This is done by the recent addition of image recognition software which filters out specific events which may be of government interest.Now the pigeon activates COO. It appears to go into an unconscious state for the transfer. The drone will sit down and puff out into a more rounded shape for stability. It will remain motionless for up to 20 minutes while the surveillance data is uploaded to the network.#pigeonsarentreal

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