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And when anyone films in portrait, make sure to punish anyone trying to watch the footage with a similarly criminal portrait orientation, by putting borders round the side of the portrait content to force it to be landscape, thus shrinking the content to roughly a ninth of their screen, unless they switch to the blessed landscape orientation when it will fill a glorious third of the screen. Let no one watch it full size for the creator thereof has sinned against the gods of landscape.

This is the right and proper punishment for content creators who break the landscape law: let no one see this video fullscreen, for they have sinned against landscape. https://ibb.co/x2MQQG2 let the borders of landscape wrath descend and pad, and let fullscreen be disabled for all, for if landscape viewers are denied fullscreen EVERYONE MUST SUFFER.

Oh, or you could just skip the fuzzy bars in portrait mode if you're feeling more accommodating to phone users.

Many of the references are 404, and the key papers according to the article are by completely different authors than claimed with different titles than claimed, and nothing to do with "information thermodynamics". I suspect that this is AI generated nonsense.

Many of the references are 404, and the key papers according to the article are by completely different authors than claimed with different titles than claimed, and nothing to do with "information thermodynamics". I suspect that this is AI generated nonsense.

From the citations, many of which are broken links, we find links to Vopson's key papers on which this article is built:

Vopson, M. M. (2021). The second law of information thermodynamics. AIP Advances, 11(8), 085008. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056955

Vopson, M. M. (2023). The second law of infodynamics and its implications for the simulated universe hypothesis. AIP Advances, 13(10), 100301. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0105241

The first one isn't about "information thermodynamics" at all, it's entitled A monolithic linear motion platform driven by a piezoelectric and fluidic pressure-fed dual mechanism

And the second one is rather more prosaic than the article implies, and is actually entitled Reduction of bolt product defects at PT. GIP using Six Sigma method

I begin to suspect that it's an elaborate hoax, possibly AI generated.

It seems to me to be more at the philosophy end of the spectrum than science. Extract from later on:

TANTALIZING CLUES BEYOND THE VEIL

Reports from visionary plants like ayahuasca and DMT describe encountering seemingly autonomous alternate realities inhabited by discarnate entities and dimensions (Luke, 2011). Users vividly perceive realities dissolving into underlying geometric grids flickering with cosmological symbols and machine elves, as though witnessing reality's informational matrix. Psychedelic researchers speculate such visions reveal the program-like underside of consciousness itself (Hoffman, 2019).

"The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight." - Joseph Campbell, mythologist

The uncanny parallels between trippers' subjective experiences and notions of simulation theory are striking. Potential clues also arise in near-death experiences where people report transitional states surrounded by complex fractal patterns and life reviews mimicking digital recreation (Alexander, 2012). Might mystical and visionary states reveal glimpses of nature's hidden informational architecture? While anecdotal, subjective reports remain intriguingly consistent with Vopson's information-based paradigm.

Transcending Materialism: Vopson's Law and Bridging Science with Spirituality

Dr. Vopson's proposed law of information dynamics has profound implications extending beyond its radical scientific interpretations. His findings resonate strongly with perennial spiritual intuitions and reported insights from mystical states that reality is informationally generated. This section explores potential bridges between information physics and nonordinary states revealing nature's deeper workings.

Vopson might well be doing science, but I think this article is definitely doing philosophy.

Yes, and that's great, it really is, but when the footage you have is portrait, don't pad it out to force landscape orientation on it irrespective of the orientation of the viewer's screen, just let portrait content be full size portrait when viewed on a portrait screen. That is the beginning, the middle and the end of my point. It's all I'm asking for.

I am British and I love this.

I know Trump massively overstated his wealth, but fining him $5000 is like fining me £10. He won't even notice it's gone at the end of the month. $5,000, 000 or prison time would be a meaningful punishment.

Fantastic video, but it winds me up when they add padding to a phone video to make it landscape, as if no one in existence might possibly be viewing their phone-generated content on a phone.