Welcome to the sci-fi fantasy electronic and alternative opera... For your information, Shhhh! Digital Media is in no way associated with the Salvation Army or any other religious or ideological organization. I myself have no association with them as well. There are people trying to sell you a much different picture of who I actually am and what I'm about than is the truth. I do not live or work in a homeless shelter with all due respect, nor do I live or work in a prison. I am an advocate for the charities represented here on Shhhh! Digital Media, but I am not a volunteer. I choose to do the best I can, where and when I can. I've never worked as a security guard in my life, but it is an honest way to make a living for an honest person, especially if they don't take the identity of other people. Shhhh! Digital Media is not located in New York, or anywhere in the United States, but perhaps once more in my life, I'd certainly like to visit from my home City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. How's that for the business of marketing my home city?

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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

If You Don't Accept Me As I Am, Then Don't Read My Content

I'm Brian Joseph Johns. I am not a Hell's Angel by the way, nor am I a member of the Salvation Army  or a Scientologist and my name is not Bob, and Bob is not my father, and I've never had a girlfriend with a bob hairstyle, but my last two girlfriends starting with the most recent, are from Korea and from China. 


I am not from Nova Scotia and have never been there. 


I've never used cocaine in any form. I don't really consider myself to be on the blue team or the brown team, as I'm not part of the red, blue, brown palette. I'll stick with my Shhhh! Digital Media colours of red black, red white, red yellow and red grey and nobody has black skin and nobody has white skin and no two people have the same skin colour.


I'm a guy, European Canadian about 6 feet tall. I'm about 175 lbs. I'm fairly fit for my age.


I am not African, or Caribbean (ie Jamaican, Trinidian or from St. Kitts or the Bahamas). I am not Guyanese. 


My declaring that I am not of those cultures is NOT a hate crime or hate speech at all, nor is my stating that I do not have brown skin (except a few age spots). 


In fact, its a hate crime to replace a person's identity in order to replace their culture, their religion, their gender or any aspect of their identity that is protected under the Charter Of Rights And Freedoms and the Human Rights Act (in Canada where I reside). I imagine that its that way in most places in the world that observe the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


I'm heterosexual, meaning that I'm attracted to women, though not trans but that doesn't mean that I oppose LGBTQ2 rights, though in all truth, why would anyone defend the rights of any group that doesn't support the rights of those defending them? I mean, if I stick up for their rights, it only seems just that they'd stick up for mine, but that isn't reciprocated often, if at all, but I've never asked for or requested that of them.

I mean, its not like I'm the kind of guy who would commit a home invasion (as if I would EVER do that) and assault a man who flirted with me, and/or pinched my ass. 

That's happened to me before a few times (a man flirting with me and pinching my ass), and my reaction was "thanks, I'm flattered, but no thanks. I don't swing in that direction". 

I didn't fly off the handle into a rage and bludgeon them or hurt them in any way, other than turning them down. I barely flinched. I'm comfortable with myself and my own sexuality enough so that I don't need to fly into a rage when someone steps over that boundary. 

People that do fly into a rage over things of that nature are either: at odds with their own sexuality and identity in some way shape or form and are afraid to confront the issue or; they've been subjected to the treatment of people who've stepped over their personal space and boundaries one too many times

In either case, some form of therapy or support is needed for such a person, lest they become a ticking time bomb.


I am not transgender or a cross dresser either and never have been and don't see myself being one any time in the future, though I have to say that I always had a soft spot for Ed Wood Jr. There is no hate in making a clear distinction of one's own life style or behaviour.


I don't hire in or out for sex either. In such a case where there's an itch that needs to be scratched, I'd much rather go it alone, if not to enjoy a very natural aspect of life, then to piss off Doctor John Kellogg or Sylvester Graham in the hopes of making them roll over in their graves. Who is the more sick? Someone who seeks a little pleasure and release that is completely natural, or someone who spurs a movement that yields devices of that nature. I'm not just speaking up for men you know, but also for women. 


I mean, if you think that just hiring out for sex is the better option...


How about these statistics with regard to sex trafficking in the United States and Canada?

Violence by traffickers

Sex traffickers routinely use physical beatings, sexual assault, choking, burning, branding, and threats to control victims, with US DOJ analyses distinguishing "aggressive" traffickers who rely on extreme violence and have prior violent records.

In Canada, police data links 15% of violent secondary offenses in sex-trade incidents to human trafficking (2009–2014), with trafficking incidents often involving prostitution as a related offense.
Hotline and survivor reports in both countries describe isolation, emotional abuse, and torture as common, with violence escalating if victims try to escape.
Violence by customers

Customer violence appears in homicide data and police reports, such as Canada's Homicide Survey showing sex-trade workers as victims, though rates slightly declined post-2014 law changes amid rising trafficking reports.

US trafficking cases often involve buyers assaulting victims under trafficker coercion, with child sex-trafficking reports highlighting repeated rapes and beatings.
Both nations note that traffickers expose victims to violent clients to enforce compliance, blending customer and trafficker violence.
Health and disease risks

Sex-trafficked victims face high STI rates (HIV, syphilis, HPV, hepatitis), pelvic inflammatory disease, unwanted pregnancies, substance abuse, and chronic pain from forced unprotected sex and poor conditions.

Canadian studies on sex workers (including trafficked) report elevated HIV (up to 17% in some Indigenous groups), amplified by drug use, anal sex, and risky partners.
US CDC data ties trafficking to sexual violence and preventable diseases, with traffickers often denying healthcare access.

How is substance dependency involved in sex trafficking?

Substance dependency is a frequent tactic used by traffickers in both the US and Canada to coerce women into prostitution, with studies and victim reports showing traffickers exploit existing addictions, introduce drugs to create dependency, or withhold substances to enforce compliance. This method is documented in hotline data, federal reports, and survivor interviews as one of the most powerful non-violent control tools, often alongside physical coercion.
Prevalence in US data

Traffickers exploited victims' substance issues in about 33% of active federal sex-trafficking cases in 2017, more than any other single coercion method like romantic relationships.

Polaris Project found 15% of surveyed survivors reported induced substance abuse, while one study noted 84% of sex-trafficking survivors had substance use during victimization, including 25% with heroin specifically.

Controllers often recruit during vulnerable moments like rehab discharge, supply drugs to build dependency, and then ration them, making escape harder.
Prevalence in Canada data

Canadian police data does not quantify drug dependency frequency in trafficking cases, but national strategies and victim services highlight it as a key coercion factor, especially in sex-trade-related trafficking where 53% of incidents involve additional sex offenses.

Reports describe traffickers using drugs to manipulate, similar to US patterns, with services addressing co-occurring addiction in survivors who face barriers to exit and recovery.
Indigenous and youth victims are noted as particularly vulnerable, with drugs compounding isolation and control in domestic trafficking networks.
How traffickers weaponize it

Traffickers target those with prior addictions or introduce drugs (e.g., opioids, heroin) to create reliance, using withdrawal as leverage.


Victims may self-medicate trauma, which traffickers exploit to maintain obedience and complicate legal cases due to impaired recall or criminal records.


This tactic persists post-escape, raising re-victimization risk without treatment.

...

I am only speaking for Canada and the United States in this case. There are other countries whose sex trafficking activity is on par with or much worse, though there are also countries where prostitution networks are not run by criminal gangs, and might even be legal, and in an environment where women's safety is a high priority, or the fair and good treatment of women is a cultural standard (Certainly Japan, China and Korea for instance, and there's always Amsterdam of course).


So in the logic of men like Doctor John Kellogg or Sylvester Graham, its far better to subject women to the risk of violence, disease and substance dependency, than it is to allow women to call the shots with regard to how they exploit themselves from the safety of their own surroundings online (and often anonymously) if they are inclined to seek to do so, or in adult movies where women (and men) are often required to provide Doctor's clean slate of health, they're safe, and treated very well and likely very healthy.


I myself have never been involved with the sex trade, though where it involves consenting *adults* fully aware that they are being broadcast/recorded, I honestly see no harm in the activity and I'd never tell a woman what she can and can't do with her own body.


I might fantasize about something like that (telling her what to do), but I'd never actually conduct myself in life that way unless she was employed for me and I was in a supervising role, though I'm certain that women with whom I've worked where that was the situation would vouch for me. 


In much the same way, I've never told any of my ex-girlfriends what they can and can't think about me when we were being intimate. I'd qualify a girlfriend as being a woman with whom I was seriously involved, intimate with over a period of three months, and who enjoyed kissing as much as I did, and the only exception to that rule would be my most recent Korean ex.


I've also never fathered any children (unlike blues guitar player B.B. King who fathered 15 children with 15 different women, leading to a vicious legal battle over his estate). I'm not a guitar player either though, but I am a piano and keyboard player. However, I'm not Polish. I'm not Italian either.


Enough said on those matters.


I'm generally attracted to Asian and European women, and that's the way I am. That's the way I've always been and the way I always will be and in being so, it was never a case of my trying to take the history of someone else's identity and wear it as my own. I even enjoy Southeast Asian erotic content and I see no harm in that whatsoever, myself being an adult who is attracted to the company of other adults, though I am certainly not the kind of guy who sleeps around, frequently if at all. My last romantic encounter was in 2010, with a very attractive Korean woman, and I'm very grateful for that time as I am with every one of my previous serious relationships, and I am not remembering someone else's life as if it were my own. I don't do that and never have, but there are predatory groups that collectively do unfortunately.


Also, I am not a member of any religious organization whatsoever and never have been. So I'm not a member of the Salvation Army for instance, and not a member of any group for whom a barter system exists that exploits people by taking the credit for their work/effort as payment for anything


The people making my weight heavy for others have nothing to do with me and most of the time it isn't even my weight, and I see them as a very big problem for society right now. They're basically selectively making the weight of whom they choose very heavy, very light or alternately no weight at all from those who they're promoting in some way shape or form. 


It seems that I am a person that one or more of these predatory groups have attempted to try to erase. I say the word try because that's exactly what they'd done, tried but not succeeded very obviously. I mean, here I am, writing this post, though many of them might try to implore that it is a different person writing this than myself. That is their modus operandi after all.


Despite being bombarded by the activity of abusive predatory groups that use colour symbolism as a vehicle for replacing other people's identities, swapping identities or just plain turning the concept of identity into a matter of the equivalent of drawing names out of a hat every day, I am not a part of any such ideology and will not fold to them or their efforts, which is probably why I am considered to be a ghost of sorts. A ghost is a person who does not exist, unless they borrow the identity of another person, who usually gets the credit for whatever the ghost achieves, as a payment for renting them their identity. 


I believe that the idea behind it is a mechanism used by groups that practice aggressive religious conversion to implore the target to convert to their religion in order to be considered once again to exist. Born again perhaps? Risen from the proverbial grave of a metaphorical death? I have no intent of joining any such religion and never will. 


I'm alive whether you like it or not as of this writing and if you don't agree with or accept me as I am, with my own name and identity, or require me to pay you through some corrupt social barter system by giving you the credit for my effort, then don't read my content and don't come back. I won't miss you.


If on the other hand, you agree with what I've posted here, or at least some of it, enough for you have stuck around to read this far and are willing to go along with what I've stated in the paragraph above, welcome aboard. I've taken many beatings in life, but I never give up.


But I always give credit where credit is due.


Speaking of which, the data concerning sex trafficking was made possible by Perplexity AI and their AI integrated Comet browser. A tool that has proven its worth beyond measure when it comes to any in-depth task, from researching for my books, episodes and stories here on Shhhh! Digital Media, to putting together data like the data I've posted here in this post, complete with citations which can be perused below.


Have an enjoyable day.

Brian Joseph Johns

None of this content is written from the homeless shelter system and I am  not a resident at, nor do I work for the homeless shelter system. I am not a member of Jehovah's Witnesses or Prince Hall and never have been.

References


About Shhhh! Digital Media...


Artwork: Amy WongWendy PuseyGhastlyBirdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3DUnreal Engine...


Tools: Daz3DCorel PainterAdobe PhotoshopLightwave 3DBlender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantIDSadtalkerGoogle ColaboratoryMicrosoft Copilot (Windows 11), HitfilmPhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Borderline Obsession...


DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.


InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.


Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.


Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.


Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.ufaf.org Chuck Norris' fighting system, https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)


Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)


Special thanks to AitrepreneurMickmumpitzHugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.


Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery 
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life


Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery 
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life


Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts


Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history


Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)


Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai 
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art



Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility


Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools


Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!


Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof


Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.


Soon, when people arrive in Canada for the first time, we'll be able to say: Welcome to Europe :-)



I am Brian Joseph Johns and this is Shhhh! Digital Media at https://www.shhhhdigital.com or https://www.shhhhdigital.ca in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701.


























Saturday, March 21, 2026

Shhhh! Digital Media Presents... The Butterfly Dragon: Heroes of our Own Reimagined: Episode 11 - The Point of No Return (Saturday March 21, 2026 15:30 EST)







Wanna be a Captain or Admiral?




Warning: This episode deals with sensitive topics and is intended for a mature audience. Reader discretion is definitely advised.


Chapters

  1. Discovery (Finished Saturday March 21, 14:30)
  2. The Garden and the Dragon (Started Saturday March 21, 14:30)

Friday, March 20, 2026

Chuck Norris: In Memory of a True Martial Arts Hero

photo by Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons




Like_the_Grand_CanyonCC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons



For more information about this remarkable martial artist and 
the inspiration of many generations of martial artists and fans alike, 
I highly suggest starting with this video:


Courtesy of the Biographer YouTube Channel
 
For more information about his martial arts system, visit UFAF


 Rest In Peace

At least Bruce Lee is going to have a familiar sparring partner now :-)


Thanks to Perplexity AI for assistance in putting together a worthy tribute for this martial arts hero and incredible family man.

Artwork: Amy WongWendy PuseyGhastlyBirdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3DUnreal Engine...


Tools: Daz3DCorel PainterAdobe PhotoshopLightwave 3DBlender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantIDSadtalkerGoogle ColaboratoryMicrosoft Copilot (Windows 11), HitfilmPhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Borderline Obsession...


DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.


InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.


Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.


Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.


Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.ufaf.org Chuck Norris' fighting system, https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)


Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)


Special thanks to AitrepreneurMickmumpitzHugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.


Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery 
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life


Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery 
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life


Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts


Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history


Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)


Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai 
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art



Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility


Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools


Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!


Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof


Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.


Soon, when people arrive in Canada for the first time, we'll be able to say: Welcome to Europe :-)



I am Brian Joseph Johns and this is Shhhh! Digital Media at https://www.shhhhdigital.com or https://www.shhhhdigital.ca in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701.























Shhhh! Digital Media Presents: Grand Tapestry of Moments 04 - The Other Side (Edited and small update Wednesday March 11, 2026 20:00 EST)






Chapters
  1. The Campbell Paradox
  2. The Geriatric Philosopher
  3. Introduction Conjunction
  4. Belief or Relief (coming soon...)


Warning: This episode contains mature situations intended for an adult audience. Reader discretion is advised.


Thursday, March 19, 2026

Should Identity Be Based Upon Consistency Of Character Or Physical Biomarkers?



Identity Crimes


Here's a scenario. You wake up one day in the wee hours of the morning, and begin work on a project for a client, perhaps working on a website design or online presence campaign and you hear outside of the front door of your semi-detached home an altercation going on between people who are making quite a ruckus for you and your neighbours.


You continue working, trying to ignore the altercation, which although it has not escalated, it continues without calming or wavering. Their noise level remains the same as you try to work, until you've just about had it and decide to confront the situation yourself.


You go to your front door and open it up, and stand on the front porch and ask in a firm and bold voice for the two men to keep it down. They turn to you and begin trying to lure you into their conflict but you're not having any of it. Instead you address them once again in a firm voice and remind them that other people are still trying to sleep and have to get up for work at some point soon. They turn and upon realizing that the situation has now turned against them in terms of the Casus Belli, they turn and leave, each going their own direction.


From that point forward, your day continues and you're finding that throughout the course of your work day (you work from home like many Canadians currently do), there are more and more situations of a similar nature that seem to be drawing you further and further in. Noise here, a conflict there. More and more they interfere in your work day, but in the interest of keeping obstacles affecting your day to a minimum, you deal with them one at a time.


Perhaps the wise thing might have been in each of those cases to call the Police to have them come and sort things out, but by the time they arrived likely each of the situations would could have been solved, meaning you could get back to work instead of losing two or three hours waiting for the problem to be solved. Not that the Police are that slow and its not a criticism of their work, but in many cases it seems that you could probably solve these problems and get back to your work much more quickly than otherwise.


A few days go by, and you've turned in your project to the client and are awaiting the pay, but by the third day it hasn't come. You decide due to budget constraints and pressures to investigate, and after doing some calling and follow-up calls, you find out that someone else received your payment cheque. Your identity has been stolen, however, not by the usual means where some steals a credit card or identification and then uses it to commit financial fraud of some form, but rather the perpetrators are part of an ideological collective who decided that you were not behaving like yourself, a web designer, but behaving more like a Police Officer, or Security Guard, so they the membership of this ideological collective (whose reach you didn't know was so extensive) arranged to have your payment addressed and sent to someone else who was more consistent with being a web designer and brand promoter than you were. To them, you were being more consistent with being a Police Officer or Security Guard, but no payment from the city has been issued to you for that role, to compensate for the fact that said group had your payment sent to someone who did not work for it.


This is a form of identity theft that has been gaining traction for years, perhaps secretly so over the last couple of decades, and though it rarely involves financial transactions, it does involve payments through a secretive underground barter system that permeates many grey and black-markets throughout big cities. Where the theft of your effort can be used to purchase services and goods, most of which are illegal or at the very least, controlled by law. This is an identity scam that exploits your identity based upon the consistency of your behaviour with your day to day life. If you are not consistent with it, by the standards of a group that secretly permeates much of society to a small degree, the members of that group can act to take your efforts from you and award them to someone else more consistent with you and your being, so that they may use them in this black-market barter system and by narcotics and sex, while in most cases, the same high control group will then treat you as if you are someone completely different from your own identity.

Welcome to the new form of identity theft.


Are We Ourselves? 


That depends how much it might benefit someone else to be you, and considering that we are living in a society that is more and more controlled by secretive collectives and predatory ideological groups, this question is very pertinent to the times, and the first answer I've given is probably the most valid answer.


You are yourself as long as its not beneficial to someone else to a high degree to benefit from being you, especially if a group feels that your behaviour is inconsistent with your day to day acumen and activity, and hence uses their collective power to take your identity and to give it to someone else who can use the value of your output to buy goods and services on a barter system based black-market.


If you think that this sounds like the plot to one of my books or stories, perhaps one from The Butterfly Dragon or Grand Tapestry of Moments, you're dead wrong. This is an activity that is going on regularly every day in the streets of this city, where someone else can wear your identity, while yours is secretly replaced with that of someone else, and often without your knowing. You'll only become aware when you notice that people are treating you differently, and things come into your life that are geared towards the tastes of someone else.


As a web developer, you even notice that the advertising that is based upon the analytics associated with your identity and online activity is very different from what it usually is, as if an admin somewhere, has taken your unique analytics ID and swapped it with that of someone else. Now, your analytics data is driving the advertising and suggestions feed on their computers and devices with regard to online activity, while you're receiving suggestions and advertising that is geared to someone else's life that is completely different from yours.


You suddenly start noticing that you're receiving advertising related to clearing your criminal record (thinking, when did I acquire a criminal record?) and a slew of other online analytics related content that is very obviously geared towards someone else.


Fortunately, you have a friend in the business of analytics and you get fire him an email, explaining the situation and ask him if such a thing were possible. If one or more admins could get together as a joke, and swap the analytics IDs of two people?


She responds:


Yes, in principle a small group of privileged insiders could deliberately swap two people’s IDs in an internal system, but in practice it would be risky, highly traceable, and a clear violation of law and company policy.


What makes it technically possible


Admins with high privileges can usually edit or override key fields in identity graphs or credit files (including internal customer IDs) as part of legitimate maintenance, corrections, and dispute handling.


We know from “mixed file” credit-report cases that data for two people can be merged or mis-attributed due to errors in matching logic, bad inputs, or manual mistakes; the same technical mechanisms could be abused intentionally.


Insider-threat research treats “unauthorized data modification” as a common abuse pattern when staff have broad, under-monitored access.


What pushes against it (controls and incentives)
  • Major bureaus and data brokers are subject to laws like the FCRA in the U.S. and analogous regimes elsewhere, which require “reasonable procedures” for accuracy; intentional tampering would be textbook non-compliance and create direct liability.

  • Internal change controls, audit logs, and role-based access are standard mitigations; when errors like mixed files occur, they can often be traced back to specific processes or systems, which is why there are lawsuits and enforcement actions.

  • From an incentive standpoint, swapping two people’s identities even “as a joke” creates enormous downside (regulatory fines, lawsuits, potential criminal exposure, job loss) and zero upside for the employees, making it an archetypal insider-threat scenario organizations design controls to prevent.

How this shows up in the real world
  • The documented real-world version is not “joke swaps” but accidental “mixed credit files,” where one person’s data ends up attached to another’s profile due to name/SSN/address similarity or matching-algorithm quirks.

  • These mix-ups are frequent enough that law firms and regulators have standing guidance on spotting and disputing them, which implies the underlying data models are mutable and that mistakes (and therefore hypothetically malicious changes) are technically feasible.

So: technically feasible, especially for a coordinated group of admins with sufficient rights; practically, it would be an obvious, logged, and legally radioactive insider attack, not something they could safely do as a joke, but it would certainly be possible and even trivially so. Would I do it? No, but I'm not every admin. When the victims are individuals, in the scheme of things, there's little they can do. The admins might claim it to have been a mistake or a mix-up, in which case its swept under the carpet in just the same way that saying "oops" after you drop that hundred dollar vase, suddenly makes it an accident.


You thank her for her insight and go about trying to get your money back.


So now that you understand the context of the title of this post, what's the answer? 

Are we ourselves when we behave most consistently and most conformingly and least creatively, or are we ourselves according to our physical biomarkers, and when we're being most creative and adventurous and taking chances by doing things that slightly overstep our boundaries and improve the world in some small way?


Scenarios like these are becoming more and more commonplace as time goes on, and their negative effects can wear on individuals and a society as things of this nature occur more and more often, and those effects can lead to other potentially dangerous situations that arise as the pressure in the boiler pot increases.


The scenario that I just outlined are very close to scenarios I've experienced personally, and those I've been tracking and investigating online as a personal challenge to try to help leave this world a little bit better than it was when I got here.


I can tell you from personal experience, as being someone whose work and sense of accomplishment depends upon both my online work, and my identity, and that when people, especially predatory ideological collectives infringe upon those aspects of my life, it really does bring out that willfully forceful and determined presence that would take down whatever obstacle there was in order to deal with such a problem, and sometimes that side of me can be very protective and hypervigilant, though never abusive but certainly not the way I want to live my life all of the time.


This article isn't just for me though, because I know that these same things are happening to many other people and if someone doesn't speak up, that pressure will build and someone or a lot of somebodies might get hurt. 


Sometimes people want to express it, but they don't understand what's going on under the hood of this wonderful and marvelous technology that has helped us to shape medicine and progress in ways that have benefited humanity beyond measure. However, any technology can also be misused, and in speaking up about this, I hope to alleviate the pressure and give credibility to those who've also experienced this.


Keep in mind though that a good portion of what I've expressed here deals with not the technology or its misuse, and remind you that technology is a tool. There also the fact that there is an ideological underground that is organized enough to quickly conduct such activity on a whim, while maintaining the means to swap people's identities (via social engineering and technology) and then use their effort as payments in a black-market barter system for narcotics and sex trafficking. These are pretty serious issues, and most women who are part of that trafficking network are not there because they want to be. They're there because they have no choice, and I'd never tell a woman what she can and can't do with her own body.


One thing that will certainly confirm what I'm speaking about is the fact that this very article will undoubtedly be given to the credit of someone with whom my own identity has been unknowingly swapped, and if this were a chess game, the people doing so will essentially be putting themselves into checkmate. They're proving my entire article and the argument I've presented here, but hey, I'm a horrible chess player, but someone who is concerned that there are other people out there who might really be affected in a bad way by these activities.


So I'm doing something about it.


Brian Joseph Johns


Credits and Citations:

The lady friend of mine who works as an admin for an analytics firm was played by Perplexity AI, who actually did the research and confirmed the scenarios I outlined. 

Citations:

Here are the cited sources with full URLs:



Artwork: Amy WongWendy PuseyGhastlyBirdman, Brian Joseph Johns, Daz3DUnreal Engine...


Tools: Daz3DCorel PainterAdobe PhotoshopLightwave 3DBlender, Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion distribution), InstantIDSadtalkerGoogle ColaboratoryMicrosoft Copilot (Windows 11), HitfilmPhotoPea (a great web based Photoshop stand-in if you're on a low budget or in a pinch), Borderline Obsession...


DeepSeek AI for suggestions on exercises to improve aspects of describing scene and settings with a more sensory focused grammar.


InstantID by: Wang, Qixun and Bai, Xu and Wang, Haofan and Qin, Zekui and Chen, Anthony. Research Paper Title: InstantID - Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds.


Sadtalker by: Zhang, Wenxuan and Cun, Xiaodong and Wang, Xuan and Zhang, Yong and Shen, Xi and Guo, Yu and Shan, Ying and Wang, Fei.
Research Paper Title: SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation.


Gratitude: Our Mentors, Senseis, Sifus, Sebomnims, lifetime inspirations, family, friends, the Nomads (ask Stanton about that one), the Music, the Movies, the Theatre, the Arts, ASMR, (both YouTube and Bilibili and the many other creators on those platforms), the Gaming and Developer communities and of course, the audience.


Martial Arts (in the words of real experts and at least one comedian): https://brucelee.com (home of the real Dragon and an entire family of inspirations), http://iwco.online International Wing Chun Organization (International presence of a very scalable intensity martial art, protected and developed by Shaolin Nun Ng Mui) and the alma mater of Jinn Hua's own specialized variation thereof, https://iogkf.com International Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karatedo Federation (even Hanshi had his teachers), https://itftkd.sport International Taekwondo Federation (Here there be Taegers), https://tangsoodoworld.com Tang Soo Do World (the path of Grandmaster Chuck Norris), https://www.aikido-international.org International Aikido Federation (how else would Navy Chef Steven Seagal liberate a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier from a team of hijackers?), https://www.stqitoronto.com Shaolin Temple Quanfa Institute (The City Of Toronto's own Shaolin Temple), https://www.enterthedojoshow.com Master Ken's Ameri-Te-Do presence (If we can't laugh at ourselves, then we can at least laugh the loudest at others, and other Zen)


Magic (performance, illusion and perhaps the real thing): Magic Week Archive (I'm currently growing this section so stay tuned)


Special thanks to AitrepreneurMickmumpitzHugging Face and the YouTube educational content producers, including those catering to the AI content production pipeline and of course AlphaSignal.


Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery 
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life


Shi Heng Yi Shaolin Training For Self Mastery 
A reknowned Sifu under whose tutelage you can study the theory and practical applications of the Shaolin Arts for health, physical and mental wellbeing in every day life


Jesse Enkamp: Karate Nerd
Jesse, a reknowned Sensei who runs his own dojo, explores the world of Martial Arts, traveling to many exotic locations to meet practitioners of a variety of different arts


Sensei Rokas: Martial Arts Journey
A reknowned Sensei of Aikido who in seeking to understand the roots of Aikido and its applications, seeks to stress test its effectiveness in a number of real world situations while studying its history


Seamus O'Dowd
An extensive growing archive Katas, Techniques and Waza (mostly Shotokan)


Iaido: Train For Katana Mastery Like Samurai 
The original weapons focused curriculum under which Samurai became masters of their art



Extensive courses for calisthenics and body strength, stamina and flexibility


Special thanks to Canva for inspiring other creators and giving them the tools


Special thanks to Captain Crunch and his wonderful sister!


Special thanks to Bandcamp for giving indie music artists a home under one roof


Something to give you perspective: The very first teacher had no formal education, didn't graduate and was self taught, but only because they had no other choice. We do.


Soon, when people arrive in Canada for the first time, we'll be able to say: Welcome to Europe :-)



I am Brian Joseph Johns and this is Shhhh! Digital Media at https://www.shhhhdigital.com or https://www.shhhhdigital.ca in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at 200 Sherbourne Street Suite 701.



























The Truth Is All There Is...




Everything else is an attempt to obscure it. 


The pleroma is not the true pleroma.


I was never really a pirate (one who copies software illegally), and not a pirate courier, the one who uploads uncracked software to servers where hackers break the copy protection, nor was I the one who download cracked software to redistribute it to other servers.


I was a coder of graphics demos, whose work got noticed by the membership of an Elite crew part of a legendary hacker group, and I was recruited (in the 1980s) purely for intros/demos, though I advocated both on my own, and on behalf of said legendary group for student pricing and free student versions of application software, so that low income students (like me at that time) could afford and acquire software education. Most low income students could barely afford a computer, never mind the a package like Autocad which in the late 1980s early 1990s held a price of many thousands of dollars. This was before student and educational pricing existed.


Generally, the only copied software I've ever been in possession of is that which came with the used computers I've purchased, and often went with the same computer when I sold it to someone else. Occasionally, if I needed a software that I'd purchased and lost or damaged the original copy, I'd download the disks or much later, the iso file to replace my installation media while still retaining my software license. So technically speaking, I was never really a pirate, but more an advocate of affordable pricing for students.


I am still an honorary member of said group, though rarely if ever communicate with others online in relation to this affiliation. Too many organized community crime networks spying on citizens illegally who would take that information and somehow try to profit by it, or use it maliciously and most citizens likely know exactly what I'm talking about. In the very building of my residence, just such an illegal surveillance network exists operated by people affiliated with organized crime, who use it most likely to protect their scheduled crack cocaine shipments into the building, and their sex trafficking network, things of their activity they regularly try to burden me with, while stealing the credit for my writing and work. They also do the same thing in connection with some homeless shelters, where they give people at those shelters the credit for my writing and work, while burdening me with their weight and then often harassing me about it to make it very heavy.


Thankfully, I do not reside in a homeless shelter nor do I work for the homeless shelter system, as it would probably be very difficult with all of the predatory groups operating at that level currently, never mind the ones coordinating to stalk people both offline and online who like the one in my building, have ties to organized crime that they use to stalk and harass their victims. 


Secondly, with regard to my love interest being Southeast Asian? There are people who knew me once upon a time who believed that my attraction to Southeast Asian women was because I was trying to take over the identity of a friend of mine (one whose name is John Penny). He was friends with a Japanese woman at one time, and so the membership of this stalking cult (who are most likely Tom Cruise obsessed fans) assumed that my attraction to Southeast Asian women was the result of my attempt to steal his identity, which it never was. 


I've always felt a strong attraction towards Southeast Asian women for as long as I can remember, and developed good friendships with a few when I was very young, though obviously friendships that preserved our innocence and even protected it. As I got older in life, I noticed more and more of an effort to steer me away from such friendships and force me in other directions, and that was most likely related to the presence of a collection of high control religious groups in my proximity who manipulated many aspects of my life right up until my late thirties without my knowing, including cutting off my income when I joined the military (QOR, a Canadian Reserve Airborne Regiment) hence my never finishing training or getting my jump wings. Cutting off and limiting my income when I joined martial arts the first time (hence my never continuing with that particular martial art until much later in my life). Similar manipulations occurred throughout my life every time I made a choice that went against the grain of their religions. They attempted to steer my interest away from European and Southeast Asian women, by introducing me to members of their approved cultures for my relationships, with their likely trying to herd me into their religious circle to live by their rules about intermingling. 


They still try force me over to the "brown" side or the "tan" side of the fence, which basically means that they attempt to enforce relationships that include only Africans or Caribbeans, despite my having being a Welsh descended person of light skin (their motivations are based upon skin colour and forcing me to be with someone on that basis rather than on the basis of the choice of my potential partner and I). 


They also often attempt to create the impression of my being "brown" or "tan" within that regard in order to replace my identity to replace my culture, so that I become a fuel source for them and nobody else (yep, they're a brown racist group alright). A very racist ideology that manipulate and interfere in their target's lives. This is the same ideology that attempts to steal my content and credit it to other people that have nothing to do with its creation.


Many of the people who seemingly came into my life via serendipity, were plants by the members of these religions, who were pruning me for membership amongst their numbers. Obviously at some point I took steps to distance myself from them, which was met with varied results, including their having stalked my older Chinese girlfriend for nearly four months unbeknownst to me back in 2006 (we parted ways for her protection), and then the same thing in 2010 when they stalked my Korean girlfriend at that time. 


Between those relationships, they attempted to create the impression that I used prostitutes and was involved in crack cocaine and other narcotics, as a means to discredit me and likely to prevent me from settling into a relationship with someone European or Southeast Asian as I stated and there seems to have been collusion from people I once trusted towards these ends, including attempts to associate me with cocaine or crack cocaine. In other words, trying to paint a very different picture of my being than is factual and most often in a way that it was destructive to my life and career (which it definitely was). I suspect a racist religion of some form (trying to force me in the "brown" direction), and possibly those who practice eugenics as well.


So, that's the truth and history of my situation while I'm working on growing and expanding Shhhh! Digital Media.


This predatory ideology are the source of most of my woes and the motivation for many of my rant posts. They're also the group that most often attempt to radicalize me towards anger or hostile reactions, as if they're addicted to it. I'm disgusted by women attracted to guys like that, especially those that believe that what they're doing is "craft" alchemy or something of that nature. Yay, what I've always wanted to be: a mean, knuckle dragging moron. Daddy, when I grow up can I be a mean, knuckle dragging moron? 


I prefer being intelligent, and being able to summon a fierce and potentially devastating willpower when I need it that is a force to be reckoned with, but never using it recklessly.


They likely attempted to swap my identity with that of my 350lbs neighbour, whose name is Marty. Apparently he's a Hell's Angel or has family that are Hell's Angels, and the abusive ideology in the building often swaps his identity and mine (though they do that between myself and many other people as well). So, I'm not Irish (Marty's Irish), and I'm not 350lbs, though I'd never make fun of anyone over their health issues or their weight. I'm about 175lbs and 6 feet tall, and fairly fit for my age.


Regardless, after years of being forced to carry the weight of "brown" via a cult that operates via colour symbolism of brown black (brown secrets), I'm dumping it all as its not mine and never was. 


Apparently that's the nature of this cult. To force that kind of weight upon someone and then to make it very heavy for them. However, it isn't mine anymore and never really was. Lets just put it where everyone has access to it and see where that goes when everyone else knows their secrets.


I'm still Canadian and living in Canada. I've never lived anywhere else.


I'm not Irish, nor am I Scottish, nor am I transgender, nor am I homosexual, but I support LGBTQ2 rights, nor do I play guitar and I've never owned a guitar in my life. I grew up at 30 Lisburn Crescent from the age of 7 years old, just to verify my exact identity. We lived several other places before that, but I'll keep those to myself. I don't have a brown fetish and never have. My own love interest is Southeast Asian. Nobody is controlling me or remotely controlling me.


I am not remembering someone else's history (like that of Steve Vitale), as my two most recent girlfriends were Chinese and Korean, though this is a fact that a racist group has been trying to erase about my history. They are a cult that believe that if you speak of things related to your history, you lose them and they go to someone else, which is complete nonsense. Not only that but they're organized crime, and attempting to give the credit for my work to other people.


No, I don't use cocaine or crack cocaine and I have never been involved in sex trafficking in my life and my name isn't Sam. You'll find that organized crime often attempts to dump its responsibility for sex trafficking and narcotics onto substitutes, and I'm not one to put up with that sort of thing at all, no matter who is doing the dumping.


I'm completely an atheist now and do not believe in any religion whatsoever. Perhaps secular is the best way to describe me and no, I'm not on the blue team or the brown team. I'm not Polish. I'm not Italian, and my name isn't Mario, a Calabrese Italian poet who had kidney surgery decades ago.


This is going to get legal very soon, so buckle up.