You think the problem is Nazis.
Or Communists.
Or religious extremists.
No.
The problem isn’t the people.
It’s the ideas running through them.
Ideas replicate.
Humans transmit.
Humans are hosts.
Ideas are viruses.
Idea viruses are memes.
Stop fighting people.
Study memes.
One had to be careful not to imply that the break-in is an angry reaction to the right-wing media interest in fraud. It could also be an evidence destruction ploy by the owners. That's why there is a police investigation.
It's so important to teach kids how to not be manipulated easily. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/648...
The image is from this article:
There's been a pretty rapid decrease in the number of web publishers that still allow bots: (h/t @shaynelongpre.bsky.social )
For twenty years, there has been a bargain between websites and Google that websites allow Google to crawl them and in return Google sends traffic to the websites. Google is chipping away at the sending traffic piece of the deal, which might work in the short-term, but is risky long-term. 1/2
It's maybe time to stop fighting hopeless causes - and start actually winning some causes that can be won.
Accelerating CO2 levels in the atmosphere make it clear that whatever 'sustainability initiatives' from the past 2-3 decades just aren't working. It's time to stop wishful thinking, for the sake of the world.
LLM grooming: "the malign intent to encourage generative AI or other software that relies on LLMs to be more likely to reproduce a certain narrative or worldview.”
Truth Social has been infiltrated by Russia while nobody was looking -- it's not large-scale voter influence, it's targeted the influence of Trump inner circle:
bsky.app/profile/alek...
The second key application of artificial intelligence in war are autobiasers -- media entities that steal actual reporting, and add their own spin: thedebrief.org/countercloud... (h/t @mjbanias.bsky.social for the article)
The main application of artificial intelligence technology in war right now are sock puppets on social media. (h/t @vatniksoup.bsky.social for the photo)
We need information defense, with a budget that's within an order of magnitude of the enemy disinformation spending.
Did you also know that Russian influence information ops have a budget in billions? vatniksoup.com/en/soups/332/
Did you know that Russia Today is the most shared web domain on Trump's Truth Social?
We could just shrug away ambient flu in the past, but we can't shrug away ambient C19: it suppresses the immune system far too much.
@1goodtern.bsky.social made a chart showing that a C19 infection increases the risk of bacterial infections 6-8x more than a flu infection!
Santa is a just old political propaganda. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civi...
I think health deregulation would lead to better outcomes in the US. There are too many entrenched interests and national level policy would cost too much.
Culture preceded progress
"Evolutionary medicine identifies six reasons why our bodies are vulnerable to disease: 1) defences, 2) environmental mismatch, 3) trade-offs, 4) conflict between survival and reproduction, 5) co-evolution with infectious parasites and 6) constraints on natural selection."
