IT security student. Programmer of digital duck tape, learning to write digital plumbing. Aspiring cryptographer. Personal research interests include zero-knowledge credentials (to counter online antisocial conduct while protecting privacy) and AV/image non-repudiation (to counter deepfakes).
Anti-exceptionalist egalitarian. Empirical pragmatist: evidence over ideology, results over rationalization. Theory is as good as the least of its falsifiability, its internal consistency, and its withstanding of attempted disproof. It is as useful as one is willing to revise or replace it when it falls.
Yeah, why aren't there deepfakes of Marvel movies?
After all Ike Perlmutter likes this kind of content...
Why aren't there deepfakes of NFL games where your team always "wins"?
After all Miriam Adelson announced plans to pay $250 million for a fake 3rd term for Trump.
https://www.businessinsider.com/politicians-fear-growing-use-ai-generated-content-politics-2025-10
After all Elon Musk likes the fascist, the false, and the fake...
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/21/business/media/trump-ai-truth-social-no-kings.html
After all Larry Ellison launched ...
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Republican billionaires like Elon Musk are promoting a false narrative that redundancy is "government waste", and not a well established risk management strategy.
It's much easier to get your corporate fascist state if there's only one ill-funded remnant holding up critical infrastructure.
Every failure feeds a malign influence campaign that it just **has** to be privatized.
Musk's ilk never mentions the massive costs to the public of privatized infrastructure.
@Npars01 @canleaf @johncarlosbaez
There would be no space program (and fewer complex systems or programs of any kind) were it not for redundancy of critical functions.
What would you get without redundancy? Dead astronauts and cancelled programs; imploding Titan submersibles; no nuclear power; no fly-by-wire aircraft; Teslas whose doors do not open in extremis; no, no, no.
@huntingdon @canleaf @johncarlosbaez
Koch Network & their tech oligarch allies are perfectly okay with lots & lots of dead people.
They're extremely keen on dead children in particular.
https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-food-program-starvation-children-deaths
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452513/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-deaths
https://futurism.com/future-society/people-starved-death-elon-musk-usaid
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/update-lives-lost-usaid-cuts
They believe they'll rule from the ashes.
After all, this is an industry that has signed onto 1 billion famine deaths & 1.2 billion climate refugees. Murder is their middle name.
This is your city on driverless cars.
A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/
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