Added a fallback for #infocalypse push: if a repository has fallen out, #hg fn-push will automatically re-create it (if you have the private key):
https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/infocalypse
https://github.com/hyphanet/infocalypse
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https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/Infocalypse
https://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/real-life-infocalypse
In analogy to the "Four #Horsemen of the #Infocalypse" (terrorism, CSAM, money laundering, drug trafficking) that serve to justify more and more surveillance:
Is there a classical set of #TechBro promises (feed the world; cure diseases / disabilities; wealth for everybody; …) with a specific name?
Don't remember having heard one - any pointers are welcome.
3/3 One can imagine LLMs with loss functions competing with AIs with loss functions, resulting in an Adversarial system entirely devoted to surfacing ads no one will ever see.
For us cyberpunks and edgerunners, our lives revolve around advanced technology and digital landscapes, the idea of returning to traditional libraries is revolutionary.
Libraries represent a different kind of information ecosystem, one that's more curated and less susceptible to the pitfalls of algorithm-driven content and AI-generated information.
2/3 50% of the content on the internet has been entirely made by AI. At the current rate, it'll soon be impossible to find information on the internet, because every system will have been designed specifically and only to PageRank.
This growth raises concerns about information quality, authenticity, and the potential for AI to be used in spreading misinformation or manipulating any possibly deployed algorithms.
1/3 Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash," published in 1992, is a novel known for its prescient ideas about technology and cyberspace. In it, Stephenson presents the concept of an "Infocalypse," which refers to a state where the proliferation of information, especially misinformation, overwhelms the ability to discern truth and reality.
@salixlucida Interesting that of the four riders of the #infocalypse, money laundering and drugs seem to have lost their shock appeal. Only #terrorism and #CSAM are left.
As another philosopher, Byung-Chul Han, observed in an interview with Noema, democracy requires a common narrative of binding values, ideals and shared convictions. But “the informatization of reality leads to its atomization. … Bits of information provide neither meaning nor orientation. They do not congeal into a narrative. They are purely additive. From a certain point onward, they no longer inform — they deform.”
#infocalypse #information #deformation
https://www.noemamag.com/approaching-the-infopocalypse/
L'Espagne voudrait que l'Europe interdise le chiffrement de bout en bout
https://www.nextinpact.com/article/71732/lespagne-voudrait-que-europe-interdise-chiffrement-bout-en-bout
À l'occasion de débats sur une proposition de Règlement européen à propos de la lutte contre les abus sexuels sur les enfants, des responsables européens mettent de nouveau en question l'utilisation du chiffrement de bout en bout.
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Pourquoi ne demandent-ils pas que les maisons soient toutes construites en verre pour pouvoir vérifier qu'aucun abus sexuel ne se déroule chez vous ? #infocalypse
Selon le mémo interne du service juridique du Conseil de l'Union européenne :
- La lutte contre la pédocriminalité ne relèverait pas de la sécurité nationale
- Une proposition qui impliquerait nécessairement le profilage de masse
- Le secret de la correspondance deviendrait ineffectif et vide de sens
#India's Ministry of information and technology (#MEITy) has "blocked" 14 messenger apps, including @briar, @threemaapp and @element. Of course, one of the Four #Horsemen of the #Infocalypse was given as a "reason":
"The move came after agencies informed Meity that terrorists were using these applications to communicate, for spreading terror in the region"
#infocalypse: truly decentralized version control over #Freenet: https://www.reddit.com/r/Freenet/comments/ymw6uf/infocalypse_truly_decentralized_version_control/
