Does anyone believe that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agreed to let Apple sell iphones in China without being given access to all customer data? C’mon people, of course the CCP has had unlimited access to your information for years. They don’t need Tik Tok to spy on you. They have multiple intelligence gathering tools […]
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“Trust the experts”. How often does one hear that statement or some variation from the intellectually lazy. It’s one of those statements that has a kind of ambient reasonableness at first blush. Of course upon further review the concept is grounded in the spurious assumption that there is such a thing as an ‘expert’. But
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Introduction “Fake news” can’t be fake because it’s not real to begin with. The business model for the typical media company (regardless of ideological disposition) is this: The purpose of a media company is to aggregate and segment audiences in the service of enhancing transactions for sellers. Even a cursory glance at any media company’s
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There is nothing that AI can do that humans have not been doing for millions of years. AI can certainly help humans level up their ‘making bad decisions’ game by being faster and more efficient using a deeper knowledge base, but beyond that AI is really just another inanimate tool with no inherent intent or
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Given the tidal wave of support for addressing the obvious dysfunction in the social media arena, it is surprising an effective tactical plan has not emerged. The approaches currently in play are: Antitrust. The argument being that certain social media businesses are engaged in monopolistic behavior. The first step in identifying a monopoly is to
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