Wikipedia is perhaps the greatest cross cultural cooperative collaboration in the history of humankind and it is getting fucked up with AI and is taxing the volunteer editors who are already spread thin with bullshit like this:
Well, the thief should ask forgiveness in the spirit of the day
Now you are the one who will be good at fetch 😂
You know what I do! Hit me up.
Yes to everything in this from @cwarzel.bsky.social. “The primary use of ‘misinformation’ is not to change the beliefs of other people at all. Instead, the vast majority of misinformation is offered as a service for people to maintain their beliefs in face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.”
I wrote about the hurricanes, attention grifters, the limits of the term misinformation, and how it is more apt to call it a full cultural and political assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. (gift link)
What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.
2 different Internet Archive events have taken place: 1) "Today, the Internet Archive suffered a DDoS attack,... claimed by the BlackMeta hacktivist group, who says they will be conducting additional attacks." 2) Internet Archive was breached. 31 million unique emails + other info. (confirmed)
"...threat actor shared the Internet Archive's authentication database, it is a 6.4GB SQL file named "ia_users.sql." The database contains email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, Bcrypt-hashed passwords, and other internal data." Ouch. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
On BBC News live in a few minutes to talk about Israel, Iran, and Lebanon. For those interested www.livehdtv.com/bbc-news/
Well, anyway, I hope the new year is better than the old one. Shana tova u'metuka!
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