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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 19h

I suppose it comes down to how dismissive the church has been of your legitimacy as a human and how problematic that has been for you. If for you it's not at all, then I'm happy for you.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 22h

The potential for abuse is unchanged by the fact that there are actually some non-people on the internet now.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 22h

I really think we'll regret formalizing: > those ones aren't people and therefore don't matter for use on the web. If we had this years go, Trump would've found a way to classify liberals as not-people on the internet by now.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 22h

No, we've been doing this to each other for hundreds of years. Classifying a group as not people is the first step towards doing awful things to them.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's a whole subculture that calls such technology "the mark of the beast". I just doubt he's thought this through.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It'll try to be the source of truth about this. And that will attract corruption, as such things do, and then the Pope might regret calling for the creation of such a thing in such a nonspecific way.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And whatever that entity builds, it'll likely support generic stamps of approval: certified human. Certified AI.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's hard not to read the pope's proposal for *some* mechanism for knowing human from machine as a laying the groundwork for an argument that we should not rethink how we trust but merely that we should rethink who we trust, and that the new authority on who is a human will be chosen by the church.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The church is in a bad position to mediate this conversation, since they've historically been one of the groups that's abusing that sort of implicit institutional trust.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Instead we need better tooling for understanding which data is trustworthy on the basis of annotations left by people that we know personally: More explicit trust in each other, less implicit trust of platforms or institutions.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The path forward here is not to ignore voices on the basis of the type of thing they are, because untrustworthy people will gain control over that classification.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's very similar to what we're already doing re: social media. These companies are basically selling access to our friends to us in exchange for our willingness to look at ads. Also if you speak too loudly against power on these platforms you get silenced.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Focusing on "this content was generated by a human" forces the question: "according to whom?" This creates a valuable position for companies to fight over, and for corruption to target when it wants to silence criticism: just reclassify the critic as a bot.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There's no need to be a dick about it, but one does wonder if the biometrics / watermarking / digital identity slippery slope that the pope has just taken a step towards is one that he'll actually like.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Predicate logic on graph traversals, networks of attestation, workable without needing to trust a platform. Not biometrics or blue checkmarks or captchas.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Signatures and annotations, not watermarks.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Knowing whether a human generated something is not as important as knowing which human did, and in what dimensions they are trustworthy as determined by other humans that the user has designated trustworthy for making such assessments. We don't need a proof of human toil, we need a web of trust.

Pope Leo Tweet: In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Car crime went down. Did sexual harassment by police go up? It usually does.

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johanna @jola.dev · 02/10/2026

A month after my switch from 1Password to Bitwarden, I wrote a little bit about my experience. The short version: it's fairly effortless and apart from some UX nits, it just works. jola.dev/posts/migrat...

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Migrating from 1Password to Bitwarden

After 1Password's recent political statement, I canceled my subscription and switched to Bitwarden.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gossip about how shoes work takes a long time to make it to the deep, and gets garbled along the way. I think it's a pretty good try for an invertibrate.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

War Pigseth, Secretary of the Department of Gender Affirming Care

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, bright actually, but also bleak.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sunscreen as a luxury, Amazon appears to be preparing for a dark future indeed.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

See also, the CALM theorem: arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01930

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not sure why USPS would want to put their windshields between the surveillance state and the voice of the voiceless.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump on track to outperform COVID by the end of his term.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The way the eyeshadow has missed the eye entirely... it's like some kind of low-dex emo pixie deer.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This kind of censorship should be opt-in as a feature of each user's client, not enforced server-side by the platform. The potential for abuse by authoritarian government way outstrips the potential to help fight terrorism.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If only we could get one of those trillion-frames-per-second cameras on this weird little guy.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, agreed. I was really just poking at your use of the word category. Godel has the right tools here, category theory, as far as I can tell, not so much.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hmm yeah, if true statements were to be the objects, it's hard to settle on what the morphisms would've been.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The perception that a company is worth buying, however. That's a target that doesn't grow back as quickly.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Companies can groom another psychopath faster than we can take them out.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CEOs also, of course, but they're recyclable. There's an inexhaustible supply of would-be-CEOs ready to gamble.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This kind of recklessness won't stop until we start jailing top shareholders. It's a natural extension of the risk/reward game they signed on for.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If zero things are true at once, wouldn't that be one thing that is true at the same time?

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sounds like you failed that interview.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Imagine the puzzle we'll be setting up for the alien archaeologists... pulling analyzing the firmware on our arrowheads to try to understand what the war was about.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For a second I thought I spotted a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TATA_box lined up above the "k" in shutterstock, but it's off-by-one.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They could've worked a bit harder to make it seem realistic. Just four rows repeated.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's a disclosure that's more damaging to employer than employee.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I doubt we'll see candidate agents harassed singly. Having a drug habit isn't that embarrassing for normal people. Its your body, do to it what you will. We might see the agency looking like a merry band of thugs hiring their buddies who are unfit for the job.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This sounds like the sort of target you'd chose if you wanted to expose the FBI for corrupt hiring practices. I suspect the hackers are the good guys in this story.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember Descent? You were zooming around blowing up asteroid mines by sabotaging the reactor. Was this game about a labor uprising? Was I an astroluddite?

A screenshot from Descent, "new game" is selected, among other menu options.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Top few shareholders too, just to drive the point home.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They're more like psychic mediums. They let you commune with your dead ancestors.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with time going down is that it's unclear how long you'll have to wait before it's back up.

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