In the Name of the Machine

English

Why accepting the term AI is already a surrender. From Dartmouth 1955 to Jacques Perret's discarded synthétiseur, from the potty to Plato's cave: the name is the first correspondence, and we have been calling the machine by the wrong name for seventy years.

#series #ai #philosophy #open-source #truth

Socrates in the Hoodie

English

Why your LLM can be perfectly consistent and entirely wrong. From email interoperability to Zeno's arrow, from Socrates to Surface Stations: the battle over whether the hood opens is the oldest philosophical war in history, fought now on new ground.

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Who Are the Real Predators in Cybersecurity? A Risk-Based Analysis

English

Applying Risk = Probability x Severity to the threat landscape reveals an uncomfortable truth: the entities we invite into our systems to protect us from hackers are themselves the real predators. From the Big Five's surveillance architecture to Google lobbying EU member states to kill privacy legislation, here's why the distinction between 'state actor' and 'corporate predator' has collapsed -- and why the learning curve of open source isn't a bug, it's the training pillar of GDPR made operational.

#series #privacy #big-tech

Filosofia Unix

Italiano

Lo smartphone concentra tutta la nostra vita digitale in un unico dispositivo che ci sorveglia. La filosofia Unix — do one thing and do it well — ci insegna a separare, diversificare e riprendere il controllo.

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Slum

Italiano

Quando passo dal protocollo Gemini al web mi sembra di entrare in una baraccopoli. Ecco il mondo immaginato dal capitale finanziario.

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Campo di battaglia

Italiano

Perché l'informatica è il principale terreno di scontro per la libertà individuale — e come il conformismo, l'ignoranza tecnica e la propaganda ci hanno resi schiavi felici e inconsapevoli.

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