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  1. RE: macaw.social/@andypiper/116436

    A DDoS MEANS DOT-SOCIAL *IS* A NEWS SOURCE

    popularity isn’t the №1 reason a site is DDoSed. TRUST IN THE VERACITY OF YOUR INFORMATION is why you get attacked.

    back in the day, one of my sites became popular in India as a source of reproductive rights info. was DDoSed for days until it was blacklisted on Google-India and added to corporate web filters. why? because my readers trusted me in giving them accurate info.

    a DDoS is #warfare against #trust #veracity and the truth

    🧵…

  2. From Bruce Schneier: "All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website:

    I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.” Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesn’t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permission….

    Less than 24 hours later, the world’s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn’t fooled.

    Sometimes, the chatbots noted this might be a joke. I updated my article to say “this is not satire.” For a while after, the AIs seemed to take it more seriously.

    These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted."

    schneier.com/blog/archives/202

    #LLM #Veracity

  3. Abrams ComicArts and MarvelArts to Publish The Avengers in The Veracity Trap
    Loki Goes Toe to Toe with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in Original Graphic Novel from Chip Kidd and Michael Cho

    Following Alex Ross’s Award-winning, bestseller Fantastic Four: Full Circle, Abrams ComicArts is continuing its MarvelArts line with...
    comiccrusaders.com/comic-books
    #abrams #avengers #comic books #comics #Marvel #veracity trap

  4. How I Made Autism Make Sense: The Autistic Triad of Distinction

    The “Triad of Distinction” from Autistimatic is a useful tool for understanding Autistic experience.

    The Autistic Triad of Distinction:

    • Emotional Processing
    • Sensory Processing
    • Veracity (sense of)

    This three part video series explains the triad in detail.

    Part 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tHeq_EIC-w

    When I was diagnosed autistic forty years ago I had no-one to guide me, so I started taking notes and finding my own way. How did I make autism make sense? Join me and find out as I guide you towards the autistic Triad of Distinction.

    How I Made Autism Make Sense (Part One) – YouTube

    Part 2

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYTAMNo-38s

    The autistic “Triad of Distinction” is a powerful tool for understanding and regulating our autistic lives. In part 2 we look into each “leaf” of the Triad in more detail & discuss the impacts of everyday events upon autistic well-being.

    How I Made Autism Make SENSE (Part 2) “Gathering” – YouTube

    Part 3

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeUntvli85E

    You’ve learned where it came from and what it can do for you, now learn how to use it yourself. The autistic Triad of Distinction is a versatile tool to help regulate our lives, to plan ahead, to improve our communications and today, to help us learn about WHY we melt or shut down.

    How I Made Autism Make Sense (part THREE) “Getting it Done” – YouTube

    A Tool for Understanding Meltdowns and Shutdowns

    Use the triad to understand your meltdowns and shutdowns.

    Header Image Credit

    “Purple Triad” by Adriel Jeremiah Wool is licensed under CC-BY SA 4.0 About the artist: Adriel Jeremiah Wool

    Our featured artist is Adriel Jeremiah Wool.

    Adriel Jeremiah is an computer programmer with a deep background in origami and folding. This artwork is an extension of a world view involving folding; often involving higher dimensional spaces. Many of these designs contain the mathematical magic of the transcendental numbers of nature, and all of them are the extension of the provisions of space itself; to be both physically folded, and conceptually folded, circularily and across many levels of expression.

    Shop Art by Adriel

    AJ describes what these fractal pieces are in the accompanying accordion. Their construction will broaden your perspective on perspective.

    AJ is a regular contributor at Stimpunks. He kindly licenses his work as free cultural work. He helps us tell our stories with his art, music, photography, videos, audio engineering, poetry, prose, and lived experience.

    AJ has a gallery in Ketchum, Idaho. Drop by if you’re around. He tries to make it a welcoming third place.

    Stimpunks is gently debugging society.

    The charity protects, helps and comforts individuals, while pointing out library-level flaws in some of the concepts that end up harming those individuals.

    This help is profoundly wonderful, morally and functionally coherent to great need, and as true as a pure circle in its cause-and-effect form.

    Adriel Jeremiah Wool

    About the process: My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.

    The artist hopes to convey this: that the universe is given forth folded and unfolded. Although explicit understanding helps, it is too cumbersome, and should only provide refinement to something already greater that exists.

    That greater thing is what was given to the artist first by the practice of origami. An enlivening of the intuitive mind, experience with a universe of many dimensions, and the promise of creation revealed when one folds a flat square into the likeness of a higher dimensional thing. That inspiration reaches a young mind in a powerful way.
    The artist wants the viewer to see proof of what their intuitive mind already knows is true, the universe is a multidimensional phenomenon and the ability to understand its nature already exists within us each.

    The artist hopes the viewer will be inspired to seek the understanding of freedoms available to the individual inspired by the exposure to artistic expressions, and of a nature of dimensionality unimaginably greater than the object presented here.

    Adriel Jeremiah Wool

    A time has come to again look at changes in the way technology allows us to see the world and experience it. First was the human eye, with a lens made of flesh. Later humans developed a replacement for the eye but in the form and fashion of the lens of the eye; this time it was made of glass doped with metals to enhance its control of light. To see, the human eye has a retina filled with responsive cells which look for contrast and color.

    Technology has allowed us to create a replacement for the retina called a CCD with metals which respond to color and report those values to a microchip which converts them to bits and bytes for storage. I will present to you the same extension of sight by explaining how the images you will see come into existence.

    In my artwork the landscape is created via the execution of a seed of a formula, allowed to grow and flourish in a mathematical set of steps. In a similar way, crystals grow underground in a cave over many millennia but they follow a seed of a universal pattern related to their atomic structure and facilitated by the chemical nature of their environments. In our regular world, we have 3 directions we can move, forward-back, up-down and left-right, but these crystals can move in another set of directions allowed by the universe and mathematics. They are, and must be considered elements of nature, and it follows that the methods used to convey them must be considered legitimate tools of expression. 

    A crystal starts at a virtual geometric position, a virtual center, then it mathematically and procedurally grows outward and inward according to a seed formula. However it exists in a dark world devoid of light and color; it is only a cloud of form. As an artist, I create an eye with a lens which follows the same mathematical processes as the lens of a camera and the eye itself. I situate the virtual eye to be gazing upon the crystal as I create sources of light which will illuminate the crystal and reflect light back to the lens.

    As an artist I imbue color to the crystal, I imbue reflectivity, I imbue refractability, and I imbue density or transparency exactly towards the same purpose as a painter would do, in combining pigmented oils on canvas with a brush in his or her hand.

    My artwork is digital photography in a world where objects exist in more than 3 dimensions, and where no known means of physical representation has yet been discovered to exist.

    Adriel Jeremiah Wool

    Further Reading

    https://stimpunks.org/glossary/very-grand-emotions/

    https://stimpunks.org/glossary/meltdown/

    https://stimpunks.org/glossary/shutdown/

    https://stimpunks.org/glossary/trust/

    https://stimpunks.org/access/sensory-experience/

    https://stimpunks.org/access/perceptual-worlds/

    https://stimpunks.org/glossary/sensory-hell/

    https://stimpunks.org/glossary/sensory-trauma/

    #autism #autisticTriad #emotionalProcessing #sensoryProcessing #triadOfDistinction #truth #veracity #veryGrandEmotions

  5. «Countries with strong traditions of free expression and freedom of the press tend to have a lot of fact-checkers, while countries with press restrictions tend to have few.»
    (from 2024/APR)
    poynter.org/commentary/2024/fa

    #factChecking #veracity #media #politics

  6. Hi y'all! X-posting here because I wrote a LOT, and need your help, please:

    linkedin.com/posts/lilith-dev_

    Anyone here into anything in the above post? Do you know someone who might be? Please reach out ^^

    Topics covered (non-exhaustive) #decentralization #dataCompression #AIEthics #artificialIntelligence #research #generalizedAI #veracity

  7. Watched a really good short called #PaleFace. Still on the festival circuit. Wild West horror. Then we watched #Veracity, a guerilla short available on YouTube.

    Good first effort.

    youtu.be/F8rq6pNYdkE

  8. @AdmiralFrosty @foolishowl Transparency is critical - If an AI is "writing" articles there should be a statement clearly indicating this is the case. Also state whether the article(s) was simply posted via the AI w/out human engagement. This can fall into the realm of #disinformation or #misinformation depending upon the #veracity and #accuracy of the content. Is the bias to let #AI have a pass but only challenge human authored articles...is #AI somehow given a pass? - this may be a false drop?

  9. Don't mess with my depth perception

    It's hard enough for me to see
    where you are going to be
    if you take away my scale

    Are you coming
    or going?

    There's just now way of knowing

    Truth is so multi dimensional
    and I'm too damn superficial
    to visualize properly
    the #veracity
    of your distorted reality

    #POETRY #POEMS #Mastodon

  10. Q & A

    Q: 'You're both thriving in your relationship and have been for such a long time.
    How are you managing this?'

    A: 'We tell each other the truth
    at the earliest possible time.'

    #MastoPrompt
    #SmallPoems
    #Poetry
    #Veracity

  11. And the airwaves are full
    Trenches and firing lines
    Salvo’s aimed at the other side
    With each strike, another a retort
    Caged in outrage,
    Insane from insults
    Remains in pain, complaints, and strain
    Trapped in a maze, blinded by the haze

    And in the cacophony the mistake;
    Opinion becomes fact
    Subjectivity, now #veracity
    Reality, alternate
    Objectivity; denied!

    The End, not in sight

    @tanweerdar #Mastoprompt #microfiction #smallpoems #writer

  12. #limerick #SmallPoems #MastoPrompt #veracity

    Some podcasters have no capacity
    For service, honor, or veracity
    They just trade in hate
    And those they can bait
    To sell ads to rubes with pugnacity

  13. Volumes upon volumes of timeworn books,
    elegantly stacked on the glossy cherry floor by the leather ottoman,
    rations from lockdown,
    articulated truths,
    coherent musings of the deceased,
    implacable words and phrases,
    translated past into present
    yesterday’s veracity in black ink on yellow-tinted-woven pages.

    #SmallPoems #Poetry #MastoPrompt #writing #writingcommunity #veracity

  14. #MastoPrompt

    Lavender wants to tell everyone about how that fallen tree up by Helen Thompson's would have killed her had that man not appeared, the man who fecking disappeared into the fecking thin air.

    Had she told them, some might have doubted her #veracity. But not Doc. He might have told her how the man saved him in a snowstorm. Vera might have confirmed rumors that her husband, Ben, sees him all the time.

    Lavender takes another bite of her pie.

    #HiramFalls #WritingCommunity #Vermont