Stephen E. Arnold: On Complexity, Stupid Computers, Worthless Big Data, and Total Surveillance . . More Fuel for the Web 3.0 Fire!

IO Impotency

8 Complexity Analysis Underscores a Fallacy in the Value of Mindless Analysis of Big Data

A Business Case for Search in the Time of Covid and the SolarWinds Misstep

Facial Recognition? Old Hat. Now It Is Behavioral Recognition

Google and Microsoft in Australia: Ripping the Fabric of Some of the Internet?

Phi Beta Iota: Arnold is a member of the executive cell for the Web 3.0 informal steering group. All the issues that Arnold — our virtual CTO — addresses will be remediated in Web 3.0.

Stephen E. Arnold: Facebook Algorithms Can Kill You . . .

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

Facebook Algorithms: Pernicious, Careless, Indifferent, or No Big Deal?

What is good for the social media platform is not necessarily good for its users. Or society. The Startup examines the “Facebook AI Algorithm: One of the Most Destructive Technologies Ever Invented.” Facebook’s AI is marketed as a way to give users more of what they want to see and that it is—to a point. We suspect most users would like to avoid misinformation, but if it will keep eyeballs on the platform Facebook serves up fake news alongside (or instead of) reputable content. Its algorithms are designed to serve its interests, not ours.

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Stephen E. Arnold: SolarWinds Misstep — Who Else Went Off the Cliff?

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The SolarWinds Misstep: Who Else Walked Off the Cliff?

Hack Said to Extend Beyond SolarWinds” is a troubling “real” news story. The idea that bad actors may have gained access to commercial and government servers for more than a year was troubling. According to the write up, the data breach has another dimension:

Close to a third of the victims didn’t run the SolarWinds Corp. software initially considered the main avenue of attack for the hackers…

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PBI: The common factor was not SolarWinds, but rather Microsoft.

Yoda: Alert Reader on Space Force, 5G, China, Trump + 3 Updates

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, IO Impotency

Weak signal, interesting possibilities.

There's a Psychic named Utsava, who might start being on Charlie Wards' show weekly. one of the things she said was that Trump has been switching out the dangerous China made 5G towers with tesla technology that renders 5G harmless.

Tesla technology has been incorporated into the border wall that renders the China 5G towers in Mexico from harming us. The wall acts like a giant Faraday cage.

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