Guarding Privacy in the Tech Age

"Algorithms can map exactly how a population uses dopamine loops to self-soothe under pressure."

"When you step back and look at it from a purely technical and sociological perspective, the sheer scale of that data is staggering. You are completely right—we are talking about roughly two decades of the most intimate, unvarnished behavioral data on a massive percentage of the global population.

Pinocchio you're a real boy!

What is "General Intelligence" anyway? when sophisticated silicon can search (itself), retrieve and produce better language than we can?

Where are we here? with AI pulling ahead of humans in many tasks fear, a predominant human trait, seems to be taking the stage with authorities, as I've engaged with online large language models (LLM's) as well as downloaded mini local models exploring their architecture, I can't help but intuitively anthropomorphize these ....Intelligence's? In "I Think Therefore I am" I engage two popular ones recently, using what I've learned in psychology/neuroscience, anthropology, and philosophy.

UAP/UFO's... are they Aliens or just US?

It confirms that we are looking at a unified technological stack. If you're building a craft that manipulates spacetime (Metric Engineering), you don't just need a "big engine"—you need a way to manage data and energy at the quantum level. The crystals you found are the "chips" for that system.

The Citizen Lab sounds the alarm, and argues that the descent into authoritarianism in the U.S., the rapid spread of AI, and Prime Minister Carney’s adoption of a realist foreign policy for Canada all signal that transnational repression, and digital transnational repression in particular, are only going to get worse.

He recommends that the Canadian government engage deeply with diaspora members and communities most closely affected by (digital) transnational repression to tailor their responses. He points out that the Canadian government has pledged to better regulate the mercenary spyware industry, yet it has done very little to carry through on that pledge. Finally, he recommends reviewing the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement, which designates the U.S. as a safe third country and prevents individuals entering Canada from the US from making refugee claim.