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A lot of my takes around bad things involve the visibility of bad things being good and thus our conversation around bad things indicates good things. Thus, things are less bad now than between the time of the bad thing and us discussing it.

EmNudge

@emnudge.dev

11 Sept

More concretely, lots of things that are talked about are just bad things which are now severe enough to warrant discussion, but were in fact always present. The time between bad thing and us discussing bad thing is quite large, actually. Information authenticity was always an issue, for example

EmNudge

@emnudge.dev

Discussion about "how do you know this photo is authentic" makes me excited - not because I think the state of photo authenticity or misinformation hasn't gotten worse, but because it has always been an issue. There have always been those with the resources to fool you. Now we can discuss it.

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EmNudge

@emnudge.dev

11 Sept

"Solving" misinformation does more than combat the direct aggressor of today, but fixes perhaps decades of information authentication ambiguity and perhaps many decades more into the future. Signed certificates of data origins move trust in a way that's probably better for everyone