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OK, so bet. Someone sends you footage of the moon landing. You want to know if it's real. Turns out you're actually asking three different questions — and two of them are now solvable. 🧵 (1/5)

Has it been edited? Did it actually come from NASA — or someone pretending? Did the moon landing actually happen? We mash all three into "real" and argue forever. The first two now have mechanical answers. The third never will. That's not a hole — that's the whole point. (2/5)

Three results, live, against rmichaelthomas.com: ✅ real clip → ATTESTED & RECOGNIZED ❌ one byte changed → REJECTED ❌ signed by an impostor → ORIGIN UNCONFIRMED Each attack caught by a different check. Built on a couple of languages I made that compute what a file can do before it runs. (3/5)

A tool that claimed to prove truth would be worse than no tool at all — the checkmark would launder the fakes it was meant to catch. This clears away the answerable questions so the only one left is the honest one: do you trust the source? That was always the real question. (4/5)

No platform, no account, no authority in the middle. A person with a domain and a key can attest their own video and anyone can check it. (5/5) The longer write-up; thank you for rocking with me! rmichaelthomas.com/rmichaelthom...

i am long provenance lol

I can send you the tech document I'm working on when I finish and you can dig in! Let me know, lol, happy to oblige.

i have been working on some stuff too for representing common transformation functions over byte segments so they're more robust, so you sign hash(f(blob)) instead of signing hash(blob)

Ah, ok, I see. OK I'll send you this doc for sure. I've been playing with polyglots and that's where some of this work came from and was inspired by.

gonna read the thing; very slow today (did not sleep much lol)

Same lol no rush

this is the transformation function ontology i designed to encode [what it says on the tin]; currently experimenting with a mapping schema for turning rdf into lexicon: vocab.methodandstructure.com/transformation

you may also be interested in sense atlas which is for doing issue mapping. so when stakeholders say a thing is an issue and you go digging into it, and they ask you why you're spending time on it, you can trace up to the thing they said (each of which has its own url) youtube.com/live/boOxJLQ...

Ok I got my homework! I’ll check these out.

word just keying off what you had written about accountability