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The dirty secret of the internet in 2025
The dirty secret of the internet in 2025:
AI controls everything what you see.
And AI prefers AI-written content—by a lot.
The system isn’t broken.
It’s just not for humans.We used to train AIs to understand us.
Now we train ourselves to be understood by them.
We write and think for algorithms.
It doesn’t care if it’s true.
It doesn’t care if it’s yours.
It cares what performs.
And AI content performs best.
Who’s really in control? -
If Jesus, Tesla, Hitler or other famous historical figures were alive today, they'd be likely forced to become social media influencers using AI for captions, make daily content, and sell merch. Einstein: 'Hey guys, smash that like button for more relativity hacks!'
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The biggest data center markets by electricity consumption in megawatts. Ya know what's in Virginia
#ML #Technology #Internet #Regenerative #InfoSec #Cryptocracy
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When i first encountered Ted Nelson's "Project Xanadu" in my teen years, i was confused & intrigued. After years of working on it, I've come to terms that Ted is poetically describing "an experience of water & interconnection"
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The case for a truly decentralized web - from the lowest hardware layer up - has never been more clear
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Internet is disappearing and experts are shocked: Billions of web pages at risk by a strange phenomenon - "an alarming 9% of web pages created between 2013 and 2023 have already disappeared."
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XCheck
I thought I was doing well on X with 20K followers. Turns out, I was mostly talking to ghosts and bots that have invaded X but are hard to detect. That's why I built XCheck, a personal X detective that analyzes your network.
Backstory: X/Twitter user since 2007, gradually built a network. Recently noticed odd plummeting engagement. Manual analysis revealed a suspicion: inactive accounts and bots were significantly impacting my reach. Digging into other accounts, I discovered this wasn't isolated - it's a widespread X phenomenon.
Enter XCheck: A little open-source tool that crawls and analyzes your X account (or any other's) and uncovers hidden patterns in your social network.
XCheck's key features:
- Intuitive, interactive web UI for X crawling
- Analyzes followers/following of any public X account
- Auto-assigns quality scores to accounts
- Filtering, search and visualization tools
XCheck is free and open-source: https://github.com/samim23/xcheck
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The notable absence of large-scale AI deep fake attacks on all Fortune 500 brands (targeted image & reputation tarnishing, etc.) and their executives (slander, blackmail, etc.) shows that controlling the channel is far more important than the message itself.
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Social media feels increasingly unusable to me. The constant shouting about toxic issues from the group dominating the platform is drowning out everything else. It's hard to escape & becoming unbearable. Might be time to retreat to the Forest & enjoy my Forest Noise Amplifier instead.
