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That’s a good test. An artist working in oils can effectively create the same image over and over. An ai kind fails there.



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Twitter started as TXT2MOB for organizing protests, and now it and social media have become surveillance tools. The irony.


> Twitter started as TXT2MOB for organizing protests, and now it and social media have become surveillance tools

Propaganda, communication and surveillance vary only inasmuch as the sender and/or receiver are coöperating. When done in public, communication necessarily empowers the other two.


This is a really great piece of wisdom. Thank you!


What are “the other” two here?


Propaganda and surveillance. If you’re communicating in the open, it’s trivial for a non-coöperating receiver to tap in. And it’s only a touch more trivial for a non-coöperating sender to join in on the rabble. You cannot have a private and public communication protocol.


Oh right. Thanks for explaining. There’s more packed into your comment than I expected.


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