Post AccexXFHNDloGPb3tw by aredridel@kolektiva.social
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(DIR) Post #AccexL4CeZmQUaK2yG by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:02:47Z
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I'm not the first and I won't be the last to call it, but the next decade is going to be defined by an unending wave of fake bullshit in every avenue of our lives, a cheap extractive general fraud that is so cheap to perform that it'll be everywhere. Real information will be lost in the morass, and a whole lot of people will take advantage of the chaos.And a defining feature of almost everything will be referral networks, and what will succeed, though small time, will be anything giving access to authentic relationships.
(DIR) Post #AccexN6P5MjEnzMpg8 by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:03:56Z
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It will be absolutely normal to assume everything is fake until proven otherwise. We will form into cliques of belief about which things are true rather easily. This will absolutely be exploited.
(DIR) Post #AccexOHmgXQUTZhR3Y by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:05:43Z
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The people most harmed by this will be already marginalized: without access to those referral networks, people will struggle. Without connections, all their achievements will be assumed to be fake.
(DIR) Post #AccexQ424dc9zVHTto by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:10:33Z
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And the obvious outcome is that fraud will increase.But that's not the real harm.It's the relationships broken and never formed because of the erosion of trust.
(DIR) Post #AccexSaMhOfLoMQKZc by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:15:28Z
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Like: you'll see a profile for someone or something. You'll find a real person who mostly looks like that, and since retouched photos are trivial and many people have them, that won't mean much. Is there a real person involved? Probably! Is it the person you think? Maybe. Is that person who they say they are? Maybe. Will their stated accomplishments be real? Maybe. Will there be evidence for them? Absolutely.
(DIR) Post #AccexTeIkFPP6rGzLc by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:19:13Z
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The way to survive the information war is to develop relationships proactively.Go talk to your community. Face to face. Introduce people. Meet new people and connect them up. You don't have to vouch for them, just start establishing relationship history now. being able to answer "Do you know them?" and "is this connection legit?" accurately is going to be very important.I don't mean that meatspace is necessarily better, but online relationships bootstrapped from profile alone will not suffice. We'll have to connect people into our networks and find connections between us.
(DIR) Post #AccexUvhz0vX58QP7Q by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:20:39Z
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And we are going to have to distrust basically all branding. No longer is 'recognizable name and image' worth anything. _Only_ the relationships matter.It's almost already to the point where when I see something carefully branded, I _know_ I'm being manipulated.
(DIR) Post #AccexXFHNDloGPb3tw by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:27:27Z
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"developing a personal brand" is dead now."Fitting in" is going to put you in real difficult position sometimes. Nobody will know if you're for real.Real people have quirks. (Gotta say this one is nice for those us who are autistic or have ADHD: our lack of filter and lack of 'fitting in" are going to, weirdly, be assets in this information space.)It won't be perfect because people in power still believe in 'fitting in' and vibe checks. And the vibes are gonna be real weird for a while.
(DIR) Post #AccexYWKdJ0MDaaC7U by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:33:32Z
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Want to hire? Go build relationships. Ask people you find to apply.Want to improve the diversity of your company's employees? Go follow your network until you find the people who aren't like you _and then follow their networks and connect with them_. There will be no shortcuts. Want them to actually work for you? Connect them to your networks.Want to get a job? Get your friends to watch out for you. (by the way, hire @jalcine. He's good people. _and he is part of a good network of people you want to connect with too_)Weirdly, honesty and _openness_ in companies is going to be valuable now. "Everything is proprietary information" no matter how banal will no longer benefit you. Trying to control the narrative will in many ways backfire. You'll be seen as branding. It'll be fake. Companies that learn to thrive in the open won't grow huge, but they will endure better.Startups already learn this a bit. The time from carefully crafted hip image to being found out to be posers is dwindling.
(DIR) Post #AccexZY8o42vPUR9Zw by aredridel@kolektiva.social
2023-12-09T04:41:56Z
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In the '00s, we were taught that if it's on the internet it's forever, privacy was gold, keep it all controlled. Control your image, keep your info close. Lock your doors.Those days are gone. (They never really existed.)But now we're coming to realize that the power relations of our modern society mean that all the economically valuable data is extracted anyway. It isn't your kid's face that we needed to keep off the Internet, it was your medical data (oops, Google Analytics and Facebook got copies from your healthcare provider or pharmacy when you accessed their pages), it is your driving record (available from the DMV), your court records (so often open in the US), your shopping history (gleefully kept by your credit card and at the till every time you swipe)We can only put that genie back in the bottle politically, with laws that prohibit data brokering. What we gave up though, in trying to keep our basic humanity secret, was our relationships. We lost a whole generation to trying to _avoid_ developing relationships online, out of fear. Where would we be now if we hadn't?
(DIR) Post #Accf4npK7fz5iVvCYi by mttaggart@infosec.town
2023-12-09T05:01:53.784Z
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@aredridel @jalcine Cosigned to absolutely all of this. This is very well put, prescient, and terrifying.
(DIR) Post #Acch4QodsQqeG3YOAK by lispi314@udongein.xyz
2023-12-09T05:21:17.053360Z
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@aredridel > Go talk to your community.RIP those living in car-dependent hell and suburban isocubes.I also don't really want to vet for most of the conservative assholes that choose to keep the place in live in the way it is. They're constantly and willingly choosing mediocrity and unsafe practices to keep some illusory middle-class dream alive.(And I very much do not have the public speech and manipulation skills required to fix it.)> I don't mean that meatspace is necessarily better, but online relationships bootstrapped from profile alone willnot suffice. We'll have to connect people into our networks and find connections between us.It is quite feasible to vet someone in the doing of things. And sure, they could be glowies, but same goes for meatspace acquaintances with similar difficulty in finding it out ahead of time.