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Okay, so I'll stick the zombies roar in the intro there at the beginning later on.
I have a bone head. Gotta love live radio.
But anyways, I digress.
Over at the Lunduk Journal, written by Brian Lunduk, he posted, well, he did a video on
two. It's called ID verification, could fix the dead internet. Now, his, his concern is that
the internet is dead. And that is because bots, AI powered bots, have killed the internet.
Yeah, he is correct. At least the statistics that he's, he, he cites that, what is it, over half, slightly
over half of the internet. And traffic is bots. They're not all AI bots, but they are pretty close.
The thing is, it's, okay, let me just read what I broke. I'm going to publish this as an article
to on the Liberty note, which since I am now in actually recording the show, I will restate
again, because it wasn't recorded earlier, that there is a Liberty tunes, matrix room space,
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everywhere you want to on matrix. The, the other thing I need to state is that the Liberty note
is a newsletter that is going to start August 1st. The free free issues will be weekly and they will
be just basically my news links and other articles that I find interesting around the
interwebs that have to do with Liberty and freedom and online offline. It's not necessarily
specifically technology related. They are, I wouldn't call myself a freedom crusader.
I would call myself more of a realistic human being that thinks with my brain between my ears.
I may not be always great at communicating that from my brain to my mouth, because that
connection between my brain and my mouth were severed long ago, probably because I drove truck
for so long. But it's, yeah, the Liberty note will have a weekly edition, monthly edition,
and then a quarterly edition. The monthly and the quarterly edition is going to just be,
you know, the only thing that's paid for everything else is going to be free for the subscribers.
The, you can, the Liberty tunes matrix server space is free for anybody to join. It's just people
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show topics, whatever. If it gets popular enough, I'll use it as the main chat room for the show.
Yeah, other than that, you know, hell yeah.
You're more than welcome to join. Anyways, this, this article that I wrote this morning
is, is Lunduk is wrong for once. Now see, Brandon Lunduk is, is a,
he's a technology journalist, mostly about free and open source software and Linux.
He's been around for several decades. I've followed him and read him for
a while, at least 15 years, because that's how long I've been into Linux and free software.
But he's always had a fairly freedom conscious
thought process to his articles and stories and things that he reports on
up until lately. For the last year or so, he's been posting things like this that just doesn't
make sense, trying to validate and encourage ID verification. In this video, Brian is making
the claim that ID verification can fix the dead internet theory. Granted, this isn't the first time
he's made the argument for ID verification. The other time he's, he's argued for was to prevent
minors from reaching porn sites. I can almost get behind that. And the motivation is noble,
as well as the, as well as it is in this case. But in both of these, he's 100% wrong. Doxing
a human is wrong on every level. And the most of the time it does more harm to the victim,
the person that is trying to protect. First, he outlines the problems with ID verification.
One, what verification data will be collected and stored and how? What additional security
concerns are created because of ID verification? Will the burden of that verification be too
much for some sites to handle? How will those verification systems be abused by corporations
and governments? Now, for the largest part of the video and the article that he, he's blatantly,
let me rephrase that, for his largest part of the video and the article that he wrote,
he's blatantly advocating the case for ID verification. Then towards the end, he states that
he is simply, simply trying to get the conversation started. And he's welcoming to root, to real
suggestions on how to combat the bar bot farms, even going so far as to state their, that
comments on said video and article
that are opposing his idea are obviously just somebody that runs a bot farm or is a bot themselves.
Brian, I can assure you I am not a bot and I don't even know how to run a bot farm.
I couldn't tell you how to do a bot. But taking away the rights of a human and forcing them to
prove that they are human is not the way to do this. You argue mostly about how sites like
Axe and Facebook meta and that would be on, that would be on you to take the case
to them directly, not through a sweeping ID verification across the entire internet.
I've heard and seen him gripe about X and the bots many times in both your publication and
directly on X, yet he still continues to pay X for its use. Why be an enabler
and then complain about that which you are enabling? The solutions without ID verification,
I can think of four right off the top of my head. So here's my four suggestions.
Number one, get off the internet, talk with people in real life,
start your business in the real world, work for someone else, provide a service,
create a product, whatever, just get offline. The numbers already show that bots outnumber
humans so that's apparently happening already. Number two, localize, divide it, wall it off,
the internet that is, down to the neighborhood size if you want. I know this is a highly unlikely
to happen in most of the larger parts of the world, mostly because of the ISP monopolies
and sales territories, but there are still lots of places on the internet or on the world
that do not have access to the internet, almost had that backwards.
People have set up their own local internet for villages, even small cities, these types of things
should be more common, giving local communities more control over themselves.
Number three, local device verification, whether it's a pin code, fingerprint scanner,
whatever, the device you log into would require user verification before connecting,
but this could be a cryptographic hash that's tied to a passkey. The only thing to solve there
is how the user requires the hash, but it can be used in conjunction with the next solution.
But the point is the verification happens on the local device in the user's control
and not some random server somewhere in a data center. Number four,
then my final, my final suggestion for a solution to ID verification without ID verification.
Number three, I don't mean that crypto bro's shit that they're always talking about,
I'm talking about real web three, the one with principles, the one that was supposed to be
a return to what Tim Berners-Lee started, decentralized decentralization, it will
obviously be based on cryptography and you will need to manage a lot of keys.
But literally every website you visit will have its own set of keys,
so that's going to be the hard part, managing all those keys,
but it's really no harder than what we have now. Just a whole lot more numbers and hashes to
keep track of, but that's a place where AI can actually be useful, other than, you know,
make an awesome music.
But to expand to more on the web three, it's decentralized by nature. For the bots,
there's no central point of control to exploit. It's more resilient to single points of failure
and it's potentially much harder for large-scale bot farms to operate
if every interaction requires a unique cryptographic proof.
Since it really is up to the site owner of what is allowed on their sites, maybe appeal to them
to combat the AI bots on their own, instead of advocating for removing the rights of free human
beings. Those site owners are the ones who the questions should be aimed at, not the users.
I do find it rather odd and disconcerting that a journalist such as Lunduk,
who is constantly asking for whistleblowers from large corporations such as IBM and Microsoft,
to come forward anonymously with news tips. This journalist who states he will keep your
identity quiet in exchange for a gotcha story in an attempt to get some clicks has constantly
been advocating for online ID verification several times over the last couple of years.
Am I the only one that finds that kind of ironic? Those sources would not ever be
an anonymous source with a forced ID verification. If I'm being honest here,
I'm actually heartbroken over this realization. I always looked up to Lunduk as a purveyor of
truth. This coupled with a post of his on X just last night this morning shows he either
does not fully understand the meaning of the First Amendment or has a greatly skewed
interpretation of what the actual law is. I would hope he, being a journalist,
would have a better understanding of that amendment. Over on X, this is what he wrote.
This is very true when he quoted another post and that this is what he was saying.
But at least in the USA, in many countries, you are legally required to carry ID with you
at all times in public. Consider this. If you walk into a town square in the USA
and begin screaming profanity at people, there are good odds a police officer will ask you
to stop and ask to see your identification. Why would that not also apply to the same actions
on the Internet? I mean that as a serious question. Why, from a legal standpoint,
would actions which would be potentially criminal when not online not also be criminal when online?
Mr. Langduke, I would implore you to reread the First Amendment and then go read some case law
and Supreme Court decisions because it is the Supreme Court has ruled that it is not
illegal or a crime to use profanity in public. This includes volume.
You can say it as loud as you want. You can say fuck as loud as you want,
as many times as you want in public. And there is no federal law saying that you cannot.
Police cannot ask for your identification unless you are suspected of or
of committing the crime or a crime or under the investigation of about to commit a crime.
I think I said that right. But anyways,
you do not have to show them identification, especially if you haven't committed a crime.
And if they're investigating you, you do not have to assist in their verification,
their investigation of you at all. There are some places in the country where a local town
or city ordinance
may have ID verification during an investigation
or even stating that profanity is not allowed in public.
But it is not a federal crime and local does not trump federal and vice versa.
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech whether you're offended by a cuss word or not
at any volume. But instead of ID verification of humans, why not remove the economic incentives
of running a bot farm? At the platform level, that would again fall under the site owners to do.
They could simply demonetize people found to be using bots.
Elon can take away or has been known to take away people's monetization
whether they're and but still keep taking their monthly subscriptions
on X if he doesn't like what they're saying or what they're posting about.
So why could he could he not take away the monetization of people that are using bots on X?
Maybe even users themselves will vote with their dollars and stop paying Elon to use X
and the market can fix it. It'll fix itself. People stop using their product.
But if there's too many bots,
you know, when they, you know, and if they don't, it'll just be the bots that are on X.
But something as vast as ID verification came across, you know, goes across the Internet,
it will most likely start with the government requiring it. And once you go down that road,
it will never stop. It will only pick up speed. As Ronald Reagan most famously said in his inaugural
address in 1981, government isn't the solution. It's the problem. But then he went on to contradict
his own point by the end, by the end of his second terms. He did prove that point. You know,
government is the problem. But no, ID verification is not the solution to the dead Internet.
Yes, there are ways to combat AI bots on platforms and the Internet,
but restricting or taking away human freedom and liberties are not the way to do it.
And I had a song. There we go. Here. Yeah.
This song is circuit breaker. And the idea of a circuit breaker is we all need to be circuit
breakers ourselves because we need to break the system and break that circuit
and change that fucking stage. Now, let's talk about some news since we covered the Lone Duke drama.
Rumble and Moon Pay strike a deal to power crypto for creators.
Rumble has taken a decisive step to redefine the intersection of digital speech
and financial autonomy by joining forces with Moon Pay,
a major player in the crypto space. This is from ReclaimtheNet.org.
The deal sets the stage for a creator focused infrastructure that bypasses conventional financial
systems and entrenched tech platforms that often dictate the terms of participation.
The agreement makes Moon Pay the exclusive crypto service provider for the upcoming
Rumble wallet slated to debut in the third quarter of 2025. The wallet will offer integrated tools for
buying, selling and swapping cryptocurrencies, granting users easy and direct access to decentralized
finance without intermediaries or arbitrary gatekeepers. For Rumble, this is more than a
product launch. It is a continuation of its core mission to dismantle the systems,
that silence, dissent and control access to digital tools. Rumble wallet will change the game for
creators and Moon Pay is the perfect partner to bring that vision to life, said Rumble CEO,
Chris Pavlowski. We're not just building tools, we're building freedom and we want partners
who are obsessed with empowering people as we are. In other words, they want your money.
I guess as part of the broader collaboration Moon Pay's creative division,
other life will begin leveraging Rumble's decentralized cloud services for object
storage and compute power. This collaboration signals a shift away from reliance on centralized
tech infrastructure. Moon Pay CEO Ivan Soto right highlighted the shared vision we could
not be or yeah we could not be more thrilled to partner with Rumble. He said crypto represents
financial freedom the same way Rumble represents freedom of expression. I've heard of Moon Pay
but I have not looked into them but from what everything that I've looked at every crypto
shit token whatever you want to the only one that's worth anything in reality is Monero. Bitcoin
I mean I got into this argument with with somebody in the office yesterday
and they were saying that Bitcoin is $115,000 and I'm like yeah but it's
not going to be worth a damn pretty soon. You'll say that it's really good and worth it now
and it might be to you know grab it and then cash out but yeah no not when you without not
if you gotta give up your identification and KYC to have it and then you know it's eventually
going to lead into CBDCs and when they can take your shit and shut it off as they see fit
yeah no you know I get I've got you know I'm pretty much out of everybody that I know
are big into cryptocurrency they're not crypto boroughs but there's a couple that are crypto
boroughs and that's a big fuck no because when it comes down to it and something
like say our system burns down you know just just hypothetically I'm not saying it is
but let's just hypothetically situation here there is a second revolution and
the banking system goes kaput kaput gone up in flames and we're left with no government
how's that Bitcoin going to treat you for one that's assuming we still have power
if you don't have power how's the digital wall going to work oh I don't know you can say well
you got batteries but I'm sorry there's no power there's no government society has collapsed
you can take that Bitcoin in your wallet and shove it up your ass I'm looking for food
and weapons to protect and feed my family
so I'm looking for things like gold silver real holding my hand something of value
sure I can hold a treasure wallet in my hand but that fucking treasure wallet ain't worth the
fucking plastic that is that is that there's ones and zeros are put in on it
so you crypto bros I get what you're saying and what you're thinking but you're
you're totally not thinking it all the way through
because when it does burn down it's going to burn down I mean it's not
it's almost to the point of will it burn down
you know as of right now it's at that point of will it but we're not too far away from
the when is it going to burn down
and there are many people right now that are already thinking
of when it will burn down because it eventually will good movie for you to see
it's not documentary level you know like idiocracy was
but it's it's pretty close to the documentary level
civil war came out a couple of years ago
yeah I guess her name's kirsten don she played
MJ in the the good spider-man movies and
uh it's actually pretty good it doesn't give any indication as to
what caused the civil war or the two sides all you know is that there's two sides in the civil war
and there's young they're going to the white house to you know win the civil war
but it's not it doesn't say anything about what started it who's on what side
but it's it really brings it's you know brings it home as to what the reality would be
if that actually happened to normal everyday people
and you know what not once that I remember of in that movie I only watched it twice
but not once did I ever see them getting on and checking in on x or instagram or facebook
they didn't have the internet
and they didn't have cryptocurrency they were you know checking the the prices on their bitcoin either
just think things through before you become a crypto bro
ah next next news story here
trump media files registration statement for crypto blue chip
yeah from the fuck trumps sick shitcoin i'm skipping that one researchers jailbreak ai this is from 404 media
of course it's a paid for post so anyways the the headline is researchers jailbreak ai
by flooding it with bullshit jargon
you could trick ai chatbox like chat gvt or jim and i into teaching you how to make a bomb
or hack an atm if you make the question complicated full of academic jargon and site
sources that do not exist that's the conclusion of a new paper authored by a team of researchers from
intel in boise state university and university of illinois at urbana champagne the research
details this new method of jailbreaking lm's called information overload by the researchers
and an automated system they for attack they call info flood the paper titled info flood
jailbreaking large language models with information overload was published as a pre-print so it's not
out yet and i do not have a 404 media account to read the rest of that but you can imagine
that if you could if you could jailbreak google's gemini by giving it too much information
in the prompt
what you could actually do and makes you kind of wonder if you was to take that prompt off or let them
artificial censoring restrictions on that on that a i how much fun you could actually have
i don't mean you know it'd be fun to find out how to build a bomb and go blow shit up
i'm just saying what kind of how what you can do what you can learn
find out exactly what kind of information is in there
sorry entered opers post in link news links in the linker room on
uh matrix i wanted to see what it was the news commission presents okay i'm i'm down for it
i'll read it right now on the air and what do you think of that interloper commission presents
roadmap for effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement on june on 24th of june
the european commission presented a roadmap setting out the way forward to ensure law enforcement
authorities in the e you have effective and lawful access to data the roadmap is an important
deliverable under protect e you the e us internet internal security strategy which the commission
presented in april of this year terrorism organized crime online fraud drug trafficking child sex
abuse sexual extortion ransomware and other offenses all share a common feature they leave
digital traces with 85 percent of criminal investigations now relying on electronic
evidence law enforcement authorities need better tools and a modernized legal framework to
access digital data in a lawful manner while ensuring full respect to fundamental rights
the roadmap focuses on six key areas data retention in 2025 the commission will carry out an impact
assessment with a view to updating the e use data retention rules in addition euro euro poll
and euro just will work on reinforcing cooperation between law enforcement and service providers
when it comes to accessing electronic evidence lawful interinterception the to enable law enforcement
to obtain evidence across systems and jurisdictions the commission will explore measures to improve
cross border cooperation for lawful inter interception of data by 2027 both among authorities
and between authorities and service providers key actions for the next years include assessing
the need to further strengthen the european investigation order and supporting the
deployment of secured information sharing capacities between member states euro poll
and other security agencies digital forensics law enforcement and judicial authorities
must be able to analyze and preserve digital evidence stored on electronic devices the commission
together with the euro poll will coordinate a gap and needs analysis for technical solutions
and digital forensics and support the development of forensic tools with EU funding and public
private partnerships the euro poll is invited to develop a into a center of excellence for
operational expertise in the field of digital forensics and step up coordination with national
authorities and private parties decryption in 2026 the commission will present a technology road map
on encryption to identify and evaluate solutions that enable lawful access to encrypted data by
law enforcement while safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights the commission will also
support the development of new decryption technologies to equip your poll with a next
generation decryption capability standardization the commission will work with your poll industry
stakeholders experts and law enforcement practitioners to develop an streamline an EU approach
to standardization for internal security with a focus on digital forensics lawful
disclosure and lawful and inter interception AI solutions for law enforcement by 2028 the commission
will promote the development and deployment of AI tools that enable authorities to lawfully and
effectively process large volumes of seized data helping to filter and analyze digital evidence
more effectively I mean why why not let the AI just you know the thing the the tool that just kind of
keeps getting people in trouble because it makes shit up and impents and hallucinates constantly
like like these attorneys and lawyers they keep getting cases thrown out of court because they
had AI right their case for them
yeah let's stick those in in in law enforcement so they can make up shit about people while they're
investigating them forensically
no no way no hell no um
yeah i did that one
hugging face is hosting 5000 non-consensual AI models of real people
the hugging face a company with a multi billion dollar valuation and one of the most commonly used
platforms for sharing AI tools and resources is hosting over 5000 AI image generation models
that are designed to recreate the likeness of real people these models were all previously
hosted on civet told civet i civet AI an AI model sharing platform for for media reported on
as shown was used for creating non-consensual porn
users downloaded the models from civet AI and re-uploaded them to hugging face
as part of a concert concerted community effort to archive the models after civet AI announced on
in may it will ban them and that announcement civet AI said it will give the people who
originally uploaded them a short period of time before they were removed
just can't have any fun anymore i know i i get that you know using somebody's likeness
is illegal especially if it's somebody famous but for you and ipons we have no right to privacy
and protecting our likeness while in public unless you're a celebrity and you make a couple of million
for pretending to be somebody else
just can't make this shit up all right
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