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"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…

How did we exchange information before photography,
before print,
even before writing?
How was truth represented in a world of stories, myths and oral traditions?
For most of human history,
truth wasn’t a fixed point;
it was negotiated within a tribe,
verified by proximity,
and sustained by trust.
In that sense,
we may be returning to an ancient condition:
truth as local, not universal.
This isn’t necessarily the apoc…

AI photo art raises question: What comes after ‘seeing is believing’? 
In the age of AI, photographs no longer express truth. That doesn’t make them any less meaningful.

The talk section on the Wikipedia article about the acronym "MILF" is quite interesting. There have been heated discussions about age range and if having a child is actually a prerequisite.
Of course the article itself has a disambiguation that helps people who were actually looking for information about Moro Islamic Liberation Front. That article in turn has this line:
> MILF announced that it would disarm its 30,000 fighters.

"Library Futures: Information Literacy in the Age of GenAi: my slides, notes, and an addendum"
https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/12/22/library-futures-information-literacy-in-the-age-of-genai…

None of the age verification options are perfect in terms of protecting information, providing access to everyone, and safely handling sensitive data.
That’s just some of the reasons that EFF is against age-gating mandates,
-- and is working to stop and overturn them across the United States and around the world.
http…

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF opposes all forms of age verification mandates. Head to EFF.org/Age to explore our resources and...

TikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

"The partial, obscured release of these [Epstein] files has been billed by the Trump administration as an act of bold transparency. But what it actually reveals is how, in an environment of broken trust, in an age where conspiracy theorizing has become the lingua franca of American politics, no amount of information may ever be universally satisfactory."

Up to 540,000 conscription-age men have left Ukraine since the full-scale invasion: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/up-to-conscriptionage-men-have.html

This white paper provides a comprehensive analysis of modern warfare through five interconnected characteristics that have been prominently displayed throughout the Ukraine conflict:
- The rise of autonomous systems and their impact on force architecture
- The information domain as a critical battleground
- Electronic warfare and spectrum superiority
- The challenges of sustaining logistics in contested environments
- The evolution of air defense strategy
…

Lessons from the Ukraine Conflict: Modern Warfare in the Age of Autonomy, Information, and Resilience
As warfare evolves, the Ukraine conflict offers policymakers a blueprint for modern defense strategy—emphasizing autonomy, contested logistics, electromagnetic superiority, and adaptive organizational models.

"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? At this time, the two major powers of our time, the United States and China seem unlikely locations for brains to settle and grow in the long term."
(Inadvertently and ironically published on July 4th, 2022)

William Aspray
There was a moment in which Kurt Gödel, Albert Einstein, and John von Neumann were all roaming the halls of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton at the same time. Let that information sink in. Humanity experiences such gatherings of brilliant minds in a remote location of the space-time continuum only every so often; maybe the ancient Greeks and the men of the Renaissance witnessed such periods in time, as did the IAS staff at the end of World War II. How much will we have to wait f…

We have a vegetarian haggis for #BurnsNight supper tonight. Not for any squeamish reason about eating offal, but simply because when looking at the nutrition information panel, that version was significantly lower in sat. fats and other bad stuff than the normal haggis.
Of all the things that as a young man I might have expected middle age to bring upon me, voluntary semi-vegetarianism was not one of them!

I’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…

Coming of age during war, where mistakes can cost a life: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/coming-of-age-during-war.html

"To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails."

The Digital Dark Ages
There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.

The information age and its consequences have been a disaster for my sleep patterns

Mediated Masculinities in European networks: Discourse and performativity in the Information Age
https://ift.tt/OE7sBZH
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:47pmfull name / name of organization: Jagiellonian…
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As "professional" media fails to deliver on its promise of informing the populace, the Kremlin lies grow even more audacious.
With such scarcity of reporters on the front lines, it is easy for the Kremlin lies to find fertile ground.
Foreign media outlets repeat the lies without question, so the Kremlin doubles down and feeds even more outrageous lies.
In the so-called "information age" we find ourselves encumbered with outrageous stupidity.
The So…

Total Lies Create False Progress, While the Field Shows that Attacking Costs Far More Than…
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Slavoj Zizek: Welcome to the age of corridors: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/slavoj-zizek-welcome-to-the.html

Slavoj Zizek: Welcome to the age of corridors: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/05/slavoj-zizek-welcome-to-the.html