#Information and Communications Technology

[mitigatedchaos]

I was thinking of it as a multi-decade megaproject for an end-of-century world government, but you're correct. There are significant problems even if your kilogram-to-orbit costs are lower.

I was basically looking for a way to tie an extremely expensive and strategically-valuable object, no larger than a thermos, to individual guys to carry with them at all times. Jewelry doesn't work, because if you're a guerrilla militia, do you honestly give a shit about jewelry?

Such an object (in this case a satellite control key) might be bulletproof, but is not plausibly bomb-proof. That it is potentially capturable if you approach with small arms on foot is the point.

This would then split the attacker strategy. In general, those with access to heavier weapons will also be capable of thinking more strategically. Those incapable of thinking strategically will also be less likely to possess heavier weapons. Most attacks by strategic attackers (who want to hold the territory long-term), then, would proceed on foot using small arms with the intent of capturing the control key in order to use it for leverage. Most attacks by people who don't care about the key will be by people with more limited weapons, and therefore less likely to damage the key.

That the ground collector array is destructible is fine.

This strategy is based on the expensive component of the system (in this case, the satellite) being physically inaccessible, so that attackers can't go around getting the key by going directly to the power plant that it controls.

The purpose of this strategy, from both an inside and outside perspective, is to reduce the energy and capital intensity of warfare, and shift it back towards the human scale.

In high-energy warfare, a person, unit, or facility is more likely to be completely destroyed in one hit, with very little notice.

Obviously, this is troublesome from a storytelling perspective. It isn't that you can't write a story in such a condition. Rather, it shifts the conflict that you can focus on towards psychology, social relations, politics, information, and cyberspace. As an example, murders with the expectation of getting away with it can still happen in a high-surveillance setting, but they either require a supporting political infrastructure to make the murder de facto socially and legally permissible, or else require a concurrent cybercrime.

However, from the perspective of a ruler, high-energy warfare can also be problematic. You have less time to react and less time to gather information, and also have to be constantly guessing your opponents' ways of thinking. If you guess wrong, it doesn't mean merely a failed operation - at least in the case of nuclear warfare, you just die. (We can think of energy and capital making the environment more mutable relative to human effort.)

Wouldn't it be better if the situation allowed for a more linear escalation of the conflict, communicating more information about conditions?

Obviously, just choosing peace all the time is problematic, because political leaders build emotional engines to convince people to invest in their government, and often these engines will promote otherwise irrational behavior or thinking.

Your opponent often faces a similar dilemma. So, if a system of orbital power satellite keys existed, you might offer your opponent and his lieutenants a bunch of keys. Then, they have a reason not to shoot down your satellites, and also a reason to resolve their conflicts with you with lower-energy weapons. Because large power plants are easy to detect, you could then centralize control over electrical power, and deny local opponents access to industrial quantities of energy, reducing the feasible capital power of their forces.

Of course, we can say that, "The United States, a technologically-advanced power, invaded Afghanistan and failed to hold it due to American internal politics," but as the level of technology increases, the required level of internal political disagreement or dysfunction also increases.

So that's my thinking on this. A network of underground fusion power plants or something would also be less accessible to militias, but building sufficiently deeply underground is not exactly cheap, either.

Popular understanding of military technologies and capabilities is weirdly frozen in like, WWII and the cold war, even with the incredibly televisied bombing of Baghdad, the constant reports from Gaza and the unprecedented level of public and open source documentation of Ukraine.

And I know people are aware of like drone strikes but they really do not understand what the current capabilities are. The Brimstone is twenty years old. There are weaponised military lasers deployed right now. The US removed the explosives from a missile and gave it radial blades just to avoid killing people more than a metre away from an individual target. Semi-autonomous hunter killer drones are being deployed right now. Have you seen current gen military thermal cameras? People are using publicly available civilian satellite imaging services to do open source battle damage assessment. There are weapons in space and all three major space powers are testing and drilling anti space capabilities in orbit right now. Hell, they are actively attacking each others space infrastructure right now as we speak.

I think if people were aware of the levels of precision, autonomy and interconnectedness in munitions they'd be terrified. None of this is science fiction

[sohaibsmart]

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[wolfertinger666]

another thing I think heavily about is the fact that autism and being autistic isn't a thing that's popular RECENTLY. it's just that information and technology has advanced enough to the point where people can find community along with getting the help and steps towards an autism diagnosis(it's how I found out)

I will be real, autism has always been a thing. especially autistic adults, autistic boomers and so forth. there are so many older autistic adults who have ""learned"" to cope with their disability due to ableism and lack of knowledge. ESPECIALLY black and brown disabled adults ) autistic women of color mainly due to medical racism)

the thing I hate about autism becoming somewhat of an "Everyman disorder" (basically means that it's so common that almost everyone is a lil autistic) is that people genuinely downplay the severity of autistic behaviors especially when it comes to overstimulation, trauma, AND information processing.

for fucks sake it's a developmental DISORDER that will effect your behavior and how you cope with things. yes it's quirky and will sometimes make you obsess over Legos or whatever but also sometimes it will limit your ability to physically speak soooooo.

[science70]

Ben H. Bagdikian, The Information Machines (Harper & Row, 1971).

[heart-ghost-studyblr]

Cast the first stone the one who has never spent the ENTIRE FREE TIME on a day updating public things like the GitHub README, HomePage website, articles or ordinary links on Linkedin.

That is what happened to me today: The free time I had outside of work was solely dedicated to getting these things up to date. I made a post on LinkedIn, updated my GitHub README, deployed my homepage, and now I feel worthy of being socially visited on the World Wide Web, haha'

[aspiramy]

information and communication technology !

[nando161mando]

Chrome/Google is blocking HSTS encrypted content sites like Wikipedia because this encryption blocks their plagiarist data/info crawler.

Google is NOT protecting "your" security.

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This gender is only for neurodivergent individuals that experience hyperfixations. One is allowed to change "hyperfixations" to "interests" if they do not experience hyperfixations but would still like to use the gender.

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[pittoreski]

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[thelatebloomerdiaries]

5.31.24 Block him 🙅‍♀️, Study Hard 📚, & Perseverance 🏆

Block him - block him in the spiritual sense, maybe eventually no contact, but for now no deep convos, no what should've been/could've been, hang out only when you want, no sex, only casual like he never meant anything

Study Hard - Study schedule has to be made and stuck to with consequences and rewards.

Perseverance - you can do this just keep going. Keep trying, use this platform to get out the feelings and post the progress and everything!

[omegaphilosophia]

The Evolution of Idea Dissemination: From Tradition to the Digital Age

The way ideas spread today differs significantly from the past due to advancements in technology, communication methods, and societal structures. Here are some key contrasts:

1. Speed of Dissemination

Past: Ideas spread slowly, often taking years or decades to reach wide audiences. They relied on oral traditions, handwritten manuscripts, or physical transportation of printed materials.

Present: Ideas can spread instantaneously through the internet, social media, and global communication networks.

2. Accessibility

Past: Access to new ideas was limited to certain groups, such as the educated elite, clergy, or ruling classes.

Present: Most individuals with internet access can share, access, and contribute to the spread of ideas, making the process more democratic.

3. Scale and Reach

Past: Ideas spread regionally or through specific trade routes and cultural exchanges.

Present: Ideas have global reach, transcending borders and cultural boundaries in seconds.

4. Gatekeepers

Past: Dissemination was controlled by gatekeepers like monarchs, religious authorities, publishers, or academic institutions.

Present: While gatekeepers (media platforms, algorithms) still exist, the decentralized nature of the internet allows individuals to bypass traditional controls.

5. Forms of Communication

Past: Ideas were communicated through spoken word, art, or written texts (letters, books).

Present: Multimedia formats (videos, memes, podcasts) and interactive platforms facilitate dynamic and engaging forms of communication.

6. Authenticity and Misinformation

Past: Ideas often underwent rigorous scrutiny before widespread acceptance due to slower dissemination.

Present: The rapid spread of ideas increases the risk of misinformation and lack of critical vetting.

7. Virality

Past: Ideas spread through deliberate networks, requiring effort and planning to reach new audiences.

Present: Social media algorithms and viral phenomena allow ideas to spread rapidly without intentional promotion.

8. Collaboration and Feedback

Past: Collaboration on ideas often required physical proximity or slow correspondence.

Present: Online platforms enable real-time collaboration, feedback, and adaptation of ideas globally.

9. Personalization

Past: The same message was often disseminated broadly with little tailoring to individual preferences.

Present: Algorithms personalize the spread of ideas, tailoring content to individual tastes, biases, and interests.

10. Longevity

Past: Ideas often endured longer due to limited new information and the slower pace of societal change.

Present: Ideas can have shorter lifespans, quickly replaced by newer concepts in the fast-paced information ecosystem.

Implications

This shift in how ideas spread affects everything from politics and culture to education and economics, creating both opportunities for innovation and challenges like misinformation and polarization. The immediacy and interconnectedness of modern communication reshape how society processes and adapts to new ideas.

[wayti-blog]

"Northwestern University engineers are the first to successfully demonstrate quantum teleportation over a fiberoptic cable already carrying internet traffic.

The discovery introduces the new possibility of combining quantum communication with existing internet cables—greatly simplifying the infrastructure required for distributed quantum sensing or computing applications.

The study is published on the arXiv preprint server and is due to appear in the journal Optica."

"Only limited by the speed of light, quantum teleportation could make communications nearly instantaneous. The process works by harnessing quantum entanglement, a technique in which two particles are linked, regardless of the distance between them. Instead of particles physically traveling to deliver information, entangled particles exchange information over great distances—without physically carrying it.

"In optical communications, all signals are converted to light," Kumar explained. "While conventional signals for classical communications typically comprise millions of particles of light, quantum information uses single photons.""

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[orcelito]

I do find it so funny that I will graduate college days away from my birthday. Like my birthday is literally in between the end of the semester ("graduation") and commencement

It really will be like a joint graduation & birthday party for me lmao

[amare-studyblr]

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