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I have a horse named Concord and a penchant for flowery social justice.

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Not sure if raw data size is a good metric. One usually gains more information by reading a book than watching a movie.

I was not advocating for "online slacktivism", I was merely giving my opinion of what rules or laws ought to be introduced to the effect, akin to copyright laws or open-source licenses (it is not "online activism" to give correct attribution according to the terms of a license). Shouldn't we be able to have this debate, or do you think that this decision-making should be confined to policymakers?

This made me think that we, as a society, ought to have some sort of convention to mark AI-generated images as such, like a small watermarked symbol in a corner.

"To call a function, the program should place the first six integer or pointer parameters in the registers %rdi, %rsi, %rdx, %rcx, %r8, and %r9." This sounds like System V, hence GCC.

If you're looking for an accessible introduction/overview, try Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A. Gallian. It also includes lots of applications, some of which are relevant to cryptography.

I like this idea of incorporating trust and reputation. As for the curation of websites not scaling, some time ago I thought about the possibility of a search engine where the user supplies a list of trusted websites (for example, university websites, blogs of people they admire), and the search engine ranks pages based on link distance to these websites.

You wouldn't expect an article that talks about the long-term effects of COVID to also address the downsides of mask and restrictions, so why should the opposite be true? You can read independent arguments for both sides of the issue, judge their strengths and weaknesses, and then make up your own mind.