I would focus on the Oracle problem. If the cost of a believable deep fake is cheaper than the cost of verifying provenance, the fakers win.
I believe the issue is better served by exploring how to raise the cost of making a believable deep fake? That is as an industry we need to agree a legally valid digital document would have the following digital water marks, hanko, signatures, whatever that makes the cost of these things more expensive than the cost of verifying their provenance.
You're identifying the exact vulnerability we name as the weakest link: the oracle bridge. The cost asymmetry framing is precisely right — if forgery is structurally cheaper than verification, the architecture eventually fails.
I see industry-standard watermarking (like C2PA/CAI) and AquariuOS as complementary layers, not competing ones. C2PA raises the cost of fabrication at the lens level — essential work that this architecture should incentivize and consume.
But C2PA solves for: "Is this specific file authentic?" It doesn't solve for: "What actually happened in this unrecorded meeting?" or "Has this pattern of behavior been escalating for seven months?" The majority of contested reality lives in the analog gaps — moments that were never recorded, never watermarked, never captured at all. That's where Symmetric Observation and multi-modal attestation do the heavy lifting.
We need both: raise the cost of forgery at the source AND build infrastructure for the vast unrecorded terrain where gaslighting actually lives.
The harder question: who governs the watermarking standard without it becoming a new capture vector? If the answer is Apple's Secure Enclave or Sony's hardware attestation, we've traded one trust problem for another — and handed the keys to exactly the kind of asymmetric control AquariuOS is designed to resist.
Honestly she should have changed parishes. St Rita’s is in an affluent part of Dallas. One of the priests is a former Anglican(?) with wife and children who obtained a special dispensation.
I heard a lot of bad phone it in homilies too. Today one of my favorite priests is from Benin. He serves the Francophone community but also celebrates mass in English and Spanish. He is at Mary Immaculate in Farmers Branch. He is more traditional and gives the Catholic interpretation of the day’s readings and how it applies today.
It's probably used to aggregate all their data sources to compile profiles. They then match the passport against their database of profiles. To say, yup, this passport is for real person; not a deceased person whose identity was stolen for example.
The things that impact the most are locking/blocking, data duplication (ghosting due to race conditions), and poor performance. The best advice is RTFM the documentation for your database; yes, it is a lot to digest that is why DBAs exist. Most of these foot guns are due to poor architecture. You have to imagine multiple users/processes are literally trying to write to the same record at the same time; when you realize this, a single table with simple key-values is completely inadequate.
Anecdotally teachers complained they were forced into a straight jacket. “To teach to the test.” In many troubled schools, the problems run deep. Absent parents, crime, drugs, abuse etc. Many teachers felt they better served children if they could teach in a manner of their choosing.
Page 95. “The limitations that resulted from the curricular requirements also affected the use
of classroom resources. In some cases, there appeared to be particular books, teaching
models, and other resources that were mandated in the curriculum. An observation
following a teacher interview illuminates the inability of teachers to include non-
prescribed resources: "She wanted to be able to use more chapter/trade books and it was
not possible because of all of the excerpts and mandates of basal instruction" (IA,
WSRSD, ES, Carey, FN, #8, p. 2). The teachers seemed to want greater curricular
control. While they indicated that they did have control over their instructional methods,
they appeared to be inhibited by the lack of authority and decision-making power with
regard to the curriculum.”
I remember taking an onsite class to learn Delphi. The class was taught in St Petersburg Florida. Nice place. At the time, I was admiring the tool that Borland created and thought to myself this is a very nice IDE. Too bad my company was switching to all things .Net. The difference between Visual Studio and the Delphi IDE was gut wrenching.
If I understand correctly, the article says the "maze" was actually the many rooms of the Cretan palace. The word "labyrinth" comes from the sacred ax called "labrys" used to kill the bulls during sacrifice. The minotaur was an invention symbolizing a foreign power that Athens fought with and will overcome?
The big problem that the article glosses over is that "labrys" is neither Minoan (to our limited knowledge) nor Greek, but Lydian: the Roman-era author Plutarch in Ætia Romana et Græca tells us that the Lydians call the double-headed axe λάβρυν, and people have assumed that it must have a nominative λάβρυς. The Lydians lived in Anatolia, not Crete. The Carians, another Anatolian people neighboring the Lydians, had a place called Labraunda, and coins minted there in Roman times have a double-headed axe, but that's more than a thousand years after the Cretans. There's no good evidence that the Minoans knew the word "labrys" or connected it to axes or the labyrinth. Moreover, it's not clear that the axes we have were or could have been functional rather than votive or ornamental, as most are thin and weak, so assuming that they were used to kill bulls is a stretch.
I believe the issue is better served by exploring how to raise the cost of making a believable deep fake? That is as an industry we need to agree a legally valid digital document would have the following digital water marks, hanko, signatures, whatever that makes the cost of these things more expensive than the cost of verifying their provenance.
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