The Edict’s Summer Series 2022 concludes with special guest Justin Warren, “consultant, freedom of information tragic, hexagon enthusiast, and creator of the CyberRatingâ„¢ labelling scheme”.
We talk about tyrants, incompetence, Spider-Man, the nature of democracy, bananas, ethics, Elon Musk’s brain implants, chainsaws, ASIO. political interference, nuclear strategy, the sunk cost fallacy, and Meta’s new corporate values.
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CyberRating™ pioneer, OopsRisk™ evangelist, hexagon and FOI enthusiast, cheese noticer, digital rights advocate. Probably not a vampire. He/him.
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My name is Justin Warren, and I live in Melbourne, Australia. Eigenmagic is my personal blog. Mostly it’s about technology and management, with a smattering of other topics thrown in for good measure. I write about whatever I think people might be interested in. I tend towards long form prose because I often don’t have time to make things shorter.
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This is where you buy your “Danger: Hexagons” warning signs and the like.
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We specialise in marketing strategy, positioning, and messaging for technology companies, particularly startups. As a boutique firm, we offer custom consulting tailored to individual client needs, as well as a range of standard packages.
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Pager, a nine year old Macaque, plays MindPong with his Neuralink.
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[22 January 2022] Neuralink job posting offers candidate ‘an opportunity to change the world’
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Neurotech start-up hopes to use brain-computer interface to allow ‘human-AI symbiosis’
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Members of a physicians advocacy group filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture against Elon Musk's company Neuralink about its testing of animals.
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"Pretty much every single monkey that had had implants put in their head suffered from pretty debilitating health effects"
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Neuralink responded to charges that its animal testing techniques are brutal and have resulted in the "horrific mistreatment" and deaths of many macaque monkeys in a statement posted Monday. Last Monday, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed a federal complaint with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) alleging the abuse of monkeys at the University of California (UC) Davis in conjunction with Neuralink's operations. PCRM is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending animal suffering and promoting non-animal testing alternatives.
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[29 Aug 2020] Elon Musk showed off Neuralink's new implantable brain chip and demonstrated it working in real time on a pig.
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[29 August 2020] Elon Musk has unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain to demonstrate his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.
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[18 June 2018] District court judge Dina Yehia took into account his good character, while describing the case as "highly unusual … involving a unique set of circumstances."
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Annabelle Natalie Gibson (born 8 October 1991) is an Australian convicted scammer and pseudoscience advocate. She is the author of The Whole Pantry mobile app and its later companion cookbook. Throughout her career as a wellness guru, Gibson claimed she had a diagnosis involving multiple cancer pathologies throughout her internal organs; claimed she had forgone modern science-based medical treatments; claimed she was effectively self-managing her multiple cancers through diet, exercise, and alternative therapies; and claimed to have donated significant proportions of her income and her company's profits to numerous charities.
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The World Medical Association (WMA) has developed the Declaration of Helsinki as a statement of ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects, including research on identifiable human material and data.
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Neuralink's brain implants could begin human clinical trials as soon as this year. But have Musk's grandiose promises about their capabilities raised hopes too high?
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[15 May 2019] In 2004, there were 50,000 people legally blind in Australia, with numbers expected to increase to 87,000 by 2024 with the ageing population (“Eye Research Australia Insight: The Economic Impact and Cost of Vision Loss in Australia” by Centre for Eye Research Australia).
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[10 June 2018] Now I just have to figure out what to do with it.
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The origin of chain saws in surgery is debated.
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Ross Doerr and Barbara Campbell were both delighted with the retinal implants that gave them artificial vision. Then the company behind the implants, Second Sight, stopped making them.
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20. Mike Burgess, Director-General at ASIO speaks on the security challenges facing Australia - 7.30For a look at the key security challenges currently facing Australia, Leigh Sales speaks to Mike Burgess who is the Director-General of Security at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
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The Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security (RCIS), also known as the First Hope Commission, was a Royal Commission established on 21 August 1974 by Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam to reach findings and make recommendations as to the Australian Intelligence Community.
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[9 February 2022] Good evening. Welcome to ASIO and to my Annual Threat Assessment.?
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[19 January 2021] The government agrees: Australia needs a whole new electronic surveillance Act to sort out the mess. But a bunch of ad hoc laws are already making their way through parliament.
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The review comprehensively examined the effectiveness of the legislative framework governing the National Intelligence Community and prepared findings and recommendations for reforms. The review was supported by a Secretariat in the Attorney-General's Department.?
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In December 2020 the Australian government finally released the report of the the Comprehensive review of the legal framework of the National Intelligence Community, which was actually completed a year earlier. It includes this very handy chronology of the development of Australia’s national intelligence community.
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[7 February 2022] Well I've melted my brain on other stuff enough today, so how about we do a quick highlights reel of the Richardson Review report as a #tljr?
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Look Around You is a British television comedy series devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, and narrated in the first series by Nigel Lambert. In the first series, the episodes ("modules") satirise and pay homage to early 1980s educational films and school programmes such as ITV's "Experiment" series and BBC's "For Schools and Colleges". A different scientific subject is covered in each episode.
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"With great power comes great responsibility" is an ancient adage, at least as old as the first century BC in the allusion of the Sword of Damocles. The formulation has been used by journalists, authors, and other writers; and in politics, monarchic rhetoric, law enforcement, public safety, and in various media.
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Trust, but verify (Russian: ???????, ?? ????????, tr. Doveryay, no proveryay, IPA: [d?v???r?æj no pr?v???r?æj]) is a rhyming Russian proverb. The phrase became internationally known in English after Suzanne Massie, an American scholar, taught it to Ronald Reagan, then president of the United States, the latter of whom used it on several occasions in the context of nuclear disarmament discussions with the Soviet Union.
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[December 2020] The United States formally withdrew from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty on Nov. 22 despite domestic and international pressure to remain party to the accord, including from President-elect Joe Biden and numerous U.S. allies.
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The Woody Words and Tinny Words sketch starts at 5m36s.
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The Sunk Cost Fallacy describes our tendency to follow through on an endeavor if we have already invested time, effort, or money into it, whether or not the current costs outweigh the benefits.
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Anonymous Twitter troll and ardent Daniel Andrews backer PRGuy could be forced out of the shadows pending a successful action against the social media giant to reveal the account’s identity.
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[1 February 2022] Proposed legislation does not contain word ‘troll’ anywhere but in its title, Attorney General’s Department official concedes
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The Ten Commandments (Hebrew: ???????? ????????????, Aseret ha'Dibrot), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity. The text of the Ten Commandments appears twice in the Hebrew Bible: at Exodus 20:2–17 and Deuteronomy 5:6–21.
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[14 September 2021] Former attorney general says he has ‘no access to information about the conduct and funding of the trust’
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The tyrant test focuses on power. Because surveillance technology offers government a new power to monitor and control citizens, the response must check that power. The question is how, and the answer is to assume the worst. Power will be abused, and constraints must work backwards from that cynical starting point. The tyrant test requires institutional checks that decenter government power into overlapping community institutions with real authority and enforceable individual rights.
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This quiz is designed to help give you some idea about whether or not you may be a psychopath or sociopath, or have psychopathic tendencies. This quiz is not meant to diagnose psychopathy or tell you definitively whether or not you’re a psychopath. But it will give you a pretty good idea, based upon the research. For each item, indicate how much you agree or disagree with the statement. Take your time and answer truthfully for the most accurate results.
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The Bechdel test (/?b?kd?l/ BEK-d?l) is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added.
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Guess how many Trump has already checked off.
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), is the 2013 update to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the taxonomic and diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In the United States, the DSM serves as the principal authority for psychiatric diagnoses.
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IT has a security problem, but why is our default solution more authoritarian control? Why do we demand our employees give up their privacy in order to secure our IT systems when we resist this impulse by governments? Are other solutions not possible, or are they simply more challenging, and we are too lazy?
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[16 February 2022] Mark Zuckerberg is addressing Meta employees at a virtual all hands right now. He’s explaining the company’s updated values.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to further push the company formerly known as Facebook into the metaverse.
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CEO of company formerly called Facebook touts pivot at all-hands meeting as he faces investment concerns
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My kids, 13 & 14 who both have Oculus Quest 2, have officially cut their usage in half. I asked my 13 year old why, and they said, "It sucks. I've done everything there is and it's just boring now." I think we all know why Meta Stock is down.
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Tim Wilson declares that “we all know what is going to happen at the election, which is that the govt will be returned.” This arrogant Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison govt has been in power too long. At the election they will be seeking a 2nd decade in power. It’s time for renewal.
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Parochialism is naff but Australia's electoral commission is simply better than yours.
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Pays on party which supplies the Prime Minister following the next Federal election. Bets settled at time of swearing in. All bets carry over if the Gov General does not swear in a PM because supply cannot be guaranteed.
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Introducing Motherlode, a Ranieri & Co. production. The gripping story about the birth of computer hacking from an unlikely centre - Melbourne Australia. It was here teenage boys, and they were mostly boys, hacked into some of the biggest organisations in the world. It’s also where a young hacker, Julian Assange, cut his teeth on computers and went on to develop Wikileaks, the most disruptive website the world has seen. But Wikileaks didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. It was 20 years in the making. Motherlode reveals the technological and political motivations behind it.
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