Chaos Server

You become a lot less disappointed with the human race when you accept that we’re just barely evolved monkeys that won’t properly fund education. - Brianna Wu When I was doing RA training in college one of my favorite training activities we did was a game from our ethics department that was a variant of The Prisoner’s Dilemma. We were put into groups of four to play a bunch of rounds of the game and each round you could choose to “work together” or “go it alone” and depend how everyone voted each person got a score. The basic idea of prisoner’s dilemma is if everyone chooses “work together” you all get a good score, if everyone chooses “go it alone” you all get a bad score. If some choose “work together” and some choose “go it alone” then the people who choose to “go it alone” get a good score. In the discussion afterwards there was this one person who had played “go it alone” every single round and said, “I realized that by the rules if I always choose to go it alone, there was n...

We are falling asleep, just as the machines are waking up. - Amy Webb More and more I’m thinking like an old man, who reminisces how it used to be. I’m nostalgic, not like it was better back in the day, just a different world. When the internet started, it was such a little club. I cared about SEO - trying to figure how I could make sure if you searched for my name you would find information about me. These days? Not so much really - in fact, I do the opposite. How do I make if you search for me you won’t find me. Let me just be an unknown person amid the masses. At work we recently went through the process of implementing controls for Europe’s general data protection regulation (GDPR) and I am nominally the main privacy officer at the company so it fell under me to figure it all out. I have to say that I used to be annoyed by the “Right to be Forgotten” but under GDPR, that is a pretty inaccurate description of what it is - and I really like what it is. Under GDPR, when a company i...