Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@maple you lesbun!

y'know what? I know I said it was irrelevant but I'm gonna talk about it anyway

Eunomia was a minor greek goddess of law and legislation

Meaning it's basically called ProjectLAW

As if "They called it ProjectLAW, designed to bring truth to the internet..." isn't part of the intro narration to a low-budget dystopian sci-fi flick

@maple "I've never even seen a watch" says internet's own sam the octopus

@maple I'm now imagining both of you in wedding dresses getting married and it is totes adorbs

@maple furthermore:

maple is good
maple is nice
maple is lovely
maple is hugged by octopus whenever she wants to be

on further thought our silicon-based friends can fix that in software however it's the ones made out of meat that have more trouble with misinfo and you can't solve it in software for them

also misinformation isn't an internet problem

people have been spreading misinformation since we climbed down from the proverbial trees and probably a bit before then

it's a critical thinking problem, and you can't solve that with software

Problems with ProjectEUNOMIA

1) sinister as fuck name, irrelevant to discussions but it wouldn't have hurt them to call it Project Fluffy Bunnies or something

2) anything they build will just move the problem from people blindly believing anything they read to people blindly believing anything they read that has a green checkmark or whatever next to it which doesn't solve the original problem

3) obvious abuse potential of anything they build

@bob @maiyannah actual military organisations is also a possibility considering Trilateral Research (the firm doing the project) also works with the MoD

possibly neat wearable tech idea: a signet ring for the modern era

openpgp card implementation built into a ring

maybe with an engraving as well if you want to get out some sealing wax and have a key signing party like it's 1799

@masklayer ahem, uh, hoist the mast mateys?

@Jo particularly vocal group of people who insist that you can only do illusion work properly with applewood wands (which also require you to use different spellbooks than the regular kind)

@sydneyfalk I did warn you

@maple dashcon was bad but fyre had actual disaster relief tents

I once came across a bottle of satan's own egg and brandy liqueur

it was the devil's advocaat

for context, this Project EUNOMIA thing

which is an incredibly sinister name if you think about it regardless of any links to anything

Did Eugen not notice the amount of stick we gave gibson for merely talking to the cops or did he think collaborating on a research project carried out on behalf of a government by a firm that's previously done projects with the UK MoD is a completely different thing?

@Gargron @gcupc@glitch.social @tbm Trilateral Research

https://trilateralresearch.co.uk/project/eunomia/