The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Worldcoin: Sam Altman’s Crypto Tool for Technocracy? More than a sketchy cash for biometrics scheme, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and friends’ Worldcoin project is positioning itself as a one-stop shop for identity and financial infrastructure that could upend traditional finance and governance structures as we know them. BY STAVROULA PABST “No one told me what they’ll do with my eye…I did this out of need.” Olga de León, Buenos Aires Resident, to  Rest of World Want $50 worth of cryptocurrency? Scan your irises with one of Worldcoin’s orbs and it’s yours. Such is Worldcoin’s (rather odd) elevator pitch to the public, which has subsequently rolled out its iris-scanning orbs to  38 countries  worldwide. Worldcoin Orbs ( Source ) Launched in mid-2023 and  described  by founder Sam Altman upon launch as “a global financial and identity network based on proof of personhood,” Worldcoin has made a big splash in its efforts to grow an identity and finance network using the unique, orb-based iris s

  Disinformation, Fact Checkers and Stupid Elites HANS VOGEL Hans Vogel discusses the elusive nature of disinformation, urging readers to think critically and highlighting the interplay between truth and falsehood in a world where governments weaponize the term to suppress inconvenient facts. What is disinformation? No wait, wait, don’t ask Wikipedia, just think for yourself for a moment. Actually, everything one reads, hears or sees, is information, everything. Some of it is true or may turn out to be so, some is relatively true (or untrue) and some is untrue. Such is the case in everyday life, but most notably in science and all other academic disciplines and in detective work, where the sleuth has to find out who committed that crime. In that context, the information that does not serve to attain the stated goal needs to be discarded. One might perhaps call such information “disinformation,” because it leads one away from the stated goal. However, during the process of attaining it,