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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 125 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's a sick joke that we've celebrated being in the "information age" for the last 20-25 years, and now that information is being obfuscated by various means again.

SEO, censorship, paywalls.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's not the information age, it's the data age.

Information implies usefulness. Data is just data. Could be right, could be wrong, who knows.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You could say the same thing about information, though. Information doesn't necessarily imply usefulness. There is an infinitude of information in the universe which is useless to us.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I guess I should have said "correctness" instead of usefulness

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now we have graduated to the disinformation age:-(

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we should start calling disinformation "Lore"

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

lore-posting time