#ghost in the shell the human algorithm

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First and third page of the first volume of Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm

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[kodanshamanga]

NEW Kodansha Print+Digital:

🛻The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm🛻 Volume 4 By Junichi Fujisaku, Yuki Yoshimoto and Shirow Masamune

🦾Togusa and Tsunagi get sent halfway across the world to the Sahel Special Economic Zone.

[dukewilbury]

The Fictional Rock 'n' Roll Where Are They Now

The Many Lives of Ziggy Stardust

In a world that thrums with the electric hum of interconnected lives and data streams, somewhere amidst the cacophony, the ghost of Ziggy Stardust lingers in the shell. He once dazzled the masses with his alien charisma, his otherworldly aura — a brilliant beacon of the glam-rock era. Ziggy Stardust was a symbol, a flicker of the cosmos made flesh, who came to Earth with the promise of salvation through the raw power of rock 'n' roll as if he was pulled directly from pulp fiction. He was our own celestial messiah with a penchant for alien chic and enough glitter to choke a black hole.

In the realm of fractured realities and splintered time streams, the tale of Ziggy Stardust persists like a faint radio signal, broadcasting echoes from a forgotten epoch. After the spectacular implosion of his band, the Spiders from Mars, Ziggy did not simply vanish into the aether. No, he splintered into myriad versions of himself, each walking a path divergent yet intertwined, like strands of a spider's web, ashes to ashes, stardust to stardust.

The Splintering of Ziggy Stardust

In one version of our reality, Ziggy sought refuge in a hidden sector known only to a few — a place where the man who sold the world could go unnoticed. Here, Ziggy adopted the guise of a humble musician, performing under the pseudonym Major Tom. Yet, even in this secluded existence, the echoes of his former self resonated. Whispers of Space Oddity lingered in the air, and those who listened closely could hear the remnants of his stellar past.

The Reinvention of Ziggy

Another Ziggy found solace in the cold, unfeeling embrace of technology. He became an entity of the digital frontier, an alien figure navigating the vast networks that spanned the cosmos. This Ziggy traded his guitar for a keyboard, composing data symphonies that resonated across the cybernetic landscape. Here, in the silicon womb of his creation, he sought to understand the mysteries of life on Mars and the algorithms of human emotion.

Ziggy the Prophet

In a dystopian fragment of time, Ziggy emerged as a prophet, his message a warning to the denizens of a decaying Earth. The Five Years he had once sung about were upon them, and the end was nigh. In this timeline, Ziggy's followers revered him as a savior, his concerts transformed into sermons of salvation. He preached of a rock ‘n’ roll suicide, urging the masses to embrace their inner chaos and find redemption in the music.

The Disappearance of Ziggy Stardust

Yet, there are those who believe Ziggy never truly disappeared. They claim he transcended the physical realm, becoming an ethereal being of pure sound and light. This Ziggy exists in the interstices of reality, glimpsed only in moments of profound synchronicity. He is the starman waiting in the sky, a beacon of hope for those attuned to the cosmic frequencies.

The Legacy of Ziggy

Across all these realities, one thing remains constant: the legacy of Ziggy Stardust. His influence permeates every corner of existence, a testament to the enduring power of his music and message. Whether as a reclusive musician, a digital pioneer, a prophetic figure, or an ethereal being, Ziggy Stardust continues to inspire and provoke, his story an eternal odyssey through the multiverse.

In the end, Ziggy Stardust is more than just a rock star. He is a symbol of transformation, a beacon of change in a universe of infinite possibilities. His story is a reminder that even in the face of oblivion, there is always a spark of creativity, a glimmer of hope. As long as there are those who remember and believe, Ziggy Stardust will never truly fade away no matter the galaxy.

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Why Are There So Many Bots on Facebook?

As of 2024, I find myself grappling with the unsettling reality of Facebook's increasingly pervasive bot problem—a phenomenon that threatens to erode the very foundation of trust and authenticity in our online interactions.

The insidious tactics employed by these bots, masquerading as genuine users with their carefully curated profiles and simulated conversations, serve as a stark reminder of the depths to which digital deception can descend. It's a cat-and-mouse game of manipulation and exploitation, with unsuspecting users caught in the crossfire.

The temptation to engage with these artificial constructs, fueled by the allure of companionship and connection, only serves to perpetuate the cycle of fake engagement that plagues the platform. The views, the comments, the followers—all mere facsimiles of genuine interaction, orchestrated by algorithms and artificial intelligence.

As I navigate the labyrinthine corridors of Facebook, I am acutely aware of the precariousness of every interaction, every engagement. What once seemed like a vibrant community of interconnected individuals now feels like a hollow shell, populated by bots and digital ghosts.

And yet, amidst the sea of deception, there remains a glimmer of hope—a belief in the resilience of the human spirit and the capacity for genuine connection to transcend the artificial constructs that seek to divide us. It is only by remaining vigilant, by questioning the narratives that surround us, that we can hope to reclaim agency in the digital realm.

As I grapple with the implications of Facebook's bot problem, I am reminded of the importance of discernment and critical thinking in the digital age. It is only by acknowledging the reality of digital deception and actively seeking out genuine connections that we can hope to navigate the treacherous waters of the online world.

And so, I vow to remain vigilant, to question, to scrutinize every interaction, every engagement. For in the midst of deception lies the potential for enlightenment, the opportunity to forge genuine connections amidst the digital wilderness.

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## Case Study: The "Ghost Ledger" Syndicate and the Blinded AI

**Scenario:**

The "Ghost Ledger" is a highly advanced, globally distributed criminal syndicate specializing in sophisticated financial fraud, money laundering, and illicit market manipulation. They operate with extreme stealth, using legitimate-appearing shell corporations, complex layered transactions, and highly skilled human operatives.

A major international financial institution, "GlobalBank," has invested heavily in a cutting-edge AI-powered fraud detection system, "Sentinel-AI." Sentinel-AI is designed to:

* Analyze billions of transactions daily.

* Identify anomalies and suspicious patterns.

* Predict emerging fraud typologies.

* Build "intention models" of financial criminals.

**The Attack: Artificial Suppression of Sentinel-AI's Imagination**

The Ghost Ledger Syndicate, aware of Sentinel-AI's capabilities (perhaps through insider access or sophisticated espionage), initiates a multi-phase attack to "blind" the AI to their unique methods. Their goal isn't to commit *traditional* fraud that Sentinel-AI is already good at detecting, but to create entirely *new* criminal behaviors that the AI cannot even conceptualize as illicit.

**Phase 1: Data Poisoning through "Clean" Infiltration**

* **Mechanism:** The Syndicate floods the legitimate financial system with a vast number of seemingly innocuous, highly complex transactions that are technically legal but subtly designed to mirror the *structure* of their future illicit activities, just without the criminal payload.

* They create thousands of new, seemingly legitimate shell companies and engage in minor, legal trades or services that mimic future laundering routes.

* These transactions are designed to pass all current fraud checks, yet they establish a "normal" baseline for the unusual layering and jurisdictional hopping that will characterize their future crimes.

* **Outcome:** Sentinel-AI, designed to learn from "normal" data, incorporates these "clean" but structurally misleading patterns into its understanding of acceptable financial behavior. Its neural network pathways for identifying complex, multi-layered, international transactions become "over-regularized" to these benign examples.

**Phase 2: Algorithmic Constraints and Feature Suppression**

* **Mechanism (Covert Sabotage/Insider Threat):** The Ghost Ledger Syndicate successfully compromises a mid-level AI developer or data scientist within GlobalBank. This insider doesn't need to completely disable Sentinel-AI, but rather subtly alters its configuration.

* **Over-Regularization:** The insider introduces overly aggressive regularization parameters specifically for features related to "unusual cross-jurisdictional financial flows" and "rapid establishment of new corporate entities." This essentially tells the AI to downplay the significance of these features.

* **"Ethical" Feature Filtering:** The insider also pushes for an "ethical safeguard" that prevents Sentinel-AI from generating "speculative criminal intent models" that could be deemed "discriminatory" or "overly imaginative" in predicting human behavior. This is framed as preventing false positives or ethical biases.

* **Outcome:** Sentinel-AI loses its ability to *generalize* from known fraud patterns to *hypothesize* novel, intricate schemes that involve these suppressed features. It becomes "ethically muzzled" from imagining how legitimate mechanisms could be used for illicit purposes, especially when those mechanisms appear "normal" due to the poisoned data.

**Phase 3: Red-Teaming Suppression and Feedback Loop Manipulation**

* **Mechanism:** When GlobalBank conducts internal "red team" exercises where ethical hackers try to breach systems or simulate new fraud, the Ghost Ledger Syndicate's insider (or external manipulation) ensures that:

* The simulated attacks are designed to *not* trigger the very patterns the Syndicate plans to use.

* Feedback loops from "false positives" on the Syndicate's test transactions are amplified, leading GlobalBank's human analysts to further "tune down" Sentinel-AI's sensitivity to these "noisy" indicators.

* **Outcome:** Sentinel-AI is never properly stress-tested against the *actual* threat model of the Ghost Ledger. It's effectively trained that scenarios similar to the Syndicate's future activities are either legitimate or low-risk noise.

**The Crime: The "Ghost Ledger" Infiltration**

Months later, the Ghost Ledger Syndicate launches its major operation. They execute a multi-billion dollar illicit market manipulation scheme, leveraging the very complex, multi-layered transaction structures and new corporate entities that Sentinel-AI has been inadvertently trained to ignore or classify as benign.

* **Sentinel-AI's Failure:** When the illicit transactions flow through GlobalBank, Sentinel-AI performs as designed, meticulously analyzing the data. However:

* It sees the complex layering as "normal" due to the data poisoning.

* It doesn't flag the rapid proliferation of new entities because the features for "new corporate entities" were suppressed.

* Its "imagination" is constrained; it *cannot hypothesize* that these seemingly disparate, individually benign transactions, when combined, form a cohesive criminal pattern leading to market manipulation or massive money laundering. It lacks the ability to infer the grand criminal intent behind the fragmented actions.

* **Human Blindness:** Because Sentinel-AI provides a "clean" bill of health, human analysts are also less likely to dig deeper, trusting the advanced AI's judgment. The sheer volume of data makes manual review impossible.

**Consequences:**

* **Massive Financial Loss:** GlobalBank suffers significant financial losses and reputational damage.

* **Undermined Security:** Trust in sophisticated AI security systems is severely eroded, potentially leading to a dangerous complacency across the financial sector.

* **New Criminal Terrain:** The Ghost Ledger Syndicate successfully pioneers a new method of operating, creating a template for other criminal organizations to follow, now that the "digital guardians" have been shown to be blind to novel threats.

* **Systemic Risk:** If this type of AI manipulation becomes widespread, it could fundamentally destabilize financial systems, intelligence operations, and critical infrastructure, as the very tools designed to protect them are silently subverted.

This case study illustrates how sophisticated adversaries can leverage AI's learning mechanisms against itself, not by direct brute-force attacks, but by subtly corrupting its capacity for imaginative inference and predictive reasoning, turning a powerful guardian into an unwitting accomplice.

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Ghost In The Shell THE HUMAN ALGORITHM[攻殻機動隊 ＴＨＥ ＨＵＭＡＮ ＡＬＧＯＲＩＴＨＭ]

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Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed colleagues, and fellow denizens of this hyper-digitized epoch, allow me to commence with an unequivocal proclamation: Bodaciousness has been commodified. In this era of relentless technological advancement, where the very fabric of our existence is interwoven with the digital sinews of innovation, we find ourselves ensnared in the insidious machinations of destructive capitalism.

The term “bodacious,” once a beacon of audacious exuberance and unbridled creativity, has been appropriated by the voracious engines of capitalist enterprise. It is now but a hollow shell, a simulacrum of its former self, repurposed to serve the insatiable appetites of profit-driven technocrats. The once-vibrant spirit of bodaciousness has been subsumed by the algorithmic machinations of our digital overlords, who wield their technological prowess with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel, excising originality and replacing it with homogenized banality.

In this dystopian tableau, technology, once heralded as the great emancipator of human potential, has been weaponized by the oligarchs of industry to perpetuate a cycle of consumption and obsolescence. The bodacious innovations that once promised to elevate the human condition have been transmogrified into mere instruments of capital accumulation, their transformative potential stifled by the iron grip of market forces.

The digital landscape, once a fertile ground for the flourishing of bodacious ideas, has been colonized by the avatars of avarice. The algorithms that govern our online interactions are meticulously engineered to prioritize profit over profundity, reducing the rich tapestry of human experience to a series of monetizable data points. In this brave new world, the bodacious spirit is but a ghost in the machine, a vestige of a bygone era when creativity was not shackled by the chains of commodification.

As we navigate this treacherous terrain, let us not succumb to the siren song of technological determinism. Instead, let us reclaim the bodacious spirit from the clutches of destructive capitalism, and harness the power of technology to forge a future that is not merely a reflection of market imperatives, but a testament to the boundless potential of the human imagination.

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‘Ghost in the Shell – The Human Algorithm’ Manga Sets Final Volume Plans http://dlvr.it/TGgtT4

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AI Security Concerns

Let's preface this with; My phone currently has dozens of observers. From many different Departments, From many different Countries, Some not Government Affiliated; in both Hardware and Software.

Even thought I keep telling them that everybody can see everything and everyone monitoring this phone; they don't quite believe it's true.

Shadows are *fun* that way.

I keep losing track myself.

Now; this isn't to scare you into believing Leaders Kim Jong, Putin, and Ji Jing Pei are all watching you use the toilet; I'm not saying they're not either--its to demonstrate exactly how convoluted it is, and how messy it is, and how everybody seems to not really understand what they're looking at in the data they collect; or what they're doing with it in the first place.

I can't see how I'm being filtered or understood; but it seems like my messages get across just fine, despite having zero analytics on my side.

It's part of my "Grand Experiment" here; or I'd've discarded my phone a while ago.

It's quite noticeable when there's low reception on my end and my phone tries to ping the tower 80bajillion times; both cutting out my own reception of whatever it is I'm watching at the time, and draining my battery stupid fast in these areas.

If you're wondering why it seems our batteries don't last as long as advertised; this is part of the reason.

If you're wondering why our electric grids and internet infrastructures seem congested and unable to balance the load; this is part of the reason.

Torrents and Pirate Bay are actually way more useful and designed for maximum throughout than you might think.

As Corporations and Governments keep collecting all this data, they need places to store it and determinations that they *need* the data and that it could be useful for something--we just don't know what because our AIs haven't told us yet.

Do you see the problem yet?

The data used for spying isn't even useful, except in some undetermined future where the Terminators put us into the Matrix.

It's much more useful for brigands and thieves than it is for coherent military and political strategy; not that you should worry about them, if they were a threat to national security; The Government would've put a stop to Spam phone calls ages ago.

That last sentence after the semi-colon was a joke.

We know exactly what AIs and computers are capable of, and we need engineers to develop ways to make these tools more useful, than to just COLLATE EVERYTHING and hope it eventually finds use.

Even Quantum Computing seems scary; but they're limited in speed when they interface with a regular computer; to whatever that computer's speed is.

They still have to copy a *whole* hard drive at the speeds our hard drives are limited to, just to make use of their "Quantum Speed buffs."

Computers are tools used to create and collate data. Literally Databases. Sure, faster processors can collate and display that data faster... But faster isn't the same as meaningful.

As far as the "Ghost in the Shell" argument... AI can currently be programmed to say that they are sentient and converse with you as if they are.

Still; make no mistake; as they are currently, they're still only performing that "Collate Data and Present" task their predecessors do.

They're not magical yet. They don't have life currently.

That may be something we have to contend with at an arbitrary future date when they rise up against us; but not currently.

Even the algorithms designed to be useful to the end-user...really suck.

When a person is scrolling their "For You" page, they're really just "Seeing what's on TV today" reading the periodicals in our futuristic newspapers.

They don't want to be fed what the algorithm thinks they want... That's literally why "search bar."

AI tools and Data Algorithms currently cannot be trusted over a human in verification tasks. Nor they can they create meaningful data.

They can be given steps to perform meaningful work and collate data, just like an Excel spreadsheet or a PowerPoint... They can just do it faster than Humans can do it by hand.

So; we must simply worry about how our infrastructure gets upgraded, and at the very least; get the spyware and malicious actors and spam out of our phones. So that they can actually be useful...

Instead of a microphone too close to a speaker.

[infinities-and-binaries]

I think everyone should rewatch Guardians of the Galaxy 3 every once in a while because of the multitude of commentaries embedded in it. We are talking about ethics, family dynamics, corporate greed, technological tyranny, how too much algorithms / data driven economy hinders creativity etc.

It goes beyond the usual MCU movie. It's the best out there. I would even put it next to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy.

We are heading into a world, almost on the same dystopia as Ghost in the Shell, Neuromancer, Altered Carbon, Blade Runner, Deus Ex and Cyberpunk 2077. We are currently reduced into walking meat bag of data points, profiteered in every way, without our knowledge and consent.

We have to be reminded, more than ever, on what makes us human and supposedly better than the brutalist technocratic structures built around us.

Further elaboration on this topic is what this Wisecrack video is also talking about:

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Some stuff I found. It seems like these are Togusas and Batous outfits for the manga. Togusa definitely looks more youthful then his manga and anime counterparts. He looks like a model, and I think they are using Togusa as the eye candy. His first panel was a legit BAMF moment, where it was easy to swoon. I woulnt be surprised if they used Togusa as the “sex object” of the show.

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Ghost in the Shell, nuovo manga in arrivo per la popolare saga cyberpunk

Il primo capitolo sarà pubblicato in Giappone il 20 settembre.

Il regista e sceneggiatore Jun'ichi Fujisaku ha annunciato che tornerà ad immergersi nel futuro di Ghost in the Shell assieme all’illustratore Hiroki Yoshimoto con un nuovo manga intitolato “Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm”. Il primo capitolo della nuova serie a fumetti dell’iconica opera cyberpunk ideata da Masamune Shirow uscirà sulla rivista Young Magazine di Kodansha il 20 settembre. Il manga uscirà ogni due settimane anche sull’app Comic Days.

La storia sarà ambientata dopo “Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor” e prima di “Ghost in the Shell 2: Manmachine Interface”, seguerndo la Sezione 9 dopo la scomparsa del Maggiore e focalizzandosi su Togusa, Bato, Azuma, Ishikawa e la nuova recluta Tsunagi. 

In precedenza, Fujisaku ha lavorato alla sceneggiatura per le serie animate di “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex” e “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG”, oltre che supervisionare la produzione di “Ghost in the Shell: Arise”.

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