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A Picture Lies More Than a Thousand Words

The Threat of Fake Images and Videos in Our Dig­i­tal World In an era where visu­al media is omnipresent, the old proverb “A pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words” reminds us of the once-powerful impact of pho­tog­ra­phy and film. In the past, a pic­ture was con­sid­ered an unshak­able proof of reality—a moment cap­tured and immutably pre­served. In the pre-digital manip­u­la­tion era, images sym­bol­ized authen­tic­i­ty: They con­veyed emo­tions, con­texts, and events with a directness

March 7, 2026

Navigating Truth in the Age of AI: The Fragile Credibility of Photos and Content

In a recent post on vali.now titled “Assess the Verac­i­ty of Pho­tos”, Rebec­ca John­son delves into the chal­lenges faced by even sea­soned jour­nal­ists, like those at The New York Times, when ver­i­fy­ing images amid a flood of syn­thet­ic media. The piece recounts how, fol­low­ing U.S. mil­i­tary strikes in Venezuela, Pres­i­dent Trump’s social media post of Nicolás Maduro in cus­tody sparked a wave of ques­tion­able pho­tos. It high­lights the steps pro­fes­sion­als take—from acknowl­edg­ing uncertainty

Jan­u­ary 9, 2026

The Human Element: Why Social Engineering Wins in the Age of Machines

After decades spent build­ing dig­i­tal prod­ucts for clients and part­ners, I found­ed vali.now with a sim­ple, frus­trat­ing real­iza­tion: the most sophis­ti­cat­ed secu­ri­ty sys­tems in the world were con­sis­tent­ly being undone not by code, but by con­ver­sa­tion. With Datarel­la, we have watched as orga­ni­za­tions poured for­tunes into tech­nol­o­gy that cre­at­ed impen­e­tra­ble dig­i­tal walls, only to have their own employ­ees polite­ly open the front door for any­one with a con­vinc­ing story. This para­dox — that

Decem­ber 17, 2025

GOOD READS

The Mind­ful Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

Die Acht­same Rev­o­lu­tion, Michael Reuter

What‘s our prob­lem?, Tim Urban

Rebel Ideas — The Power of Diverse Think­ing, Matthew Syed

Die Macht unser­er Gene, Daniel Wallerstorfer

Jel­ly­fish Age Back­wards, Nick­las Brendborg

The Expec­ta­tion Effect, David Robson

Breathe, James Nestor

The Idea of the Brain, Matthew Cobb

The Great Men­tal Mod­els I, Shane Parrish

Sim­ple Rules, Don­ald Sull, Kath­leen M. Eisenhardt

Mit Igno­ran­ten sprechen, Peter Modler

The Secret Lan­guage of Cells, Jon Lieff

Evo­lu­tion of Desire: A Life of René Girard, Cyn­thia L. Haven

Grasp: The Sci­ence Trans­form­ing How We Learn, San­jay Sara

Rewire Your Brain , John B. Arden

The Wim Hof Method, Wim Hof

The Way of the Ice­man, Koen de Jong

Soft Wired — How The New Sci­ence of Brain Plas­tic­i­ty Can Change Your Life, Michael Merzenich

The Brain That Changes Itself, Nor­man Doidge

Lifes­pan, David Sinclair

Out­live — The Sci­ence and Art of Longevi­ty, Peter Attia

Younger You — Reduce Your Bioage And Live Longer, Kara N. Fitzgerald

What Does­n’t Kill Us, Scott Carney

Suc­cess­ful Aging, Daniel Levithin

Der Ernährungskom­pass, Bas Kast

The Way We Eat Now, Bee Wilson

Dein Gehirn weiss mehr als Du denkst, Niels Birbaumer

Denken: Wie das Gehirn Bewusst­sein schafft, Stanis­las Dehaene

Mind­ful­ness, Ellen J. Langer

100 Plus: How The Com­ing Age of Longevi­ty Will Change Every­thing, Sonia Arrison

Think­ing Like A Plant, Craig Holdredge

Das Geheime Wis­sen unser­er Zellen, Son­dra Barret

The Code of the Extra­or­di­nary Mind, Vishen Lakhiani

Altered Traits, Daniel Cole­man, Richard Davidson

The Brain’s Way Of Heal­ing, Nor­man Doidge

The Last Best Cure, Donna Jack­son Nakazawa

The Inner Game of Ten­nis, W. Tim­o­thy Gallway

Run­ning Lean, Ash Maurya

Sleep — Schlafen wie die Profis, Nick Littlehales

© 2026 MICHAEL REUTER