mvuvi

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[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who actually built it? Who, in the US, built it? You’ll be surprised at how much of a distraction “states” are in understanding International action. The same people who set up Israel set up the post-WWII institutions. They have been the greatest beneficiaries of that order and don’t care about nations or states or those categories. What matters is they benefit from as much of human labour as possible.

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I might be living on top of a tunnel for all I know now.

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa -1 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 22 points 1 year ago

Galton introduced fingerprinting in South Africa as an experiment after Indians introduced it to him. Managing miners using fingerprints was one of those moments capitalism and colonialism converged on science and technology and shaped the global sector we now call identification.

For more, read The Biometric State by Keith Breckinridge.

 

"When someone is given this number at birth, it's the same number that will be their school identification number, their university identification number, it will be their ID number when they turn 18, it will be their KRA pin number and their lifetime number... it's a lifetime number from birth to death.

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 13 points 1 year ago

Agree with you.

One thing I have always found precious for my 10+ yrs on forums like reddit and 3+ yrs on fediverse is how high quality conversations are by people who usually don’t obsess about numbers and publicity in likes and upvotes etc.

Genuine communities here on the fediverse will evolve at their own pace.

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 56 points 1 year ago (5 children)

But who, exactly, is supposed to create this “niche content” for them? I think this is something we underestimate—large swaths of people see themselves as consumers of quality content. It is not for them to bring in comments or interesting finds to the communities. This I think is what makes the internet ripe for centralization. You can’t be a non-paying consumer and choose your menu. You can pay with your behavior datapoints and get fads packaged to you, or you can help create an ecosystem where you don’t have to be spied on every click and tap of the day. Choose your path and make peace with it. The worst would be to help create content for a community and be spied while at it.

 

But this empirical facewash evaporates when confronted with whistleblower accounts of hospital administrators who have no medical credentials berating doctors for a "missed hospice opportunity" when a physician opts to keep a patient under their care despite the algorithm's determination.

This is the true "AI Safety" risk. It's not that a chatbot will become sentient and take over the world – it's that the original artificial lifeform, the limited liability company, will use "AI" to accelerate its murderous shell-game until we can't spot the trick:

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What do you mean both sides are the same? They are not. One is 6 and the other is 9.

Edit: I don’t mean it in a cynical way. Just that positioning matters in establishing truth. It is not just a matter of perspective (defined as subjective perception) but rather a matter of position (defined as inter-subjective agreement).

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 2 points 1 year ago

I thought I was the only one who saw some lag with Kai today. When the rest of the team is stretching themselves to get that extra pass, he seemed a little out of gas or enthusiasm.

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He should be in every game after the 80th minute. He seems to just get it!

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 22 points 1 year ago

Neat!

If you can, please keep supporting the devs with some resources.

[–] mvuvi@baraza.africa 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For fonts, not really picky, like Roboto works well with web renders. But my point is that there should be font size options like small/large etc. I find it working well on Memmy app.

7-8 posts on iPhone XR (my testing phone, I don’t have the 13).

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