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“If successful, DPI will give governments and corporations the power to implement systems of social credit that can determine where and how you can travel, what you are allowed to consume, and how you will be able to transact with your programmable money."
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DPI here stands for Digital Public Infrastructure. DPI combines digital ID, CBDC's and social credit scores.
Every jurisdiction advocating for or implementing DPI is an illgetimate, totalitarian regime.
Yes. It feels more correct to merge the vowels. Besides, English is not my first language so I apply whatever principle makes most sense.😄
"Coercion is evil precisely because it thus eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another."
- Friedrich Hayek
#Memes #Hayek #Liberty #Voluntarism
Since I'm not a mindreader I prefer to keep some amount of uncertainty in regards to the inner workings of other people.
I have deep concerns about the motivations of Elon due to his support for Doge coin (an obvious scam) and his wish to make Twitter into an everything app, with clear references to the Chinese WeChat surveillance and CBDC app. That's a very dark path to embark upon.
On the flip side, I remember when it was popular to hate on Jack Dorsey for allowing Twitter censorship. While Jack had a deep responsibility in that situation it became obvious over time that he didn't see any winning move within the regulatory framework that Twitter operated, except for opting out and going full Bitcoin.
Elon's deeper motivations in acquiring Twitter is likely aligned with its potential as a database feeding AI with weighted conversational data. The new Tesla AI Grok is accessing Twitter in real time.
The obvious fallout of Elon's focus to make Twitter an everything app + a source of data for AI, is that it becomes a honeypot for government regulations. He cannot be unaware that governments will not allow Twitter to become some sort of alternate universe where their regulations cannot reach.
Only decentralized tech like Bitcoin and Nostr can be successful in challenging the regulatory leviathans. It is not plausible that Elon will win against government regulations, even if we assumed that he had good intentions.
The most favorable interpretation of Elon's endeavor would be that he believes that Twitter and Grok AI can play a useful role in allowing some modicum of free speech on a large platform. Yet, even such an interpretation would require asking the question: what happens when Twitter and Grok are fully regulatory captured? It seems likely that this would merely be a matter of time.
At the end of the day, even under the most favorable interpretation, Elon is playing with dark forces of regulation.
Following the advice of Tolkien; no man can be trusted in wielding the ring of power.
The only liberty option is to decentralize power via Bitcoin and decentralized media like Nostr.
The climate alarmists are crazy.
First they talk about saving cows and livestock. Then they talk about mass-butchering of livestock in order to reduce CO2 that plants absorb to flourish.
They don't care about animals at all.
My wife downloaded an insect identification app recently and it has been very useful when we go shopping. Scan the product and see instantly if there is Kochineal [E120], Mealworm or other unapproved critters.
*data.
My apologies for the fat-fingering.
This is why governments want to control AI. It's summaries of scientific dats are not likely to align with central planning narratives.
#AI #Meta #Science
A missing semi-colon after an 'if-then' condition at 2 am can cause a lot of confusion when you check the logic, and it works, but the code still ignores the conditions you set up because your tired brain didn't see the missing semi-colon.
I will add that the resume is also useful for the interviewer when he/she plans questions ahead of the hiring interview.
Agreed, resumes are important. Though, I would say that the main point of a resume is to pass the initial filtering process and get a face-to-face talk with the potential employer. That back and forth talk/probing is the real hiring procedure.
Here's my theory:
Nostr will mostly be left alone for some years.
While the EU bureaucrats are largely incompetent, they are still rational enough to focus on practical results.
Their goal is to limit the spread of non-approved opinions, since public perception is still vital to their power.
Since most Eurpeans are not on Nostr, there is low risk for the EU bureaucrats that Nostr will have a great impact on European public opinions in the near future.
If the majority of sheep are not listening to lions speaking the truth, the EU regulators will focus on more pressing matters.
Once that changes, they will certainly try to ban Nostr in the EU.
#Memes
Be uplifting.
#Memes #StarWars #DarthVader
I used to listen the Japanese metal band Sigh. Nice theatrical death/black metal with some classical piano parts.
A Victory Of Daikini, live in 2022
(Scorn Defeat, 1994)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikt-91Yb7M&pp=ygULc2lnaCBkYWtpbmk%3D
