Show newer
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
Ian Betteridge

Often, what worries me about LLMs is not LLMs themselves, but how dumb people are about using them.

alaskabeacon.com/2024/10/28/al

1+
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
Ian Betteridge

It’s astounding how interlinked the worlds of technology, media and politics have become, which is how I end up writing nearly 1000 words ostensibly about tech which is mostly politics.

ianbetteridge.com/2024/11/16/t

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

@freemo Another ping about the question at top of this thread :)

Spelling mistakes not a problem for me btw and not need for those who can read expecting it a bit...

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

Alipay mobile payment service might be BIGGER than of many global banks... 

Group Set to Raise $34 Billion in World’s Biggest I.P.O. (Published 2020)

3-4 minutes - Technology|

nytimes.com/2020/10/26/technol

The online spinoff, which offers people in a one-stop shop for , and more, will list shares in Hong Kong and .

Using Alipay at a market in , China. The more people use Alipay, the more data it gathers about their spending .

Credit...Alex Plavevski/EPA, via Shutterstock

Raymond Zhong

Published Oct. 26, 2020
Updated Nov. 6, 2020

Ant Group, the technology titan, is set to raise around $34 billion when its begin in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the coming weeks, which would make its initial public offering the largest on record.

The company, the parent of the , priced its shares around $10.30 apiece, according to documents released on Monday by in the two cities. At that price, the company would be worth around $310 billion, a market value comparable to that of and more than that of many other global .

The money Ant raises would surpass the $29.4 billion that Saudi Arabia’s state-run oil company, , raised when it went public last year. Ant’s listing would also be larger than that of its sister company, the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, which raised $25 billion when its shares started trading on the Stock Exchange in 2014.

For hundreds of millions of people in China, Alipay may as well be a . It is their card,# debit card, fund and even insurance broker — all on a single mobile platform. It is a lender to small businesses, both online and off, that might otherwise be ignored by China’s big state-run . Alipay has more than 730 million monthly , more than twice the population of the / . By comparison, has 346 million active accounts.

Like other giant internet companies, Ant says its strength lies in performing a large number of different tasks at once. The more people use Alipay to purchase lattes, for example, the more data it gathers about their spending power. Ant says this information helps it offer loans, investments and insurance policies that suit users’ needs. The data also helps Ant and its partner banks determine who is likely to pay them back.

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

Can't have children better than adults or accept as better - adults would lose power and authority... Oldies want to keep power... 

@garyackerman I think education as top level architects overall knew there needed to be limits to education since a long time - else the children become more clever than adults - and no system or teach wants that as else we would have at 15 and similar defending almost every single question and viewpoint effortlessly...

Older people like yourself might find it hard to catch up or accept change too :ablobwink: (not ad-hominem just natural getting older I guess)

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

@markhburton IS MUCH BETTER AS A TERM and within works best in sentence together.

Degrowth is ambiguous so this defines it a bit more - know what I mean?

Also "towards": ETC...

Do you use other hashtags like this?

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

LOOK AT IT CLOSELY. "MONEY"



as

(OR WHATEVER COPY YOU HAVE) as basis of almost all as

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
Fight for the Future

"Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history."

Read the full story: wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B

1+
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
Cody Bromley

Trying to recall details about a long-gone podcast (RIP #Dailysonic), I started looking through various pages using @internetarchive's Wayback Machine. There's a unique thrill in unearthing info long gone from the surface web, but what really gives me chills is finding forum posts and comments with my old username. It's like chasing a digital ghost and catching a glimpse. It reminds me of how much I've changed and how much remains the same.

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

#VanishingCulture is exactly how I feel in EVERY LANGUAGE and CULTURE 

@internetarchive Being sterilized by / seems to be the case EVERYWHERE when they are pushing / pumping out it's own culture to overwhelm / re-write all others intentionally (for example probably not going after any more so hard because we download + watch them more than other culture's works, which is still a win for them)...

is exactly how I feel in EVERY LANGUAGE and CULTURE right now...

Felt that for a long time...

Even "our own" English language as a " " today is going... erm down the drain... lol... I guess ?

The vicious bland circles... reducing culture brutally. all the everyone copied / installed / imposed wordwide...

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

#VanishingCulture is exactly how I feel in EVERY LANGUAGE and CULTURE 

@internetarchive Being sterilized by / seems to be the case EVERYWHERE when they are pushing / pumping out it's own culture to overwhelm / re-write all others intentionally (for example probably not going after any more so hard because we download + watch them more than other culture's works, which is still a win for them)...

is exactly how I feel in EVERY LANGUAGE and CULTURE right now...

Felt that for a long time...

Even "our own" English language as a " " today is going... erm down the drain... lol... I guess ?

The vicious bland circles... reducing culture brutally. all the everyone copied / installed / imposed wordwide...

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
*
inquiline

The site is #PrometheusRadioProject, an activist collective in Philly who began as a pirate station and then turned towards policy advocacy and helping people build radio stations, low-power FMs.

This book doesn't feel this old to me, even tho I started research 20 years ago(!) 2/

(📸 JJ Tiziou, in Urbana, IL, 2006)

#LPFM #CommunityRadio

Show thread
0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
Andrew Plotkin

Mastodon will never be the next big thing, and that’s why I’m on Mastodon.

1+
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

Turn #humanity around manually 🔁 to grow ourselves 💗 🧠 💪 

@mapache Boosted the post about / more but either way I think we can turn around manually 🔁 rather than -and via by *literally* do it yourself 'human' help and even repair which involves talking individually and without assist tech.

As basic as 'us' as the communication (text, image, audio/voice and lastly video when really needed or covers points) to limit the tech an make sure any other tech doesn't take us the wrong way while ''.

For example I think your bot idea (also in this thread / post
hachyderm.io/@mapache/11346638) is a nice enough idea but highlights the feel-good stories NEED to be used in a circle to feel good and offer ourselves as the human witness living it and whatever number in that circle 2-5 can hold value / breed more circles of their own once they get the hang of it...

Now that we have 3-clicks-and-in type technology, typing any username to talk, means anyone can join (no account or reg etc) and I think we can report on each other enough for trust to grow from 2+.

To "counterbalance negativity" we need ourselves - but so far very little amounts of people on can go past being asked to do that themselves even though if they believe either in themself and 1 other, that is really enough to keep things multiplying everything they can between them...

Are you interested? How do you feel about this?

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
*
Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻

Why do scandal and tragedy tend to go more viral than heartwarming tales if most human interactions are positive? It's because fear, not warmth, grabs our attention more, hence it's what sells and attracts clicks and views. Fear brings money.

Ugh, fear helps elect the worst people.

#positive #humanity #attention

1
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

ChatGPT is a human conversation simulator, not an information system or a knowledge base (?) 

@cdarwin @bibliolater I like all the sentences Chuck but a small thing to consider...

"Information system and knowledge base" it is possibly - even if it's a from a side connected / attached thing...

So yes "only outputs plausible responses" and similar, but kind becomes high enough as guesses to 'help' give potential set of answers to people (while them) - so while I'm not support it, I'm just saying towards helping bridge this to the casual user maybe something different in that first line or somehow differently as people do get "information' and "knowledge" from it... and will accept even 75% or whatever accuracy if they think they can spot errors or choose... and even users help correct / perfect it so it will get better... (again without agreeing with it I'm thinking purely factually)

Actually many things could be called info system / knowledge base similar to any I.T connected thing, while true to what you say we use them (search engine etc) and users as sources also blurs all that too...

The danger is also the people behind ChatGPT which we don't even see faces of or what they do with all this input. We need to see them / their products are all people either way and mention

- the tech exploits people by by accepting inputting search terms or looking at their look-ups / work data all the same time to mine them and like a / type 'assistant' which at the same time 'assists' the owners and THEIR systems to find our data and more about you the u$er...

Some people don't mind or even fuel things if it gets them ahead in _some_ ways... and I know anti- people even using it which is like the forever-strange thing - but people go for I guess when it's given in such a easy to access input box....

Thoughts welcome...
= = = to

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

ChatGPT is a human conversation simulator, not an information system or a knowledge base (?) 

@cdarwin @bibliolater I like all the sentences Chuck but a small thing to consider...

"Information system and knowledge base" it is possibly - even if it's a from a side connected / attached thing...

So yes "only outputs plausible responses" and similar, but kind becomes high enough as guesses to 'help' give potential set of answers to people (while them) - so while I'm not support it, I'm just saying towards helping bridge this to the casual user maybe something different in that first line or somehow differently as people do get "information' and "knowledge" from it... and will accept even 75% or whatever accuracy if they think they can spot errors or choose... and even users help correct / perfect it so it will get better... (again without agreeing with it I'm thinking purely factually)

Actually many things could be called info system / knowledge base similar to any I.T connected thing, while true to what you say we use them (search engine etc) and users as sources also blurs all that too...

The danger is also the people behind ChatGPT which we don't even see faces of or what they do with all this input. We need to see them / their products are all people either way and mention

- the tech exploits people by by accepting inputting search terms or looking at their look-ups / work data all the same time to mine them and like a / type 'assistant' which at the same time 'assists' the owners and THEIR systems to find our data and more about you the u$er...

Some people don't mind or even fuel things if it gets them ahead in _some_ ways... and I know anti- people even using it which is like the forever-strange thing - but people go for I guess when it's given in such a easy to access input box....

Thoughts welcome...
= = = to

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ boosted
1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻

@Uair Looks good at first glance, as long as an unconditional basic income ensures that the obligation to work is abolished!

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

"This can't end well"... unless you do something... about #Banks 💲 > 🏦 <💲 

" Mega corporations, mega banks and governments can receive huge-mongous bailouts or debts rolled over in perpetuity, or forgiven, using money created out of nothing and backed by the US taxpayers, but citizens are required to be accountable!?

This can't end well."

from hashtag 💲 > 🏦 <💲 > 🏦 <💲or

by Perspective @Perspective

Post: c.im/@Perspective/113470308500

==============
BUT.... the last bit in that post (similar to Henry Ford) is sadly untrue for today's people...
==============

" If people knew what was really going on, there'd be an uprising and things would change.

from my living test of people (most of my life from high school, ranging from parents, teachers (outside of school and when older today) and getting better as I go saying the same thing here even on Fediverse) people do not even confirm / acknowledge or confront it.

The literally live with it regardless and even say "I know but..." and say things like "got to eat / my children / etc etc" without seeing all is written off and into hell without trying to bend the bad tree of life (banks) back to something straighter even if there is no 1-shot kill.... but people aren't even interested to work on that even though it devalues their whole life and work... even some answered that it's the children that have to deal with it hence the same vicious loop that and other students rightly take into their own hands as honestly the excuse not to even think about this daily is part of bent-ness of life and even supports it but deliberately ignoring such big elephant in room...

TLDR = PEOPLE KNOW - THEY ARE COWARDS / CAN'T FACE TO CHANGE COMFORT AS SUCH A COST AND DEVALUE FACTOR TO EVERYONE USING DEBT TO 'GROW' LIFE (False numbers / false loans).

See my other recent posts or hashtags similar, thanks.

0
IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_

@Perspective Just checking this question:

Q: Then they haven't got it?
A: No.

⬆️ Do you mean to answer:
"Yes they haven't got it"
"No they haven't got it"
"No to the answer"

And maybe explain what you mean to make sure. Thanks

0
Show older

freeschool

279

ai

107

podcast

49

jobs

48

invidious

39

jitsi

30

dnb

22

fosdem2022

12

occupy

4

zapatista There is nothing here!

0
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.

Trending now

Resources

Developers

What is Mastodon?

qoto.org

More…

v3.5.19-qoto · Privacy policy