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If enough people learn how to do something, it protects those that don't know how to, this is known as nerd immunity
Why not mentioning @matrix? It's not just a protocol for instance messaging, it's de facto a decentralized database with built-in access control lists and most importantly for your scope, if the network fragments because some servers go offline they will merge back seamlessly later, reintegrating the data and ensuring its consistency. And they are even working on P2P.
Also #IPFS seems like a well-established way to share files in a resilient way. It's like BitTorrent but with built-in deduplication because files are identified on the network by their own unique hash.
These plus mesh networks would already provide a very robust solution.
#Clinton and #Biden are responsible for bombing #Libya and #Yugoslavia respectively, at the very least.
#Trump, on the other hand, has not even started a war let alone bombing civilian targets and killing people.
I'm sorry but the gravity of this outweighs anything else.
They're leveraging #FOSS software (as usual) without adhering to its culture, which in this case means federating #Medium using #ActivityPub (let's overlook that it's closed source proprietary software).
I think the thing Mussolini and #Bolsonaro have more in common is that the former was brought to power by the British intelligence¹, while the latter by the CIA².
1: "Colonia Italia" by M. J. Cereghino, G. Fasanella featuring documents declassified by the UK government.
2: Glenn Greenwald investigation based on documents provided by Edward Snowden.
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#Medium, the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter now has a fediverse server.
Now might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the people who bequeathed you Twitter.
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Will Sawin and Melanie Matchett Wood set out to redefine quantities thought to be universal throughout mathematics. In the process, they uncovered a way to apply one of probability theory’s most powerful tools in a handful of other areas. Leila Sloman reports: https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-a-moment-mathematicians-merge-probability-and-number-theory-20230112/
I don't understand what your example has to do with #privacy.
Of course it's politics. Politics exists wherever there is interaction between individuals. The use of the word "politics" in a derogatory sense is part of so called "mass culture".
I understand where your accusation of hypocrisy comes from but for me it is important to re-establish a much more important and general concept: there is no need for a reason to demand privacy nor is it up to everyone to demonstrate that they need it; privacy is a human right and it can only be debated whether there is a violation of this right or not on a case-by-case basis.
None of these: it's a matter of principle.
As Professor Ugo Mattei¹ explains well, after the degradation of social and individual rights, the violation of privacy represents the first step towards the loss of sovereignty over one's body.
[1] from Wikipedia: "Ugo Mattei is Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, in San Francisco, California, and a full professor of civil law in the University of Turin, Italy. He is the academic coordinator of the International University College of Turin, Italy, a school where issues of law and finance in global capitalism are critically approached. [...] For his ground-breaking studies on the commons, in 2017 Mattei won the Elinor Ostrom Award for the Collective Governance of the Commons.
FYI according to this book¹ the march never took place, Mussolini was in Milan, he had convinced a handful of Italians to go to Rome with makeshift means, in the meantime he made agreements with the King and not knowing what to do with those men, they were ordered to do a walkway in front of the palace with the king looking out, they saluted him and were sent home.
1: "La Marcia su Roma: 1922. Mussolini, il bluff, il mito" by Claudio Fracassi https://m.libreriauniversitaria.it/#!/product/BIT/9788842563662
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Thanks to @daviwil's stream I finally allocated time to start migration to more complete REPL-driven workflow for #guix and #rde development.
It still requires a lot of work to make it really pleasant, but I already build store items for different parts of rde from repl rather than makefiles, which is a way more faster (in terms of build time) the required amount of code is not that small yet.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/The-Store-Monad.html
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I said CO2 is that's just one of the issues.
1. A wet mask is the ideal environment for the proliferation of fungi and bacteria that are inhaled and spread with the breath and with the hands.
It also contributes to the spread of viruses especially if bacteriophages such as SarsCov2. It is in fact known that if this virus manages to remain intact for more than a few minutes outside of our body it is thanks to the proliferation inside of bacteria, much more resistant organisms.
2. There are many studies on microplastics including detections of them in the lungs, here there are some:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135421002311
https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/20/6859
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802354/
3. The psychological effect is also very harmful for various reasons that I pass over. But it is important to mention that fear lowers the immune defenses due to well-known neurochemical mechanisms. Masks have a great impact in continually reminding that there is a pandemic, keeping people in a constant state of anxiety.
As a final note, pre-2020 scientific knowledge pointed to lockdowns as counterproductive. They were implemented anyway by turning what we knew on its head.
After two years of studies on the effectiveness of these lockdowns, they are totally destroyed as ineffective and counterproductive and I hope you agree at least on this.
After such a thing people should question the other measures as well instead of shouting "conspiracy theory!!1!1!!!!".
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Hey. So I originally got the attention of this thread as a moderator. After reviewing I can say that I dont think this quite crosses the line into something I would take any action on as a moderator. We have in the past moderated against blatant COVID misinformation, but it isnt based simply on what I personally deem incorrect, as there is a lot of room for discussion. The language is certainly hyperbolic and I wouldnt agree with the idea that masks are "incredibly harmful". Nor would I agree with the conclusion that they do nothing. That said he is arguing his case politely, and doing his best to provide evidence (even if he may be wrong or providing insufficient evidence). He also isnt crossing the line into implausable conspiracy theory nonsense.
Truth be told the issue of CO2 and effectiveness against COVID are open issues. It is true we do not have really good evidence to concretely conclude how effective it is against covid, though I think the evidence is clear enough that it does have **some** benefit. But it is a hard thing to test and show concretely and as such it is an open question for scientific consideration. It is also true that CO2 levels when wearing masks exceeds the healthy recommended **long-term** exposure levels. This is a weak argument when we talk about short-term mask usage, but the point is this is well within the bounds for an open conversation on these points.
Furthermore there are some legitimate concerns with masks for children. The issue of the effect of masks on deaf children who rely on lip reading for example is significant.
So for the record I want to make clear I do strongly disagree with his language and conclusions here regarding masks, but it is well within the realm of things that are open to healthy, mature, respectful discussion on and has not crossed over into conspiracy theory land yet, lets keep it that way, thanks.
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RT @luismbat@twitter.com
Who would have thought that adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes would actually sound good!😅
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#PhysicsFactlet
Experimenting with the Action-Angle variables (not sure I will manage to make a nice visualization on this topic, but I am trying).
#WorkInProgress #Visualization #AnalyticalMechanics
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(more on the same theme)
If the ratio of the 2 frequencies is a rational number the orbit on the torus is a closed curve (i.e. the motion is periodic).
If the ratio of the 2 frequencies is irrational the orbit never closes onto itself, and the motion is said to be "quasiperiodic".
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China bans AI-generated media without watermarks
China regulates generative AI tech with rules that aim to spur growth and ban deception. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/china-bans-ai-generated-media-without-watermarks/
news: Microsoft & AI 😱
On degradation of reliability and quality of content, we are already seeing it for example with the wave of articles automatically translated into various languages and they are not honest enough to admit what is artificially generated.
As a feedback, we could see the rise of platforms where your identity, profile pic and skills are verified to prevent automated replies. Basically this could be an incentive to give away privacy in the name of authentic interactions.
As regards unemployment, it depends more on the workers' incapacity to renegotiate working conditions, so any external shock (technological innovation, speculation, inflation, etc.) becomes an excuse for a sneaky shift of wealth and the costs are passed on to the weaker social class. That is, it is a structural problem.
If you ask me, the most incisive structural change is the Job Guarantee Programs as elaborated by the economists of the Modern Monetary Theory, which a globalized but uneven world that wants to continue to innovate technologically can no longer do without.
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I'm generally opposed to the term "AI", they could be labeled as "artificially generated" or something like that, shown in their own category or even being generated after the user specifically ask for it.
Sadly it's not like there isn't already the risk to retrieve an artificial image from a website when using a search engine and take it for real.
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About images they will make clear when they are generated, they are not stupid.
About text, it is more worrying since many people are already using #ChatGPT as it could be reasonable and factually accurate, while it is just meant to produce text that sounds plausible and is syntactically and grammatically correct.
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