Mastodawn

@_elena Also lately my favorite question, how will it work on obsolete smartphones of poor people, who cannot afford to buy a new one, and the manufacturer stopped issuing security updates, so their smartphone is unsafe and a risk for hacking and identity theft?

#obsolescence #plannedobsolescence #smartphone #poverty #digitaldivide #affordability #incomeinequality #securityupdate #unsafe #risk #hacking #identitytheft

Karel 'Clock' K.6d ago

Raspberry Pi is IMO discriminating against Links.

Imagine your Raspberry has a technical problem,you cannot turn graphical environment on and can only work from text console with
Links.So you go to the official documentation page to search for a solution and this is all you get:

"Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue"

I feel

s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards Raspberry Pi Foundation and Raspberry Pi Ltd.when I see this.

The inclusion of the following hashtags is not meant to represent a relation to the content or topic of the post and may be only loosely related or based on loose,multiply indirect,emotional,impressional or subconscious associations,or completely unrelated:

#links2gang #links2 #linksbrowser #twibright #twibrightlabs #failure #raspberry #raspberrypi #negligent #reckless #negligence #unusable #linux #opensource #hypocrisy #incompetence #recklessness #complicated #friction #ux #usability #contempt #discrimination #digitaldivide #classism

Miguel Afonso Caetano May 29

"As AI agents become more integrated into the economy, companies and entities that deploy them will benefit disproportionately compared to those that cannot, Nick Srnicek, a senior lecturer in digital economy at King’s College London, told Rest of World.

“We will see new inequalities of access, scale, quality and trust: divides between those who have agents and those who don’t; those who have good agents and those who have bad agents; those who have many agents and those who have few agents; and those who can trust their agents and those who cannot,” he said.

Having access to agents that outpace others means “the outcomes of negotiations and transactions will be structurally biased towards those with greater access,” Srnicek said. “Agentic inequality can harden into systems of dominance.”

AI-powered agents and robots could generate about $2.9 trillion in economic value per year in the U.S. by 2030, McKinsey said in a report last year: “Work in the future will be a partnership between people, agents, and robots — all powered by AI.”"

https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-agent-inequality/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIAgents #AgenticAI #Inequality #India #DigitalDivide

The agentic divide: Why “good enough” AI isn’t enough to survive the new economy

A widening gap in agent quality is creating a two-tier system where well-resourced firms scale infinitely while small players are trapped by high-friction, "low-trust" tools.

Rest of World

Fast Company May 26

Screens are saturating U.S. classrooms, fueling a backlash on school-issued devices

https://www.fastcompany.com/91548060/screens-saturating-u-s-classrooms-fueling-backlash-school-issued-devices

#Education #Technology #DigitalDivide

Screens are saturating U.S. classrooms, fueling a backlash on school-issued devices

According to Ballotpedia, proposals limiting screen time in classrooms have been introduced in over a dozen states.

Fast Company

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theconceptor May 23

🌏 Power grids and telecommunications networks are no longer as stable as they once were.

📡 The VHF/UHF narrowband communication concept: The system is designed as a physically and energetically self-sufficient alternative to modern, radiation-intensive, and power-hungry infrastructure.

🔋 The transceiver is inexpensive and easy to manufacture.

https://medium.com/@theconceptor/true-digital-self-sufficiency-communication-without-a-mobile-phone-network-b4c6473b9703

#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #OpenSource #Resilience #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks

True digital self-sufficiency — communication without a mobile phone network

Medium

theconceptor May 23

📡🔋 True digital self-sufficiency: Communication without a mobile network!

🌏 This concept is especially well-suited for regions with poor or no infrastructure.

The solution also serves as a fail-safe emergency system.

🧭 For this use case, I've developed a fascinating, completely network-independent alternative solution.

#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #SolarEnergy #OpenSource #Resilience #DoItYourself #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks

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theconceptor May 22

🌏 Die Stromnetze und Telekomnetze sind nicht mehr so stabil wie sie mal waren.

📡 Das VHF/UHF-Schmalband-Kommunikationskonzept: Das System ist als physisch und energetisch autarker Gegenentwurf zur modernen, strahlungsintensiven und stromhungrigen Infrastruktur konzipiert.

🔋 Der Schmalband-VHF-Mesh-Transceiver ist günstig, leicht herzustellen.

https://medium.com/@theconceptor/true-digital-self-sufficiency-communication-without-a-mobile-phone-network-b4c6473b9703

#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #OpenSource #Resilience #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks

True digital self-sufficiency — communication without a mobile phone network

Medium

theconceptor May 22

📡🔋 Echte digitale Autarkie: Kommunikation ohne Mobilfunknetz!

🌏 Das Konzept ist besonders für Regionen mit schlechter oder keiner Infrastruktur perfekt geeignet.

Die Lösung ist auch ein ausfallssicheres Notfallsystem.

🧭 Für diesen Anwendungsfall habe ich eine faszinierende, komplett netzunabhängige Alternativlösung entwickelt.

#TechInnovation #MeshNetwork #Prepping #HamRadio #SolarEnergy #OpenSource #Resilience #DoItYourself #DigitalDivide #RemoteAreas #CommunityNetworks

Rowan Brad Quni-Gudzinas May 22

New: "Few Become One: Polysynthetic Communication and the Ultrametric Architecture of Language"

Search engines can't see Mohawk. Why? They assume meaning lives in separate words. In polysynthetic languages, one word IS the sentence.

The fix: nested semantic graphs—language-neutral meaning trees. The same ultrametric structure appears across physics, biology, and cognition.

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20328374

#Linguistics #DigitalDivide #InformationArchitecture #CognitiveScience #Research

Bits&Bäume Berlin May 19

Wir feiern #Technologie als Heilsbringer 🚀

Doch Millionen werden unsichtbar 👥.
Wenn #Algorithmen über Leben entscheiden & Zugang Macht bedeutet.

Wer schützt die, die offline bleiben? ⚖️

🔗 https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/digital-aliens-die-neue-ungleichheit/digital-aliens-die-neue-ungleichheit/arte/Y3JpZDovL2FydGUudHYvcHVibGljYXRpb24vMTIwNDEyLTAwMC1B

#DigitalAliens #DigitalDivide #Ethik #bitsundbaeume 🌱

Digital Aliens - Die neue Ungleichheit - hier anschauen

Die Digitalisierung gilt als Motor des Fortschritts. Doch während sich unsere Welt rasant vernetzt und unser Alltag zunehmend automatisiert, wächst eine neue Form der Ungleichheit. 'Digital Aliens – Die neue Ungleichheit' zeigt, wie digitale Systeme Gesellschaften neu ordnen – und warum immer mehr Menschen dabei drohen, abgehängt und unsichtbar zu werden. Der Dokumentarfilm erzählt von einer Welt, in der Technologie als Heilsbringer gefeiert wird, Teilhabe jedoch immer stärker an Zugang, Kompetenzen und algorithmischen Entscheidungen geknüpft ist. Millionen Menschen scheitern an digitalen Schnittstellen, während automatisierte Prozesse Verwaltungen, Arbeitsmärkte und Sozialsysteme prägen – oft ohne Transparenz, ohne Widerspruchsmöglichkeiten, ohne menschliches Gegenüber. Algorithmen bewerten, sortieren aus und entscheiden. Sie reproduzieren bestehende Diskriminierungen, verstärken sie oder schaffen neue. Zwischen politischer Regulierung und technologischer Vision stellt der Dokumentarfilm die Frage nach Verantwortung. Wer trägt sie – und wer kann eingreifen? Expertinnen wie die Rechtswissenschaftlerin Sandra Wachter, die KI-Forscherin Abeba Birhane oder die Politologin Geraldine de Bastion analysieren die Machtverhältnisse der digitalisierten Welt. In Brüssel geht es um die Grenzen politischer Steuerung, im Silicon Valley gibt der Unternehmer Sebastian Thrun Einblick in neue Tech-Visionen. In Frankreich rekonstruiert der Film einen Algorithmus-Skandal in der Sozialbehörde, in Deutschland, Irland und Estland sucht er nach Gegenmodellen: Bildung, Solidarität und digitaler Selbstermächtigung.