Abraham Samma

@[email protected]
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Doctor, learner & software developer. Special interest in knowledge tools. Building http://oneplaybook.app, a knowledge assistant tool. Child of three continents 🌍.

I toot about intelligent subjects 📚 all day, and food 😋 and awesome vistas 📸 on occasion.

Comments, corrections and conversations always welcomed 🤗

Github profilehttps://github.com/abesamma
Blog/noteshttps://abesamma.github.io
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ABSamma
LocationAustralia
Abraham SammaOct 18, 2023
harshOct 18, 2023
Just finished reading "The Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation" by @pluralistic . Surprisingly, a lot of the book is about interoperability and making it happen *legally*. For me, this hit really hard because of how involved my work is around both. Key takeaway for me is that if we want to create a better tech society, we need to open up stuff with interoperability to drive innovation and competition rather than just regulate big tech expecting them to behave.
Abraham SammaOct 18, 2023
Dare ObasanjoOct 18, 2023
$44 billion to become the most popular user on Twitter. My condolences to all the banks who thought they were investing in a business but actually invested in a billionaire’s midlife crisis.
Abraham SammaOct 18, 2023
Missing The PointOct 18, 2023
Twitter’s new business model:
(1) Reduce fee from $8/month to $1/year
(2) Sign up 44 billion users
Abraham SammaOct 18, 2023
Howard RheingoldOct 17, 2023

Seven Principles of Learning from Institute for Research on #Learning

IRL's Seven Principles of Learning

Learning is fundamentally social.
Knowledge is integrated in the life of communities.
Learning is an act of membership.
Knowing depends on engagement in practice.
Engagement is inseparable from empowerment.
“Failure to Learn” is the normal result of exclusion from participation.
We already have a society of lifelong learners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Research_on_Learning#IRL's_Seven_Principles_of_Learning

Institute for Research on Learning - Wikipedia

Abraham SammaOct 18, 2023
Dare ObasanjoOct 18, 2023

One problem we’re going to have with generative AI is that the practical use cases are going to be so valuable that customers are going to be the ones ignoring the AI ethicists not the big tech companies

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/10/16/adams-taps-ai-robocalls-languages-he-doesnt-speak/

Tongue Twisted: Adams Taps  AI to Make City Robocalls in Languages He Doesn’t Speak 

New York City law requires public documents and announcements be made available in a wide range of languages, but the mayor’s computer-assisted pretending raises alarms for some ethics experts.

THE CITY - NYC News
Abraham SammaOct 18, 2023
Dare ObasanjoOct 17, 2023

I’m convinced every week your money is in Binance is another week where you are failing an IQ test.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/17/binanceus-halts-direct-dollar-withdrawals/

Abraham SammaOct 18, 2023
World Wide Web ConsortiumOct 17, 2023
Proposed W3C Charter: Private Advertising Technology Working Group (public comments welcome until 2023-11-13/14)
The mission of the Private Advertising Technology Working Group, motivated by the W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles, is to specify web features and APIs that support advertising while acting in the interests of users, in particular providing strong privacy assurances using predominantly technical means.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2023Oct/0013.html
Proposed W3C Charter: Private Advertising Technology Working Group (until 2023-11-13/14) from xueyuan on 2023-10-16 ([email protected] from October 2023)

Abraham SammaOct 17, 2023
The timestamps on tweets seem to be reverting to the beginning of the Unix epoch. #birdsite
Abraham SammaOct 17, 2023
mamdayOct 17, 2023
VCs will literally say "Neither science or humanities/data literacy are valuable for society, only producing successful companies" and then point to things like Epic Games and X/Twitter
Abraham SammaOct 17, 2023
fnordkollektiv GmbHOct 17, 2023

We are looking for new (paid) projects. Our service range:

- #WorkAdventure and technology for online events. WorkAdventure is also our partner. Therefore we are able to offer you the whole package from setup to developing new features.
- setting up open source services (#Jitsi, #Nextcloud, Websites, #Peertube...) etc.
- programming (open source) software
- Data protection and IT-Sec for companies

Unfortunately we are still too unknown for people to approach us.

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