Network == Abstraction Layer

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The Network is Just an Abstraction Layer
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@emily_s I would expect something like IPFS (literally called Interplanetary FileSystem): replicable data with each node caching content and sharing it with other nodes.

https://ipfs.tech/

IPFS: Building blocks for a better web | IPFS

Open protocols to store, verify, and share data across distributed networks.

IPFS

This study includes ALL THE FIRST AND SECOND GRADERS ENROLLED IN SCHOOL IN FRANCE

"the gender gap increased with schooling rather than with age. These findings point to the first year of school as the time and place where a maths gender gap emerges in favour of boys"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09126-4

Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature

Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling, independently of age.

Nature

I am a sucker for opto-electronics, so got this discarded kit (ex CNN's London studio?)

Each button has a 36x24 LCD display and red+green LEDS.

Well-designed hardware: ColdFire (=68k) CPU, plenty of RAM, plenty of FLASH, serial port, ethernet etc.

Firmware ? Not so impressive, but very easy to get rid of:

Anybody can flash new firmware from ethernet: No userid, no password, all you need to know is the IP# and how they botched their CRC-16 implementation.

Now it runs #MicroPython :-)

Does anyone know of a detailed and well-referenced piece about the shortcomings of New Zealand's Privacy Act compared to the EU's GDPR and AI Act?

Most of the stuff I've found so far is so light weight that even an AI would be embarrassed to put its name to it.

Alternatively if anyone is working on that I'd like to hear from you.

everyone talks about ai “assistants” like it’s some whipsmart loyal sidekick, but they’re actually this guy: a scheming, sycophant vizier who whispers delusions in your ear and is actually working for another master

Extremely specific query about neurophysiology but if any of you can point me to some kind of info on this I'd appreciate it because I have no idea what search terms it would require

Apparently there's a thing in spinal cord injuries where you can develop a sensitive spot above the site that can feel really nice, relaxing, or arousing.
I have one that makes me just instantly relax, it's like picking a kitten up by the scruff. Most calming thing on earth. And I'd like to know how/why it happens

Europe appears to just have given up on doing anything technical. Perhaps we should hurry up & stop pretending we want to do anything ourselves, so we can speed up getting to our eventual destiny of a full time holiday destination for American, Chinese and Russian tourists. And mind you, that is the _best_ outcome I can see right now. https://therecord.media/spain-awards-contracts-huawei-intelligence-agency-wiretaps
Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps

Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

> Merely suggesting the use of FOSS in business can face harsh opposition. This writer once had a section written into his employment contract at a pure-Microsoft vendor, explicitly forbidding him from ever mentioning free software to any of the company's clients.

By @lproven.

https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/12/the_price_of_software_freedom/

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too

The Register
Gmail fantasiert: Googles Mail-Programm verhunzt Inhalte

Ohne Vorwarnung verändert sich der Inhalt von E-Mails – und mitten in journalistischen Texten tauchen absurde Fehler auf: t-online deckt auf, dass Google ein Problem hat – und vielen Menschen damit Probleme macht.

t-online
The birth of poverty: the Dominican experience has shown that promoting teenage pregnancy leads to increased mortality and poverty https://theins.ru/obshestvo/282453
Рождение бедности: опыт Доминиканской республики показал, что поощрение подростковой беременности приводит к росту смертности и нищеты

В России идет активная дискуссия о возможности дальнейшего ограничения, а то и запрета на аборты. Одновременно власти страны откровенно стимулируют раннюю, часто подростковую рождаемость. Пытаясь поднять рождаемость любой ценой, в России заигрывают с двумя очень опасными темами - подростковой беременностью и ранними союзами. Подобная демографическая политика чревата обнищанием населения, ростом домашнего насилия и снижением уровня жизни в целом. Поддержка рождаемости среди подростков повысит детскую смертность, необразованность и наследственную нищету, как это произошло в Доминиканской республике. По некоторым показателям Россия уже с ней сравнялась.

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everyone talks about ai “assistants” like it’s some whipsmart loyal sidekick, but they’re actually this guy: a scheming, sycophant vizier who whispers delusions in your ear and is actually working for another master

@camwilson yep. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

It’s modern day Sisyphus. Bros whispering the words of endless riches into the guessing machine, only to run out of daily credits and realise they are right back where they started.

@camwilson

and in both instances, all the manipulation flows to palantir

@camwilson

Think the lords of commerce are smart enough to figure that out? 😸

@camwilson
Steven Miller as #Wormtongue! Love it!
💙💙☠️☠️💙💙☠️☠️
@camwilson There is definitely one of these in Albo’s office.

@camwilson

Ouch! Truth hurts... 😐

@camwilson not as close an analogue as corpo social media and denethor with the palantir, but yeah
@camwilson excellent, sublime analogy. nice post, neighbor.

@camwilson

I never thought about it that way. I am looking forward to becoming again the Theoden that can raise Herugrim 😎

@camwilson Somewhere was a post screenshot of someone posting "'I asked ChatGPT! I asked Grok!' Oh yeah? Well I asked Gandalf and he said he had not passed through fire and death to bandy words with witless worms."
@camwilson that is so brilliant 😂
@camwilson Much of our world's leadership has the Mechanical Grima whispering in their ears.
@camwilson Shoggoth with Smiley Face seems like a more apt metaphor every day

@camwilson

"I used AI to....", is nothing more than, "Listen I'm not an asshole but....", for the 21st Century.

#FuckAI

@camwilson Alt text for my blind friends on Mastodon:

A scene from the Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, in the second film The Two Towers, a dark and slimy character called Gríma Wormtongue is whispering to old looking and white beared and haired King Théoden's ear, who is possessed by Saruman and weakened and manipulated in the king's court in Rohan.

@rolle @camwilson thank you for this work❤️

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@camwilson

Therefore you should install it locally. If you don’t know how: don’t use it.

@camwilson except he's also on crystal meth

@camwilson It could be content feed.

Just wear Brain-Computer Interface and let AI condition your feed. Emotional reactions are all it needs.

If you young enough, it could happen to your fellow normies. Or everybody from working class, if wearing them will be required to function in society.

@camwilson and a bit creative or intelligent vizier, just more of an a hole bully

@camwilson

"Actually working for another master" is a point I haven't seen made before, and it seems very important.

If you're using an AI and don't know the rules it is operating under - you may well be the product.

@camwilson

The opposite of "assist" is "hinder".

They're “AI hindrances”

@AnnaAnthro

@camwilson without alttext this post makes no sense at all. @MeaningfulBits