"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
I wrote about Anthropic, OpenAi and the Pentagon, quoting a post by @timnitgebru.bsky.social who encouraged people not to “fall for the theatrics.”
Kenya More than 600 Kenyans in Cambodia, who say they were victims of human traffickers, have appealed to the courts in Nairobi to force their government to bring them home. Cambodia's interior ministry said it recovered them during a crackdown on online fraud centers run by organized criminals. According to the Kenyans, they were tricked into traveling to Cambodia with the promise of legitimate employment but were then made to work in heavily-guarded compounds where they were subject to attacks and abuse, including stabbings. Cambodian authorities have given them until February 28 to leave the country or face potential imprisonment but they say they cannot afford flights back to Kenya.
This is also the political economy of digitalisation.
Uber Eats must think I died.
The Angel of Death needs to be put on a PIP
Try to withdraw a large amount of cash from a bank and you'll understand why guys are so pressed by that Karauri video.
It's KYC for me but none for them and they are the PEPs the banks created these things for in the first place
The average cost to mine a single Bitcoin is now over $90,000. The price of Bitcoin has collapsed to $67,000. Everyone mining Bitcoin at the moment is losing a fortune.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
can't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
In Oregon testimony last year, an agent said two photos of a woman in custody taken with his face-recognition app produced different identities. The woman was handcuffed and looking downward, the agent said, prompting him to physically reposition her to obtain the first image. The movement, he testified, caused her to yelp in pain. The app returned a name and photo of a woman named Maria; a match that the agent rated “a maybe.” Agents called out the name, “Maria, Maria,” to gauge her reaction. When she failed to respond, they took another photo. The agent testified the second result was “possible,” but added, “I don’t know.” Asked what supported probable cause, the agent cited the woman speaking Spanish, her presence with others who appeared to be noncitizens, and a “possible match" via facial recognition. The agent testified that the app did not indicate how confident the system was in a match. “It’s just an image, your honor. You have to look at the eyes and the nose and the mouth and the lips.”
This is like a scene out of Monty Python.
ICE agents get a name back from face recognition and multiple agents start calling out "Maria! Maria!" to see if a woman in custody reacts. (Presumably if she does that's a match???)
It didn't work, so they ran the app again and got another name.
There is no Nairobi County Hall beat for example, even though it is one of the most important and corrupt institutions in the country. Athletes depend on social media to let fans know that they have events happening. Twitter is one of the main news sources. There is no national discourse.
I'm not going to lie, I'm struggling to hold everything together
Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
Al-Jazeera denounces YouTube's submission to the ban of its broadcast in Israel and calls for adherence to international conventions.
I spoke to WNYC's On The Media about the Verification, Deliberation, Accountability framework I've developed, and how, without major interventions, it predicts the inevitable slide of democracies into populism, conspiracy, and, finally, authoritarianism
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
"Things could be worse" doesn't I prove my situation but perspective should help me get out of this funk
Gathering aerial footage of Gaza is a dangerous task, and Bellingcat and our partners led by @forbidden-stories.bsky.social previously identified several cases where drone journalists were killed or injured shortly after capturing aerial images. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/03...
People are really going through it.
There's just something going on, because wueh!
I have my own problems, yes, but the things I'm hearing, I get home and mine pale in comparison.
Akina Colors, Tiny Desk, First We Feast, the low budget YouTube things, those were not supposed to be platforms for established people.
Where are you supposed to find up and coming people now that the big guys are crowding them out?
Ama it's another sign that we are in a recession ?
If the Kambas in your life are refusing to give you Mangoes, change tactics, remember that you're dealing with legendary long distance traders.
Switch to barter trade, me I have Jaba, Tea and Coffee from my shags.
Kuja tuongee hatuwezi kosa bei
2026 it's podcasts by experts talking about their fields of work.
Historians talking about History etc
Podcast Relationship nonsense is killing our society
I spent a total of 9 hours on Social Media last week and I've never felt better
Today on random shit.
Just met a classmate of Stella Awinja who told be the story. Apparently the counterweight for the crane fell off and hit her as she waited for a Matatu
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
Sawa. On it 😊
Yeah, I’m something of a sandwich artiste myself
The way people are moving?
Msoto is just me. The economy is doing well and so are my friends
Maybe there's something wrong with me but I can't be Carol in Pluribus. I wouldn't go so far as Koumba though
I'd probably do a cabin on a lake and they leave me alone.
Food shipments, stima and internet
If Trump announces a new and illegal regime change war against Venezuela tonight pay attention to which elected Democrats stay silent and don’t vociferously oppose and condemn him for it - and then make sure those Dems are subjected to primary challenges next year.
