Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On The Dangers Of AI!
[On our behalf, unelected Californians are making decisions about our collective future, justified through media and slogans.]
[Whereas having 50 extra IQ points in today's world makes a difference, a future where everyone can borrow 4000 will render everyone's baseline irrelevant, and therefore: 1. we are all effectively equal, and 2. we all become peasants to the 1% as the middle class vanishes.]
i learn from everyone, but the teacher is myself
For many people, terms like ActivityPub, Fediverse, bridge, protocol, server, toot, boost, and Webfinger are alienating and confusing. They subtly imply that unless you understand what all these words mean, this might not be the place for you; in the same way crypto terms—blockchain, web3, wallet, keypair, nonce—are a wall of jargon that scream "you don't belong here" to normal people.
To send an email, you don't need to know what SMTP, IMAP, POP, DKIM, SPF, or DMARC are. To browse the web, there's no requirement to understand HTTP, DNS, servers, SSL, TTL, load balancing, or caches. The most significant impact these protocols have is perhaps that users never have to think about them.
How can we embrace spontaneity and connect with the beautiful potential around us?
grouping these together:
related to communication fails creating a false sense of authority and effectiveness. somehow everyone loses, but the speaker doesn't know.
Treinel Onça Branca (Ngoma) e prof. Negao (Capoeira sem fronteira)
Example of how someone with more experience can make it easy to play beautifully together.
Tagged: capoeira.
Over time, you start repeating yourself, rewriting the same paragraph for different people, reposting the same message in different groups, reframing the same problem with different jargon. And when something finally connects, it often feels like luck. Like you just happened to be visible at the right moment.
This is the system we pretend works: discovery as noise, identity as content, and visibility as a full-time job.
i continue to be blown away by local community centers all over the world and how they offer so much that isn't legible or relevant to technological systems – the underrated potential of not needing platforms to care for or live with your neighbours.
