You didn't talk about action sports cameras...
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Last I heard, Snowden is still scapegoated, and nobody from the NSA has been held accountable, or anyone inside any of these other 3 letter government agencies...
hREA is aimed at creating a radically inclusive supply chain system. It is fully open source and being developed here: https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea
This is a fun intro: http://mikorizal.org/futures.html
It scans your dependency file (e.g. Gemfile in Rails).
I don't think that's gonna happen. And if it did, it wouldn't be real, and those that think it is are fooling themselves. Only biological organisms feel. Why are you wishing for a cold lump of steel to feel something?
In my mind only someone who struggles severely with emotional intimacy with other humans would want to create a machine that tries to imitate human feelings, and thus ‘suffer’; likely done in an effort to try to feel close to 'it'. It sounds like that person might not be having their human needs for safety, connection and acceptance met, which is very painful. I think tackling this issue is the important and worthy cause. That would be better than spending money on some Hollywood-inspired notion of 'AI' - which itself seems more a story made up to keep the USA spending insane sums of taxpayer money on research, weapons and other tech at DARPA.
I do think society is super alienating to most humans in it's current form [1], so I can somewhat understand the science fiction.
What is your definition of suffering though?
So basically a (soon to be VC funded) Uber-like gig economy delivery app for renting books? For $7 it's a service only for the rich, while also putting gig workers at risk.
I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, I'm just tired of seeing another rentierist middleman app that dresses up a simple protocol and exploits the working class.
"Exploitation, now available from your local library!"
Damn, are we really gonna anthropomorphize AI when it's the cause of so much misery already? [1]
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34964830-automating-ineq...
I'm so over any sort of branding that proclaims the superiority of one nation over others. [2]
If we really wanna give credit, why not list the actual names of the engineers that came up with the encryption mechanisms?
Same goes for Apple's 'Designed in California' etc.
Yes, that would be awesome, and would add much more weight to the arguments he makes in his documentaries.
Maybe for intellectual laborers in the global north. Not for the starving billion who are barely surviving, yet are also producing all the commodities global north capitalists force them to make: often after having been forcefully bribed/expelled from their land, mostly by ruthless global north firms together with corrupt governments. [1]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tv-hE4Yx0LU
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SrW46sBXJYo
https://youtu.be/OaGp5_Sfbss?t=31
I want to reiterate that for people with few spoons [1], they don’t need to get permission to be allowed to only do what works for them, or to feel shame for not being able to do what can seem easier for others: i.e. ‘powering through’.
I’ve seen this ugly thing where people make all sorts of assumptions about me, and perhaps unconsciously, yet verbally, speak out their train of thought, which means they often say something that ‘excuses me’ for not ‘powering through’, or that after reminding them of my background, that they now understand why I do not force myself to ‘power through’. It feels shit and it sucks because it’s a constant reminder of the ruthless productivity that is expected in many areas in modern life. A conversation like this can also slowly lure me back into taking on way too much, way too fast, and not properly looking after myself or others.
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Wow you must be superhuman. I misunderstood you. Now I get it.
Was there really ever anything more?
If you're using Rails it's just one gem and some bootstrap signup forms. I guess it also depends on the experience and skills of the developer.
I think the idea of an MVP is to create something that works, not something with all the bells and whistles
Amazon say: "Thanks original developers, farewell! We will take over from here."
I think this can act as an important reminder to license your (group) project as GPLv3 or AGLPv3, it's a trojan horse and helps the open source/free software revolution.
> the $100/yr for the developer program is not a lot of money. [...] It's less than a single restaurant lunch per month.
Is that $100 for a meal for a single person? Where do you eat and how much do you spend on food a month?
Why is your username 'foss user' when you're showing you are for intellectual property rights by calling this person a crook?
They should offer a paid subscription service for data retrieval, in case we do lose our copy!
> We all know Qatar's FIFA 2020 accommodations are built on the backs of slaves; we all know that rarely a mobile phone sees a battery that is not won from the toil and sweat of slaves.
> We all knowingly do business, directly, or indirectly with slave owners and child labor pimps.
> Every electronics manufacturer knows well that it's cobalt comes from child slavery.
What seems interesting to me is: what are the leverage points that capitalist firms have, here, that make it easy for them to control the working class and attempt to get away with child labor? Where does the power they have over us reside?
1) I believe it's the alienation created by mean-of-exchange currency. While we use money in our day to day lives to buy goods and services, capitalist firms use complex software called Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, that closely tracks the actual scarcity of all material resources used in their production processes.
2) Capitalist firms' use of trade secrets and patents (trade secrets often consist of vital negative research that lays out for us to see what has already been tried) to lock up our shared inheritance: the scientific commons, which unlocks inventions and tools that bring joy to many people's lives (who doesn't like the latest laptop computers or smartphones, or [insert technology of choice]). Unfortunately, the end goal, as Peter Thiel gave away, is always to achieve a monopoly position - which results in massive power imbalances, extreme labor exploitation and widespread environmental destruction. Exactly the kind of power imbalance we can see today between the bourgeois class in the global north, and the humans in the global south who face incredible poverty.
So, what is the most promising path or future that I see forwards?
1)
a) An exciting and novel distributed application framework, called holochain, allows for fully distributed apps that use peer validation, like Bittorrent's DHT, and are thus version controlled self-healing networks that can be used for all sorts of networked social applications.
b) Valueflo.ws and hREA (both led by Mikorizal, with early co-development with Sensorica), builds on holochain's novelty, and allows an underused accounting method, called Resources Events Agents (REA) accounting, to flip today's dominant ERP system on it's head, and instead allows for a radically participative system, which they call a Network Resource Planning (NRP) system. [1]
2) The knock on effect of (1) is that it could makes today's alienating means-of-exchange money redundant. This could in turn allow us to see today's scarce capitalist appropriated knowledge for what it is: an artificially constrained intellectual commons. In other words: since digital information has a zero marginal cost reproduction, any limits to copying are contrived and are there to keep privileged people in, and working class people out. By using a Network Resource Planning system to make visible all the material flows in a community/village/city, we can democratically decide what we use these resources for - instead of relying on corporate central planning behind closed doors [2]. We can then be free to use a decentralized/distributed Github system (e.g. Git-SSB or Radicle.xyz) to turn the intellectual property system inside out. To have it be a system for building all of society open source/free, completely out in the open and transparent, and celebrating new contributions; and not for giving out state-sanctioned monopolies (the so-called Intellectual Property systems).
Bottom line: humans copying each other is not theft. Our systems makes it seem so, yet it allows the capitalist elite to do exactly that by receiving privileged access to all the knowledge that has been privatized by capitalist firms [3]. Our current systems have us literally throw away functional components, because as a whole the products are single use black-box proprietary tools, that take away our freedom to continually grow.
Imagine if everything was modular? Could we become a solarpunk, DIY, modular and low-energy-tech, society? A society where we share information freely, and where we can radically change our fate in regards to climate change.
[1] http://mikorizal.org/futures.html
[2] https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/economic-planning-walmart-dem...
[3] https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamj...
You're not alone, I think it's terrifying.
What seems worse to me is that some in this thread are suggesting that child labor isn't so bad because: "I had a paper round as a kid".
Capitalists have successfully alienated us from the production processes in the global south, and from each other.
Indians, the Chinese, Bangladeshi and many others in the global south - have now been fully disinherited and re-'other-ed' in the modern era. It should be referred to by it's proper name: neo-colonialism/imperialism.
I am worried that some have so much grandiosity from being told they're awesome at school (and that they are special and one of the only ones good enough to do it - when in reality today's capitalism privatizes and monopolizes knowledge in the form of trade secrets and patent, allowing capitalist firms to 'own' ideas and inventions), that they don't even realize when a job someone else does (because of their privileged higher up position in the capitalist hierarchy) is physically impossible (working 12-14 hour days [2]).
[1] John Perkins, An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0
[2] Machines (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrW46sBXJYo (child laborer not even 15 seconds in)
Apple is the world's most powerful company. What makes you say that you believe those responding with outrage at the use of child labor at this company means they are 'funded' activists?
Because Amerika doesn’t do exactly that, right?
I understand your confusion. The capitalist class push a different narrative, a narrative which makes others’ exploitation, as well as our own, seem normal - as well as portraying capitalist production as the only viable system of production.
If you’re genuinely interested in exploring this from a systemic perspective, I can recommend Zak Cope’s ‘The Wealth of Some Nations’, as well as Vijay Prashad’s recent book ‘Washington Bullets‘, or anything written by him really.
> You build one of this on corruption money while ruling the richest country with the poorest people - not OK.
They are two forms of capitalist exploitation.
Your framing excuses the ‘business‘ kind, but the underlying exploitative mechanics are really no different.
Most global north firms benefit from labor in corporate-bribed and IMF-drained regimes in the global south. Global south citizens are basically locked up in their countries, to be ruthlessly exploited by global north capitalist firms. The capitalist class wins, the working class loses.
Are you listening to the others venting too?
Thank you for pointing this out. I don't know British TV well so I wrongly assumed it was another show, because it sounded like it. The show I originally thought OP was referring to is called 'Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!'. It is bile. That is what my above comment is really responding to.
It's sad to see people actually laughing at others' misfortune such as this youtuber, who has made a compilation of 'Craziest Freakouts Ever!' with clips from 'Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0kO9TA96h4