#control — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #control, aggregated by home.social.
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Satirical piece on a fictional Ministry of Censorship — blacking out newspapers, banning relatable villains, creating emoji task forces, and censoring silence itself. A dark comedy on institutional overreach and information control.
https://the.kalvin.blog/the-ministry-of-censorship-malaysia-mcm-a-totally-serious-agency/
#satire #censorship #Malaysia #bureaucracy #politics #humor #freedom #media #control #government #commentary #truth #awareness #power #absurdity
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Satirical piece on a fictional Ministry of Censorship — blacking out newspapers, banning relatable villains, creating emoji task forces, and censoring silence itself. A dark comedy on institutional overreach and information control.
https://the.kalvin.blog/the-ministry-of-censorship-malaysia-mcm-a-totally-serious-agency/
#satire #censorship #Malaysia #bureaucracy #politics #humor #freedom #media #control #government #commentary #truth #awareness #power #absurdity
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Trump acelera en su campaña para controlar las rutas marítimas internacionales
Trump acelera en su campaña para controlar las rutas... #tardigram #trump #control #rutas #marítima #Actualidad -
Trump acelera en su campaña para controlar las rutas marítimas internacionales
Trump acelera en su campaña para controlar las rutas... #tardigram #trump #control #rutas #marítima #Actualidad -
If there is a "Play Store", why is there no "Stop Store"? Isn't that concerning?
#humor #humour #parody #meme #funny #technology #language #framing #control #consumption #platforms #Google #manipulation #awareness #truth #design #psychology #capitalism #choice #systems
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If there is a "Play Store", why is there no "Stop Store"? Isn't that concerning?
#humor #humour #parody #meme #funny #technology #language #framing #control #consumption #platforms #Google #manipulation #awareness #truth #design #psychology #capitalism #choice #systems
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Of all the weirdo decisions taken in the #telecoms industry, I can't fathom the logic behind #Telcel blocking access to #VoWifi from #Starlink terminals.
In rural #Mexico there has been a massive uptake of starlink, such that in areas where there is a lack of direct mobile coverage from #2G, #3G, or #LTE towers, the most likely alternative is going to be a starlink.
So why then deny access to service for those customers connected in this way? After all, VoWifi calls are charged at the same rates as those routed over the mobile RAN (even as they don't actually use any resources on it)
Usually, #MNOs (#Mobile #Network #Operators) are blocking access to their #IMS over IP from outside the home country - in order, we presume to not have customers avoid the industry's outlandish "#roaming" charges. (there are some notable exceptions)
But in the case of Starlink, (as far as I can make out) - all the terminals in a national territory are routed via the ground station in that country. - I sort of understood this may be a requirement for operation?
So why not add starlink's #Mexican IPs to a whitelist for telcels?
Of course... we could all have been doing something else since long ago; #VoIP is a thing, VoWifi is just glorified VoIP, just as IMS is a glorified #SIP server.
But then there would not be so much #control...
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Of all the weirdo decisions taken in the #telecoms industry, I can't fathom the logic behind #Telcel blocking access to #VoWifi from #Starlink terminals.
In rural #Mexico there has been a massive uptake of starlink, such that in areas where there is a lack of direct mobile coverage from #2G, #3G, or #LTE towers, the most likely alternative is going to be a starlink.
So why then deny access to service for those customers connected in this way? After all, VoWifi calls are charged at the same rates as those routed over the mobile RAN (even as they don't actually use any resources on it)
Usually, #MNOs (#Mobile #Network #Operators) are blocking access to their #IMS over IP from outside the home country - in order, we presume to not have customers avoid the industry's outlandish "#roaming" charges. (there are some notable exceptions)
But in the case of Starlink, (as far as I can make out) - all the terminals in a national territory are routed via the ground station in that country. - I sort of understood this may be a requirement for operation?
So why not add starlink's #Mexican IPs to a whitelist for telcels?
Of course... we could all have been doing something else since long ago; #VoIP is a thing, VoWifi is just glorified VoIP, just as IMS is a glorified #SIP server.
But then there would not be so much #control...
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🧵 Reincarnation vs Christian Dogma: A Theological Clash 🔥
#errtlings #bookcafe #opinion #deep-thought #conflict #control
#Christianity #Reincarnation #Theology #Resurrection #Faith #Religion #Soul #Belief #Doctrine #Christendom #Salvation #OriginalSin #BodilyResurrection #Moksha #Nirvana #Samsara -
A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/853…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #censorship #control #freepress #freespeech #government #knowledge #obscenity #pornography #publicgood #sedition #suppression #treason #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable, and inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for the population This applies especially to knowledge of the kind which is considered seditious, and the kind which is considered obscene. I shall not give instances, since, if I did, I should myself fall under the ban of the law.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual versus the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/853…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #censorship #control #freepress #freespeech #government #knowledge #obscenity #pornography #publicgood #sedition #suppression #treason #truth
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Just to show I’ll give AI credit where credit is due…
I had been pondering this from time to time over many years. AI gave a damn good answer and thera- err… debriefing session:
As a freshman undergraduate psychology major at CMU in 1987, we were required to earn credit as subjects in graduate student experiments. I was in a brief, no more than an hour-long experiment in which I was typing on a terminal in a room on my own and told I was communicating with another student whom I never did meet and whose text lines to me came up on my screen. The topic we were told to discuss, I suspect was arbitrary, and had something to do with policies on stores selling alcohol to underage purchasers.
In this experiment was I communicating with an early AI prototype?
Also, all these years later, is it unusual that not having a final debriefing about the experiment bothers me slightly?
Damn! Now I want to apologize to the researchers (again) for having been such a slow typist 😁.
#AI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #chatbot #Claude #college #contextual #control #Copilot #courses #DeepLearning #DeepSeek #FOIA #ForensicLinguistics #game #Gemini #generative #GenerativeAI #Google #grammar #Grok #idiolect #language #largeLanguageModel #linguistics #LLM #machineLearning #NaturalLanguageProcessing #neuralNetwork #NLP #OpenAI #psycholinguistics #research #stylometry #syntax #text -
Just to show I’ll give AI credit where credit is due…
I had been pondering this from time to time over many years. AI gave a damn good answer and thera- err… debriefing session:
As a freshman undergraduate psychology major at CMU in 1987, we were required to earn credit as subjects in graduate student experiments. I was in a brief, no more than an hour-long experiment in which I was typing on a terminal in a room on my own and told I was communicating with another student whom I never did meet and whose text lines to me came up on my screen. The topic we were told to discuss, I suspect was arbitrary, and had something to do with policies on stores selling alcohol to underage purchasers.
In this experiment was I communicating with an early AI prototype?
Also, all these years later, is it unusual that not having a final debriefing about the experiment bothers me slightly?
Damn! Now I want to apologize to the researchers (again) for having been such a slow typist 😁.
#AI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #chatbot #Claude #college #contextual #control #Copilot #courses #DeepLearning #DeepSeek #FOIA #ForensicLinguistics #game #Gemini #generative #GenerativeAI #Google #grammar #Grok #idiolect #language #largeLanguageModel #linguistics #LLM #machineLearning #NaturalLanguageProcessing #neuralNetwork #NLP #OpenAI #psycholinguistics #research #stylometry #syntax #text -
I think that if obtaining money requires bureaucracy (jobs, business, bureaucratic financial aid), then spending money also requires me to enforce bureaucracy on myself. What do you think?
#capitalism #bureaucracy #systems #surveillance #money #control #freedom #autonomy #economy #justice #truth #awareness #exploitation #power #systemics
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Not sure if I can take watching tonight's news right now but maybe stuffing this information about the original thought crime into my eyeballs will be educational and escapist and useful in the future somehow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZAQxtInv2g #Philosophy #Religion #Occultism #Control #OldTimeyFascism
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Not sure if I can take watching tonight's news right now but maybe stuffing this information about the original thought crime into my eyeballs will be educational and escapist and useful in the future somehow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZAQxtInv2g #Philosophy #Religion #Occultism #Control #OldTimeyFascism
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As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
[Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers
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As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
[Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers
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The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s #Oil #Industry. Where Has All the #Money Gone?
source: cfr.org/articles/the-u-s-took-…
In the first four months of the United States exerting control over Venezuela’s oil exports, almost one hundred million barrels of oil worth an estimated $8 billion have flowed through a process marked by no #transparency and minimal oversight. While the #Trump administration has repeatedly framed this #control as benefiting both countries, it has not publicly disclosed how much Venezuelan oil it has sold, how much revenue it has collected, or how it has used those funds since seizing control of the country’s oil exports following the January 3 #military intervention that deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás #Maduro.
#usa #news #finance #venezuela #crime #mafia #problem #economy #society #business #fail #ethics #democracy #whitehouse #government #america #responsibility #resources
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TAKE CONTROL https://youtu.be/9JRkC1SGON8
A timelapse from last September of a study I did of Jesse from Control for coursework <3
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#Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day – A #Hero for the #Surveillance State?
source: themoviedb.org/movie/969681-sp…
At first, #Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks like another emotional #superhero #story. Peter Parker has lost everything. No one remembers him, not even MJ. He searches for his #identity while trying to protect #NewYork. The #film spends much of its time on #trauma, #loneliness, and #mental #health.
But behind this personal story lies a political #message. The film presents mass surveillance as something necessary and even heroic. This is where the #movie becomes much more interesting—and much more troubling.
Spider-Man uses powerful surveillance #technology to watch the city. He collects video from many security cameras. He scans every face to find criminals. Even the #police admit that this is probably #illegal. Still, the film treats these actions as acceptable because Spider-Man is one of the "good guys."
Jean Grey—now portrayed by Sadie Sink (She kept her role a huge secret beforehand for marketing reasons.) in the Marvel Universe—falls into the facial recognition trap set by Spider-Man's surveillance program. If, by the end, you feel sorry for Jean Grey because the script wants you to and you’ve let yourself be swept up in the drama, then please remember that at the beginning of the movie, Jean possessed an old man and sent him running into the street so he would be brutally run over. She’s a mass murderer who’ll stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She could easily achieve this goal with her incredible superpower, but she makes it unnecessarily complicated by first freeing the Scorpion, which is what draws Spider-Man's attention to her in the first place.
This idea has a long #history in popular culture. The strongest comparison is George Orwell's 1984. #Orwell imagined a #society where every citizen is watched. Surveillance is presented as a tool for #security, but it destroys #freedom. In Brand New Day, the situation is different because Spider-Man is a hero, not a dictator. Yet the basic question remains the same: Who watches the watchers? If one person can see everyone, who controls that person?
The film never really asks this #question. Instead, it assumes that surveillance is good as long as the right people #control it. This is one of its biggest #weaknesses.
Another interesting comparison is The Dark Knight. In Christopher Nolan's film, #Batman creates a machine that can monitor every mobile phone in Gotham. Lucius Fox calls it too dangerous because it gives one person unlimited power. Batman agrees. He uses the system only once to catch the #Joker and then destroys it immediately.
Brand New Day takes a very different approach. Spider-Man's surveillance technology is not treated as a #moral #problem. Instead, it becomes a normal #tool of #crime fighting. The ethical debate that makes The Dark Knight so powerful is almost completely missing.
The transcript also compares Spider-Man's work with modern surveillance technology. Peter Parker works closely with the Department of Damage Control and helps collect huge amounts of personal data. The review argues that this creates a positive image of a close relationship between #government institutions and powerful technology companies.
This makes the film feel surprisingly modern. Today, governments and private companies collect enormous amounts of digital information. Cameras, facial recognition, smartphones and artificial #intelligence make surveillance easier than ever before. The movie reflects this reality but rarely questions it.
One of the most interesting contradictions is #PeterParker himself. He wants #privacy for his own life. He hides his identity and wants to escape public attention. At the same time, he watches everyone else and scans thousands of faces. The film never fully explores this contradiction.
This creates an uncomfortable message. Privacy seems important for the hero but less important for ordinary citizens.
The citizens themselves hardly have a voice. They mostly watch, cheer and accept Spider-Man's actions without #discussion. They never decide whether they want to live in such a #society. They simply #trust the hero.
As #entertainment, Spider-Man: Brand New Day offers impressive visuals and emotional performances. However, its political ideas deserve much more attention. The film normalizes mass surveillance while presenting it as an act of kindness and #responsibility. It replaces difficult ethical questions with emotional storytelling.
Unlike 1984, it does not warn us about surveillance. Unlike The #DarkKnight, it does not seriously question its use. Instead, it asks the #audience to trust the hero completely.
That may be the film's most surprising message. The greatest danger is not an #evil government forcing surveillance on its people. The greater danger is that we willingly accept surveillance because it is carried out by someone we like.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day succeeds as an emotional superhero #drama. As a political film, however, it raises fascinating questions without giving convincing answers.
#cinema #criticism #fail #ethics #future #cybersecurity #ice #palantir #homelandsecurity #america #nyc #ny #humanity #humanrights #marvel #news #politics #policestate #police #bigbrother #propaganda #lawandorder #justice
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Tech princes and the #deathcult https://hamishcampbell.com/tech-princes-and-the-deathcult/ Where is this going, they crave #control, so they assume everyone else is out to control them.
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Tech princes and the #deathcult https://hamishcampbell.com/tech-princes-and-the-deathcult/ Where is this going, they crave #control, so they assume everyone else is out to control them.
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US-backed #Venezuela talks to begin without #opposition leader #Machado
source: reuters.com/world/americas/us-…
Is the U.S. concerned with #democracy, or is it more about gaining #control over Venezuela's #oil?
#politics #trump #politics #government #military #future #USA #election #criticism #humanrights #freedom #economy #protest #society #resistance
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All about the safety of the kids¹ they said,
All about the safety of users² they said,
All about the safety of the citizens³ they said,
All about the money, control & power⁴ they left unsaid.¹ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116959510981643276
² https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-plans-to-exempt-sanctioned-nations-from-android-developer-verification/
³ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113301303081128298
⁴ https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116503944072899687#Privacy #HumanRIghts #Freedom #Surveillance #Authoritarianism #Control #Government #Data #Masssurveillance #id #verification #rights #corps #evil #ageverification #corruption
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All about the safety of the kids¹ they said,
All about the safety of users² they said,
All about the safety of the citizens³ they said,
All about the money, control & power⁴ they left unsaid.¹ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116959510981643276
² https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/google-plans-to-exempt-sanctioned-nations-from-android-developer-verification/
³ https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113301303081128298
⁴ https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116503944072899687#Privacy #HumanRIghts #Freedom #Surveillance #Authoritarianism #Control #Government #Data #Masssurveillance #id #verification #rights #corps #evil #ageverification #corruption
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https://www.evshift.com/501112/how-to-4-zone-climate-control-tips-for-the-bmw-panoramic-idrive/ How-To: 4 Zone Climate Control Tips for the BMW Panoramic iDrive. #bmw #Climate #control #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #HowTo #idrive #Panoramic #Tips #Zone
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It is not easy to find a direct economic explanation of the behaviour of the people who now rule the world. The desire for pure power seems to be much more dominant than the desire for wealth. This has often been pointed out, but curiously enough the desire for power seems to be taken for granted as a natural instinct, equally prevalent in all ages, like the desire for food. Actually it is no more natural, in the sense of being biologically necessary, than drunkenness or gambling. And if it has reached new levels of lunacy in our own age, as I think it has, then the question becomes: What is the special quality in modern life that makes a major human motive out of the impulse to bully others? If we could answer that question — seldom asked, never followed up — there might occasionally be a bit of good news on the front page of your morning paper.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85229/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aggression #bullying #control #domination #humannature #megalomania #modernera #motivation #pathology #power #powerhungry #powermad #powerseeking
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It is not easy to find a direct economic explanation of the behaviour of the people who now rule the world. The desire for pure power seems to be much more dominant than the desire for wealth. This has often been pointed out, but curiously enough the desire for power seems to be taken for granted as a natural instinct, equally prevalent in all ages, like the desire for food. Actually it is no more natural, in the sense of being biologically necessary, than drunkenness or gambling. And if it has reached new levels of lunacy in our own age, as I think it has, then the question becomes: What is the special quality in modern life that makes a major human motive out of the impulse to bully others? If we could answer that question — seldom asked, never followed up — there might occasionally be a bit of good news on the front page of your morning paper.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/85229/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aggression #bullying #control #domination #humannature #megalomania #modernera #motivation #pathology #power #powerhungry #powermad #powerseeking
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Suspect in shooting at local fast food restaurant in custody https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750102/suspect-in-shooting-at-local-fast-food-restaurant-in-custody/ #arrest #background #Black #bondage #bracelet #Chain #closed #concept #conceptual #Control #crime #criminal #cuffs #custody #enforcement #food #guilt #guilty #hand #handcuff #handcuffs #iron #Jail #Justice #law #LEGAL #lock #metal #metallic #nobody #object #police #prison #prisoner #punishment #secure #security #shackles #Shadow #Sign #silver #single #Steel #stk25pf #suspect #symbol #theft #thief
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Suspect in shooting at local fast food restaurant in custody https://www.diningandcooking.com/2750102/suspect-in-shooting-at-local-fast-food-restaurant-in-custody/ #arrest #background #Black #bondage #bracelet #Chain #closed #concept #conceptual #Control #crime #criminal #cuffs #custody #enforcement #food #guilt #guilty #hand #handcuff #handcuffs #iron #Jail #Justice #law #LEGAL #lock #metal #metallic #nobody #object #police #prison #prisoner #punishment #secure #security #shackles #Shadow #Sign #silver #single #Steel #stk25pf #suspect #symbol #theft #thief
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La plataforma #X ha calificado de invasiva la legislación de #Australia que busca restringir el acceso a #redessociales a menores de 16 años, argumentando que las medidas sobre el #control de datos representan una extralimitación en la #soberanía digital del país oceánico
Más info: https://nbes.blog/prohibicion-redes-sociales-menores-anos-australia/
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La plataforma #X ha calificado de invasiva la legislación de #Australia que busca restringir el acceso a #redessociales a menores de 16 años, argumentando que las medidas sobre el #control de datos representan una extralimitación en la #soberanía digital del país oceánico
Más info: https://nbes.blog/prohibicion-redes-sociales-menores-anos-australia/
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To me, the Economist's interview with Elon #Musk gives the impression that he has created his own echo chamber with X, where he has become radicalized and is now building his #fascist #worldview upon it.
source: economist.com/insider/the-insi…
Elon Musk, in his telling, is a modern-day Cassandra—better than most at predicting the #future, but doomed to be disbelieved. So Elon Musk claims to have divine powers, yet it is he himself who, with his incredible wealth, is leading the world toward ruin.
If anyone still needed proof that too much power and wealth corrupts a person’s character, we have it now—and a just system would prevent anyone from amassing so much wealth. This world has long since degenerated into a resort for a handful of billionaires, and everyone else is just their exploited employees.
#news #capitalism #fascism #economy #money #freedom #democracy #politics #power #future #humanity #civilization #system #matrix #justice #equality #finance #nonazis #business #control #collapse #doomsday #worldorder #world #conspiracy #maga #qanon #billionaires #resources #earth #corruption #exploitation #elonmusk
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https://www.evshift.com/500235/how-to-seating-control-tips-for-the-new-bmw-7-series/ How-To: Seating Control Tips for the new BMW 7 Series. #bmw #control #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #HowTo #Seating #Series #Tips
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"Timothy Neale’s How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent
critiques the colonial logics of control deployed to manage unruly environments and explores alternative forms of environmental stewardship.""Each year, Australia faces increasingly unprecedented wildfires, marked both by their scale and by the intense public disagreements about their political, cultural, and ecological causes. How to Control Fire on a Burning Continent is a critical and ethnographic exploration of wildfire management in Australia and the technoscientific systems of control that shape its current and future possibilities. Timothy Neale observes how two seemingly opposing forces—an entrenched sense of crisis and widespread normalization—combine to form an apparatus of institutional fire management that increasingly centers technical control and militarization. While sympathetic to the double binds many fire management professionals find themselves in, Neale ties contemporary wildfire problems to ongoing colonization and Indigenous dispossession, exploring Indigenous-led land management and cultural burning as a practical assertion of sovereignty. Through dialogue and collaboration with professional fire managers and Indigenous environmental stewards, Neale calls for a collective movement beyond control thinking by fostering new alliances and modes of coping with, rather than commanding, our flammable world." >>
https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-control-fire-on-a-burning-continentIntroduction >>
https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c2-002a-a423-84e111d5b498/8a052eb4-c8e4-4655-aab9-0a8efa3514cd/978-1-4780-3879-5_601.pdf
#fires #bushfires #FossilFuels #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #climate #book #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSociety #Australia #europeancolonisation #control #ClimateFiasco #HeatRecords -
If your knowledge platform changed its pricing, hosting options, or roadmap tomorrow, how much control would your organisation still have? 🤔
Your documentation is decisions, processes, technical notes, customer context, and institutional memory. 📚
With XWiki, your knowledge stays accessible, portable, and under your control, whether you choose cloud or self hosted deployment.
🔗 https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/guide-to-XWiki-hosting-solutions/
#XWiki #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #KnowledgeManagement #control #data
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Do you treat your conference attendees as adults? Give them the freedom to question, comment, make suggestions, and influence what happens!
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DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.
[Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terence #challenge #challenges #change #changeofmind #circumstance #conduct #control #experience #growingup #ignorance #illumination #maturity #passageoftime #presuppositions #principles #reallife #realitycheck #theories #theory
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BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.
It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.
AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.
Then there is the fear of losing #control
Most people understand a hammer.
AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.
That uncertainty invites #projection
But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.
Much of human #activity was already formulaic.
Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .
When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.
The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.
AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.
It can help.
It can deceive.
It can save time.
It can waste resources.
It can widen access.
It can concentrate power.
It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.
The question is not whether it is pure.
Nothing in this world is.
The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.
A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.
It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.
#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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A story about what happened when I let go of control while facilitating at a conference.
#meetings #EventDesign #control #facilitation #LessonsLearned #RiskyLearning #eventprofs
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Software manufacturer SAP is planning to introduce a new cost control system aimed at managing rising expenditures associated with artificial intelligence (AI).... https://news.osna.fm/?p=56694 | #news #ai #budgeting #control #costs
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I was distracted by the notion of colonialism today, so I took some notes. We tend to treat colonialism as pertaining to countries 'out there' – 'over there'. If we are victims of colonisation, the oppressor is 'out there' but looking in.
📝 https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-299870495?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=pvxh5
🎧 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4mNHkZWfXKDyCC5Ljsj758?si=Yd41XyNVRbSUcwXmzP8oKA
#philosophy #politics #power #language #colonialism #control #foucault #mbembe #marx #heidegger #fanon #perspective #podcast #blog #substack #spotify #culture #empire #hegemony #essay
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Nie ma lepszego momentu na nadrobienie gier z kupki wstydu niż tuż przed premierą kontynuacji. I choć Control ma już siedem lat na karku, nadal zachwyca nie gorzej, niż w roku premiery.
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LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory, not max_iterations
https://github.com/loopgain-ai/loopgain
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919562
#HackerNews #LoopGain #control #theory #agent #loops #AI #innovation
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The #Trump administration is asserting more #control over the rollout of future #AImodels, dictating which companies and entities can access the latest #frontiermodels. This shift in power from tech giants like #Anthropic and #OpenAI comes amid concerns about #nationalsecurity and the rapid advancement of #AI technology, particularly from Chinese startups. The administration’s actions aim to strengthen #AIsecurity while fostering innovation. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/white-house-ai-access-anthropic-openai.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
