#economical — Public Fediverse posts
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Over the past few years, the unrestrained use of poorly-understood AI in real-world applications had inflicted significant harm upon #social, #economical, #educational, and #democratic infrastructures, round the globe.
Throughout AI's evolution—from the early 1940s McCulloch-Pitts neuron model, through the mid 1980s NN, to the early 2020s DNN—this technology had always been accessible to academic researchers and independent practitioners, in the form of peer-reviewed scientific papers, curated data sets, open competitions, and even open-source implementations. The intellectual insights of the academics and the social concerns of the independents had always counterbalanced the excesses of the industry. But all that had changed, with the advent of the post-Transformer Foundation Models (FMs).
FMs are conceived, built, deployed, and evolved exclusively by BigTech, behind the veil of commercial secrecy and under the tight control by a few billionaires. Academic institutions and independent laboratories no longer have access to the data, software, hardware, procedures, and policies that govern these FMs, which are now re-quilting the World's socio-economic fabric, in real-time.
#AI now poses a clear and present danger to fundamental human rights. It must be #regulated, uniformly, globally, with deliberate haste.
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CW: About Wealth inequality NOT being a problem...
@freemo @chrismarkevich I think it is a problem (if you really mean originally near-0 problems from it) because of what is related to wealth are just too MANY as I see it below:
Some may start good or seem giving but many start to damage or have limits / go cross the line.
Thanks for your thoughts on those main points with ➡️
So some of those elements and extensions below are listed that surpass good (again even starting out as good quickly by design go bad with or with awareness) which are the points are around:
➡️ material extraction / earth's limits related to wealth #oil #land whatever
➡️ geo-political relativity is inevitable (can't have land etc with disruptions) which eventually wealth funds as war problems even if you didn't mean it.
➡️ tax related to wealth inequality funding States / power that naturally corrupts / is less humble (and many companies might pay very little 1% tax whereas people pay 50%+ directly if not indirectly which is unfair - we should all be living it up easy !)
➡️ #economical #war (#wealrth inequality creates feelings / encourages more control / take overs / monopolies etc)
➡️ the #ignorance which buying / selling automatically embeds (makes far too easy as any most 'wealth') and encourages naturally a short way but from longer #hidden damage-chains more than understanding things a bit more by not using it and less importing it... and then having choice in being 'born into it' eventually means losing common sense and morality and skill as even more embedded and detached responsibility as #wealth / #externalization / distance itself becomes increasingly more.
➡️ just using banks - not cool - having wealth transacted and stored with those types of #cold people and it's false #economics.
In my book the re-lending of this kind of wealth overnight (as the main type of #wealth let's say) dilutes all money (as man-made infinite numbers of "#growth" rather than actually planetary and #social measurements).
Banks as momentary positive numbers in exchange for negatives long term (Debt / #Negative society / #treadmill society as result)
So my storage of wealth = more debt and make things dilute faster. Hence why people kept it under their mattress and effectively so as in banks has only gets worse apart from 'safe keeping of it'
#War of course provided by banks if most wealth needs storing "safely" (again to re-#loan it to other behind your back).
Again other wealth but consider just #banks as 1 #hornets nest... and
➡️ If it's not geared towards Sharing then it's bad. #Privatization / #Gentrification / raising the bar always makes it a losing and inevitable power things as inequality with these #problems above - almost total control on people individual life itself (no #food or #shelter).
Quality of life can be that much better for poor people as modern times are based on using / leveraging the poor people or even countries for the upper class / authorities #ultimatums (not just 1 but continual) else face #death /#turmoil... That is how wealth #inequality works more I think that what you indicated as almost nothing...
Your next post is a bit confusing or confirming as mentions #unfair #advantage - I believe that's the whole point and existence of it or came to be at least..
➡️ Even highly #competitive #markets are bad / too #hyperactive / duplicative / exhausting in all this as material or #society even if seemingly 'giving' (damaging #planet / #people / being# ignorant overall).
Thanks for your thoughts on those main points with ➡️
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CW: About Wealth inequality NOT being a problem...
@freemo @chrismarkevich I think it is a problem (if you really mean originally near-0 problems from it) because of what is related to wealth are just too MANY as I see it below:
Some may start good or seem giving but many start to damage or have limits / go cross the line.
Thanks for your thoughts on those main points with ➡️
So some of those elements and extensions below are listed that surpass good (again even starting out as good quickly by design go bad with or with awareness) which are the points are around:
➡️ material extraction / earth's limits related to wealth #oil #land whatever
➡️ geo-political relativity is inevitable (can't have land etc with disruptions) which eventually wealth funds as war problems even if you didn't mean it.
➡️ tax related to wealth inequality funding States / power that naturally corrupts / is less humble (and many companies might pay very little 1% tax whereas people pay 50%+ directly if not indirectly which is unfair - we should all be living it up easy !)
➡️ #economical #war (#wealrth inequality creates feelings / encourages more control / take overs / monopolies etc)
➡️ the #ignorance which buying / selling automatically embeds (makes far too easy as any most 'wealth') and encourages naturally a short way but from longer #hidden damage-chains more than understanding things a bit more by not using it and less importing it... and then having choice in being 'born into it' eventually means losing common sense and morality and skill as even more embedded and detached responsibility as #wealth / #externalization / distance itself becomes increasingly more.
➡️ just using banks - not cool - having wealth transacted and stored with those types of #cold people and it's false #economics.
In my book the re-lending of this kind of wealth overnight (as the main type of #wealth let's say) dilutes all money (as man-made infinite numbers of "#growth" rather than actually planetary and #social measurements).
Banks as momentary positive numbers in exchange for negatives long term (Debt / #Negative society / #treadmill society as result)
So my storage of wealth = more debt and make things dilute faster. Hence why people kept it under their mattress and effectively so as in banks has only gets worse apart from 'safe keeping of it'
#War of course provided by banks if most wealth needs storing "safely" (again to re-#loan it to other behind your back).
Again other wealth but consider just #banks as 1 #hornets nest... and
➡️ If it's not geared towards Sharing then it's bad. #Privatization / #Gentrification / raising the bar always makes it a losing and inevitable power things as inequality with these #problems above - almost total control on people individual life itself (no #food or #shelter).
Quality of life can be that much better for poor people as modern times are based on using / leveraging the poor people or even countries for the upper class / authorities #ultimatums (not just 1 but continual) else face #death /#turmoil... That is how wealth #inequality works more I think that what you indicated as almost nothing...
Your next post is a bit confusing or confirming as mentions #unfair #advantage - I believe that's the whole point and existence of it or came to be at least..
➡️ Even highly #competitive #markets are bad / too #hyperactive / duplicative / exhausting in all this as material or #society even if seemingly 'giving' (damaging #planet / #people / being# ignorant overall).
Thanks for your thoughts on those main points with ➡️
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Spending habits
I've written before about money. Money struggles. Buying things to feel better. Making ends meet. How I always took it for granted when I was in a relationship and we had more money to spend. How hard it is coming form that privilege to being on my own, especially with an aging dog. A while ago, Kevin Davy shared this Toot on Mastodon, which got me to thinking about it some more. I've read some of the replies, which often seemed very logical to me. Some just made sense and got me to go "yeah, totally!", just while reading them. So with this post, I want to try to go a bit deeper into this... If I can? 🤔 […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/spending-habits/
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Economical Druthers
A local volunteer community encourages people to donate knitted or crocheted squares that can be made into blankets. Those blankets are then given to people who need them, often to people in shelters and temporary housing.
As someone who likes to crochet while watching TV, I saw this as a beneficial use of both my time and miscellaneous leftover yarn. Accordingly, last winter I donated a couple of blankets I had made and I also put together squares that others had made.
This winter I happened upon some very inexpensive yarn at a thrift store and used it to make squares that I hoped would one day become a blanket. I also used up my remaining supply of leftover yarn and these together created 68 squares.
As I looked at the instructions I had received from the volunteer group, I realized I didn’t have enough squares for a queen-size blanket which was their preference. A queen size requires 90 eight-inch squares and a twin size requires 54. When I first asked about this, my assumption was that they would need more twin-size blankets but it seems that there are more families in need than single individuals. So, the polite suggestion was that the larger blanket would be of more use.
My dilemma, then, was what to do with my inadequate supply of squares. Should I make more squares or donate what I had? I decided to donate what I had, but when I got to the volunteer centre I was told that they no longer accepted donations of squares! They already had lots of squares in storage and, instead, needed volunteers to put squares together. I said I would be happy to do that and they said they would be in touch when they had taken a batch out of the storage facility. They also said that they no longer had a supply of yarn that they could give me; the yarn fund had been exhausted.
My 68 squares, which were not quite enough for a blanket, still needed additional squares so I visited a couple of local thrift stores to see if they had any yarn I could use to finish the project. Unfortunately, I was surprised to find that the price of the donated skeins was quite high. It was too high to be a bargain and almost as much as I would pay for yarn on sale at a local department store. I was torn. I wanted to finish the blanket and I wanted to support the thrift store, but I didn’t want to pay so much for miscellaneous yarn. I would rather pay a little more and choose the texture, weight, and colour than I preferred.
I went online to find out the sale prices for yarn at the local craft stores and I also checked out Amazon. My preference is to shop local when possible, but when you are trying to put together a blanket out of leftover yarn, you lean towards the least expensive option. I ended up ordering from Amazon, even though I would much rather have bought from a local charity or craft store.
Sometimes, your druthers are just not economical.
#blanket #blankets #charity #community #crochet #druthers #economical #grannySquare #knitting #thriftStore #volunteer #yarn
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Bare Bones Vacuum Forming, Just Add Plastic Plates - Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/14/bare-bones-vacuum-forming-just-add-plastic-plates/ #3dprinterhacks #thermoforming #vacuumforming #dollarstore #economical #toolhacks #diy
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New #ITtools required for functional #transparency & #democracy ..:
a) #uncensorable and #verifiable #citizen #voting . Secured & enforced by e.g. #blockchain + #distributed #checksums and #P2P #storage .
b) Enforce real #representativeGovernment through citizen-controlled transparency for decision-making in #politics using #multilayer #digitalidentity & #decentralized #socialMedia .
c) #MultiFactor #authentication incl. a mix of #biometrics + manual factors. Controlled by each person, not a #centralAuthority . No need for #passports etc. anymore.
d) Decentralized / #synchronized storage, verifiable (#irrefutable) by anyone, any time, anywhere. (Soon technical & #economical #reality. We're at the brink of a #disruptive storage #technology #breakthrough . Needed for most parts of modern #progress / #society / #business )