”X has made a calculated business decision to allow users to egg each other on to violence against named politicians with zero consequences, just as they allow anti-vaxxers, incels and other fringe extremists to congregate on their platform.”
Solve for X.
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8 African nations were represented by 13 athletes at the 2018 Olympics, but this year's games have only 5 African nations and 6 athletes, all in Alpine skiing and cross-country. A continental quota system established in 2016 was dropped in 2019, without any real explanation.
”Skeleton athlete Akwasi Frimpong: ”I have a vision of seeing more African athletes in winter sports. It’s something I carry in my heart. For me, it’s very important to be able to turn on the TV and see my brothers and sisters that look like me compete in winter sports,
and I was really hoping to see more African athletes at the 2022 Olympics. But we are half of what we had in 2018. We’re overlooked. We don’t have a seat at the table. Who is sitting at the table to represent Africa? Nobody.”
-Issue 74 of @thecontinent_
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«Discussing "blockchains" and their externalities without specifying permissionless or permissioned is meaningless, they are completely different technologies. One is 30 years old, the other is 13 years old.»
Compulsory crypto reading. ht @cydharrell
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Very on point by @KiriRupiah in issue 74 of @thecontinent_ : "If all this was happening in an African country, what do you suppose it would be called?"
PDF: media.mg.co.za/wp-media/2022/…
Still time to get in on the @MindfulBookClub and read the first book by February 25 :) Two weeks left today.
The first book to read is Who Fears Death by @Nnedi Okorafor
mindfulbookclub.axbom.com
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@datakll @palace Kan också följas på Twitter 😅
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@worldsayer Really appreciate all your encouragement and dedication to thoughtful reflection Jan. 🙏
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@Terejs Verkligen! Jag har även på senaste tiden funderat mycket på hur jag gillar tanken på att återigen ha en fast telefon i hemmet...
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@Terejs Största problemet med detta är förstås att tv-apparater inte har några synliga knappar längre!
Men det finns några sköna lösningar:
- Gör soffkudden till fjärrkontroll (jag gillar!)
- Tejpa fast fjärren på något stort
- Kedja fast fjärren
- Köp en sjukt stor fjärrkontroll
😂
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@Rooperino Yeah, I could have phrased that better. The laws are what they are. A paragraph in a 10-K, that has been phrased similarly 3 times in the past, I don’t see as a threat. I agree Meta doesn’t want stricter rules, but it is US surveillance laws that are the biggest obstacle now.
So many articles and podcasts talking about Meta *threatening* to leave EU. You know I'm not a fan but this is lazy reporting. They had a bullet point in their 10-K talking about implications of EU law. Not really a threat. If anything, it's encouragement for the US to do better.
Here is the “offending” paragraph in the 10-K that is the source of all the “Meta is *threatening* to leave Europe” reporting. Second paragraph on page 9: d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801…
To clarify: I do not believe Meta want stricter rules in the US. My observation is that the biggest obstacle is US surveillance laws giving US intelligence agencies access to foreigners’ personal data without the tech firms able to stop that.
This affects many more than Meta.
Gonna have to be more careful linking to anything from Forbes. x.com/jbenton/status…
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@nicolecommander @killnicole @joenatoli Thank you Nicole! 🙏 That really means a lot to me. I remember when I first discovered your inspirational content 😊
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@charlhyde @HashtagHeyAlexa Thank you, I used "tone-deaf" recently in a blog post about Spotify's CEO and hadn't considered this. I will change that text now, and make an effort to do better in the future.
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@Interactioneer You prompted me to write something to explain my thinking a bit, Kelly :)
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Some of you will have seen me using the phrase "Design for universal wellbeing". Today I finally wrote down a few words about why I opt for this phrase rather than "human-centric design".
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"Government, academia, industry orgs... are too slow. They need to let go of the old. If only they could embrace new technology, stop fighting it and open themselves up to amazing new opportunities."
This is an example of a tech-centric statement rather than human-centric one.
That said, I try to avoid "human-centric" as a term. It fails to sufficiently acknowledge non-human wellbeing. But for the purpose of the distinction I wanted to point out, it works ;)
I favor: "Design for universal wellbeing."
just like the normal truth, except it’s mostly false… 😂🙏 x.com/saraschaefer1/…
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@Spenen Very valid counterpoints :) Thanks for this. Love diving into the Gettier problem, not something I’ve read about before.