Sadly, that government body pays private companies (palantier, cough cough) on the back end. They combine the data with a gazillion other datasets paid for by taxpayers. Since this is what they call “model training” you can’t unring that bell from that point on. Immutable data on an evil corporation’s dataset, for as long as data can be stored.

This is actually hilarious.

The bots will always come. But the humans will have a fighting chance here because we have built a muscle to sniff corporate propaganda much faster than those for-profit algorithm managed anti-social media.

Which tells you organic human generated content is increasingly rare and here we are probably the last unpolluted corners of the human experience outside the non-online local experiences.

It is not enough to talk of an alternative if the underlying structure reinforces centralization. This is so especially when federation protocols are active and seeking adoption.

“Luddite” has been turned into a slur over time but it is actually a view point that humans should have a say on what technology does to them and for who. They were not technophobes. They were technodeterminists.

Me: Leave that to me. I know what I want.

The horror! I detest that website with my all. It was one of the earliest places I saw a nasty dark pattern. They would bait you to pay to see who viewed your profile, preying on job seekers desperate for a signal that something may come their way. Nasty evil people those!

Again, scientists used AI to develop a viable bacteriophage genome. To say AI did it is confusing.

How do you track gender category when it is not listed or asked anywhere on the forums?

And it may keep getting worse in the months ahead.

Activated.

Make a post there and I can make you a mod.

cameroon!cameroon@baraza.africa

This usually occurs if there is no existing interaction between the two instances. Your comment here and my reply to you will likely start the federation fetch. Future comments from Baraza should start to show on that community.

Hi there. Yes, if you think you can mod the community, I am happy to get that going. The more the merrier.

That’s a fine looking painting. RIP to your dad.

I have been on these streets long enough to see these kind of military guys come to the scene, ruffle feathers, and slowly morph into the exact same thing they claimed to hate. Talking to Burkinabe people, I am not sure how long this post will endure.

No fucking roots shall hold.

A classic!

Like workday hours v weekend hours.