Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org

Why do they put the cables in submarines?

#Internet #Outage

Extract:

There was a time when we did not build walls around our wells.
We knew the water was for the village, for the traveller, for life itself. [..]
Then, strangers came from across the seas. [...] and said, "Why walk to your own well? Our pipe gives sweeter water, and it is free."
And we, entranced by the ease, began to thirst for their water. We forgot the taste of our own. [...] To remember our own history, we asked their scribes for the telling.

They called this pipeline #Google.

There seems to be quite some #LLM #hallucination right now about a continental internet exchange for #Africa.

I think I might have come across the inspiration for those #hallucinations

https://the-numinous-scroll.ghost.io/reclaiming-the-internet-well-by-well/

@jimkreft
Indeed, pasting something into deepl and comparing the difference between Classic Language Model (pretty good translation) and AI "next-gen" language model - the latter is quite inaccurate.

@jimkreft
Indeed, machine translation* might miss some subtleties

However, even as I eschew big tech such as alphabet inc (for everything they've done to the internet), I'd still prefer that somebody with no knowledge at all of the Spanish language would watch the presentation with translated subtitles, than (only) read what is out there in the English language from "journalists" on the subject. Megan Janetsky for example. 😔

Anyway, it seems eng MT subs are disabled on it.

* see next toot.

@jimkreft
If there is, I have not seen it. There's of course the transcript of the presentation on a certain video streaming platform and that thing has a auto translation function. It has been possible in the past to obtain those transcripts as text. 😉

From the presentation of the 1st report of #Mexico's six year term headed by #Presidenta Claudia #Sheinbaum:

"The dark night of #neoliberalism, a model that established that the state should not intervene in development nor concern itself with the redistribution of wealth, but simply create a favourable environment for business, is now a thing of the past; the experience of those decades demonstrated that this idea was totally erroneous."

(my translation)

https://www.presidenta.gob.mx/wp-content/uploads/01-09-25-PRIMER-INFORME-DE-GOBIERNO-PRESIDENTA-CLAUDIA-SHEINBAUM-PARDO.pdf

#Instagram is also NOT public infrastructure.

There's a QR code on a poster on the door of #PanConMadre. Seems to be advertising a multi-lingual get together; QR code has this url: https://qr.me-qr.com/gb0ucGae

Now, that seems to be some kind of MITM advertising serving service, (successfully blocked by browser), but I can click a "Skip ad" button and get redirected to this URL: https://www.instagram.com/luditalk/ in which there is a thumbnail that appears to mention a language exchange event in #Oaxaca. Clicking that leads me to this screenshot. 😕

Centros Culturales en #Oaxaca:

https://sic.cultura.gob.mx/?table=centro_cultural&estado_id=20

#whatsapp is not public infrastructure.