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/

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. 😕