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Penguin: Blockchain-Based Internet Computer Buries Amazon and Google (10% of their energy, time, and cost) — Autonomous Internet? Not Quite But a Good Start

Blockchain-Based ‘Internet Computer’ Gets $61M from Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, have invested $61 million in Dfinity Foundation, a firm that intends to connect multiple computers together using blockchain to build an “Internet” computer. When the network was tested last year, …

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Phantom Phixer: Trump’s American Heritage Strategy — Best Case Analysis for Team Trump (not the GOP) Sweeping the House and Senate in 2018

Trump’s “American Heritage Pheromone Fumigation” of The Federal Gov’t and The Coming Defenestration of The Deep State President Trump . . . is building a governing coalition -AFTER- he was elected. He was his own party faction in the GOP and he is willing and messaging into existence a resurgent, predominantly working class/suburban/rural “Heritage America” …

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Berto Jongman: Social Media Mandarins – We Fucked Up! Autonomous Internet Against #GoogleGestapo Anyone?

The Internet’s Original Sin It’s not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web. At the end of the day, the business model that got us funded was advertising. The model that got us acquired was analyzing users’ personal homepages so we could better target ads to them. Along the …

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Penguin: Open Source Networking, Telecommunications Waking Up…

Open Source Networking and a Vision of Fully Automated Networks Transforming telecom As an example of transformative change that is now underway, Joshipura pointed to the telecom industry. “For the past 137 years, we saw proprietary solutions,” he said. “But in the past several years, disaggregation has arrived, where hardware is separated from software. If …

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Berto Jongman: Insights into Facebook Content Moderation – #GoogleGestapo Failing with Extreme Content

Three months in hell by Burcu Gültekin Punsmann    What I learned from three months of Content Moderation for Facebook in Berlin At the end of the ramp-up process, a moderator should handle approximately 1300 reports every day which let him/her in average only a few seconds to reach a decision for each report. The …

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