It has been another week of tension on the island despite an accord being signed by several actors in the discussions. It wasnât unanimous, meaning the conflict is not over. This will not be resolved until a much deeper discussion is had and a long-term plan is implemented. Iâll let you know how it goes.
There have been no Internet shutdowns so far, and I donât expect that to happen in the current climate.
It has been a challenging week and not one conducive to reflection or giving me time to think about what I want to write about here. But as this is an exercise in getting me to write regularly, as much as it is a space for me to think about tech and how it relates to our lives, particularly here in the Caribbean.
If you havenât been following or donât get to see news from the French West Indies, weâve been having a week of unrest and violent protests on the Island after a number of peaceful protests seem to stir up a general malaise in the population, which seems to have been hijacked by a small group of well-organised individuals that set about looting, pillaging and burning shops, cars and just about anything that could be burnt.
I donât know. I must have gotten up in a bad mood or something. This is to announce the colour of this issue đ. These are a few thoughts and are certainly not fully thought out, but I thought Iâd put them out there for discussion anyway. đ€·ââïž
Thereâs something seriously wrong with Big Tech at the moment. From the proclamations of Mark Zuckerberg (the laughably pathetic Julius Caesar cosplayer) that he no longer should care what he says and does to something like half of the worldâs population through his privacy-ignoring âsocialâ media project to Eric Schmidtâs declaration that climate change is bad, but a parlour-game guess-the-next-word text generator will solve it, to Sam Altmanâs insistence that his particular brand of LLM is going to âsolve all physicsâ, not that he knows anything about physics of course, and who couldnât ignore Elon Muskâs Ketamine-fueled descent into fascism and continual abject stupidity.
Good morning. I hope youâre doing well. Iâm writing this at the end of a busy week that hasnât left me much time to think about a specific subject, so this will probably be both short and a little unstructured.
After a lull in activity, it seems the Atlantic is firing up for a busy end-of-season. To remind you, Hurricane season is from June to November, with a peak in early September and a spike in October.