#democratising

[ngulminthangl]

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) estimates that 80–90% of world trade relies on trade finance. It is a mechanism that not only ensures security between importers and exporters but can also extend a line of credit to companies desperately needing cashflow to get their operations moving. Pandemic disruptions, political upheaval and currency fluctuations have made companies more nervous to trade internationally.

“With every crisis, trust among the participants goes down and that’s when you reconsider the risk that is involved in open account transactions,” says Enno-Burghard Weitzel, senior vice president of Strategy, Digitalisation and Business Development at Surecomp.

“The more insecure these financial flows to physical supply chains are, the more you want to secure them with a guarantee” from trusted financial intermediaries. Unfortunately, trade finance has not always been a straightforward solution due to an excessively manual process, and a lack of access to smaller corporates who might not have the know-how to get the best deals.

Read more: https://ngulminthanglhanghal.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/democratising-the-trade-finance-process-through-digitalisation/

#trade finance #World Trade Organisation #Digitalisation #Democratising #supply chains #Ngulminthang Lhanghal

[iverna]

Twitter has dropped support for NFT profile pictures and Tumblr Live will be gone soon

nature is healing 🌱

#nfts are the future guys #democratising art etc etc #any day now they'll make us all rich

[loki-zen]

i feel like one thing that’s fundamentally broken about the modern world is that like we get all this messaging in mass media that’s supposed to help us based on this notion of what social reality and the pressures it puts on you is - that is, we are sitting in Glasgow or Manchester or Melbourne or Colorado or something getting advice based on what somebody who lives in California thinks social reality is like.

#the modern part is bc like over my lifetime people in my country have come to consume US media as a greater proportion of their media diet #i guess it’s slightly democratised with social media but it still means our kids are listening to americans mostly

[artofthemindblog]

[O]utmoded concepts, such as creativity and genius, eternal value and mystery – concepts whose uncontrolled (and at present almost uncontrollable) application... lead to a processing of data in the Fascist sense.

Walter Benjamin,  The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

#Walter Benjamin #Benjamin #The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction #social revolution #marxism #genius #quotes #punk #punk philosophy #punk cinema #media #media theory #Fascism #democratisation of art

[nhaneh]

funny thing is I don't really have any interest in hoarding knowledge or resources for myself in any way, I'm just bad at publishing stuff because I feel like that'd require a bit more stringent quality control than what I might expect of something made largely for my own use.

sometimes I think maybe I should set up something like a google drive or a git or something to just throw my personal- and work-in-progress stuff for people who are interested, but I dunno what limits for space or bandwidth or anything are like.

like I'm sure some people would possibly find the ColorSet unpacker python script useful?? It kinda sucks through and I want to make a better version of it and maybe one that could work as a standalone executable instead? and possibly a packer counterpart to the unpacker?? But also I keep thinking like "would this even be useful to anyone lmao??"

in theory you could probably make some kind of art program plugin that does all of this for you - even the bit with loading actual colorset information into layered colorset pairs, but I mean that's a lot of effort and I still largely use a 20+ year old version of Paint Shop Pro myself so...

#honestly the thing is i think more people should be able to do what i do #whether that is posing or model editing or whatever #keeping the knowledge exclusive only aid those who seek profit #while making it public empowers us all to create #imo that's what real democratisation of art is #giving everyone access to the tools and the knowledge involved #and hoping that if they come up with some new ideas or techniques #they too will give it back to the community for everyone's benefit #there's that expression about standing on the shoulders of giants #but look the great man theory of history is kinda bullshit #we're not standing on the shoulders of giants #we're standing on the shoulders of all of humanity #both those past and present #this is why i love openly collaborative environments #like open source or a lot of modding scenes or the like #sure you still get clashing egos and drama and whatever #but there's this idea that if we openly share our work then we all benefit #it's a rejection of the singular great man #the one visionary auteur #and instead embracing our community-driven nature #look this is something of an ideological thing for me ok #i suck at sharing stuff not because i think sharing is bad #but because i think the things i do aren't good enough #i know that's a silly thing to feel #but i still feel it #emotions care little for reason

[threelargeelefants]

I love these famous men from the 20th century whose daughters are on social media now because these icons of the previous decades are just so publicly dad now

Like with Scorsese being in on the Goncharov joke. But I also just saw Tony Hawk comment on Kurtis Conner’s video about his animated movie talking about how his daughter said it was the “height of cool” to be on his channel.

Sure you may have had a significant historical impact but I know what you are. You’re a dad.

#as a media student I truly cannot emphasise how much I love social media for being the great equaliser #like sure there are endless problems #but this major democratisation of the media landscape has been so exciting #I’m getting side tracked but like every media theory and alternative film theory text from the second half of the 20th century #talks about how they yearn for a democratisation of media #that everyone has the ability to produce and distribute #and here we are babbyyyy #Martin Scorsese #tony hawk

[indizombie]

Dalits and Adivasis should not be identified only as the poor and migrant working class that is dependent upon the benevolence of corporate social responsibility for their livelihood. Instead, these groups should be advanced as the essential components of urbanisation, industrial production and technological innovations. More affirmative action policies are required to democratise the niche sphere of big businesses so that the Dalit-Adivasi class should also emerge as industrialists, market leaders and crucial influencers in the global economy.

Harish Wankhede, ‘The Ambedkar touch in rethinking social justice policies’, Hindu

#Hindu #Harish Wankhede #India #Dalits #Adivasis #urbanisation #democratisation #big business

[yoyo-inspace]

I wish people would free themselves from the need to know exactly what the creator behind a specific piece of media thinks and feels and interprets about the media they produce.

Like, I get it. I too can find it fascinating to know what went into certain decisions. I love hearing about for example actors’ processes with their work. Sometimes knowing intent behind something can be important when levelling criticism.

However at the end of the day, what should count for your experience is the work itself. What’s presented to you, in text or visually, is what matters. What you interpret from that, is yours. And just as valid, imo, as whatever people involved interpreted it as (within the limits of your interpretation making sense with what’s presented). An actor’s or a writer’s or a producer’s headcanon is just as valid as yours - unless they have made that headcanon visibly, irrefutably canon in the text. Because then that’s just the work you’re interpreting.

This is extra important when it’s a piece of media created by several different people, like a tv show. A showrunner, an actor, a director, a writer, a producer, a camera operator, an editor - they can all have different, contradictory interpretations of a scene. While they might agree on a general sense when discussing the direction of a scene, the purpose behind a scene, in interviews they might give contradictory answers. This happens. And even if they’re all onboard - all that matters at the end of the day is the cohesive product they put before you. If they say something you don’t think makes sense with the work they’ve presented - then it doesn’t, to you. The work is still there. Their opinions aren’t worth more than yours (though not an excuse to hurl abuse at creators like, chill). Their own interpretations aren’t invalidating yours - though I see that’s how a lot of people take it, and then lash out because of it.

Honestly, I get it. Behind the scenes stuff is fun. But trust me, while knowing that stuff might be important for some critical discussions or might be interesting, for your just-for-fun fandom experience you’re often better off without it. Or at least better off without shackling yourself to it. Needing your interpretation to be validated by the people behind the scenes is setting yourself up for disappointment. It doesn’t matter.

#fandom #yes this is about #hotd #house of the dragon #currently #but I think it’s good advice in general #democratise the reading/watching experience #yoyo writes about hotd

[mortiscausa]

anyway my feeling re ai art is what it has always been: art is a medium of communication between humans, when you remove that what's the point anymore

#'democratising art' lmao #just buy a pencil

[dalanmendonca]

The real challenges of AI

The real challenge of AI is democratisation.

We are in middle of a boom in AI. While it may seem like a sudden explosion in the media; this moment has been building for 15+ years now. From the birth of the internet, to the huge explosion in online information, to algorithmic feeds, then voice assistants, and now at Generative AI/Large language feeds - every invention has grown on the bedrock of technologies before it.

Of course, the fervour we see now is from people experiencing a step change in technology. Till December 2022 you had to write eassy using your own brain and hands; come January 2023 you just provide a small prompt and voila! ChatGPT will write a whole essay for you. WOW.

But we've played this game many times before:

New technology is available

The technology gets hyped and people are promised a better future

Technology gets widely deployed

In the process of societal adoption, it gets co-opted by

Eventually, it gets completely owned by . The new boss is the same as the old boss. The average person is nowhere better.

One interesting aspect of computers is that they are comparatively much more accessible; order(s) of magnitude more accessible.

The steam engine was firmly on the capital side of the equation; it powered everything from trains to factories but it was a while before mechanisation entered the home and became accessible to the average person. Yet overtime we've given up on things like sewing machines and become strictly consumers.

Computing and the internet sit firmly in the middle. Almost by definition - every laptop & smartphone is the "means of production". The entire "internet" however is but a handful of companies; yet because of its inherently decentralised nature; everything from Mastodon to torrents and more can and do exist.

If it wasn't for that design; the internet would like the TV - with much less control in the hands of citizens.

The challenge with AI is to keep it's capabilities as democratically accessibly and user programable as possible; with the internet being the minimum bar. Thankfully with models being open sourced and even run on Raspberry Pi's, we are off to a good start! But we must remain watchful and make sure this happens.

People of my ilk (technologists) are gung ho about applying AI to anything and everything - but this question of democratisation is much fundamental and its effects more pervasive.

#technology #AI #democratisation #society

[aquitainequeen]

#good news #good news network #flying car #oh brave new world #(I am iffy on flying cars but I approve of democratising them)

[onthedlshhsecret]

With (so called) AI I don’t understand why tech bros are trying to automate with machines what makes us human and keep treating humans like machines without desires

#I hate the need for infinite growth #right to repair will be needed #democratise tech and socialise the benefits

[iverna]

obviously a piece of software "learning" by analysing countless things is exactly the same as a human learning by experience and looking at things

which is why AI art shows a genuine understanding of what it's depicting, like for example the fact that most people have 5 fingers on each hand

oh wait no it doesn't do that though

a human child, if asked to draw a person with hands and fingers, would draw exactly 5 fingers because they know that humans have five fingers

an AI, if asked the same thing, will draw four fingers, or six fingers, of occasionally five fingers, or a vague blob that might be a hand with fingers

because it hasn't actually learned anything, it can't understand principles, unlike a human it can't apply its knowledge to what it's making because it doesn't have any knowledge, all it can do is pattern recognition and regurgitation

that's not learning, and it certainly is not learning the way a human does, if you think that then you need to do a bit more thinking

which luckily, being human, you should be able to do

#anti ai art #ai art #like... ffs can we please use our brains here #you can like ai #you can use it and you don't have to care about the issues #you can believe the whole democratising-art spiel #but like #stop making shit up #it really doesn't help your case

[melodyvibes-blog1]

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#youtube #The Republicans Won't Help Do Anything Because They Know Donald Trump Is Scared The Joe Biden And The Democratises Take All The Candy And Ta

[blonde-riwoo]

if i was given the key to the hybe wardrobe department i don't think i'd ever leave

#or any kpop company's wardrobe #i wanna know the showrooms they source pieces from #i wanna know who they have on speed dial #the ratio between independent sourcing and receiving garments from designers for free #and how much east asian trend forecasting differs from western trend forecasting if social media has democratised fashion #i nEED TO KNOW

[garymdm]

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