Elric Wamugu
wamugu.bsky.social
Elric Wamugu
@wamugu.bsky.social
#RejectFinanceBill2024 ✊🏾✊🏾🇰🇪
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Researchers detail the rise of sextortion of young users and teenagers on TikTok, Instagram & Snapchat, driven by Yahoo Boys, an West African cybercriminal gang:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/sextortion-yahoo-boys-snapchat-tiktok-teen-wizz-rcna134200
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"Most of the world is held together with a duct tape.

The last 10-20% of everything seems to get slapped together at the last minute. It's just harder to see it in an area where you are not an expert in"
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
.@BRIGHTZEED might be of interest to you?

Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07695
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Day 1 of the @LDNTechWeek #LTW2023
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"Writing about strategy is hard because good strategy is pretty boring, and it's kind of boring to write about it. If you write something interesting, it's probably wrong."
March 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Human knowledge is 1% inspiration and 99% synthesis. AI is going to vastly accelerate the synthesis part of human knowledge."

The 1% in inspiration is the human-centric provenance and serendipity in the gaps of existing literature and indigenous knowledge.
March 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Such an interesting book find on eBay.

Giant Brains Or Machines That Think - Edmund Callis Berkeley, 1952

"Machines that calculate, make decisions, choose between different course's of action, determine most of their own instructions - machines that learn, remember, reason ..."
March 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM