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"Few countries have adopted CBDC despite a majority of the surveyed banks engaged in some sort CBDC work. Currently speaking, China has introduced the e-yuan which is the Chinese CBDC that has been promoted in specific regions within retail businesses. Now whilst there has been a shift towards E-Yuan transactions, the Chinese mainly stick with WeChat Pay at the moment which highlights the limitations of CBDC." image
2025-12-02 22:32:21 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"Music technology: The introduction of electricity." "Many people listen to music, some listen to nasheeds whilst other listen to 'silence'.Waves after wave after wave as the jazz music came and gone, the rap music came and gone. Similarly according to physics sounds could be described as oscillatory waves that is responsive to static pressure and heat. Yet despite the masses being captured by musical waves emitted from the guitars and the studios of the music industry where sound is propagated in response to the moods of the crowd, not many people are familiar of the technology involved in the music industry." "One of the earliest forms the combination between music and electricity was something called a modular synthesiser known as the ARP 2500. What this machine does is introduce different waves sine waves, cosine waves i.e. oscillations and the machine filters the waves and 'modulates' it." "The synthesiser is used to transform sounds with the usage of electricity and circuits which is quite different to the use of the trumpet or the saxophone in introducing sounds whereby a classical instrument has much fewer polyphony i.e. the number of notes that a musical instruments at one time compared to a synthesizer which reaches much more than 32. The classical musical instrument could be described as something that is in line with the functional view of technology as a classical musical instrument which technically is a technic that involves much more of the human input in comparison to the synthesiser where classical musical instruments such as saxophones, flutes and trumpets emit sound with the usage of particular buttons and the usage of the lips and tongue whilst the synthesiser on the other hand involves the usage of electricity which involves adjusting via the usage of the button and switches on this synthesiser and the other difference is that this type of technology is much more embedded into this electro-system in comparison to classical musical instrument which could be recorded by some sort of recorder but the modular synthesisers and its variants and one of these variants is the sample based synthesisers which is uses real audio samples instead of emitting different types of particular waves such sine waves and cosine waves as the ARP 2500 does." "How does the sample based synthsiser relate to AI? AI embedded inside these sample-based synthesisers which has collected various data including audio and sound as the music gets transferred into the cybernetic system which consists of feedback loops as data about likes, share, views and deletion are recorded and the algorithm starts to 'recommend' music to its supposed targeted audience." "The data about the type of music gets recorded by these tech company which have suspected links with several governments which it uses as part of their research into psychological warfare amongst those within the meatspace. As sound emitted communicates something to the biological body in which the cybernetic system treats the human body as a conductor or some activation function within a neural network as the sound stimulates an emotional and biological response of the human being." "The sound of lightning frightens the human, the sound of a laughter brightens the human up and the sound of female moans sexually stimulates the human. These types of responses are recorded and taken into consideration of using particular music and sounds in stimulating the human who treated as a guinea pig in some experiment."
2025-11-29 21:48:25 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"When capital is accumulated amongst the very few or a specific rich group, this rich group resorts to engaging in renting out their capital which has lead to lower income groups finding it difficult to own various forms of capital including houses."
2025-11-24 20:37:59 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"The chaotic aspect of AI is not only related to the technology acceleration whereby this type of technology captured by a a few companies such as OpenAI and google but since there are various methods of paraphrasing a text with lexical substitution and syntactic methodologies and here in where the these companies are left in a situation whereby censoring the AI with giving automated responses to specific prompts or prompt containing certain words reduces the effectiveness of the AI as it operates similar to an automated email more rather than an AI and this undermines their position relatively to the other competitors and alongside that there are various methods in which the user is able to twist words and substitute different words which gives a different prompt which extracts a particular output of the AI which the company tried to prevent." image
2025-11-20 21:29:39 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"One of the consequences of the 1973 oil shock was the acceleration of the deindustrialisation of the west as industrial growth did not achieve the mutual interests of both the working class and business class, which led to a zero-sum game where the working class were disunited whilst the business class were able to obtain returns of their appreciating assets." image
2025-11-18 21:56:13 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"Did the printing media undermine the scholars?" "One of the criticisms of the ottoman empire was its unwillingness to really compete in the printing press industry. Many scholars at the time did fear the printing media might undermine the authority of the scholars as they feared that the masses would go to printing press rather than to them to find about knowledge.It seemed at the time that the scholars did view the printing media as something similar to how baudriallard viewed the television as something as a non-functional. However it is notable that the printing media didn't actually undermine the scholar to the extent of which the scholars expected. The actual opposite happened. The same happened with the internet and now A.I. where the scholars were not really undermined by these particular forms of technology which opened the doorway to larger forms of information such as PDFs, docunents, archives which people in the past dreamed of having access to." "Despite the hostitlity that many scholars had towards the printing press, many chose not to be 'luddites' on this matter where the deobandis and the salafi movement in the subcontinent attempted to use the printing media as a method of spreading knowledge and refutations of each other. What instead happened contrary to what the scholars expected, their reputation, their authority and their skillfulness became much more repected whrn it became more known to the masses via the usage of the printing press." "In the case of the internet, the masses had obtained access to much more knowledge and they spread that information via DNS and web servers and in this case scholars associated with the salafis became more respected when it was mainly salafis using the web servers as a means of spreading Islamic knowledge during the 1990s and the early 2000s." "Whilst we haven't seen entirely observed the consequences of A.I. with the use of openai and deepseek, so far it doesn't seem that the authority of the scholars have been challenged so far. A.I. is actually different to websites when you could argue you were taqlid when you were following a fatwa on a website which was owned by a scholar. In the case of a.i., it is apparent that the user is not doing taqlid of scholar and what he is doing is blind following a machine but since we are still in the early stages of the introduction of A.I., it's important to remember that people do recognise the errors of A.I. i.e. 'cyber hallucinations' which has been observed in several industries and even academics and it is used similarly as some sort of search engine." "The question is why these particular forms of technology such as printing, interner and A.I., hasn't really undermined scholars. These particular forms of technology give the masses access to large amounts of information that it is difficult to process such that people who are able to process large forms of information still take the 'easy' method. Meanwhile people who aren't able to process large forms of information tend to use this for vices which has slithered through the current western culture today. In other words, scholars and experts are seen as formidable in the stormy techological era."
2025-11-15 15:24:32 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"Now as much of the economical transactions occur via the internet which is still a volatile place out of the desire of convenience, many companies have put all their apples into investing into transforming their infrastructure as connected to the cyberspace. Now many businesses have become susceptible to hacking and even the 'NCSC' they've suggested using paper as part of 'contingency plans' which was a response to the latest cyber attack on jaguar in which car production decl ined by more than 28% which is more than what happened during the covid era and quarterly speaking, the UK economy declined." image
2025-11-14 22:33:00 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"In the book, 'The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians Of Change', which is a book written by Muhammad Qasim Zaman, the book says: 'According to Taqi ‘Uthmani, there are two options for a state as it contemplates the mode of implementing Islamic law. The first is simply to declare the shari‘a as the law and require the courts to henceforth rule according to it...The other option is to codify the shari‘a...Taqi ‘Uthmani’s preference is clearly for a codified shari‘a, without waiting until the shari‘a has been fully codified.'" image
2025-11-12 19:35:45 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"CBDC is a central bank crypto-currency issued by the bank. The bank of england has explictly mentioend their intention to push for this. Whilst there are various criticisms from a privacy persepctive and an anti-surveilance perspective, an interesting cirticism from a western economist's perspective is that it could lead to the shrinking of the banking sector as it could lead to banking sector dis-intermediation if CBDC is seen as more attractive than bank deposits which might lead to a tightening of the credit supply." image
2025-11-12 18:55:12 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"Recently the american administration is offering a tariff stimulus check of $2000 to everyone except 'high income people'. This indicates that the current american government is very worried about the possibility of a recession. It seems that american government wants a large boost to consumption (low-income consumers tend to have higher larger marginal propensity to consume than high-income consumers). The american government is aware that the majority of the recent american economic growth has occured via the AI bubble which the american government themselves have pushed when they funded a loss-making company known as OpenAI which is implicitly asking for a bailout. The american government themselves did not expect china to introduce more competition (deepseek and moonshine) and openai have experienced huge losses despite them the introduction of their subscription model. Now openai is desperate to get some profit where they now want to introduce erotica." image
2025-11-09 20:43:02 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"In the context of organisations, centralisation is where the upper management run majority of the operations of the organisation whilst decentralisation is where the lower levels of management run majority of the operations. Limited liability companies are similar to decentralised organisations where the shareholders don't really do much of the operations whilst the managers do. What arises from a decentralisiaed organisation is the conflict between the agent individual and the principal individual which has been described in the 'principal-agent theory'." image
2025-11-08 16:15:56 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"'...The Christian drinks wine with his food, instead of water, without getting drunk and this increases his strength.' 'The Muslim, on the other hand, drinks wine only in order to get as drunk as possible. He loses his reason, goes mad...'" This was mentioned in the book, "Ibn Fadlan and the Land of the Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North" written by "Ibn Fadlan" and translated by "Paul Lunde" and "Caroline Stone".
2025-11-06 21:33:34 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"The under discussed topics amongst Muslims who talk about finance is limited liability companies."
2025-11-06 20:20:43 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"The modern state of India" "The history of modernity in India is a history of industrialisation with massive internal instability arising from the conflicts between the desires of the modernists and the desire of people who oppose some aspects of modernity. (They don't reject all aspects of modernity). Even when the people oppose a specific aspect of modernity and not all of it, it becomes apparent that the modern state of india is not able to act upon its supposed 'functions'." "Look at the conflict between north India and south India which is related to other topics but one of those topics of tension is related to the langauge where north Indians tend to speak Hindi whilst south indians tend to speak dravidian languages (Tamil, telugu). The tensions between the central government and the southern states have exacerbated over the topic of language to the extent of which that only around 41% of the population speak Hindi which is viewed as an 'official language' whilst the rest of the population of the southern states speak in Dravidian languages. One of the not so spoken much about aspect of the modern state is the centralisation of language where there is an emphasis on the language of the state. So when you see modi speaking in either English or Hindi, less than 50% of the population of India understand what he is saying. In comparison to areas such as France, France used to have a range of dialects and langauges. After the 'revolution' the french engaged in language centralisation." "A feature of the modern state is citizenship. The modernist believes that the citizen generally have the same rights as another citizen. This view of citizenship goes against Hinduism. Hinduism does not generally emphasises on doctrine and it is a ritualistic religion similar to confucianism. Hinduism does center around the hindu caste system where you find Hindus unable to define what Hinduism is when they worship different false idols whilst they're willing to tell you which 'caste' they belong to. That hindu belief is a rejection of the view that there is equality between individuals when the 'brahmin' views the dalit as a 'dog' and he doesn't believe that the dalit is part of the Hindu caste system. There have been several militias who believe in the hindu caste system who do not care about people outside their perceived 'caste' and this correlates with them being apathetic towards 'Indian' nationalism. The tensions between the 'indian' modernist and the hindu who believes in this caste system still continues today and that there isn't really a supposed 'Indian national identity' that unites Indians as there are tensions over language, ethnicity and Hindus who believe in the Hindu caste systems. At the same time the Indian modernists try to 'stop' their conflict with their hatred of Muslims. In other words Indian modernists believes indian nationalism which centers around anti-islamic views. The Indian state has tried to including the current hindutva government is their attempt of undermining hindus who believe in the Hindu caste system where they push 'caste reservations' where Hindus who are perceived by others as being part of a 'lower caste' are able to obtain jobs more easily with government support." "Another feature of modernity specifically on the topic of modern technology and infrastructure. Although this topic is quite broad if you look at the introduction of cars, roads and headlights, you get an idea of how unstable the usage of modern technics and how missing one piece of modern technics has led to the dysfunctionality of the other modern technics in 'India'. For example, plastic bottles. Plastic bottles is widely used worldwide but usually the westerner dumps the plastic bottle in a recycling bin and there is a culture relating to putting plastic bottles in the recycling bin as its expected within a western society which has not only used modern technics but it has also responded to some of the excesses of it. In india, there is little to no recycling bins and as they do not expect others to place it in the recycling bin when the Indian government has not built this recycling infrastructure and they have not promoted a culture of recycling amongst the Indian population and what you see is the excesses of plastic bottles where there plastic waste all over the area and various types of pollutions associated with it." "Another form of modern technics which have been associated with havoc and chaos is the transportation infrastructure and rotting roads where there are loads of cars, lorries and vans that roam across the road at high speed whilst there is a lack of warnings, the lack of road maintenance and the lack of culture which informs the members of that society about being careful around vehicles which has been associated with several violent events where a person has died after being hit by either a car, train or being involved in some crash where numerous people have died. The general pattern you see of the introduction of modern technics in India is that it is very disintegrated and disjointed such that modern technics in india is known to be associated with chaos, pollution and various adverse stuff and it could be argued that there India doesn't have a culture which actually responds to these modern technics where you see incidents happening." "The modernisation of india is story in which the Indians imported 'modernity' and instead of this supposed 'idealised westernised country' you see a dysfunctional 'modern' state which acts similar to a pre-modern empire."
2025-11-01 16:23:38 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"One of the famous economic theories is about market structures. If there were competing numerous homogenous firms competing within the same market the economic theory states that usually in the firms end up competing over price. Examples that are similar to this market structure are foreign exchange markets and highly liquid share markets." image
2025-10-30 20:53:16 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
Is it not realisitically possible for these custodial wallets to be used to exchange bitcoin with fiat money and vice versa?
2025-10-30 20:37:01 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →
"Did the central banks learn from the soviets (Viktor Glushkov)?" image
2025-10-26 18:26:07 from 1 relay(s) View Thread →