:David Campey

Helping humans & tech work, play & dance together 👾
In Africa, for Africa 🌍
合気道と日本語の学生です

Work at: https://capitecbank.co.za
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Write at: https://medium.com/@davidcampey
Founder of: https://afrolabs.co.za

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2026-06-07 19:39:22 UTC

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this is very disturbing in a science fiction dystopia way.
It's all kinds of efficient and uncomfortable.
Reminds me of some of the ultimate zero waste cycle futures in Metatropolis, specifically @npub1x5s…fya8 "Utere nihil non extra quiritationem suis" - Use everything of the pig except the squeal.
#scifi #farming

2025-12-01 22:10:01 UTC

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oh, wow that's so cool!

2025-12-01 17:29:44 UTC

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Looks like a sad mustachiod face on the tree, with the birds as a comical tongue.

2025-11-13 04:00:45 UTC

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curious, why?

2025-04-04 05:05:39 UTC

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unexpected uses for AR translation overlays.

2024-11-15 15:16:24 UTC

Reflecting on pushing to get the paintnite demo out last year, we made our "first $" with it, but then we swirled off into the multiverse.
https://worldtreewizards.itch.io/paintnite-demo
Figuring maybe sharing on here will spark some inspiration and move to momentum again.
#gamedev #indiegame
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/487/623/962/837/205/original/08963c931835cf03.png

2024-10-21 18:55:33 UTC

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It seems the trick of skilled public organisations is that they know how to engage stakeholders at the appropriate level, set goals, and then make decisions on a tight loop in pursuit of those goals, with clear success metrics.
But there is less of a "natural selection" of the failing public institution, compared to the failing corporate. So mediocrity can prevail.
3/3

2024-10-21 18:50:34 UTC

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The incentives are also difficult to align in the public case without rethinking our economics around impact, which leads to various forms of corruption and influence in public.
In private, commercial success is often a useful proxy for having the desired impact for the customer, and can be financially incentivised.
Having said this many of the best decisions in my current context are being made by public institutions, so there is clearly a route to success 2/

2024-10-21 18:47:28 UTC

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Largely agree, hence "often" not a neo-liberal absolitism.
Anecdotal, but here's a line of reasoning around good decisions and executive function.
A good decision is not necessarily only measured on correctness, but cycle time and effort to make. With more explicit stakeholders public decision-making is encumbered, and flap deciding is slow and expensive, so batch size increases, leading to slower feedback, less reflection and impaired executive function. 1/

2024-10-21 18:10:35 UTC

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Yes, and if it is the only service provider then it becomes a public liability and utility, and should behave as if public, even if incorporated.
At that point competition having been removed, and the entity so massively (over-)powerful that regulation effects the necessary bargaining power to keep it in check.
Or just making it a public utility.
But our executive functioning in public organisations is often less effective than in private ones, so it's hard.

2024-10-06 18:21:25 UTC

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you could think of them as the Colonel, if that helps?
#dadjoke

2024-09-30 19:27:08 UTC

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I'm in. Follower Number 8239 reporting for duty.

2024-09-25 19:32:40 UTC

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I thought Total Annihilation would have been there, given Cavedog was part of humongous which got bought by GT then sold to Infogrames that became Atari.
But now I see that Humongous Inc was sold out to Tommo, so maybe that's where it ended up.
Humongous.com has been relaunched, but no sign of cavedog.com revival yet.
Maybe @npub192d…2vay knows where it's ended up and/or going?

2024-09-25 18:15:49 UTC

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thank you 😁

2024-09-25 18:05:12 UTC

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sure, thought you might be interested in how it's going wrong.
Also could you provide me a link to view on your server? Not sure exactly how to get to that file there from here.

2024-09-25 11:24:02 UTC

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Is possible, or a federation error, this is the link that I end up routed to:
https://mastodon.online/media_proxy/113196294069885245/original

2024-09-25 06:30:48 UTC

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likewise, at least there's a cute elephant.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/196/778/558/871/502/original/bf9f39de424cc561.png

2024-09-17 17:18:04 UTC

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on the topic of economics and physics...
"Physicist J. Doyne Farmer wants a new kind of economics that takes account of what we've learned from chaos theory and that builds more accurate models of how humans actually behave." https://youtu.be/0QhyRAhhxc8