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Personally I feel like it’s a dangerous precedent because it shifts open source from a community concept to something that a company lets you have with a bunch of conditions.

From Llama had already become a defacto standard for LLMs, between all the fine-tunes… | Hacker News

Reduce Competitor’s Moat. Llama 2 hurts two kinds of competitors. The first is companies with proprietary models — Google and OpenAI (Microsoft, by association). The second is any company that sits in the serving stack but needs to organically build its audience (Meta has billions of captive users across its properties).

From Why Did Meta Open-Source Llama 2?

The tools that people use to do their jobs, and the tasks that might now get a new layer of automation, are complicated and very specialised, and embody a lot of work and institutional knowledge. A lot of people are experimenting with ChatGPT, and seeing what it will do. If you’re reading this, you probably have too. That doesn’t mean that ChatGPT has replaced their existing workflows yet, and replacing or automating any of those tools and tasks is not trivial.

From AI and the automation of work — Benedict Evans

Let me paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen’s remark to Dan Quayle during the vice-presidential debate in 1988: I knew Robert F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no Robert F. Kennedy.

From I knew Robert F. Kennedy, and you’re no Robert F. Kennedy

Rather, there are two separate threads – only one of which can properly be called a body of scholarship – that are being held up as in conversation or in competition with each other.

From Talking about a ‘schism’ is ahistorical | by Emily M. Bender | Jul, 2023 | Medium, via

Now, the Supreme Court will decide whether to take the next logical step and strike down laws prohibiting people who have domestic violence restraining orders against them from having guns.

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Many developers have been working to bring awareness to the problems of massive, centralize platforms — and bloggers and journalists have been doing the same — so much that users increasingly understand the value of decentralization and content ownership.

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In San Francisco’s District 8, a public library has been shutting down Wi-Fi outside business hours for nearly a year. The measure, quietly implemented in mid-2022, was made at the request of neighbors and the office of city supervisor Rafael Mandelman. It’s an attempt to keep city dwellers who are currently unhoused away from the area by locking down access to one of the library’s most valuable public services. 

From A San Francisco library is turning off Wi-Fi at night to keep people without housing from using it - The Verge

Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over…

From Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps - The Verge

Picture this: control over forum infrastructure is not concentrated in a single, centralized authority but dispersed across a network of individuals or groups.

From Viksit Gaur - The case for decentralization of online forums

#CommunityOrganizing

Accurate numbers for food loss from konbinis are not published, but from public information the estimated amount of food thrown away, despite being safe to eat, is a staggering 25,000 tons.

From A peek into Japan’s Convenience Stores (Part 2)

#FoodSecurity

We will also study the policies and procedures being established by instructors, publishers, and academic institutions, with a goal of creating guidelines that reflect the many real-world applications of AI-generated text.

From How to cite ChatGPT

#research

So much of what people call “conviction” is actually a willful disregard for facts that might change their minds.

From Mental Liquidity · Collab Fund.

#Learning

The whole point of going from free-of-charge to very-expensive with these APIs is to get OpenAI and similar companies to pay for them. It’s a pipe dream.

From Daring Fireball: Reddit’s Hoped-For IPO and Pipe Dream of Cashing in on OpenAI’s Hype

Let’s buy the Oakland A’s. There is a model.

#mutualism

Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.

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It’s not lost on me that two-thirds of the world’s school-aged children don’t even have internet at home, according to a 2020 UNICEF report. As AI takes root in our lives, will it widen the chasm between those who have access to such technology and those who do not?

From The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT – The Markup