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Can public involvement in AI evaluation make the science better? Or does it compromise quality, speed, and cost for the sake of politics?

In a new article out in PNAS, @mprice and I ask: if you only care about the validity of scientific results, would you have a reason to include people with […]

A Cisco badge in front of a Cisco logo on a wall

This week I turned in my Cisco badge after 8.5 years there with the MindMeld team, on top of 2 years with MindMeld, Inc before we were acquired by Cisco. Through more than a decade with the same team, in many ways it changed every year.
This was my first job […]

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Half of the crowd

2 hour parking, above protest signs indicating no king any time and 2 term limit

Obverse of sign, “health care is a human right” in sharpie on cardboard

Street sign says yield here to pedestrians/no kings

There are #NoKings permitted in my little city. And healthcare is a human right.

Using @kjhealy ’s street signs design. Thanks!

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

I also want to know this. I have been using OVH in Quebec, which has been fine, but actual Canadian or Mexican hosts would be nice
https://recsys.social/@brohrer/115245259667072875

“The world's biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.” To say so is not to justify the Oct 7 attacks. But genocide is never justifiable.

To […]

Weird that I can't think of this off the top of my head but... who on the fedi is based in the PNW and is an implementer of / contributor to Fediverse software?

(small projects fine! tinkerers too! technical role or not! just trying to consider who I might be able to wrangle together to talk […]

@trochee I was quite disappointed this wasn't you. I feel like your answer might have been too short to make a podcast episode out of it though: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/pioneers-of-ai-580529/does-openais-new-model-deliver-on-the-hype-inside-gpt-5-with-jeremy-ka-96757702

We need a radically, militantly kind agenda championed by people who aren't afraid to be radically, militantly kind.

And if that sounds gentle and cutesy, well. You are not understanding me when I say "militant"

Here's my personal model for how I'm thinking about AI. https://werd.io/evaluating-ai/

Subvert: plan for the artist-owned internet zine/business-plan/manifesto

Here's our vision: A platform owned not by a handful of investors, but by hundreds of thousands - even millions - of users; A replicable model for creating collectively owned and controlled enterprises; An economy where value flows to those who create it - not just those who invest in it.

I’m now an owner in a cooperative, and I even got this cool zine!

Just planning to take over the internet, nbd.

@subvertworld

The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

…over the past few weeks – with the help of a growing group of rebels fighting to take back ownership and control over their digital lives – I did something radical: I built my own cloud.
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How can our world stay informed & connected when social media has become fragmented and risky, locked behind private chat rooms, and controlled by mercurial billionaires with their own agendas?

My reflections on @prehensile @cubicgarden BBC R&D report, on why this time especially needs […]

Thank you to the great Colorado-founded @catalystcoop for this deep-dive on worker co-op management & governance!

And thank you @geosocialcoop for publishing: https://geo.coop/articles/what-its-work-tech-worker-co-op

The success of the AI industry should be judged by how much high quality, economically viable, widespread leisure time it produces for humans. So far it is not looking good.

Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says Michael I. Jordan explains why today’s artificial-intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent

Stop Calling Everything AI

https://spectrum.ieee.org/stop-calling-everything-ai-machinelearning-pioneer-says

Machine-Learning Pioneer Says Michael I. Jordan explains why today’s artificial-intelligence systems aren’t actually intelligent (IEEE Spectrum 2021)

Thinking for no particular reason today* about the peculiar genius of Stanislaw Lem

A Jew, a doctor, a Pole, in the resistance against Hitler & Stalin & capitalism, an SF legend, feared by PK Dick, lauded by UK Le Guin

…& one of the earliest AGI skeptics

>… held that information technology […]

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Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill. These are not companies that supported the bill by donating to the politicians that voted for it (although most did that too). These are companies that endorsed the bill publicly and were featured on a White […]

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My father's first memories are of a concentration camp. My grandmother screamed through nightmares every night of my childhood. I exist because she risked her life so my dad could survive.

This Fourth of July, I'm not feeling very patriotic. But I know exactly which America I believe in […]

People Seeking Asylum – Australia - Words to Win By The Australian government has crafted and carried out an immigration policy so abusive that it earned President Trump’s praise. Yet, over the last few years, facing a conservative and openly xenophobi...

Here's that story: wordstowinby-pod.com/people-seeki...

Read through @creativecommons's "signals" proposal and that's ... really weak.

Feels like it's just a bit of window dressing to keep to community busy while AI companies take everything they can find.

Like, why is that kind of signalling not part of the licenses? The promise of CC licenses was […]

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice Share This Editorial

Evidently this was a full-page ad in the NYT?

Which is a sick burn not only to Congress, but to the NYT.

Just to add a little extra to the it's 2002 and Everybody's Getting Their News From The Daily Show vibe of this time

Leading figures across greater Silicon Valley have turned right for the same reason business elites always have: they want more power over their workers. https://lpeproject.org/blog/techs-turn-to-trump-was-a-labor-story-and-the-response-should-be-too/

What a great write-up of the bananas ideology currently running ( and ruining ) the world

The Psychology Behind Tech Billionaires
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/billionaires-psychology-tech-politics-1235358129/

And I’ve converted the poetry book into a slide show e-book. If you’d like to honor him, please take a good nap this week.

https://blog.discurs.us/whiled_life/#/section

His life’s work was to remind us to enjoy the simple things, like sunshine and wind in your hair, bread crusts found in the grass, afternoon naps, smelly leaves, and neighbor dogs. He condensed this wisdom into an Instagram poetry feed, which became a physical book during the pandemic. I’ve […]

Tom on a bridge in wind and sunshine

Tom "Darkest Skye" Barker: Commemorating a good boy

It's been one year since Tom passed.

#Fidoverse #DogsOfPixelfed #haiku

https://blog.discurs.us/posts/2025-06-08-whiled-life/

Paddling in MLK Shoreline Park

Laundry days: Cleaning up the AI mess we’ve made

> I’ve spent the past four weeks off from work, primarily to sort out some complex feelings about the industry that I’ve made my career in. The tech industry, and the “AI” industry in particular, have earned […]

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