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The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
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@coreymaps this is important work, thank you for sharing it. Is the code you used available, or is the approach you used similar to one of your other projects?
14 Oct 2023
A new analysis of satellite imagery shows an estimate of the areas in Gaza that were significantly damaged in the first six days of Israel’s retaliatory airstrikes. Significant damage is most visible in several areas in northern Gaza. nyti.ms/45xK7FU
ALT A map with the headline, “Northern Gaza has borne the brunt of Israel’s Retaliation,” shows a satellite image of the northern portion of the Gaza Strip, overlaid with areas marked in red to show the locations that had significant damage.
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9 Jun 2023
I'm creating a collection of tweets that match "Cornel West #cornelwest24". You can learn more about why I'm creating it and specify your terms of your consent here community.docnow.io/collecti…
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16 May 2023
🔖 Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and keyword-stuffing ift.tt/wildI1c
"Moreover, researchers have also discovered that it’s probably mathematically impossible to secure the training data for a large language model like GPT-4 or PaLM 2. …
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16 May 2023
🔖 On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models ift.tt/ALuPo1n
Large AI Models (LAIMs), of which large language models are the most prominent recent example, showcase some impressive performance. However they have been empirically found to pose serious security iss…
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14 May 2023
ReSpec Writing - ift.tt/exFkT2L
Technical writing is something I’ve gotten more enjoyment out of the
longer I’ve been working professionally as a software developer.
Although, maybe it has been an interest all along, and I’ve only
recently begun to recognize it. I thi…
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9 May 2023
Future - ift.tt/NOwHmVb
I had high expectations for the The
Ministry for the Future, and it really exceeded them.
I liked how the narration shifted between 3rd and 1st person – some
narrators weren’t people at all and were things/concepts lik… theguardian.com/cities/2018/…
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Ed Summers retweeted
4 May 2023
A sibling team at work posted two jobs that may interest some of you kind folk:
* UI/UX Designer: careersearch.stanford.edu/jo…
* Software Developer: careersearch.stanford.edu/jo…
Feel free to share widely, if you are inclined.
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7 May 2023
🔖 Technological Futures: A Letter to the Smolnet gopher://perma.computer:70/0/letter.txt
Computing can be more than the ever-growing techno-capitalist juggernaut. It can be about things other than speed, or scale. It can be about human creation, and human interaction. It ca…
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2 May 2023
🔖 Mean Images by Hito Steyerl ift.tt/lUOVnA8
"But it is more likely that many of them will be forced to ‘upgrade’ by renting services built on their own stolen labour, in order to remain ‘competitive’, than that they will be replaced fully by ml automation."
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Ed Summers retweeted
28 Apr 2023
Have you been using our pywb toolset your web archive replay system? If so, please take a moment to answer this quick survey! We hope to use results to inform our development roadmap and possibly broaden group of contributors!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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1 May 2023
pymarc 🛠 - ift.tt/Ta4MWpv
There’s a new major
version of pymarc out
today. This was largely the work of Andrew Hankinson, David Dowling and
Jon Stroop, as well as the generous people who discussed the proposed
changes on the mailing
list.
I don’t think I could ha…
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28 Apr 2023
🔖 Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism ift.tt/f0MPeYU
In this account, we show that the goals and tactics of Luddism have signifcant alignments with current HCI work in the areas of unmaking and social justice. Through articulation of six…
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25 Apr 2023
🔖 From Bias to Repair: Error as a Site of Collaboration and Negotiation in Applied Data Science Work ift.tt/FZUeEp3
... artful living with error can better support the creative strategies of negotiation and adjustment which data scientists and their collaborators …
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21 Apr 2023
🔖 wikihistories 2023: Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting) ift.tt/8UotZuw
In this first annual workshop of the wikihistories project, we will take stock of what we know and what we still need to know about Wikipedia as a history-making platfo…
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19 Apr 2023
You probably saw that little update about the Terms of Service? Here's the diff on the Hateful Conduct Policy:
web.archive.org/web/diff/202…
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10 Apr 2023
Translation - ift.tt/iaet2X6
I recently bought a copy of The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry to supplement my Duolingo excursions into French (which I never really learned well, and am trying to relearn).
Generally I like the experience of using …
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1 Apr 2023
🔖 Sans Soleil (Sunless) - Chris Marker youtube.com/watch?v=fdusEgrb…
via ift.tt/5YsvJ1d
Sans Soleil is a 1983 French documentary film directed by Chris Marker. It is a meditation on the nature of human memory, showing the inability to recall the context and nuances of mem…
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31 Mar 2023
🔖 To Re-experience the Web: A Framework for the Transformation and Replay of Archived Web Pages | ACM Transactions on the Web ift.tt/S9rV132
The process of replaying mementos and the modifications made to the representations by web archives varies between archives…
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