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I publish a twice-monthly intercommunity newsletter. The new edition is out:
https://plex.collectivesensecommons.org/2023-08-02/
It's a good one, I'm proud of it and our contributors!
Top of Acadia Mountain; Imagination & Groundedness; Let the Mud Settle, Until Clarity Emerges; Where White Folks Can Imagine Ceding Power; Act in Unison; Neighborhood Flowers; To Bee or Not to Bee? SIGGRAPH’s 50th: A Rather Spectacular Gallery; The Serious Logical Structure of the Climate Moment
@atproto.com on Bluesky writes:
> 📢 Call for developers!
> On the AT Protocol, third-party can be as seamless as first-party through custom feeds, federated services, clients, and more.
> We'd love to welcome more devs to the network to join us in building these services. Please share this short form with developers!
Interesting editorial. Makes me sad, but it's also a little hard to argue with:
"The open source licensing war is over" - It’s time for the open source Rambos to stop fighting and agree that developers care more about software’s access and ease of use than the purity of its license.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3703768/the-licensing-war-is-over.amp.html - Matt Asay, Infoworld, 2023-07-31
Climate-fueled extremes are endangering people everywhere. So why aren't we seeing an immediate response at scale?
Because they're only dismantling one barrier to action, psychological distance -- and there are two more.
Lack of efficacy is rampant among those already worried about climate change; and paradoxically, the worse the impacts get, the less we think we can do about it. It's a self-reinforcing cycle.
Solution aversion also hardens as the urgency of action becomes ever more evident.
But here's the good news; they can be tackled, too!
Here's how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkMIjbDtdo0
@peterkaminski good cause but don't forget about archive.today too (much less funding and it's always good to have two options to record our history)
I just donated $ to Internet Archive, it's that time of year.
Will you? https://archive.org/donate
They're good folks doing good work. I use the web Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/ & scanned books library https://archive.org/details/inlibrary & more.
I super appreciate that they exist!
Anatomy of a COVID superspreader event at an *outdoor* night market in China in July 2022: 3 people with BA.5.2 infected 131 people in a 1 hr 4 mins visit.
paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1153303/full
summary: https://twitter.com/drzoehyde/status/1683109881455452160
Nimblebox has set up https://chat.nbox.ai - a chat interface to Llama 2 and GPT-3.5/4.
The Llamas 2 work pretty well, but 13B gets wonky as a conversation continues. 70B doesn't know when to shut up, sort of like a runaway token-generating freight train.
I usually feel smarter and calmer after a chat with GPT-4. So far, chatting with Llama 2 feels a little like a trip through a house of funhouse mirrors.
@whitequark to make it worse, "Hugging Face" conjures up for me the facehugger from the Alien movie!
"The immunology of long COVID" - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023-07-11
The assumption is that at least 10% of those who had COVID-19 have long COVID, spanning from mild symptoms to profound disability, making this a huge new healthcare challenge.
Netlify has free hosting for static HTML sites, such as Massive Wikis, that have public repos.
TIL it includes easy serverless web form processing; check out this <form> HTML: https://peterkaminski.wiki/contact_peter_kaminski.md
To see it rendered: https://peterkaminski.wiki/contact_peter_kaminski
I want to make local models (and remote API-driven models) as easy to try out as possible, so I put together this detailed tutorial about how to build an LLM plugin that adds support for a new model: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/plugins/tutorial-model-plugin.html
@peterkaminski Lots here.
"If Netscape was the standard bearer for Web 1.0, Google is most certainly the standard bearer for Web 2.0, if only because their respective IPOs were defining events for each era."
IPOs as defining events is the kind of thinking from which I probably interpreted O'Reilly's focus on $. But $ are not a very good proxy for real value.
Netscape, ironically, provides a nice counterexample - saving its legacy by essentially handing itself off to a nonprofit, Mozilla.
@slowenough, Thx for the heads-up, I've added contact info to my site, sidebar+footer.
I think Tim, Dale, et al. said mostly that Web 2.0 was participatory & a platform for web nativeness. Blast from past: https://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
Nostr, Mastodon, & Bsky are definitely paths forward from the fugue states of Twitter & Threads. This post was about the fugue, bleah, not the future.
You're obviously right, they're promising & worth a mention; I'll edit to add. And maybe write a post about someday!
@peterkaminski Struck me that you asked a question at the end, but don't offer any way for people to get their responses to you. (Even on the home page.)
Also, seemed like a big miss to not mention promising options such as Nostr, or Mastodon.
If memory serves, "Web 2.0" was put forward by Tim O'Reilly in response to the dot-com bust, to say the web wasn't just a fad and was still worth investing $ into. Much projection ensued. The $ focus predominated, over more hopeful visions such as Ross'.
A fun video from 2022, Hiromi playing Pachelbel's Canon with increasing fanciness. Hiromi's joy is infectious & the transcription is fascinating, like many of the transcriptions Collier shares. Sort of a long video, 8+min, worth watching the whole thing.
Whither microblogging? A mini-fugue about connecting people, with reading links:
A superb source for ambient background sound to listen to with headphones, to help keep you more relaxed and focused: https://myNoise.net from Stéphane Pigeon, a sound engineer and audio enthusiast.
Free to use, but please consider donating $5-$30 once in a while if you end up using it like I do.
@slowenough Monica Anderson, the Experimental AI Epistemologist?
Maybe you've seen the cool "flying dragon" drone light show from the June 2023 Dragon Boat Show in Hong Kong.
I put together a page with some links to background info & videos, including some cool setup/takeoff/landing vids.
https://peterkaminski.wiki/shenzen_damoda_flying_dragon_drone_light_show
