The Thing is a non-profit media studio aiming to humanise the ML industry with creative, human-centric storytelling, educational material, and ultimately a digital commons container. Currently, the project operates as a podcast, blog, and educational repository that covers first principles of AI, zooming out to a big picture focus to answer the questions "what this is and why it matters to you." "Wikipedia for AI" "Chaotic Good 4chan" "a revival of BBS, old school internet"
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At New_ Public, we see so much potential in local digital spaces like neighborhood Facebook groups. America has a social trust crisis, and we think strengthening these groups and their leaders could help knit our social fabric back together. More here:
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Director, Wayback Machine at Internet Archive - Advisor, iskme.org, nsquare.org, interspecies.io
An update from the Internet Archive's Team Wayback Machine. The archives are safe & the Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/) is up in read-only mode. We hope to turn on more web crawling within a day to make sure our web collections remain whole. Next up: Save Page Now. Thank you for the support!
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The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up. My plea for slow AI: https://lnkd.in/ew96CbfE
we're spamming Youtube! ?? check out our archive (over 30hrs of "content" related to - open source, the history of the internet) a refresher what is "The Thing"- a podcast and project where we (Madisen Taylor) and Renée Shaw explore three core topics - people, internet and openness. link in comments.
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Just came across this slide from an internal IBM deck in... 1979
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the recent data breach Internet Archive?has the capacity to turn into a modern burning of the library of Alexandria. Wayback machine? has done so much for common public interest and betterment. Businesses, governments and just general "bad actors" have been halted by the digitisation of history.? Therefore, it's important to be discerning when reading criticisms of the data breach. We are in desperate need of reforming copyright laws to suit the age we actually live in (digital).? All of this could be put down to "who cares, it's a website?!". The dead internet "theory" is one that's also easy to rebuff as something adopted only by people wearing tin foil hats. My understanding of it is simple- young people use social media as their primary source for news.? AI-fuelled disinformation? + dead links doesn't make for an accurate, holistic view of the past.? The call to action? Sovereignty over data. Locally run (on your device, offline) options for operating systems and common tools.? Back up your data. Just something to think about.?
longer share on this soon but basically- Metalabel is what the internet should be
The past three years I've been working with a group of close collaborators on an ambitious and unusual project, called Metalabel. The project began as a personal search for a feeling of connection as a creative person, and has since evolved into imagining and building a new structure through which all creative people can cooperate with others, build and share wealth, and change the course of their creative lives. That long process culminated this week with the official launch of Metalabel —?the first release platform for creative work. We're debuting the platform with a Fall/Winter collection of releases that includes new work from Brian Eno, Other Internet, Mindy Seu, the David Graeber Institute, and dozens more incredible artists and creative leaders. Underneath the hood is a new product stack: a curated space for creative releases; tools to let you edition your work and make it valuable; and a first-of-its-kind financial splits product that lets anyone distribute upside among collaborators. When I stepped down as Kickstarter's CEO, I felt remorse that a chapter of my life spent directly supporting creative people had closed. Little did I know it was only just beginning. Give Metalabel a spin: metalabel.com
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Losing the Internet Archive is a frightening prospect. In the age of instant gratification, who should be the owners of our collective internet memories?