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How pandemic crises have contributed to change the course of history... Short article.

The Indieweb is based on owning your own domain name and owning and managing your own web server. As Goldsmith notes, none of these is free, and in fact, they create a significant barrier to participation. "If a movement has at its core a significant barrier to entry, then it is always exclusionary. While we've already seen that the movement has barriers at ability and personality, it is also true that, as of 2021, there is a significant barrier in terms of monetary resources."

The time has come, said Re, for AI scientists to focus on higher-level tasks such as bringing domain expertise to AI rather than twiddling hyper-parameter settings of neural networks.

Virtual communities can make the world a better place. or they can manipulate elections by spreading hate messages en conspiracy theories. Or they can manipulate the stock markets in a so-called anti-establishment frenzy, which is no more that a thin veil hiding resentment, hate and greed. Revolutions are not always pretty to look at.

Article by Tristan Harris, the man who launched the Humane Technology project

imagine the future scenario of government mandated internet shutdowns

Interesting article about how online collaboration also has a dark side

paper about huge language odel by google