Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@social.cleverlibre.org

Mobile tech is a duopoly run by two companies - Google and Apple - with a combined market cap of $3.5 trillion. Each company uses a combination of tech, law, contract and market power to force sellers to do commerce via an app, and each one extracts a *massive* commission on all in-app sales - 15-30%!

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Finally, some of my own thoughts. I firmly believe that the value that #chatGPT and similar models deliver to society is negative. Being able to generate at the press of a button plausibly and smart sounding content that might be wildly but subtly incorrect, with no citations, no sources, no indication of providence, is a recipe for poisining the information environment.

I see programmer types concluding that this will "replace programming" and "make us obsolete". I find it shocking that folks have such a low view of their own profession. The worst, most dangerous code isn't code full of bugs. It's code that "works", but that is incorrect in ways that are pernicious but not obvious.

The job of a programmer also isn't to reproduce some algorithm, it's to understand and model the world, to understand and anticipate user needs, it's to collaborate and shepherd a code base over a prolonged period of time. No language model will do these things.

To quote someone who's very dear to me: "PEOPLE AREN'T USING THEIR BRAINS". Please, use your brains, and be grateful for all the things it can do that a pattern matching model can't.

Am kommenden Dienstag, den 20.12.2022, lädt das #EZS im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe #Sprache – #Leib – #Interaktion zum Vortrag von Prof. Anja Stukenbrock (Heidelberg) zum Thema "#Zeigen - Zum Zusammenwirken von Sprache, Leib und Raum in der Interaktion" ein.
📅 Di, d. 20.12.2022, 18.15 Uhr
📍 Germanistisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg

One of the things I love most about @letterformarchive is all the process and sketch work they have. The path to the final design is so illuminating and wonderful. Like this scrappy little folder full on notes by Zuzano Licko for the the Lo-Res #typeface - they have A LOT from
#emigre - #processWork
https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_emigre_0096

Speech-to-Text interface for Emacs using OpenAI's whisper speech recognition model:

https://github.com/natrys/whisper.el

Can transcribe from speech in local language (optionally after translating to English). Works offline without requiring GPU.

#emacs #whisper

For those encountering my content for the first time: my nine-part series on Infocom's A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) begins here. Two posts remain. This is already the most that a single author has written about this game, and the first concerted effort to focus exclusively on textual and cultural analysis.

The intended audience is not academic, though some humanists and knowledge workers might enjoy it.

#interactivefiction #infocom #infocomodon

https://golmac.org/initial-groundwork-for-a-reading-of-a-mind-forever-voyaging/

Spark has successfully passed its pilot phase! Our funding scheme for innovative and unconventional research is now part of our regular portfolio. Time to get ready for the next call – opening 3 April 2023 and closing 2 May 2023.

https://sohub.io/yr8f

Spark – Pilotphase bestanden! Unser Förderprogramm für innovative und unkonventionelle Forschung ist nun Teil unseres fixen Portfolios. Zeit, sich für die nächste Ausschreibung zu wappnen. Diese öffnet am 3. April, mit Deadline am 2. Mai 2023.

https://sohub.io/ey31

Naps are great for when instead of being tired for an hour, you want to be tired for the rest of the day

Babbage Patch Finds--a daily deep dive into the CBI Archives

FAIRBREAK CENTER, 1972

Fairbreak Center was an organization to provide access and education to computing within lower income/resources communities. It had time-share networked CDC PLATO educational terminals, and also, provided education on maintenance of machines as this image indicates.

@histodons @sociology #histodons #sociology #tech #technology #inequality #blackhistory #education #community #computer #software #educators

Le rapport du projet #Pixelvetica vient de sortir ! Pour tout savoir sur l'état de la préservation des jeux vidéo en Suisse et obtenir des pistes pour agir (la plupart probablement valables aussi en dehors de Suisse). https://memoriav.ch/fr/projet-pilote-conservation-jeux-video-rapport-final/ #GameStudies #VideoGamePreservation

To the hard-working #diamondOA community: hang in there. Policy is slow, but we have a chance when orgs release statements like this:

"ALLEA recommends that research institutions and funding orgs prioritise the development of a sustainable non-profit publishing ecosystem that allows for OA of scientific publications without imposing undue financial barriers to publication, and that prevents scarce financial resources from being syphoned off by the private sector."

https://allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ALLEA-Statement-Big-Deals-and-the-New-Copyright-Rules.pdf

@sachac Made this into a blog post: https://holgerschurig.github.io/en/emacs-mastodon-hydra/

Présentation rapport final: La sauvegarde des jeux vidéo suisses http://dlvr.it/SfHQyB #infoclioevent

HackerNews Emacs - [+15 Point]

My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
Link: https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/switching-from-heavyweight-ides-to-emacs.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33951866
#emacs