We are so going to win this war of AI just like we won the war on drugs and terror. #WinningAtLosing
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative To the Tech Oligarchy - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/21/2252212/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy
Liberal Visions and Boring Machines, The Early History of the Channel Tunnel - https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-early-history-of-the-channel-tunnel/
High Pressure Materials In Use With Digital Fracking - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/18/high-pressure-materials-in-use-with-digital-fracking/
Getting Started in the Morning is Hard - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/17/getting-started-in-the-morning-is-hard/
The people should own the town square - https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
Digital Fracking - https://kinlane.com/2025/01/14/digital-fracking/
Artificial Intelligence Is To The Mind What The Automobile Was To The Body - https://kinlane.com/2024/12/31/artificial-intelligence-is-to-the-mind-what-the-automobile-was-to-the-body/
Modern cars have sensors, cameras, GPS for location tracking, and more, all collecting data—and it turns out in many cases, sharing it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/cars-and-drivers-2024-year-review
Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!
Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings
Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/
Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
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