Nebo is a Mac app for handwritten notes. Its OCR claims to do English plus one of 66 other languages both. First time I've seen that. Q remains: does it do so simultaneously in a single note, or as selected per note? My e-ink device allows a range of languages but not at the same time, I need to switch the setting, and applies one language to one note. This clashes with the fact that multilingual users will use multiple languages inside their notes at the same time. n:: [[Multilingual is not multiple monolingual 20191019072010]] obv https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/adding-better-language-support-ii/

60% of WP hacks is based on stolen session cookies. Another third on core/plugin/theme vulnerabilities. Forcing log-outs for admin accounts then is a fix.

The three are: company data, statistics and mobility. Odd choices: statistics already are interoperable, mobility is a tiny theme in HVD legislation, limited to transport networks and inland waterways, covered by INSPIRE. Company registers

byob bring your own bacteria. Many hospital infections are caused by microbes you already had on you, not by a drug resistant superbug.

Vgl [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]] / [[Context is netwerk van betekenis 20210418104314]] [[Observator geeft betekenis 20210417124703]] . I think K as stock is prone to collector's fallacy. My working def of K is agency along lines of Sveiby. Such K is always situated in the interaction with the world, networks of meaning as context. This as K isn't merely purified I (DIKW pyramid is bogus), it's weaving I, experience, context, skills into a meaningful whole, and it needs an agent to decide on what's meaningful.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240412153300/https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review?eicker.news=

it reads like that yes. Being able to instruct something rather than guess what it is I want is easier and probably better, because you can tweak your instructions to your own preferences.

This reads as if the device wants to be too clever. You could do this with your phone wearing a headset and instruct it to look up a specific restaurant in your own voice. No need for the device to use location, snap an image, OCR it or whatever.

[[AI personal assistants 20201011124147]] should be [[small band AI personal assistant]]s and these are the type of things it might do. This articles names a few interesting use cases for it.

Het webinar van RADIO op 27-2 over mijn #pkm systeem. Video bij https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2024/03/word-pkm-kampioen-voor-jezelf/ en [[PKM RADIO slides]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240409122434/https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/go

• In the decades before AI beat Go-worldchampion, the highest level of Go-players was stable.
• After AI beat the Go-worldchampion, there is a measurable increase in the creativity and quality of Go-players. The field has risen as a whole.
• The change is not attributable to copying AI output (although 40% of cases that happened) but to increased human creativity (60%).
• The realisation that improvement is possible, creates the improvement. This reminds me of [[Beschouw telkens je adjacent possibles 20200826185412]] wrt [[Evolutionair vlak van mogelijkheden 20200826185412]]
• Also the improvement coincides with the appearance of an open source model and tool, which allowed players to explore and interact with the AI, not just play a Go-game against it.
• Examples of plateau-ing of accomplishments and sudden changes exist in sports
• There may also be a link to how in other fields one might see the low end of an activity up their game through using AI rather than be overtaken by it.

Paper 2022 publication in Zotero

Five types of wayfinding in PSKN: 1) node creation 2) finding key notes, 3) forming mental maps 4) making a connection between nodes deemed important 5) finding/filtering information. Note how these 5 are also, in a different way perhpas, core elements of my [[PKM Personal Knowledge Management 20041004192620]] First mentioned, the creation of nodes is a novel type defined by this study. Three types of creation behaviour are involved: learning communities, knowledge nodes, and course knowledge bases. These there are common in pkm circles too, vgl Discord servers some have started, or DF platform, published notes and vids e.g.

Om je te oriënteren in een persoonlijk social kennisnetwerk is het creëren van nodes van groot belang. Maw je moet actief het sociale kennisnetwerk mede vlechten. Netwerkleren betekent connecties maken.

Vgl [[Wie deelt bestaat 20130131133926]] only nodes that share (i.e. contribute) exist in the general perception of the network. Wrt [[Netwerkleren Connectivism 20100421081941]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240402125351/https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-will-the-genai-bubble-burst

On the investment and revenue in #algogens AI. Very lopsided, and surveys report dying enthusiasm with those closely involved. Voices doubt something substantial will come out this year, and if not it will deflate hype of expectations. #prediction for early #2025/ AI hype died down

Wrt [[XZ open source kwetsbaar door psyops 20240331083508]] and examples referred to here, the author focuses on technology fixes to reduce risks. Whereas most of the problems highlighted are social aspects, for which no other solution is suggested than paying OSS devs who maintain stuff. That may well alleviate some of the social aspects that became an attack surface, but does nothing to look at Q of connections between devs and knitting those into relationships that are more resistant to social engineering and psyops. That and more transparency both on the social side of things and the chains. OSS is open source wrt the piece of software in front of you only.

Next to the xz debacle where a maintainer was psyops'd into backdooring servers, this is another new attack surface: AI tools make up software packages in what they generate which get downloaded. So introducing malware is a matter of creating malicious packages named the way they are repeatedly named by AI tools.

a few interesting suggestions, but based on shaky assumptions and practices I think, and then jumping to (over)engineering an alternative system/tool, rather than updating one's (understanding of) tiny methods. The reference frames are useful notion I suspect, but as emergent structure. It seems as if author is thinking the actual work involved in writing / placing / linking is a bug rather than a feature.

Verdict of EU CJ, IAB Europe is een joint-controller voor de AVG. En daarmee ook aan te pakken. Ook de volgende iteratie van IABEurope om onder de AVG uit te komen faalt dus.

1 TC String is personal data under the GDPR: "a string composed of a combination of letters and characters, such as the TC String, containing the preferences of a user of the internet or of an application relating to that user’s consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her by website or application providers as well as by brokers of such data and by advertising platforms constitutes personal data within the meaning of that provision in so far as, where those data may, by reasonable means, be associated with an identifier, such as, inter alia, the IP address of that user’s device, they allow the data subject to be identified. In such circumstances, the fact that, without an external contribution, a sectoral organisation holding that string can neither access the data that are processed by its members under the rules which that organisation has established nor combine that string with other factors does not preclude that string from constituting personal data within the meaning of that provision."

2 IABEurope is a joint controller: "first, a sectoral organisation, in so far as it proposes to its members a framework of rules that it has established relating to consent to the processing of personal data, which contains not only binding technical rules but also rules setting out in detail the arrangements for storing and disseminating personal data relating to such consent, must be classified as a ‘joint controller’ for the purpose of those provisions where, in the light of the particular circumstances of the individual case, it exerts influence over the personal data processing at issue, for its own purposes, and determines, as a result, jointly with its members, the purposes and means of such processing. The fact that such a sectoral organisation does not itself have direct access to the personal data processed by its members under those rules does not preclude it from holding the status of joint controller for the purpose of those provisions";

https://web.archive.org/web/20240325144725/https://www.golem.de/news/tracking-und-cookies-dieses-urteil-koennte-die-online-werbung-veraendern-2403-183186.html

Oordeel over IAB latest trick mbt real time bidding. IAB is again determined to be a processor. I think this is their 3rd of even 4th iteration. High time a judge concludes they aren't good faith actors (and never were). The Transparency and Consent string is judged to be personal information as it contains both a url and personal user preferences. IAB and not only their individual members can now centrally be prosecuted for GDPR violation.

A redirect tool by [[Henk van Ess]] to search for existing public twitter lists by keyword. Only works if you are logged in with an account, because it only redirects you to the URL for the search: https://twitter.com/i/lists/search?q=keyword and that url is only approachable if logged in.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240307125758/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-is-the-dominant-emotion-in-400-years-of-womens-diaries-180983834/

Women's diaries from 17th till now have frustration as recurring theme, analysis shows. Not a big surprise. I think journaling often is emerging when frustration rears its head. And women have had ages of deeply systemic reasons to be very frustrated by.

I've only ever journaled when there was something wrong with me or my context, when I was frustrated, sad, depressed etc. Perhaps except for those who treat their being as action research and make daily notes for later data mining, or those in a public role journaling to maintain first hand observations before spin gets invovled (keep a journal is a sound advice for anyone getting politically active).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305193114/https://writing.bobdoto.computer/how-to-use-folgezettel-in-your-zettelkasten-everything-you-need-to-know-to-get-started/

I regularly come across posts wrt to use Folgezettel or not, and whether there's a role for them outside 'Luhmann purism'. Bob Doto is vocal about it, or has been over the yrs. I get three elements from this: 1. The numerical branches and numbers are emergent, not preplanned like Johnny Decimal or as people once suggested for common placing 1. It forces a first link. Which also serves as a mental anchor. This is something that can work regardless of Folgezettel. I also always add at least one link. The thing is I do not fixate that link by marking them as the original or something like that. I could however do that in some way. The same is true for exploring the collection. It might help as an entry point (and you may have a mental map of the main numbered branches) but that works without numbering too: I know from the graph where main sections of my notes are and use that as starting point. 1. Luhmann and Doto remarked it helps preserve original lines of reasoning /argumentation from a source text or their thinking session. This is something I currently don't really have, and do miss. I do at times create an overview note for such things, and I sometimes add 'link trains' to a note, linking to an overarching concept and following concept and an example. I am not sure that introducing numbering is key in keeping lines of argumentation visible/traceable. This is one of the things to think about n:: numbering systems allow keeping lines of reasoning

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305083845/https://www.te-learning.nl/blog/over-de-betrekkelijkheid-van-veilige-ai-en-het-belang-van-digitale-geletterdheid/

By [[Wilfred Rubens]] citing Leon Furze (?) how 'AI made safe' isn't safe AI just as alcohol free beer isn't soda. I think there's an element here of [[Triz denken in systeemniveaus 20200826114731]] analogue to [[Why False Dilemmas Must Be Killed to Program Self-driving Cars 20151026213310]] where all the focus is on the thing (application, car etc)

https://web.archive.org/web/20240305082302/https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/on-not-using-generative-ai

This seems an interesting piece on the use of algogens. It probably does not address the issues around transparency, labor, footprint etc. But it does seem to address the search for the spot where algogens are useful in one's own workflow. Like me in [[Coding Personal Tools With GitHub Co-Pilot]]. There getting to action faster, and saving time are key. But only if you use it as intermediate step, never as a result to be used as is or as final output.

Via [[Stephen Downes]] https://www.downes.ca/post/76336

purpose of doc: list steps to be taken to promote and protect EU tech sovereignty. The paper - details interntnl policy developments (esp in EU and NL, I think EU is relevant level here, NL not so much). - outlines issues for EU govs to ponder before increasing cloud use says it is time to act, like in 5g.

This doc still reads hollow up to this point, nothing tangible said just hinted at.

https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rapporten/2024/01/22/staat-van-de-digitale-infrastructuur

https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/5cb9749c-7efa-40db-9328-5da7fa5fcb7c/file

France, NL and Estonia have 'different understandings' of what cloud sovereignty is. What differences are meant (I can guess the cultural ones: F more centralised and directed, NL market led, Est squarely aimed at gov ability to run 'from a usb stick' in case of Russian attack, and citizen control over personal data use.) The question is if those differences are highly relevant: the level of decisionmaking is EU, where they all have a say, but ultimately a European model will be adopted, not a MS-level one.

GAM have 70% market share in Europe wrt cloud (though the relevant customer groups seems to be govs here, how is their market share there?) Says EU alternatives are limited in number and scale but does not mention any. Are some mentioned further on? Also note that EC is not aiming for EU universal cloud services but very deliberately for federated cloud and services. So this comparison may not be al that useful, as the EU will not seek to have EU based GAM style providers, but will seek to make GAM style providers too unwieldy to be relevant.

This is an odd phrasing. The awareness of US tech dependencies wrt cloud precedes those on 5g wrt Huawei and China. This introduction feels off.

The article calls 'a 5g moment' the moment of realisation that dependencies in a tech may erode strategic position, by letting critical infrastructure to be controlled by tech firms that can be influenced by other governments. In the case of 5g it's Huawei and Chinese gov, in the case of cloud it's GAM and US gov. This is not a new notion, it is why the EU digital and data legal framework was created the past 4 yrs, so why this paper now?

DMA level cloud services in 3rd countries provide reliable technology but do not bring trust, security and diversification at a level needed for cloud sovereignty

https://web.archive.org/web/20240202060134/https://andymatuschak.org/books/

Books and lectures are transmissionism (I'd say for historical reasons mostly). Engagement (different forms) is needed, but what form of medium would drive such engagement and do it flexibly is the hard question. (Seeing lecture as warm-up to engagement is a rationalisation afterwards, textbooks already do more but lack emotional and social scaffolding.) This is the research question behind his [[Timeful Texts 20201124070427]]. There's also a connection to my [[Boeken schrijven is flauwekul 20210930172532]] because the distrust in author's motives is that they don't even aim for transmissionism. Just the pretension of it.

Edit #2024/02/28 : Saw [[Chris Aldrich]] mention elsewhere that lectures started out as oral comments on a source text, sharing interpretation and sensemaking as it were. The word deriving from L lectio, reading.

Seems a good point in a lot of areas, here wealth: don't look at what successful actors do but what they did to become successful. Many wealthy people's current investments is not how they got rich, and is not all that successful. (E.g. saw in the '00s how the KM processes of Fortune 500 were touted, without acknowledging they only set those up well after becoming a Fortune 500 company..

Broderick: https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult, Anderson: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

AI search hides the authors of the material it presents, summarising it is abstracting away the authors. It doesn't bring readers to those authors, it just presents a summary to the searcher as end result. Take it or leave it. At the same time, if one searches for something you know about, you see those summaries are always of. Leaving you guessing how of it is when searching something you don't know about. Search should never be the endpoint, always a starting point. I think that is my main aversion against AI search tools. Despite those clamoring 'it will get better over time' I don't think it will easily because the tool nor its makers have any interest in the quality of output necessarily and definitely can't assess it. So what's next, humans factchecking AI output. Why not prevent bs at its source? Nice ref to Maggie Appleton's centipede metaphor in [[The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]]

We strolled through the square at Spiegelgasse this Tuesday, visiting a pop-up gallery of the graduation projects of several students at https://www.zhdk.ch/ the ZH art academy. Turns out this place has history! It is where Dada started (and Lenin lived next door at the time!).

Observable says files are where modern development is focused. Because it aids the agency of the user of their tool, mostly through interoperability. This is [[Technologie kleiner dan ons 20050617122905]] en [[Local First Software 20190531162132]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240216060220/https://observablehq.com/blog/observable-2-0

Observable is a static site generator for data dashboards and analyses. It can handle markdown and is as such compatible with using Obsidian notes as source. See https://mastodon.social/@kepano/111937315007645449

This is comparable with [[EUNotes via Github Respec naar Geonovum]] where I generate a respec site from my notes through github. Except that Respec is text documentation, and Observable contains javascript to present data.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240215084925/https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454

Air Canada in a dispute about misleading information from an AI chatbot suggested the chatbot was its own entity and responsible for its own actions, therefore Air Canada not liable for anything it generated. AI Act specifically introduces responsibilities throughout an AI tool's lifecycles, as well as the AI consumer liabilities act. Vgl [[AI Act final annotaties]]

Molly White on 'ownership' wrt digital stuff. Check for the various aspects she lifts out. wrt 'your data' Vgl [[On Selling Access to Your Data and Ownership of Data – Interdependent Thoughts 20220209114247]] and [[Saying My Data Is Too Imprecise]]. For (personal) data ownership is not a useful concept.

[[Lee Bryant]] links to this overview by Simon Willison of what happened in #2023/ in #AI . Some good pointers wrt [[ChatPKM myself]] dig those out.

Elegant suggestion: write comments in code that are clearly outdated when the surrounding code changes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240208185222/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00349-5

Paper by author Lizzie Wolkovich refused because of inaccurate suspicion of ChatGPT usage. Another cut to the peer review system? She had her GitHub writing receipts. Intriguing. Makes me think about blogging in Obs while having a private blogging repo that tracks changes. n:: use github while writing for [[Reverse Turing menszijn bewijs vaker nodig 20230505100459]] purposes.

Can I find these '20', are they mentioned in the Act? If so they will likely be implementing regulations (IRs) where the Commission has the initiative (like with the HVD IR).

https://web.archive.org/web/20240201113513/https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998 Interesting trend: younger women and men are diverging on the progressive/conservative axis. Young men at times more conservative then older cohorts, or trending in that direction whereas older cohorts trend oppositely. Twtter thread by author mentions two possible explanations: rebalancing of power between women and men and young men feeling threatened by it (but then other men would feel threatened too right?) or that women and men live elsewhere on the internet getting a different algorithm-determined infodiet. - [ ] Fwd to E.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240131143357/https://infullflow.net/2024/01/een-stabiel-pseudoniem-levert-betere-discussie/

Stable pseudonymity is helpful in maintaining civility. You can be anonymous, but you still have a reputation within a context or across several contexts. The mentioned article is based on Huffpost comment section account experiments. Strongly reminds me of Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia at Reboot7 in CPH 2005: [[Situationele identiteit vs absolute identiteit 20050621121100]] "I don’t need to know who you are exactly, as long as I am able to know you in Wikipedia. " I dubbed it 'situational identity' in 2005. The consistency of behaviour over time is enough for a reputation. This also connects to the importance of time dimension, Vgl [[Blogs als avatar 20030731084659]] where time is the key factor in id stability.

This overview of Alper's Obsidian day template contains some useful items to mimick. Should also blog my own template as it contains some tweaks that help in different ways around associating content with each other. - [ ] lees dit en kijk wat ik er van in eigen daily log template zet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240125172501/https://bambulab.com/en-eu Chinese disruptor of 3d printing market. 22 months from start to order of magnitude cheaper with much better specs than incumbents. Ppl/money seems to follow pattern from DJI that did same in drones a few yrs back.

unless, that is the specific project/purpose at hand.

In this comment by Heinz I mention local resilience on #2009/05/26

https://web.archive.org/web/20240125180647/https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/01/20/how-i-pocket.html

Nice, 'creativity system' in opposition to the productivity fetish that others express.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240125111157/https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/24/rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-s-zettelkasten/

Chris keeps surfacing nice examples of people using index card systems for pkm and learning. Here Martin Luther King jr.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240123154817/https://boffosocko.com/2024/01/18/note-taking-and-knowledge-management-resources-for-students/

Chris provides a nice overview of who's who around notetaking. There are some names in there that I may add to my feeds. Also go through the reading list, with an eye on practices that may fit with my way of working. Perhaps one or two names are relevant for #pkmsummit too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240124111552/https://www.euractiv.com/section/artificial-intelligence/news/eu-commission-readies-establishment-of-ai-office/

Euractiv reports on the plans for the EU AI office, now that the AIR is ready. Read for what it says about role,scope and compare with the AIR itself on this. Any formal links with e.g. EDPB and EDIB?

there doesn't need to be an info-attack, merely suggesting it may have the same impact as it raises suspicion of all information going around.

DoFA is enabled / driven by outrage-induction / attention hijacking in service of adtech. Vgl [[Aandacht als geletterdheid 20201117203910]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240123105000/https://wiredvanity.substack.com/p/denial-of-future-attack-updated

Igor mentions he coined 'Denial of Future Attack' in 2016, intentionally swamping people w info, so their ability to choose / decide is eroded.

A DoFA is swamping someone/a process with so much information (fake, true or whatever) so that it stalls proper decision making. DoFA targets people's agency by hobbling information processing and thus obstructing decision making. Misinfo/desinfo campaigns then are a form of DDoF. Examples given also suggest a DoFA may succeed if there is only a hint of misinfo/fakery, making all information suspect. Vgl [[Reverse Turing menszijn bewijs vaker nodig 20230505100459]]

This SME focused cybersecurity company called Huntress in their position offer mention an 'enterprise poverty line' for cybersecurity. In the Mastodon message announcing it they call it 'the cybersecurity poverty line'. Meaning a Coasean floor [[Vloer en plafond van organiseren 20080307115436]] I assume?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240118140434/https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary Intriguing post, albeit for me fait divers, on using a dictionary to improve one's writing. But it takes a dictionary that explains the differences in meaning between synonyms/alternatives for a word. At the end a process is shared to get an out of copyright English dictionary (an old Webster's) that works like that into a digitally usable form. https://hypothes.is/u/acct%3Apeterhagen%40hypothes.is Peter Hagen in 2021 mentions that process didn't work and used https://github.com/mortenjust/webster-mac as alternative that did. Found via Chris Aldrich on h.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240118121305/https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/1120/a-notebook-zettelkasten/p1

A numbering/indexing system for notes in notebooks that is more granular than merely page numbers. I wonder how big his notebooks are (hundreds of pages, and multiple entries per page sounds like big folios)?

Mentions several notebooks, see [[The Notebook by Roland Allen]] with the Italian examples of using multiple for different stages.

How does he process them into his 'main' repository of notes? How might this connect to a practice of scanning pages from notebooks into Obsidian for further processing and indexing, as I've been doing?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240106230221/https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/

This seems a very good explainer for how LLMs and GPTs work. And all in 500 lines of sql :D

Orgalim is an industry association for tech manufacturers, and has been selected as a member of the EDIB working group. Their topics of interest, and thus perspective on governance and standards, is DT for industrial products/manufacturing, digital product passports (relevant to GDDS and in PLM), as well as smaller manufacturing dataspaces (I should come up with a term for non pan-EU generic DSs. Xa Xb Xc etc) Note the mention, and link, of 'net-zero' policy, a warning flag for greenwashing.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240106094118/https://actions.work/actions-for-obsidian

An app with a range of acions for Obsidian. See the list of actions, that are likely easily to create in AppleScript or Alfred, for those that are useful to me.

epub.js is a epub reader to allow annotation through hypothes.is

https://web.archive.org/web/20240106090941/https://web.hypothes.is/blog/ebook-partnership/

Hypothes.is announced a partnership to bring annotation to epub e-books in 2017, but after 2018 no mention of it on their blog. Mailed them to ask about any progress since. Read someone's msg on Masto that they have trouble keeping epub annotations connected to the book (unlike e.g. my kindle annotations that reside in the book, but also are linked back to the location by my obsidian kindle plugin, maintaining the connection and reference. epub is xhtml so it should be doable.

epub is part of w3c standards (cause xhtml)

Amazon's .kfx ebook format and predecessors are extensions of html5, css and backwards compatible with mobipocket (the 2000 French proprietary format that Kindle bought and used).

Proprietary format.

The W3C standard for Epub ebooks. Nav [[How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web - Alex Cabal]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20240104082611/https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech

first published #2022/02/11

Apart from the framing of this post more as an apology than as a show of strength of keeping things simple and sturdy, interesting nuggets: Epub ebooks are xhtml and static so rapidly served without the need for a fancy framework or even a database. Flat texts are small, and their current collection fits in RAM entirely. PHP is used without frills. All in all a strong call to keep things simple, and to embrace my current use of php for local tools too: it's very fast.

Also makes me wonder: #openvraag what can one do with Epub books outside an ebook reader, in terms of excerpting e.g. and ripping things out for re-use elsewhere. I've got loads of them on my laptop

Katern, quaderni. Vier ineengevouwen vellen. Werd ook voor 3 en 6 ineengevouwen vellen gehanteerd. Tritern, sextern en etc. De link met het Firensisch/Italiaanse quaderni als notitieboekje wordt hier niet gelegd, wel met het Latijn uiteraard, en dan naar het Frans. Zie ook dat cahier verwant is.

Bij lezen [[The Notebook by Roland Allen]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20231228181017/https://www.historyofinformation.com/index.php large resource on the history of information, presented in timelines. Useful for finding earliest examples of certain artefacts (not methods though)

LLM based tool to synthesise scientific K

#2023/12/12 mentioned by [[Howard Rheingold]] on M.

"hadn’t seriously considered the future economic impact on illustrators" This sounds too much like the 'every illegal download is a misplaced sale' trope of the music industry. There are many reasons to not use algogens, or opt for different models for such generation than the most popular public facing tools. Missed income for illustrators by using them in blog posts isn't one. Like with music downloads there's a whole world of users underneath the Cosean floor. My blog or presentations will never use bought illustrations, I started making lots of digital photos for that reason way back in 2003, and have been using open Creative Commons licenses. And now may try to generate a few images, if it's not too work intensive. Not to say that outside the mentioned use case of blogs and other sites (the ones that already now are indistinguishable from generated texts and only have generating ad eyeballs as purpose), the lower end of the existing market will get eroded. I bet that at the same time there will be a growing market for clearly human made artefacts as status symbol too. The Reverse Turing effect in play. I've paid more for prints of artwork, both graphics and photos, made in the presence of the artist than one printed after their death for instance. They adorn the walls at home rather than my blog though.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231206090650/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/05/wizard-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-alan-warburton-dangers-film

20 min 'documentary' about what AI does to artists, made with AI by an artist. ODI commissioned it. Does this type of thing actually help any debate? Does it raise questions more forcefully? I doubt it, more likely reinforcing anyone's pre-existing notions. More a curiosum, then.

Luxembourg National Data Service, official launch #2023/12/04

Gov initiated economic interest group wrt secondary use of data (from public sector sources it seems). No mention of open data?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231205110534/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-fall-for-big-oils-carbon-capture-deceptions/

I don't doubt the key point. Still capture itself is still needed, not to reduce emissions, but alongside zero emission efforts. 'Net zero' is a fig leaf for sure. Absent here is the mention that it is our oceans that store the most carbon. I know of initiatives to retrieve carbon at scale from seawater, so that their buffering capacity is replenished.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231205084502/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets

Description of AI use by the Israelian miiltary in Gaza. Vgl [[AI begincondities en evolutie 20190715140742]] wrt the difference between AGI evolution beginning in a military or civic setting, and that AI restraints are applied in the civil side, not in military application meaning the likelihood is there not in civil society. This is true in the EU AI Act too that excludes military from scope.

Blog rolls as opportunity for connection.

Vgl imaginary friends that N's neighbours dubbed her online network.

Vgl 'blogging as hanging out on your frontporch' of 2004. https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2004/05/your_blog_is_yo/ en founding a city in cyberspace https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2004/06/founding_a_city/

To me blogging is conversation, and the network explosion is its main purpose. This reminds me of my early posting about follow/followers ration on Twitter https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2023/03/conversational-symmetry-redux/ which refs my 2008 post on it. Durnell points to the loss of conversational symmetry on socmed platforms. Pro-actively creating your own conversational symmetry is key here.

Social media as performance, blogs as voice. Especially over longer periods of time, blogs become a qualitatively different thing, where the social media timelines remain the same. Vgl [[Blogs als avatar 20030731084659]] https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/08/your-blog-is-your-avatar/ Personal relationships are the stuff of our lives.

Personal websites as an expression of [[Technologie kleiner dan ons 20050617122905]]. This is how I described social software 2004-5 too, before the onslaught by F an T from 2006 on, and the slow disappearance of various socsoft facets (interoperability, apis but also niche tools like Plazes, Dopplr etc).

Tracy Durnell describes her process to more social filtering, focusing attention on people rather than the news cycle. [[Social netwerk als filter 20060930194648]] and [[Aggregate info to community level 20060930063025]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20231201075702/https://tracydurnell.com/2023/11/30/building-community-out-of-strangers/

Tracy Durnell on her shift to more [[People Centered Navigation 20060930163901]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20231201092138/https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html

A 60y old paper behind the 'mother of all demos' 55 yrs ago.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2005/06/doug_engelbart/

'fecosystem' of enshitifcation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231129113513/https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

Via Roland Tanglao http://rolandtanglao.com/2023/11/26/p1-emily-f-gorcenski-making-god-millenarianism-manifest-destiny-aitechno-futurism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20231126161335/https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-a-fearmonger-you-have-sentinel-intelligence/

How is Sentinel Intelligence connected to [[Macroscope als persoonlijke superpower 20230906204634]] and [[Systems convening Wenger Trayner 20220911170358]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20231126160744/https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

[[Effective Altruism 20200713101714]] I like the title.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231126095958/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/russian-journalists-ukraine-war-wagner-group/676064/

Journalist Anna Nemtsova on Russian public society decline and losing hope after the post-Soviet period optimism wrt change. Places the turning point in 2011/2012. I worked in Moldova briefly then, and they were aiming to divert their exports to anyplace else than Russia. Kyrgyzstan had just had a revolution in spring 2010 (both towards democracy and Russian influenced). 2014 I wasn't allowed to travel from Kyrgyzstan through Moscow as P had not been seen in public for a week or two, while the Donbas conflict took place (MH17 was shot down a few months earlier). Late 2012 Russia signed onto OGP to withdraw ealry 2013 https://www.opengovpartnership.org/stories/russia-withdraws-from-open-government-partnership-too-much-transparency/ faving a controlled openness (through registered entities) above individual rights. Russia's foreign agents law is also from 2012. So seems to chime with my own experiences.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231125130613/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-the-unbearable-hubris-of-musk-and-the-billionaire-tech-bros

Douglas Rushkoff. Note remark on more horizontal ownership by tech billionaires. I'm not sure that is different. It likely was that way in the gilded age too. None of those others are dominant in their field as Rushkoff says was the limit of earlier billionaires.

a term sourced from the industry itself to 'protect' other foundational models from this very same legislation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231125082820/http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2023/11/eu-ai-legislation-is-firming-up-ill-add.html

Donald on the AI act. I wonder if he's read it. The premise seems to be that regulating a market is bad for innovation, and that you shouldn't regulate your own market when others aren't doing that for theirs and therefore then will out-innovate you. The underlying assumption seems that adhering to civic rights is tying your hands in innovation, and settting market rules is bad because innovation is a wild west. I call bs.

Donald being disingenous here. Italy never banned ChatGPT, it was disallowing OpenAI to operate as it wasn't responding to GDPR related issues (not providing a contact person for the DPA to interact with being one of them, the other absence of age check, no justification for presence of personal data in training data). The trigger was a security breach where paying user's financial info and their stored prompts/answers were leaking into/accessible in other user accounts. Once OpenAI communicated (not meaning the other GDPR issues were solved, just that they communicated) the restriction was lifted. It was a matter of a few weeks. Otherwise known as the 'pinch and peep' method. If you can't get a response, you pinch them until they peep. Italy stopped pinching as soon as OpenAI peeped.

This is the actual point of the laws under discussion. Not the EU having to 'speak for the whole world', but to not have the USA or China speak for the EU. It's a geopolitical issue, and the EU's proposition starts in a very different place than the other two mentioned. Which is the key thing.

The AI act defines market access condtions for products. The EU is the biggest market, and as such its acts do regularly have a normative impact outside it. The AI sector is clamoring for 'safety' and 'guard rails' (or was it pulling up the ladder, I might be confused), this is the only act that actually starts from the premise, if not formulated by the industry itself (which likely is the actual problem felt).

Do you spot the pattern Donald in that list of countries? And then has the gall to write in the next sentence about the EU "having the illusion to speak for the whole world". Common law is problematic as can't at all be geared to the complexity of many current areas. And the constitutional primacy of statutory law in the countries mentioned means it's limited as otherwise cohesion is lost. Statutory law can be changed and routinely is. All EU directives have a periodical review and change process built in, all regulations have mechanism in the law to monitor and review their working with an eye to change.

oh dear. Actually wrt the entire framework it is rather future proof as it isn't built on specific technologies or naming products etc. It is all about types of use and areas of consequences.

Silly remark. The EU is legislatiing a framework for a digital and data single market. It is adding digital products and data to the freedom of movement of people, products and capital. And is he really denouncing 'complexity' here, given his field of expertise which is riddled with it? There's a long list of other regulations that should be added to them. Missing here e.g. is the DGA and DA as well as the forming of data spaces which aim to provide more data in a responsible fashion, also to AI products and their development. Unlike a lot of other EU regs, this whole set is remarkably consistent, in aiming at a level playing field, strengthening rights and values, and maximising socio-economic use value. It regulates the market, and I suspect that is actually what grates. Innovation isn't helped by unregulated markets, but that is the presumption here it seems.

the cookies pop-ups are not required by law at all, nor are consentforms as they appear on the web. Adtech companies came up with them (and various versions being slapped down by the courts) to keep on tracking you despite the GDPR. Also the web isn't the only place the GDPR aims at, so keeping them up as examples of 'looking for deeper universal targets' is a category error. The pop-ups and darkpattern consent forms are because adtech companies don't want to admit adtech is illegal. The actual problem is the limited speed at which the courts are making that clear to them.

yes, adding in foundational models at a late stage is caused by the industry itself being opaque about them while they became highly visible through ChatGPT style stuff. The AIR is only about market access of products, with putting obligations on producers, distributors, users and users of outputs. It's not much different from how other types of products are required to fulfill certain things before being sold in the EU. It's literally a CE mark for AI products.

No such ban in the AI Act. Several use cases of biometric data are considered high risk, face recognition in public spaces is banned (for the purpose of identification, not for e.g. age recognition). Biometric verification and authentication, or biometrics based systems wrt cybersecurity or personal data protection are not in scope.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231113082400/https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

Charlie Stross on taking SF output as direction as well as philosophy leading to tescreal.

Vgl [[Singularity Univ is trickle down futurism 20210216132605]]

preach it, antipope

shallow article but worth taking a look at the main point: sand usage. There's a diff depending on use / location etc.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231108195303/https://axbom.com/aipower/

Per Axbom does a nice overview of actors and stakeholders to take into account when thinking about AI's impact and ethics. Some of these are mentioned in the [[EU AI Regulation]] but not all actors mentioned there are mentioned here I think: EU act not only defines users (of the application) but also users of the output of an application separately. This to ensure that outputs from un-checked or illegal applications outside the EU market are admissable to the EU market.

Yes, socio-economic status. I think being seen to afford it is the coping strategy here, not so much doing the thing as the thing itself is highly unlikely to be something else than a placebo. It's all curtain, no wizard. The French youth fishing urban waters may be much more real in effect than the high end stuff. One is escapist, the other is pretending to be. Also the assumption that sanity is a mask to maintain above a roiling sea of insanity is an odd comparison here wrt urban life. It makes the individual insane (or probably driven there) vs the insanity of systems.

This one makes sense to me. Mitigating symptoms of life style choices, rather than addressing those choices. At the lower socio-economic end because you don't have many options (smoking as only affordable relaxation e.g.), and at the higher end because the choices are what yields the higher socio-economic status, and the mitigation signals that status, and adds to it, helps define it, an aesthetic choice in Bourdieu's fashion (distinction theory / [[Goede smaak is klassebewustzijn 20220212075212]]. Still individual coping rather than facing the systemic factors causing them or organising [[Networked Agency 20160818213155]] in the face of it.

'uncertainty coping strategies' equal living your life I suppose, in the face of the 'strains of everyday reality' since the groups in caves. What is different here wrt Igor and Johannes' work experience and patterns. Just Urbanism (then how is this diff from 18th century?) The complexity of those strains? The inability to withdraw from strains created by others through industrial work practices / social media algo inducement? The sense of looming doom wrt ecocollapse, financial crash etc, systemic threats iw and no agency to individually address some of that? Or is it merely the high end market catering to it, exploiting the stress rather than solving the stressors? What is Igo saying here?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231108101926/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons

The first set of CC licenses was released on #2002/12/16 ( https://web.archive.org/web/20030207225048/http://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/3476 ) a month after I started my blog. I adopted the cc license in my blog the next month #2003/01/23 https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2003/01/creative_common/ even though then they were not congruent with EU/Dutch jurisdiction. Used a by nc sa license at first. Later changed to by sa, which is an open license rather than closed (because of nd).

This is bothersome seen from my perspective of both a CC advocate and European national chapter and as a CC using maker. In my experience makers using CC use CC because they want to limit the ownership current international copyright laws and treaties bestow on them, as they see them as obstacle and greedy, and generally not serving the maker but later exploiters of artefacts. Also the perspective of contributing to the common good / pool of culture is frequent, and counter libertarian angles. I need to check but I think it might also be a ways off from Lessig's original idea for CC as expressed in [[Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig]].

https://web.archive.org/web/20231108095251/https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=75761

[[Stephen Downes]] on CC and their answers to US copyright questions wrt generative algo's.

There are many stories about the compute footprint (and thus energy footprint) of AI. This is an interesting example: Microsoft doesn't have the capacity to run its own.

(this is mostly a test to see if the changes I made to the h. template in Obsidian work as intended.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20231108064402/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/07/portuguese-pm-antonio-costa-resigns-amid-corruption-inquiry

This corruption case seems connected to the lithium mining announced in [[Portugal genehmigt riesigen Tagebau Lithium für 500.000 E-Autos im Jahr]] last June. #2023/11/08 that I marked https://hypothes.is/a/fags5ARSEe62spthvORyHQ

oh yes.

There likely were no works written by poor powerless people to preserve. Having the leisure to be literate and to write books required the wealth and power that also increased the likelihood of preservation, I rather suppose.

Then again there is a bias here, in terms of that what is preserved being seen as the entire record. Compare the start-up graveyard, where too we only see the survivors and those that 'exited' and never the ones that dropped by the wayside.

While true, I don't think the underlying evil as such played a role in whether a philosophy arose from ancient Rome, but having a large enough layer of society that can afford spending time musing and thinking or be an audience for that thinking. The source of that wealth isn't a cause even though the wealth is a prerequisite to free up time and energy. The extraction made that possible of course, and it is not much different now. BigTech probably feels resonance because it's a global extractive industry too. I remember from my Latin at school how we would read texts by certain authors where they made some nuanced ethical point, while in the same text never bothering to question slavery. Or even in the same paragraph along the lines of "you need to treat slaves as human beings", except for the keeping them enslaved part ofcourse.

There's something here about cultural appropriation across eras. The Renaissance did, claiming the mantle of the Roman civiliisation as its predecessor, and thus we in the West tend to see that as our cultural lineage. Cherry picked of course, not wholesale, as we tend to with more immediate own history too (Dutch Golden Age and the role of slave trade and colonial extraction e.g. unacknowledged but being a safe haven for religious refugees from elsewhere in Europe such as the Sefardim or Hugenots clearly embraced)

This period coincides w Luhmann's. Hadn't realised that objects of sociality had originated there too at U Bielefeld.

The wikipedia page also links to Latour ([[Latours Actor Network Theory ANT 20201129164732]]) and the paper mentioned below also cites Latour once.

This was Jyri's trigger, as per his 2005 Reboot talk. Note the diff between [[Object van socialiteit 20050628064223]] and sociality with objects.

Paper:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/026327697014004001 PDF in Zotero

Zuckerman mentions the DSA as his single hope, the only surprisal in this piece. Although the DMA is important wrt the silos too, as is the GDPR, it is the DSA that has the transparency reqs, plus actually describes the outside research access Zuckerman sees frustrated as mandatory. Says enforcement is slow however. Yes, at the same time it's not just reactive enforcement. It's about EU market access, pro-active disclosures are mandatory.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231102055201/https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/63752/when-internet-becomes-unknowable-social-media-tools

Ethan Zuckerman on socmed research.

Odd piece equating social media silos, or even Twitter alone, with 'the internet', in a complaint against silos-be-siloing by shutting APIs. As FB always has, this is mostly about X-Twitter. Plus US lawasuits being used by social media billionaires or lawmakers with disinfo as election strategy to frustrate researchers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231101141414/https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-urgent-binding-decision-processing-personal-data-behavioural-advertising-meta_en Excellent news

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/01/uk-us-eu-and-china-sign-declaration-of-ais-catastrophic-danger

EU, USA, China (UK) sign shared 'AI danger' declaration

Vgl how I discussed an application this morning that deployed multiple AI agents as a interconnected network, with each its own role. [[Rolf Aldo Common Ground AI consensus]]

Vgl Donald Hebb 1949 fire together = wire together, which seems different. Vgl [[Leren dansen met het systeem 20181112154254]] Donella Meadows 2001 dancing w systems

https://web.archive.org/web/20231101055209/https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/the-planetary-egregore-passes-you by Erik Hoel (Wikipedia: Erik Hoel is an American neuroscientist, neurophilosopher, and fiction writer. His main areas of research are the study and philosophy of consciousness, cognition, biological function of dreams, and mathematical theories of emergence. He is noted for using information theory and causal analysis to develop mathematical models to explore and understand the basis of consciousness and dreams) Seems an intriguing mix/approach.

[[Rolf Kleef]] [[Aldo de Moor]]

OpenAI call "democratic inputs for AI" 10 projects, 100k, 3 months

[[Rolf Aldo Common Ground AI consensus]] #2023/11/01

Where here is the role of AI? And does it matter as much in each of its roles? - moderation of conversation - synthesising new statements (this one particularly?) - transcripts - summarising opinions - determine statistically more supported statements - the import of minority statements? (e.g. all may have an opinion, maybe not all opinions matter the same way in a case (democratically built bridges may fall, in comparison one built by engineering teams) --> this points to curating the issues to discuss. And ensuring all voices are indeed weighed, not just outvoted, such that groups aren't marginalised.

or mix with solitary interaction like in pol.is?

• The new statements synthesizing is interesting. Are these checked with the group of 3?
• Is the voting like in pol.is where you have an increasing 'cost' of voting / spreading attention?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231101060550/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_problem

binding problem: how do we get integrated single experiences from elements addressed in very different parts of our brain. How do we get feature integration and consciousness from it?

demarcatiedebat als concept/tool

Bought this as epub directly from Verso publishers. [[Own This by R. Trebor Scholz]] in antilib. Vgl kritiek in [[You can’t win without a fight Why worker cooperatives are a bad strategy 20210201064440]] Vgl plan for TGL

Stanford taking a look at transparency specifically wrt foundation models. Vgl liesenfeldOpeningChatGPTTracking2023

MEP says EU AI Act now imminent.

EP remarks on the changes made by Council in their proposal. Also note link to NIS2 and CSA.

EP position of CRA, although their own actual position paper seems absent from this page.

Council text on CRA

CSA d.d. #2019/04/17 ter vergelijking in scope en werkingsgebied met CRA. Hoe past de kritiek uit FOSS hoek ook op CSA en blijkt daar in de praktijk al iets van?

NL rijksoverheid over CSA, is er verbinding met CRA en wat dan?

NL rijksoverheid kondigt de overeenstemming in Raad mbt CRA aan. Kijk naar welke punten ze 'vieren' en de aannames tav impact op SME/FOSS en evt eigen info-huishouding.

DigitalEurope (commercial company club wrt EU digital legal frameworks) position on the CRA trilogue. Kijk waar ze aan willen knabbelen, en wat ze toejuichen. Hoe verhoudt zich dat tot de kritiek uit de SME / FOSS hoek op same?