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AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu

EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text | TechCrunch
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

Help wanted: Can we get someone to go through the build/link time dependencies of ngscopeclient, identify every third-party open source library we use, and ensure that they're all credited properly in the documentation, and include/link to the text of the appropriate licenses?
https://github.com/ng…

Add full text of third party licenses as appropriate · Issue #22 · ngscopeclient/scopehal-docs
Section 2.4 mentions a bunch of third party libraries but doesn't actually include the license text.

A new wave of publishers sign up for ProRata's revenue share program, bringing the total number of publishers to 500, including The Boston Globe and Vox Media (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/boston-globe-f…

Boston Globe, Future, Vox Media join ProRata’s generative AI licensing model
A fresh wave of publishers have signed up for ProRata’s revenue share program, and some are adding its AI search engine to their sites.

it's been too long since ive found a new-to-me album i actually enjoyed ^_^
#np

Updated Post: Podcast ep 193: Laziness is a myth. Here’s what’s actually going on https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-193-laziness-is-a-myth

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Matthew Sweet:
🎵 Looking at the Sun
#MatthewSweet
https://theorchidpool.bandcamp.com/track/looking-at-the-sun-matthew-sweet-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/6fSCmaahmqTbcIxnFQQDsN

An Indian government official says Starlink has secured a license from the telecom ministry to launch services in the country and now must apply for spectrum (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-…

For people with hoarding disorder, the concept of laziness is not just inaccurate. It's actually quite damaging https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-193-laziness-is-a-myth/

Former Google staffers and others detail why Google's 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US (Verne Kopytoff/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/05/what-ap

As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons
Motorola's failed bet on assembling phones in the U.S. offers important lessons for Apple today.

It is not an issue of laziness. It is an issue of complexity and nuance and a range of difficulties all merging into one manifestation of distress. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-193-laziness-is-a-myth/