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Canongate Books is now a B Corp!
https://canongate.co.uk/news/canongate-is-now-a-b-corp/?ref=47641
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Canongate Books is now a B Corp!

Florida schoolkids may have to study ‘threat of communism in the US’
Kindergartners in Florida might soon be compelled to balance learning their ABCs with lectures on the history of communism, if a Republican proposal moving through the state’s legislature becomes law.
House bill 1349 would also create a “history of communism taskforce”, hand-picked by the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, to recommend how the subject is presented in classrooms from elementary to high school sta…

The Coming Entropy Of Our World Order https://www.noemamag.com/the-coming-entropy-of-our-world-order

How AI can be an "online WMD" to wipe out the commons by @…: « the internet moved from self-governance by members of the commons to acts of wanton destruction committed by despicable, greedy assholes who shit in the well over and over again.»
The example of copyleft trolls using Creative Commons to destroy the commons seems timely when CC itself keeps waiving the "AI is fair-use"-flag…
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/09/shitting-in-the-well/

I love this thinking from @… on the #OSS #commons. Made me see things in a different way. 🖤

The free software commons
Free and open source software has become a modern commons, but now it's vulnerable. Freedom isn't sufficient to secure it for the future.

Understanding the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsense
Siqi Shen, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee, Soujanya Poria, Rada Mihalcea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04655

Understanding the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsense
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated substantial commonsense understanding through numerous benchmark evaluations. However, their understanding of cultural commonsense remains largely unexamined. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive examination of the capabilities and limitations of several state-of-the-art LLMs in the context of cultural commonsense tasks. Using several general and cultural commonsense benchmarks, we find that (1) LLMs have a significant discrepancy in performan…

Jeremy Peña Is Starting Out Strong but Coming up Short
#MLB #Baseball #Fangraphs

Congressional probe finds communications gear in Chinese cranes, raising spying concerns (Sean Lyngaas/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/politics/congressional-probe-communications-gear-chinese-cranes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240308/p82#a240308p82

A historical look at Pulitzer winners shows the decline of local and regional newspapers and the growth in online news outlets, especially at the local level (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/…

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline
For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.

Understanding the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsense
Siqi Shen, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee, Soujanya Poria, Rada Mihalcea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04655

Understanding the Capabilities and Limitations of Large Language Models for Cultural Commonsense
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated substantial commonsense understanding through numerous benchmark evaluations. However, their understanding of cultural commonsense remains largely unexamined. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive examination of the capabilities and limitations of several state-of-the-art LLMs in the context of cultural commonsense tasks. Using several general and cultural commonsense benchmarks, we find that (1) LLMs have a significant discrepancy in performan…