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livemocha: Livemocha friendship network (2010)
A network of friendships among users on Livemocha, a large online language learning community. Nodes represent users and edges represent a mutual declaration of friendship.
This network has 104103 nodes and 2193083 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://ne…

To read Later
🔁 https://om.co/2026/02/12/living-in-the-petri-dish-of-the-future/

Living in the Petri Dish of the Future
If you missed the brouhaha around a 5,000-word blog post about AI, let me bring you up to speed. But before I do, I want to remind you that sometimes a blog post is not just a blog post. It is real…

Leaving the post, not the SBU: Maliuk vows to keep serving after Ukrainian parliament dismisses him: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/leaving-the-post-not-the.html

„How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit?
[…]
You lovingly care for an aging parent by making sure that the way they treated you stops with you. You lovingly care for an aging parent by learning how to love others, and by letting them love you.”
This is a cathartic piece that resonated with me. My parents do not treated me like shit but I resonate with the
somewhat disconnectedness.

How to bury your father
This week’s question comes to us anonymously: How do you lovingly care for an aging parent who treated you like shit? This question has been sitting in my...

Der Chronist hinter der Cubicle-Trennwand: zum Tode von Scott Adams
Mit Dilbert schuf der Zeichner den ersten viralen Nerd-Comic des damals noch jungen Internets. Seine letzten Lebensjahre waren von Kontroversen geprägt.

US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/teachers-union-says-its-leaving-x-calling-ai-images-children-the-last-straw-2026-01-13/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p165#a260113p165

"Projects like the Living Village at YDS are not only possible now—they are better than conventional construction, healthier to be in, less expensive to operate, more beautiful to behold."
—Architecture visionary Jason F. McLennan writing in the new issue of the YDS journal, Reflections, focused this season on faith that builds hope for a living planet

Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience

Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/1

Meet the new biologists treating LLMs like aliens
By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.

❤️ https://www.manton.org/2026/02/13/now-that-ive-been-living.html

Manton Reece - Now that I’ve been living with the new R...