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How thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a government-backed AI chatbot, designed by the nonprofit Opportunity International, for farming advice (Gregory Gondwe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/malawi-ai-fa…

AI is helping small-scale farmers in Malawi
Some small-scale farmers in the southern African country of Malawi are using an AI chatbot for advice to help them improve their methods and become more resilient to climate change. The chatbot is designed by the non-profit Opportunity International and is being used by around 180,000 rural households. The project is also backed by the Malawi government. Artificial intelligence has the potential to boost productivity in African agriculture, which is lagging behind. But there are many challenges…

A proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0

Allianz gegen Umstrukturierung von OpenAI
Es formiert sich Widerstand. Philanthropen, Arbeitnehmerverbände und Staatsanwaltschaften wollen, dass OpenAI Non-Profit bleibt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Al…

Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/1…

A 3-person policy nonprofit that worked on California’s AI safety law is publicly accusing OpenAI of intimidation tactics
In a widely read post on social media, the general counsel of Encode said OpenAI used subpoenas and political muscle to intimidate the firm and to undermine California’s new AI safety bill, all while falsely claiming the firm was funded by Elon Musk.

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

In a reply to Elon Musk's post of "you stole a non-profit", Sam Altman says OpenAI's structure is needed to create "what should be the largest non-profit ever" (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are still trading jabs over OpenAI
In response to Elon Musk, Sam Altman wrote on X that he "helped turn the thing you left for dead into what should be the largest non-profit ever."

Optimal bidding in multiperiod day-ahead electricity markets assuming non-uniform uncertainty of clearing prices
D\'avid Csercsik, Mih\'aly Andr\'as V\'aghy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07025

Optimal bidding in multiperiod day-ahead electricity markets assuming non-uniform uncertainty of clearing prices
In a recent publication, using a simple two-period model, which is already capable to capture essential non-convex multiperiod bids, Richstein et al. have shown that in the case of optimal bidding, multi-part bidding always ensures a higher expected profit for the bidder, compared to simple bidding and block-bidding. The model proposed in their analysis assumes a uniform distribution of the market-clearing prices in both periods. In this paper, we study how the conclusions of the analysis are a…

Ruby Central has objectively acted badly, on purpose.
And so many Rubyists are rushing to defend them.
Maybe because they don’t want it to be true?
The gist is Ruby Central isn’t trustworthy anymore and we have to accept this and move on from them. Maybe with new package manager and distribution; which can be moved into a non-profit or whatever later.

Was kann schon schief gehen, wenn verstaatlichte Parteiorgane in einem zerstörten Rechtsstaat Zugriff auf detaillierte Personenakten bekommen…
Was in den USA passiert ist Geschichte, die wir wiederholen und die wir auch in Deutschland wiederholen könnten, wenn wir die AfD nicht bekämpfen und ihre Unterstützer*innen machen lassen.
From: @…

Mastodon
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

»DNS0 ist abgeschaltet. Ein Rückblick auf das kurze Leben des EU-finanzierten DNS-Resolvers.
DNS0 ist Geschichte. Betreiber war eine französische Non-Profit-Organisation, 2022 gegründet von Romain Cointepas und Olivier Poitrey.«
Das in Europa ein freier & offener DNS Dienst was wichtiges ist nimmt so gut wie niemensch ernst. Selbst IT-Techniker ist es mMn dem nicht wirklich bewusst.
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DNS0 ist abgeschaltet. Ein Rückblick auf das kurze Leben des EU-finanzierten DNS-Resolvers.
DNS0 ist Geschichte. Betreiber war eine französische Non-Profit-Organisation, 2022 gegründet von Romain Cointepas und Olivier Poitrey.

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

By the way, we’ve never managed to get any hashes or urls from the so-called non-profit organisations that claim to share CSAM material hashes or links for detection. We’ve come to assume we’ll never receive any, so supporting actual detection was out of reach for us.
So we decided to build it ourselves. We now provide a public onion lookup service where you can look up Tor onion addresses to check whether they’re linked to CSAM for filtering and detection.
Lookup example (non CS…

Weekend Reads
* How people use ChatGPT
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34255
* Great firewall document leak
https://gf…

How People Use ChatGPT
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

where is the revolution? https://euobserver.com/news/ar1c67c9a3

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"Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
ht…

Liest Mastodon in der neusten Version das LOCALE des Browsers aus?
Bei https://mastodon.social/explore sehe ich ohne Login nur deutschsprachige Posts.

Mastodon
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I have now also converted my remaining personal open source Git repositories (those which we don't already host at the institute's #Gitlab instance and which are not forked from or contribution to others) from #Github to

René Mayrhofer
Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

Conflict in Community-Based Design: A Case Study of a Relationship Breakdown
Alekhya Gandu, Aakash Gautam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21308 https://arxiv.or…

Conflict in Community-Based Design: A Case Study of a Relationship Breakdown
Community-based design efforts rightly seek to reduce the power differences between researchers and community participants by aligning with community values and furthering their priorities. However, what should designers do when key community members' practices seem to enact an oppressive and harmful structure? We reflect on our two-year-long engagement with a non-profit organization in southern India that supports women subjected to domestic abuse or facing mental health crises. We highlight t…

Meine Arztpraxis in Kiel hat werktags von 11-12 Impfstunde: einfach hingehen, Krankenkassenkarte zeigen, impfen lassen.
Keine Anmeldung notwendig. Ging schnell. Unkompliziert. Schützt mich. Schützt andere.
From: @…

Mastodon
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Non-profit Cyber Monitoring Centre estimates that the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack cost the UK economy at least £1.9B and affected over 5,000 UK organizations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6f2923b3-2a4b-4c9b-9cde-eb5f0d5b9ce3

"Young climate activists in Wisconsin sue state over pro-fossil fuel policies’"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels