"With a completely updated vision of #nature, and through advanced spatial and media investigations…exposing and verifying rights violations on behalf of subjects and communities affected by political violence.
With these analyses, CCN seeks to create the necessary evidence to be able to denounce and take to court, the different situations of violence against natural environments, tribes or…
The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
Hop aboard for an unforgettable ride through some of the most spectacular landscapes on Earth. Narrated by actor Bill Nighy and featuring 39 iconic railway journeys, the series explores the history, culture, and stories of these scenic destinations — including our very own Rocky Mountaineer.
British Columbia's Knowledge Network
The tragedy of the commons is that under capitalism we don’t have one.
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 haven't used stackoverflow much, just had two answers I'd posted there. I deleted them both, and got the same email others have got.. Probably the most passive-aggressive email I've ever received.
By the way if you delete your account, they anonymise your posts. AFAICT, that's against the creative commons attribution share-alike license of the posts.
Because I love documenting Philippine historical markers, my simple way to honor #InternationalWomensDay today is to share these photos of 3 markers that commemorate the Asociación Feminista Filipina, the first women’s organization in the #Philippines 🇵🇭 that was founded by Concepcion Fel…
A private citizen will be punished for contempt of Parliament by the Canadian House of Commons by being "called to the bar" and admonished by the Speaker.
The guilty party is some CEO of some company that got a favourable contract for the ArriveCan app.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli
I will now do moderation and registrations for #SocialCoop, a pleasure to work in the [[Commons]]!
In the wake of the xz exploit, I quipped, “Free software, eh, fine, whatever. What does •sustainable• software look like?”
I haven’t heard anybody give a more thoughtful or more useful answer to that question than @… in this blog post, which has not one but •two• crucial insights:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/The_Great_Rapprochement.jpg
OK. Where are the rings?
We left them with the little islanders from Asia.
It's always the help, in the library, with a lead pipe.
Recently @… pointed out again how the "tragedy of the commons" was originally a lie invented to have a pretense to take things away from people.
It's particularly enfuriatingly ridiculous that - you can bet on it - the people who will sell you this argument are also those who will tell you to prevent the climate catastrophe by uploading fewer…
ALMA, as part of the Event Horizon Telescope, is unveiling a new image of our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, in which strong magnetic fields can be seen…
The most exciting part is that this hints to a jet that would be hidden from our vantage point in our galaxy… but imagine that! We might be like M87, just at a smaller scale!
A decentralized communications technology that does not depend on routing digital packets through a physical network of towers, gateways, microwave beams, and optical fibers. The text to be transmitted is encoded with a multiband frequency/amplitude modulation scheme, transmitted by molecular density waves, and decoded with a pair of miniaturized spectral filter banks implanted under the receiver's skull. Range up to tens of meters.
This year's Berlin Buzzwords kicks off with our keynote speaker Zuzanna Warso!
Read our news blog to find out more about Zuzanna's keynote on “The Paradox of Open: Can Digital Commons Offer a Way Forward?”.
#bbuzz
"the internet was “an architecture for permissionless innovation”…
However, the next generation of innovators to benefit from this freedom—Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple et al—saw no reason to extend it to anyone else. The creative commons of the internet has been gradually and inexorably enclosed, much as agricultural land was by parliamentary acts from 1600 onwards in England."
Interesting. I was introduced to The School of Thought website which is meant to engage users into critical thinking on conspiracy theories, misinformation, and fallacies, etc.
Anyone use this? Thoughts?
https://www.schoolofthought.org/
When I want my mind blown, I compare former world's largest supercomputers to the tech I have around.
ASCI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer until the year 2000, was 150m² large, consumed 850,000W of power …and was slower than an iPhone 14 Pro, which uses ~6W.
ASCI Red had over 1TB of RAM, which may still sound impressive, except that RAM was 2× slower than the iPhone's 1TB SSD.
#30DaysOfBiking, Day 22: Originally I planned to ride to the southern lakeside border to Italy, but the bicycle path situation was so bad (1st pic) that I nearly turned around. I then noticed a path into a wildlife sanctuary, the #BolleDiMagadino (
“No backup, no plan for succession, nothing. The thing that alarms me about the situation is that no one found this alarming at the time. This kind of scenario is so normalized that downstream projects didn't even notice it.”
https://jenniferplusplus.com/the-free-softw…
"the news focus has been the unruly scenes in the Commons. Yet every #SNP contributor on TV and radio has also managed to highlight the issues of collective punishment, arms sales to #Israel, #genocide, Brit…
I'm rereading the works of Wilkie Collins chronologically. I first read them in my twenties, when I didn't understand capitalism and slavery at all, having been lied to by teachers for my entire life to that point. I loved the books unproblematically then, but now the political dimension oppresses my attention.
These people all have servants because they enclosed the commons and made it illegal not to have a job. Their income comes ultimately from slave labor in the colonies. T…
so, there is this this space filling curve called a Gosper curve, which got some neat property like forming a fractal island that can tile the plane.
however, the best part of it is that it's also called a flowsnake 😃.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper_curve
Trying to get a clearer picture of why I'm often at odds w/ other folks talking abt scholarly publishing. I think it's a different emphases of what publishing, at base, is.
Seeing it as . . .
making things public = social function
creating assets (whether as IP or added to the commons) = economic function
technologically driven dissemination of knowledge = informational function
or, for me, as the necessary work of mediation = not a function, a pragmati…
StarCoder 2 and The Stack v2: The Next Generation
Anton Lozhkov, Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal, Federico Cassano, Joel Lamy-Poirier, Nouamane Tazi, Ao Tang, Dmytro Pykhtar, Jiawei Liu, Yuxiang Wei, Tianyang Liu, Max Tian, Denis Kocetkov, Arthur Zucker, Younes Belkada, Zijian Wang, Qian Liu, Dmitry Abulkhanov, Indraneil Paul, Zhuang Li, Wen-Ding Li, Megan Risdal, Jia Li, Jian Zhu, Terry Yue Zhuo, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Nii Osae Osae Dade, Wenhao Yu, Lucas Krau{\ss}, Naman Jain, Yixuan S…
Federation in the #Wikimedia #Commons Query Service is impressively powerful: You can use the wealth of information contained in #Wikidata, combine it with structured metadata on Commons and re…
What's in an archive? What's in a library? Do people still use libraries anymore?? Would people want a media archive for all things creative commons and public domain? What would it even look like? What's the end goal? What's the best way to enrich the Commons? The best way to preserve and move Free Culture forward? How do we win this war?
We have an encyclopedia, a globe/map, an internet archive, we have the fediverse, what are we missing?
When I want my mind blown, I compare former world's largest supercomputers to the tech I have around.
ASCI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer until the year 2000, was 150m² large, consumed 850,000W of power …and was slower than an iPhone 14 Pro, which uses ~6W.
ASCI Red had over 1TB of RAM, which may still sound impressive, except that RAM was 2× slower than the iPhone's 1TB SSD.
Apart from an example of when the members of the Commons are insane, last night's debacle showed that you cannot draft a motion, a resolution, on a ceasefire and give due attention to the harms and rights on both sides to the satisfaction of all.
It would require a different kind of process, one which doesn't take place in the House but could in the Committees and Subcommittees and their Working Groups. It still wouldn't satisfy everyone but it might be sane.
RT: @NicolaSturgeon
The House of Commons reduces itself to farce because even on an issue as serious as the situation in Gaza, the Westminster establishment can’t bring itself to rise above hostility to the SNP.
Proud of my @theSNP colleagues but deeply depressed by the state of UK ‘democracy’. #CeasefireNOW
If you’re like me and trying to make sense of what happened, here’s the statement from the Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East in regards to the NDP motion on the war in Gaza that passed at parliament tonight
Parliament votes to end arms exports to Israel in watered-down motion
https://www.
#softwarecommons? "the two failure modes of a commons are the tragedy of the commons and enclosure. In the former, a majority of people overuses the common resource to the point of destruction, due to too few restrictions. In the latter, a minority of people gains control and excludes the majority, imposing too many restrictions. That is, same tension in commons management & softwa…
Yeah, you're really gonna see which companies are just gonna allow the AI to scrape all their stuff now. I'm a copyleft/creative commons kinda guy. But if you have art that you don't want stolen, the answer is simple.
MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE and put your art there (edit: and use that Glaze type of stuff on your art that wrecks AI, just to be sure)! Neocities is SO easy to set up! Or your own domain and hosting via porkbun, GoDaddy (non-WordPress) - anything at all other than …
Polish translations of Creative Commons licenses look so awful it feels like I'm linking to some scam site.
Back in 2014 they supported Polish diacritics and the writing style for a license summary sounded way better than the current version.
Apple co-founder and former CEO #Steve #Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, so today would have marked his 69th birthday had he not passed away in 2011 at the age of 56.
"Normally this is a formality, and it goes through on the nod, but the #SNP have pressed for a vote – as a means of showing their strong opposition to the bill, and delaying its passage for another 15 minutes"
Once more, the SNP are the real opposition in the Commons.
#WellDoneSNP …
"The climate and ecological crisis truly is a Tragedy of the Non-Commons. Not only because those who are responsible for it suffer the least, those least responsible the most—an overwhelmingly huge injustice—but also because those who have power are the least well equipped and inclined to truly change things, whilst those who could offer the most in finding different ways of living are excluded and marginalised."
I was looking around for info on when we might see petition #e4769 tabled in the House of Commons. Judging by the last petition I did — e-3723 for a National Public Bus and Rail company — it looks like they present petitions during "Routine Proceedings”. Unfortunately that doesn't have much specificity. :)
In the meantime, here you can see petition e-3723 on a rail/bus servic…
Can I ask a favor from my followers? Please do the following steps and reply back with the results:
1. Go to this Image page on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Isidro_Town_Plaza_(Nueva_Ecija)_21.jpg
2. On the…
Hey @… and #UBI friends! This Canadian House of Commons petition needs some help to get across the finish line in the next couple days! Can you help spread the word for more signatures!?
"We, the undersigned, Canadians supporting GBI, call upon th…
Using deep reinforcement learning to promote sustainable human behaviour on a common pool resource problem
Raphael Koster, Miruna P\^islar, Andrea Tacchetti, Jan Balaguer, Leqi Liu, Romuald Elie, Oliver P. Hauser, Karl Tuyls, Matt Botvinick, Christopher Summerfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15059<…
I wonder what happened to 7T7, the seagull who was always in front of my kitchen window at my previous place. She raised (and then seemingly abandoned) quite some offspring in front of my eyes.
So I've finally uploaded some photos of #Hakaniemenranta in 2020, before the construction works for the new tram line and apartment buildings and whatnot started.
Encampment at Vancouver Island University in the Commons outside the Library. Appears well organized and peaceful. About 6 tents a couple tables. Some flags and signs. I saw 5 or so people, all looked like student-age.
#FreePalestine #VIU
The House of Commons needs more chill hold music. Maybe just a beep every 60s. #canpoli
Hey friends, I'm itching to make a website to re familiarize myself with web tech. I have written some pretty advanced stuff in the past, but that was many years ago now. I'd love to create a huge library of Creative Commons works, something like the Free Music Archive, but bigger and better. Perhaps I can teach myself how federation works?
Sigh. I guess that's what Funkwhale is for. I don't see how I could make my website unique.
@… Somehow I suspect "pour the Internet into a large language model with no definition of quality" isn't part of building a knowledge commons.
Today I was looking for an image of a person being carried on a sedan chair, to illustrate an article I'm writing. When I did a search on on Adobe Stock for "sedan chair", it showed me dozens of pictures of people picking up garbage, and a few pictures of kittens, and nothing else. I found this completely baffling.
Next I went to search the Wikimedia Commons. And it was there I was reminded that another word for "sedan chair" is "litter".
I’ve finished doing perspective corrections on 250 photos of NHCP #HistoricalMarkers! 🎉 I have been doing this sort of photo editing on and off since 2017 and this is in support of the historical markers @… /Commons project I and a few others are working on (e.g.…
I just want to say how proud I am that my MP, Gord Johns (Courtenay-Alberni) was amongst the first group of seconders when the Palestine Motion was brought forward in the House back in February.
Love that guy!!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli
#CanPoli #CdnPoli Canada Politics Poll of the Day! #CPPotD
If you were an MP in Canada's House of Commons, how would you vote on the NDP's Palestine Motion? Boost to poll…
#VIARail #privatization #cdnpoli #canpoli
Petition to the House of Commons regarding Via Rail Canada's privatization.
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Heute vor 40 Jahren: Am 2. Mai 1984 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Fusileer die #Atombombe "Orkney". Fusileer war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 83/84 bei der insgesamt 17 unterirdische #Kernwaffentests
"In today’s brief #Mozilla joins a broad coalition of advocates for openness and competition, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, iFixit, and the Digital Right to Repair Coalition. We hope the Ninth Circuit will fix the lower court’s mistake and hold that #interoperability
Diane Abbott in her own words
"Over the nearly 40 years that I have been an MP, under any speaker of the House of Commons that I can remember, I would have been called. ... Hester’s abusive comments about me had led the news bulletins that day, and I was referred to several times in PMQs itself."
Her article also refers back to the Forde Report, which documented Labour politicians' horrible comments about her.
#DianeAbbott #LindsayHoyle #racism #FordeReport #UK
I have a recurring annual calendar appointment for March 16. Today is the 102nd anniversary of Comox-Alberni MP A.W. Neill's first speech in his 21 year career in the House of Commons (1921-45).
Neill was a white supremacist, anti-Asian racist, and one of the loudest voices for Japanese Internment. He was also an Indian Agent dealing with First Nations and Residential Schools on Vancouver Island's West Coast.
In 2019 his name was removed from a local school but he remain…
Heute vor 40 Jahren: Am 31. März 1984 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von #Fusileer die #Atombombe "Agrini". Fusileer war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 83/84 bei der insgesamt 17 unterirdische #Kernwaffentests
Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦐🦠
An important grouping of marine #zooplankton is "temporary" #Meroplankton