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"How Can Nonprofit Presses Advance the Diamond Ecosystem?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/how-nonprofit-presses-can-advance-diamond-oa
"Earlier this year, three nonprofit…

Flexible Connection Agreements can help to connect new loads to the grid before firm capacity is available.
But that does require proper oversight: although beggars can’t be choosers when it comes to grid access, the regulator certainly can.
New RAP briefing on Europe's hope for unlocking grids.
https://www.

Flex to connect
Connection requests for renewable generation, EV chargers, data centres and battery storage are surging across Europe and the grid can't keep up with this

#CommonplaceNotes AI fables, knowledge, etc. Well matured, some of these, due to relocating to Greater Liverpool along the way http://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/04/common…

Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for "any lawful government purpose"; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go

Google Signs Classified AI Deal With Pentagon Amid Employee Opposition
Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google’s AI models on classified work, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The agreement allows the Pentagon to use Google’s AI for “any lawful government purpose,” according to the person—echoing ...

"Learning from mistakes" as individuals is hard if those lessons are not (or can not be) percolated up or are even rejected by larger groups or society in general, if the behaviors one might consider a mistake on a personal/ethical level are actually rewarded and encouraged (or imposed) by those larger social structures.
So many people have tried so hard for so long to share their knowledge and tools, trying to teach & inspire others, to build communities to help make the…

The Society of the Spectacle - Wikipedia

Ford is rehiring hundreds of human workers after its aggressive AI adoption strategy backfired.
The US automaker hired over 350 veteran engineers,
referred to internally as “gray beards”,
over the past three years in order to address mistakes made by automated systems.
The staff will lead quality reviews
after the automation issues cost the company billions of dollars, Bloomberg reported,
while some workers will also help improve and train the AI systems.

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly
‘We didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers,’ says automaker

"The Commodification of Sensitive Open Data" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/the-commodification-of-sensitive-open-data
"Governments enable corporations to…

In Defense of the Knowledge-Production Game (Beau Baumann/Passing Political Time)
https://bbaumann.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-knowledge-production
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p69#a260526p69

RE: https://apobangpo.space/@bich/116830773027187529
Pretty soon no person educated in Texas, Florida, or other confederate states will have the skills and knowledge to obtain any but a menial job.

"Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
"Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digit…