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Noted – China’s AI platforms race to replace Hugging Face [Rest of World] jc.fyi/x117

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For me, this is a reminder that AI isn’t (totally) an American innovation but needs to be observed through a global lens.

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Noted – Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society [Futurism] jc.fyi/x116

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Started listening to The Value Crisis - a series of episodes currently dropping weekly on BBC’s Understand podcast https://jc.fyi/x114

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Found via Brian Merchant’s (@bcmerchant.bsky.social) post today https://jc.fyi/x114a

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Finished reading I Eat the Stars by Sarah Wilson. What I got from it could best visualized by imagining somebody standing on a busy street corner holding up a sign with THE END IS NEAR but below that SO LET’S GET STARTED ON WHAT’S NEXT

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Bookshop.org https://jc.fyi/x110\nWorldCat.org https://jc.fyi/x110a

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SarahW...

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Started reading Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford – found via Jared Hendersen’s Philosophical Book Club https://jc.fyi/x113

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Bookshop.org https://jc.fyi/x113a\nWorldCat.org https://jc.fyi/x113b

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Planned to read Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard - found via his article on Literary Hub jc.fyi/x112

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Bookstore.org jc.fyi/x112a\nWorldCat jc.fyi/x112b

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Noted: XR Association jc.fyi/x111

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“Immersive technology (XR) is the umbrella term used to encompass Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) and other forms of alternate, expanded, or immersive reality applications, including those not yet invented.”

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Started reading I Eat the Stars by Sarah Wilson – I’m finding myself going through most of the references and reading further, then getting lost in rabbit holes of climate science, philosophy, religion, and political science. Bookstore.org: jc.fyi/x110 WorldCat: jc.fyi/x110a

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Watched: Reflecting on Star Trek’s 60th anniversary from the International Space Station [Ars Technica] jc.fyi/x109\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Planned to Read: Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection jc.fyi/x108\n

Found via: Imagining New Ways to Live [Los Angeles Review of Books] jc.fyi/x88\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Noted: The $50 Trillion Robot Boom Starts at $10 an Hour [InvestorPlace]\nProjections / predictions for an automated workforce that’s roughly half the cost of a human workforce\n

jc.fyi/x107\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Noted: Overshoot explained: 5 things to understand about a world beyond 1.5°C [UNEP.org] jc.fyi/x106\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Noted: Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use [Kevin Kelly]\n

Still crunching on some of the points and particulars. One thing I’m pondering is how our current terms and concepts for intellectual property seem “square peg / round hole” when considering LLMs. jc.fyi/x105\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Noted: An Early History Of Space Stations: Where’s My Wheel? [Hackaday]\nWe were working on artificial gravity for our orbital stations decades ago, but found perpetual near-weightlessness acceptable compared to the effort. jc.fyi/x10\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Noted: We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep [New Scientist] jc.fyi/x7\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Opined: The leaps and bounds to cross the technological gaps to achieve their manifesto’s objectives are small compared to reaching the prerequisite level of altruism. jc.fyi/x6\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Visited: Zion National Park. Afternoon storm kept my group from traversing up the narrows.\n

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Noted: These Cookies Are 3D-Printed and Made of Recycled Plastic [CNET]\n

A good example of food of the future coming from sources never before conceived. Would a new layer of food quality be added into the public mindset? Junk food, health food, upcycled food? jc.fyi/x2\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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Noted: Modern cowboys are saddling up in the US West. And they’re on a whole new mission [The Guardian].

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Found this interesting because the nuance in what they do may make robotic or automation replacement impractical or even impossible. jc.fyi/x1\n: josephcizek.micro.blog

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