Op-ed special report: Remembering in #thesetimes #LawrenceFerlinghetti (1919 - 2021): a builder of spaces for freedom

📍https://www.agos.com.tr/tr/haber/ferlinghettis-legacy-the-freedom-outside-echo-chambers-25656

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed away at the age of 101 on February 22, 2021 in San Francisco, built a #bookstore and #independent publisher, taking #poetry outside the academic #ivorytower and helping to #democratize American #literature. He defended the right to freedom of expression, and framed poetry as an insurgent #art; poetry had to be lived!

Smart Assistant Delivers Audio #News Summaries to UAE
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#AbuDhabi

You Better Believe the #FBI Is Following the #Money in
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/politics.html#25

mameon Launches MVP to #Democratize Storytelling for
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/etc-varied.html#11

White #House seeks to ease tensions after fatal shooting
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-cities.html#70a

#South#Sudan conflict reignites as peace deal unravels
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Paris

CHINA-SHANGH#AI-SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY M#US#EUM-STRESS
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/business.html#25

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025/12/ai-music-suno-warner-bros/685331/

"The pro and anti sides have generally coalesced around two different arguments: one saying #AI will leach #humanity out of #music (which is bad), and the other saying it will further #democratize the #art form (which is good)"

The story of sortition (Losverfahren) / The story of democracy

By Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvGFVyqKxUE

#Democracy #Essence #EssenceOfDemocracy #Participation #Citizenry #Power #Political #Government #Democratize #Democratization

→ The Death of Shopify’s Start-up Dream, One Layoff at a Time
https://thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-shopifys-start-up-dream-one-layoff-at-a-time/

“Not only has #Lütke appeared to have walked back on promises to #democratize both #tech and his workforce, he’s helped steer Canadian tech in a more #conservative direction. He has joined Canada’s tech leaders, including Shopify’s #farright COO Kaz #Nejatian, to launch Build #Canada, […] an initiative […] that keeps drawing comparisons to #DOGE”

“#Morale might be down at #Shopify, but #stock is up.”

#L

"Hoppy started the first of a life-long series of projects to #democratize #communication and #information "
#JohnHopkins #London #NottingHill #Music

https://www.joeboyd.co.uk/john-hoppy-hopkins

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"Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in two months. Silicon Valley is freaked out"

"We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously," Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft

Ah, scared of democratizing in action suddenly? If the principle of building and spreading AI is to give everyone all the capabilities - as Silicon Valley pretends is their aim with AI - then so can "they"...

RT https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/113885563000970965

#ai #democratize #china #siliconvalley