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Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue

OpenFactBook - World Factbook Alternative | Country Data & Statistics

The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook. Free comprehensive data on 260+ countries: geography, demographics, government, economy, and more.

@catsalad felinus chelonian (aka the purrtoise)
@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 Maris Piper, you are my bitch!
@hannah is this that same doc that has the crazy ping of death animation sequence in it?
@cmconseils I put three items in one basket. Are they all covered?

@hacks4pancakes there's an important and often overlooked phrase there "what LLMs are and are not".

I'm hearing too regularly "It's a tool. You have to understand how to use it." from people who overlook what that tool is and isn't, so they still don't see the pitfalls. Even some people who do know what the LLM is/isn't rely on talking about "how to use it" directing other users away from understanding what the tool actually is and what it isn't.

Maybe if more users understood what the tool was rather than how to use it, we'd hear less stories about people substituting table salt for sodium bromide in their diets or travelling thousands of miles to meet their internet totally-not-a-bot girl/boyfriend.

@socketwench this Animal Farm sequel is getting confusing
@HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2
A quasi supernormal incremental precipitation inducer?