Ben Lee-Cohen

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MIMS 2010. Living in Western Mass. now and working as a PM at Tailscale.
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githubhttps://github.com/heliostatic
signalheliostatic.01
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Ben Lee-CohenFeb 5, 2024
It is imperative that the US resume funding to UNRWA: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/31/gaza-suspending-unrwa-aid-risks-hastening-famine
Gaza: Suspending UNRWA Aid Risks Hastening Famine

Governments should continue funding the UN Relief Works Agency, (UNRWA), given its vital role in averting a humanitarian catastrophe and the risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, while the agency investigates allegations that 12 of the agency’s staff were involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel.

Human Rights Watch
Ben Lee-CohenFeb 5, 2024

Appreciating Monica Westin's essay on the invention of privacy in the American library system: https://syllabusproject.org/undercover-at-the-library/

Credit: https://www.monicawestin.com/

Undercover at the Library

Undercover at the library: spies, reference desks, and the invention of privacy by Monica Westin 1. Hotbeds of anarchy: The library book used as evidence to arrest Henry Melnek on his way home from…

Syllabus
Ben Lee-CohenDec 19, 2023
Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Dec 19, 2023

Well, this sucks.

The NJ legislature just passed a bill requiring low-speed electric bicycles to be registered with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission and to be insured.
[EDIT: apparently it passed committee; next will be put before the legislature for a vote.]

Somewhere, either a fossil fuel lobbyist or an insurance industry lobbyist got his wings.

#eBikes
#FossilLobby
#InsuranceScam

Ben Lee-CohenDec 15, 2023
Jason ScottDec 15, 2023
The Internet Archive officially appealed the publishers-hate-libraries court case today.
Show threadBen Lee-CohenDec 10, 2023
@SexyCyborg Ordered! Glad to see you posting ❤️
Ben Lee-CohenDec 8, 2023
@freakazoid @simon double thanks
Ben Lee-CohenDec 8, 2023
@freakazoid @simon specifically Justine Tunney's llamafile format: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/
llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer

Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models (think your own local copy …

Ben Lee-CohenDec 8, 2023
@simon is there a llamafile for llava 1.5 13B? Your blog post is awesome, and now I'm hoping to try the larger model.
Ben Lee-CohenNov 8, 2023
Eric LawtonNov 8, 2023

"School-based law enforcement is likely ineffective for keeping schools safe, and it may even have detrimental consequences."

So I guess we'll stop doing it?

https://phys.org/news/2023-11-school-based-law-ineffective-schools-safe.html

School-based law enforcement is likely ineffective for keeping schools safe, finds analysis

A systematic review that analyzed the results of published studies concluded that school-based law enforcement (SBLE)—having sworn law enforcement officers stationed in schools on at least a part-time basis—is likely ineffective for keeping schools safe, and it may even have detrimental consequences.

Phys.org
Show threadBen Lee-CohenSep 20, 2023
@randy5235 my answer was low tech: talked with the folks I was shipping it to and checked my config with them.