Sarah Webber

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Design-oriented research into tech for better connections with the natural world. Tech in human-animal relationships. Aspiring field naturalist. Animal training and behaviour geek.
Websitehttps://people.eng.unimelb.edu.au/webbers/

Once again, a truly astonishing amount of stuff has been happening with Co-op Cloud since our last blog post in October. Read about it here!

https://coopcloud.tech/blog/march-2026-equinox

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March 2026 community update

March 2026 community update

The Co-op Cloud
@Pionir @ChrisMayLA6 @Knittingdancer There's a bunch of textbook-level knowledge that professionals need to have internalised. E. g. understanding the discipline's principles, pitfalls, threshold concepts. This is the stuff that uni education is trying to teach.
GenAI makes it very easy for students to shortcut the learning, so they don't build the mental frames, or cross the thresholds.
Designing learning activities and open book exams is a *very* different challenge now from 5yrs ago.

@ChrisMayLA6 though to be fair, the kind of communication skills you need for that kind of examination are often sorely lacking in people I interview in my line of work.

Appreciate need for the resourcing to be there, but if this led to supporting young people to be able to articulate complex ideas verbally, essentially on the fly, then that would be beneficial.

@ChrisMayLA6 A prediction? I think this is already well in train.

Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.

They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.

500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.

The game was the harvest.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

Exclusive: Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

MIT Technology Review
Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate: -“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Energising meeting this afternoon with retirees keen to find better solutions for their digital comms and information repository.
Needs: Usability, accessibility and compatibility with existing devices and OSes.
Wants: non-corporate, climate-friendly, open source, community-controlled .

So excited to see where these conversations take us! Send your suggestions for e.g. bulletin boards, repositories, easy online authoring platforms.

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Infraestructura digital libre, docker y cooperativas 🖥🔥

Ven a este taller, donde aprenderás como instalar tu propio servidor colectivo con Co-op Cloud (https://coopcloud.tech/), un proyecto de infraestructura digital libre, creado por cooperativas tecnológicas, que utilizan tecnologías de contenedores.

🗓Sábado 21 de marzo
⏰12pm
📍Calle María Adelina #50, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

¡Acompáñanos! 💻🖤

*Evento Gratuito*

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jadehopepunk/115970421203350055

Disappointed I won't be able to make this, should be a superb couple of talks!

I'd like you to know some numbers.

340.
That's the number of brand new billionaires we made in 2025. Roughly one a day and more than any other year.

9 million.
That's the number of people who died of hunger in 2025. Over 24,000 every single day for an entire year.

40 billion.
That's the number of dollars it would cost to end world hunger. Not to alleviate it. Not to lessen it. To eradicate it.

11.
That's the percentage tax we would have needed to impose on ONLY new wealth on ONLY billionaires in ONLY 2025 in order to eradicate world hunger. Eleven percent. That's all. Compared to the vast coffers of wealth they've already accumulated that's a rounding error.

Eat the rich. Tax them now.