Emma Irwin

@sunnydeveloper
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Open Everything, Canada
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The Roles of Packages

Applying Sajaniemi’s roles of variables to packages across every kind of package manager.

Andrew Nesbitt
Saw an article about this that linked to a video on another platform. I don't love posting content from elsewhere, but I will make exceptions....
It's been such a long, rainy, dark winter - a moment to see this place in sunshine lifted my spirits! You can see in center, the bright green skunk cabbage is sprouting up again. #VancouverIsland
We will continue to run into this scenario as long as we keep trying to retrofit human spaces and workflows for AI https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3580761

It's easier to write about what's broken and scary - this time I focused on an optimistic future after #OpenSource.

"The optimistic future requires tenacity on our part to insist on values to humanity: trust, consent, safety, accountability; the environment and inclusion. The alternative is to agree, that what we have built so far, is the best we are capable of - and hand it off to corporations and their machines."

#AI #OpenSourceAI

https://sunnydeveloper.com/after-open-source-an-optimistic-prediction/

After Open Source - An Optimistic Prediction

In this moment, AI is being built for developers, by developers, and marketed back to developers. This hyper-focus on developer productivity, cheap tokens, and the corporate race to win these audiences has had an unsurprising side effect: human spaces and communities have been flooded with uninvited noise, cognitive drain, and

Emma's open notes
Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give

I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...

Kenneth Reitz

Bernie Sanders just created a video to make a point about issues of privacy in AI (a real problem). His supporters on Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic."

So I'm going to elaborate on the corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

🚨 WATCH: In front of the UN Human Rights Council, Hong Kong MP Dominic Lee made a shocking statement:

“The West talks about human rights, but lets Israel get away with committing genocide.”

“The blood of Palestinians and Iranians is on their hands.”

“What moral credentials does America have? A country ruled by Epstein’s followers!” ‼️
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #HumanRights #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

Germany requires Open Document Format in its new sovereign digital framework, standardizing document use across public administrations.
https://linuxiac.com/germany-mandates-odf-for-public-administration/

#opensource #foss