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#oeglobal24 my evergreen resource exploring #copyleft #copyright #remix with students https://archive.org/details/remix4_2023-h264

oeglobal24 “taken together, it’s clear why sharing pretrained models but restricting access to the data required to build them makes good business sense … but it does smack of companies trying to have their cake & eat it too .. and if the strategy helps entrench the already dominant positions of large tech companies, it’s hard to see how that fits with the underlying ethos of #opensource ” https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/03/25/1090111/tech-industry-open-source-ai-definition-problem/

Great work from @timklapdor articulating #learningdesign frameworks https://learning-types.com/ #oeglobal24

The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown

oeglobal24 #gif Great media from Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research https://www.wehi.edu.au/tv-content-type/gifs/

Open Education Down UndOER: Australasian Case Studies #oeglobal24 https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/openedaustralasia/

#oeglobal24 Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration. https://plants.jstor.org/

#oeglobal24 The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/albums/

https://bionomia.net/how-it-works a web service dedicated to enhancing the attribution and recognition of collectors and identifiers in natural history collections

Sound & Music

It’s the psychedelic height of the 1960s, and BBC Radiophonics veteran Delia Derbyshire meets an American hippie guy that she has a hankering for, and Delia loses her composure https://youtu.be/2jLa7eEaFjk?si=CGJhmK8u99xV4ZA9

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