Bits
“Shouldn’t science have been directed toward exploring how computers could serve citizens, civil society, and the public sphere writ large—not just by automating processes, but by simulating possibilities, by modeling alternate futures? And who, if anyone, was speaking up for these broader interests?” #ai #generative https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/
Sound & Music
So we may have plenty of cider all next year;
Hatfuls and in capfuls and in bushel bags and all,
And there’s cider running out of every gutter hole.
Politics & Economics
https://www.noemamag.com/trespassing-for-the-common-good/
He called me a louse and said “Think of the grouse”
Well I thought, but I still couldn’t see
Why all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout
Couldn’t take both the poor grouse and me
#commons #economics