{"id":3354,"date":"2024-02-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:52:09","slug":"href-weekly-feb-11-feb-17-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3354","title":{"rendered":"href weekly | Feb 11 \u2013 Feb 17 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canada\u2019s intent to ban the Flipper Zero wireless tool over car thefts is, on the one hand, an everyday example of poorly researched government action. https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2024\/02\/12\/canada-bans-flipper-zero-over-what-it-imagines-it-does\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Replicating our existing capabilities, simply at greater speed and lower cost, is a minor achievement. The most valuable tools complement human capabilities and open new frontiers of possibility. The most pedestrian ones incrementally outperform existing tools. #ai<\/a> #llm<\/a> https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/how-ai-could-help-rebuild-the-middle-class\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Michigan is selling hours of audio recordings of study groups, office hours, lectures, and more to outside third-parties for tens of thousands of dollars for the purpose of training large language models #llm<\/a> #ai<\/a> #ethics<\/a> https:\/\/www.404media.co\/university-of-michigan-sells-recordings-of-study-groups-and-office-hours-to-train-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t trust corporations, especially those where one egomaniac has all the power. Use #opensource<\/a> and community driven solutions if you can #nitter<\/a> https:\/\/nitter.cz\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

American Counterculture, Glimpsed Through #zines<\/a> https:\/\/1ft.io\/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fcultural-comment%2Famerican-counterculture-glimpsed-through-zines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics & Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

#canada<\/a> #trains<\/a> #transit<\/a> https:\/\/thewalrus.ca\/the-diminishing-romance-of-train-travel\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you want #trains<\/a> to operate on a private-sector-market-economy level playing field, then you have to be internally consistent and do that to the highways as well.\u201d #canada<\/a> https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/transportation\/privatization-ahead-for-vias-most-travelled-route\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bits Canada\u2019s intent to ban the Flipper Zero wireless tool over car thefts is, on the one hand, an everyday example of poorly researched government action. https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2024\/02\/12\/canada-bans-flipper-zero-over-what-it-imagines-it-does\/ Replicating our existing capabilities, simply at greater speed and lower cost, is a minor achievement. The most valuable tools complement human capabilities and open new frontiers of possibility.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[127,210,267,182,268,37,265,266,269],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-links","tag-ai","tag-canada","tag-ethics","tag-llm","tag-nitter","tag-opensource","tag-trains","tag-transit","tag-zines","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100104,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/100104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}