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By understanding trauma, we can craft user experiences that are more sensitive to the needs of everyone.

By Donella Meadows~ Folks who do systems analysis have a great belief in “leverage points.” These are places within a complex system (a corporation, an economy, a living body, a city, an ecosystem) where a small shift in one thing can produce big changes in everything. This idea is not unique to systems analysis — […]

I wrote this how-to guide with the immensely helpful counsel and insights from Bex Leon and Robin Fanning, as well as through an online…

Konstantinos Komaitis & Louis-Victor de Franssu say Mastodon’s decentralization raises questions about how regulatory regimes will apply.

The Galactica large language model (LLM) is being trained with millions of pieces of academic content. It is designed to help the research community better manage the "explosion of information."

Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?

AI startup Hugging Face has undertaken the tech sector’s first attempt to estimate the broader carbon footprint of a large language model.

I watched a bunch of crows on TikTok and now I'm trying to connect with some local birds.

Companies say they want ethical AI. But those working in the field say that ambition comes at their expense.

This is a blog adaptation of a recent 15-minute talk I was asked to do at an Ambition Empower event. Having noticed that I am no longer on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn people are naturally curious as to my reasoning and how this works for a small business owner.

Group was put in place to address potential downsides of the company’s products; Meta says efforts will continue.

Blog posts with images get 2.3x more engagement. Here’s the problem - we make a query engine for streaming tables. How the heck are you supposed to pick images for technical topics like comparing the similarities between Deephaven and Materalize, viewing pandas DataFrames, gRPC tooling for getting data streams to the browser, using Kafka with Parquet for storage, or using Redpanda for streaming analytics?

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

The story of Moral Imaginations one year on, since we launched on 12th April 2020

Meaningful human oversight over AI requires a critical look at the temporal dynamics of how AI enters our lives. I argue that ideologies such as “move fast and break things” do just that - move fast and break things. Instead, what if we could slow down and contribute to crafting empowering futures?

The Kingdom of Luba is an ancient African Kingdom which was based in current day Democratic Republic of Congo.

Having moved this year from a modern open plan, flexible learning area school, to a classroom in an old red brick building built in 1922, I have had some new challenges with learning spaces. I have…

Our economic system feeds on the belief that eliminating all friction is our road to happiness. We perpetuate this belief to drive profits — but we’re reaching a point of diminishing returns.

Should Governor Gavin Newsom sign the California Age Appropriate Design Code into law, a new era will begin, writes Jennifer King.

Founder Yvon Chouinard announced that all the company’s profits will go into saving the planet

Recently, startup veterans have identified four core challenges with the Lean Startup. Let's break each of those down & look at a more effective methodology.

The Pattern, and the Battle for the Soul of the Internet

Here's a thought experiment: every search result is now contested by 100 AI-generated articles. How do you respond?

Four creators share their Dall-E-generated images – and their hopes and fears about AI in art

The number of democratic countries around the world is shrinking steadily, and autocratic countries are registering more patents than the West. A new era is dawning – and it could have dramatic consequences for our work, our money and our lives.

Dieter Rams’ profound influences on modern design blossomed throughout his 30+ years working for Braun and in his text, “10 Principles for Good Design.”

How does this work? Recorded a selection of open cameras for weeks. Scraped all Instagram photos tagged with the locations of the open cameras. Software compares the Instagram with the recorded footage. I launched the project on 12 September 2022. The YouTube video was just created with results of 10 days. I will publish new…