Tangible #Archives - call for papers for special issue of Design Issues from #MIT Press - may be of interest to #GLAM folks cc @ingridbmason
Das bemerkenswerte an diesen "Vorschlägen" ist die strategische Kurzsichtigkeit der SPD:
Wenn ausgerechnet die #SPD, welche angeblich für die Menschen in #Erwerbsarbeit aktiv sein will, jene leichten Verbesserungen zurücknimmt, die tatsächlich strukturelle #Erwerbslosigkeit etwas abbauen können, indem man #mit statt #gegen die #Menschen arbeitet - was zum Beispiel eine positive #Lenkungswirkung des Wegfalls des Vermittlungsvorrangs war - stellt sich die SPD e. Zeugnis der Wankelmuetigkeit aus
It comes from a loose coalition of #archivists & #librarians, who are standing athwart #history & yelling “Save!” They belong to organizations such as the #InternetArchive, which co-created a project called the End of Term Web Archive to back up the federal web in 2008; the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, or #edgi; & #libraries at major #universities such as #MIT & the University of #Michigan.
Most of the new inquiries are focused on colleges’ partnerships w/the #PhDProject, a #nonprofit that helps #students from underrepresented groups get degrees in #business w/the goal of diversifying the business world.
The group of 45 colleges facing scrutiny over ties to the PhD Project include major public universities such as #ArizonaState, #OhioState & #Rutgers, along w/prestigious private schools like #Yale, #Cornell, #Duke & #MIT.
@bazkie I am inclined to go to #infosecexchange but they also block Threads - The #mit server has a 500 limit so that's out.
Hummm - No wonder people have problems joining #Mastodon
Where is #JohnMastodon when you need him!?
"The mix-in revolution: How an ice cream innovator in Somerville influenced Lisp pioneers at the MIT AI Lab—and made a lasting mark on programming."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111238/the-mix-in-revolution/
여러분만의 #연합우주 서버를 Fedify로 만들어보세요!
Fedify는 #ActivityPub 프로토콜 구현을 도와주는 #TypeScript 프레임워크입니다. 복잡한 연합 프로토콜을 쉽게 구현하고 싶으신가요? Fedify가 도와드립니다!
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오픈소스 #MIT 라이선스로 누구나 자유롭게 사용할 수 있습니다!
Build your own #fediverse server with #Fedify!
Fedify is a #TypeScript framework that simplifies #ActivityPub implementation. Want to build a federated server without the complexity? Fedify has got you covered!
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Available under the #MIT license—free and open source!
Thanks everyone who participated in the #live #interview with @kentpitman ! #computerScience #MIT #History #lisp #programming #TECO #emacs historical early computing education, being a "tourist" on the MIT computers and everything! #python useage creeps in there at the end.
https://medium.com/@screwlisp/live-interview-with-kent-pitman-incoming-216092e24f44
Sat 6pm - find some peace at #MIT with #meditation - with live music - free food and socializing after
https://calendar.mit.edu/event/musical-meditation-nights-1865 #CambridgeMA
#bostonWeekend 3/x
Sat/Sun - AI Ethics Convention - Tech Ethics eXchange NorthEast (teχnē) at #MIT #CambridgeMA: (#texnecon) - free(?), pre-registration required (as there's a food component).
h/t @ozdreaming
#BostonWeekend 19/x
#DeepSeek AI won't chat about Tiananmen Square since it's #MadeIn_China. Of course only most ignorant people will complain if they receive a profound gift like a #cloud-independent #FOSS_AI model for #Linux #Windows & #MacOS...
https://ollama.com/download
No surprise that loudest voices are almost exclusively coming from the #USA, but that's #venturecapital & #siliconvalley related. Somehow, I haven't heard them when #OpenAI refused to answer questions about #USpol. So it seems like #USpatriots enjoy to pay the #SaaS price for #enshitification of the #land_of_the_fee.
https://youtu.be/Nl7aCUsWykg
Even when training data isn't disclosed, the #MIT license is almost as good as #copyleft...
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/LICENSE
I'd say #chatGPT needs to man up soon. Otherwise, it will be replaced by #AI. That's humiliating for #SamuelAltman #fanboys, but the irony — #priceless!
Whether #chatgpt or #deepseek, expensive energy intensive or cheap…either is an #ai #bullshitpropagator (quoting somebody smart at #MIT)
The collaboration between #MIT and #Israel's military in the development of #AI and drone technologies used in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Also on the broader implications of academic research being weaponized for military purposes and the moral dilemmas faced by researchers in #STEM fields.
H/t @kriykat
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Academic Gulag
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/23/the-chris-hedges-report-americas-academic-gulag/
“Putting dangerous technology in dangerous hands” — MIT PhD students Prahlad Iyengar and Richard Solomon discuss their school’s collaboration with Israel’s extermination campaign and how dissidents are being suppressed. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report This interview is also…
#Politics #AdvancedTechnologies #Censorship #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Israel #Militarism #Palestine #U.s. #Ai #AntiSemitism #AntiZionism #Biotechnology #C.WrightMills #ChrisHedges #ChrisHedgesReport #CoalitionForPalestineAtMit #CoresetCompressionAlgorithms #DanFeldman #DanielHale #DanielaRus #ElbitSystems #FacialRecognition #InformationTechnology #IsraeliMinistryOfDefense #KillerDrones #LockheedMartin #MachineLearning #Mit #MitComputerScienceAndArtificialIntelligenceLaboratory #Nanotechnology #NationalScienceFoundationFellowship #PrahladIyengar #RichardSolomon #Robotics #SheikhJarrahEvictions
The #KrononautMoon Project is an ongoing series of community experiments to contact #TimeTravelers — as "in-person", but more likely via #quantum #signal. The next attempt is coming up soon on 14 Mar 2025 — under the #TotalLunarEclipse — wherever you are. These outreaches are sometimes referred to as "landing receptions", but call them or redesign them however you like. Following is a brief, all-true #chronology of such #events, going back 40+ years. The excerpt is from our detailed #article on Medium.com.
❛❛ #Future #intelligences would have the necessary transport #technology that is not yet existent in our #world. To date, there have been 5 recorded attempts of this method, with the most famous one devised by the late #theoretical #physicist #StephenHawking, in #Cambridge #UK on 2009 Jun 28.
Hawking referred to his get-together as a “reception”—what we now think of as a version type 1.0. His champagne toast to “tourists from the future” was, by no means, not the first of the prototypes, however, because it was staged years after 3 similar experimental attempts — stationed in different #countries and unrelated to each other. The professor’s cheeky soirée occurred four years after a rollicking party that was thrown for “Inhabitants of the Future” at Forrest Place, #Perth #AU, on 2005 Mar 31. Then, a few months later, an equally festive #TimeTraveler #Convention was hosted at #MIT — The #Massachusetts Institute of Technology, #Cambridge #MA #US, on 2005 May 07. These elaborate productions were preceded by a full two decades, back when a group identifying itself as the #Krononauts assembled in #Baltimore #MD #US (alt. spelling: #Chrononauts). That seminal event, which was covered by a #NewYorkTimes reporter, happened at a downtown #bookstore, under the light of a #FullMoon, and a multi-planetary #syzygy, on 1982 Mar 09.
More recently, in the spring of 2023, a dogged #podcaster for TheLastArchive.com and Pushkin.fm, published a riveting and droll #audio recounting of Baltimore’s Krononauts gathering, and then gave the concept a uniquely personal #experimental spin, noting the time and #GPS #coordinates. The effort successfully demonstrated that a single individual can attempt extra-temporal #contact on one’s own, equipped with little more than a #public #library #bench, and can meaningfully contribute to the corpus of #Community #Time #Travel #Research. ❜❜
On 2025 Mar 14, join your #friends, fellow #Mastodonians, and #TimeTravelers for an evening of #peace, #love, and #cosmic #tranquility, wherever you are.
https://Medium.com/write-under-the-moon/on-the-night-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-6eec94750f4e 2024 Aug 15 https://TheLastArchive.com/season-4/episode-6-the-krononauts 2023 https://KronoMoon.org 
#MoonOverMastodon
MIT Press: MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs. “The MIT Press is pleased to announce that Direct to Open (D2O) has reached its full funding goal for 2025 and will open access to 80 new monographs and edited book collections in the spring and fall publishing seasons.”
2025 Mar 14 