“Open source generative AI” is such a pipe dream and it’s honestly sad to see people fall for it.

This tech has a hard requirement on extraction and massive material investment in order to deliver any usable results. It’s inherently capitalist and an “open source” paint job won’t change that.

In that regard it’s even worse than crypto. A blockchain can still provide its function for a small number of participants, however nonsensical that function is. But an LLM or diffusion model needs the massive amount of data and compute to work AT ALL. And the only real motivation to put in these staggering amounts of resources is a return on a capital investment.

Ringvorlesung „Digital Humanities im Fokus: Methoden, Anwendungen und Perspektiven“ der Uni Rostock im Sommersemester: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=20670
#DH #DigitalHumanities #Ringvorlesung

Im Sommersemester wird mir die Ehre zuteil, die geschätzte @u_henny vom @ide auf ihrer Professur an der Uni Rostock zu vertreten: Mit einem Seminar und einer Übung zu digitalen Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, einer #DigitalHumanities-Ringvorlesung und nicht zuletzt mit dem Akademievorhaben zur Uwe Johnson Werkausgabe. Ich freue mich sehr darauf, denn es sind wirklich tolle Kollegen vor Ort! und ... es wird bald Sommer 🌞🎉 #RosDH #UniRostock

Given that I see calls for better support for those random opensource devs that happen to maintain some of the most important pieces of software on the planet: a good friend of mine is maintaining expat - possibly the most important+popular xml library out there - and he has a message in his latest changelog that you may want to read: https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_6_2/expat/Changes

I am going to have a lot to say about this article given that 1) I am an Eritrean who understands the level of transnational repression by the government & 2) My research in bias in AI, such as the face recognition systems they talk about here.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/gewalt-bei-eritrea-festival-in-giessen-wie-ki-der-polizei-hilft-19605362.html

Und es geht doch!

E13 unbefristet mit Bachelor *oder* gleichwertigen Fähigkeiten (jeweils mit 3 Jahren Erfahrung).

Softwarearchitekt*in für Bibliotheksmanagementsysteme

In der schönsten Stadt der Welt: https://blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=37800

#bibliojobs #obj

JavaScript experts, an opportunity to contribute to #Redict:

https://codeberg.org/redict/redict.io/issues/7

This page needs your help:

https://redict.io/docs/commands/

We have a JSON file you can use as the data source for an interactive search:

https://codeberg.org/redict/redict-doc/src/branch/master/commands.json

Hello fediverse, lil cry for help: I’m looking to speak to someone with vitelliform macular dystrophy caused vision loss, so I can ask about their experience with the onset of symptoms. I was diagnosed ~3 years ago and until recently hadn’t experienced symptoms, I believe I now am but would love to chat to others about their experiences. Compulsory masto disclaimer: I’m not looking for advice other than the specific ask above, thank you. Boosts much appreciated 💖

Wer helfen möchte, hier wird großartige Arbeit geleistet.

https://www.galgo-hilfe.de/

📢 kurzfristig Reviewer:innen gesucht 📢

Unsere DH-Kolleg:innen im Norden suchen für die DHNB2024-Konferenz in Island (https://dhnb.eu/conferences/dhnb2024/) kurzfristig & händeringend Reviewer:innen, die heute & morgen (14. & 15. März) Abstracts zwischen 500-1000 bzw. 1000-2000 Wörtern begutachten können.

Wer Zeit und Kapazitäten hat, melde sich bitte bei der Vorsitzenden des PKs Olga Holownia unter olga@hi.is

Gerne teilen! Herzlichen Dank!
@dhnb
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#Review #DigitalHumanities

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers:

Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the learning of colloquial Arabic, 1798-1945, by Rachel Mairs.

Download it free: https://bit.ly/3Tm5FkT

Remember that the Supreme Court’s decision did not do what Donald Trump had asked: clear him of insurrection. The Colorado court found that he so was, and Trump had an entire section of his SCOTUS brief arguing he was peaceful on #Jan6th. The Court didn’t do what he asked; it did *not* clear him. And the act’s decision leaves space for his criminal trial about #Jan6 to proceed, should the Court dispose of the other Trump immunity case quickly in the Spring (as it can and must). The Court took 25 days to render this decision. Anything longer in the immunity case would be deeply inconsistent with what it did here.

The Colorado court opinion has extensive findings on this, weighing the testimony of Trump defenders like Kash Patel & concluding Trump was an insurrectionist.

None of those findings was disturbed by SCOTUS today, despite Trump’s request that the #scotus do so.

#Insurrectionists #insurrection #crime #violence