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funding the web essay

Funding The Web: A Wise Choice

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“A small fine is a start, but saving the web and our information environment requires more ambitious approaches. We have the means, with the DMA as it exists, to be far more strategic in shaping a livable technological future. One such strategy, that also he…”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Rachel Coldicutt: What would be cool is if Google bought back 2001-era search. Mind boggling speed and performance, no promo BS. They could even call it something stupid like Raw Dog so Joe Rogan and the people who …
Rachel Coldicutt: Not sure I'm prepared to crank it back to Alta Vista just yet but why not
Rachel Coldicutt: I was working at a start-up 1999/2000 and I remember coming into work one day and everyone was like LOOK AT THIS!!
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New Culture, work & education Signal 21h ago

network alignment chart

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“I'm Chaotic Discourse on the network alignment chart 🧭 my polar opposite: @grammargirl.bsky.social (Lawful Locked-In). plot your own network → bisks.net/alignment-ch...”

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Dan Hon: I'm Chaotic Discourse on the network alignment chart 🧭 my polar opposite: @grammargirl.bsky.social (Lawful Locked-In). plot your own network → bisks.net/alignment-ch...
Pavel: Perfectly balanced, as all things should be
Pavel: Interesting that my network is completely goonless
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5 experts · 29 posts · 19d ago
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I wonder if it would be crazy of me to consider doing a sociology PhD
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: The problem is, I should also simultaneously be doing an information science PhD and a religious studies PhD, because the thing I’m interested in is the sociology of collective information behavior…
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3 experts · 20 posts · 17d ago
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Dan Hon: Something about the number of flops and cost required for someone to use a computer to program a database for their recipes in the kitchen in the early 80s/late 70s compared to getting Claude to on…
Dan Hon: It'd be interesting to map all the personal software people are agentic coding against all the ads from the 70s and 80s of what you'd use a computer for
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2 experts · 3 posts · 9d ago
Dan Hon: Frontier LLMs but describe them as jagged gifted children who never quite reached their potential.
Dan Hon: You took a perfectly fine LLM and gave it anxiety thanks to unrealistic expectations forced upon it when it was young.
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