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In short, with democratized access, the web became more saturated than ever before, and as consumers, we began to spend more and more time trying to sort through it all. In a state of analysis paralysis, how do we disaggregate signal from noise?

This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increas... See more

Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down

Are We Watching the Internet Die?

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At wheresyoured.at

Meta AI released LLaMA ... and they included a paper which described exactly what it was trained on. It was 5TB of data.

2/3 of it was from Common Crawl. It had content from GitHub, Wikipedia, ArXiv, StackExchange and something called “Books”.

What’s Books? 4.5% of the training data was books. Part of this was Project Gutenberg, which is public dom

Beware the Curators

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The social platforms of web 2.0 are broken. On the path to mass scale and attention-based monetization, they compromised much of their usefulness to users. I think back to the early days of the social web and how much interesting stuff I would find each day and how connected it made me feel. Today fake accounts and fake posts d

John Borthwick • Building bicycles for our minds

The internet has enabled a truly distributed and multidirectional network, in which any node can be a content creator, broadcaster, and consumer. Any two nodes can have a 1:1 relationship; as a whole, the model can be described as many-to-many (M2M). However, despite the possibility of 1:1 relationships between producer-broadcasters and their audie... See more

Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics

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My notes: https://t.co/Rubf44uRct

John Borthwick

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Maniac fun is gone — originality, unprecedentedness, creativity and surprise disappears when so much weighs on culture’s ability to spread through digital feeds