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The Steep Cost of Capture - Private computational systems marketed as AI threading through public life & institutions, concentrating power and shaping access to resources and information [https://ssrn.com/abstract=4135581](https://ssrn.com/abstract=4135581) [@planetdyne](https://fed.dyne.org/c/planetdyne)
Happy 33rd Birthday, Internet! 🎉 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History\_of\_the\_Internet#Internet\_use\_in\_wider\_society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet#Internet_use_in_wider_society) [@planetdyne](https://fed.dyne.org/c/planetdyne)
A better understanding of The Nature of Information and communications is now fundamental to our future. Telluride 2024 is hosting a special series of in-person & #LASER Zoom presentations & conversations with individuals setting creative examples for this most urgent realm of understanding, with insights on the sciences, technologies, economies, ecologies, learning, the arts, & on some inspiring, eco-minded, life affirming ways forward. You are invited you to join.
From the FAQ: > How can you be "independent" if you have sponsors? > > All sponsorships are in the form of unrestricted donations. Board seats and other forms of influence are not for sale.
An absolute disgrace... Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is in a serious struggle. Despite doing everything by the book, for the good of the commons, with utmost respect for every party involved.
Shout out to the excellent diode.zone for providing dyne with a steady FOSS video outlet! We loved every moment of it! Seeing how diode needs to scale down, we decided to spin up a PeerTube of our own, check it out! 📺 https://tv.dyne.org If you're a fedihead and were previously following us on dyne.org@diode.zone, you will now be able to find us on @dyne@tv.dyne.org or why not @peertube@tv.dyne.org? Add us to yo' frenz!! Huge ups! https://yewtu.be/watch?v=x3QwMtV4HIY
✊🏾 "Una sicurezza, diciamo autoprodotta, che abbiamo in pugno" Invited by Associazione di Promozione Sociale De Componendis Cifris for the "Crittografia e imprese per il Paese" event, @jaromil@fed.dyne.org held a talk in Rome on the importance of sovereignty, and local control over - as well as local knowledge of - security tools. (video in Italian)