Robin Sloan: The lost thread. An industrialist intends to purchase Twitter, Inc. His substantial success launching reusable spaceships does nothing to prepare him for the challenge of building social spaces. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

structure of peer-managed organization to share/reduce costs of an activity (more)

aka worker-CoOperative (more)

Employee Stock Ownership Program (more)

A version of a New Economy that embraces Slack? A version that caps virality? (more)

A friend shared the following link-dump re ChatGPT. (more)

Potential computer input (UI), could be Always On You. (more)

Summary: focus on forward motion, don't get distracted/angry over small frictions. (more)

TheWife is using 2012 iMac running 10.15.7 (can't go more recent on that hardware) (more)

from OpenAI: We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

Who gets to be a Person? (more)

10 differences between corporations and real people (more)

Professor Robert Horn specializes in Visual Language (1998 book), Public Policy/Society Design, Knowledge Management, Argumentation Visualization/Argumentation Mapping, Structured Writing, etc. (more)

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It is the third-generation language prediction model in the GPT-n series created by OpenAI, a for-profit San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research laboratory.[2] GPT-3's full version has a capacity of 175 billion machine learning parameters, which is over two orders of magnitude greater than that of its predecessor, GPT-2.[1]:14 GPT-3, which was introduced in May 2020, and is in beta testing as of July 2020,[3] is part of a trend in natural language processing (NLP) systems of pre-trained language representations.[1] Prior to the release of GPT-3, the largest language model was Microsoft's Turing NLG, introduced in February 2020, with a capacity of 17 billion parameters or less than 10 percent compared to GPT-3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3 (more)

Nathan Schneider (born 1984) is a scholar, activist, and journalist. Since 2015, he has been a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder... Schneider was among the first journalists to cover the Occupy Wall Street movement during its planning stages... Following his reporting on Occupy Wall Street, Schneider began to focus on stories related to co-operative economics. For Vice magazine, he wrote the most complete profile to date of Enric Duran, the Catalan activist and fugitive who founded the Catalan Integral Cooperative and Faircoop.[25] For The Nation, he reported on "How Pope Francis Is Reviving Radical Catholic Economics."[26] He also published a number of articles and interviews on emerging cooperative business models for online platforms. Schneider has been a leading advocate for platform cooperativism. In November 2015, together with New School professor Trebor Scholz, Schneider co-organized a two-day conference billed as "a coming-out party for the cooperative Internet."[27] Over 1,000 people attended, including figures such as legal scholar Yochai Benkler, New York City Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo, and Zipcar founder Robin Chase. This led to the publication of a book, which Schneider co-edited with Scholz, Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet, published in 2016 by OR Books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Schneider (more)

Darius Kazemi: How to run a small social network site for your friends. Since August 2018 I have run a social network site called Friend Camp for about 50 of my friends. I think Friend Camp is a really nice place, and my friends seem to agree that it has enriched our lives. I'd like to see more places like Friend Camp on the internet, and this document is my attempt to provide some practical guidance as to how you might run a social network site like this. (more)

Private virtual community (social warrens) run by Darius Kazemi, using HomeTown. (more)

see Security Analysis

Implicit (sometimes explicit) agreement within a group of the meaning of certain words and phrases. (more)

Lion Kimbro book in 2004 about keeping a NoteBook as a Reflective Thinker. (more)