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#democratize — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #democratize, aggregated by home.social.

  1. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025... "The pro and anti sides have generally coalesced around two different arguments: one saying #AI will leach #humanity out of #music (which is bad), and the other saying it will further #democratize the #art form (which is good)"

    AI Is Democratizing Music. Unf...

  2. theatlantic.com/culture/2025/1

    "The pro and anti sides have generally coalesced around two different arguments: one saying #AI will leach #humanity out of #music (which is bad), and the other saying it will further #democratize the #art form (which is good)"

  3. theatlantic.com/culture/2025/1

    "The pro and anti sides have generally coalesced around two different arguments: one saying #AI will leach #humanity out of #music (which is bad), and the other saying it will further #democratize the #art form (which is good)"

  4. For as long as I can remember, @bunnie has been my #hardware hero and inspiration; beyond blown away hearing his plans to #democratize and create trust in the 28nm #silicon #fab process! 🤘🤩🤘

  5. For as long as I can remember, @bunnie has been my #hardware hero and inspiration; beyond blown away hearing his plans to #democratize and create trust in the 28nm #silicon #fab process! 🤘🤩🤘

  6. → The Death of Shopify’s Start-up Dream, One Layoff at a Time
    thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-shop

    “Not only has #Lütke appeared to have walked back on promises to #democratize both #tech and his workforce, he’s helped steer Canadian tech in a more #conservative direction. He has joined Canada’s tech leaders, including Shopify’s #farright COO Kaz #Nejatian, to launch Build #Canada, […] an initiative […] that keeps drawing comparisons to #DOGE

    #Morale might be down at #Shopify, but #stock is up.”

    #L

  7. → The Death of Shopify’s Start-up Dream, One Layoff at a Time
    thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-shop

    “Not only has #Lütke appeared to have walked back on promises to #democratize both #tech and his workforce, he’s helped steer Canadian tech in a more #conservative direction. He has joined Canada’s tech leaders, including Shopify’s #farright COO Kaz #Nejatian, to launch Build #Canada, […] an initiative […] that keeps drawing comparisons to #DOGE

    #Morale might be down at #Shopify, but #stock is up.”

    #L

  8. → The Death of Shopify’s Start-up Dream, One Layoff at a Time
    thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-shop

    “Not only has #Lütke appeared to have walked back on promises to #democratize both #tech and his workforce, he’s helped steer Canadian tech in a more #conservative direction. He has joined Canada’s tech leaders, including Shopify’s #farright COO Kaz #Nejatian, to launch Build #Canada, […] an initiative […] that keeps drawing comparisons to #DOGE

    #Morale might be down at #Shopify, but #stock is up.”

    #L

  9. → The Death of Shopify’s Start-up Dream, One Layoff at a Time
    thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-shop

    “Not only has #Lütke appeared to have walked back on promises to #democratize both #tech and his workforce, he’s helped steer Canadian tech in a more #conservative direction. He has joined Canada’s tech leaders, including Shopify’s #farright COO Kaz #Nejatian, to launch Build #Canada, […] an initiative […] that keeps drawing comparisons to #DOGE

    #Morale might be down at #Shopify, but #stock is up.”

    #L

  10. → The Death of Shopify’s Start-up Dream, One Layoff at a Time
    thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-shop

    “Not only has #Lütke appeared to have walked back on promises to #democratize both #tech and his workforce, he’s helped steer Canadian tech in a more #conservative direction. He has joined Canada’s tech leaders, including Shopify’s #farright COO Kaz #Nejatian, to launch Build #Canada, […] an initiative […] that keeps drawing comparisons to #DOGE

    #Morale might be down at #Shopify, but #stock is up.”

    #L

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    ✊ Please like and comment if you want more tips, let’s #democratize OSINT!

  12. "Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in two months. Silicon Valley is freaked out"

    "We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously," Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft

    Ah, scared of democratizing in action suddenly? If the principle of building and spreading AI is to give everyone all the capabilities - as Silicon Valley pretends is their aim with AI - then so can "they"...

    RT mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/1

    #ai #democratize #china #siliconvalley

  13. "Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in two months. Silicon Valley is freaked out"

    "We should take the developments out of China very, very seriously," Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft

    Ah, scared of democratizing in action suddenly? If the principle of building and spreading AI is to give everyone all the capabilities - as Silicon Valley pretends is their aim with AI - then so can "they"...

    RT mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/1

    #ai #democratize #china #siliconvalley

  14. Happy to have had the chance to briefly exchange with S.A.R. le Grand-Duc Henri during the #10yrs #celebration of LIST

    I explained to him how #ArtificialIntelligence is going to #democratize #software #development (and the #risks this implies, of course).

    But I also emphasized that, for this to really happen, we need #LLMs that master all languages of our #EU #citizens. Which is not the case now.
    Fixing this (especially regarding #Luxembourgish in our case), is one of the goals of the LLMs4EU ALT-EDIC project, starting beginning of next year. 🤞🤞🤞

  15. There is always more #taxonomy work to be done than there are practitioners to do it. Fran Alexander's solution to this imbalance is to #democratize taxonomy and #semantic practice, including her #ontology and #knowledgeGraph work.

    Fran is a true treasure in the taxonomy and semantics communities. It was a pleasure to talk shop with her. Hope you enjoy the conversation, too.

    ellessmedia.com/csi/fran-alexa

  16. I am a #CitizenScientist at heart, and it bothers me not that #technology is prevalent and powerful (high speed, high storage capacity), but that such improvement of our technology is gatekept behind massive #paywalls.

    (TL;DR: the cost of a portable genome sequencer and also data storage makes it unattainable to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

    I dream of an internet #infrastructure that would enable me, and others, to #democratize data, storage space, and processing power. Such would bolster research and study across many fields of knowledge.

    Allow me to set the scene.

    - A #PublicCommons #CommunityMesh #MeshNetwork interlinks public and private schools, weather broadcast stations, public government buildings, medical facilities, public transit centers, large housing complexes, and observation towers in public parks for civil and public academic use. Low-power Radio Wide Area Networks (#LoRaWAN) might prove useful here for environmental sensors.

    - #FreedomBox or no-assembly-required #SelfHosting #cloudlet solutions bring #FaultTolerance to the hands of #WebService architects.

    - #NetworkAttachedStorage (#NAS) equips locations connected to the network with an opportunity to share _some_ data storage capacity as a cache for the functions of the greater network. (In my opinion, altruistic features should be opt-out conditions.) Such might confer a cache of operable @wikifunctions representations.

    - #UniformResourceName (#URN) resolvers (e.g., such as for #DOI, #ARC, #ISBN, #IPFS) give us what we need to collaborate as communities to organize our #DataSets and to distribute amongst our community the load of resolving names of data to their resources.

    - the #ResourceDescriptionFramework, or #RDF, lets us claim to properties, attributes and metainformation of a resource. This is useful for cataloging and searching through datasets to find pertinent information. (E.g., by category: music, video, lectures; photos, figures, charts, diagrams; databases, manifests, ledgers, logs; etc.)

    - #Peer2Peer clients create a distributed #ComputeFabric for domains of interest.

    Major hubs of the network publish off-loadable functions in "initiatives" to: collect, clean, stage, process, recollect, and report sets of data for research within their pertinent areas of interest. (E.g., universities or parks might produce functions to operationalize a project to collect and study evidence of climate change.)

    Client-Devices subscribe to the initiatives that their owner finds worthwhile and commit to serving requests they receive for such functions.

    --------

    The scene is set. Now we imagine:

    You subscribe to a citizen science initiative and travel anywhere with your portable sensor(s): a #GenomeSequencer or #Spectrometer, a #SchumannResonance or #Radiation detector, a #Barometer or #Thermometer or #Hygrometer or #Decibellometer.

    You take #measurements, name them and fill in whatever #metadata about them you can. When you submit your dataset to the network, the publishers of every #initiative of which you are part are notified so that others can search for it through them via the metadata you ascribed to the dataset. When others search for and find your dataset, they, too, can process it according the functions within the network.

    By this our internet would become a virtual meta-machine; this could assist in the symbiotization of #civilian #academy and #inventive #altruism.

    (TL;DR: the cost of portable genome sequencers and data storage makes it hard to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

  17. I am a #CitizenScientist at heart, and it bothers me not that #technology is prevalent and powerful (high speed, high storage capacity), but that such improvement of our technology is gatekept behind massive #paywalls.

    (TL;DR: the cost of a portable genome sequencer and also data storage makes it unattainable to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

    I dream of an internet #infrastructure that would enable me, and others, to #democratize data, storage space, and processing power. Such would bolster research and study across many fields of knowledge.

    Allow me to set the scene.

    - A #PublicCommons #CommunityMesh #MeshNetwork interlinks public and private schools, weather broadcast stations, public government buildings, medical facilities, public transit centers, large housing complexes, and observation towers in public parks for civil and public academic use. Low-power Radio Wide Area Networks (#LoRaWAN) might prove useful here for environmental sensors.

    - #FreedomBox or no-assembly-required #SelfHosting #cloudlet solutions bring #FaultTolerance to the hands of #WebService architects.

    - #NetworkAttachedStorage (#NAS) equips locations connected to the network with an opportunity to share _some_ data storage capacity as a cache for the functions of the greater network. (In my opinion, altruistic features should be opt-out conditions.) Such might confer a cache of operable @wikifunctions representations.

    - #UniformResourceName (#URN) resolvers (e.g., such as for #DOI, #ARC, #ISBN, #IPFS) give us what we need to collaborate as communities to organize our #DataSets and to distribute amongst our community the load of resolving names of data to their resources.

    - the #ResourceDescriptionFramework, or #RDF, lets us claim to properties, attributes and metainformation of a resource. This is useful for cataloging and searching through datasets to find pertinent information. (E.g., by category: music, video, lectures; photos, figures, charts, diagrams; databases, manifests, ledgers, logs; etc.)

    - #Peer2Peer clients create a distributed #ComputeFabric for domains of interest.

    Major hubs of the network publish off-loadable functions in "initiatives" to: collect, clean, stage, process, recollect, and report sets of data for research within their pertinent areas of interest. (E.g., universities or parks might produce functions to operationalize a project to collect and study evidence of climate change.)

    Client-Devices subscribe to the initiatives that their owner finds worthwhile and commit to serving requests they receive for such functions.

    --------

    The scene is set. Now we imagine:

    You subscribe to a citizen science initiative and travel anywhere with your portable sensor(s): a #GenomeSequencer or #Spectrometer, a #SchumannResonance or #Radiation detector, a #Barometer or #Thermometer or #Hygrometer or #Decibellometer.

    You take #measurements, name them and fill in whatever #metadata about them you can. When you submit your dataset to the network, the publishers of every #initiative of which you are part are notified so that others can search for it through them via the metadata you ascribed to the dataset. When others search for and find your dataset, they, too, can process it according the functions within the network.

    By this our internet would become a virtual meta-machine; this could assist in the symbiotization of #civilian #academy and #inventive #altruism.

    (TL;DR: the cost of portable genome sequencers and data storage makes it hard to collaborate as a citizen scientist, and that makes me big mad 😡!! I know we can do something about it.)

  18. #MIT Media Lab #SpaceExploration Initiative : "Our goal is to invent, create, and deploy ideas 💭 that seem exotic and #impossible today, but could be commonplace in ten years. We’ll #OpenSource our payload designs, #democratize the future of #SpaceExploration." media.mit.edu/groups/space-exp

    #Massachusetts #Institute of #Technology

  19. Media Lab Initiative : "Our goal is to invent, create, and deploy ideas 💭 that seem exotic and today, but could be commonplace in ten years. We’ll our payload designs, the future of ." media.mit.edu/groups/space-exp

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  20. What if cost, safety, reliability & climate were not four separate challenges the grid must tackle, but four aspects of one challenge, because they are? #ISONewEngland #EnergyDemocracy #Democratize #Decentralize #Decarbonize #Decolonize

  21. What if cost, safety, reliability & climate were not four separate challenges the grid must tackle, but four aspects of one challenge, because they are? #ISONewEngland #EnergyDemocracy #Democratize #Decentralize #Decarbonize #Decolonize

  22. What if cost, safety, reliability & climate were not four separate challenges the grid must tackle, but four aspects of one challenge, because they are? #ISONewEngland #EnergyDemocracy #Democratize #Decentralize #Decarbonize #Decolonize

  23. What if cost, safety, reliability & climate were not four separate challenges the grid must tackle, but four aspects of one challenge, because they are? #ISONewEngland #EnergyDemocracy #Democratize #Decentralize #Decarbonize #Decolonize

  24. @brian_gettler @histodons

    I'm not a #librarian, but I'm keenly aware that librarians belong to one of those underappreciated professions that keep the world running.

    At their best, librarians #democratize #access to #data, #information, #knowledge, and #wisdom.

  25. @brian_gettler @histodons

    I'm not a #librarian, but I'm keenly aware that librarians belong to one of those underappreciated professions that keep the world running.

    At their best, librarians #democratize #access to #data, #information, #knowledge, and #wisdom.

  26. @RMTownsend Oh, this looks right up my alley! Thanks so much! Any creative attempts to #democratize #interpretation without opening the door to conspiracies or myth, and leveling the relationship between #scholar and #public are what I'm looking for.

  27. @RMTownsend Oh, this looks right up my alley! Thanks so much! Any creative attempts to #democratize #interpretation without opening the door to conspiracies or myth, and leveling the relationship between #scholar and #public are what I'm looking for.

  28. CW: #Politics #Twitter #Musk

    Today two male students asked me why I don't like #ElonMusk. I told them to see me after class for an answer. So they did. I told them that the grossly wealthy Musk said he wanted to #Democratize #Twitter. But then he turned around and started charging people to use it. And he told people to vote #Republican. They agreed that is the opposite of #Democracy. Thankful for this space. #Fediverse

  29. After 25Y, #Kahle and Internet #Archive are still working to #democratize #knowledge

    I doubt that Archive will survive, people uploading copyright material on it in mass in the hope it stays online forever and to avoid storage problems.

    niemanlab.org/2022/03/after-25