Benedict Demiren Singleton
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Benedict Demiren Singleton
@dmrn.bsky.social
Co-founder @ RIVAL STRATEGY
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RIP Wolfgang Wildgen: cognitive linguist and semiotician, sociolinguist, and theorist of evolutionary linguistics.
His work beinging together Peircean semiotics with René Thom's catastrophe theory challenged me to push my learning into fields i never imagined.

Below a list of his publications:
www.uni-bremen.de
December 10, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Join the private beta to help test Public Diffusion

PD is a foundation image model trained on 30m highly aesthetic images from the public domain

We will show it is possible to have excellent AI models for art that do not require training on copyrighted material

source.plus/public-diffu...
Public Diffusion Private Beta | Source.Plus
Search, curate, and enrich media collections for AI training using the Source.Plus marketplace. Safe, consenting, high-quality training data. Public domain datasets for model fine-tuning.
source.plus
December 6, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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I was recently interviewed for 'Fieldnotes from the Metaverse'. The interview is now online.

We discussed the core thesis of my own book: that Dungeons & Dragons is the most important Social Technology of the 20th Century.
Fieldnotes from the Metaverse | Interview
I was recently interviewed by Dirk Songuer for his book: Fieldnotes from the Metaverse which "documents the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse" and the interview is now online.
thejaymo.net
December 5, 2024 at 10:44 AM