Jon Ippolito
@jonippolito.net
How does tech empower and frustrate creators—writers, programmers, media makers—and how do we keep their work alive in the long run? UMaine Professor of New Media, Director of Digital Curation; former Guggenheim Curator of Media Art https://jonippolito.net
Interesting, what do you mean? Did you get a screenshot?
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Interesting, what do you mean? Did you get a screenshot?
Recent example: developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
Disastrous Oracle Implementation At Europe's Largest City Council. - Slashdot
Longtime Slashdot reader whoever57 writes: Birmingham City Council, the largest such entity in Europe, has been declared effectively bankrupt. There are a couple of reasons for this, but one of them i...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Recent example: developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/...
True! And I like to point out that whenever you build an AI detection mechanism, you are also handling AI engineers a test against which to train their next model.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
True! And I like to point out that whenever you build an AI detection mechanism, you are also handling AI engineers a test against which to train their next model.
Yeah, it's like let 100 flowers bloom except it's kudzu
September 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Yeah, it's like let 100 flowers bloom except it's kudzu
Yes thanks Ryan! A colleague of mine studies Permaculture so we sometimes discuss its relationship to Permacomputing.
A headwind we face of course is the enormous financial incentive to flow data through cloud servers so it can be sold to ad companies.
A headwind we face of course is the enormous financial incentive to flow data through cloud servers so it can be sold to ad companies.
September 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Yes thanks Ryan! A colleague of mine studies Permaculture so we sometimes discuss its relationship to Permacomputing.
A headwind we face of course is the enormous financial incentive to flow data through cloud servers so it can be sold to ad companies.
A headwind we face of course is the enormous financial incentive to flow data through cloud servers so it can be sold to ad companies.
Thanks Reed. Unlike Mistral's recent findings, OpenAI's blog post didn't clarify the number of tokens assumed per query. That's like comparing the amount of gas required to pick up groceries without specifying whether the store is next-door or across town. Easily an order of magnitude difference.
September 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thanks Reed. Unlike Mistral's recent findings, OpenAI's blog post didn't clarify the number of tokens assumed per query. That's like comparing the amount of gas required to pick up groceries without specifying whether the store is next-door or across town. Easily an order of magnitude difference.