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Re:CIA to Sunset the World Factbook on Thursday February 05, 2026 @01:16PM (#46902778)
This makes me wonder if someone is putting the latest version of the Factbook on Gopher now. It might be a fun little project?

PS. Lagrange is a beautiful piece of software.

Re:Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell on Thursday February 05, 2026 @07:40AM (#46899001)
Yes, apart from the loss of the publication as a historical artifact, it is the loss of the continuing process that kept it up to date as a representation of the present (with whatever flaws you always have with such representations).
Re:Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell on Thursday February 05, 2026 @07:31AM (#46898935)
The suggestion that obvious propaganda is somehow better than "subtle" propaganda is itself propaganda.
Re:Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell on Thursday February 05, 2026 @07:25AM (#46898881)
It works remarkably well there too. Thanks CIA for making a website that is (was) easy to archive.
Re:Mozilla "MemoryCache" Local AI on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:22AM (#38653436)
I kind of like the association since it speaks to how text collected while browsing the web can be used to generate new text, which is similar, at least metaphorically, to how human memory is reconstructive and transformative, not perfect recall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructive_memory
Re:Mozilla "MemoryCache" Local AI on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:10AM (#38653354)
Also check out https://archiveweb.page which is open source, local, and lets you export archived data as WARC (ISO 28500). You can embed archives in web pages using their Web Component https://replayweb.page.
Re:Mozilla "MemoryCache" Local AI on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:04AM (#38653311)
Does anyone know what PrivateGPT is using for its local model, and where it came from?

Update:

Answering my own question it looks like it uses llamacpp in local mode? https://github.com/imartinez/privateGPT/blob/main/private_gp...

Re:Discriminating Data with Wendy Chun and Hito Steyerl on Thursday December 09, 2021 @10:25AM (#29498367)
In her book ‘Discriminating Data‘ (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal — not an error — within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Hito Steyerl and Wendy Chun will discuss how can people release themselves from the vice-like grip of discriminatory data and consider alternative algorithms, defaults, and interdisciplinary coalitions in order to desegregate networks.
Re:Visualising Twitter Conversations in 3D Space on Thursday September 02, 2021 @08:07AM (#28391070)
If you work as a researcher you might be able to apply for Academic Research Product Track access, which gives you access to the full archive of tweets back to 2006.
Is there a good listing of these, or could we crowdsource one quiclky to make sure they are at Internet Archive?
At least today we have the investigative reporting from the Intercept. It's kind of crazy the lengths to which citizens had to go through to get the word out about COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Invest...
Re:Q & A with Colombian Hacker Andrés Sepúlveda on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:36PM (#15099822)
This is a translation of an interview Sepulveda did in Spanish. The description of the technology and resources used provides an important glimpse at how public opinion is being manipulated in social media.
Check out the volume of negative comments...

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