useful things can be done with LLMs: locate common entities buried in 40,000 police misconduct reports

hrdag.org/tech-notes/l...

"Using large language models for structured information extraction from the Innocence Project New Orleans’ wrongful conviction case files"

Also neat to realize how much 'latent skills' people have for something just from the indirect knowledge having seen others around do something in the past.

We planted the left-over head of a yam in landscape strip on the side of the house. Wrong season, wrong state, for growing yams, but still 5 months later it grew enough for one full meal for a household. (yes, I realize real agriculture is much harder than this!)

Some of my skills I assumed would be highly valued in the impending techno-dystopia:
* butcher a chicken
* debug archaic software
* build an outhouse
* write algorithms for traversing temporal communication networks

Skills that are actually in demand:
* can make a todo list

Also covered in SSB+autopruned history usecases: a sort of distributed, socially aware CDN: your friends cache the data you will probably care about this week

glass canning jars with jark red boiled quince

Quince jam experiment. Not really following recipe but want to save the fruit from the backyard. I picked these a bit early I think (and didn't boil the cores) so didn't really get the pectin jelly effect of previous years. Smells amazing when cooking tho!

lol, just discovered the character limits as I was trying to post this. I'm not used to sharing that way, requires some aggressive editing to get a complex thought across!

Commons need to have clearly defined boundaries
Rules should fit local circumstances
Participatory decision-making
Cmns must be monitored
Sanctions for abuse the should be graduated
Conflict resolution easily accessible
Comns need the right to organize
Comns work best nested within larger networks

Elinor Ostrom’s 8 rules for managing the commons The commons are those things that we all own together, that are neither privately owned, nor managed by the government on our behalf. Some are large scale and somewhat abstract, such as the English…

I always think it is interesting to look at socio-technical systems through the lens of Elinor Ostrom’s observations of successful commons systems in the world and what makes them work. earthbound.report/2018/01/15/e...

With the exciting surge in activity in membership in bsky, and lots of important discussion about the evolution of safety, blocking etc on a technical level and cultural level. I'm wondering if there is reflection on what social design are that make the space workable over the long term?

Shouting into the Void: Why Reporting Abuse to Social Media Platforms Is So Hard and How to Fix It The technology companies that run social media platforms, where so much of online abuse plays out, are failing to protect and support their users.

great report on the state of content moderation on major platforms, with recommendations. Should be very relevant to ongoing design here! https://pen.org/report/shouting-into-the-void/

Amazing hi-rez drone photos from around the world, highlighting inequality in built environment and landuse: https://unequalscenes.com/lagos