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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 1d

@joshdaddario.bsky.social isn't there a simple ODI guide to publishing good open data? iirc there was a github one?

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 2d

the Smart Data Group has published a proposal for what the 'Future Entity' for Open Banking + all Smart Data Schemes should look like. Special Purpose Vehicles for each Scheme.. www.linkedin.com/posts/smart-...

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 4d

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 4d

'Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era' www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era

The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, th...

www.mozillafoundation.org

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 5d

"The open movement must likewise evolve from the libertarian ethos of the early internet toward a civic ethos fit for the age of AI. We must design infrastructures.. that preserve the spirit of accessibility while protecting against its weaponisation" sverhulst.medium.com/the-weaponis...

The Weaponisation of Openness? Toward a New Social Contract for Data in the AI Era

By Stefaan G. Verhulst

sverhulst.medium.com

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 6d

but the study can't distinguish between current realised value and potential realisable value. so it's a weird estimate of both the current value of data that gov makes available, and the potential future value of data that it doesn't. hmm.

Value of Public Sector Data Estimate

www.gov.uk

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 6d

new UK Gov study on the value of public sector data. apparently the public sector invests £30bn in data assets per year, which have an 'expected potential value' to the economy of £15bn-200bn www.gov.uk/government/p...

Value of Public Sector Data Estimate

www.gov.uk

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 8d

"Requiring copyright licenses for training data would.. (1) create new barriers to market entry and competition in new technologies.. while (2) entrenching large copyright holders and (3) not significantly benefiting creators." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/worr...

Worried About AI Monopoly? Embrace Copyright’s Limits

Copyright’s limits play essential antimonopoly functions. Undermining them in the context of AI is likely to strengthen Big Tech.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 12d

"AI companies are locked in an arms race for quality human content - and that pressure has fueled an industrial-scale 'data laundering' economy" www.reuters.com/world/reddit...

www.reuters.com

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 14d

"It’s already clear that the Internet’s discovery system for the next 15 years will be something different: Answer Engines.. Whether you like it or not, the future will increasingly be answers not searches" blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-2...

Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've als...

blog.cloudflare.com

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 16d

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

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A woman who rang ABC Sydney radio said she found out about the Optus outage from her cat.

The cat has an automatic wi-fi feeder (connected to Optus) & when breakfast wasn't delivered at 6:10 am, the cat went to the bedroom to lodge a complaint with management.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 19d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 20d

"Humanity AI, a $500 million five-year initiative.. will drive new investments toward establishing a people-driven future where AI delivers for humanity, strengthens communities, and enhances human creativity" www.macfound.org/press/press-...

Humanity AI Commits $500 Million to Build a People-Centered Future for AI

www.macfound.org

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 21d

I see this in the same family of data sharing as financial reporting, Smart Data, researcher access to platform data, retailers sharing their plastic bag sales, etc etc: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Vets could be made to cap prescription prices after UK watchdog investigation

Market ‘not fit’ for purpose, CMA says, as it proposes shake-up including publishing treatment costs

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 21d

'Cooperative data utilities' www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B8Z...

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 23d

"For the same reason that a dog can go to church but a dog cannot be Catholic, an LLM can have a conversation but cannot participate in the conversation" mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 26d

'Realising the potential of a National Data Library' - @wellcometrust.bsky.social + ESRC wellcomeopenresearch.org/documents/10...

wellcomeopenresearch.org

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 26d

fair point. tbf to the author, it's not a headline but a point within a point within a point (big national diffusion plan for AI > a new National Data Administration > some copyright stuff)

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 26d

"major decisions on whether training data constitutes 'fair use' [are] still pending. [But] this document could be an important political nudge toward rulings that give AI companies a freer hand with using copyrighted works as training data"

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 26d

"China’s recently-created National Data Administration has a mandate to turn data into a new 'factor of production', alongside the traditional factors of land, labor, capital and technology" mattsheehan.substack.com/p/chinas-big...

China's Big AI Diffusion Plan is Here. Will it Work?

A bearish and bullish case for the major "AI+" initiative

mattsheehan.substack.com

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 26d

"TL;DR What's the point of an 'ethical' AI that burns through resources, or a 'green' AI that amplifies bias? Ethics and sustainability have to evolve together, starting with how we measure and disclose AI's real costs" huggingface.co/blog/sasha/e...

Ethics + Sustainability = Responsible AI

A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face

huggingface.co

Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · 29d

OH: "the holy grail of AI now seems to be circularity rather than singularity”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI signs multibillion-dollar chip deal with AMD

The deal gives the ChatGPT maker the option to take a 10% stake in the chipmaker

www.theguardian.com

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · Sep 30

"Rewilding the web means recovering what Otlet, Nelson, Hall, and Richardson all glimpsed: a civic, literary, interconnected, and collaborative commons that resists enclosure and keeps the web alive" mamund.substack.com/p/the-hyperm...

The Hypermedia Commons We Missed

It’s time to ask: do we want a plantation of transactions, or a living commons of creativity?

mamund.substack.com

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · Sep 30

"A global advertising infrastructure built and governed to operate in the public interest.. would be able to capture funds that currently fuel our broligarchic dystopia.. [and] reshape privacy norms and incentive structures across the entire internet" www.techpolicy.press/how-wikipedi...

How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising | TechPolicy.Press

Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.

www.techpolicy.press

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Jack Hardinges @jackhardinges.bsky.social · Sep 26

*'digital ID = good or bad'