Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)

Any recommendations of good starter sci-fi books for a 10 year old? Voracious reader, presently mostly fantasy (mostly dragons)

@adamgreenfield I recall reading this - given it's a lawsuit it hopefully has some chops to it, and it references another study that could be of use

"these generated images, “will substantially negatively impact the market for the work of plaintiffs and the class.” "

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/class-action-lawsuit-ai-generators-deviantart-midjourney-stable-diffusion-2246770

@scribe @graham Zero posts shown to me in Tusky.

@gerrymcgovern Came across a few more links just now in the section titled A growing environmental toll of this recent newsletter
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-chatgpt-revolution-is-another

@gerrymcgovern Some issues in Virginia: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/05/virginia-historic-preservation-data-center-development

What’s the difference between [[digital commons]] and [[knowledge commons]]?

@flancian I am enjoying this as a piece of music

@adamgreenfield Yes! You mentioned convivial stacks before and your concern about the appeal of that particular framing. But it definitely appeals to me.

I'd like to participate in these conversations. I'm currently writing something around 'reclaiming the stacks' / ecosocialist ICT, and reviewing existing tilts in this direction.

Very much work in progress, but gives an idea - https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/reclaiming-the-stacks-ecosocialism-and-ict

@dajb @strypey @bonfire @smallcircles

Right. I can't make much sense of these threads already! I find microblog style social media pretty hopeless for any detailed discussion (though great for finding the people you want to talk to in the first place - I like Margaret Wheatley's description of network -> community of practice https://margaretwheatley.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/KosmosJournal-WheatleyFrieze-SS15.pdf).

A forum or similar would be grand.

Taxation only gets you so far, but still, seems like a good move.

"This week the city of Barcelona showed that it is possible to Make Amazon Pay. The city council approved a new “Amazon tax” — a fee on large e-commerce companies’ to reflect their — formerly free — use of public space for home deliveries." from Make Amazon Pay newsletter

https://www.barcelona.cat/en/noticia/pioneering-tax-to-regulate-the-use-of-public-space-by-large-postal-operators-2_1258643