#openSUSE now has #OpenVINO! Check out how this journey happen & what this means for #AI #democratization. https://news.opensuse.org/2024/05/14/openvino-arrives-in-os-distributions/

#Canada should "support a wave of local #democratization projects, including the expansion of food #cooperatives, worker cooperatives, various employee-ownership schemes, community land trusts, and the development of sustainable procurement policies. This will empower communities across the nation to address the affordability crisis in the short-term, and build #economies with greater resilience, opportunity, and #environmental #sustainability in the long-term." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canada-needs-a-federal-community-wealth-building-agenda

If billionaires can litter the sky with routers, controlling our communication - maybe billions of us could outcompete them with #mesh routers here on earth, regaining control of our communication?

#MeshNetworks #decentralization #democratization #Freifunk @battlemesh @mesh

In the 1970s I was told by neoliberal keepers of the true faith that their oligarch meritocracy would not allow alternative sources of power, like solar, until they could sufficiently profit from sunlight.

This was leading up to the resurgent privatization of the common good, that morphed from sporadic bursts below the radar, to full on national campaigns during the Era of Reaganomics and Thatcherism.

Here we have a monologue where perfectly valid scientific progress appears virtually inconceivable outside the paradigm of oligarchic privatization.

How This Fusion Tech is Solving the Geothermal Energy Problem
#Science #Engineering #CriticalInfrastructure #Democratization vs #Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psyCWvavYt0

Commercial cloud computing providers #CCCP is #RentierCapitalism par excellence. It isn't even a novel concept in the history of computing. And ONLY in late-stage (hopefully) capitalism could consumption be linguistically akin to #Democratization.

#AI #GenerativeAI #GeneratedImages #BigTech #Democratization: "We should scrutinise foundational democratisation claims by asking questions like:

- Who gains the most from this technology and through what mechanisms? Are benefits actually diffuse?
- What new gatekeepers, intermediaries and consolidation of power is obscured?
- Does equal access translate to equal or equitable outcomes among groups?
- Whose priorities and preferences are embedded in the technology’s functionality?

There are no singular right answers here. Complex technologies defy singular interpretations of costs and benefits. Tradeoffs emerge between priorities like innovation, regulation, growth and equity. But too frequently, we fail even to probe beneath the superficial veneer of democratisation before adopting technologies at scale and dealing with unintended consequences after the fact."

https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/who-is-asking-for-ai-generated-cat-videos-fe798a4a1523