"(W)hat we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon …) unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside proprietary products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent."
It does seem worse now that it's just a handful of companies using novel tech to isolate & gatekeep the work of others, instead of handfuls of industries and/or nations.
Things that are hidden in plain sight can be revealed by slowly removing the 'noise' over time, until there's nothing to hide behind.
Tools of #oppression will ultimately be used to destroy oppressors.
How do you go about #scheduling meetings with people? Do you have a satisfying system for balancing rest and work? 📆
I’d like to have a link in my email signature to where people can go. It would be great to require at least __ days notice of a mtg request, too. #calendar#organization#productivity
Does anyone feel like sitting down in front of the computer and playing around with their notes a bit?
I just wrote down how I set up and try to maintain my (academic) reading list in #Obsidian using the #Projects plugin by @marcusolsson and #Zotero. Might post it again after the holidays, but for now, here's the description of my approach for those who asked. Thus, fulfilling my promise from this thread: https://hcommons.social/@natalie/109557676423033978