📢NEW PAPER! Where Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social, Sarah Myers West & I unpack what Open Source AI even is. We find that the terms ‘open’ & ‘open source’ are often more marketing than technical descriptor, and that even the most 'open' systems don't alone democratize AI 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

"The Little Book of David Graeber, in different colors," is gradually coming together.

Diane Abbott on her ‘romance’ with Jeremy Corbyn is hysterical.

Came into the office today because I needed to be in front of a giant monitor and ended up spending my day speaking and bantering in Indonesian. It was lovely to bump into fellow Jakartans — I needed it! 😆

“There just wasn’t an understanding then of what it actually meant economically to build large-scale tech . . . and there still isn’t,” Whittaker says. “People are too afraid to ask the political and economic questions.” ft.com/content/799b4f…

lovely finds revolutionarypapers.org/journal/lotus/

Thank you Ousmane Sembene

Freaking out

I’m not working at the moment but I review books and document my reading on Instagram @busy_archiving

Your emails are not finding me at all

Emails still being sent back to sender

“The mutually beneficial relationship between Israel and apartheid South Africa was not just about the arms trade. It was an ideological affinity about how to treat unwanted populations.” jacobin.com/2024/12/israel…

Revolusi (2010) by David Van Reybrouck is a damn good storytelling of Indonesia’s struggle to independence & its influence on decolonisation everywhere else. I’m sat down

Also the West Java-based Asia Afrika Conference (“Bandung”) in 1955 is the first ever conference of world leaders without the West. ICYMI

My last post before I leave this platform for good because everyone needs to know: theguardian.com/global-develop…