One of the most bizzarre things I’ve seen in 8y living in #London is the Clerkenwell Design Week, when, once a year, a bunch of people gather at night to mildly dance in a mostly empty interior design showroom surrounded by tiles.

Even if an individual would be fine with the government scrutiny (which is normal in China), the friction introduced by the provision is enormous. And we know what happens to high-friction systems…

“On May 18, thousands of software developers in China woke up to find that their open-source code hosted on Gitee, a state-backed Chinese competitor to the international code repository platform GitHub, had been locked and hidden from public view.”

https://t.co/WFLpbUtmd0

from the same article:

“For the code to be made public again, developers need to submit an application and confirm it doesn’t contain anything that violates Chinese law or infringes copyrights.”

Open [after policy and legal review] source.

I know you want to:

“PimEyes found photos of every person, some that the journalists had never seen before, even when they were wearing sunglasses or a mask, or their face was turned away from the camera, in the image used to conduct the search.”

https://t.co/YOGJuJ19iN https://t.co/cE4a9r9ZyB

Something to keep in mind while you wait for the #WWDC: Apple released Siri in Oct 2011 and, in mid 2022, I still have to repeat “Add X to the shopping list” twice because the first time I get warned “I don’t see an app for that.”

10 years.

The emerging open source versions of Dall-E 2 and Imagen are great, but the complexity to set up the system and do local training are still enormous for a non-technical person.

There’s still a big adoption barrier for artists that want to explore but can’t afford a paid service.

RT @PyTorchPractice: Implementation of Imagen, Google’s Text-to-Image Neural Network, in Pytorch https://t.co/r9fQAqWzU6 #deeplearning #mac…

And this is why I pay the subscription to the @nytimes. Set aside hours to read through this astonishing investigative work.

Haiti’s Lost Billions
https://t.co/56q8Z0kbXR https://t.co/Hh5MgyAWxW

RT @ParkerOrtolani: It cannot be a coincidence that the “realityOS” trademark owned by a company that seemingly doesn’t exist and is specif…