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Tries to work for anti-authoritarian, public good goals, especially with appropriately scoped open data and open science […]
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@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyFor context, Google has committed a cool $200 billion in data center investments for 2026 alone. I'm sure Google will have zero temptation to use it's AI systems to influence permitting regulation (sarcasm) […]
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gySo, the ACHP wants to use Google's AI algorithms to regulate Google's AI data center plans? Doesn't this seem like a clear conflict of interest?
#archaeology #culturalheritage #section106 #policy #AI #governance
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyThe ACHP is contracting with Google for the new "AI" system. Google is a major investor and developer of AI data centers. These data centers projects can be enormous and often require hugely disruptive use of land for the data centers themselves and for the power and cooling infrastructure they […]
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyChris Nicholson and I recently wrote about the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)'s plans to use "AI" to streamline permitting workflows. This comes at a time when US historical preservation protections (esp. Section 106) face multiple legislative and regulatory threats. See […]
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyThe 11 AM test, on the first Wednesday of each month, of Berkeley's civil defense / air-raid system never ceases to freak me out.
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy@electricarchaeo @archaeoscape
Right now I'm re-reading "Guards! Guards!" and enjoying the humor.
I'm interested in reading Mort next, since I haven't read it yet.
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyBeen rereading Terry Pratchett (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett) because of various reminders and references made by @electricarchaeo
Totally worth anyone's time.
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@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyReposted by @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyPlease get in touch with me or respond here if you would like to share any ideas or feedback for improving the next iteration of the Digital Archaeology Maintainathon! - Do you want certain kinds of resources or guides added to the website? - Any ideas for community engagement? - Constructive […]
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyI will soon be canned in an aluminum tube, packed in with my fellow primates for several hours, and hurtled through the air by a profit maximizing algorithm.
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy@lavaeolus @InternetArchaeology
Yep, I've been complaining about AI and AI scraping all summer. (And longer)
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyI'm trying to improve the usefulness of a small, locally hosted, GPU-free language model for Open Context search. All very interesting. At the same time, Open Context is getting renewed unwanted attention of Javascript executing bots from random IP addresses. I think I need more network […]
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy@electricarchaeo If you've been alive in the past 2 decades, such feelings are a given.
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyWow! Lots of apples!, probably a huge effort going into managing them too. No wonder you're running out of steam.
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyChis Nicholson (Executive Director of Digital Antiquity / tDAR) and I wrote an article about the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) use of #AI for #culturalHeritage conservation policy.
See: https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=870459&p=21&view=issueViewer
Instead of […]
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyUgh. It's getting to that time of year with Trader Joe's is all in on seasonal pumpkin spice everything. I mean it's fine. Just some moderation please.
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy@joeroe That's a good question!
Yes, I think it helps a great deal, but with limits.
Anubis works by imposing a (computational, energy) cost for each session of access to a website. If you have lots of IPs, you have lots of Anubis challenges.
But, if attackers use something like a residential […]
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gyI'm sounding like a broken record. But my #bot headaches with Open Context aren't just a simple function of our limited #archaeology resources.
#AIbots are currently overwhelming #Zenodo, a major repository (with CERN infrastructure!).
This problem cannot be ignored and needs a public policy […]
