John Conor Ryan
Physicist, writer, learning to play jazz on cello.
Coming soon: the Sustainable Development Initiative.
Co-steward of https://getdweb.net/principles/ ... values for the Web we deserve.
Coming soon: the Sustainable Development Initiative.
Co-steward of https://getdweb.net/principles/ ... values for the Web we deserve.
The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the webcbsnews.com Because the web is ephemeral, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has made backups of websites continually since 1996, with nearly 900 billion pages preserved. But making books and music freely ava...
‘Like Talking to Your Drunk Uncle’: Trump’s Closed-Door Rant to House Republicanswww.notus.org Donald Trump came to Capitol Hill to talk about his agenda for a second term. He instead spent an hour delving into House GOP drama, cracking jokes and saying weird things about Nancy Pelosi’s daughte...
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technologylink.springer.com Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persist...
Why life on Earth is so diversewww.the-tls.co.uk To people who normally encounter them in culinary form, the structure of eggs may seem basic: yolk, white, shell, plus the bits of membrane that make
Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Booksforms.gle The publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive (Hachette v. Internet Archive) has resulted in the removal of more than 500,000 books from our lending library, including over 1,300 banned and cha...
Cartoon: Billionaires fund human intelligencewww.dailykos.com So much of AI feels like gilding the lily, adding unnecessary bloat to things that worked well enough already. I'm not the first to make this comparison, but AI-assisted software reminds me of Clippy,...
Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America ‘Can’t Be Compromised’www.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a new recording says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win."
OpenAI seeks ‘vast quantities’ of nuclear fusion to power superhuman AIwww.independent.co.uk ChatGPT creator seeks ‘holy grail of clean energy’ to build artificial intelligence
How to Get Rich in Congressnewrepublic.com A straight-up pay raise might reduce members’ temptation to trade on inside information or pad their expense accounts.
Holding Court: The Originalism Trapwww.youtube.com Please join us on Tuesday, June 4 at 3pm EDT for a conversation with Madiba K. Dennie, esteemed attorney, columnist, professor, and author of the new book, T...
Ralph Reed on evangelical vote and Trump’s vision for a second termwww.washingtonpost.com Ralph Reed is the founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, an influential conservative group that is spending tens of millions of dollars to turn out the evangelical vote for President Trump in the...