reminder
- you can download all of wikipedia locally
- standardebooks.org exists for nicely formatted public domain works
- get a library card
- donate to places like @archive.org, @textfiles.com, etc to preserve our digital past
- if you want to use llms: try running quantized models locally 🚫🕵️
something that brings me profound sadness is watching technology's promise of making knowledge accessible and affordable be bastardized into a promise of class exploitation and 24/7 surveillance.
we have a chance to change this.
it starts, not with an app, but by meeting people where they're at.