My take on how a decade (or more) of using cloud services for everything has seemingly deskilled the workforce.

Just recently I found myself interviewing senior security engineers just to realize that in many cases they had absolutely no idea about how the stuff they supposedly worked with, actually worked.

This all made me wonder, is it possible that over-reliance on cloud services for everything has massively deskilled the engineering workforce? And if it is so, who is going to be the European clouds, so necessary for EU's digital sovereignty?

I did not copy-paste the post in here because of the different writing style, but I get no benefit whatsoever from website visits.

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Theorizing “Algorithmic Sabotage”

The “Manifesto” articulates a systematically structured sequence of ten distinct propositions, enumerated from 0 to 9, each delineating the underlying principles, strategic approaches, and aesthetic manifestations that shape the critical concept of “algorithmic sabotage” within the expansive and intricately interwoven frameworks of digital culture and information technology.

1. “Algorithmic Sabotage” is a figure of techno-disobedience for the militancy that’s absent from technology critique.
2. Rather than an atavistic aversion to technology, “Algorithmic Sabotage” can be read as a form of counter-power that emerges from the strength of the community that wields it.
3. “Algorithmic Sabotage” cuts through the capitalist ideological framework that thrives on misery by performing a labour of subversion in the present, dismantling contemporary forms of algorithmic domination and reclaiming spaces for ethical action from generalized thoughtlessness and automaticity.
4. “Algorithmic Sabotage” is an action-oriented commitment to solidarity that precedes any system of social, legal or algorithmic classification.
5. “Algorithmic Sabotage” is a part of a structural renewal of a wider movement for social autonomy that opposes the predations of hegemonic technology through wildcat direct action, consciously aligned itself with ideals of social justice and egalitarianism.
6. “Algorithmic Sabotage” radically reworks our technopolitical arrangements away from the structural injustices, supremacist perspectives and necropolitical authoritarian power layered into the “algorithmic empire”, highlighting its materiality and consequences in terms of both carbon emissions and the centralisation of control.
7. “Algorithmic Sabotage” refuses algorithmic humiliation for power and profit maximisation, focusing on activities of mutual aid and solidarity.
8. The first step of techno-politics is not technological but political. Radical feminist, anti-fascist and decolonial perspectives are a political challenge to “Algorithmic Sabotage”, placing matters of interdependence and collective care against reductive optimisations of the “algorithmic empire”.
9. “Algorithmic Sabotage” struggles against algorithmic violence and fascist techno-solutionism, focusing on artistic-activist resistances that can express a different mentality, a collective “counter-intelligence”.
10. “Algorithmic Sabotage” is an emancipatory defence of the need for communal constraint of harmful technology, a struggle against the abstract segregation “above” and “below” the algorithm.

Interventions:
- Trapping AI.
- Police Officers Faces.
- Technopolitics of Fronts.

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A firefighter extinguishes fire after a Russian drone attack in the Moldovanka district of Odesa. Nine people were injured as a result of the attack, and seven were hospitalized, Odesa Oblast Governor Oleh Kiper said. Windows of homes were damaged and service station, cars damaged by debris. (Viacheslav Onyshchenko/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ukraine’s HUR destroys Russian command post in occupied Melitopol in joint operation with partisans. “As a result of the explosion, a satellite communication hardware station—intended by Russian military leadership to coordinate occupying forces—was also destroyed,” Ukraine’s military intelligence said.

Ukraine behind new pipeline explosion in Siberia that supplies Russian military-industrial complex, source claims. A source in Ukraine’s military intelligence told the Kyiv Independent the attack had destroyed a section of a key pipeline supplying Russian military-industrial facilities in Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, and Sverdlovsk oblasts.

Ukrainian drone strikes reported at Russian MiG plant, other defense industry facilities amid mass attack. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed its forces downed 155 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 53 over Kursk Oblast and 13 over Tula Oblast.

Ukraine deploying interceptor drones to defend Kyiv amid surge in Russian attacks. During several months of testing, the system intercepted nearly 550 Russian drones over Kyiv Oblast, an official said.

‘Aid shipments have been restored,’ Zelensky says amid halt of US weapons deliveries. “We have received political signals at the highest level — good signals — including from the United States and from our European friends. According to all reports, aid shipments have been restored,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Germany, Norway ready to buy 3 Patriots for Ukraine, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine needs a total of 10 Patriots and voiced hope that other European partners will join the new financing scheme.

Ground drone maker Tencore raises $3.7 million in one of the largest known investments in Ukraine defense tech. The deal is one of the largest publicly disclosed investments in Ukrainian defense technology since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022.

Russia confirms brigade commander’s death, allegedly linked to Ukrainian strike in Kursk Oblast. Russian authorities confirmed that Colonel Sergei Ilyin, commander of Russia’s 155th Marine Brigade, has been buried, without disclosing the cause of death.

Ukraine, EU launch $117 million military innovation partnership. Ukraine and the EU will allocate 100 million euro ($117 million) to boost battlefield-driven solutions under the newly-launched BraveTech EU initiative, announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in Rome on July 11.

Russian troops tasked to create 10-kilometer buffer zone in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine’s spy chief says. According to Ukraine’s military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov, Russia’s earlier announcement of its entry into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast serves a political goal.

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Ukraine war latest: Kyiv behind new pipeline explosion in Siberia, drone strikes reported at Russian aircraft plant

Ukraine was behind the operation that caused an explosion on a major gas pipeline in the city of Langepas, Russia’s Tyumen Oblast, a source in Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) told the Kyiv Independent on July 11.

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‘These were not negotiations’ — Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister on Istanbul talks with Russia in exclusive interview

In an interview with the Kyiv Independent, Kyslytsya argues that the Istanbul meetings, for the most part, couldn’t truly be called negotiations due to Russia’s rigid, ultimatum-like approach.

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Russia’s new drone tactic — rolling out mass terror across all of Ukraine

As Russia intensifies its air strikes against Ukraine, its tactics have visibly shifted, with a growing number of missile and drone attacks now targeting western regions once considered relatively safe. Overnight on July 9, cities across Ukraine came under the largest air assault yet, with the western city of Lutsk experiencing what local officials described as the heaviest bombardment to date.

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Ukrainians grapple with how to memorialize a war still being fought

Every nation-defining event in Ukraine’s nearly 35 years of independence has begun in the main square of Kyiv. There, on what is now called Independence Square, democratic protests sparked three revolutions, each commemorated by several memorials. But none of those memorials are as prominent as the square’s newest addition — a collection of flags, photos, and candles installed since 2022.

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Human cost of Russia’s war

‘Russia targets life’ — Russian attacks kill 9, injure 42 over past day, damaging maternity hospital in Kharkiv. Regional authorities reported casualties in at least six Ukrainian oblasts over the past day.

Russian drone attack on Odesa injures 11, hits residential areas, horse stable. A Russian attack against the southern city of Odesa injured at least eight people and damaged residential areas, local authorities reported.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,031,620 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022.

The number includes 1,040 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day.

Over 118,000 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine identified by media, including 523 foreigners. The media investigation has identified 523 foreign nationals from 28 countries who were killed while serving in the Russian army.

How Ukrainian teens are training for war

International response

US Senate committee backs $500 million in Ukraine aid in 2026 defense budget. The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee approved $500 million in aid for Ukraine as part of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Reuters reported on July 11.

Ukraine secures $200 million from World Bank for reconstruction projects. The World Bank will provide $200 million over the next five years to prepare Ukrainian projects for large-scale reconstruction, the Economy Ministry announced on July 11. The funding will be available under the five-year PREPARE program with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).

EU transfers $1.2 billion to Ukraine using profits from frozen Russian assets. Ukraine has received more than $18.5 billion from frozen Russian assets this year, directing the money toward swift recovery projects, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

Europe will also benefit from US-Ukraine minerals investment fund, Americans say. The Ukraine-U.S. Reconstruction Investment Fund will provide opportunities not only for U.S. companies but also for other countries, representatives of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation said during a workshop at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome on July 11.

Trump’s envoy Kellogg to visit Ukraine on July 14 amid military aid confusion. U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg will arrive in Kyiv on July 14 for a week-long visit, he told a Novyny Live journalist at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome.

Russia must pay at least 500 billion euros in compensation to Ukraine, Germany’s Merz says. Russian assets frozen by the West should not be released until Moscow pays back at least 500 billion euros (over $580 billion) in compensation to Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on July 10 in Rome.

Norway pledges $200 million for Ukraine’s emergency energy support, green recovery. According to the Energy Ministry, the initiative will restore heating and water services to millions of Ukrainians, particularly in front-line communities.

EU considering tougher Russian oil price cap as bloc aims to pass 18th sanctions package, Bloomberg reports. The proposed price cap would be set at 15% below the market rate based on a 10-week average, lowering the threshold to $50 down from the current cap of $60, people familiar with the matter said.

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Trump administration immigration policies leave Ukrainian refugees in limbo

In summer 2023, Anna arrived in the United States to start a new life in the midwestern state of Illinois. After more than a year of war, she had fled her home in Kyiv to seek shelter abroad from the drone and missile strikes that regularly target the Ukrainian capital. Now, she finally had a safe place to settle for the long term. Or so she thought. Today, Anna is again at risk of losing her home.

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In other news

Ukrainian anti-corruption activist faces charges as his team alleges government pressure. “We consider these searches to be another wave of attack on Vitaliy Shabunin and the Anti-Corruption Action Center for criticizing the Presidential Office and (Presidential Office head) Andrii Yermak personally,” the center said.

Ukraine ex-minister’s home searched in connection with controversial lawmaker’s fraud case. Former Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov denied any connections with controversial lawmaker Yevhenii Shevchenko’s fraud case.

Russia arrests truck driver allegedly transporting drones for Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. Mediazona’s source said that Mikhail Ryumin was unaware that his vehicle was carrying Ukrainian drones hidden beneath the roofs of the frame house structures.

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"Passano gli anni, ma otto son lunghi..." cantava il molleggiato. Tanti ne sono passati da "Bubblegum", ultimo lavoro a firma di Mark Lanegan, e tanti ne ha passati il nostro tra collaborazioni con gli amici QOTSA, duetti con la dolce Isobel Campbell, side projects con l'amico Greg Dulli (Gutter Twins e Twilight Singers) o "prestazioni di servizio" per altri... Leggi e ascolta...

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Mark Lanegan Band - Blues Funeral (2012)

“Passano gli anni, ma otto son lunghi...” cantava il molleggiato. Tanti ne sono passati da “Bubblegum”, ultimo lavoro a firma di Mark Lanegan, e tanti ne ha passati il nostro tra collaborazioni con gli amici QOTSA, duetti con la dolce Isobel Campbell, side projects con l'amico Greg Dulli (Gutter Twins e Twilight Singers) o “prestazioni di servizio” per altri, dando adito a tutta una serie di critiche e frecciatine sulla sua poca ispirazione o sul suo continuo prestarsi come fosse diventato ormai solo un buon gregario... ondarock.it/recensioni/2012_la…

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Several NGOs, including the International Federation for Human Rights, have filed a legal complaint in Paris against two French-Israeli soldiers accused of carrying out summary executions of civilians in the Gaza Strip. The plaintiffs say the case could mark a turning point in judicial responses to the war in the enclave, challenging what they describe as the 'systemic impunity' of Israeli snipers.

The legal complaint, filed with civil party status, concerns two soldiers identified as Sasha A and Gabriel B – members of an elite sniper unit of the Israeli army, known as the “Ghost Unit” or Refaim in Hebrew.

The plaintiffs accuse them of carrying out deliberate killings in Gaza – crimes that could be considered war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide under international law.

The complaint was submitted by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations – Al-Haq, Al Mezan, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PHCR), the LDH and the Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS) – on 1 July to a specialised unit of the Paris Judicial Court.

This unit has jurisdiction over crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and enforced disappearances – particularly those cases involving French victims or suspects, or foreign suspects present or habitually resident in France.

The Ghost Unit, comprised of a few dozen snipers assigned to carry out “targeted neutralisations”, is primarily made up of dual nationals – including Israeli-American, Israeli-Belgian and Israeli-Ethiopian soldiers.

Approximately 4,000 French nationals are currently believed to be serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) – which FIDH refers to as the Israeli Occupying Forces.

Dual nationality exposes them to prosecution under French law. The complaint accuses the two soldiers of “deliberate attacks on life”, constituting crimes under international law.

"There is no ‘Israel exception’. Justice must move forward,” said Alexis Deswaef, a lawyer and vice-president of the FIDH. “Impunity fuels future crimes. We absolutely need a conviction for war crimes, crimes against humanity, or even genocide – a first conviction so that others can follow."

"It would mark a turning point…and would probably change things on the ground," he said, although he acknowledged too that justice alone "won’t be enough to stop the ongoing genocide in Gaza," and said there must be a ceasefire.

The legal complaint is based on investigative work by independent Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi, who conducted an investigation into the Ghost Unit.

His 38-minute documentary, published on X (formerly Twitter) in October 2024, shows footage of sniper attacks on civilians, including children and paramedics. One fatal shot came from more than a kilometre away.

The alleged acts took place between November 2023 and March 2024, near the al-Nasser and al-Quds hospitals in Khan Younis – both of which have been the target of intense Israeli bombardments following the 7 October Hamas attacks.

The documentary features an interview with the unit’s Israeli-American staff sergeant Daniel Raab. Speaking directly to camera, he explains how they shoot unarmed Gazan civilians near the two hospitals.

“If they are in an area designated as a combat zone, and they are men of military age, then we shoot," Raab said on camera. "The question of women and children is debated with command... As a sniper, you have a lot of independence, a lot of responsibility, and a lot of room for judgement... In some cases, they say yes or no, and in others, they say yes when you think it should be no... and then it’s up to you. You shoot.”

Raab states that his unit killed at least 120 Palestinians in under five months.

The NGOs say they have additional evidence supporting Tirawi’s findings.

“We were able to gather testimonies from direct victims of snipers in the time and place documented by Younis Tirawi – precise statements from victims, snipers or relatives of people killed by snipers at the entrance to the two hospitals,” said Deswaef.

“The testimonies complete the evidence collected by the journalist. That’s what makes this case so exceptional.”

“The convergence of eyewitness accounts and the documentation provided by Tirawi clearly indicates the involvement of the same snipers in a coordinated campaign of extra-judicial executions in various locations across Gaza,” the FIDH said in a statement.

Deliberately targeting civilians with lethal intent constitutes a serious violation of international law, including prohibited acts under the Genocide Convention, it added.

As a signatory to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional Protocols, as well as to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, France has a legal obligation to investigate and, if warranted, prosecute its nationals accused of international crimes.

According to the complaint: “In the areas where the unit operates, the apparent strategy is to open fire on any person of military age, even in the absence of any clear threat. Each shot fired by the snipers is intended not to wound, but to kill.”

The complaint argues that “these acts may constitute not only war crimes, but also genocide and other crimes against humanity”.

This is not the first case of its kind. In late 2024, the FIDH filed a complaint against another Franco-Israeli soldier, Yoel O, for alleged torture of Palestinian prisoners. The case was dismissed.

A previous complaint concerning the same individual had also been dropped earlier in the year by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat).

More recently, Pnat opened two judicial inquiries into French-Israeli nationals accused of participating in the obstruction of humanitarian aid. On 4 July, the organisation Lawyers for justice in the Middle East (AJPO) filed a complaint against French-Israelis living in illegal settlements, along with French entities allegedly complicit in recruiting individuals in France to move to West Bank settlements.

Additional complaints targeting other members of the Ghost Unit are expected to be lodged in Italy and other European jurisdictions. Investigations are already under way in South Africa and Belgium.

But Deswaef insists their case is exceptional. "What makes this case so particular is that we already have the evidence at the time the complaint is filed – significant and even sufficient evidence to allow for prosecution and conviction.

“These are damning elements. We have enough to try them as perpetrators of crimes, or at the very least as co-perpetrators or accomplices as members of the Ghost Unit operating collectively in Gaza."

He said having the staff sergeant openly explaining they were shooting unarmed civilians who pose no threat from 1.2 kilometres away, with the clear intent to kill, was "the very definition of a war crime".

France has been outspoken and active in its efforts to secure the release of French-Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 2023. Deswaef hopes it will show the same determination in holding its citizens accountable for any crimes committed in Gaza.

“We must hope so because otherwise it would be just another example of the completely unacceptable double standard – an insult to human intelligence and an insult to the European values that our leaders so often invoke to criticise others.

"Unless we’re to say that France makes an exception for Israel? This double standard is unbearable, and it undermines credibility. I don’t think our European leaders realise how much our international credibility has evaporated because of our inaction over Israel’s crimes committed in total impunity and without provoking the slightest reaction."

While France has one of the most advanced frameworks in matters of universal jurisdiction, lawyer Johann Soufi questions the political will to prosecute French citizens for crimes committed abroad.

"At present, France appears reluctant – both in its statements and in its actions," he said. "I detect no sincere willingness on the part of political leaders to shed light on the possible involvement of our compatriots in what the International Criminal Court – and many legal experts – now define as war crimes, crimes against humanity or even genocide."

Since the Hamas attacks on Israel, international justice has moved faster than diplomacy.

The ICC, which considers Israel's actions in Gaza war crimes and crimes against humanity, has issued arrest warrants. The International Court of Justice has acknowledged a plausible risk of genocide and ordered several provisional measures. United Nations bodies have documented what they describe as a criminal – even genocidal – policy, including the deliberate starvation of civilians.

“We cannot turn a blind eye to the possible responsibility of our compatriots in these crimes, whether military or civilian,” said Soufi. “International courts have done their part – they’ve stated the law, legally qualified the facts and established responsibility on the basis of the evidence presented to them.

"But justice depends – and will always depend – on the political will of states to be effective. Today, those who are failing are not the NGOs or lawyers, such as those who brought this complaint. It's the political leaders – particularly in the West – who, through their silence or complicity, through their total lack of moral compass, are burying the values they claim to uphold.

"When the time comes to account for these events, it won’t be up to defenders of international law to justify themselves, but those who refused to act. Unfortunately, we will all pay the price for this betrayal, because international law itself is being allowed to disappear.”

The death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 57,000, with more than 130,000 people injured, according to the Hamas health authority – figures that the UN deems credible.

French justice to challenge Israeli 'impunity' over alleged Gaza civilian executions

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Washington (AFP) – More than 1,300 State Department employees were fired Friday in a downsizing ordered by President Donald Trump and touted as cutting bloated government -- but which critics predict will hamstring US influence around the world.

Diplomats and other staff clapped out departing colleagues in emotional scenes at the Washington headquarters of the department, which runs US foreign policy and the global network of embassies.

Some were crying as they walked out with boxes of belongings.

A State Department official said 1,107 members of the civil service and 246 Foreign Service diplomatic employees were terminated.

The layoffs at the department came three days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to begin carrying out its plan to gut entire government departments.

The conservative-dominated top court lifted a temporary block imposed by a lower court on Trump's plans to lay off potentially tens of thousands of employees.

The 79-year-old Republican says he wants to dismantle what he calls the "deep state." Since taking office in January, he has worked quickly to install fierce personal loyalists and to fire swaths of veteran government workers.

His secretary of state, Marco Rubio, says the foreign policy department is too cumbersome and requires thinning out of some 15 percent.

The American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) -- the union representing State Department employees -- condemned the "catastrophic blow to our national interests."

"At a moment of great global instability -- with war raging in Ukraine, conflict between Israel and Iran, and authoritarian regimes testing the boundaries of international order -- the United States has chosen to gut its frontline diplomatic workforce," AFSA said in a statement.

"We oppose this decision in the strongest terms."

The State Department employed over 80,000 people worldwide last year, according to a fact sheet, with around 17,700 in domestic roles. The US Agency for International Development, long the primary vehicle to provide US humanitarian assistance around the world, has already been mostly dismantled.

According to The Washington Post, State Department employees were informed of their firings by email.

Foreign Service officers will lose their jobs 120 days after receiving the notice and will be immediately placed on administrative leave, while civil service employees will be separated after 60 days, the newspaper said.

Ned Price, who served as State Department spokesman under Democratic former president Joe Biden, condemned what he called haphazard firings.

"For all the talk about 'merit-based,' they're firing officers based on where they happen to be assigned on this arbitrary day," Price said on X. "It's the laziest, most inefficient, and most damaging way to lean the workforce."

Former ambassador Barbara Leaf, Biden's top Middle East diplomat, said the move "will have terrible consequences for our ability to protect American citizens abroad, pursue and defend the national interest and our national security."

"This is not a re-org. This is a purge," Leaf said in a post on LinkedIn.

US State Department begins mass layoffs

^RFI

The article is a great critique of how what the author refers to as the "Efficiency Lobby" has been pursuing a narrow idea of task oriented intelligence focused on productivity. It's a narrow focus, driven by corporate interests, that necessarily leads to individualistic consumption of AI services, hindering genuine creativity, open-ended exploration, and collection.

A recent paper introduces MemOS with the potential to create a truly collaborative and community driven foundation for AI. The paper introduces a new approach to memory management for LLMs, treating memory as a governable system resource.

It uses the concept of MemCubes that encapsulate both semantic content and critical metadata like provenance and versioning. MemCubes are designed to be composed, migrated, and fused over time, unifying three distinct memory types: plaintext, activation, and parameter memories.

This architecture directly addresses the limitations of stateless LLMs, enabling long-context reasoning, continual personalization, and knowledge consistency. The paper proposes a mem-training paradigm, where knowledge evolves continuously through explicit, controllable memory units, blurring the lines between training and deployment paving the way to extend data parallelism to a distributed intelligence ecosystem.

It would be possible to build a decentralized network where there's a common pool of MemCubes acting as shareable and composable containers of memory, akin to a BitTorrent for knowledge. Users could contribute their own memory artifacts such as structured notes, refined prompts, learned patterns, or even "parameter patches" encoding specialized skills that are encapsulated within MemCubes.

Using a common infrastructure would allow anyone to share, remix, and reuse these building blocks in all kinds of ways. Such an architecture would directly address Morozov's critique of privatized "stonefields" of knowledge, instead creating a truly public digital commons.

This distributed platform could effectively amortize computation across the network, similar to projects like SETI@home. Instead of constantly recomputing information, users could build out a local cache of MemCubes relevant to their context from the shared pool. If a particular piece of knowledge or a specific reasoning pattern has already been encoded and optimized within a MemCube by another user, it can simply be reused, dramatically reducing redundant computation and accelerating inference.

The inherent reusability and composability of MemCubes make it possible to have a collaborative environment where all users contribute to and benefit from each other. Efforts like Petals, which already facilitate distributed inference of large models, could be extended to leverage MemOS to share dynamic and composable memory.

This has the potential to transform AI from a tool for isolated consumption to a medium for collective creation. Users would be free to mess about with readily available knowledge blocks, discovering emergent purposes and stumbling on novel solutions.

GitHub - bigscience-workshop/petals: 🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading

🌸 Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style. Fine-tuning and inference up to 10x faster than offloading - bigscience-workshop/petals

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https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/