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• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows: This is a classic book on systems theory that provides a great introduction to the concept.


• The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi: This book offers a unified view of life, integrating life's biological, cognitive, social, and ecological dimensions.


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“We came before copyright. But publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products.”

cases of obvious harm should be distinguished from those in which there is a sense of potential harm, or the issue is one of the unexpected uses

The key premise of algorithms is efficiency. Algorithms optimise data for decision-making that we previously did not have before. But humans are not efficient. We are messy and inherently flawed, which makes us human. We value serendipity, community and experiences, which may not be efficient but is impactful.

Some Wikipedians remark that their endeavor works in practice, but not in theory.

However they identify, when they show up at MozFest and as they stay connected through the year, they are a group of people rolling up their sleeves and working on something roughly akin to a common agenda. Which is really all a social movement is.

the Wikimedia Enterprise initiative, which launched in 2021. It offers paid, enterprise-grade APIs suitable for building commercial solutions on top of Wikipedia content. And Google is one of its first customers (the second is the Internet Archive).

Copyright rules, in -cluding open licensing frameworks, should be viewed as “the floor,” or a starting point for further governance; other modes of ordering and regulating behavior must also be considered. In particular, most of the issues framed as responsible or ethical AI fall beyond the scope of copyright law, and copyright-based tools are not... See more