In our third installment of interesting finds, we cover overreach by South African educational institutions. Open Assistant, an open-source alternative to OpenAI and ChatGPT. We provide a different perspective on the core-js story and highlight a talk by Kris Nòva, who tells the story of Hachyderm. We close out the episode by talking about sustaining open-source and a new fund from the Open Technology fund.

Other news

• Designing Tech for Social Cohesion - In person - Online
• Google season of docs - For projects - For writers
• Synthetic Humanity: AI & What’s At Stake
• When Your Open Source Tool Turns to the Dark Side - Dotan Horovits (Dotan will be on a future episode of the Mechanical Ink podcast)
• A new Mastodon web client, Elk, is in public preview.
• CommonVoice

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