There is a workshop culture around open weights that feels like the best of computing: people swapping recipes, renting a GPU for a weekend, publishing a write-up instead of a threat model. This sample dispatch is a thank-you note to that culture.

A phone used as a local assistant
The clerk that stays in the house.

A magazine can like labs and still like garages. The two are how a field stays honest. Permission culture is slow. Shipping culture is how a small country punches above its weight — in Adelaide as much as in any valley.

A GPU ready for local inference
Tokens at reading speed, no round trip.

Open Weights, Open Workshops, and a Kinder Computing Culture
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We will cover the open stack as infrastructure. We will describe the model that ran, the eval that was fair, the fine-tune that made a shop kinder to its customers. We will not treat a researcher as a defendant. We will not invent a superintelligence for the sake of a headline.

A quiet desk with a local model
A mind that does not leave the building.

The Standard's Tech / AI page is short, useful, and on the side of people who make. Sample, yes. Replace it when the Host files the real workshop notes. Until then it stands as the house view: we are for the people who share the weights and then go to the footy.

On-device inference in a pocket
Airplane mode is a feature, not a confession.