The small room and the small model are one migration

Two stories that appear unrelated: people leaving public feeds for servers of fifteen, eating in parks, joining run clubs and chess clubs, closing the mobile-order window; and developers discovering that five hundred dollars of fine-tuning on a nine-billion-parameter open model beats the frontier at the task they actually have. These are the same movement at two scales. Both are the discovery that the enormous centralised thing is over-provisioned for real life — that the room you need is smalle ...

A movement that heals by becoming invisible cannot be diagnosed if it is instead a movement that is failing.