Who gets to see the light?
Michael Todd Edwards
Director and Founder, Technology Educator Alliance
Fractions are freedom.
How do you challenge a mind with fourth-grade fractions?
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today’s world
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Lifetime (USA)
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Black men (USA)
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Allegory · Clique · Marginalia ≈ 4.5 MB  ·  Gemma 2 · 2B model ≈ 2 GB
the whole kit — offline, no account, no internet
This is a four-year-old base-model laptop — no graphics card, no dedicated video memory — running with the wifi off.
Allegorylyrics
Cliquewords
Marginaliatext
Allegory
lyrics
Allegory plays a folder of music straight off your own drive — no account, no cloud, nothing uploaded — and keeps Socrates in the sidebar, a thinking partner that will argue with you about what the lyrics mean. It cannot be embedded on this page: a site on the web is not allowed to reach a program running on your machine. That restriction is the whole idea. Clique and Marginalia, on the next two slides, are live — try them now — and Run a model yourself on the talk page is the recipe for the free model behind all three.
Clique · words
Marginalia · text
free.
free of costa free model, open tools, a $5 drive — copy it, give it away; no subscription, no gatekeeper.
free.
free from being watchedyour reading, questions, and notes never leave the machine — no account, no logging, no one watching what you wonder.
free.
free to think · free to questionwhat my students in prison wanted most: to be taken seriously as minds — heard, and challenged. A mind free to question can’t be kept in the dark.
the right not to be
kept in the dark
“To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.” — Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
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