Author: DrRon Suarez

Volume three of the Counter-Stack series: a course catalog for community-owned AI infrastructure, a learn-and-earn model where local businesses pay only a share of student wages, the philanthropies and municipal financing that fund it, the beginning of an ROI, and how the blueprint bends for rural versus urban colleges.

The West’s most clear-eyed China analyst has a framework for using everyone’s technology without becoming anyone’s subject. Communities weighing open-source AI — including China’s — against the hyperscalers should borrow it.

the same pattern that captured Web 2.0 begin to repeat: one layer tips into monopoly, and the gatekeepers there export their power up and down the stack, deciding who gets to compete and who doesn’t.