This is my (joelgalvez.com) selection of newsletters. Most events are related to the arts and new media in The Netherlands, with some focus on Amsterdam, since that's where I live. 

The long-term goal is to create a kind of a funnel for event data into the fediverse. You might have heard of Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X/Twitter. There are similar initiatives for event data, such as Gancio and Mobilizon. Most of the events I personally care about are not available in the fediverse. Yet all of it already exists in the form of email newsletters.

I can't just republish all this data without asking, so here is what I do instead: whenever I receive a newsletter, I send an automated response with all the events I found in it. The sender can review the events, check if they look okay, and then choose to publish. I can help with adjustments if needed. Nothing gets published without human review. 

This is also an experiment in how to use AI responsibly: not treating its output as truth, but as a draft or proposal. The model is running in a kind of a jail—it can't communicate with the outer world. It's also a way to experiment with smaller, more efficient models to gain independence from larger infrastructure and resource-intensive data centers. I can track energy use and be transparent about that. A small model trained specifically for event data might be quite efficient, for example.