Effrayant et à écouter absolument - 3 podcasts de 20 min chacun sur la domination des GAFAM et la violation de la souveraineté nationale européenne — 🔗 www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

L’Europe, esclave numérique des Etats-Unis ? : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Inter

La directive "Omnibus numérique", proposée par la Commission européenne en novembre 2025 vise à simplifier les règlements numériques existants, notamment le RGPD. Est-ce le début de la fin de notre li...

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Am reading « Why we sleep » by the brilliant @sleepdiplomat.bsky.social and loving it! Highly highly recommend! Will dive into the podcast next!

"genAI" doens't "learn" (tech execs' term) since it has no brains. Instead, it stores and regurgitates - PLAGIARISM.... "many AI developers use a more technically accurate term when talking about these models: lossy compression."

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 7mo ago

New research presents the most compelling evidence yet that generative AI directly stores and reproduces material used to train it—a finding that could have massive legal consequences for the tech industry, Alex Reisner reports.

Disgraceful.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

COME ON

Read this if you don’t see the legal issues with or wonder about the legality of US actions in Venezuela

Isaac Chotiner@ichotiner.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Can’t believe European leaders are discussing legality of US invasion of Venezuela. A summary of US actions in Venezuela: Kidnapping a citizen in their own country Expropriating their natural resources Seizing power until somebody deemed adequate is found. Who is next: Canada, Greenland?

Places Trump has said he wants to take over: Gaza Venezuela Mexico Canada Panama Canal Greenland U.S. blue cities & said he kept troops in Syria to "keep the oil." www.politico.com/news/2019/11... & said in 2016 that taking Iraq oil wouldn't be stealing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016...

That is called corruption. Let’s call things what they are.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Corruption is a team activity. So is accountability.

Good to know for people who use LLMs for their R code

Posit@posit.co · 8mo ago

New data from @sara-altman.bsky.social & @simonpcouch.com, using the vitals and ellmer packages, looks at LLM performance metrics for #RStats. 👀 Sneak peek: Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, & OpenAI GPT-5 lead in generating correct R code. Read the full breakdown: posit.co/blog/r-llm-e...

Myth busting in action ! @joshua-goodman.com & Joseph Winkelman wrote a great paper on trends in US college enrollments and debunk the narrative we’ve been seeing everywhere about students massively leaving higher education — please journalists read this 🔗 docs.iza.org/dp18285.pdf

DENSHA OTOKO 😍😍😍😍 Instant throwback to my high school years 😍😍😍😍

Read Japanese Literature@readjapaneseliterature.com · 8mo ago

Preparation is almost finished for RJL’s upcoming episode on the Japanese cell phone novel. Expect a story about novels told in screen-sized chunks, a loving homage to early 00s internet culture, and a true* tale of an otaku who needed a little courage. (*It’s probably not true.)

A chilling reminder of the state of the Econ profession for women and the long road ahead towards what the profession should be

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers@yanarodgers.bsky.social · 8mo ago

This piece I wrote for @theconversation.com argues that the Summers/Epstein debacle reflects what the data show: systemic bias in the economics profession’s practices and culture. That bias influences who succeeds and who is sidelined. #EconSky theconversation.com/larry-summer...

Entshittification — today we’ve had it with Netflix. Now we can’t even use Chromecast. This blogpost sums it up. « Netflix - like Airbnb, Uber, and the rest of the share economy from the 2010s - just isn't what it used to be anymore. » www.whistleout.com.au/PayTV/News/w...

We’re all thinking it, Netflix sort of sucks now

Netflix won the streaming wars but we're still reeling from the fallout.

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Keep an eye on this JMC, fascinating work in Econ of education.

Gagandeep Sachdeva@gagandeep249.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm excited to announce that I am on the 2025-26 economics job market! I’m an applied microeconomist working on education, gender, and inequality—with a focus on how teachers and institutions shape student outcomes. A 🧵on my #JMP and other projects: #EconSky (1/n)

Introduce yourself in 5 shows you’ve seen Neil Frahm Olafur Arnalds Jacob Collier Bohren & der Club of Gore Beirut

Thomas Durfee@thomasjdurfee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Introduce yourself with five shows you've seen Barenaked Ladies (St Paul ice palace) REM & Modest Mouse & The National Steve Vai Neutral Milk Hotel Ratatat

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

Too little too late

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 9mo ago

Why is Harvard still giving him power over students?

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

Very exciting JMP on teacher value added — beyond test scores and into socio-emotional value added.

Jerry Montonen@montonenjerry.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚀 I’m excited to share that I’m on the #EconSky job market this year! In my #EconJMP, I study how teachers in Finnish upper secondary schools impact students’ socio-emotional skills – and the labor market returns of these effects! (🧵, 1/N)

🤮 disgusting on so many levels

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09) The grad is from China Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril" Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package bit.ly/3LHpin8

À really interesting short study — based on a survey in the US, the public supports Unis championing initiatives (environmental, DEI, free speech, …) beyond research & ed, but finds political engagement inappropriate. Women & liberals support DEI initiatives but men & conservatives do not.

Michèle Belot@michelebelot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The role of universities has recently come into question. In a paper published in Science Advances, we show that the general public expects universities to do more than education and research; with some disagreement on exactly what they should do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

« The era when American politics could make or break global climate co-operation is over. The world is no longer waiting for Washington. This time the global south is leading the way. » — a great piece by an architect of the Paris agreement @economist.com economist.com/by-invitatio...

The climate action that matters is in the global south, argues an architect of the Paris agreement

But, writes Christiana Figueres, innovation still has to outpace climate impacts

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People are crazy.

Emerging Crises@emergingcrises.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Pet owners are refusing rabies vaccines because of ‘pawtism’ fears. Anti-vax conspiracies have gone so far off the rails they’re endangering dogs. Rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms start. Misinformation is spreading faster than the viruses these days. (Gift Link)

Researcher at OpenAI studied why LLMs hallucinate: it’s a fundamental feature of the approach, it’s not an engineering glitch that will be solved with more money or data.

A.G. Pasquella@agpasquella.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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Open source baby

Dean Baker@deanbaker13.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This doesn't look good for the AI boys here winbuzzer.com/2025/10/28/c...

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Milky Wax

Very important developments on regulating digital platforms operating in the EU. Glad to see Europe abiding by its principles on this one.

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"Access to data by researchers is a crucial element of ensuring transparency and democratic accountability,” @lewan.bsky.social says. “The public is entitled to know what platforms and their algorithms are doing to the information landscape.” I wrote for @science.org about Meta, TikTok and the DSA 🧪

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

Very interesting read

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 10mo ago

Also see bsky.app/profile/oliv...

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.