1800 kilomètres séparent ces deux images. On pourrait croire qu'elles n'ont rien à voir. Pourtant, elles racontent la même histoire : celle de l'adaptation à la chaleur. UN FIL 1/9
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PhD candidate writing about emotions and lighting in 19 century Paris, from the home of hyggelys 🇩🇰🕯️🌚 the University of Copenhagen. Experimenting with custom LLMs. Former and, I hope, future, service designer.
It's a good take. Could we say the same for 'take' for 'analysis', 'opinion' and 'critique'?
Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
Hâte que Raphaël Enthoven nous explique que ce sont pas des posts nazis, mais les messages désordonnés d'une IA qui envoie de l’amour.
Arnault fait de nouvelles acquisitions dans la presse éco. Kretinsky renforce son pouvoir à Libé et lance sa chaîne TNT. Saadé achète Brut. Les milliardaires font leurs emplettes tandis que les macronistes pactisent avec Bolloré. Le tout dans un grand silence politique @fondspresselibre.bsky.social
La concentration des médias se renforce dans l’indifférence générale | Fonds pour une presse libre
Bernard Arnault fait de nouvelles acquisitions dans la presse économique. Daniel Kretinsky renforce son pouvoir à Libération et lance sa chaîne TNT. Rodolphe Saadé achète Brut. Nos oligarques milliard...
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Excellent blog post on large language models as technologies for "mapping and editing culture." @tedunderwood.me does a great job explaining why this perspective is exciting and could be less depressing than the common AGI (or ASI?) view.
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · last yr.This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪
There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
Don’t forget Galerie Cinquantenaire in Etterbeek! Strong Belgium energy
Anne Billson@annebillson.bsky.social · last yr.Galerie Louise is not the only eerily deserted shopping centre in Brussels. Last time I looked, Galerie Toison d'or wasn't much better. And don't even mention Galerie Horta. They're like ghost towns - & they keep building new ones. I bet it's some sort of real estate/construction/laundering scam.
There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).
I love how on Bluesky, instead of racist celebrities, we get main characters like “excessively sentimental view of hunter-gatherer lifestyles”
Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write. What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
What we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful Industries
Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture / https://betterim...
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Things I learned recently: * Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted. * Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
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Not entirely sure the popular-TV-show-to-public-policy conveyor belt is very healthy for our politics. The show explores themes that politicians should already be well on top of. news.sky.com/story/adoles...
Adolescence writers 'invited to parliament' to discuss show's themes with MPs, Sky News understands
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer gave his backing for the Netflix drama to be shown in schools and parliament, as the government faces calls to do more to tackle the extreme content being served up to ...
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My Bluesky feed (accounts I don’t follow) is a bit like a parody of itself. Anyone else have this?
Article très bien documenté 👓 que je conseille www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
L’IA, menace réelle ou fantasmée pour les artistes ?
Depuis quelques années, le développement de l’intelligence artificielle ravive la vieille peur d’un remplacement des humains par la machine. Si certains craignent qu’elle se substitue aux créateurs, d...
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Fascinating collection of graphs, showing how massive the COVID-19 effect was, but also how short-term it was in most cases. Seems social life was more effected than professional life. Political effects more difficult to determine...
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
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Waiting to take off, as plane neighbours watch cross country skiing races on their phones 🤍 Thank you #DHNB for accepting mine and @lrskjr.bsky.social ‘s paper, and for the opportunity to visit this part of Europe! Had such a good time at the talks, party, museum and dinner, and learnt loads. 🫶
The model is the product yes
Alexander Doria@dorialexander.bsky.social · last yr.The model is the product. New blog post on what the latest research trends mean for the next commercial cycle: specialized models behaving like an integrated systems, model providers moving up to application layer, training or being trained on. vintagedata.org/blog/posts/m...
Discussing @dhnb.bsky.social how asking a question to a chatbot vs. a 'simple' google search generates ~ 10x more emissions and how this could be annotated on AI generated material?
Anyone looking for guidance in how to help students navigate content-generating AI should get the team from the DH institute at Riga Technical University to come and give their presentation 💪 @dhnb.bsky.social Huge applause from all assembled!
Thought-provoking take on AI-human collaboration: content is anonymous (/stolen?), like it was in the oral tradition, where content was generated anew at every performance. AI generates a new version with every page refresh. Talk by Platonova, Smirnova, Seņko, Ivanova at @dhnb.bsky.social
Maciej Eder stating some honest truths in his "Text analysis is easy, unless it is not" keynote address @dhnb.bsky.social: "humanists tend to overestimate numbers, plots and maps. Hard scientists tend to underestimate language variation" — It's a match... 💘
In the beautiful National Museum of Estonia in Tartu, 2h from Tallinn, for three days of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social 🧤
The rage I feel at the decades in which everyone brushed off and downplayed these companies as "social media" and failed to see these private companies for what they were: transnational communications platforms for online speech, a new vector of power, a vacuum waiting for nature to take hold
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