Mesdames et messieurs, la France.

toujours ce satané constat que les gens ne travaillent pas au centre-ville près de la gare mais dans des périphéries urbaines où il demeure assez facile de se rendre en voiture et assez laborieux d'aller en TeC (mais le focus discussion est souvent sur le résidentiel)

the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 💀

Un bon principe UX: ne forcez jamais un changement de mot de passe au moment où un usager essaie d’accéder à un service. Il est peut-être sur son téléphone, dehors, stressé, sans gestionnaire de mots de passe. Si le changement n’a pas été initié par lui, ce n’est ni le bon moment ni le bon contexte.

… And in the end, after being forced to clarify your own thoughts by explaining things to this mediocre AI, you find the answer to your own question in a much more instructive way than if a better LLM had given you the answer outright. 😅

A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

De l’hypocrisie des élus et des entreprises perfusées aux commandes et subventions de l’État. Extrait du roman d’anticipation « Le troupeau aveugle » de John Brunner (1972). Ça devrait plaire à @amoatti.bsky.social

This is true

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 5d ago

The thing about Odyssey discourse is that we allowed the professors to break containment. The whole purpose of the university system was to find a humane way to segregate them from mainstream society.

“People said we were using an unacceptable amount of power, and with these upgraded facilities that require so much more of it, we’ve shown that we took those criticisms to heart,” said Sam Altman

Technological Advancements Allow Data Centers To Run On Even More Electricity

SAN FRANCISCO—Hailing rapid developments in the infrastructure needed to support artificial intelligence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced Tuesday that technological advancements were now allowing data...

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The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

TIL that the AI bubble has its own Wikipedia page. Let's see where this goes. No moat, and obviously very useful but with no obvious path to strong ROI? (cf. low margin airline industry) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble

AI bubble - Wikipedia

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In honor of fucking off to an island with no reception for the next week, here's an older essay on wilderness and the internet for The Disconnect, an online magazine you have to turn off your wi-fi to read. Wish this one was still around! I loved the premise.

The Disconnect: Issue One

The Disconnect is an offline-only magazine of commentary, fiction, and poetry.

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Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas

A 6h, à 6h40 et à 8h, je vais donc "jouer" la chronique IA. Celle d'un sénateur des Alpes-Maritimes âgé de 81 ans, Henri Leroy, candidat à sa réelection. Il propose sur sa page Facebook une photo générée par IA de ses opposants politiques et n'y voit aucun mal. "Cette photo représente la réalité."

Everyone not demanding impeachment, R or D, is blatantly shirking their duty.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

If you want to check out a fairly balanced (I hope) classical view of Nolan's Odyssey, try our pedants' review on Instant Classics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-r...

Christopher Nolan's Odyssey 3: The Pedants Revolt

YouTube video by Instant Classics

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Don't make comics for awards, acclaim, or sales. Make comics for the misfit weirdo thumbing through discount boxes.

So Queen Demon is a finalist for a Dragon Award for fantasy novel! Yay! Congrats to all the other nominees! awards.dragoncon.org/2026-ballot/

Car en effet c'est une source tellement rare et pas travaillée fouyouyou quel ésotérisme il faut demander secours à une IAg

A Firing Squad Yes If You Please Derek Newark

Alt: A Firing Squad Yes If You Please Derek Newark

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ccailleaux.bsky.social@ccailleaux.bsky.social · 2d ago

Je constate que des collègues profs d'histoire-géographie ont décidé de demander à des IAgen grand public d'inventer des sources pour les faire étudier à leurs élèves. Dans l'exemple que je viens de voir, il s'agit d'une lettre de poilu... C'est vertigineux

Dave Barry (79 ans) sur un petit film dont on parle trop peu. "A climactic fight scene ensues, lasting approximately an hour but feeling more like two." davebarry.substack.com/p/the-odyssey

The Odyssey

Worst cruise ever.

davebarry.substack.com

#portal

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

Parce que j'ai passé une heure à tenter de convaincre un sénateur âgé, en campagne pour sa réelection, que publier une photo IA de ses opposants politiques montés en une bande ricannante prête aux mauvais coups, c'est participer à la désinformation. Impossible de discuter avec lui hélas.

Like. Of everything terrible that's ever happened to my body, I gotta hand it to menopause: It is the absolute worst. Good job, Menopause. You continue to top yourself.

… Donc je ne dis ❁pas❁: «tout usage d'un LLM pour résoudre des problèmes de maths est forcément néfaste», je dis «ce que fait actuellement OpenAI conduit (malgré les apparences) à une régression de la science». … •7/8

"Le ministère de l'Éducation nationale a été victime d'une intrusion frauduleuse dans l'un de ses systèmes d'information. Cette intrusion a pu conduire à l'exfiltration de données à caractère personnel vous concernant." Ça fait plaisir d’avoir des nouvelles du boulot pendant les vacances...

The comments you get as an open source maintainer 🙄 “So the maintainers here have set humanity back by countless years” github.com/orgs/Homebre...

remember how the press and politicians were obsessed with "racing China to 5G?" The claim was you had to give AT&T and Verizon everything they wanted on policy or we'd be stuck in the stone age. It ended with China offering better, faster, cheaper, 5G and U.S. 5G being shitty and expensive. 🗽

The US might lose the AI race to China. Should Americans care?

Everyone in Silicon Valley and the Beltway is freaked out about Chinese AI, but there’s less consensus on what to do about it.

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Si vous voulez comprendre une des difficultés actuelles du journalisme : (PR = public relations, communicants en français)

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Côté recherche, je vois le bazar mais j'ai le privilège de n'avoir plus guère à craindre ou espérer. Côté formation, c'est pas non plus clair ce qu'on doit enseigner. Tout le monde a des idées et là aussi il y a "ne pas louper le train", qui implique les jeunes dont on a la responsabilité.