Democracy dies in Agile

Stealworkers

This is what AI is all about. Authoritarianism without liability.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

immediately adopting this

La France n’a pas fait de communiqué lorsqu’un militant d’extrême droite (déguisé en policier) a assassiné l’élue démocrate Mélissa Hortman, son mari et leur chien en juin 2025 Ce même tueur avait tenté quelques heures avant d’assassiner le démocrate John Hoffman et sa femme (qui eux ont survécus)

@emilymbender.bsky.social is featured in the latest OK GO video

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

Soundtrack for the weekend

Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.

Oh my.... it’s an absolute. essential. masterpiece.

S'il vous plait, cliquez sur "écouter l'article", c'est formidable.

I think this is a larger pattern: "AI" allows you to roleplay competence.

AI will mess up your anus.

study is here: Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study Budzyń, Krzysztof et al. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology doi.org/10.1016/S246...

An incredibly important bit by @dexdigi.bsky.social on the @404media.co hang out: (about the LA protests) "How do you tell people `watch out for surveillance` when the entire point is [to be seen and tell everyone `we belong here`] ?" www.youtube.com/live/URaS3Eg...

With this amount of time and money, IA should have already cured cancer and figured out time travel. Turns out it still fails at basic math and getting data without introducing random errors It’s never too late to face evidence: it sucks. And forever will.

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...

"Amiante numérique". C’est tellement parfait.

A short video about neo-Nazi dress codes in Berlin, which I recorded after yesterday’s protest against Israel’s mass starvation of Palestinians. The most distinctive ones at the moment are Yakuza, Thor Steinar, Lyle and Scott, and Ellesse, but there are others.

The U.K. is a police state

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

This is easy to spot useful AI, because useful AI: a) isn’t called AI b) isn’t talked about at all (Background remover, grammar check or the bazillion research project nobody has ever heard of except from a few scientist from that field) So yeah, "AI abolitionism" is actually the correct approach

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

The Challenger Shuttle explosion of 86 was later explained by a poor work organisation where teams wouldn’t communicate with each other. Ignoring warning that would eventually lead to the catastrophic outcome A disaster caused by people offloading important information to AI is a matter of time

Even linkedin gets it

Pour les "50 milliards" à trouver, l’argent est là: Dans ces entreprises qui n’apportent rien et qui se gavent d’argent public «Pour acculturer le Comex à l'IA générative, nous avons organisé une session préliminaire avec une conférence, un défi et une idéation.» www.artefact.com/fr/cas/arte-...

J’ai beau réfléchir... je vois pas comment @artefr.bsky.social aurait pu avoir une idée pire que celle là, sur ce sujet en particulier

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Petit exercice : comment reconnaître une IA même quand les gens ont 5 doigts et que l’éditeur joue au con et refuse de l’admettre 👇

Friendly reminder: A.I. has never been about improving technology, it’s never been about "democratization". It’s not even about productivity or money... It’s about control. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

Another world is possible.

"The NBER paper comes on the heels of other indications suggesting that AI’s potential, while tremendous, has been vastly overstated in the media and the market." But they're doing the exact overstatement here with the phrase "while tremendous." fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

Il y a quelques années, une "étude" "montrait" que le vélo produisait + de CO2 qu’une voiture. L’arnaque ? Prendre l’émission moyenne d’un français et diviser par le temps de trajet. Le vélo est plus lent, la voiture gagne ! Ici ce torchon fait la même erreur logique :

typical corrupt science

“Grok allows users to make deepfakes depicting things like Mickey Mouse wearing a Nazi uniform. Musk has called it ‘the most fun AI in the world.’ Boxtown residents say they have been paying for the images with their health.”

Dieu sait que je ne suis ni fan de la FI ni de Meluche… mais quand j’entends des résumés de "La Meute" ça ressemble à n’importe quelle institution de pouvoir. Ce n’est pas la critique de la FI qui pose problème mais le fait que ça rend, en creux, les autres « respectables » parce que plus polissés

"We’d rather move with urgency and take occasional small hits on quality than move slowly and miss the moment" "-We'll gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle -Al use will be part of what we evaluate in performance reviews" Fuck @duolingoverde.bsky.social so fucking much.

On dirait que les fanzouz de D&R et de Bouteldja ont trouvé l’entrée de BS

That’s actually fantastic teddy bears shouldn’t drive spaceship. Polish apple pie.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

i think it is bad that among the most influential people in government are the monomaniacal adherents of a millenarian tech cult

Friendly reminder : Silicon Valley hates Science (this GAFAM funded prize censored a joke calling out Trump’s cut on researches and RFKs anti-science statements) www.theverge.com/news/649558/...

seems impossible to make a potato threatening but here we are

Juste pour savoir: c’est quand que s’arrête cette mode à la con de tout appeler "ordre bourgeois" ?