My nephews introduced me to the work of Mary Anning #fossiles

Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.

“We trace likely sources, both ancient and modern, for the extensive repertoire of images, myths, metaphors, and conceptual esoterica that the language model draws on” #ai #llm arxiv.org/abs/2411.13223

“Why should the world-historical promise of computing be confined to replicating bureaucratic rationality?” www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...

Pépite découverte dans une librairie lyonnaise

OH: “The differences between Big-Endians (who break their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians (who break their eggs at smaller end) have given rise to ‘six rebellions’.”

Naturally, quantum bullshit exists in several states simultaneously. Real but not, depending on whether you look at it or not. It contains many worlds, some true, some not.

Épouvantail / Scarecrow #charlieu

“Comment meurt un câble sous-marin et comment en hériter ?” Par Clément Marquet lestempsquirestent.org/fr/numeros/n...

Lecture de TER

Artists running data-centers: publications.servus.at/2024-Artists...

Never let them know your next move.

Un entretien dans le journal Le Temps de ce week-end à propos de mon dernier livre Persistance du merveilleux : le petit peuple des machines publié chez @premierparallele.bsky.social merci Philippe Simon /le Bestiaire de l'Anthropocène en apparition surprise). www.letemps.ch/cyber/nicola...

WINTER SOLSTICE D’HIVER

“What does it mean to read (or misread) the artifacts of internet lore? Unraveling memes and idioms doesn’t just reveal complex stories, but new mechanics behind how we form and use language on the internet.” otherinter.net/research/lor...

“Compute havers” versus “Compute have nots”

OH: "Henry Potter"

“Phasmatron 77”

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Sitrep

Une capsule radio sur France Inter qui résume efficacement Persistance du merveilleux, le petit peuple de nos machines publié chez @premierparallele.bsky.social : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Interesting read about investigating “imaginaries” in STS: “Unboxing the imaginary: Typology of future imagination techniques in high-tech development” by Limor Samimian-Darash, Amit Sheniak, and Nir Rotem journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"Slop" as New Aesthetic Category (tm); discuss.

CfA: "Simondon and AI: A Collective Individuation in the Year of His Birth Centenary". Join @susanaaires.bsky.social, @ludovico-rella.bsky.social and me at #STSItalia2025 in Milan next June! Abstracts due 3 February 2025. For submission guidelines and panel details (Panel No. 3): bit.ly/49xJP5m

Une analyse en détail de mon dernier livre publié chez @premierparallele.bsky.social, merci Hubert 🙏🏻

OH: “He is a toddler version of Yoda”

A Grenoble jeudi pour parler de l’enquête “Fragments d’une montagne” et du jeu “Chamonix-Sentinelles” labexittem.fr/montagnes-en...

“how did links come to represent information in the first place? And what’s at stake in the movement away from links toward AI chat interfaces?” aeon.co/essays/when-...

Lorraine Daston, toujours passionnante sur l’histoire des sciences, la pluralité des démarches de connaissance et leur matérialité podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/l...

Vernissage du bestiaire de l'Anthropocène édité avec Disnovation chez Art & Fiction, à Lausanne le 19 décembre artfiction.ch/events/talk-...

The registrations for #NØSchool2024 are open. The school is aimed at students, artists, designers, makers, hackers, activists and educators who wish to engage in critical research around the social and environmental impacts of information and communication technologies noschoolnevers.com/index.html

Fascinating component

“Trolls, démons, fantômes : ces étranges créatures qui peuplent nos machines numériques”, un article dans @lemonde.fr de Laure Coromines à propos de mon livre Persistance du merveilleux publié chez @premierparallele.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...

“content creators are quick to point out the tool’s limitations, underscoring that the quality of AI-produced short dramas often falls short of expectations. Even those marketed as fully AI-generated still rely heavily on human intervention” www.sixthtone.com/news/1015691

Mood

How should access to digital publications be provided once they enter the public domain? This new report sees a role for both dark archives and national libraries in moving beyond preservation to ensure widespread legal access. arcadiafund.org.uk/highlights/t...

Entendu au vol: “no poireau no ciboulette in la soupe”

An important point

“This article proposes the concept of anticipated affordances as an analytical supplement to affordance theory. Anticipated affordances refers to how actors anticipate or speculate on a technology’s affordances before they have any direct use experience with it” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“Lolcow is a portmanteau of ‘LOL’ and ‘cow’ and is used in a derogatory way to describe highly exploitable people online, such as those who post a consistent flow of cringeworthy content” knowyourmeme.com/editorials/g...

"Science/Fiction: A non-history of plants". "The book questions human projections and representations of the vegetal world, bringing to light the subjectivity, intelligence, and expressive abilities of plants". spectorbooks.com/book/science...

mid sixties AI

A fascinating interview of @thejaymo.net about the cultural importance of Dungeons & Dragons in digital cultures and (way) beyond fieldnotesfromthemetaverse.com/2024/12/04/i...

I have been reading more of Imre Szeman’s work on solarities and its clear when you operate a solar powered Minecraft server you do a lot of praying for sunshine. minecraftbloc.milieux.ca/sunblock/

Currently reading about reading / En train de lire à propos de lire

Au revoir JR

Electronics Flea market www.electronicsfleamarket.com

“Le risque, c’est que le solutionnisme efface les problèmes sociaux d’abus, de pauvreté, d’inégalité… qui sont bien souvent à l’origine des problèmes que les législateurs voudraient atténuer. On ne fera pas disparaître les causes en nettoyant les symptômes”

Interesting formatting

Un appel à contributions concernant les échecs des IA génératives et LLM: www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/...