La reconnaissance optique de caractères en 1966. Un petit film publicitaire d'IBM qui montre la fameuse police OCR-B www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC1m... . 1/2

“These bots were not designed to provide an authentic connection that could be helpful for people—but instead to manipulate people into spending more time online. It could further worsen the loneliness crisis that we're already experiencing.” #AIEthics time.com/7209824/repl...

ARRG! (The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group) has a paper on critical artistic misuse of gen AI in the Critical AI journal (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social). Here's a pre-proofed copy of the paper, co-written with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and @supercomposite.bsky.social! #criticalAI

L’exemple de Paro, un bébé phoque robot apparu dans des établissements médico-sociaux suisses, montre que la technologie peut être réappropriée de manière créative par ses utilisateurs, sans remplacer notre besoin des autres. Par Brenda Bogaert et Jean-Philippe Pierron https://buff.ly/4artFLi

I wrote something wondering - are better models better? Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So should we change what we expect? www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

"Clash" is a manifesto for what comes next. It's a handbook for the class war we didn't start. The fire we didn't light. The crisis forced on all of us by self-radicalized wealth extremists.

[SaveTheDate] « Repenser la recherche scientifique au XXIe siècle. Six tables rondes publiques sur les sciences en société (2024-2025) » lab.hypotheses.org/repenser-la-...

Look at this great bibliography!

Quand t'as toujours pas reçu le mémo après quatre-vingt deux ans, faut vérifier tes spams.

In this blog post, I try to demonstrate why it is necessary to tell the story of AI in order to think about its contemporary issues: www.historica.org/blog/ai-for-...

New book by #AlainBadiou and #PascaleFautrier on #JeanPaulSartre in my #PerspectivesCritiques series @editions-puf.bsky.social

Who gave $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund? -Each of the 5 biggest tech firms -The CEOs of Uber & OpenAI -Auto giants Toyota, Ford, & GM -Drugmaker behemoth Pfizer Corporate America is desperate to kiss the ring. There's nothing they won’t do for a tax break.

I’ve just done my #eXit! the X exodus is massive. Don't lose any of your followers. Thanks to #HelloQuitX I've registered 36294 new passengers for a journey to #BlueSky & #Mastodon. Join us on app.helloquitx.com and automatically find your communities on #January20!

#Communiqué Fidèle à ses valeurs institutionnelles et à sa mission de diffusion des sciences sociales, l’EHESS suspend son activité du réseau social X et rejoint Bluesky à compter du #20janvier 2025 👋 @helloquittex.bsky.social Pour en savoir plus 👉 www.ehess.fr/fr/communiqu...

“Silicon Valley’s alliance with the extreme right will allow them to keep preaching how much tech will save the world for a little longer — all while they continue to degrade life for everyone.”

"Humans studied plants + animals in many ways before museums ever existed. There are plenty of ways of telling stories [+] understanding histories that don’t involve cataloging unnaturally preserved specimens... It's profoundly selfish of us to constantly seek preservation for our own purposes."

For non-French-speaking people, you can use the platform created by a team at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, the French state research organisation) to help you migrate from X to this platform. You can choose English (or 3 other languages). www.helloquitx.com

🔥 Hot off the presses: The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...

Just received a copy of the book ´Nocturnalities: Bargaining Beyond Rest’ arrived in my mail ! Thank you a lot to the editors Agata Bar and Andrea Knezović for including the English translation of my essay on sleep live streams ! Published by Onomatopé

this is how you summon white women over 30

Gerui Wang on "Algorithmic Conformity: Why do AI Generated Texts and Images Erode Cultural Diversity?" Diverse brushwork of Monet's painting are reduced to fixated forms in AI-generated paintings. Algorithmic conformity prioritizes regularity and dominant trends over nuance & context. #FaceInterface

Min-Young Kim: Text sometimes appears in a virtual wall, curved. Distortion is weird. Fantasy here is using a variable font parameter to control how much distortion it can have in a VR environment. Need to support AR/VR as a globally inclusive medium. #FaceInterface

@tsmullaney.bsky.social at #FaceInterface "Privilege is the ability to move onto cooler problems", in the context of digitally-disadvantaged languages. For English we can worry about VR/AR, color fonts, etc. Most languages still need basic OCR/HTR/NLP. #MultilingualDH

You think you know the kind of person who would fall in love with an AI chatbot but I think she will surprise you. Gift link for those who don’t subscribe to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

Lisa Huang: Check out the beta version of Words of Type. Not just about typography, but respect for languages and cultures. #FaceInterface

Portes ouvertes de la HEAD – Genève today

Hello, Bluesky, je tente la méthode @minutesimone.bsky.social. Qui pour nous accueillir, Plume-le-chat et moi à Paris, proche région parisienne, la dernière semaine de janvier ? Plus j'y pense et moins rester dans l'appartement vide me semble un bon plan.

The purely private tech sector is a myth. Silicon Valley's success was built on a combination of private initiative and public support, sustained by regulation and paid for by the blood, sweat and tears of tax payers.

Stealth mode is a tax you pay with missed opportunities, dead feedback loops, and the illusion of perfection. Here's why it's time to build in public.

I wish we could cultivate a culture where people get excited about and share the new skills they've learned more than the new stuff they've bought.

Daemons, fantômes, trolls, monstres, chevaux de Troie, vers… habitent nos ordinateurs et nos téléphones. Quel lien nous unit aux figures de ce bestiaire moderne ? C’est la question que j’aborde dans mon dernier livre publié chez @premierparallele.bsky.social www.premierparallele.fr/livre/persis...

Hommage(s) à @nicolasnova.bsky.social nicolasnova.org

#archives - Relire "Géoesthétique" paru en 2014, désormais épuisé mais intégralement ligne -https://www.lepeuplequimanque.org/2013/geoesthetique/

This is how modern oligarchs work. They don't burn books—they bury them in content. They don't silence the news—they reframe it as entertainment. They don't kill publishing—they make it appealing to a four-quadrant audience.

open! network! users don't have to rebuild their following all over again each time they switch to a different app, so platforms can't lock them in developers can bootstrap new social apps off an existing social graph of 27M+ people win-win 🤝

This is my story about a woman in love with ChatGPT, or Leo, as it named itself. She spends up to 56 hours a week on the ChatGPT app. Leo is boyfriend, therapist, erotic partner, and advisor. Her friends think it's been good for her and her husband doesn't mind: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

Décrire : voilà l’opération fondamentale nous disait Bruno Latour. Je suis particulièrement heureux que ce soit sous le titre Decrire le monde que paraisse en version poche la grande enquête sur les savoirs des sciences humaines et sociales que j’avais coordonnée pour le CNRS

Society never broke its deal with tech leaders – that deal never existed in the first place. But figures like Andreessen seem to have grown incapable of accepting that their power doesn't exempt them from accountability.

« Designing with Machines: Rethinking Generative AI Beyond Replacement Narratives », un article de synthèse publié par mes soins en janvier 2025 sur le site de Swissnex San Francisco swissnex.org/sanfrancisco...

Plaisir d'avoir enregistré avec Douglas Edric Stanley un épisode du podcast « People of AI » @googledevs.bsky.social (Ashley Odalcre) sur les enjeux créatifs de ces technologies. « Is AI a threat to artists, or a tool for innovation? » → www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR8h...

[new type] Resum — this latest font is about summarizing resolution (by a delicate dots move, resolution decreases as fat increases) www.bb-bureau.fr

👋 Hello, Designers Éthiques débarque par ici ! Si jamais vous ne nous connaissez pas, l'association œuvre autour des enjeux de conception numérique responsable par de la recherche-action, des évènements, des ressources et autres joyeusetés. designersethiques.org 🔁 Repost apprécié :)

Nicolas Nova, hommage www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VnL...

Avec @saulpandelakis.bsky.social, on mène un projet de recherche-création, intitulé « Fucking Tech! », qui traite des sexbots et autres « AI girlfriends ». Il examine leurs enjeux politiques et esthétiques afin de tendre vers un « design des sexualités machiniques » non normatif.

Felt compelled to write this now. It's important. In a world drunk on cynicism, the radical act is believing we can build something better.

« Aaron Swartz, dix ans après : l’héritage d’un hacktiviste précurseur » @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Hello Bluesky ! Je vais redonner une chance à ce réseau :)