How "AI" is being actually trained: «It’s a model built for distance and deniability, Joan Kinyua, president of the Data Labelers Association, a Nairobi-based AI workers’ union, told Rest of World. “It’s capitalism and the height of digital colonialism. Oftentimes, supervisors don’t even mention […]

Today, strike and huge protests in France. Over a million people in demonstrations all over the country to refuse Macron's austerity, and billionaire profits over people's needs. Together we stand stronger, for fiscal justice, public services, peace and democracy! #18septembre2015 #frpol

"The fact that poverty persists at such high levels today indicates that severe dislocation is institutionalised in the world economy – and that markets have failed to meet the basic needs of much of humanity." […]

“You, me and everyone we know have all been subjected to a 40-year blitz of anti-solidaristic propaganda, aimed at convincing us that we are only allowed to fight the system as individuals. Don’t like your health care? Shop around! Don’t like your boss? Quit your job! Under no circumstances […]

Pourquoi le Danemark abandonne-t-il #microsoft Office et #windows pour #LibreOffice et #linux ? https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/ Avant que le gouvernement danois n'annonce sa décision, les plus grandes villes du […]

### My feedback to the EU regarding the newly proposed law forcing all websites to plaintext store everything users do or write for law enforcement. This may be the dumbest law the EU has proposed as of yet, and it already attempted chat control and article 13 / 11, so this says a lot! Not […]

La stratégie #numerique du #Cirad pour les prochaines années est actuellement en cours d’élaboration et de discussion. Le document de travail n’est pas accessible publiquement (et je n’ai pas l’autorisation de le diffuser), mais il a été partagé en petits comités afin de recueillir des avis et […]

«AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather than enhancing our human qualities, these systems degrade our social relations, and undermine our capacity for empathy and care.» Nice writing by @patatas! […]

MIT Tech Review: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. -- and it is shocking. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

Belle collaboration avec le Pôle Projets : Modélisation #Mathématique des Systèmes Complexes de #centralesupelec Université #parissaclay. J'ai proposé un problème appliqué de modélisation par #pde et de résolution numérique d'un processus de diffusion d'insectes avec piègeage, issu de mes […]

A not very famous add-on which works in #firefox :fox: and derivatives (such as #fennec, #librewolf,...) is Archive Page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/archive-page/?utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser and for Android I […]

@ct_bergstrom and Jevin T. West have made this excellent resource available called MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world https://thebullshitmachines.com/ Text, slides, videos, even short exercises THANK YOU for making this usable for free in educational […]

all your half-finished projects are still experience that contributes directly to your skills and confidence. the dozen half-finished projects are the seeds of the finished one that you could never have handled a decade ago.

Amen. Si, así, sin acento.

Oh my $DEITY. The Trump administration stopped all publication of CDC MMWRs (and also effectively shut down all public info drops on everything from HHS/CDC). Wow. This is really big and really bad. I wish I could provide some positive counsel, but I cannot. They really are a death cult […]

"Each task consumed approximately 1,785 kWh of energy—about the same amount of electricity an average U.S. household uses in two months" This is one per-task estimate from Salesforce's head of sustainability -->> www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...

Hier j'étais à une soirée de la French Tech, avec des présentations de projets de nouvelles startups Un gars vient présenter des chiffres sur la santé mentale des Français : beaucoup ont des idées dépressives ou suicidaires. Mais comment améliorer ça ? Jsp […] [Original post on masto.bike]

Just like with climate science, I'm often sad that I've studied history 😢

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