Begging folks with open ended academic jobs not to forget there’s a whole underclass of permanently casualised academics who’ve been facing redundancy as standard for years. 12+ in my case. I get it’s awful facing redundancy ofc! Just…this isn’t unprecedented for us. It’s the norm.

Le numéro anniversaire (50 ans tout de même!) d' Hérodote (@ifgeopolitique.bsky.social) vient de paraître, et j'ai eu le plaisir de contribuer avec Frédérick Douzet à un article sur "30 ans de géopolitique du numérique"... 1/3

Really looking forward to the next instalment of our annual BASEES-ZOiS-Roundtable at #BASEES2026 tomorrow afternoon. Important topic, great line-up, don‘t miss it if you are attending the conference!⬇️

Many more ZOiS researchers will present their research at #BASEES2026 over the weekend – meet us there!

Well, there it is.

Avec @rlg.bsky.social, A. Ribardière et tout notre collectif éditorial, nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution des premières planches de notre Atlas social de la France. Pour un autre récit des inégalités dans l’espace national : atlas-social-de-france.fr

⚡️ Update: Ukraine, Romania sign strategic partnership declaration. Presidents Zelensky and Dan agreed to expand cooperation in the energy and defense sectors, signaling closer ties between the neighboring countries.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

IODA shows the Internet in Iran has been cutoff from the global Internet since ~7:00 AM UTC. The regime implemented a similar Internet shutdown when Israel attacked Iran in June of 2025. Follow connectivity in Iran in near realtime: ioda.inetintel.cc.gatech.edu/country/IR?f...

Alors que des frappes israélo-américaines visent Téhéran, des millions d’Iraniens ont reçu ce matin d’étranges notifications via une appli de prière populaire. 1/2

Unfortunately, people in #Iran are familiar with internet shutdowns. In the current state of emergency, this is tragic because people can no longer obtain news or communicate with their loved ones. The shutdown began at the same time as the air strikes at around 7 UTC, according to data from IODA.

In Israel, Cloudflare Radar shows a clear jump in Internet traffic this morning as people followed the news. Traffic rose nearly 50% after 06:15 UTC compared with the previous week, a pattern typical during fast-moving events that draw nationwide attention.

Internet connectivity in Iran is now in a near-complete shutdown, down about 98% vs the previous week. The disruption began around 07:00 UTC, following reports of military strikes — and in past incidents the government has responded with nationwide Internet shutdowns.

Putin has appointed a new Kremlin commission on the development of AI (which Russia is lagging WAY behind in). Among the members: 74-year-old FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, and former Putin bodyguard Alexei Dyumin. (@meduza.io apt description: "old farts with big ideas.")

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling "Commission preliminarily finds TikTok's addictive design in breach of the Digital Services Act" www.politico.eu/article/tikt...

Pas besoin de neige pour être une station de ski qui fait vivre le territoire local. "On sait depuis longtemps qu’on ne pourra pas vivre uniquement de la neige." rfo.ynh.fr/1c

UPDATE: Iran Internet shutdown Continuing to see a small, but steady restoration for Iran as the country rolls out its internet whitelisting system to police connectivity. #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranianRevolution2026 From our perspective, traffic is at ~25% of pre-shutdown levels (bits/sec).

X ceased being a public square years ago, and over the last month, it’s degraded even further. A platform that enables the creation non-consensual sexualised images of women and children cannot be treated as neutral ground - and governments choosing to stay are endorsing it. Enough is enough.

#Internet traffc in #Iran has dropped to effectively zero as of 18:45 UTC (22:15 PM local time), signaling a complete shutdown in the country, and disconnection from the global Internet. radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/ir?d...

As of 18:45 UTC (10:15 PM local), traffic to Iran has stopped as the country has completely severed itself from the global internet.

It's like they have all the pieces to the puzzle and they just don't understand how puzzles work.

Vous avez déjà certainement utilisé des services bourrés de pubs pour découper un PDF, convertir une image ou supprimer l'arrière-plan d'une image. Framatoolbox vous propose une énorme boîte à outils gratuite et sans pub framatoolbox.org/abc/fr/

"What does cyber really achieve, strategically?" is a recurring question in the cyberwarfare debate. In this article for the Journal of Cyber Policy, I try to tackle it focusing on one of the most dreaded cyber weapons: Wipers. A few highlights from this study...🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wikipédia a besoin de nous “Beaucoup de personnes ont le sentiment que Wikipédia a toujours été là et sera toujours là. Mais Wikipédia est fragile : tout repose sur la bonne volonté des bénévoles. C’est uniquement grâce à eux que ce projet tient bon.”

Un article avec des gros mots, des punchlines, des conseils lecture chez CFEditions, 1 proposition totalement disruptive qui va casser les internets, et 1 analyse de la bouille de merde qui nous arrive. affordance.framasoft.org/2025/11/le-w... Alors lis-le, partage-le, critique-le, alaqueuele-le.

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Vous vous souvenez des MOOCS ? Ce devait être la fin des universités, une révolution dans le savoir, blablabla. Et c’était plus pertinent que les IA génératives.

Les IA rendent les gens idiots. Enfin, encore plus idiots. Le savoir est accessible depuis longtemps via des livres et des bibliothèques et pourtant ça n’a pas fait disparaître les profs et les universités. Vous croyez vraiment qu’un générateur de mots aléatoire va y arriver ?

The FT once again siding with left-wing activists because 80%of the political spectrum has chosen to defend oligarchs and, well, common sense and basic economics both conclude that oligarchs are a nuisance.

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

"We need journalists, and we need academics, and we need researchers, and we can't have new technology just strangle the business model of that." Passionnante interview du patron de Cloudflare qui crée un outil pour bloquer le scraping sauvage des sites par les IA. www.wired.com/story/big-in...

Pas sûr que "sous influence russe avant 2022" soit un terme bien pertinent pour des territoires occupés (dès 2014), violemment réprimés y compris en Crimée, généralement avec bombardements de civils, fosses communes et crimes de guerre en prime @leparisien.fr

Ravi de contribuer à ce supplément numérique d' @aoc-media.bsky.social pour le Festival International de Géographie, avec un article sur la manière dont la Russie utilise l’infrastructure numérique comme outil d’affirmation du pouvoir dans l’aire postsoviétique supplements.aoc.media/fig/2025/09/...

Il faut toujours lire la médiatrice de Radio France.

La fin des trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, seulement deux ans après leur mise en route. Je prenais le Paris-Vienne pour éviter de prendre l'avion pour aller ou partir de Bucarest, mais aussi simplement pour le plaisir du voyage. L'été, le train était plein.

Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'ESR : participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

J-1 Vendredi en kiosque, pour l’automne, le numéro 3 des Saisons, le magazine mensuel d’AOC

Oui mais est-ce qu'ils étaient de brillants débatteurs avides de se laisser convaincre sur les campus et hérauts controversés mais au fond sympathiques de la liberté d'expression ?

"Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show." apnews.com/article/chin... #Dystopian But it's not just China; here in the West, camera surveillance technology is largely being rolled out and funded by the public itself.

Call for papers. Workshop: Data Migration and Mobilities: Towards a New Research Agenda. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Tallinn, Estonia, 8-9 April 2026. Organised by Anu Masso & @robkitchin.bsky.social. Deadline for submissions 15 Oct.

Pour ce nouvel épisode, #LeCollimateur se penche sur les cadres et les relais du pouvoir de Vladimir Poutine, l'évolution de ce groupe depuis la fin de la guerre froide, et ses changements à la faveur de la guerre, avec Victor Violier, chercheur @irsem.bsky.social lerubicon.org/collimateur-...

Rivka Galchen asks in @newyorker.com why we stopped taking nuclear weapons seriously. Apparently, most Americans say they would support the use of an atomic weapon that would kill 2 million Iranians if 20,000 U.S. troops were at risk. I am not filled with hope. www.newyorker.com/science/elem...