Éric Vautier
@ericvautier.bsky.social
Web developer. History enthusiast (especially about Reformation). London-based. Opinionated — but tolerant.
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If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
Can You Optimize Love?
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:53 PM
If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.
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One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 5, 2026 at 5:37 PM
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
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The varying brightness of red supergiant Betelgeuse could be explained by Hubble’s latest reveal: The bright star in Orion’s shoulder has an elusive companion star orbiting it in its extended atmosphere, leaving a “wake” of dense gas: https://news.stsci.edu/4sunaQH #AAS247 🔭
January 5, 2026 at 9:16 PM
The varying brightness of red supergiant Betelgeuse could be explained by Hubble’s latest reveal: The bright star in Orion’s shoulder has an elusive companion star orbiting it in its extended atmosphere, leaving a “wake” of dense gas: https://news.stsci.edu/4sunaQH #AAS247 🔭
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Sebastian Raschka has dropped a year in review on LLMs in 2025 together with predictions for 2026, and as always there's some really insigthful thoughts, here's the summary from Sebastian himself: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...
#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
January 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Sebastian Raschka has dropped a year in review on LLMs in 2025 together with predictions for 2026, and as always there's some really insigthful thoughts, here's the summary from Sebastian himself: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/state-of-l...
#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
#ML #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
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🖼️ original oil painting by Ukrainian artist Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska.
January 4, 2026 at 9:54 AM
🖼️ original oil painting by Ukrainian artist Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska.
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This excellent film may start a little slow, but stick with it. It's a powerful short documentary about neo-colonial exploitation in the digital economy.
An incredible and beautiful short documentary by Nicolas Gouralt who interviewed online workers from Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines who annotate images to train A.I. systems.
Here is as gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
Here is as gift link.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...
January 4, 2026 at 8:25 AM
This excellent film may start a little slow, but stick with it. It's a powerful short documentary about neo-colonial exploitation in the digital economy.
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The Waterfall Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25123...
What created the Waterfall Nebula? The origin is still being researched. The structure, officially designated Herbig-Haro 222, appears in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex
What created the Waterfall Nebula? The origin is still being researched. The structure, officially designated Herbig-Haro 222, appears in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex
January 2, 2026 at 10:37 PM
The Waterfall Nebula apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25123...
What created the Waterfall Nebula? The origin is still being researched. The structure, officially designated Herbig-Haro 222, appears in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex
What created the Waterfall Nebula? The origin is still being researched. The structure, officially designated Herbig-Haro 222, appears in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex
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I must link, with relation to this, at least one of Natee's tributes to these horses which are truly incredible. bsky.app/profile/himm...
A #PudgyHorse tribute to the Lascaux cave paintings, painted with the Strata Trio watercolours made by @thoughtsupnorth.bsky.social from Cretaceous rocks from the Albertan badlands. From 2020.
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
Might as well post this one as it's been stolen and sold on Australian Temu. 🙃
#ArtAdventCalendar
January 2, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I must link, with relation to this, at least one of Natee's tributes to these horses which are truly incredible. bsky.app/profile/himm...
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I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
spitfirenews.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
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2020s: AI "System Prompts" are lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
January 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
2020s: AI "System Prompts" are lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".
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Vous êtes des grands malades 😱
➡️ l.humanite.fr/iSt
➡️ l.humanite.fr/iSt
Des bouteilles d’eau retirées au cas où elles seraient utilisées pour prier : à la RATP, agents et sous-traitants musulmans dans le viseur - L'Humanité
Une note destinée aux encadrants de la RATP, signée par Jean Castex en juillet 2025, incite à contrôler les pratiques religieuses des agents et prestataires, pour respecter la « neutr...
l.humanite.fr
January 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Vous êtes des grands malades 😱
➡️ l.humanite.fr/iSt
➡️ l.humanite.fr/iSt
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January 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
January 1, 2026 at 11:17 AM
For New Year’s Day 2026, a hellenistic glass vase shaped like a pomegranate. 2nd century BC - 1st century AD.
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
A symbol of abundance and good luck for the year ahead!
📷 Phoenix Art phoenixancientart.com/work-of-art/...
#Archaeology
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Making reading plans for 2026? The @barnesandnoble.com Pre-Order Sale is on until January 1st and is the perfect opportunity to snag THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO for 25% off with PREORDER25 so that it's in your hands on release day
January 1, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Making reading plans for 2026? The @barnesandnoble.com Pre-Order Sale is on until January 1st and is the perfect opportunity to snag THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO for 25% off with PREORDER25 so that it's in your hands on release day
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Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check
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starmer is unpopular because he is not meaningfully different than the tories. labour voters want labour policies, not tory policies. mystery solved
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
starmer is unpopular because he is not meaningfully different than the tories. labour voters want labour policies, not tory policies. mystery solved
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i get why ppl want ai checkers to be a real thing but they are effectively just random number generators. i don't think it's because of ai being trained on existing books, it's because detection is just a parallel grift. that's where we're at: the technological countermeasures to scams are scams
Out of curiosity, I just ran a few paragraphs from The Butchering Art through an AI checker and it got flagged: 88% AI. This book was released in 2017, and AI machines were subsequently trained off it. How many writers are getting flagged for AI because of the literal theft of their work(s)? Insane.
OMG - f*ck AI for ruining the em-dash for writers. I use them all the time. Of course, what a shock that AI uses them since they were trained off my voice and other authors' voices.
December 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
i get why ppl want ai checkers to be a real thing but they are effectively just random number generators. i don't think it's because of ai being trained on existing books, it's because detection is just a parallel grift. that's where we're at: the technological countermeasures to scams are scams
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Neurologist Sarah Tabrizi is leading the clinical effort that generate the first gene therapy to treat Huntington’s disease. She’s part of Nature’s 10 for 2025. 🧪
‘Giant step forward’ for Huntington’s — the scientist behind the first gene therapy
Sarah Tabrizi is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
go.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Neurologist Sarah Tabrizi is leading the clinical effort that generate the first gene therapy to treat Huntington’s disease. She’s part of Nature’s 10 for 2025. 🧪
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📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoc in human evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics (M/F)
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
emploi.cnrs.fr
December 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
📢 We're hiring a postdoc (33 months) in human evolutionary genomics / paleogenomics / statistical genetics, Paris 🇫🇷
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Project on selection on disease-associated variants, integrating ancient genomes, GWAS, and Ancestral Rec. Graphs.
Start May 2026 (flexible).
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Une explosion cosmique rare s'apprête à secouer notre galaxie et sera visible depuis la Terre : préparez vos télescopes !
www.geo.fr/sciences/une...
#Space #Science #Innovation #Astrophysics #GalacticEvent #SupernovaAlert #JWSTData
www.geo.fr/sciences/une...
#Space #Science #Innovation #Astrophysics #GalacticEvent #SupernovaAlert #JWSTData
Une explosion d'une "rare" violence s'apprête à secouer notre galaxie. Elle sera visible depuis la Terre
Un duo d'étoiles, prisonnier d'une danse mortelle dans la constellation de la Flèche, se préparent à un entrechoc. L'explosion finale devrait être offrir un véritable spectacle aux Terriens.
www.geo.fr
December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Une explosion cosmique rare s'apprête à secouer notre galaxie et sera visible depuis la Terre : préparez vos télescopes !
www.geo.fr/sciences/une...
#Space #Science #Innovation #Astrophysics #GalacticEvent #SupernovaAlert #JWSTData
www.geo.fr/sciences/une...
#Space #Science #Innovation #Astrophysics #GalacticEvent #SupernovaAlert #JWSTData
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Antarctica’s melting ice is raising global sea levels, worsening damage from floods and storm surges. Our reporter explains why the Thwaites Glacier is crucial for scientists who are trying to pin down how much extra water to expect, and how soon.
Learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
December 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Antarctica’s melting ice is raising global sea levels, worsening damage from floods and storm surges. Our reporter explains why the Thwaites Glacier is crucial for scientists who are trying to pin down how much extra water to expect, and how soon.
Learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
Learn more: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...