Nivolet
@nivolet.bsky.social
Little bird went angry. Trying butterfly.
Proudly competing with AI in the emptiness of global social networks. This is not the least of my contradictions.
Situated observer.
Proudly competing with AI in the emptiness of global social networks. This is not the least of my contradictions.
Situated observer.
Pinned
Nivolet
@nivolet.bsky.social
· Aug 8
When I scroll through my US newsfeed, I want to scream, "What are you doing in America? How can you let this happen?"
And then I switch to my French newsfeed.
Then I go out to tidy up the garden.
And then I switch to my French newsfeed.
Then I go out to tidy up the garden.
Trust the process.
A simple, clever and unique self-build project.
"Armed with £100k, determination and forest timber, Marcus and Abi defy convention by building a luxurious off-grid home with no detailed plans, in 20 acres of Pembrokeshire woodland."
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
A simple, clever and unique self-build project.
"Armed with £100k, determination and forest timber, Marcus and Abi defy convention by building a luxurious off-grid home with no detailed plans, in 20 acres of Pembrokeshire woodland."
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Grand Designs - Pembrokeshire 2025
Armed with £100k, timber and no detailed plans, can Marcus and Abi defy convention?
www.channel4.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Trust the process.
A simple, clever and unique self-build project.
"Armed with £100k, determination and forest timber, Marcus and Abi defy convention by building a luxurious off-grid home with no detailed plans, in 20 acres of Pembrokeshire woodland."
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
A simple, clever and unique self-build project.
"Armed with £100k, determination and forest timber, Marcus and Abi defy convention by building a luxurious off-grid home with no detailed plans, in 20 acres of Pembrokeshire woodland."
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
"Like a normally benign pathogen wreaking havoc in an immunocompromised patient."
Nature would do well to publish more content like this thoughtful piece from @kevinbaker.bsky.social and fewer Buzzfeed listicles gussied up as career advice "Five productivity hacks for using AI in your scientific workflow"
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"Like a normally benign pathogen wreaking havoc in an immunocompromised patient."
Nécrose de la noosphère.
December 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Nécrose de la noosphère.
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Sign now: 1 week left before pesticides stay indefinitely in EU
to water down laws that control use of pesticides
This means even more widespread toxic chemicals in our food, water, and air
Pesticides are everywhere killing billions of Bees, animals wildlife
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
to water down laws that control use of pesticides
This means even more widespread toxic chemicals in our food, water, and air
Pesticides are everywhere killing billions of Bees, animals wildlife
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/12...
One week left before pesticides stay indefinitely
On 16 December, the EU Commission will propose to water down laws that control pesticide.
www.birdlife.org
December 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
#StopFactoryFarming 🐄🥛🐖🥓🦃🐔🐣🥚🐙🐟
#stopanimalcruelty 🐮🐷🐗🐑🐭🐰🐔🦊🦃🐥
#BanFarmChemicals 🚱
#savepollinators 🐝🦇🐜🪲🦗🦟
#StopSoilDegridation 🌿🦠🌱🪱🍀🪳
#SaveOurFarmlandWildlife 🦌🐁🐇🐿🦫🦔🦇🦡🐦🕊🦅🦆🦢🦉🪿🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞
#regenerativefarming 🌱🐄🌲🐖🌳🐑🌾🐐🌿🐇☘️🐿🍀🦫🌻🦔🌼🦇🌱🐝🌳🐞🌾🦦🌿🦡☘️🐓🍀🦅🍁🦉
#StopFarmPollution 💩🐮💩🐷💩🐔💩
#ClimateActionNow 🚨
#stopanimalcruelty 🐮🐷🐗🐑🐭🐰🐔🦊🦃🐥
#BanFarmChemicals 🚱
#savepollinators 🐝🦇🐜🪲🦗🦟
#StopSoilDegridation 🌿🦠🌱🪱🍀🪳
#SaveOurFarmlandWildlife 🦌🐁🐇🐿🦫🦔🦇🦡🐦🕊🦅🦆🦢🦉🪿🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞
#regenerativefarming 🌱🐄🌲🐖🌳🐑🌾🐐🌿🐇☘️🐿🍀🦫🌻🦔🌼🦇🌱🐝🌳🐞🌾🦦🌿🦡☘️🐓🍀🦅🍁🦉
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#ClimateActionNow 🚨
Groove of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=io0z...
Ezase-Vaal Brass Band plays “Shela” by Sam Deep, Nia Pearl, Boohle, Mano 🔥🔥🔥
YouTube video by Ezase-Vaal Brass Band
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Groove of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=io0z...
"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system."
www.authoritarian-stack.info
More zombified than obsolete. This is a global hacking attack.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
More zombified than obsolete. This is a global hacking attack.
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system."
www.authoritarian-stack.info
More zombified than obsolete. This is a global hacking attack.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
More zombified than obsolete. This is a global hacking attack.
"Authorized by the Department of rearranging deck chairs"
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"Authorized by the Department of rearranging deck chairs"
“It is encouraging to see how much of this traditional ecological knowledge still lives in community memory”
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
“It is encouraging to see how much of this traditional ecological knowledge still lives in community memory”
On Sale Now, sloppy royalty free digital garbage with our latest Bullshit Engine.
December 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
On Sale Now, sloppy royalty free digital garbage with our latest Bullshit Engine.
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Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust
So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less…
afutureworththinkingabout.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI."
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":
Reposted by Nivolet
Les Dévalideuses dénoncent le Téléthon et son validisme, critiquant le misérabilisme et la charité. Elles réclament des droits, un financement public équitable de la recherche et proposent en 2025 ressources, Crip café, diffusion radio et affiches Stop Téléthon : lesdevalideuses.org/stop-telethon/ 🔗
Stop Téléthon - Les Dévalideuses
Campagne Stop Téléthon Pendant 48h non-stop, le Téléthon offre une vision misérabiliste du handicap, mettant en avant des enfants ou jeunes adultes handicapés « frappés par la maladie ». Un vrai show ...
lesdevalideuses.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Les Dévalideuses dénoncent le Téléthon et son validisme, critiquant le misérabilisme et la charité. Elles réclament des droits, un financement public équitable de la recherche et proposent en 2025 ressources, Crip café, diffusion radio et affiches Stop Téléthon : lesdevalideuses.org/stop-telethon/ 🔗
Ah, finally! I can't wait to try out the advertiser dashboard. Maybe it will be as lucrative as the first generation of Google Ads. Or maybe not...
Ads Might Finally Be Coming to ChatGPT
You might see things that look like ads in your ChatGPT conversations.
Telegram AI Digest
#ai #chatgpt #gpt
You might see things that look like ads in your ChatGPT conversations.
Telegram AI Digest
#ai #chatgpt #gpt
Ads Might Finally Be Coming to ChatGPT
You might see things that look like ads in your ChatGPT conversations.
lifehacker.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ah, finally! I can't wait to try out the advertiser dashboard. Maybe it will be as lucrative as the first generation of Google Ads. Or maybe not...
This is the first bubble to combine all four forces that have made some of the largest bubbles in U.S. history: real estate, loose credit, technology, government.
“A data center full of GPUs is like a warehouse full of bananas, that’s got a relatively short half life in terms of its usefulness.”
“A data center full of GPUs is like a warehouse full of bananas, that’s got a relatively short half life in terms of its usefulness.”
I found this interview with a tech expert and investor very helpful. It rebuts the idea some AI in schools boosters push that genAI is just going to keep getting better.
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...
December 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the first bubble to combine all four forces that have made some of the largest bubbles in U.S. history: real estate, loose credit, technology, government.
“A data center full of GPUs is like a warehouse full of bananas, that’s got a relatively short half life in terms of its usefulness.”
“A data center full of GPUs is like a warehouse full of bananas, that’s got a relatively short half life in terms of its usefulness.”
While we could afford bullshit jobs for a certain period of time, at the expense of economic efficiency, the effect of bullshit education would be far more devastating at all levels.
Bullshit education!
“Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.”
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
“Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.”
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
While we could afford bullshit jobs for a certain period of time, at the expense of economic efficiency, the effect of bullshit education would be far more devastating at all levels.
The words "war game" are long banned and forgotten because use of power is now fully decomplexed. We are witnessing struggles for life in asymetric warfare through the remnants of free democratic communication systems that will soon be blurred into post truth garbage and mind control devices.
"Israel is using these [ceasefires] to establish new realities on the ground, entrenching its occupation of parts of Gaza and ... Lebanon while asserting its military dominance on the regional stage. This projection of control aims to impose Israel's vision for [hegemony over] a 'new Middle East.'"
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The words "war game" are long banned and forgotten because use of power is now fully decomplexed. We are witnessing struggles for life in asymetric warfare through the remnants of free democratic communication systems that will soon be blurred into post truth garbage and mind control devices.
"Paradoxical communication strategy: climate denialists appropriates scientific aesthetics to contest the scientific consensus, projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control. In contrast, climate advocates are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery."
Featured article by Anton Törnberg and @pettertornberg.com: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The aesthetics of climate misinformation: computational multimodal framing analysis with BERTopic and CLIP
Climate misinformation today is increasingly conveyed through multimodal content, where images and text interact to shape meaning, emotional resonance, and enhance credibility. Yet, research on cli...
www.tandfonline.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Paradoxical communication strategy: climate denialists appropriates scientific aesthetics to contest the scientific consensus, projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control. In contrast, climate advocates are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery."
This is certainly not a passing fad or a step towards something better, but rather the systematic destruction of the social fabric and our relationship with the world. The diversion and substitution of our relationship with otherness by technical artefacts is profoundly deadly.
I spoke yesterday to applicants to one of our core degree programs about the potential downstream harms of human-machine relationships that might include:
—withdrawal away from human-human relationships
(1/4)
—withdrawal away from human-human relationships
(1/4)
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is certainly not a passing fad or a step towards something better, but rather the systematic destruction of the social fabric and our relationship with the world. The diversion and substitution of our relationship with otherness by technical artefacts is profoundly deadly.
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💡Non, la tech n'existe pas dans le vide : elle est façonnée en permanence par des rapports de pouvoir, et ses ressources sont ancrées dans des valeurs, des modèles de développement et des projets de société.
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
La tech est politique
La tech est politique permet aux décideurs et entrepreneurs de comprendre et anticiper l’impact du réglementaire européen sur l’espace numérique. En 15 min. Qui dit mieux 😇
tech-est-politique.eu
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
💡Non, la tech n'existe pas dans le vide : elle est façonnée en permanence par des rapports de pouvoir, et ses ressources sont ancrées dans des valeurs, des modèles de développement et des projets de société.
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
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Read this great WSJ story about how top Trump advisors think chucking Ukraine to the wolves is worth being able to do business with Vlad back-to-back with this great Guardian story about the repercussions of that judgement: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Read this great WSJ story about how top Trump advisors think chucking Ukraine to the wolves is worth being able to do business with Vlad back-to-back with this great Guardian story about the repercussions of that judgement: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
His master in the Kremlin showed him the way.
Show this to anyone who says Trump's foreign policy is "isolationist"
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
His master in the Kremlin showed him the way.
The fact that this so-called technology can be developed, tested and patented with impunity is proof that it will primarily be used as the most abominable means of blackmail and extortion.
"Stardust solutions" is a huge Israeli-US company (with massive investment from techno-fascist silicon valley funds) that seems to be frantically racing to deploy geoengineering for profit
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The fact that this so-called technology can be developed, tested and patented with impunity is proof that it will primarily be used as the most abominable means of blackmail and extortion.
Chaque fois que je vois écrits l'un à côté de l'autre les mots "biodiversité" et "IA", j'ai l'impression que je perds encore un peu plus d'espérance de vie...
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Chaque fois que je vois écrits l'un à côté de l'autre les mots "biodiversité" et "IA", j'ai l'impression que je perds encore un peu plus d'espérance de vie...
AI Slop is driving us backward to dark ages and ignorance, stripping us of our humanity...
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
AI Slop is driving us backward to dark ages and ignorance, stripping us of our humanity...
De la puissance intemporelle des brèves de comptoir...
au café un vieux monsieur blanc dit à sa femme
"il y a un vrai féminisme avec lequel je suis d'accord et un faux féminisme qui m'emmerde"
je crois que cela explique très bien comment le vrai et le faux s'articulent selon les classes dominantes
"il y a un vrai féminisme avec lequel je suis d'accord et un faux féminisme qui m'emmerde"
je crois que cela explique très bien comment le vrai et le faux s'articulent selon les classes dominantes
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
De la puissance intemporelle des brèves de comptoir...