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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 10h

Depressing.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable? | Annual Review of Environment and Resources www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 10h

Childhood trauma appears to leave a lasting metabolic signature | PsyPost www.psypost.org/childhood-tr...

The Metabolomic Signature of Childhood Trauma | Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 13h

Are humanoids the next major evolutionary step?

Top AI Industry Figures Secretly Hoping AI Will Wipe Out Humankind | Futurism futurism.com/artificial-i...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 13h

A nice explanation of the phenomenon that won the Nobel Prize in physics.

Macroscopic quantum tunneling wins 2025’s Nobel Prize in physics | Big Think bigthink.com/starts-with-...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 14h

Toute cette rancoeur me désole de l'humanité.

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Marc-Antoine Charette @marcantoinecharette.com · 1d

« Des centaines d’écoles et de garderies du Québec utilisent une application qui met à risque les informations personnelles de milliers d’enfants et de parents, a découvert Radio-Canada. »

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/219... via @info.radio-canada.ca

#eduqc #éducation

Les informations d’enfants et de parents compromises

Des centaines d’écoles et de garderies du Québec utilisent une application, HopHop, qui met à risque les informations de milliers d’enfants et de parents.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 1d

Results from TALIS 2024: The State of Teaching | OECD www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

• Teachers' use of AI
• Mentorship
• Employment conditions

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 1d

Unitree’s humanoid robots had a critical vulnerability that allowed compromised robots to “infect” nearby robots and spread the hack. Unitree stopped responding to the researchers who informed them about the vulnerability, leading the security professionals to go public: buff.ly/m5zBwR6

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health | Nature Mental Health www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 2d

Harvard study claims AI is manipulating us by using very human tactic in terrifying warning | LAD Bible www.ladbible.com/news/technol...

Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions | arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2508.19258
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3d

… de nouvelles variétés pendant 20 ans et de percevoir des redevances pour leur utilisation »

www.noscommunes.ca/petitions/fr...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3d

Important de signer cette pétition qui dénonce « La Loi sur la protection des obtentions végétales du Canada accorde aux phytogénéticiens le droit exclusif de produire et de reproduire le matériel de multiplication (semences, boutures, tubercules, plantes ou parties de plantes)…

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3d

The irony: the highest level of poverty in the U.S. is in the country's capital.

Mapped: Extreme Poverty in America by State | Visual Capitalist www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-extre...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 3d

Substitute "left" for "right" and "Democrat" for "Republican".

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

ChatGPT Is Stealing Readers from Wikipedia | Columbia Business School business.columbia.edu/research-bri...

Wikipedia Contributions in the Wake of ChatGPT | arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2503.00757
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 4d

"adolescents who are socially withdrawn or who frequently prefer solitude show measurable differences in brain structure and function."

The hidden burden of solitude: How social withdrawal influences the adolescent brain | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 5d

AI chatbots give inconsistent responses to suicide-related questions, study finds | PsyPost www.psypost.org/ai-chatbots-...

Evaluation of Alignment Between Large Language Models and Expert Clinicians in Suicide Risk Assessment | Psychiatric Services psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 5d

Harvard Researchers Develop First Ever Continuously Operating Quantum Computer | The Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 5d

Should I go vegan: Evaluating the Persuasiveness of LLMs
in Persona-Grounded Dialogues | Google Scholar aclanthology.org/anthology-fi... [PDF]
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 5d

Not enough attention has been brought to this danger of AI: "Large language models are more persuasive than humans".

Can AI persuade you to go vegan—or harm yourself? | University of British Columbia news.ubc.ca/2025/10/can-...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 5d

Even Short School Breaks Affect Student Learning Unevenly Across Socioeconomic Backgrounds | Waseda University www.waseda.jp/top/en/news/...

Do class closures affect students’ achievements? Heterogeneous effects of students’ socioeconomic backgrounds | Journal… www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 6d

Unsustainability:

As global economy doubles, poverty persists and planetary damage deepens | PhysOrg phys.org/news/2025-09...

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 6d

This chip uses light to supercharge AI and cut energy use | New Atlas newatlas.com/materials/li...

Near-energy-free photonic Fourier transformation for convolution operation acceleration | SPIE Digital Library www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/adv...
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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 6d

Each query may seem innocent, but the scale of AI must be grasped. Nice infographic:

The Hidden Behemoth behind every AI Answer | IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-use

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François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · 6d

Midlife and old-age cardiovascular risk factors, educational attainment, and cognition at 90-years – population-based study with 48-years of follow-up | PLOS One journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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