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Sébastien Fontenelle @vivelefeu.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hâte que Raphaël Enthoven nous explique que ce sont pas des posts nazis, mais les messages désordonnés d'une IA qui envoie de l’amour.

Grok, l’IA d’Elon Musk, encourage à voter Le Pen et salue «l’efficacité» d’Hitler

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Carine Fouteau @carinefouteau.bsky.social · Jul 9

Arnault fait de nouvelles acquisitions dans la presse éco. Kretinsky renforce son pouvoir à Libé et lance sa chaîne TNT. Saadé achète Brut. Les milliardaires font leurs emplettes tandis que les macronistes pactisent avec Bolloré. Le tout dans un grand silence politique @fondspresselibre.bsky.social

La concentration des médias se renforce dans l’indifférence générale | Fonds pour une presse libre

Bernard Arnault fait de nouvelles acquisitions dans la presse économique. Daniel Kretinsky renforce son pouvoir à Libération et lance sa chaîne TNT. Rodolphe Saadé achète Brut. Nos oligarques milliard...

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Jul 6

Excellent blog post on large language models as technologies for "mapping and editing culture."

@tedunderwood.me does a great job explaining why this perspective is exciting and could be less depressing than the common AGI (or ASI?) view.

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Jul 2

This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪

A more interesting upside of AI

Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 21

A wonderful and hopeful thread

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · May 20

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Someone on Twitter writes: "Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt"

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 21

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · May 1

2014: "Information wants to be free."
2018: "It's not about the money, it's about the mission."
2025: "Have you considered monetizing empathy?"

JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 20

IF I weighed myself in the mornings (which I don’t, but) I would find this useful for getting dressed! Cuts out a phone usage in the morning routine

JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 20

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · May 19

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 13

A la recherche du temps perdu

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 13

Yes, I need to remember to do that. 🙏 It would be nice too is Discover wasn’t the default.

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 13

By which I meant: bsky.app/profile/tedu...

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · May 1

I love how on Bluesky, instead of racist celebrities, we get main characters like “excessively sentimental view of hunter-gatherer lifestyles”

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 13

Here’s a thought-provoking framing in the terms of self confidence bsky.app/profile/alex...

Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · May 5

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 13

I liked the conclusion a lot. 🙏

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · May 12

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 12

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 13

Like Endeavour! With Shaun Evans playing Bond 😍

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 8

Yes. Sorry, I didn’t mean to derail your points, which are much more interesting. I think the values can be supported though by doing things in certain ways.

JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 8

One answer is surely to arrange exams and short assignments in quiet rooms with no computers and phones?

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · May 8

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 7

And Shopping Lithout round the corner! When I stumbled in here, the mysteries of Brussels somehow made sense

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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · May 7

Don’t forget Galerie Cinquantenaire in Etterbeek! Strong Belgium energy

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · May 3

There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · May 1

I love how on Bluesky, instead of racist celebrities, we get main characters like “excessively sentimental view of hunter-gatherer lifestyles”

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · Apr 28

tapping the sign.

lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · Apr 13

Well, except for Futurama.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Apr 30

Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write.

What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

What we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful Industries

Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture   / https://betterim...

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · Apr 16

Things I learned recently:

* Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted.

* Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.

Fraser MacDonald · On Compost

I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · Mar 20

Not entirely sure the popular-TV-show-to-public-policy conveyor belt is very healthy for our politics. The show explores themes that politicians should already be well on top of.

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Adolescence writers 'invited to parliament' to discuss show's themes with MPs, Sky News understands

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer gave his backing for the Netflix drama to be shown in schools and parliament, as the government faces calls to do more to tackle the extreme content being served up to ...

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