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Thomas Morin
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Half lemming, half Clacks goblin, half human being.
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lemire.bsky.social
We see something that works, and then we understand it https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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cedricmas.bsky.social
ALERTE GENERALE !

Une pétition a été lancée sur le site de l'Assemblée nationale demandant que le gouvernement arrête d'utiliser X pour ses communications officielles.
On signe toutes et tous pour lui donner le maximum de visibilité.
C'est ici :
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Cesser d'utiliser X (anciennement Twitter) pour les communications officielles du gouvernement - Platef...
Cessez d'utiliser cette plateforme comme l'un des principaux porte-parole des communications officielles en France. Il existe des alternatives bien mieux modérées et régulées, et il est même possible ...
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr
July 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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robpike.io
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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matttouvet.bsky.social
Je récapitule avec plus de détails : je recherche toujours "Cécile" (on l'appelle comme ça depuis hier avec ma famille), jeune femme ≈25 ans, descendue d'un train hier à la gare de Saint-Vallier-sur-Rhône en laissant derrière elle 1 grand sac en papier rempli de cadeaux. Merci de RT et joyeux Noël 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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bcantrill.bsky.social
Your intellectual fly is open
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...
Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
bcantrill.dtrace.org
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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gribouilleuse.bsky.social
Incroyable! En rentrant ce soir j'ai vu un arc-en-ciel lunaire en Bretagne. Conditions parfaites: lune lumineuse avec angle bas + une météo compliquée (averses localisées). Forcément je suis ressortie prendre ça en photo. Tellement contente :)

cc @steventual.bsky.social @tempsbreton.bsky.social
Arc-en-ciel Lunaire dans le ciel Breton ce soir. Arc-en-ciel Lunaire dans le ciel Breton ce soir.
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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apenwarr.ca
More insight per minute than I excpected!
bmhughes.bsky.social Brian Hughes @bmhughes.bsky.social · Dec 1
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post
View Jürgen Geuter’s graphic link Jürgen GeuterJürgen Geuter • 2ndVerified • 2nd Research Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #LudditeResearch Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #Luddite 22h • 22 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion". Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life. This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion. likesupportcelebrate 186 You and 185 others
November 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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samuelgontier.bsky.social
Laurent Alexandre, suite : “Ce qui important, c’est d’apprendre aux enfants à bien utiliser ChatGPT pour s’augmenter avec l’IA.”
“Avoir une relation quasi amicale avec ChatGPT quand on a des échanges permanents avec lui, c’est un peu normal.”
Lurent Alexandre sur le plateau de Franceinfo, présenté comme “spécialiste de l’intelligence artificielle”.
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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kube.fm
The Making of Flux Ep 4: The Platform Builders 🏗️

GitLab, Microsoft & Mirantis reveal why they're embedding Flux into their platforms, from Azure Arc's managed service to Cordant's multi-cluster vision

https://ku.bz/tVqKwNYQH

🌟 ControlPlane
🎙 🎙Bart
October 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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xkcd.com
Ping

xkcd.com/3150/
4-panel comic. (1) [person finds bottle on shore] (2) [person reads message from inside bottle: ICMP ECHO REQUEST...] (3) [person writes on message ICMP ECHO REPLY...] (4) [person puts bottle back in water and leaves]
October 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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signal.org
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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grahamcluley.com
Folks, it's happened. AI has become *so* smart that it knows how to intentionally sabotage a live product demos by Mark Zuckerberg and leave him helplessly flailing...

#meta #metaai #AI #artificialintelligence
September 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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cedricmas.bsky.social
Dis @support.bsky.team @bsky.app
c’est quoi cette censure de Guillaume Deleur @gdeleur.bsky.social ?

Pour ce post en plus ?
Post de Guillaume Deleur qui aurait été signalé et aurait conduit à la suspension de son compte : Les gens : "Trump n'est pas fasciste, allez réviser ce qu'est le fascisme !" Trump : "Les antifascistes sont des terroristes."
September 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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fabriziobucella.bsky.social
Revenons sur le paradoxe des trois portes qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre. Voici une autre résolution qui devrait éclairer les lanternes.

Salukes

#science #paradoxe #troisportes #logique #physique #mathematique #profbucella #lasciencepeuttout
September 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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rincewind.run
A DISCWORLD PRIMER*

*or, why should I read this thing that everyone keeps going on about?

Come on in, sit down, pull up a chair. If you have followup questions, feel free to ask me or @ankhmorporkcity.watch, we're always happy to help.

(1/a lot, idk, we'll figure this out as we go)
July 17, 2023 at 11:11 PM
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merriam-webster.com
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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matthewdgreen.bsky.social
So my dumb “I’m not an economist” question is this: if most economic growth is concentrated in a few tech companies that mostly rely on advertising, and the rest of the economy isn’t growing as fast, who is paying for all those ads?
July 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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01net.com
Salaire divisé par deux, moins de contrats, perte de sens… Les traducteurs percutés de plein fouet par l’IA générative www.01net.com/actualites/s...
June 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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matthewdgreen.bsky.social
Yuck. Meta apps listen on localhost on Android so that tracking scripts can talk to apps, and Meta can monitor your browsing and tie it to identity. Why is that allowed? www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/m...
Meta Pixel halts Android localhost tracking after disclosure
: Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins
www.theregister.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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benpfaff.bsky.social
Today, the USENIX newsletter ;login: published an interview with me: www.usenix.org/publications.... Read it to find out about Open vSwitch, @feldera.bsky.social, and more!
Interview with Ben Pfaff
www.usenix.org
May 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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mikedrucker.bsky.social
The Torment Nexus isn’t evil, it’s only a tool owned by the wrong people. If we build our own Torment Nexus, things will be better than ever.
May 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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thornbulle.bsky.social
Le Pape est mort, un nouveau Pape est appelé à régner.
Araignée ! quel drôle de nom, pourquoi pas libellule ou papillon ?
Vous n’avez pas bien compris, je recommence.

Le Pape est mort, un nouveau Pape est appelé à régner.
Araignée ! quel drôle de nom, pourquoi pas libellule ou papillon ?

Prévert
April 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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steventual.bsky.social
#Averses ☔️🌦️ Voici un superbe timelapse de l’évolution diurne durant la journée de mardi à Lannion (22). Le ciel clair du début de journée laisse place à des cumulus qui prennent de l’ampleur jusqu’à générer des averses.
#Bretagne
April 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM