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joannabeaufoy.bsky.social
PhD candidate writing about emotions and lighting in 19 century Paris, from the home of hyggelys 🇩🇰🕯️🌚 the University of Copenhagen. Experimenting with custom LLMs. Former and, I hope, future, service designer.
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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"

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

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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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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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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-...

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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.

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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. news.sky.com/story/adoles...

submitted 55 days ago • 14 comments

My Bluesky feed (accounts I don’t follow) is a bit like a parody of itself. Anyone else have this?

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Article très bien documenté 👓 que je conseille www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

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Fascinating collection of graphs, showing how massive the COVID-19 effect was, but also how short-term it was in most cases. Seems social life was more effected than professional life. Political effects more difficult to determine...

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Waiting to take off, as plane neighbours watch cross country skiing races on their phones 🤍 Thank you #DHNB for accepting mine and @lrskjr.bsky.social ‘s paper, and for the opportunity to visit this part of Europe! Had such a good time at the talks, party, museum and dinner, and learnt loads. 🫶

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Food for thought

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The model is the product yes

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Discussing @dhnb.bsky.social how asking a question to a chatbot vs. a 'simple' google search generates ~ 10x more emissions and how this could be annotated on AI generated material?

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Anyone looking for guidance in how to help students navigate content-generating AI should get the team from the DH institute at Riga Technical University to come and give their presentation 💪 @dhnb.bsky.social Huge applause from all assembled!

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Thought-provoking take on AI-human collaboration: content is anonymous (/stolen?), like it was in the oral tradition, where content was generated anew at every performance. AI generates a new version with every page refresh. Talk by Platonova, Smirnova, Seņko, Ivanova at @dhnb.bsky.social

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Maciej Eder stating some honest truths in his "Text analysis is easy, unless it is not" keynote address @dhnb.bsky.social: "humanists tend to overestimate numbers, plots and maps. Hard scientists tend to underestimate language variation" — It's a match... 💘

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In the beautiful National Museum of Estonia in Tartu, 2h from Tallinn, for three days of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social 🧤

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The rage I feel at the decades in which everyone brushed off and downplayed these companies as "social media" and failed to see these private companies for what they were: transnational communications platforms for online speech, a new vector of power, a vacuum waiting for nature to take hold

submitted 114 days ago • 19 comments

Now hiring: We’re looking for an exceptional senior HR professional to join our team and be responsible for managing human resources and organizational culture at Data & Society. Learn more and apply! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

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´But the story of democracy and oligarchy is one of remarkable safety for oligarchs and democracy being consistently redesigned when it overperforms.’

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Even now I can't get over the disaste I feel when a few lines of software calls me by name.

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

Interesting European response to the, so-called, free speech turn in US tech: Mistral signs AFP deal for fact-based chatbot in riposte to ‘free speech’ rivals on.ft.com/3Ca3k7T

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We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family

submitted 120 days ago • 229 comments

rachel aviv's essay on alice & andrea munro is incredible and intensely devastating. even if you aren't independently interested in this particular revelation, you should probably read it www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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"This vast uncontrolled experiment with our children’s consciousness." How Katherine Rundell last Friday described us, the adults, giving mobile devices to kids. 1 in 5 children between three and four years old has their own mobile phone (source: House of Commons education committee)

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Watch Simon Schama’s new documentary The Story of Us for many things but above all his pronunciation of ‘decade’

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Arnaud Orain signe LE livre de ce dĂŠbut d'annĂŠe. Une histoire et une mĂŠditation sur le va et vient entre un capitalisme ouvert et fermĂŠ, et sur la transition actuelle vers un "capitalisme de la finitude". C'est remarquable, et je vous en reparlerai.

submitted 123 days ago • 2 comments

‘Where the interplay between the user and the provider are going to be so … in simpático, it’s going to crash our ideas of what mediums are all about.’

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DÊsolÊ pour l'auto-promo mais... Avec ce livre vous comprendrez pourquoi l'âge des fossiles n'a offert qu'une diversion temporaire face à la gÊopolitique Pourquoi la crise climatique peut raviver les angoisses malthusiennes et les prises de terre Pourquoi on parle d'empires...et du Groenland.

submitted 125 days ago • 6 comments

Anyone interested in Greenland can read my colleague Robert's wonderful book, The Vanished Settlers of Greenland :) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

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"collectionneur"...

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