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. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social you star: - 30k people contributed a million to your legal costs last time you spoke out - call @theguardian.com’s deal with OpenAI "like marrying your rapist" - berate big tech for collaborating with a tyrant Your bravery is exemplary 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.ted.com/talks/carole...

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Genius 👇🏻 via @rlemaire.bsky.social 👏🏻

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Aaaaaand tariffs are off again. Except for China. 1st rule of Trump: never believe the orange man-baby

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"That’s what the French do most weekends" 😅😅😅 ❤️ @privateeyenews.bsky.social ❤️

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"Americans panic buy iPhones having put Trump in the White House" - one of my headlines of the year already 😅 flip.it/t5ULW-

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Preach 👇🏻 To all the techno-minimalists who say "tech/AI is just a drop in the ocean vs other sectors", that’s not the point. A/. It’s impact is growing exponentially & B/. For things we don’t NEED - like Ghibli images - & therefore limiting capacity for things we DO need… like electric cars

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Paris’ biggest car park will convert 1000 empty spaces into an "urban innovation hub." Cars’ days in Paris are numbered (many other car parks in the city centre are empty too) 🥳 flip.it/moDLJu

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One big highlight of The White Lotus is its music, by Cristobal Tapia de Veer. S3 will be his last, as showrunner Mike White is impossible to work with, re. this French interview. Case in point: the theme music should’ve been this: youtu.be/Q-xTYfAjQEU Itv: www.lesinrocks.com/musique/cris...

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Interesting… what if Europe’s response to Trump tariffs was a GAFAM tax? Hit ‘em where it hurts the most. It would hurt users too, but could ultimately be good for sovereign tech… flip.it/VXtuhM

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Finally, a scarily concrete usage for AI (live subtitles during conferences at French logistics event SITL). You can almost hear the fizzing sound of interpreters’ jobs disappearing… 😨 youtu.be/Fc7XeqOH9sI?...

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Peak ridicule reached: OpenAI is now worth $300 biliion. Thanks to SoftBank. Could it be the next WeWork? techcrunch.com/2025/03/31/o...

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🔴 EXCLUSIF - Suite à sa condamnation pour le braquage de la Banque de France, Jacques Mesrine sera ce soir au 20h de TF1 et les membres de sa bande invités a toutes les matinales de France.

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Not only did Mark Zuckerberg authorise Meta employees to use LibGen, an illegal trove of 7.5 million copyrighted books & 81 million research papers, to train Llama. They also used torrenting to do so, which in theory made these works available to others. Via Meta! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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No "woke" French companies can work for the US government, says Trump. Pure and simple fascism www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

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"I am utterly disgusted. I would never want to incorporate this technology in my work. We humans are nearing the end of times. Losing faith in ourselves." Hayao Miyazaki on AI - via @bcmerchant.bsky.social cc @martingamera.bsky.social youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...

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Proud that my fellow Parisians voted 66% in favour of planting more trees - in 500 more streets, to be precise. Naysayers will diss the low participation (4%). But in these times of (geo)political uncertainty, Paris stands up for the planet 👏🏻 cc @nitot.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

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Russia demands to keep captured territory The new Private Eye is out now

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AI’s Impacts, How to limit them, and Why: (almost) all you need to know in 9 minutes, courtesy of yours truly > youtu.be/1Oxq4IPGcTc?... Slides & sources: bit.ly/AIImpact2025... Cc @sashamtl.bsky.social @drolnick.bsky.social @daviskris10.bsky.social

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Rappel pour les parisiens : si vous voulez plus de verdure à la place de places de parking, c'est aujourd'hui qu'on vote. Tous les détails sur www.paris.fr/pages/nouvel...

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Rant on: is it too much to ask for artists to play live music at concerts? For the third time I’d seen him last night, genius producer Jamie xx played a DJ set that was advertised as a live set (i.e. no "DJ set" written after his name). Yes, nice lights and all. But €60 to see him play his records?!

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#PraiseBen and team for the stunning #Severance. Gripping, maddening, Kubrick-level beautiful: 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Yes, Musk really said "sustainable abundance". Is that ecology for rich people? Keep on scamming those carbon credits, Elon! From a gem of a thread by @lorak.bsky.social 👇🏻👏🏻

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"Sam Altman said AI could solve the climate problem. Man, you have billions, just solve it with that directly!" @dataforgoodfr.bsky.social’s Theo Alves Da Costa spot on as ever when answering the recurring question of whether AI can be a net positive for the planet cc @sashamtl.bsky.social

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Preach. (Renewable) energy is only scope 2 emissions. Scope 3 emissons are 75% of tech emissions. Emissions are just 11% of tech’s total impacts. And these are just the direct impacts; the indirect ones are immeasurable. Let’s focus on smaller, more frugal models vs ever-bigger ones, MOAR DCs etc

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April 2024: Google releases a DeepMind white paper warning "persuasive AI" could manipulate vulnerable users to suicide Aug 2024: Google invests $2.7bn in Character.AI Oct 2024: NYT reports a 14 yr old’s suicide due to Character.AI futurism.com/google-suici... via @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

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60% of GenAI search results are wrong, re. this latest extensive CJR study. & yet 25% of Americans are currently using AI to search, and Google is testing AI-only search. As TIME’s COO says in this article, "shame" on any consumers trusting these products right now… www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

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Just finished - in 1 weekend - Careless People, by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynne Williams. Unexpectedy, the most shocking parts are when she’s attached by a shark at age 13; & this👇🏻 tale of a Meta manager being too busy to handle a colleague’s epileptic fit. The rest: sadly unsurprisingly evil

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How far have GAFAM CEOs trampled on Silicon Valley’s "peace and love" roots for godfather Trump? Discover all their moral backflips, and why this is happening, in my latest blogpost: bettertech.blog/2025/03/14/w... PS: Stanford grads are at it too: they’d now rather work for defence tech than GAFAM…

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“National security includes the toughest and the most exciting problems that the country has to offer. And Facebook is basically fentanyl for your head. Why would I want students to go there?” Steve Blank, (essentially) Stanford’s head of military tech 😨 via T Gebru sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/s...

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Good lord. France is now planning to have to adapt to 4 degrees by 2100, and has announced a few millions to make that happen. 1. Billions are needed, not millions 2. Reducing climate change should be the priority, not "adapting" as if it’s too late 😩 www.rfi.fr/en/environme...

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“Today marks the most disastrous day in EPA history,” said Gina McCarthy, who was EPA administrator under Obama. “Rolling these rules back is not just a disgrace, it’s a threat to all of us. The agency has fully abdicated its mission to protect Americans’ health and wellbeing.”

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Proud to subscribe to a music streaming service that pays the artists I listen to, not just Taylor Swift and co. Plus its not hosting Andrew Tate podcasts is another bonus cc @stuartdredge.bsky.social www.deezer.com/explore/en-u...

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If you’d like your mind blown on average every five minutes by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, please go ahead: www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP... From why not using Signal = having all your messages online for anyone to see, to a potted history of AI since 2012, to what’s wrong with AI today; genius

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Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Zuckerberg was willing to give the Chinese government access to citizens’ private data and allow them to target dissidents in order to get a foothold in the market, re. Careless People, a new whistleblower book. Why does anyone still use FB/Insta/WhatsApp?! www.engadget.com/big-tech/whi...

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Ubisoft’s #metoo is now in court. Having frequented these people, it makes full, sick sense. Granting asocial nerds heirarchical power gives them the illusion they can do what they’ve always been incapable of: seducing women. And as it’s mere illusion, humiliation ensues cc @lamhua.bsky.social

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