I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
En gros vous dites par exemple : crée moi une playlist à partir des morceaux de rock garage que j’ai le plus écoutés ces 2 dernières années et la chose s’exécute
Spotify lance un outil IA pour créer une playlist à votre place. Ils nous enlèvent donc tous les trucs cool à faire un à un en fait
Oh rien, juste un bro qui se filme sur YouTube depuis 120 jours en train de vibe-coder une appli jusqu'à ce qu'il gagne 1 million de dollars www.youtube.com/@bridgeminda...
En science, l'utilisation de l'IA augmente la productivité des chercheurs à titre individuel (ils publient plus de papiers), mais au niveau collectif cela réduit les champs explorés...
Les risques associés à l'IA dépassent ses bénéfices concernant son utilisation à l'école www.npr.org/2026/01/14/n...
The reality of the AI industry is far larger than a subculture on X with hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into physical infrastructure, reshaping jobs, and deploying into products used by billions of people. But that makes X's capture of the AI conversation all the more notable. Much as Twitter long ago captured, amplified, and distorted elite conversation in media, in sports, in parts of finance, in left politics, and more recently in right politics, the world's understanding of what's going on in Silicon Valley right now - the hype and the doom and the bubble and the progress - is first processed through the strange culture and incentives of X, which is now owned by estranged OpenAI co-founder, Google antagonist, and xAI founder Elon Musk. It has been merged into xAI, where the in-house chatbot occasionally confuses itself with Hitler. When the history of this period in tech is eventually written, it will be composed of, among other things, a whole lot of threads and replies from blue checks on X.
Then, of course, there's the Musk factor. The fact of his ownership creates obvious risks for all of his competitors, who rely on his platform to supply the vibes they need to help keep their companies, and the AI boom in general, going. It's worth remembering that, back before he decided to purchase it and let it drive him nuts, Twitter was, to Musk, a platform with clear functional utility, a social network that helped make him wildly famous and use that fame to convince thousands of retail traders to buy into Tesla, the company that made him the richest man in the world. Even if we assume, against all reason, that Musk won't leverage this unusual sort of power over all the competitors gathered on his platform, X's influence over them and how they're seen by the rest of the world is undeniable. Along with "AI Twitter," some of the other communities thriving on Musk era X include MAGA guys and crypto guys, meaning that the background vibe of the primary gathering place for the industry that's trying to remake the world is quite a bit more conservative and mercenary than it otherwise might have been, and while the primary factor in the public's deep skepticism of where Al is going is clearly fear about labor, association with polarizing Muskian politics probably doesn't help assuage ambient fears about job loss and surveillance. (One important consequence of having the AI elite gathered on X is that their media diets are now substantially made up of one another's posts, effusive and dismissive responses to their oren posts, and standard "For You" page Musk-era algo-slop. It's hard to overstate how thoroughly their information diets are influenced by their timelines, and you can get a pretty good idea of what those look like by jacking into AI Twitter yourself.)
Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...
Ça commence à être compliqué de choisir à ce stade.
Ahah j’ai déjà participé bien sûr… je mise sur Thiel ou Musk en grand gagnant, mais ça serait limite décevant car trop attendu
I'm sorry I fucking hate the fact I have to deal with short-form video platforms. TikTok blocked my video about the Nazi content spreading across their own platform. Fine to make as many Charlie Kirk Sonnenrad brainrot videos as you want but it's apparently a problem to talk about it!!
Repéré par @algorithmwatch.org ici r.algorithmwatch.org/nl3/6ZhkZmg0...
Nouveau skill infernal en entreprise : trouver les bonnes tournures de phrases pour que les IA utilisées pour enregistrer et résumer les réunions retiennent vos propos.
"Je m’attendais à ce que les grands cabinets d’avocats new-yorkais se battent. À ce que les universités défendent la démocratie. Et à ce que les grandes entreprises technologiques fassent de même. (...)
Toujours lire @ladn.bsky.social pour apprendre des choses fantastiques ❤️ @albertinemeunier.bsky.social et Hugo du Plessix interviewés par @glitchouille.bsky.social
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
« an unreliable tour guide » : le test peu probant du navigateur d’OpenAI par Wired www.wired.com/story/web-br...
De nombreuses communes sont sorties du label Plus belles fêtes de France pour ses liens avec #Stérin
L'université catholique de l'Ouest a interrompu les financements du milliardaire
Le Crayon vient d'annoncer qu'il avait fait sortir de son capital
Rien de tel dans le petit monde de la #FrenchTech
Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.
Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.
Les conséquences de l'AI slop dans les petites choses du quotidien... Ici Kate Lindsay raconte dans sa newsletter Embedded le désarroi de sa coiffeuse face à ses clients qui lui montrent des photos de coiffures générées par IA avec des couleurs impossibles à reproduire dans la vraie vie.
Wait! This is a big deal:
Trump's EO says "the divestiture puts the operation of the algorithms and code, as well as content-moderation decisions, under the control of the new joint venture."
Ellison family also in charge of TikTok's content moderation??
A new word has entered the chatroom (et il me plaît bien) : "workslop"
Alors qu'en France, on est plus bolofasciste.
une étude norvégienne a récemment révélé que l'écriture manuscrite stimulait le cerveau bien plus que le clavier.
Ah ils ont maintenant leur équivalent européen : www.linkedin.com/posts/ronan-...
