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JoannaJohanna

@joannabeaufoy.bsky.social
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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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Clément Gaillard @clementgaillard.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
1800 kilomètres séparent ces deux images. On pourrait croire qu'elles n'ont rien à voir. Pourtant, elles racontent la même histoire : celle de l'adaptation à la chaleur. UN FIL 1/9
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
It's a good take. Could we say the same for 'take' for 'analysis', 'opinion' and 'critique'?
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Sébastien Fontenelle @vivelefeu.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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 · 09/07/2025
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
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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 · 06/07/2025
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.
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A wonderful and hopeful thread
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Don’t forget Galerie Cinquantenaire in Etterbeek! Strong Belgium energy
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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 · 01/05/2025
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 · 28/04/2025
tapping the sign.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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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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 · 16/04/2025
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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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 · 20/03/2025
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...
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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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
My Bluesky feed (accounts I don’t follow) is a bit like a parody of itself. Anyone else have this?
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Article très bien documenté 👓 que je conseille www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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L’IA, menace réelle ou fantasmée pour les artistes ?
Depuis quelques années, le développement de l’intelligence artificielle ravive la vieille peur d’un remplacement des humains par la machine. Si certains craignent qu’elle se substitue aux créateurs, d...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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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30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Food for thought
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
The model is the product yes
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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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Senior HR Manager 2025
Remote
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
´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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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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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Mistral signs AFP deal for fact-based chatbot in riposte to ‘free speech’ rivals
French AI start-up’s partnership with newswire comes as Silicon Valley competitors pull back on moderation
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family
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sera schwarz @schwarzseher.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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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Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"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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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Watch Simon Schama’s new documentary The Story of Us for many things but above all his pronunciation of ‘decade’
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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Arnaud Orain signe LE livre de ce début d'année. Une histoire et une méditation sur le va et vient entre un capitalisme ouvert et fermé, et sur la transition actuelle vers un "capitalisme de la finitude". C'est remarquable, et je vous en reparlerai.
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
‘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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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Désolé 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 géopolitique Pourquoi la crise climatique peut raviver les angoisses malthusiennes et les prises de terre Pourquoi on parle d'empires...et du Groenland.
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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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The Vanished Settlers of Greenland | European literature
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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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Daniel Schneidermann @dschneidermann.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"collectionneur"...
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Belgium becomes first EU country to ban sale of disposable vapes
Products banned on health and environmental grounds, while Milan outlaws outdoor smoking
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Charlie Kirchoff @charliekirchoff.com · 16/12/2024
This is the perfect analogy. If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds. If you want more people to make art, you don’t give them image generators. This doesn’t “democratize” anything
I sat with Ted Chiang for lunch at NeurIPS yesterday, and someone working in AI brought up democratizing art-making. 

It was a candid chat and I know the guy didn't mean much by it—so I was like, hey, can I just say something?—I really hate the word "democratize" being used this way. Just say "automating art-making". It’s more accurate.

Ted put it better than me and asked, "Do you say we should democratize marathon running? Why not?

If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds."

We had an interesting conversation about the impact of word choice and then went to his afternoon talk, which was a full house!
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Jay Lynn @jay-lynn-farrow.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I think it’s reasonable to reject “AI” as a fruitful pathway for humanists until certain ethical/social challenges are dealt with coherently. Others are free to do differently. There are many issues here, but asking, “Who gets to control this technology” sits at the vertex of many of the concerns.
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I think an important (and difficult) thing in tech criticism today is accepting that the following things can both be true: that openAI et al are exaggerating their products’ capabilities and using AGI mythology as marketing, AND that these systems are dangerous in a way that overlaps with AI myths
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
To illustrate the importance of training data diversity: the multilingual 350 million parameters model we have just pretrained is able to write English and French texts in 17th century spelling while Claude Sonnet cannot.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
So interesting to think with practicing clinicians (and @sarialtschuler.bsky.social and @mariaa.bsky.social) on how AI scribes are shifting roles and skillsets, and how ideas from the humanities about narrative and editing are what's required
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JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This week’s LRB piece is Patrick McGuinness’ tender and poignant recollections of Bouillon in Belgium, from June. One of my favourites. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Patrick McGuinness · Diary: Back to Bouillon
In any gentrified area, it’s the local that costs more: the honey from the Camden rooftop, the sausages from three...
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