Reposted by JoannaJohannaClément Gaillard @clementgaillard.bsky.social · 01/07/20261800 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 23116
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026It's a good take. Could we say the same for 'take' for 'analysis', 'opinion' and 'critique'? 000
Reposted by JoannaJohannaSébastien Fontenelle @vivelefeu.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Hâte que Raphaël Enthoven nous explique que ce sont pas des posts nazis, mais les messages désordonnés d'une IA qui envoie de l’amour. 620543
Reposted by JoannaJohannaCarine Fouteau @carinefouteau.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Arnault 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.socialfondspresselibre.orgLa concentration des médias se renforce dans l’indifférence générale | Fonds pour une presse libreBernard 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... 10413294
Reposted by JoannaJohannaShahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Excellent 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. 1143
Reposted by JoannaJohannaSte Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 12/05/2025There 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" 47106373207
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Don’t forget Galerie Cinquantenaire in Etterbeek! Strong Belgium energy 220
Reposted by JoannaJohannaMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/05/2025There 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). 140159672142
Reposted by JoannaJohannaTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 01/05/2025I love how on Bluesky, instead of racist celebrities, we get main characters like “excessively sentimental view of hunter-gatherer lifestyles” 4575
Reposted by JoannaJohannalorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 28/04/2025tapping the sign. 4734
Reposted by JoannaJohannaRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Re-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-...careful.industriesWhat we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful IndustriesCan 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... 67541
Reposted by JoannaJohannaFraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Things 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.lrb.co.ukFraser MacDonald · On CompostI sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’... 108619
Reposted by JoannaJohannaDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Not 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...news.sky.comAdolescence writers 'invited to parliament' to discuss show's themes with MPs, Sky News understandsIt 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 ... 1420944
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025My Bluesky feed (accounts I don’t follow) is a bit like a parody of itself. Anyone else have this? 210
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Article très bien documenté 👓 que je conseille www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...lemonde.frL’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... 000
Reposted by JoannaJohannaCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Fascinating 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...nytimes.com30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us. 04016
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Waiting 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. 🫶 020
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Discussing @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? 022
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Anyone 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! 031
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Thought-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 131
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Maciej 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... 💘 021
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025In 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 🧤 021
Reposted by JoannaJohannaKate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 20/01/2025The 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 18465108
Reposted by JoannaJohannaData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Now 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...job-boards.greenhouse.ioSenior HR Manager 2025Remote 043
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.’ 000
Reposted by JoannaJohannaSimon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Interesting 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/3Ca3k7Ton.ft.comMistral signs AFP deal for fact-based chatbot in riposte to ‘free speech’ rivalsFrench AI start-up’s partnership with newswire comes as Silicon Valley competitors pull back on moderation 04016
Reposted by JoannaJohannaBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025We're making all your websites shitty and evil. What are you gonna do, log off and spend time with your family 225171792620
Reposted by JoannaJohannasera schwarz @schwarzseher.bsky.social · 10/01/2025rachel 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...newyorker.comAlice Munro’s Passive VoiceThe 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. 121
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) 100
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Watch Simon Schama’s new documentary The Story of Us for many things but above all his pronunciation of ‘decade’ 000
Reposted by JoannaJohannaPierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Arnaud 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. 2396
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.’ 000
Reposted by JoannaJohannaPierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Désolé 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. 68215
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Anyone interested in Greenland can read my colleague Robert's wonderful book, The Vanished Settlers of Greenland :) www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...cambridge.orgThe Vanished Settlers of Greenland | European literature 000
Reposted by JoannaJohannaKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Fact-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. 10360942017
Reposted by JoannaJohannaDaniel Schneidermann @dschneidermann.bsky.social · 07/01/2025"collectionneur"... 511931
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comBelgium becomes first EU country to ban sale of disposable vapesProducts banned on health and environmental grounds, while Milan outlaws outdoor smoking 110
Reposted by JoannaJohannaCharlie Kirchoff @charliekirchoff.com · 16/12/2024This 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 352796802
Reposted by JoannaJohannaJay Lynn @jay-lynn-farrow.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I 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. 031
Reposted by JoannaJohannaJames Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I 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 1277
Reposted by JoannaJohannaAlexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 02/12/2024To 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. 4396
Reposted by JoannaJohannaLauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 02/12/2024So 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 1102
JoannaJohanna @joannabeaufoy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This 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...lrb.co.ukPatrick McGuinness · Diary: Back to BouillonIn any gentrified area, it’s the local that costs more: the honey from the Camden rooftop, the sausages from three... 010