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Jean-Michel Lapointe

@lapointejm.bsky.social
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Chargé de projets pédagonumériques et wikimédien en résidence à l'UQAM. Montréal, Québec. Ambassadeur de Wikipédia et des projets Wikimédia dans le milieu de la recherche et de l'éducation.

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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rapport de la Fondation Jean-Jaurès qui propose une « politique de la littératie » pour préserver la « lecture profonde » : www.jean-jaures.org/wp-content/u...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wikipédia en français interdit l’usage de l’IA générative pour rédiger des articles www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
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Wikipédia en français interdit l’usage de l’IA générative pour rédiger des articles
Jusqu’ici, l’usage de l’intelligence artificielle générative était « vivement déconseillé » sur Wikipédia en français pour l’écriture d’articles. Elle emboîte désormais le pas à Wikipédia en anglais, ...
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Sandor Clegane des Internets @affordance.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
L’Intelligence artificielle comme nécrotechnie. Vers un dépassement des limites informationnelles anthropologiques. (TL;DR : le dentifrice de l’IA est sorti du tube, bon courage pour le remettre dedans) affordance.framasoft.org/2026/09/inte...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.historytoday.com/archive/head...
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What is an Information Age?
From the printing press to the internet, the spread of information has changed the world. How do we recognise an age defined by it?
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain
Steven Pruitt has made more than six million edits to Wikipedia. Here’s what his life looks like beyond the screen.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing? www.currentaffairs.org/news/who-wil...
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Who Will Save the Internet From Disappearing?
From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New #OAbook : The Politics of Open Infrastructures : Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Journée de formation Wikidata du Réseau WikiSavoirs. Pascal Martinolli de l’Université de Montréal propose un vaste chantier pour les bibliothécaires : indexer l’histoire institutionnelle de la recherche au Québec
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Framamèmes : générer vos propres mèmes à partir d'images sous licence libre framamemes.org
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Writing Is Fundamental to How We Think - Brainstorming is the work that’s fundamental to writing www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
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Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch This shift means that “searching the web” will increasingly be performed by AI agents rather than humans. techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g...
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear
The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.
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Adrien Gombeaud @agombeaud.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Aux États-Unis, les enseignants ont de plus en plus de mal à montrer des films à leurs élèves, qui viennent étudier le cinéma. Accrocs à leurs téléphones, incapables de se concentrer longtemps, ils souffrent d’un mal qui semble affecter toute la société. www.courrierinternational.com/article/cult...
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Même les étudiants en cinéma n’arrivent plus à regarder un film jusqu’au bout
Aux États-Unis, les enseignants ont de plus en plus de mal à montrer des films à leurs élèves, qui viennent pourtant étudier le cinéma, s’inquiète “The Atlantic...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
« Éloge du papier à l’heure du déluge numérique » dans le Monde diplomatique de janvier 2026 www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2026/01/BREV...
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Éloge du papier à l'heure du déluge numérique
Accès libre // par Benoît Bréville & Pierre Rimbert (janvier 2026)
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Google's work in schools aims to create a 'pipeline of future users,' internal documents say www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users,’ internal documents say
A major lawsuit revealed details of Google's business motivations to get its products into schools. A Google spokesperson said the documents "mischaracterize our work."
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Carrefour | Innovation et pédagogie universitaire @pedago-uqam.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@lapointejm.bsky.social, chargé de projets technopédagogiques au Carrefour et « wikimédien », a accordé une entrevue captivante à « Sur le vif » sur les 25 ans de Wikipédia. À écouter ! 🎧 ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...
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Wikipédia a 25 ans | OHdio | Radio-Canada
Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Sur le vif : Wikipédia a 25 ans
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Pour un domaine public vivant www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...
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Pour un domaine public vivant
En restreindre le renouvellement, c’est fragiliser la circulation du savoir et de la culture.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Elon Musk versus Wikipedia continues an age-old battle over truth www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
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Elon Musk versus Wikipedia continues an age-old battle over truth
Musk’s Grokipedia wants to take us back to a time when established knowledge was controlled by one opaque voice
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Spotify sur BitTorrent : Un piratage justifié au nom de la préservation numérique www.numerama.com/tech/2147307...
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300 To de musique (86 millions de titres) : tout Spotify se retrouve piraté sur BitTorrent
Connue pour agréger des millions de livres et d'articles scientifiques piratés, la plateforme Anna's Archive annonce avoir réalisé une copie massive de la base de données de Spotify. Au total : 86 mil...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Cocasserie encyclopédique : L'article de Wikipédia en chinois simplifié consacré à la poutine est certifié « article de qualité ». C'est aussi le cas en anglais, mais pas en français. zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Bouteille à la mer : Je cherche la référence (et la formulation exacte) de Michel Foucault qui dit ou écrit à peu près ceci : « il n’y a rien de plus révolutionnaire qu’une bonne description »
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Le cloud n'est pas immatériel. Les centres de données assèchent les nappes phréatiques du Chili. www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
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Chili : asséché par les data centers - ARTE Reportage - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Au Chili, l’eau disparaît. Pas seulement à cause de la sécheresse, mais aussi du cloud. Ce nuage qui n’amène jamais de pluie. Dans la banlieue nord de Santiago, les marais s’assèchent, les nappes phré...
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Molly Stark Dean @mollystarkdean.substack.com · 04/11/2025
My fellow Wikimedian @antisomniac.bsky.social wrote about Grokipedia: "All of this is ultimately subordinate to Grokipedia's unavoidable prime directive of neutrality: neutrality is whatever Elon Musk says is neutral." www.techpolicy.press/with-grokipe...
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With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again | TechPolicy.Press
Ryan McGrady asks, who is Grokipedia for, other than its owner?
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
CommonsDB, a new registry that enables users to verify the rights status of online images Great tool in the making presented @ Wiki GLAM in Lisbon today meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CommonsDB
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CommonsDB - Meta-Wiki
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
L’université est plus qu’une simple cliente des géants du numérique www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
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Outils d’« intelligence artificielle » | L’université est plus qu’une simple cliente des géants du numérique
Une trentaine de professeurs font part de leurs préoccupations à la direction de l'Université de Montréal quant à l’adoption de « solutions » d’IA qui leur semble inconciliables avec la mission de l’é...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Plus de la moitié du trafic web mondial provient désormais de bots fr.statista.com/infographie/...
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Infographie: Plus de la moitié du trafic web mondial provient désormais de bots
Cette infographie montre l'évolution de la répartition du trafic web mondial généré par des humains et des bots de 2019 à 2024, en %.
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 13/08/2025
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Le mondes des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
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Le monde des revues scientifiques au bord de l’asphyxie
Plus de trois millions d’articles sont publiés chaque année dans les revues scientifiques, les chercheurs étant incités à les multiplier pour se distinguer. Une logique économique perverse s’est insta...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature’s research papers
From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Nouveau bouquin de Marcello Vitali-Rosati que j’ai très hâte de lire : « C’est la matière qui pense - Pour une philosophie de l’édition » ceen.univ-rouen.fr/matiere-marc...
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C'est la matière qui pense
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums www.404media.co/ai-scraping-...
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AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
McGill professor Juan Serpa created SUSAN, the online forum helping U.S. researchers protect their data from Trump macleans.ca/society/amer...
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American Climate Scientists Have a New Canadian Hero - Macleans.ca
How McGill professor Juan Serpa created SUSAN, the online forum helping U.S. researchers protect their data from Trump
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Cut the bullshit: why GenAI systems are neither collaborators nor tutors
The rapid development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies has led to widespread endorsement of GenAI systems serving as a ‘personal tutor’ and learning ‘collaborator’ in higher education. However...
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The physicality of learning - Generative AI threatens the valuable process of searching for answers jamescosullivan.substack.com/p/the-physic...
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The physicality of learning
Generative AI threatens the valuable process of searching for answers
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Qui sont les « petites mains » de Wikipedia, l’encyclopédie libre qui agace réacs et géants de la Tech basta.media/Qui-sont-les...
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Qui sont les « petites mains » de Wikipedia, l'encyclopédie libre qui agace réacs et géants de la Tech
Chaque jour, des millions d'internautes y trouvent des infos et du savoir gratuitement et en accès libre. Mais ce site n'existerait pas sans ses bénévoles. Des « wikimédien·nes » racontent ce que sign...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/05/2025
I wrote about this in this week's newsletter. I seriously believe one of the main reasons ChatGPT grew is that Google Search both failed to meaningfully innovate, especially in how it answered a user's query, and eventually deteriorated into something worse. www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
This Bubble Was Also Inflated By The Failure of Google Search

Everybody I talk to that uses ChatGPT regularly uses it as either a way to generate shitty limericks or as a replacement for Google search, a product that Google has deliberately made worse as a means of increasing profits.

ChatGPT is, if I'm honest, better at processing search strings than Google Search, which is not so much a sign that ChatGPT is good at something as it is that Google has stopped innovating in any meaningful way. Over time, Google Search should've become something that was able to interpret your searches into the perfect result, which would require the company to improve how it processes your requests. Instead, Google Search has become dramatically worse, mostly because the company's incentives changed from "help people find something on the web" to "funnel as much traffic and show as many ad impressions as possible on Google.com."By this point, Google Search should have been more magical, more capable of taking a dimwitted question and turning it into a great answer, with said answer being a result on the internet. Note that nothing I'm writing here is actually about generating a result — it's about processing a user's query and presenting an answer, the very foundation of computing and the thing that Google, at one point, was the best in the world at doing. Thanks to Prabhakar Raghavan, the former head of ads that led a coup to become head of search, Google was pulled away from being a meaningful source of information.

And I'd argue that ChatGPT filled that void by doing the thing that people wanted Google Search to do: answer a question, even if the user isn't really sure how to ask it. Google Search has become clunky, obfuscatory, putting the burden of using the service on the user rather than helping fill the gap between query and answer in any meaningful way. Google's AI summaries don't even try to do what ChatGPT does — they generate summaries based on search results and say "okay man, uhh, is this what you want?"
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Will the Humanities Survive AI? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status
Ed Martin sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation accusing it of spreading propaganda
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
AI companies demand huge amounts of data to train their programs. Peer inside LibGen, a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
«Un enfant va aller mieux s'il ne regarde pas du tout d'écran avant l'âge de six ans. Je répète: le développement d'un enfant ira mieux s’il ne voit pas d'écran avant six ans.» Dr Jean-François Chicoine www.985fm.ca/audio/690394...
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Selon un pédiatre | «Le développement d'un enfant ira mieux s’il ne voit pas d'écran avant six ans»
Écoutez le Dr Jean François Chicoine, pédiatre au CHU Sainte Justine, professeur agrégé de clinique à l Université de Montréal, en discuter.
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WIRED @wired.com · 27/03/2025
Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository where researchers could share their latest findings before they had been systematically reviewed or verified. If arXiv stopped functioning, scientists would suffer an immediate and profound disruption.
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Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
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Jules @juleswp.eurosky.social · 16/03/2025
Léo Joubert : « La force de Wikipédia, c’est la pluralité des engagements qu’elle suscite » sur @la-croix.com
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Léo Joubert : « La force de Wikipédia, c’est la pluralité des engagements qu’elle suscite »
La célèbre encyclopédie en ligne fait face à des accusations de partialité idéologique, de la part d’Elon Musk comme de l’hebdomadaire « Le Point ». Le sociologue Léo Joubert, auteur d’une thèse sur l...
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
When politicians ban books, I read them. So when I heard that Meta - who, of course, believes in free speech - is using egregious legal tactics to silence a former employee's book, my eyebrows went up. Who else is reading "Careless People" just cuz Meta is suing? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE? www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
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Jean-Michel Lapointe @lapointejm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency, punctiliousness, and accessible knowledge. So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has lately taken time from his busy schedule of dismantling the federal government to attack Wikipedia. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
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Au Poste @auposte.media · 02/03/2025
L'émission du jour Au Poste: Wikipédia: qui veut sa peau (et pourquoi)? www.auposte.fr/wikipedia-qu... | #AuPoste média 100% Live et en accès libre grâce à nos donateur·ice·s
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Wikipédia: qui veut sa peau (et pourquoi)? | Au Poste, média indépendant 100% Live & Libre
Internet | Wikipédia, survivance étincelante du web pionnier, est notre combat. Aux Etats-Unis, Musk vomit désormais l'encyclopédie, jugée trop woke à son goût, et cherche à pister ses contributeurs...
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La Revue des médias @larevuedesmedias.ina.fr · 01/03/2025
⚡ « Le Point » contre Wikipédia : on fait le point sur la mécanique du conflit en cours 👇 larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/nod...
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