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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

L'ensemble vocal de l'Ecole polytechnique recrute! Concert en décembre à l'église Saint-Eustache à Paris 🎵✨ Contact: Manon L'Ebraly, chorale@binets.fr

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Well-nuanced paper in @theatlantic.com : "Almost anyone with a job and a conscience can relate to the feeling that you really ought to slow down and work more carefully, but you can’t afford to, because a competitor will beat you to the punch." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #AI

But Occam’s razor suggests that Amodei is more or less genuine. Almost anyone with a job and a conscience can relate to the feeling that you really ought to slow down and work more carefully, but you can’t afford to, because a competitor will beat you to the punch. I feel some (admittedly less apocalyptic) version of that when I’m writing a breaking-news story. It’s why science journalists often agree to “embargoes” when covering complex new research findings rather than race to be first to report them. And planting this kind of flag on a matter of AI safety, even at some business risk, is in character for Anthropic.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Fabuleux... 😬 🙄 (non, en fait) "Quand le Conseil d’analyse économique décompose ces 30 % pour savoir d’où viennent [les écarts de salaire entre les hommes et les femmes], une seule cause en explique déjà 88 % : l’arrivée d’un enfant." A lire dans @liberation.fr www.liberation.fr/societe/droi...

Les économistes appellent cela la «child penalty», la pénalité maternelle. Deux chercheurs français l’ont mesurée à partir des données de l’Insee : l’économiste du travail Dominique Meurs, spécialiste des écarts de rémunération, et le statisticien Pierre Pora. Leur résultat, repris par le rapport, est net. Autour de la naissance du premier enfant, le revenu salarial des mères chute d’environ 40 %, puis reste inférieur d’environ 30 % les années suivantes. Chez les pères, la courbe ne bouge pas. Trois mécanismes se cumulent : le retrait du marché du travail, le passage au temps partiel et le ralentissement des progressions salariales. «La naissance d’un enfant provoque une rupture durable», résume la présidente du HCE, Bérangère Couillard. Une rupture qui se lit dans les revenus, mais aussi dans les postes auxquels les mères cessent de prétendre.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026

Exceptional quality and concentration of findings in this report www.reset.tech/resources/mo... #Disinformation #AISlop #EU #DSA

Platforms routinely monetize policy-violating accounts: Thousands of pages monitored in this research exhibit quantifiable markers of coordinated inauthentic behavior, which is explicitly prohibited by Facebook.

Widespread impersonation: Most accounts use fictitious media identities or impersonate legitimate entities and individuals, which breaches all three platforms’ impersonation policies. We identified 290 individuals across 30 countries impersonated in deepfakes, including 213 politicians and 20 journalists.

Banned engagement tactics: Entire campaigns rely on banned tactics such as engagement baiting — for example, asking users to leave emojis to support political statements or politicians.

Hate speech and sexualized content: The content also appears to violate platforms’ policies on racism and hate speech. Numerous deepfakes contain sexualized imagery of female politicians.

AI content goes unlabeled: In a June 2026 sample of 1,630 YouTube deepfake videos, 93.5 percent carried no AI label. On TikTok, 91.5 percent of sampled posts were unlabeled. Tens of thousands of posts with clear watermarks of AI tools such as Gemini are systematically unlabelled on Facebook.

Monetization is a black box: No platform offers a fully functional archive showing lists of monetized accounts. Auditing accounts requires time-intensive manual checks and reliance on “guesstimates” to determine the status of accounts. No platform discloses how much monetized creators earn.

Foreign companies behind the campaigns: We analyzed three large-scale coordinated campaigns on Facebook that have been rapidly expanding in 2026:

A network linked to Pakistan targets German-speaking audiences with pro-AfD, anti-Ukraine, and anti-Muslim content, with 53 percent of its pages monetized.
Made-for-advertising campaigns operating from Vietnam run at least 1,100 Facebook pages and 280 websites targeting EU and UK audiences.
A Sri Lanka-based “monetization academy” promotes the global far-…

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

Ceci sonne extraordinairement juste: "Capitalisme de la solitude", entretien avec Paul Klotz dans @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Je définis le « capitalisme de la solitude » comme un système économique dans lequel la solitude est passée du statut de phénomène non intentionnel à celui de ressource délibérément recherchée et exploitée. Il est principalement le fait des acteurs du numérique dont les services produisent de la solitude, l’entretiennent et en tirent profit, notamment avec les réseaux sociaux ou les « compagnons IA ». [...]
Le modèle économique des plateformes, on le sait, repose sur le temps d’usage de l’utilisateur. Plus il passe de temps à surfer et à scroller sur un réseau, plus il livre de données personnelles qui seront revendues à des annonceurs voulant acheter son attention. Or, pour maximiser ce temps d’usage, il faut mettre en place des mécanismes addictifs qui éloignent l’utilisateur de ses sociabilités réelles.
Ainsi, le premier maillon du système produit de l’isolement, puisque l’utilisateur est littéralement captivé : à mesure qu’il scrolle, ses compétences relationnelles s’atrophient, et le coût de sortie de la plateforme devient de plus en plus élevé.

Ensuite, une personne seule a davantage de valeur sur le « marché de l’attention », et cela pour deux raisons : elle produit un volume de préférences plus dense, donc davantage d’annonceurs se la disputent, et son isolement prédit également une consommation matérielle future plus grande.

Enfin, troisième canal : la tech vend des services payants contre la solitude, promettant aux utilisateurs de sortir de l’isolement qu’elle a elle-même créé.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... "The journalists were not the ones who stuffed Arday into the cannon and lit the fuse. They were gravity." 💯 Perfect piece from @graemewood.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

They elevated Arday, a fragile and disturbed person, into a position where his fragility would be tested and he would be shattered. Even if the Cambridge Faculty of Education’s standards were so low that his inadequacies would remain unremarked there, he was a fellow of a Cambridge college with real scholars who would eventually be indignant upon realizing that their new colleague’s scholarship consisted of copy-paste jobs, semiliterate nonsense, and fan notes on his favorite 1990s Brit-pop. Did Arday’s allies think no one would notice? That those who noticed would be forever intimidated into polite silence? That drinking sherry in the common room of Jesus College would be a pleasant experience for Arday himself as he waited to be found out? Those who placed Arday in that situation were cruel and heartless. They may as well have taken a skin-and-bones Make-A-Wish kid, told him that he could fly, and shot him out of a cannon. The journalists were not the ones who stuffed Arday into the cannon and lit the fuse. They were gravity.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

Exactement comme elle dit ⬇️💯

Cambridge hired Arday — from a pool of finalists that included two more senior women of color — at a moment when it was facing persistent questions about Black underrepresentation. Handsome and charismatic, an intellectual Horatio Alger, he offered the university a P.R. coup.

Many of the people who didn’t bother questioning Arday’s back story should have known better; today their oversight looks less like respect than condescension, as if no one took him seriously enough to think hard about what he was saying. “Arday was treated not as a scholar but as a mascot,” Jason Okundaye wrote in the left-leaning Guardian.

In retrospect, it would have been much better for all concerned if the story of his scholarly mistakes and biographical inventions had broken in a careful, professional outlet like Times Higher Education, instead of festering until it turned into a right-wing parable. Cofnas’s article catalyzed a journalistic feeding frenzy not just because it seemed to show evidence of plagiarism and falsehood, but also because it claimed there’d been a cover-up, and cover-ups tend to drive reporters wild.

For people on the left, it’s sure easier to talk about the feral excesses of the right-wing press than the willful gullibility of certain elite progressives. But both contributed to the Arday disaster. Denying that won’t protect the left. It will just leave leftists out on a limb that grows ever more shaky.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

Menaces et intimidation de Jason Arday sur des journalistes qui lui posaient des questions sur son travail et son parcours www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/o... (on trouve les mêmes infos dans plein d'endroits).

Last year, Jack Grove, a reporter for Times Higher Education, a British magazine, was preparing an article about plagiarism allegations against the star academic Jason Arday. It would have been a big story because Arday, who in 2023 became Cambridge’s youngest-ever Black professor, was a minor celebrity, thanks in part to his seemingly extraordinary biography.

Among other things, Arday said that he’d gotten his Ph.D. despite severe autism that left him nonverbal until he was 11 and unable to read until he was 18. He’d claimed to have run 600 miles in six days, which would have made him one of the world’s most accomplished ultramarathoners.

Grove sent Arday three emails with questions about both his work and his history. Arday responded by hiring one of Britain’s leading defamation firms — one known, among other things, for trying to quash investigations into Scientology — and reporting Grove to the police for harassment. As Grove later wrote, an officer told him not to contact Arday again because it was affecting the professor’s mental health. The magazine, fearing expensive litigation, killed the piece.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026

The Louvre offers these 🐈 moms and their kittens, in recognition of #InternationalCatDay #cat 🥰

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

Oui. Une fois n'est pas coutume, ce matin j'ai écrit ça ⬇️: "unmitigated disaster". Le désastre est un peu corrigé par le fait qu'avec de l'IA on arrive à mieux accéder aux données de vérification, p.ex. avec StatCheck www.inria.fr/fr/fact-chec... Mais le bilan reste largement négatif 👎 🙄 🤖

Less than two months ago, in this panel, I had said: ➡️ "For the integrity of the information space, #AI is mostly an unmitigated disaster" ⬅️ 💣 💥

This Wired story https://www.wired.com/story/ai-scammers-are-better-at-building-trust-than-humans/
shows that autonomous LLM chatbots 🤖 were more effective at scamming humans (eventually, convincing them to install an app or a game on their computers or phones), than humans. Further, chatbots refused to admit they were not human, and humans mostly didn't distinguish them from human scammers during the scam (but were better at it later). A disaster indeed 💯

A complementary insight is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.16475 #AI agents 🤖 outperformed human debaters, even very skilled ones (contest winners), in persuading users to do something (not nefarious in this case: giving to a children charity).

Clearly, the persuasion capabilities of #AI can and should be used for good, e.g., to reduce polarization by helping people see the viewpoint of the other side. Thomas Renault, Sacha Altay and other colleagues have raised this point recently.

But we are now sharing our information space with entities that run on GPUs in many data centers across the world and I do feel we're not ready for this 😱 and that it will get worse before it gets better.

Well, we'll have interesting stories to tell our children on the other side, I guess 😬 Or maybe we'll go back to socializing IRL❓ 😉

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 28/07/2026

So, here we are... www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 😢

NYTimes headline: The Fires in France and Spain are Breaking Modern Records

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

Changer ses coordonnées bancaire à la MAIF: on y est presque... 🙄

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 26/07/2026

"l’A400M fait à peine mieux qu’un Dash, parce que ce n’est pas la quantité d’eau ou de retardant qu’on amène d’un coup qui compte, c’est la quantité d’eau qu’on amène pendant plusieurs heures d’affilée. Or l’A400M a un délai de rotation très long" 🤷 www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Dans ce contexte, que pensez-vous de l’engagement de l’A400M ?

C’est une magnifique opération de communication pour éteindre toutes les critiques sur le manque de disponibilité des Canadair. Vu la situation, il ne faut rien s’interdire, mais ça rappelle un peu les commandes de clim en urgence pendant la canicule : on fait avec les moyens du bord. Ce qu’il faut savoir, c’est que l’A400M fait à peine mieux qu’un Dash, parce que ce n’est pas la quantité d’eau ou de retardant qu’on amène d’un coup qui compte, c’est la quantité d’eau qu’on amène pendant plusieurs heures d’affilée. Or l’A400M a un délai de rotation très long, le Dash est beaucoup plus rapide et efficace. D’ailleurs, là encore, nous n’avons depuis le début de l’été que 7 de nos 8 Dash disponibles.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 27/06/2026

L'impression que le 🐈‍⬛ se liquéfie en solidarité avec moi ( 📷 d'il y a un jour ou deux)

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

et en fish et en emacs-lisp... masterinfodroit.lacl.fr/programme-mo... 👁️

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026

🗓️ 👁️ 🎶 Le 3 juin à 20h30, l’Ensemble vocal de l’École polytechnique se produira en l’église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés à Paris avec deux grandes œuvres du répertoire sacré français : le Requiem de Gabriel Fauré et la Messe aux chapelles de Charles Gounod! Billetterie: www.helloasso.com/associations...

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 19/05/2026

Si vous aimez la #musique, Verdi, et êtes prêts pour une grande émotion, allez ce soir au concert "Defiant Requiem", 19h30 à @sorbonne-universite.fr ! 🎶👂😍 www.defiantrequiem.org ⬇️

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a... "“The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself."

In her 143-page ruling, Judge McMahon ordered the agency to rescind the cuts while saying the plaintiffs had suffered “irreparable injury.”

“The injury is not limited to the loss of money,” Judge McMahon said. “It includes the disruption of protected expression, the interruption of ongoing research and publication, the cancellation or suspension of humanities programming, and the chilling effect caused by the government’s use of viewpoint-based and unauthorized criteria to terminate federal grants.”

Joy Connolly, the president of the American Council of Learned Societies, said in a statement that the ruling was a victory for the Americans in all 50 states who are served by programs the endowment supports.

“The humanities are not a luxury,” she said. “They are how a democracy understands itself. Today’s decision is a step toward honoring the will of Congress and our mission as a nation — to seek the truth, know ourselves and build a better future on that knowledge.”

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 03/05/2026

Oui. Rome, pour le boulot, c'est vraiment trop dur. J'en sais quelque chose 🤩

Fontaine "du maure", piazza Navona, Rome

Deux fresques du Caravage dans l'église Saint-Louis des Français

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 01/05/2026

France 🇫🇷 #StandWithUkraine in 🇮🇹 (Palazzo Farnese, FR embassy in Rome) 🇺🇦

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

Alors, cette délégation de service public, tout se passe bien? (Voir ALT)

"L'état italien paie. Alors, nous, pourquoi vous nous payez au rabais? 7 ans sans contrat!"

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 29/04/2026

Oui, cela a été du court-termisme, dans ma compréhension, parfaitement compris et assumé (lire ci-dessous). Par ailleurs, comment aurait-on pu penser que les 🇨🇳 n'allaient PAS vouloir et pouvoir acquérir puis développer des technologies? Après avoir vu le 🇯🇵 copier puis innover? Complètement classique

Mais Hervé Machenaud, surnommé « le Chinois » chez EDF, récuse la moindre naïveté. « En France, c’est [le groupe américain] Westinghouse qui a construit la première centrale du parc nucléaire français à Fessenheim. Nous avons appris avec eux. Nous avons construit la deuxième avec leur soutien. Puis nous avons amélioré la technologie et avons construit seuls les autres centrales. Nous savions en allant en Chine qu’ils feraient comme nous, cela n’avait rien de naïf », explique-t-il.

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Puis de l'autre côté de l'entrée, l'explication 😀🤷‍♀️

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 28/04/2026

Il y a donc une française, elle marche dans la rue à Rome et se dit: curieux nom pour un hôpital italien, il est public ou privé ? 1/2

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 26/04/2026

www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol... "The 🇺🇸 has drained much of its ammunition, at a total cost of nearly $1 billion a day" @nytimes.com 👁️

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 25/04/2026

www.comicsands.com/harnik-trump... Photographer Andrew Harnik won the White House Correspondents' Association's Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage by Visual Journalists for this photo ⬇️ 💯

Donald Trump stands by as others attend to Gordon Findlay who had a malaise and collapsed to the floor of the Oval Office at the White House

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 13/04/2026

Bohemiae Rosa, map of the Kingdom of Boemia by Christoph Vetter, 1667, at @labnf.bsky.social in the "Imaginary maps" (cartes imaginaires) ongoing exhibition. Ping @annakubista.bsky.social

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 04/03/2026

Très à propos: dans plus de 30 bases, des commandants US ont dit aux troupes que la guerre en Iran est une guerre chrétienne. Dans au moins un cas, les commandants ont dit que la guerre allait précipiter l'Armageddon et le retour de Jésus dans le monde... 😜

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 22/02/2026

Plus que 3 semaines jusqu'au concert de l'Ensemble vocal de l'Ecole polytechnique + orchestre Les Rencontres, dans le cadre unique de l'église Saint-Eustache, au coeur de Paris! 🗓️ Le 16 mars à 20h, pour les billets ➡️ www.helloasso.com/associations... 🎶 Venez nombreux!

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 22/02/2026

Entre Saint-Remy lès Chevreuse et Courcelle sur Yvette #Essonne 🌳🌿

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

This very good article in The Economist lays out the many ways in which the russian economy is going South. However, I don't think *Western* policymakers "must ask is what kind of Russia will emerge... and whether anyone has a plan for what comes next". Maybe russians can give it a thought? 😜 🤷

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 17/02/2026

Venez échanger à Infox sur Seine, le 26-27 février, à Paris! Journalisme, #fact-checking, #désinformation, #fakenews, ingérence et manipulation online 👁️ Des informaticiens, journalistes, scientifiques en sciences sociales débattront pour la 4e fois: 150 participants en 2025! infoxsurseine.org/2026/

Une photo aérienne de Paris, on voit la Seine, la Tour Eiffel, et, au fond, la tour Montparnasse

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

Et Thiel se portait garant pour Epstein lorsque ce dernier, déjà traînant des casseroles, investissait dans des start-ups www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

Mr. Epstein maintained several connections with smaller tech figures and investors throughout the years, including a Bitcoin developer, Jeremy Rubin, and a cybersecurity entrepreneur, Vincenzo Iozzo, who both brought him investment opportunities. In June 2018, Mr. Epstein moved to create a dedicated investment vehicle called Deploy Capital for Mr. Rubin. Emails suggest the plan was to fund it with $5 million.

Mr. Rubin and Mr. Iozzo declined to comment.

Mr. Rubin expressed concern about how founders might react to taking money from a sex offender. “Potential investments googling your name might get spooked,” he wrote in an email to Mr. Epstein with the subject line “Fund Optics.” Mr. Rubin suggested not naming Mr. Epstein and simply telling people, “I raised a fund.”

Mr. Epstein agreed, but still wanted to meet the founders of Mr. Rubin’s first potential investment, a cryptocurrency company called Layer1. Mr. Rubin suggested that Mr. Epstein obscure his identity by using a pseudonym or just “Jeff” on a call with the founders.

When Layer1’s founders insisted on knowing whose money Deploy Capital was investing, Mr. Epstein replied in an email to Mr. Rubin that his powerful friend Mr. Thiel would vouch for him.

Alex Liegl, a co-founder of Layer1, said the company had not taken money from Mr. Epstein or Deploy Capital and had not discussed them with Mr. Thiel.

Still, later that day after getting Mr. Epstein’s email, Mr. Rubin wrote back with good news.

“They’re not bothered,” he said. “They’ll chat with Thiel.”

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

🔊 Journées Infox sur Seine 2026 📣 #FakeNews #Désinformation #FactChecking : rejoignez-nous pour la 4e édition de ce workshop à Paris! Présentations acceptées, keynotes invitées, détails pratiques: infoxsurseine.org/2026/ Inscription gratuite mais obligatoire

Une photo de l'Université de Paris-Panthéon-Assas, où se tiendra le workshop

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 07/01/2026

En route vers la science ❄️ sur le bord du plateau à #Palaiseau @ipparis.bsky.social

Des personnes marchent dans la neige en haut de l'escalier de Lozère à Palaiseau

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025

Très probablement ils le font parce qu'il y a une demande des étudiants, à laquelle ils répondent avec plus ou moins d'efficacité et de bonne foi. En tout cas cela me rappelle la peur panique d'Andreessen sur ces "jeunes qui détruisent les entreprises":

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Ioana Manolescu @mioana.eurosky.social · 25/11/2025

Oui, bravo à @faustinevincent.bsky.social pour cet entretien avec @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social, dont le regard et l'analyse sont remarquablement précis, depuis 2022 et avant! A lire aussi www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... qui le cite:

This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible.

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