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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Quand tu passes un morceau au hasard et qu'il s'avère être la bande son parfaite de l'actualité française youtu.be/JcW8VNwYvL0?...

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The Clash - The Guns of Brixton (Official Audio)

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Le nœud du problème, c'est que la santé nuit à l'alcool (plus exactement au portefeuille des alcooliers)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Title: Need staff for your lab? Close your eyes and stick a pin in the chart!

Image: The chart consists of 81 rectangles arranged in a 9 x 9 grid.

Down the side are these nine labels:
Brilliant
Eccentric
Indolent
Charming
Mysterious
Diligent
Scheming
Visionary
Clumsy

Across the bottom are these nine jobs:
Technician
Lab cat
Lead Scientist
Graduate student
Stranger
Robot
Child prodigy
Janitor
Emeritus professor

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

J'ai signé cette pétition, ça me semble important: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06...

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Agir par la culture @agirparlaculture.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Métisses, "un documentaire qui permet de prendre toute la mesure d’un crime colonial belge." agirparlaculture.be/popcorn/meti...

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 24/04/2026

Brighten your day with some of the finest music open.qobuz.com/album/slaigy...

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Open Qobuz

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My thought exactly.

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 16/04/2026

Who would have thought that one day I would quote the Pope? “Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,” From www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Pope says ‘world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants’ amid feud with Trump’s White House

Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war, after US bishops offer him support after Vance remarks

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 03/04/2026

Ils n'ont sans doute plus besoin de pub, mais je sens l'irrésistible envie de partager la sortie aujourd'hui de l'entièreté du Vol.II d'Angine de Poitrine. C'est toujours aussi bon anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii

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Vol.II, by Angine de Poitrine

6 track album

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 30/03/2026

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I though it would be a disaster, but It wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/04/2026

Y’all know I’ve been a serious skeptic regarding large language model technology in general and of its applications to education in particular. I’m willing to admit where I’ve been mistaken though, and clearly I’ve been mistaken here. I pride myself as an instructor, but I can’t compete with this.

puregenius.education

The World's First Fully Automated Genius System

Experience the future of education with PureGenius - an AI-powered learning platform that unlocks every student's potential. Sign up for early access today.

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Cédric Brun @cedricbrun.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...

action.wemove.eu

Say No to Palantir in Europe

A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining acc...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Y'all know about this already, right? And all the comments are correct. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

YouTube video by KEXP

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A good summary of my salon in Hollywood with film-makers about the real dangers and benefits of AI (as opposed to the ones in the movies)' Part of the NAS science-entertainment exchange and a really great group to talk with. www.templeton.org/news/what-if...

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What If Today’s AI Is Not a Mind, but a Cultural Technology?

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 10/03/2026

En vrai c'est excellent, Angine de Poitrine. Merci @lampole.bsky.social pour la découverte ! Et oui, ça évoque un mardi à 16h30 quand tu es parent...

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026

Full-time academic position in educational sciences at the ULB. The chair is entitled “School, Cultures, Identities, and Relations of Domination” cwfront.ulb.ac.be/vacacad/vaca...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/02/2026

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I spoke with @manjaselva.bsky.social at @marsdd.bsky.social about why Silicon Valley billionaires think technology is the answer to all of humanity's problems, and why they're wrong. You can listen to our conversation here: solveforx.simplecast.com/episodes/inf...

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Hendrik Erz, PhD @hendrik-erz.de · 01/02/2026

New video by @techconnectify.bsky.social. I enjoy watching his videos because I like his nerdy exegeses of heat pumps and solar. BUT. Today I want you ALL (!) to watch a particular part of this video that starts at 1:16:35. The link below jumps to that part. Watch it. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...

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You are being misled about renewable energy technology.

YouTube video by Technology Connections

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 29/01/2026

I presented some thoughts on AI and education yesterday at UNamur. Still a work in progress, but I might be starting to develop a rationale for an interesting research proposal. The presentation: nathfriant.github.io/presett-2026/ Many thanks to Educ0num for letting me present at their event!

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LLMs et emballement de la performativité

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 15/01/2026

So, Wikipedia is 25 today, which means I didn't even know it existed when I was in high school. I still remember how it was scorned during my first years at university. It’s still one of the best things the internet has produced!

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 11/12/2025

C'est pas loin de "marron lunettes de Derrick" proposé par @lampole.bsky.social

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 03/09/2025

It makes me sick to still read long studies about the potential benefits of LLMs to education not taking this into account.

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Jen Sorensen @jensorensen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.

WEB'S END

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE WEBSITES. YOU VISITED THEM AND IT WAS FUN.

Computer screen: Jill's Homepage

LINKS AND STUMBLEUPON HELPED YOU FIND NEW ONES.

Computer screen: Cheese Art

GOOGLE ACTUALLY WORKED AND SENT YOU TO SITES BUILT WITH CARE BY REAL PEOPLE.

Computer screen: Lovable Expert

THEN CAME SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ITS ALGORITHMS DETERMINED WHAT YOU CLICKED.

Computer screen: Facebook

THEN AGGREGATOR SITES TOOK OFF.

Computer screen: CRAP FROM AROUND THE WEB

THEN SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TRIED TO KEEP US FROM EVER LEAVING…

AND WE DIDN'T.

Woman on phone: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL

THEN AI BEGAN GENERATING SUMMARIES SO YOU DIDN'T NEED TO CLICK THROUGH TO A SITE ANYMORE.

Computer screen: MONOPOSEARCH
Summary

SOON... THE AI CHATBOT BECOMES THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND REAL PUBLICATIONS DISAPPEAR.

Woman speaking to phone: CHATBOT, WHAT IS A WEBSITE?

UNTIL ONE DAY, PEOPLE WALK AWAY AND BUILD SOMETHING NEW.

Woman has left devices on the ground and is walking into sunset

© 2025 Jen Sorensen

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/06/2025

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“(…) sooner will the sun die out than that we will create AGI, and in the mean time we will just be polluting our planet and exploiting un(der)paid labour.”

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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📣 "Universities are not spokespersons for the AI industry...we need to resist being coopted and corrupted...We need to increase Critical AI Literacy in students, in scientists & in other professionals. This is the role that universities are duty bound to play in times of planetary crises"📣

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 12/04/2025

Envie de devenir notre nouveau/nouvelle collègue? Un poste académique à temps plein en sciences de l'éducation s'ouvre à l'ULB cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul... *** Full-time academic job in education at the ULB in Brussels

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! (my cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social)

Two scientists share an office.
The first, whose half of the room is neat and tidy, says
“My new year's resolutions are to jog to work every day, choose the healthy option at lunch, and run a pleasant, well-ordered workspace.”

The second, working in a total mess, replies
“In the interests of scientific rigour, I'll be the control, and change absolutely nothing.”

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Nathanaël Friant @nathanaelfriant.eurosky.social · 22/10/2024

Twitter était bien, j'y ai peu écrit mais beaucoup appris, pas mal ri aussi. X promeut lourdement une vision du monde qui ne me correspond pas du tout. J'ai décidé de ne plus y participer d'aucune façon. Sur Bluesky depuis quelques temps déjà, j'espère y écrire plus, j'y apprends déjà beaucoup.

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