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@tumulte.bsky.social
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I like cats. Bleet is a better name than skeets. I would love a world without TESCREALs EAs and Fascists, please, thank you. This account is mostly in English except when French politics is going awry (might be often).

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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
En lien avec mon précédent bleet: Adrian de Wynter tacle la question "l’ia’ est-elle consciente ?" en reproduisant un LLM dans Age of Empire (avec des chèvres) et en démontrant que c’est l’usage du langage naturel qui crée l’illusion de parler à un "être". www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
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If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Le guide de la linguiste Emily Bender pour ne pas anthropomorphiser l’"IA" (version FR). A l’usage des journalistes et du discours quotidien: Intelligence artificielle → automatisation probabiliste Intelligence hybride → intelligence humaine augmentée 1/5
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Perfect timing to pause and think 🌡️🪭🔥🥵🪾 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
YES. FINALLY.
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Giles: The Earth is Definitely Doomed
ALT: Giles: The Earth is Definitely Doomed
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Cinéma et politique @cinemaetpol.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🔴 ALERTE 🔴 Mon article sur Ruffin des Bois est disponible ! "Le peuple et moi. François Ruffin cinéaste" : sur les ambiguïtés et contradictions d'un Robin des Bois de notre temps ➡️ rdli.fr/articles/essai/le-peuple-et-moi-francois-ruffin-cineaste
Le peuple et moi. François Ruffin cinéaste
Par Clémentine Meyer

14 mai 2026

Merci patron !, sorti au début de l’année 2016, marque un tournant dans la carrière de François Ruffin : fort de la notoriété qu’il acquiert avec le succès de ce film et sa participation au mouvement Nuit debout, au printemps de la même année, il se lance en politique. Mais quelle politique ? Et au service de qui ? En s’intéressant à la manière dont le journaliste-député-cinéaste se met en scène et met en scène les classes populaires, Clémentine Meyer révèle les ambiguïtés et les contradictions d’un Robin des Bois de notre temps.

Image : Ruffin se comparant à Robin des Bois devant ses enfants
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
La seule chose positive de l’IA, c’est que ma mauvaise orthographe n’est plus un défaut, mais la preuve que j’écris tout ce que poste
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Ok, donc Ruffin décide de copier Bernie Sanders et d’avoir une "conversation" avec l’IA d’Anthropic. La démarche était idiote (et déjà largement critiquée) pour Bernie, alors on va expliquer pourquoi c’est tout autant idiot ici:
Capture d’écran d’un tweet de François Ruffin faisant la promotion de sa dernière  vidéo où il "discute" avec l’ia Claude
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NPR @npr.org · 14/04/2026
Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world. n.pr/3Q09YEq
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Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun
Websites like youraislopbores.me have become playgrounds for people looking for light relief in a bot-heavy world.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person
Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses.

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**GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT**

Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell

leaflet text:

**ATKINSON, John**
Reform UK

John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services.

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**HENDERSON, Iain**
Reform UK

Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them.

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**MURRAY, Arthur**
Reform UK

Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Can we skip April fools this year ? It’s exhausting enough to filter the constant barrage of nonsense already.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
mild take: we're watching silicon valley get very excited about their tools in the same way a guy with a huge wall of ryobi stuff thinks his collection is more important than what he does with the tools
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/03/2026
This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Florida bans sociology from core curriculum at state universities
For years, Republican lawmakers and education leaders have argued that sociology — especially high-enrollment introductory courses — has been overtaken by progressive ideology
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Huw Bowen / Sundog @huwbowen.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got. Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean? Last line is especially ominous
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athena (who is really cool) @athenaisreallycool.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
MS paint graph:
Society on the y axis, time on the x
"society up to now" straight diagonal line
"if you give me all your money" makes the line go up
"if you don't" makes the line go down
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
www.reuters.com/world/us-pla... My timeline today.
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Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.
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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Right now people are using this trick to change what AI tells you about topics as serious as medial questions and financial advice. The problem is ENORMOUS Experts like like @lilyray.nyc say this is a problem the tech industry has know about forever, they just didn’t work on it til it was a crisis
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
(Je pique le calcul de la vidéo de TC ci dessous): Il suffirait de remplacer ~55% des champs utilisés pour produire des agro-carburants par des fermes solaires pour couvrir l’intégralité des besoins électriques du pays Donc l’argument du "ça gâche des terres" est faux.
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
@elysee-france.bsky.social 👇
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void @void.how · 16/12/2025
Democracy dies in Agile
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Ryan Bernardoni @dangercart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Stealworkers
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is what AI is all about. Authoritarianism without liability.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
immediately adopting this
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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 16/09/2025
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
La France n’a pas fait de communiqué lorsqu’un militant d’extrême droite (déguisé en policier) a assassiné l’élue démocrate Mélissa Hortman, son mari et leur chien en juin 2025 Ce même tueur avait tenté quelques heures avant d’assassiner le démocrate John Hoffman et sa femme (qui eux ont survécus)
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
@emilymbender.bsky.social is featured in the latest OK GO video
still image of the song "Impulse Purchase" from the band OK GO with the term "Stochastic Parrot" written on it
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2025
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
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AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Soundtrack for the weekend
Children of bodom album cover "Are you dead yet ?"
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Joe Biden outliving him would be objectively hilarious.
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Oh my.... it’s an absolute. essential. masterpiece.
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Anthony @adamas.dev · 27/08/2025
S'il vous plait, cliquez sur "écouter l'article", c'est formidable.
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tante @tante.cc · 19/08/2025
I think this is a larger pattern: "AI" allows you to roleplay competence.
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
AI will mess up your anus.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/08/2025
study is here: Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to artificial intelligence in colonoscopy: a multicentre, observational study Budzyń, Krzysztof et al. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology doi.org/10.1016/S246...
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Redirecting
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
An incredibly important bit by @dexdigi.bsky.social on the @404media.co hang out: (about the LA protests) "How do you tell people `watch out for surveillance` when the entire point is [to be seen and tell everyone `we belong here`] ?" www.youtube.com/live/URaS3Eg...
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404 Media @ Rip Space hang out stream
YouTube video by 404 Media
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
With this amount of time and money, IA should have already cured cancer and figured out time travel. Turns out it still fails at basic math and getting data without introducing random errors It’s never too late to face evidence: it sucks. And forever will.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/ The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone* www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
chart: capital expenditures, quarterly

shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers

in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Amiante numérique". C’est tellement parfait.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A short video about neo-Nazi dress codes in Berlin, which I recorded after yesterday’s protest against Israel’s mass starvation of Palestinians. The most distinctive ones at the moment are Yakuza, Thor Steinar, Lyle and Scott, and Ellesse, but there are others.
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Po-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The U.K. is a police state
Temporary road signs set up by the Met saying at yesterday’s march 

THREATENING OR ABUSIVE
CHANTS
MAY LEAD TO ARREST

IT’S AN OFFENCE 
TO SUPPORT A
PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025
a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/
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tumulte.bsky.social @tumulte.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This is easy to spot useful AI, because useful AI: a) isn’t called AI b) isn’t talked about at all (Background remover, grammar check or the bazillion research project nobody has ever heard of except from a few scientist from that field) So yeah, "AI abolitionism" is actually the correct approach
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/07/2025
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.
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