@xuv writes

  • Dice drawing

    Love this simple generative art recipe by @wblut. All you need is a piece of paper, a ruler, a compass, a pencil and a dice.

  • Link dump from MDRAI

    Tonight I attended an event at Elisava organized by the Master in Design for Responsible AI. I gathered a few links from the presentations by Caroline Sinders and Leandro Ucciferri. I’m just going to dump them below to explore later.

  • Deltachat is amazing

    Deltachat, a messaging application I’ve talked about here before, is adding features at break neck speed and is now, from my point of view, on par with a lot of the other secure, open source and/or proprietary messaging applications most people have heard of.

  • Citation de Gregory Chatonsky

    Vectofascisme : Néologisme désignant une forme contemporaine de fascisme qui s’adapte aux moyens de communication et aux structures sociales de l’ère numérique, caractérisée par la vectorisation (direction, intensité, propagation) de l’information et du pouvoir à l’ère de l’IA.

  • Quoting Sonia Shah

    Human mobility is fundamental to our biological resilience. Our capacity to cooperate across geographic barriers relies on the cultural connections forged by people on the move, injecting genetic and cultural diversity into otherwise insular societies. Migration is the planet’s connective tissue. It’s not the crisis we reflexively imagine it to be. In a rapidly changing…

  • Citation de Antoinette Rouvroy

    […] la gouvernementalité algorithmique n’est pas tout à fait un pouvoir politique mais plutôt un système immunitaire développé par le capitalisme pour lutter contre tout ce qui pourrait le mettre en crise. Les êtres humains ne sont capables de se rebeller que s’ils deviennent des sujets à part entière. Or la technologie vient les saisir…

  • Quoting Henry Farrell

    Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated. […] Our central point here is not just that these technological innovations, like all other innovations, will have cultural and social consequences. Rather we…

  • Barefoot developers

    [L]ocal software that means software that is built close to the home and serves the needs of the home. It’s software someone might build for themselves, their family and friends, their neighborhood and community. It solves local problems for local people.

  • Citation de Gregory Chatonsky

    C’est qu’une nouvelle dialectique du maître et de l’esclave à l’ère des intelligences artificielles se met en œuvre. Une dialectique extrêmement trouble où on ne sait plus qui maîtrise l’autre, qui est programmé et qui est programmateur parce que les procédures relationnelles entre l’être humain et la machine semblent s’étendre à toute chose. Dans cette…

  • TT-RSS reader for Android

    Not really sure why, but the official Android application that works well with TT-RSS Reader is neither available from the Google Playstore or F-Droid. But it’s still possible to install it on your phone if you know where to find it.

  • Quoting Joan Westenberg

    The technical sophistication of the heist doesn’t make it any less of a heist.

  • Link sharing blog

    Following Simon Willison’s blog practice, I’m planning to shift the pace and type of things I write on this blog. So, if all works well, expect more frequent writings and suggested readings around here.