This is so, so well-articulated.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

Don’t believe the claims about ‘kids safety’ behind the push for Online ID checks. They are and always have been about surveillance and censorship.

@cassiewillson.bsky.social is spot on in this video

An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)

Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

Du grand délire. Comme si il y avait besoin de patrouilles de flics dans le tram à Bordeaux, franchement... Et armés, en plus !

14th century painting of St. Margaret of Antioch attacking a devil woman in a virid dress hitting a demon with a hammer

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Incredibly good soundtrack album

« Il y a un million de minutes on était en 2023, il y a un milliard de minutes c’était l’empire romain »

Wrapped or Whacked? Activist Organizations Call for Spotify Boycott During Annual Data Reveal Activists are calling for a boycott following Spotify Wrapped 2025, launching campaigns to spread awareness of AI, ICE ads, and investments.

“We are making Spotify’s annual art-washing an incitement to consider whether you want to be complicit with devaluing music, AI killing machines, and human rights abuses.” - @liaholland.bsky.social , Campaigns + Communications Director at @fightforthefuture.org

www.vice.com/en/article/w...

Drawing is fun! Parallax effects are cool! (I might spend the next two days scrolling up and down to look at the effect) #indiegame #rpg

Mediapart et « Libération » révèlent des images inédites du 25 mars 2023. Elles montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchie.

Enquête vidéo de @camillepolloni.bsky.social et @laurawoj1.bsky.social 👉‍ www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Un ex-président et deux anciens ministres, ses plus proches collaborateurs, condamnés pour association de malfaiteurs. Un tribunal confirme la gravité du scandale libyen, révélé par @fabricearfi.bsky.social et @laske.bsky.social de @mediapart.fr.
👉 www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Donc, maintenant, c'est @bouletcorp.bsky.social qui saute?

C'est quoi ce bordel?

@moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @bsky.app

I don’t think even Black Mirror showed this combination of dystopian themes.

This looks amazing :)

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Honestly looks like an improvement

Autour de la loi Duplomb, l’« anti-science » au plus haut niveau de l’État La décision du Conseil constitutionnel sur la loi Duplomb est attendue jeudi 7 août. Le texte, qui a recueilli plus de deux millions de signatures contre lui et fait l’objet d’une mobilisation inédite du monde de la recherche et de la médecine, a donné à voir une vaste offensive contre la science.

Autour de la loi Duplomb, l’« anti-science » au plus haut niveau de l’État

Par @ameliepoinssot.bsky.social

01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art." 02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art." 03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'. 04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"

You're not alone, they all look terribly generic and colorless. None of those games manage to look as nice as late-era SNES JRPGS, let alone PS1.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Vous avez vu, l’Espagne va baisser la TVA sur les produits essentiels. Vous savez pourquoi on ne le fait pas en France ? La réponse courte, c’est Macron, comme souvent. Mais le détail du pourquoi est hyper intéressant. Explications :