Dominique Eddé, toujours très juste dans son approche de la guerre que mène le gouvernement israélien contre les Palestiniens, répond à une récente tribune parue dans Le Monde : "Le peuple palestinien n’est pas appelé une seule fois par son nom dans le texte."
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
For Google Maps Users in U.S., It’s Now the Gulf of America.
People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change follows an executive order from President Trump.
Thank goodness for the archivists and librarians for they are the caretakers of our knowledge.
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social? @archive.org ?
Homepage of data.gov with data sets
Disappearing kid meme with peace sign
Archivists are working to identify and save thousands of datasets disappearing from Data.gov
🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-w...
When this measure passes—and the dean has been given every reason to believe it will pass—we’ve been told that faculty should expect to be required to defend our choices and judgments to *anyone* in the state. 8/
A measure has been introduced this session in the state legislature requiring all faculty to publish online and in advance of the start of classes all syllabi complete with summaries and explanations/justifications of all materials, lectures, and assignments. 7/
We’ve been informed by our governor that the Trump administration’s executive orders last week with regard to DEI and now A are considered part of state as well as federal law. (No, as far as I know the state legislature has not passed any measures to this effect.) 4/
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.”
-Mike Davis
La Moitié du Ciel dans la tombe.
"elles qui occupent à moitié leur monde, leurs lits et leurs maisons, elles qui font leurs enfants ..., comment les anéantir ? Il est difficile de les ... exterminer dans un génocide radical ... : il faut nécessairement en garder un troupeau invisible quelque part".
You can now scan a whole list of URLs to see if they are tracking you using this new Blacklight feature, from the comfort of your very own terminal.
How the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation plans to target Wikipedia contributors.
forward.com/wp-content/u...
AFTER PROTOCOLS, the last issue of Revue Espace art Actuel # 139 is out!
Co-directed by @ncasemajor.bsky.social and myself, the bilingual issue (French-English) discuss all things related to art & blockchain.
Enjoy!
espaceartactuel.com/en/produit/1...
Cover image: @isthisa.bsky.social
I caught one yesterday
I thought this bit of advise was useful:
¨Paolucci advises that you don’t interact with the bots or try to be clever — just report and block them. ´An account with an established pattern of getting replies from legitimate users will fool automated detection systems better.´ ¨
![Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends.
Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky]
Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them.
Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot.
The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback
accounts. Some of these accounts have already](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreidx5saezlmhms642lmv4eyzn637wqjd36zct7lrehnvos2vzfq7vu)
Denise Paolucci (rahaeli on Bluesky) cofounded blog site Dreamwidth and previously worked in trust and safety at LiveJournal. She has a ton of experience with every possible form of social media bad actor and regularly posts on Bluesky about trust and safety. Lately, she's been writing about our bot friends. Paolucci thinks this particular wave of "reply guy as a service" bots are test runs by a spambot maker, who hopes to rent the bots out to other bad actors as a service: "It's common for spamming software to be pitched as social media management." [Bluesky] Bad actors want to sort out what bot styles get the most responses for engagement farming. Bluesky is light on algorithms that filter what you can see, but spammers got in the habit of exploring how the algorithms work on Twitter, Facebook, and Threads so they could exploit them. Some bots are being run to establish what can lower the quality of discussion on a platform. These bots may be political or commercial in intent. Twitter has long been overrun with this style of bot. The bots also join followback and follow-for-follow hashtags. Content-scraper accounts are grown in the hope of selling the account to a spammer Bluesky has a large number of followback accounts. Some of these accounts have already
This is a good post with some theories as to why this is happening
pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/07/a...
again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded
Wikimédia Canada publie le bilan de l'atelier "Diversité francophone dans Wikipédia". Cosigné avec Sabrina Mac Gregor (doctorante à l'INRS), ce bilan présente les pistes d'action issues d'un atelier collectif à la Wikiconvention francophone 2024.
#wikipedia
#francophonie
#sources
"Finalement, il faut dire à M. Trump que la seule manière d’éviter ce grand cul par-dessus tête de l’intégration du Canada dans l’Union, consacrant son pluralisme au lieu de conforter son virage impérialiste identitaire, c’est bien de laisser le Canada tranquille."
"Parmi les pistes explorées, une gestion collective des droits dans l’IA comme avec la Sacem dans la musique."
"(Le secret des affaires) réside surtout dans la recette de l’algorithme du modèle d’IA [pas dans les données]."
You should talk to Elsa Fortant who is doing a PhD at INRS on Patreon!
L'internationale réactionnaire et le paleolibertarianisme. Analyse.
"le contexte contemporain présente une nouveauté : la montée d’une Internationale réactionnaire de facto, aux multiples facettes, géographiquement dispersée et idéologiquement hétérogène."
Duolingo says its app has seen a 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
a starter pack:
go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
"En octobre, le site spécialisé 404 Media montrait comment ce service, vendu aux autorités américaines, pouvait être utilisé pour identifier les femmes qui se rendent dans des cliniques d’avortement, dans les Etats où l’interruption volontaire de grossesse est désormais interdite."
