Ami·e·s du mauvais goût, bonjour.

Dans la bande-annonce de #TheCreator (en salles le 27 septembre prochain), aviez-vous remarqué cette déflagration... directement reprise d’une vidéo de l’explosion du port de Beyrouth le 4 août 2020 ?

Un sujet qui me tient à coeur dans ma nouvelle chronique à l'Express:
La correction des fausses informations scientifiques dans les médias.
https://www.lexpress.fr/sciences-sante/sciences/la-science-sait-se-corriger-pourquoi-pas-les-medias-par-franck-ramus-JUXQTU7XQBA77D4OU5I4SQFRFA/

Pour creuser le sujet, voir ma série d'articles sur les médias : https://ramus-meninges.fr/tag/medias/

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

A thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand—or why #ChatGPT (or any other language model) isn't actually understanding.

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83

I think Mastodon people should use the "like" button more.

People are told not to like because liking doesn't broadcast posts like boosting does, and the site needs boosts. And replies are preferred because they're deeper engagement or something.

But, on some level, we want people to keep using Mastodon. If someone posts something and followers like it, they know stuff is getting seen here and they'll want to keep using the site. I just don't see what's gained by holding back on the likes