Zara B

@Grittens
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How exciting... still mysteries to be discovered in the archives... lost page of Archimedes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhvAmYLtvd0
Un chercheur du CNRS retrouve une page perdue d’Archimède… dans un musée français !

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Hello people working in Technology/STS/Politics/Policy does anyone have any info or links to people working in algoritmic governance? I'm thinking specifically of the Dutch Benefits scandal, Almost finished building a cool tool, keen to collaborate with people who are working in Tactical technology to opensource it etc... #governance #ai #audit #decision #sovereign
Technology is not inevitable. We've decided not to have asbestos in our walls, lead in our pipes, or carginogenic chemicals in our food. (If you're going to argue that it's not everywhere, where would you rather live?) We could just not do LLMs. It's allowed.

Oui, on peut se passer de Microsoft.

Contrairement à l’éducation nationale, la Direction générale des fiances publiques va passer de Windows vers Linux.

73 000 postes de la gendarmerie fonctionne déjà une version adaptée d'Ubuntu (Linux).

https://www.generation-nt.com/actualites/fisc-choisit-linux-abandonne-windows-2072130

L'administration fiscale dit non à Microsoft et choisit Linux !

GNT est le portail Hi-Tech français consacré aux nouvelles technologies (internet, logiciel, matériel, mobilité, entreprise) et au jeu vidéo PC et consoles.

Génération NT
Enjoying #smallprophets - Mackenzie Crook knows how to communicate the slow magic of the mundane and people, strangely normal and normally strange. #england #tv

❓Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we!

➡️We have published a report about enshittification, on how and why digital products and services keep getting worse - and how we can turn the trend (hint: open tech, enforcement, public policy++)

Obviously @pluralistic is a big inspiration and help in this work.

More than 80 groups in Europe and the US has joined in a call to action.

More here: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

Enjoy this short film!

During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab.

https://news.agu.org/press-release/thunderstorms-conjure-ghostly-coronae-in-treetops-observed-outdoors-for-the-first-time/ #science #nature

We transcribed the Computing And Sustainability talk from Strange Loop, with all the slides and links to the mentioned materials.
https://100r.co/site/computing_and_sustainability.html
100R — computing and sustainability

Filthy fingerprints on the lift door in the Kunsthaus Zürich (art museum).
It's like a dirty protest.
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