My article "Zombitron: towards a toolbox for repurposing obsolete smartphones into new interactive systems" is out !

📄 https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-rigaud-zombitron.pdf

I present a high-level approach aimed at encouraging the practice of repurposing obsolete smartphones in the design of interactive systems, despite their complexity and heterogeneity. I discuss how such a tool can be integrated into creative practices and in particular into the design of music controllers.

It will be presented Thursday at #LIMITS2025

This week at #LIMITS2025, a great paper by @anaellebeignon presented a how-to manual for "Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability" 😈

Great analysis and memes #LIMITS2025
@limitesnumeriques

Read the paper if you care about #AI https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/#program

📜 Deux de nos travaux ont été acceptés dans Computing Within Limits.

Le premier, "Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability", s'intéresse aux stratégies de la tech pour nous forcer à utiliser l'IA (nous en avions déjà parlé ici)
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-beigon-imposing-ai.pdf

Le deuxième, "Environmental (in)considerations in the Design of Smartphone Settings", analyse le rôle des interfaces dans le paramétrage écologique sur smartphone et propose des pistes de solutions.
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2025/papers/limits2025-thibault-smartphone.pdf

AI War Cloud is an interactive database connecting and explaining the current techno-imperial boomerang that is perpetuated by machine learning. @sarahciston

👉🏻 https://aiwar.cloud/

For the past theee months, Imane and Martino from Constant have been working through the temporalities of times with the students of the special issue 27 at @xpub

Three threads have been guiding the sessions:

the micro-time of computer processes — the super-fast cycles happening constantly in digital infrastructures, continuously synchronized to super-precise frequencies;

the macro-time of geological formations — the crystals and minerals inside all electronic devices, the physical substrate that makes all computation possible, and the exploitative, environmentally destructive methods used to extract them;

the capitalist-time of work and labour — the production rhythms of societies and individuals, and the time-networks and infrastructures required to keep global activities in sync.

On Tuesday 1st of July, XPUB 1 students will present their special issue 27 event at the unobserved under-appreciated and wondrous telecom museum! Put it in your calendar, set a timer, count your sleeps and see you many many times 💖

En Alsace, le data center de Microsoft consommera autant que 6 millions de foyers

Les élus locaux sont très enthousiastes pour accueillir un data center géant de Microsoft dans le sud de l'Alsace. Conçu pour accompagner le développement de l'intelligence artificielle, il consommerait autant d'électricité que six millions de maisons individuelles. Au printemps 2023, l'Alsacien Olivier Becht, alors ministre du Commerce extérieur et de l'Attractivité, convoquait des élus…

https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/alsace-data-center-microsoft-consommera-comme-6-millions-foyers-347813