Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? Nanna Inie and I have got you covered:

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

"À Lyon, une modélisation du quartier dense de La Buire (...) a montré que des climatiseurs installés sur les façades pouvaient localement augmenter la température de l’air de 1,75°C et réduire leur propre efficacité énergétique"

https://actu.fr/auvergne-rhone-alpes/lyon_69123/climatisation-cette-etude-inedite-realisee-a-lyon-montre-ses-effets-negatifs-sur-tout-un-quartier_64448562.html

This article, "C Is Not a Low-Level Language; Your Computer is Not A Fast PDP-11", by David Chisnall of Cambridge, is a critical self-assessment of C, modern CPU architectures that pander to C, and modern C compiler writers, like himself.

The intertwined successes of UNIX and C was inevitable, given the nature of the computing technology in the late 1960s. But that instant, meteoric success continues to demand backward compatibility through the decades, and that backward compatibility engenders much forward restraint on future advances.

As a long-time fan of C and PDP-11/70, I find Chisnall's critiques painfully true. The same could be said of UNIX, my all-time favourite operating system. And x86, too, followed a similar path to immediate success and perpetual dominance.

The power of inertia is terrifying: even after 50 years, the current score of the computer architecture and programming language game remains "von Neumann 1 v Backus 0".

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3212477.3212479

If this is one of those unphotographable cyans then I've got a new time traveller theory.

https://glammr.us/@overholt/116788587852335350

RE: https://mamot.fr/@splann/116766798183565307

Fière d’en être.
Pour qu’un label basé sur la confiance émerge rapidement, partout où des personnes, des collectifs, des journaux, des laboratoires, des formations ou des entreprises s’engagent à ne pas utiliser l’IAg dans leur pratique professionnelle (illustrations, demande de financement, textes de présentation, recherches bibliographiques, et bien sûr assistance à la production finale).
Nous reconnaître, nous rallier, nous faire confiance, et créer un réseau Sans-IAg.
Pour signer : https://framaforms.org/appel-du-18-juin-plaidoyer-pour-un-label-sans-iag-dans-lenseignement-la-culture-le-journalisme-la

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is"

https://www.404media.co/it-is-trivially-easy-to-use-reddit-to-manipulate-ai-search-research-suggests/