Avis aux amateurs et amatrices de cyclisme ultradistance : j'étais engagée sur l'Ultra Rhône Exprhess sur 5 au 7 juin mais je dois me déclarer forfait.

Si vous êtes partant(e) pour rouler :
- 3 jours
- 600km
- 10 000m de dénivelé positif
- en boucle autour de Lyon
- sans assistance (je sais, ça fait rêver)
- au pied levé (départ après-demain)

Je cède volontiers mon dossard (les orgas sont au courant que je cherche une personne pour me remplacer).

N'hésitez pas à me faire signe !

https://ultra-rhone-exprhess.fr/

#ultracycling #ultra #vélo #bikepacking #ultradistance #Lyon

RE: https://piaille.fr/@danslesalgorithmes/116684428002918549

« Quand toute votre économie est organisée autour de cadres intermédiaires, de vice-présidents et de dirigeants qui ne font aucun travail concret, l’IA paraît donc magique ».

My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

« À quel point peut-on critiquer le numérique lorsqu’on étudie dans un laboratoire de recherche en informatique ? Après que l’université Grenoble Alpes a interdit la soutenance de thèse d’Achille Baucher, les soutiens se multiplient. »

https://reporterre.net/Je-suis-pret-a-ce-que-ma-carriere-s-arrete-un-chercheur-penalise-pour-sa-these-sur-la

#recherche #informatique #grenoble

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.

The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.

Read more on https://mullvad.net/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet

The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and mathematics https://leidendeclaration.ai/ is disappointing. The preamble is good; it clearly explains the threats that mathematics faces due to AI. The reason it is disappointing is that the only proposed solution is more transparency.

In the preamble, the authors state: « […] the consequences of large-scale investment in artificial intelligence are being widely discussed in regard to warfare, mass surveillance, political disruption, and environmental damage.». They are right: AI is currently being used to kill, surveil, and impoverish people. AI for mathematics cannot exist independently of the rest of the world; for it to function, companies need to make a profit, they need to sign deals with the military, and they need to keep destroying the planet to power their servers. To use AI is to contribute to this system. No use case of AI has provided sufficient benefits to justify the destruction it is causing.

To have as the only (possibly) constraining recommendation to « Evaluate the ethical consequences of your work, and take action accordingly» is simply not understanding the problem. AI can never be ethical in a capitalistic society. The purpose of this recommendation is to open the way to people claiming that they are using AI in an ethical way, which is impossible. How can one claim to be for open science and not condemn the use of AI, which is based on stolen work?

The few mathematical problems that will be solved by AI won’t outweigh the years of work and the brilliant minds we are losing because of it. No mathematical problem is worth the death of people, the destruction of our education system, and the destruction of our planet.