Comme les titrailles du LeMonde sont toujours aussi fades et volontairement euphémisante dès qu'il s'agit de documenter les effets délétères du capitalisme, un petit

#TraduisonsLes :

L'UE inscrit dans la loi de cacher aux citoyens les effets écologiques des Data Centers.

(«If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring» pourrait être la définition chimiquement pure de l'UE)

#UE
#UnionEuropéenne
#DataCenters
#Écologie
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalisme

Yes hello friday!

Gotta love @pluralistic formulating things so clearly:

"Because there's a sense in which Bengio and I are worried about exactly the same thing. I'm terrified that our planet has been colonized by artificial lifeforms that we constructed, but which have slipped our control. I'm terrified that these lifeforms corrupt our knowledge-creation process, making it impossible for us to know what's true and what isn't. I'm terrified that these lifeforms have conquered our apparatus of state – our legislatures, agencies and courts – and so that these public bodies work against the public and for our colonizing alien overlords.

The difference is, the artificial lifeforms that worry me aren't hypothetical – they're here today, amongst us, endangering the very survival of our species. These artificial lifeforms are called "limited liability corporations" and they are a concrete, imminent risk to the human race."

Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) | https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/

#NewSpecies!
New grasshopper from #mexico just hopped in:

Oaxaca tecuani

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/034287C1-FF9E-FFD4-FF61-FDE06D255375
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5760.3.1
#Zootaxa #OaxacaTecuani

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #entomology #insects #orthoptera #grasshopper

Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.

Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(

I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.

The report on global inequality, commissioned during South Africa’s G20 presidency, shows that between 2000 and 2024, the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth, while the poorest half of the world received just 1%.

This is not sustainable.