The BullshitBingo Show @al@mamot.fr

I read a lot of tech BS, pretty much professionally, but it never ceases to terrify me how easily the biggest challenges our world is facing right now are reframed as (economic) opportunities.

It just makes my gut "people are dying, the planet is on fire and you are trying to SELL more STUFF??".

There is probably some nuance to be found there, but I find it hard not to get upset.

Meilleure vanne de l'année, le concours est officiellement terminé on fera pas mieux.

Si jamais ça venait à disparaitre de Dailymotion, et autres, j'ai mis la plus belle vidéo de ce début de semaine sur mon peertube

https://media.zat.im/videos/watch/c7715453-123b-47ea-a9c2-4c4d89daf9ff

ON EST DES NAINS ET TOI T'ES QU'UN SALE ELFE FEMINOVEGAN ! EH SALE ELFE ! RETOURNE DANS TON SAFE SPACE DE LA LORIEN !

"Morehshin Allahyari has been capturing the imagination of #art lovers the world over since her Material Speculation: #ISIS series from 2015-16 propelled her into the spotlight. For that project, she recreated objects destroyed by the ISIS terrorist organization in Iraq.

#3Dprinting them in a beautiful translucent material that revealed a USB — filled with the related data — buried deep inside the new works."

Physical #Tactics for #DigitalColonialism

https://hyperallergic.com/504461/talking-digital-colonialism-with-morehshin-allahyari/

i don’t really know why bay area tech bros feel they are owed a debate on the predatory nature of their employers

like, bros, the whole reason i am doing what i am doing is to put your employers out of business, we’re not going to get along, we’re not going to agree, and i’ve heard it all before

Que la fête commence. Je répète…

https://www.referendum.interieur.gouv.fr/

Oh wow. So that really famous centralized vs decentralized vs distributed diagram that I quote above? Well, in one of the companion papers, Baran provides this iteration on it, which in my opinion is far superior and I'm going to start using in my presentations.

Full paper: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3097.html

Je ne sais pas de qui est cette perle, mais c'est tellement bien vu ! #JdR

Here's a woman in computer science history I just came across: Ruth M. Davis. She started as a programmer for the US Navy and ended up doing lots of policy work related to computers and networks.

Here are excerpts from a 1973 keynote she gave on computer networks and US national policy: https://archive.org/details/Issue1/page/n7

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_M._Davis

RT @textfiles@twitter.com

Today, Jon Stewart testified about the important of extending the 9/11 fund past 2020, to handle the health and welfare of first responders who went to Ground Zero and worked there, suffering greatly in the years hence. I'd like to add something to that discussion, something new. https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1138476445204959234

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1138537237623316480

RT @maxbraun@twitter.com

What happens if you train a GAN on the @eBoyArts@twitter.com database? Infinite pixel nightmares, that's what.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/maxbraun/status/1137510117631389698