Alors que la « fear of becoming obsolete » (à savoir, la crainte d’être remplacé par l’IA) gagne les rangs, la Gen Z semble avoir adopté une solution tout à fait old school : le sabotage. C’est en tout cas ce que nous raconte un (énième !) nouveau rapport sur l’IA au travail paru cette semaine : concrètement, 29% des employés tenteraient activement de saboter le déploiement de l'IA au sein de leur entreprise, et plus précisément 44% des employés Gen Z. Parmi les tactiques de sabotage, on compte : falsifier les évaluations de performance des outils d’IA, produire intentionnellement un travail médiocre afin de faire passer l'IA pour moins efficace qu’elle ne l’est, ou tout simplement refuser de l’utiliser sérieusement (jusqu’à 80% des cols blancs). Ce que nous apprend également le rapport, c’est que 30% des saboteurs ont invoqué le FOBO comme motif principal de leurs actions. Et en même temps, quand Dario Amodei crie à tue-tête que l'IA pourrait faire disparaître un job de bureau débutant sur deux (comprenez : ceux des Gen Z) ou que Mustafa Suleyman (boss de l’IA chez Microsoft) prédit l’automatisation TOTALE des cols blancs d'ici 18 mois, autant dire demain… Est-ce qu’il ne s’agirait pas de légitime défense, en fait ?

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models.

VSeeFace is a free, highly configurable face and hand tracking VRM and VSFAvatar avatar puppeteering program for virtual youtubers with a focus on robust tracking and high image quality.

Its a place to make music, ascii art and shader visuals. Its really young and quickly evolving. Nobody knows where its going. This help page is probably already outdated by the time you are reading this.

Ravioli resets every 25h. Everything will become inaccessible at the end of the ravioli day and there will be a fresh start. Let code die.

The recentish popularity of TouchDesigner has certainly brought with it a lot of interest in node-based editors for graphics. Here's a few open source cross-platform tools that I've used:

Cables.gl @cables_gl https://cables.gl/ ( what I used to make the animation)
Coollab @Coollab https://coollab-art.com/
Material Maker @rodzilla https://www.materialmaker.org/
Pixieditor https://pixieditor.net/
Plugdata/PureData + GEM https://plugdata.org/
Graphite https://www.graphite.art/

Each serves different purposes and does things in different ways. For example, all of the above software can render animations but Graphite and Pixieditor aren't really for live visuals.

Build procedural images with RasterFlow’s node-based editor, real-time previews, and non-destructive workflow. Combine over 250 operations into flexible visual graphs. Generate textures and patterns procedurally, and export results instantly. The same open foundation trusted by the GEGL ecosystem — designed for creators, developers, and technical artists.

kinda like touch designer

A unique online museum of physical media formats showcasing developments in audio, video, film and data storage.

The Museum preserves the memory of those objects that held our memories, and every format listed in the Museum is represented by at least one example in the collection.

In Teaching as a Conserving Activity, Neil Postman argues that schools should be conservatories of culture: places that keep alive language, stories, and standards of judgment. Rather than chasing every new device or educational fad, schooling should conserve what helps humans think clearly and live responsibly.

Postman contrasts a culture of novelty with a culture of memory. He proposes curricula that foreground semantics, history, and moral reasoning—so students can evaluate claims, not just process information. Teachers, in this view, are custodians of shared meanings who help students see why some questions matter more than others.

Education conserves the words and stories that let a culture remember what is worth loving, questioning, and defending. 

Key Ideas from the Book

School as Conservatory: Preserve linguistic clarity, historical memory, and standards of evidence.
Against Fads: Beware technocentric reforms that confuse efficiency with purpose.
Semantics First: Define terms; separate description from evaluation; test metaphors.
Curriculum of Memory: Canon and common knowledge are tools for judgment, not mere tradition.
Teacher’s Role: Model restraint, context, and care for language in a media-saturated world. 

“People are saying, ‘I refuse to work on this software. You have to find something else for me to do’,” said one senior NHS official who manages data analysts. “They’re calling it a workplace adjustment. It would be like, you know, if you were disabled and needed a different desk, they’re literally treating it like that.”

They added: “It’s a significant number of people but there is also a silent majority that feel uncomfortable but wouldn’t want to put their head above a parapet.”

Another senior health official, who has worked in analytics for the NHS for almost two decades, said they would not use the FDP as it was run by an “ethically bankrupt” organisation.

“I will continue to refuse to engage with any work involving this company,” they said. “I know that there are staff who are already working as slowly as they can when pressured to work with Palantir.”

One health data official said their team was “not interested in using [the FDP] as it doesn’t do anything new for us” and “their method is to just not use it”.

Code editor, fork of ZED

Given how it had literally been less than two weeks since the official Dead Can Dance page ostensibly rallied against AI being used to exploit the music streaming system at the expense of real artists, I can’t help but think it’s rather hypocritical of Perry to suddenly turn around now, and say: “Oh, that type of AI is bad, but the type of AI that I’m using is totally fine, actually!”

Much of the art produced with and about machine learning is too dazzled by its apparent capacities for human-like behavior to concern itself with the humans that it conceals and abuses. The best intentions cannot overcome the material reality of exploitation and the spectacular disappearance of labor required to maintain the participation of well-intentioned people. Generative AI, no matter how sophisticated, cannot function without this human labor and, crucially, it never will. It cannot sustain the fascinating illusion of its intelligence without concealing all of the human work and social relationships that brought something like Being into being.

Wax is a browser-based audio synthesis environment inspired by Max and other data-flow programming systems.

L’IA en perspective est un outil destiné en première intention aux travailleurs·euses sociaux, aux enseignants·es, aux formateurs·rices, aux animateurs·rices, qui souhaitent aborder la question de l’Intelligence Artificielle avec leurs publics.

En multipliant les entrées thématiques, la plateforme permet à un grand nombre de professionnels·les ou de simples citoyens·nes d'aborder l’I.A. selon leurs centres d’intérêts, avant de faire leur chemin dans notre architecture, d’y puiser des informations, des questionnements et de disposer d'une banque de ressources.

Un outil pédagogique conçu, produit et réalisé par le GSARA asbl.

On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

After the fall of the Roman Empire, elephants virtually disappeared from Western Europe.
Since there was no real knowledge of how this animal actually looked, illustrators had to rely on oral and written transmissions to morphologically reconstruct the elephant, thus reinventing an actual existing creature. This tree diagram traces the evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment.

publipostage dans libreoffice

part web comic, part music video

A extensively modified and feature-rich fork of Reticulum MeshChat by Liam Cottle.

This project is independent from the original Reticulum MeshChat project and is not affiliated with it.

LXMF is a simple and flexible messaging format and delivery protocol that allows a wide variety of implementations, while using as little bandwidth as possible. It is built on top of Reticulum and offers zero-conf message routing, end-to-end encryption and Forward Secrecy, and can be transported over any kind of medium that Reticulum supports.

LXMF is efficient enough that it can deliver messages over extremely low-bandwidth systems such as packet radio or LoRa. Encrypted LXMF messages can also be encoded as QR-codes or text-based URIs, allowing completely analog paper message transport.

User-facing clients built on LXMF include:

Sideband
MeshChat
Nomad Network

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs”

“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take absolutely unhinged risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are leaders who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

Around the world, cultural workers are striking, protesting, running campaigns and mobilizing in relation to the use of AI in the workplace, such as Hollywood writers, game performers in the US and voice actors in Brazil. This tracker aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns and mobilizations by cultural workers — broadly understood as the arts, culture and media sectors — in relation to AI around the world.

Who is Jessica Foster? The pro-Trump influencer created by AI that made Republicans fall in love

Every week, sometimes more than once, we are taking calls or messages about the same single situation facing an activist(s) post arrest. It is this:

They have taken their phone to a protest, were arrested, cops took their phone (often a lot more interested in phone than owner), phone was on at the time.

Here's what we tell them: It does not matter if you use the best E2EE app (Signal is common) and have a 9x9 18 line pattern unlock, it's time to act like it's game over.

Here's why.

In complete secrecy, Iranian authorities bought FindFace, a Russian facial recognition software, in 2019, as confirmed by contracts obtained by Forbidden Stories and its partners.
FindFace can identify faces in public spaces in a matter of seconds and run them through databases maintained by the regime's security services.
The Iranian security apparatus is attempting to conceal this acquisition with shell companies.
Several security agencies are involved, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.