Nostr notes by Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵

"If No One Pays for Proof, Everyone Will Pay for the ...

2026-03-19T04:15:34Z

"If No One Pays for Proof, Everyone Will Pay for the Loss" https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367 (back on "AI still doesn’t work very well in business, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming" https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/)

I love this king of graph, we should do it for a lot of topics, ...

2026-02-18T22:27:54Z

I love this king of graph, we should do it for a lot of topics, to better understand media distortions (and not only in the US)

"Ultra-processed foods as a percentage of household ...

2026-01-19T00:30:23Z

"Ultra-processed foods as a percentage of household purchases" https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/food/ultra-processed-foods-as-a-percentage-of-household-purchases (still looking for the same in the rest of the world) 😍

"Writing is thinking" ...

2026-01-18T23:42:08Z

"Writing is thinking" https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-025-00323-4

"As the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia marks its 25th ...

2026-01-16T23:12:52Z

"As the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia marks its 25th anniversary this month, the academic community must confront an uncomfortable truth: we have systematically failed our greatest knowledge commons." https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

"Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards ...

2026-01-02T17:10:21Z

"Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards or access everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary" https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/

"Assessing public support for degrowth" ...

2025-12-28T19:09:02Z

"Assessing public support for degrowth" https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(25)00204-9/fulltext "The adoption of degrowth will likely depend on efforts at multiple levels, from effective communication and political organising to the coordination of initiatives that bridge local actions with national and global economic reforms."

"La critique de la dépendance française à Microsoft est ...

2025-10-24T12:50:33Z

"La critique de la dépendance française à Microsoft est ancienne. En 1998, Roberto Di Cosmo publiait, avec Dominique Nora, Le Hold-Up planétaire, où il évoquait la pratique de cette société de la vente liée, et monopolistique, de systèmes d’exploitation et de logiciels de bureautique avec les ordinateurs professionnels et personnels. Toutefois, sa critique ne prit pas, notamment parce qu’elle n’était pas perçue comme politique, mais plutôt comme une fantaisie de « geek »" https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/10/23/david-monniaux-directeur-de-recherche-au-cnrs-que-se-passerait-il-si-trump-ordonnait-aux-gafam-de-cesser-leurs-services-cloud-a-l-egard-de-nos-gouvernements_6649034_3232.html

Nancy, December 28, 1944 ...

2025-10-20T13:07:24Z

Nancy, December 28, 1944 https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/nancy-no-ice.html

"World leaders who just a few years ago lauded Thunberg and ...

2025-10-06T23:59:46Z

"World leaders who just a few years ago lauded Thunberg and rushed to share stages and photo-ops with her have said nothing. The climate scientists who hailed her moral clarity and feverishly retweeted her have ignored her. The prime minister of her own country has been silent. Thunberg has been abandoned by a fake progressive liberal class that hailed her courage and valorised her strength just a few short years ago" https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-liberal-abandonment-of-greta?r=1nlk19

https://wondermark.com/ 🤣 ...

2025-09-19T22:47:27Z

https://wondermark.com/ 🤣

"Google already shares your data. That's part of the ...

2025-09-19T22:19:52Z

"Google already shares your data. That's part of the contract that you make when you sign up for a Google product. So that should come as no surprise to us," said cybersecurity expert Betsy Cooper, the director of the Aspen Institute's Policy Academy. "The surprise now is that Google is going to share that data with other companies that are then going to be able to use that data for purposes we never imagined." https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5538073/google-search-antitrust-data-privacy

"An anthropologist unpacks how colonial histories and racial ...

2025-09-11T15:17:04Z

"An anthropologist unpacks how colonial histories and racial and class hierarchies shape who is allowed to desire and accumulate gold today" https://www.sapiens.org/culture/gold-mining-ethical-sourcing-inequalities-colombia-miners/

I can totally relate... ...

2025-08-24T11:14:17Z

I can totally relate...

2018/9/17, Matt Wuerker - Politico ...

2025-08-16T01:26:29Z

2018/9/17, Matt Wuerker - Politico

"Vision Language Models are Biased" ...

2025-08-14T11:13:45Z

"Vision Language Models are Biased" https://vlmsarebiased.github.io/

"La répression des mouvements sociaux, l’effacement des ...

2025-07-30T11:25:58Z

"La répression des mouvements sociaux, l’effacement des corps intermédiaires, les arrestations, les poursuites et le retour d’un État policier : autant d’éléments qui ont cassé la dynamique protestataire, dont l’expression la plus extrême pouvait être l’immolation”, explique Hatem Nafti" https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/societe-entre-protestation-et-desespoir-les-immolations-se-multiplient-en-tunisie_233180 "Entre janvier et mars 2025, 12 cas de suicides ou tentatives de suicide par immolation ont été recensés"

posting online in 2025, ...

2025-07-28T03:28:21Z

posting online in 2025, https://www.instagram.com/ivan_ehlers/?e=2c15b4c8-1016-486b-9079-453a3ce28349&g=5

"Flooding has destroyed rice in Tajikistan, cucumbers in ...

2025-06-28T11:29:37Z

"Flooding has destroyed rice in Tajikistan, cucumbers in Spain, and bananas in Australia. Severe storms in the US this spring caused millions of dollars in damages to crops. Severe heat has led to big declines in blueberries, olives, and grapes. And as the climate changes, rising average temperatures and changing rainfall patterns are poised to diminish yields, while weather events like droughts and floods reaching greater extremes could wipe out harvests more often" https://www.wired.com/story/the-world-is-producing-more-food-than-ever-before-but-not-for-long/

"oh, vous savez, moi... je ne fais pas de politique" par ...

2025-06-19T11:06:26Z

"oh, vous savez, moi... je ne fais pas de politique" par Marc Dubuisson (npub19dr…pevj) 🔥

Toronto, 100 Adelaide St. E. – March 1989 / April 1998 by ...

2025-06-16T21:50:04Z

Toronto, 100 Adelaide St. E. – March 1989 / April 1998 by Patrick Cummins https://www.urbanspacegallery.ca/event/full-frontal-t-o/

"Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public ...

2025-06-16T12:18:30Z

"Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health" https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/long-covid-is-now-the-number-one see also https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/153/3/e2023062570/196606/Postacute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-in-Children?autologincheck=redirected

"For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your ...

2025-06-14T01:36:51Z

"For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great risk, as a tool that is easily appropriated by authorities for targeted and mass surveillance." https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/ by Privacy Guides (npub1dm2…7754)

https://xkcd.com/1897/ "So much of AI is just figuring out ...

2025-06-01T11:25:50Z

https://xkcd.com/1897/
"So much of AI is just figuring out ways to offload work onto random strangers."

discovering also that figure, I can totally relate... I grew up ...

2025-05-31T11:49:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…l3jp
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discovering also that figure, I can totally relate... I grew up in France, worked during my PhD with colleagues "dutch style", now living in Canada, and indeed, I really love the explicit (rules), that we really miss when going back to France, even for a few days...
new year, we'll be in Japan, and I am really scared...

via https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/ The ...

2025-05-31T11:41:53Z

via https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/ The “Anglo-Dutch Translation Guide”

- Comment vous vous êtes retrouvé à l'extrême gauche ? - ...

2025-05-30T10:09:08Z

- Comment vous vous êtes retrouvé à l'extrême gauche ?
- Moi ? Je n'ai pas bougé.

"The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped ...

2025-05-28T07:43:40Z

"The 'Napalm Girl' photo shocked the world and helped end the Vietnam War – but a viral video of a child surrounded by flames and other similar images in Gaza can't even provoke a ceasefire." https://zeteo.com/p/why-did-burning-girls-matter-in-vietnam-not-gaza?r=17zg6

another https://www.tomgauld.com/ #sundaymorning ...

2025-05-18T09:58:05Z

another https://www.tomgauld.com/ #sundaymorning

"The patients had developed symptoms of late-stage ...

2025-04-15T10:11:03Z

"The patients had developed symptoms of late-stage Parkinson’s, almost overnight. The cases shocked neurologists. Until then, Parkinson’s was thought to be a disease of aging, its origins slow and mysterious. But here was proof that a single chemical could reproduce the same devastating outcome. And more disturbing still: MPTP turned out to be chemically similar to paraquat, a widely used weedkiller that, for decades, had been sprayed on farms across the U.S. and Europe" https://www.politico.eu/article/bas-bloem-parkinsons-pesticides-mptp-glyphosate-paraquat/

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2025-03-23T23:53:41Z

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“Columbia is not some small, under-resourced institution unable ...

2025-03-23T11:16:02Z

“Columbia is not some small, under-resourced institution unable to fight back,” Bagenstos said. “If this institution, with a strong legal case, does not push back, that sends a pretty chilling message to the American academy generally.” https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-hasnt-columbia-u-sued-to-protect-itself

par https://bsky.app/profile/sanaga.bsky.social ...

2025-03-15T11:37:47Z

par https://bsky.app/profile/sanaga.bsky.social

"In scenes historic in their vulgarity, what resembled a ...

2025-03-01T12:41:59Z

"In scenes historic in their vulgarity, what resembled a verbal pub brawl broke out with Trump and Vance talking over Zelensky, leaving the Ukrainian president ambushed" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/zelensky-trump-vance-ukraine-war-b2706901.html

"Through the Cold War period, Americans were haunted by the ...

2025-03-01T12:37:15Z

"Through the Cold War period, Americans were haunted by the fear that a person with clandestine loyalties to a hostile foreign power might somehow rise to high office" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/least-now-we-know-truth-about-trump-and-vance/681872/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK322xBEKOAOqJ6N2BuUzPwvw "But what if the loyalties were not clandestine, not secret? What if a leader just plain blurted out on national television that he despises our allies, rejects treaties, and regards a foreign adversary as a personal friend? What if he did it again and again? Human beings get used to anything. But this?"

"If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any ...

2025-03-01T05:14:48Z

"If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/a-day-of-american-infamy.html

“Those in the scientific community who enjoy the protections of ...

2025-02-25T12:43:19Z

“Those in the scientific community who enjoy the protections of academic and other freedoms afforded by the US Constitution’s First Amendment should do and say more” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw9972

"DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy ...

2025-02-12T01:30:33Z

"DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy is being deleted in slow motion, replaced by proprietary technology and AI models. It is a coup, executed not with guns, but with backend migrations and database wipes" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america

"Great Power Comes With No Responsibility", Tom Chitty ...

2025-01-19T13:14:06Z

"Great Power Comes With No Responsibility", Tom Chitty https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/thursday-february-16th-great-power #RealLife

"Generative AI is replacing a successful AI project that ...

2024-11-24T21:21:46Z

"Generative AI is replacing a successful AI project that drafted legal rulings. Experts worry about data privacy, ethical quandaries, and the need for specialized training." https://restofworld.org/2024/buenos-aires-courts-adopt-chatgpt-draft-rulings/ poke Hubert Guillaud (npub1s5s…9xe8)

Having said that, I've recently submitted files for various ...

2024-11-10T14:07:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…2slm
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Having said that, I've recently submitted files for various requests, and twice in less than a fortnight I've had a “we looked at your application but didn't know if...”, and literally, that was the first paragraph of my application. If people had bothered to open the applications, the question would never have arisen.. I really wonder whether it's necessary to spend time writing applications, for any kind of request. I mean, seriously.

"Il y a eu en revanche un problème de compréhension de ...

2024-11-01T11:34:33Z

"Il y a eu en revanche un problème de compréhension de cette alerte. Il y a une vigilance rouge, est-ce que les gens doivent aller travailler ? Est-ce que les magasins peuvent être ouverts? En France, dans ce cas, on ferme les écoles et les crèches. Mais ces dernières semaines, on a eu plusieurs alertes rouges, et pourtant les gens sont quand même allés au travail" https://www.midilibre.fr/2024/11/01/climat-alertes-urbanisation-les-lecons-a-tirer-des-inondations-meurtrieres-en-espagne-avec-lagroclimatologue-serge-zaka-12295874.php

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html I guess ...

2024-10-28T11:57:47Z

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html I guess it works also for grant applications, etc

"Quand je frôle la mort, il faudrait que je reste docile et ...

2024-10-14T20:05:24Z

"Quand je frôle la mort, il faudrait que je reste docile et que je demande pardon, peu importe qui est dans le tort" https://www.lapresse.ca/contexte/2024-10-13/carte-blanche-a-jean-philippe-baril-guerard/j-ai-choisi-la-violence.php "Ce que j’ai fini par comprendre, de la part des chauffeurs, des chauffards et des autorités avec lesquelles j’interagis sur le sujet, c’est qu’il est plus important de protéger la propriété privée que les vies humaines"

East Texas, 2024 https://www.horenstein.com/ Henry Horenstein ...

2024-10-07T19:14:06Z

East Texas, 2024 https://www.horenstein.com/ Henry Horenstein

"Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses ...

2024-09-30T13:51:48Z

"Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/29/melting-glaciers-switzerland-italy-alpine-border-matterhorn "The two countries agreed to the modifications beneath the Matterhorn, one of the highest mountains in Europe, which straddles Switzerland’s Zermatt region and Italy’s Aosta valley." ht [@cdb_77](https://mastodon.online/@cdb_77 )

found on the internet ...

2024-09-21T11:42:40Z

found on the internet

"Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: ...

2024-09-13T19:04:59Z

"Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips" https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153 "Shared by a team of 50 researchers, mostly Dutch, who flipped 350,757 coins to test a hypothesis put forward by Persi Diaconis, a former magician and professor of statistics at Stanford University. Their work supported Diaconis’s prediction that tossed coins are (slightly) more likely to land the same way up as they started." (via https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/sep/12/ig-nobel-prize-goes-to-team-who-found-mammals-can-breathe-through-anuses)

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2024-09-01T23:43:47Z

3-Body-Problem

Kendra Allenby, https://www.kendraallenby.com/ ...

2024-08-30T02:25:07Z

Kendra Allenby, https://www.kendraallenby.com/

"The leap in temperatures over the past 13 months has ...

2024-08-28T02:35:42Z

"The leap in temperatures over the past 13 months has exceeded the global heating forecasts – is this just a blip or a systemic shift?" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/15/we-should-have-better-answers-by-now-climate-scientists-baffled-by-unexpected-pace-of-heating "Looking back at the most extreme months of heat in the second half of 2023 and early 2024 when the previous records were beaten at times by more than 0.2C, an enormous anomaly, he said scientists were still baffled: “We don’t have a quantitative explanation for even half of it. That is pretty humbling.”"