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YouTube video by Computer History Archives Project ("CHAP") Computer History: IBM OCR World - Optical Character Recognition circa 1966 (system/360) Rochester

La reconnaissance optique de caractères en 1966. Un petit film publicitaire d'IBM qui montre la fameuse police OCR-B www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC1m... .
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AI App Replika Accused of Deceptive Marketing The chatbot, which offers romantic companionship, has been hit with an FTC complaint from tech ethics organizations

“These bots were not designed to provide an authentic connection that could be helpful for people—but instead to manipulate people into spending more time online. It could further worsen the loneliness crisis that we're already experiencing.” #AIEthics time.com/7209824/repl...

SNEAK PREVIEW: ERYK SALVAGGIO, CAROLINE SINDERS & STEPH MAJ SWANSON’S “CULTURAL RED TEAMING: ARRG! & CREATIVE MISUSE OF AI SYSTEMS” [Below, a sneak preview from the upcoming issue Critical AI 3.1, Eryk Salvaggio, Caroline Sinders and Steph Maj Swanson‘s “Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! & Creative Misuse of AI Sys…

ARRG! (The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group) has a paper on critical artistic misuse of gen AI in the Critical AI journal (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social). Here's a pre-proofed copy of the paper, co-written with @carolinesinders.bsky.social and @supercomposite.bsky.social! #criticalAI

L’exemple de Paro, un bébé phoque robot apparu dans des établissements médico-sociaux suisses, montre que la technologie peut être réappropriée de manière créative par ses utilisateurs, sans remplacer notre besoin des autres. Par Brenda Bogaert et Jean-Philippe Pierron
https://buff.ly/4artFLi

Are better models better? — Benedict Evans Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how...

I wrote something wondering - are better models better?
Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So should we change what we expect?

www.ben-evans.com/benedictevan...

Clash. (Power, Greed, and the Battle for a Fair Future) In 2024, the combined net worth of the world’s 2,781 billionaires reached $14.2 trillion. The 18 wealthiest individuals collectively held nearly $2 trillion, accounting for approximately 16% of total…

"Clash" is a manifesto for what comes next.

It's a handbook for the class war we didn't start. The fire we didn't light.

The crisis forced on all of us by self-radicalized wealth extremists.

[SaveTheDate] « Repenser la recherche scientifique au XXIe siècle. Six tables rondes publiques sur les sciences en société (2024-2025) » lab.hypotheses.org/repenser-la-...

Low-Tech Bibliography and Inspiration: Minimal Computing Low Tech Magazine How To Get What You Want Hannah Perner-Wilson Out of Power Tower and Postnaturalia Kristof Kintera Sizzling Semiconductors Ioana Vreme Moser Tupperware Electronic Instruments ADACHI Tomomi Drift Mine Satellite Everest Pipkin No Tech Magazine Āmantēcayōtl: And When it Disappears, it is Said, the Moon has Died, Fernando Palma Rodríguez How to Build a Digital Brick Wall Allan Wexler Solar Server for Video Games Kara Stone Textile Instruments Agente Cosura / Lisa Simpson Lubricate Coil Engine Tabita Rezaire The New Way Things Work David Macaulay Code Switch: Distributing Blackness, Reprogramming Internet Art Organized by Legacy Russell Neo-Luddite Reading Groups Imaginary Landscape No. 4 John Cage Queer Connections Faith Holland Vape Synth David Rios, Kari Love, Shuang Cai, and Becky Stern Permacomputing How to Do Things with Sensors Jennifer Gabrys Painting Machines Lolo y Sosaku Handmade Electronic Music Nicholas Collins Dark Matter Objects Zine Neta Bomani Super Mario Clouds Cory Archangel Low Power Electronics Case Mod by Janne Schimmel Uncomputable Ephemera Alex Galloway Handmade Computers Taeyoon Choi Bread Symphony Katya Rozanova, Ashley Jane Lewis, and Max Horwich Circuit Experiments Michelle Temple Tiny Internet Spencer Chang Open Garden Alice Yuan Zhang Minimal Computing and Ontologies Erik Radio Two Person Operating System Type 2 Martha Friedman and Susan Marshall Alt-Text as Poetry Finnegan and Bojana Towards a Folk Computer Cristóbal Sciutto Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Our Networks Conference

Look at this great bibliography!

Quand t'as toujours pas reçu le mémo après quatre-vingt deux ans, faut vérifier tes spams.

The Cultural Evolution of Artificial Intelligence Explore AI's journey from ancient myths to modern advancements and its cultural significance.

In this blog post, I try to demonstrate why it is necessary to tell the story of AI in order to think about its contemporary issues: www.historica.org/blog/ai-for-...

New book by #AlainBadiou and #PascaleFautrier on #JeanPaulSartre in my #PerspectivesCritiques series @editions-puf.bsky.social

Who gave $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund?

-Each of the 5 biggest tech firms
-The CEOs of Uber & OpenAI
-Auto giants Toyota, Ford, & GM
-Drugmaker behemoth Pfizer

Corporate America is desperate to kiss the ring.

There's nothing they won’t do for a tax break.

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#Communiqué
Fidèle à ses valeurs institutionnelles et à sa mission de diffusion des sciences sociales, l’EHESS suspend son activité du réseau social X et rejoint Bluesky à compter du #20janvier 2025 👋 @helloquittex.bsky.social
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How Mark Zuckerberg Fell for the Republican Right Mark Zuckerberg’s embrace of the Republican Party has come as a surprise to those who identified him and Meta with the progressive wing of the Democrats. In reality, he has long championed right-wing ...

“Silicon Valley’s alliance with the extreme right will allow them to keep preaching how much tech will save the world for a little longer — all while they continue to degrade life for everyone.”

On Becoming Moss | Are.na Editorial Elaine Ayers on thinking with moss and dismantling colonial institutions from the inside out.

"Humans studied plants + animals in many ways before museums ever existed. There are plenty of ways of telling stories [+] understanding histories that don’t involve cataloging unnaturally preserved specimens... It's profoundly selfish of us to constantly seek preservation for our own purposes."

For non-French-speaking people, you can use the platform created by a team at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research, the French state research organisation) to help you migrate from X to this platform.

You can choose English (or 3 other languages).
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The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down — HELIOTROPE By Scott Richmond In October of 2024, Mozilla, not-for-profit publisher of the Firefox browser,  announced that it's going to become an adtech company . This is  real bad .

🔥 Hot off the presses:

The Web is Too Big, or Scaling Down
By Scott Richmond @scottrichmond.me

www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/the-we...

Just received a copy of the book ´Nocturnalities: Bargaining Beyond Rest’ arrived in my mail !

Thank you a lot to the editors Agata Bar and Andrea Knezović for including the English translation of my essay on sleep live streams !

Published by Onomatopé

this is how you summon white women over 30

Is it filmed?

Gerui Wang on "Algorithmic Conformity: Why do AI Generated Texts and Images Erode Cultural Diversity?" Diverse brushwork of Monet's painting are reduced to fixated forms in AI-generated paintings. Algorithmic conformity prioritizes regularity and dominant trends over nuance & context. #FaceInterface

Min-Young Kim: Text sometimes appears in a virtual wall, curved. Distortion is weird. Fantasy here is using a variable font parameter to control how much distortion it can have in a VR environment. Need to support AR/VR as a globally inclusive medium. #FaceInterface

@tsmullaney.bsky.social at #FaceInterface "Privilege is the ability to move onto cooler problems", in the context of digitally-disadvantaged languages. For English we can worry about VR/AR, color fonts, etc. Most languages still need basic OCR/HTR/NLP. #MultilingualDH

She Is in Love With ChatGPT (Gift Article) A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.

You think you know the kind of person who would fall in love with an AI chatbot but I think she will surprise you.

Gift link for those who don’t subscribe to the NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

Words of Type | Encyclopedia Multilingual encyclopedia of typographic terms.

Lisa Huang: Check out the beta version of Words of Type. Not just about typography, but respect for languages and cultures. #FaceInterface

Portes ouvertes de la HEAD – Genève today

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