Le Cap, laboratoire de l’opposition à l’ANC ?
Présentée par l'Alliance démocratique comme un contre-modèle aux villes gérées par l'ANC, Le Cap, sous sa façade de carte postale, voit néanmoins les inégalités progresser.
🎧 @franceculture.fr
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If the climate were a chatbox, it would already be saved.
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🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...
🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?
We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
This 2026 India AI summit gives me 2015 Paris COP21 vibes. Lots of declarations, intentions, ethics, principles, joyful fireside chats, and congratulations. Last year, one person died every minute from rising heat.
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
The Golden Age.
In the course "Digital Capitalism" that I am teaching this term, next Monday session is on "AI". I feel completely overwhelmed by the amount of literature. What should I prioritise for a two-hour class? What should be the key messages? Good thing is, ChatGPT will handle it for me. Love it.
In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...
Call for PhD Student!
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass.
Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.
Lecture du samedi.
From the subprime to the premium, from California to fascism? - @jmigozzi.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fresh news from the French democracy.
Demon Copperhead de Kingsolver et James de Percival Everett sont deux chefs d'oeuvre, je recommande !
This is true.
And if you are interested in asset inequalities, class formation, and digital technologies, you might like it too.
Après 10h de vol, 1h de taxi, 1h de métro, 1 Eurostar, forcément - forcément - c'était la SNCF (que j'aime tant) le maillon faible pour ce retour en Europe. Train arrêté, aucune solution, aucun ravitaillement, aucune communication, je dis OUI!
Maida Vale is, indeed, a terrifying place.
Le niveau de prélèvements obligatoires agrégé n'est pas un paramètre pertinent de la politique publique.
Vous pouvez penser que c'est trop ou pas assez en f° de vos préférences , mais rien ne permet de dire que c'est intrinsèquement trop haut (ou bas), juste par comparaison avec d'autre pays.
I gave up that idea 25 years ago when my English teacher explained to us that "public schools" were private.
For the past decade, ICIJ’s Datashare has been the gateway for hundreds of reporters exploring the 100M+ leaked files at the heart of investigations like the #PanamaPapers.
Now, after 10 years of improvements, the platform has received a major upgrade:
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Learning between humans is such a beautiful thing. To deprive ourselves from that is immensely sad.
New research from @cplusc.bsky.social & @consumerfed.bsky.social shows that average across the US it is MORE EXPENSIVE to have a poor credit score than to live in a zip code with a high disaster risk:
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/insurers-c...
"The format is flexible".
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Chatbots “aren’t just friendly personal assistants; they’re data harvesting machines that give their developers an even more intimate algorithmic window into your thoughts and desires.”
lithub.com/ruled-by-num...
A few moments of absolute brilliance from Aussie players - also SA looks different when the ref pays more attention to rucks... Trauma speaking here
Biggest loss since 2018??
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Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide
