C'est la matière qui pense
Nouveau bouquin de Marcello Vitali-Rosati que j’ai très hâte de lire : « C’est la matière qui pense -
Pour une philosophie de l’édition »
ceen.univ-rouen.fr/matiere-marc...
25.06.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I wrote about this in this week's newsletter. I seriously believe one of the main reasons ChatGPT grew is that Google Search both failed to meaningfully innovate, especially in how it answered a user's query, and eventually deteriorated into something worse.
www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/
01.05.2025 23:03 — 👍 549 🔁 73 💬 12 📌 1
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
AI companies demand huge amounts of data to train their programs. Peer inside LibGen, a pirated library of millions of books and research papers used by Meta and others: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
18.04.2025 03:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
Nearly 35 years ago, Paul Ginsparg created arXiv, a digital repository where researchers could share their latest findings before they had been systematically reviewed or verified. If arXiv stopped functioning, scientists would suffer an immediate and profound disruption.
27.03.2025 13:09 — 👍 144 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
When politicians ban books, I read them. So when I heard that Meta - who, of course, believes in free speech - is using egregious legal tactics to silence a former employee's book, my eyebrows went up. Who else is reading "Careless People" just cuz Meta is suing? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...
16.03.2025 18:45 — 👍 292 🔁 102 💬 34 📌 25
Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
Wikipedia is a bastion of transparency, punctiliousness, and accessible knowledge.
So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has lately taken time from his busy schedule of dismantling the federal government to attack Wikipedia.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
05.03.2025 04:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⚡ « Le Point » contre Wikipédia : on fait le point sur la mécanique du conflit en cours 👇
larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/nod...
01.03.2025 08:31 — 👍 29 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next
The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.
It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.
Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".
Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".
We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
21.02.2025 09:26 — 👍 1406 🔁 655 💬 34 📌 28
The Erasing of American Science
How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?
For decades, the U.S. has funded science, then left scientists to direct their own work. Now the government is testing just how much it can renegotiate that relationship www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
15.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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