Laurent François

How Not to Become an Algorithm in the Age of Physical AI In her latest book, Selfpressionnism – What If AI Made Us More Human?, Marie Dollé offers pathways for navigating the coming technological revolutions.

selfpressionism urges us to focus on the off-screen, on what fundamentally binds us together. It is the sine qua non condition for not becoming algorithms ourselves.

Tout désarchiver, au-delà de 2016 Contre l’optimisation de nos identités sur les réseaux sociaux, le désarchivage apparait comme une forme de rébellion et de célébration de nos humanités

Les photos remises en ligne de 2016 ne sont pas qu’une tendance de plus : elles pourraient être le signal d’une reprise en main de nos chronologies. Allons désarchiver les couchers de soleil !

Anti-engagement Face à la saturation algorithmique, une nouvelle génération de créateurs renonce à la transparence totale pour cultiver le mystère, le gatekeeping et des logiques de culte.

Il s’agit de casser volontairement les règles classiques de l’engagement, et d’introduire du silence, de l’errance et de l’irrégularité comme leviers stratégiques.

This chart visualizes the search interest velocity comparison btw the George Floyd murder in 2020 & the Renee Nicole Good shooting in 2026 (based on Gemini and Google data). We might experience an even stronger pressure and the return of truth vs fiction.
#ReneeNicoleGood

Digital prosthesis: tending to our shortcomings in the interstices of the Web. Social networks are often accused of dividing us. We forget that they are also the invisible crutches of identities in the process of being formed.

We don’t need less social media
We might need more of it.

Ce n'est pas aux jeunes qu'il faut interdire les réseaux sociaux L'interdiction d'accès des moins de 16 ans vivant en Australie à de nombreux réseaux sociaux semble bien légère par rapport aux vrais enjeux numériques.

Sur l’interdiction des réseaux sociaux au moins de 15 ans :

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In internet culture, the more a piece of content is copied, commented on, and shared, the more power it gives to the Original Poster (OP). Celebrities like Timothée Chalamet have clearly understood the strength of becoming a meme.

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Ce n'est pas aux jeunes qu'il faut interdire les réseaux sociaux L'interdiction d'accès des moins de 16 ans vivant en Australie à de nombreux réseaux sociaux semble bien légère par rapport aux vrais enjeux numériques.

Une réponse bien trop simpliste à un sujet bien plus complexe.

On se voit demain au Salon du Livre de Boulogne-Billancourt ?

The Micro-Spaces of Digital Rebellion Online, hacktivists détour small pockets of social platforms and websites to smuggle political messages. Where no one is looking, the internet reinvents itself.

Let’s play Mario in an URL bar.
(Spoiler: it’s not even a joke)

L'ère des Key Opinion Dreamers Une nouvelle génération d'influenceurs émerge dans les réseaux sociaux. Après les Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) et les Key Opinion Consumers (KOC), voici les Key Opinion Dreamers (KOD).

Après les KOL, les KOC, les KOD?
#influence

Algofriend, or the Fatigue of Simulated Friendship The algofriend isn’t a glitch of our time, but its most intimate symptom: that of a sociability that has become calculable.

Buddy language

In the Halo of Others: The Birth of Paracommunities New social equilibriums are emerging online; more than a parasocial relationship and more diffuse than a traditional society, this is the paracommunity.

Beyond parasocial, not yet a society: welcome to the paracommunity world.

Palm-social Individuals are beginning to build their own social networks online, breaking free from the standard uses imposed by major platforms.

Making social in the palm of our hopes.

Tinja, the Tomb of Relationships The tomb created by Tinder in Japan reveals our growing need to sanctuarize our social and romantic bonds.

Social sanctuaries, the Tinder way?

ET SI ON SE LIBÉRAIT DE L'ALGOFLUENCE ? 40 % des moins de 25 ans en France se disent en situation de solitude chronique. C’est cinq fois plus que chez les plus de 65 ans.

ET SI ON SE LIBÉRAIT DE L'ALGOFLUENCE ?
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C'est l'"idée qui tue" de ma newsletter hebdo du lundi, inspirée par le prochain livre de @lilzeon.bsky.social : "CRACKER L'ALGORITHME - Réenchanter les réseaux sociaux", que j'ai pu lire pour vous en avant-première.

“I hope it’s AI” Stupefaction in front of social media content leads to a new psychic defense

"I hope it’s AI". On our paradoxical relationships with the human actions.

Violently Correct On social media, the new political correctness is violence.

For once, I’m raising my voice. Violent comments aren’t freedom of speech. GIFs glorifying murderers won’t fix the system. They only make us lose what we have left.

We. Just. Cannot. Process. So. Many. Signals. Anymore.

Tagless Identity: The Blues of the Post-Hashtag Era Algorithms invite us to rethink how humans define their own identities, beyond hashtags, as like TikTok or Instagram remove hashtags from their platforms.

Tagless Identity: The Blues of the Post-Hashtag Era

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The Inter-feed: the lives of others Between our public posts and our private archives, a liminal space exists: the images of others, accidentally saved onto our smartphones.

Welcome to the Inter-feed.

Digital Oaths Creating a moral debt toward a community promises a certain form of authenticity in the age of post-truth.

Why digital oaths are rising.

Mort de Jean Pormanove : « Les paracommunautés menacent notre vie sociale » - Carole Delga Mort de Jean Pormanove : « Les paracommunautés menacent notre vie sociale »

Décryptage de la notion de paracommunauté.

#jeanpormanove #socialmedia

AI is alive. The human vs. machine divide often misses an essential part of the story: our relationship to what seems alive, and the recognition of the living.

AI is alive. Now what?
#ai

Digital Sabotage We are not the junkies of digital platforms. We are their drug. The algorithm craves order. Let’s give it chaos.

Let’s play the algorithms

The power of real life.

This is why we need it. To feed our souls and feel the poetry we sometimes write. And sometimes we write to make this reality happen.

merci #solidays

Wired Earphones: Elegance and Rebellious Attachment Wired earphones are making a big comeback. More than just a fashion statement, they represent a clear sign of resistance to ever-present connectivity.

Wires are rebellious

Aura Farming: Cultivating Your Algorithmic Presence When online presence becomes a resource to optimize, being visible is no longer enough – you have to know how to cultivate your aura.

The Sims? The humans? Or both?

Suspended tempo in Paris during Euphoria exhibition at Grand Palais. A good reminder to look up, down, right and left. To keep finding beauty in the mundane.

.zip Identities: Miniaturization vs. Compression of Our Digital Selves Social media bios, which seem designed to miniaturize our identities, have quietly become the stage for a grand act of subversion.

I think that to reclaim our freedom in social networks, we might need to compress our digital selves.