Ghita Benotmane

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

“I lied. I manipulated. I wrapped control in poetry.”
Chilling.

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

One of the best reads on AI & Education: "You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire. " www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Vous êtes trop mims, Arte

I can't believe I'll say this in 2025 but:

We, EU tech engineers, should start to seriously consider EU made alternatives to every American SaaS & business we currently use.

Tariffs will impact goods but soon services too. We cannot rely on the US anymore as a reliable economical partner anymore.

Dans le Vermont, le réseau social ultralocal aussi populaire que Facebook Dans cet Etat rural et très progressiste du nord-est des Etats-Unis, un réseau social local baptisé Front Porch Forum parvient à rivaliser avec Facebook et Instagram. Une solution de substitution « low-tech », dépourvue d’algorithme et centrée sur le…

Dans le Vermont, le réseau social ultralocal aussi populaire que Facebook

Case in point
bsky.app/profile/bonp...

The attacks on the pillars of the nation-state, the dismantling of government agencies, and the aggressive anti-intellectualism are some chilling signals of what's yet to come. We're still missing a mob of MAGA red guards to emerge but it doesn't seem so far fetched.

Heartbreaking to watch the USA ship sink slowly to the abyss. As much as we compare this moment to German and Italian fascism (and rightly so), there's also a striking resemblance with China's cultural (counter)revolution.

Beautiful commitment of Fed workers in the USA holding their line. "Le sens du service public" is strong!

This thread is so good ✨

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Very helpful overview of (some of) the great design talent + leaders active on Bluesky. Let’s build the supportive, inspiring, thought-provoking community we all need right now!

Thanks for putting this together @jonas.do 🙌

I wish TikTok was removed in Europe too. Lucky Americans!

6, and I still send postcards

Hello (again) Bluesky !

Some fun ones you got there 😁

Wealth, shown to scale Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

Billionaires shouldn't exist. This statement only feels radical because we tend to severely underestimate the true scale of superwealth.

👉This visualization does a perfect job putting things in perspective.
mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

Befriending your impostor syndrome with Iceland's president Halla Tómasdóttir Worklife with Adam Grant · Episode

I just discovered Halla Tómasdóttir, the president of Iceland, through the Adam Grant podcast. So hopeful, and one of the best takes I've heard on imposter syndrome. Give it a listen, it'll lighten your day ☀️
open.spotify.com/episode/00eM...

Without downloading any pictures, what's your energy going into 2025?

Si vous êtes ici je pense que vous êtes prêt à signer cette pétition, pour que le gouvernement cesse d’utiliser X comme plateforme de communication :
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Coucou tout le monde ! Comme pas mal de gens, on s'éloigne de Twitter/X pour chercher un ciel un peu moins nuageux...

Pour commencer, vous pouvez jeter un oeil à cette liste (où on a l'honneur de figurer) qui regroupe l'essentiel de la science sur Bluesky. Merci et bisous ! 😘

go.bsky.app/CFvzzJP

A treasure trove of tech history goes online with the unveiling of the Nokia Design Archive Aalto University launches the Nokia Design Archive, an online repository that charts the pioneering history of Finland’s legendary mobile phone manufacturer

The Nokia Design Archive is an online museum curating the history and designs Nokia, and it's just lovely and nostalgic in every possible way

Ten Inspiring Signs of Progress From 2024 These positive stories—from scientific breakthroughs to advancements in justice and equality—make us feel uplifted and hopeful for the future.

Progress occurs every day, right under our noses, and there was plenty across the globe, *even in 2024*. Including progress on disease treatments, rise of minimum wages, same-sex marriage, women and children's rights and... the location of Plato's tumb (!)

Doing sufficient qualitative research for the purposes of making business decisions is neither particularly expensive nor difficult if you actually care about people and want to learn about them.

Unfortunately, you will end up learning a lot of inconvenient stuff.

Cartoon by Tom Gauld for the Guardian - "By conceling herself with a cocoon of discarded wrapping paper and surviving on a diet of surplus festive chocolates and liqueurs, Emily hopes to read undisturbed as far into January as possible". Replaced Emiliy by "Ghita".

Absolutely spot on @tomgauld.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Google WAS good.
But I've been using a combination of Firefox and DuckDuckGo for quite some time now.
More than enough to land on Wikipedia anyway.

Mood #gouvernement #zombies
The new is sure taking its time to be born.

This is what the internet is for.

"The end of forever." Beautiful.