Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵

"Holding my dad’s hand: a photographic essay" https://observer.co.uk/culture/photography/article/holding-my-dads-hand-a-photographic-essay "Cultural taboos about men holding hands mean fathers and sons rarely do so as adults. But when Valery Poshtarov set out to take portraits of this connection the results were both touching and telling"

"I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up." https://arman-bd.hashnode.dev/i-left-port-22-open-on-the-internet-for-54-days-here-s-who-showed-up via @MonniauxD@social.sciences.re

#irony @streetartutopia@mastodon.online

Brendan Loper https://pleated-jeans.com/2024/05/08/funny-single-panel-comics-from-artist-brendan-loper/ via @bouletcorp2@mastodon.social

"The Post-American Internet" https://framatube.org/w/t257S21Mj8eS3dz8apeFro?start=0s by @pluralistic@mamot.fr

Bruce MacKinnon https://www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/halifax/opinion-halifax/bruce-mackinnon-trumps-totally-having-talks-with-more-reasonable-leaders-in-iran

Kyoto, Spring 2026

"Aux Archives départementales du Finistère, les dossiers des années 1941-1943 relatifs aux bals interdits font état de nombreuses saisies d’instruments. On y dénombre ainsi les mentions de confiscations temporaires ou définitives de 58 accordéons, 6 saxophones, 3 banjos, 3 batteries ou caisses de jazz, 2 clarinettes, 2 binious, 1 harmonica et 1 violon. À cet inventaire, il convient d’ajouter pour être complet, 1 piano mécanique et 20 phonographes." https://archives.finistere.fr/seconde-guerre-mondiale/histoires-de-guerre/les-bals-clandestins

"Les résultats confirment qu’à niveau de diplôme, âge, secteur d’activité, profession et autres caractéristiques observables données, l’absence d’autonomie au travail renforce nettement l’abstention aux élections. Pour les salarié.es qui votent, la possibilité de s’exprimer sur leur travail dans le cadre de réunions formelles contribue à orienter leur vote vers les candidats du centre (macroniste) ou de gauche, et les éloigne du vote RN" https://ires.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DdT_T_Coutrot_2024_2.pdf

"Une hypothèse un peu malveillante serait d’y voir une sorte de racisme refusant aux Chinois la capacité d’égaler les Européens ou les Américains dans l’activité scientifique. On peut plus certainement y voir, pour les élites politiques et journalistiques françaises l’effet de leurs ignorances quant à la réalité de la production scientifique et technologique" https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences-au-carre/article/2026/04/29/le-pourquoi-de-la-cecite-europeenne-face-a-la-chine_6684257_6565027.html

"In 1847, a doctor at Vienna General Hospital cut the maternity ward death rate from 18% to 2% by requiring handwashing in chlorinated lime solution. The medical establishment repaid him with years of ridicule and eventually committed him to an asylum" https://boingboing.net/2026/04/07/the-doctor-who-proved-handwashing-saves-lives-was-locked-in-an-asylum-for-it.html

"AI-generated images have left us questioning what is real. But the godfather of digital forensics, Hany Farid, is not giving up" https://www.science.org/content/article/deepfakes-are-everywhere-godfather-digital-forensics-fighting-back

Kumano Kodo, 熊野古道, day 1, Spring 2026

Uji, 宇治市, #tea, Spring 2026

"Présenter l’écologie scientifique comme une opinion est dangereux pour la démocratie" https://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/actualite/lettre-ouverte-du-cs-presenter-lecologie-scientifique-comme-une-opinion-est-dangereux-pour-la-democratie/

"Japan is often seen as one of the safest countries in the world, but that same strict order comes with laws that can catch people off guard. Something as small as getting into a heated argument in public, accidentally taking an item you didn’t pay for, overstaying a visa, or even grabbing someone else’s umbrella or bike thinking it was yours can escalate further than you could imagine" https://sundaicity.com/blogs/getting-arrested-in-japan

"For the first time in my life, I genuinely do not know what academia will look like in five years. Even if progress stalls completely and we are stuck with the current models forever, the changes already in motion will transform my field of academic research and publishing beyond recognition. The status quo is unsustainable. It may take time, because academia is the most dispositionally conservative institution on the planet. But it will change" https://www.popularbydesign.org/p/academics-need-to-wake-up-on-ai?triedRedirect=true

"For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It" https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/from-the-editor-race-racism-history

"LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate" https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

"GAFAM Empire is a project in which we look at all the known acquisitions conducted by five big tech companies: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, from the moment they made their first one to the end of summer of 2022, when we stopped collecting data" https://gafam.theglassroom.org/ (via @Ba_Dang@jasette.facil.services)

Koyasan, 高野山, Spring 2026

"The atlas of the Chernobyl disaster" https://attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/the-atlas-of-the-chernobyl-disaster "The first attempt to mapping the impact of the explosion"

Koyasan, 高野山, Spring 2026

« L'anglais était ma matière la plus faible », avoue-t-il. « Enfant, j'avais du mal à saisir l'intention derrière une question ; je prenais les choses très au pied de la lettre. » https://www.bbc.com/afrique/articles/ce8lrgde80ro « Par exemple, lors d'un examen, on m'a demandé d'écrire un texte sur ma maison, et je n'ai pas compris ce qu'on attendait de moi — alors je me suis contenté de dresser la liste de toutes les pièces de la maison et de tous les meubles qui s'y trouvaient. »

"War Isn’t Working for American Workers" https://jacobin.com/2026/04/military-arms-industry-workers-labor

"Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01257-6

"More than a century before Japanese whisky became one of the most coveted spirits in the world, a young merchant in Osaka had a simple observation: the wines and liquors being imported from Europe didn’t suit Japanese tastes. What he built from that insight—one product at a time, for the last 127 years and counting—is now one of the largest beverage companies on earth" https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/drinks/a71219491/japanese-whisky-house-of-suntory-history-facts/

"Even recruiters will admit it’s fair to wonder. The CEO of a hiring platform said last fall that his industry is in “an AI doom loop”: HR departments complain of a wave of AI-generated job applications, prompting the need for more AI filters. Applicants complain they’re getting unfairly filtered out. Some fight AI with AI, filling their résumés and cover letters with buzzwords. “It feels very dystopian to me,”" https://www.wired.com/story/he-couldnt-land-a-job-interview-was-ai-to-blame/ see https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11884 poke @hubertguillaud@pouet.chapril.org

"Healthy life expectancy trends in the UK: a watershed moment" https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/analysis/healthy-life-expectancy-trends-in-the-uk-a-watershed-moment via https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/27/people-in-uk-spend-fewer-years-in-good-health-than-a-decade-ago-study-finds

"Can you build a Tory voter?" https://www.economist.com/interactive/2025-british-politics/build-a-voter #cascade

"Sur le littoral normand, si des acquéreurs très fortunés continuent de s’arracher des maisons avec vue sur mer, les prix commencent à prendre en compte les risques littoraux. Certains clients préfèrent désormais des habitations en retrait" https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2026/05/02/a-agon-coutainville-dans-la-manche-le-marche-immobilier-sous-la-menace-de-l-erosion-cotiere-on-est-au-tout-debut-de-la-prise-de-conscience_6684836_3224.html

"The Ignorant Art Historian: Henri Matisse's View of Notre Dame" https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/04/28/the-ignorant-art-historian-view-of-notre-dame/ "As we approach this painting, we have little idea of what it depicts, or whether it depicts anything at all. A washy blue covers the entire surface unevenly, and its space is traversed by several black vectors. A vertical line stretches the length of the canvas on the far right, where it intersects with two horizontal lines that cut across the center of the picture"

"Anthropogenic aerosols can shape the winter mid-latitude cyclone tracks" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-026-01377-w

"American Universities Lose Their Allure in the Trump Era" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/europe/france-american-universities-trump-sciences-po.html