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→ Données de #santé : #Doctolib livre les infos de ses utilisateurs à des géants américains de l'#IA
https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/sante/54006-doctolib-livre-a-des-geants-americains-de-l-ia-les-infos-de-ses-utilisateurs

« [Doctolib] transmet la plupart de ses [données médicales] à #Google, #Microsoft et #Anthropic, pour entraîner ses propres modèles d'intelligence artificielle. La #Cnil, elle, est aux abonnés absents. »

« Les datas fournies (antécédents médicaux et familiaux, prescriptions, données biologiques, etc.) sont suffisamment précises pour qu’un malade puisse être identifié. »

→ harehare/mq
https://github.com/harehare/mq

“A jq-like Markdown query language for command-line processing”

#Markdown

→ Please don't mess with links
https://maurycyz.com/misc/real_links/

“A #link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you #click it right? Except that's a pale, shallow imitation of a link. A real link can be:
– Opened in a new #tab. (ctrl)
– ... or a fresh window. (shift)
– ... or saved as a file (alt).
– Copied as a URL (right click)
– Used with the #keyboard (tab + enter)
– Seen by tools like search engines and screen readers.
– Hovered over to see the #URL.
… none of which work with a button.”

→ Massive Attack Is Taking Aim at #Palantir
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/01/massive-attack-is-taking-aim-at-palantir/

“I find their declarations, objectives and moral framing pretty terrifying,” Del Naja said. “To enable AI systems to map police records, satellite tracked locations, health records and personal financial transactions and place all of that information – for the first time – into the hands of a company with an overt political agenda and social objectives of its own is a huge, potentially irreversible and #dangerous overreach.”

→ Is this product 'human made'? The race to establish AI-free logo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0d6el50ppo

“Organisations worldwide are racing to develop a universally recognised label for "human-made" products and services as part of the growing backlash against AI use.”

“"I think that AI is a spectrum, and we need more comprehensive certification systems, rather than a binary with AI/AI-free approach," [AI Research Scientist Sasha Luccioni] said.”

#AI #logo #label #human #products #services #backlash

→ War and Data Centers Are Driving Up the Cost of Fiber-Optic Cable
https://www.404media.co/war-and-data-centers-are-driving-up-the-cost-of-fiber-optic-cable/

“[C]ombatants are fielding quadcopters piloted via kilometer-long lengths of cable that allows operators to control them across vast distances while insulating the drone from being knocked from the sky. This technique was once a cheap way for militaries to beat their opponents' electronic warfare […].”

The cyberpunk future is now.

#War #Data #Fiber #drone #warfare #cyberpunk #electronic

RE: @jorijn@toot.community

“Microsoft's own attorney told the French Senate under oath he could not guarantee EU data was safe from silent US government access.”

→ How to give a compliment
https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-give-a-compliment

“I realised I was spending too much time on my phone in public, so I started making a point to compliment strangers, to help me stay grounded and bring a little joy to the world”

“Focus on what someone has chosen to show. It’s safer to compliment what one purposely does, displays or achieves than the visible characteristics they didn’t choose.”

#joy #time #show #phone #public #chosen #strangers #compliment

→ Le Réseau, ou lorsque nous étions intraçables
https://laviedesidees.fr/Le-Reseau-ou-lorsque-nous-etions-intracables

« Ce réseau téléphonique parallèle a survécu après la Libération, en marge des #infrastructures officielles. Dans les années 1960-1970, il a été réactivé de manière informelle comme espace de #communication et de rencontre anonyme. Fondé sur des numéros non attribués qui se transmettaient de bouche à oreille, ce dispositif a favorisé l’émergence de sociabilités clandestines. »

#réseau #rencontre #clandestines

→ Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-algorithmic-mind/202603/adults-lose-skills-to-ai-children-never-build-them

“The real issue may not be that people are broadly becoming lazier or stupider (though this may still be the case). Instead, I argue that a distinct difference needs to be made clear depending on who is using the tool. What AI does to a 45-year-old is likely categorically different than what it does to a 14-year-old.”

#AI #tool #Adults #Skills #Children

→ Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its #Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/

“"The feature is not yet exposed to consumers but seems nearly ready to go," says [Cooper Quintin, a #security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Threat Lab]. "Despite the billions of reasons not to, #Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed #surveillance machine."”

#Face

→ Young Palestinians find fleeting moments of freedom at a West Bank #skate park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSIe_twCYnc
https://aeon.co/videos/young-palestinians-find-fleeting-moments-of-freedom-at-a-west-bank-skate-park

“With every new #trick, it's like you become aware of a new #life, new #ideas. It's not something that I can describe, it's something you #feel in your #heart. It's like when something has been missing, and you're looking for it, and slowly you find it.”

#Palestine #WestBank

→ You can just say it
https://noperator.dev/posts/you-can-just-say-it/

“There is a weird collection of arguments for appraising the value of humans and their creative artifacts. […] This line of thinking boils down to, "Humans are valuable if they produce high-quality output." This argument dangerously depends on the existing-but-narrowing human-AI capability gap.”

#AI #value #human #quality #creative

→ Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul
https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/

“[C]ritique of technology is easily presented as simply a fear of technology, as anti-progress. It is a way of demonizing someone as irrational, and therefore, whose concerns should not be taken seriously. […] Within the refusal of #tech, we can find #alternative imaginations of the future. Not anti-progress, only refusing a particular, narrow idea of what "progress" should look like.”

#AI #soul #tech #future #progress

→ Markdown Ate The World (by @matdevdug@c.im)
https://matduggan.com/markdown-ate-the-world/

“Most writing is about getting words down in a structure that makes sense, and then getting those words in front of other people. #Markdown does that with less #friction than anything else ever created. You can learn it in ten minutes, write it in any text editor on any device, read the source file without rendering it, diff it in version control, and convert it to virtually any output format.”

#text #diff #write #format

→ How LLMs #Distort Our Written #Language
https://sites.google.com/view/llmwritingdistortion/home

“LLMs change the conclusions of #writing, changing the stance as well as the argument type”

“When LLMs revise #human writing, they induce large homogenizing changes very unlike how #people would have edited the same essay.”

“As LLMs are integrated into #society, these subtle changes in meaning could fundamentally alter politics, #culture, #science, and even the way we communicate with our friends and family.”

#LLMs

→ #Transmitting FM radio with a #Raspberry Pi
https://notmyidea.org/transmitting-fm-radio-with-a-raspberry-pi.html

“[Sending music] over real FM gives us multiple benefits, such as being able to play with the #analog frequency gear and with the emitter and receipter antennas to make the #sound clear or noisy, depending on the effect we wanted to achieve.”

“I found pifmrds, an awesome project that's able to emmit FM using pulse-width modulation on the Pi. It's even capable of transmitting text over RDS”

#FM #Pi #RDS #radio #music

→ Head of Microsoft’s Israel branch to step down after inquiry into dealings with Israeli military
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/12/microsoft-head-israel-step-down

“Equipped with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity and computing power, Unit 8200 built an indiscriminate system allowing its intelligence officers to collect, play back and analyse the content of millions of Palestinian cellular phone calls every day.”

#phone #Israel #collect #analyse #military #Microsoft #computing #Palestinian #intelligence

→ Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama
https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

“#Ollama’s entire inference capability comes from llama.cpp, the C++ #inference engine created by Georgi Gerganov in March 2023. Gerganov’s project is what made it possible to run LLaMA models on consumer #laptops at all, he hacked together the first version in an evening, and it kicked off the entire #local LLM movement. […] It’s truly #community-driven, #MIT-licensed, and under active development with 450+ #contributors.”

#LLM

→ À Strasbourg, viols et silence dans le collectif Femmes, Vie, Liberté
https://revueladeferlante.fr/a-strasbourg-viols-et-silence-dans-le-collectif-femmes-vie-liberte/

« À #Strasbourg, où la com­mu­nau­té iranienne compte près de 5 000 personnes, un #collectif [du mouvement Femme, vie, #liberté] se crée de façon informelle. Le noyau est composé de six femmes et cinq hommes. »

« La jeune femme se sent d’autant plus en #sécurité que leur lutte prône l’#égalité femmes-hommes, le rejet des #dis­cri­mi­na­tions et des violences de #genre. »

#vie #Femme #lutte #genre

→ It's Not Just X. It's Y.
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just-data-its-post-training/

“[S]haming people for writing that gets flagged as AI can lead people to sidestep structures the model has learned from us: structure⁠s that are effective tool⁠s for argumentation. We take the tools of critical thinking out of the kit at the time we most need them.”

#AI #tool #writing #critical #thinking #structure #argumentation

→ How Instagram Upended the Art World
https://thewalrus.ca/how-instagram-upended-the-art-world/

“[Instagram] changed the content of the [artistic] work itself: image⁠s must be flattened from a living, breathing piece of art into a collection of pixel⁠s to ensure they look good in the tiny real estate of a grid.”

“For artist⁠s, this means a certain amount of opting in to the game determined by tech companies.”

#art #tech #image #pixel #artist #Instagram

→ #Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/

“AI powered code #analyzers are significantly better at finding security flaws and mistakes in #source code than any traditional code analyzers did in the past. All modern AI models are good at this now. Anyone with time and some experimental spirits can find #security problems now.”

“We have not seen any AI so far report a #vulnerability that would somehow be of a novel kind or something totally new.”

#AI #curl #code #flaws

→ Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem
https://martinalderson.com/posts/open-weights-are-quietly-closing-up/

“Open weights models allow anyone to run the model on their own hardware. Typically models that were worth running required very beefy hardware - but this is rapidly changing, with smaller models becoming far more useful.”

“Being able to run these models locally […] has three main advantages. [1. Privacy, 2. flexibility, and 3. they can be vastly more affordable than frontier models.]”

→ AI Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/ai-is-about-to-solve-loneliness-thats-a-problem

“[L]oneliness is corrective feedback: a nudge, or sometimes a shove, pushing us toward connection. […] It can push us to text a friend, show up for brunch, open the dating app. It can also make us try harder with the people already in our lives—working to regulate our moods, to manage conflict, to be genuinely interested in others.”

#AI #text #friend #dating #people #feedback #conflict #Loneliness #connection

→ How To Protect Human Autonomy In An Age Of AI
https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-protect-human-autonomy-in-an-age-of-ai

“#AI-driven systems designed to re-orient our agency are different in kind, not merely in degree. […] [T]hey continuously reconstruct the environment in which the #subject acts, perceives and forms preferences.”

“What is at issue […] is not influence over the will. It is the gradual molding of the conditions under which the will forms at all — and with it, the #environment from which the process we call #autonomy emerges.”

→ Ma eVie depuis que j’ai quitté Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn… pour Substack et Mastodon
https://tcrouzet.com/2025/07/04/ma-evie-3-0/

« [Mastodon est un] réseau social asymétrique comme Facebook, X, TikTok…, avec son star système, avec des comptes suivis par des dizaines de milliers de personnes, pendant que les autres végètent. On a les dieux et leurs adorateurs comme ailleurs. »

#star #social #Substack #Mastodon #asymétrique

→ How to #Hack a #Superyacht
https://thewalrus.ca/how-to-hack-a-superyacht/

“While Bhatti was now #spoofing the yacht’s #autopilot, there was nothing obviously amiss. The yacht’s #GPS tracker showed that it was going straight. There were no beeps, no alarms, nothing on the horizon to indicate that anything had changed at all. It was only when they turned around that they could see a slight bend in the yacht’s wake, subtle but noticeable. This had been the goal: little by little, the #yacht would be led off course.”

→ We’re Speaking 338 Fewer Word⁠s a Day
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/05/08/Talking-Less-Scrolling-More/

“In her study and interviews, [Valeria Pfeifer, a #psychologist at the University of Missouri,] noted that human⁠s have been #speaking for 200,000 years. She also noted that real, live #conversation⁠s "involve different social and #cognitive processes than typed conversations and that such live conversations can elicit benefits in well-being that app⁠s and social media cannot readily replace."”

#app #Word #human #social

→ Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym (by @thienantran@mastodon.social)
https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/

“I had been conditioned to believe that initiating a conversation with a stranger was weird and it was tough to break free from that.”

“Luckily, most people were receptive. I got a rush of dopamine whenever someone responded positively to my conversation, so talking to new people became strangely addictive.”

#weird #people #talking #stranger #dopamine #conversation

→ Droit à l'aide à mourir ou le capitalisme à son comble
https://aoc.media/opinion/2026/05/05/droit-a-laide-a-mourir-ou-le-capitalisme-a-son-comble/

« Quand on vit en tension permanente sans soutien, ce n’est pas un choix de mourir. Il faut cesser de présenter comme un choix ce qui peut n’être que la conséquence logique d’un système qui nous broie. »

#choix #mourir #système #capitalisme