Le jeudi 18 juin, les syndicats SNJ, SNJ-CGT, CFDT-Journalistes, le SGJ-FO, la Filpac-CGT, le SNPEP-FO, Info’Com-CGT appellent l’ensemble des salariés des médias à rejoindre ce cortège et à se mobiliser collectivement pour combattre les dangers qui menacent l’information, pour refuser les plans sociaux et défendre une information de qualité. Depuis le début de l’année, les […]
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Indigenous families are still fighting for access to police documents and footage while use of force fatalities have more than doubled.
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Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.
Among the many amazing stories from India that went into the pages of science is that of Sindri fort. It is hardly mentioned in India anymore but it was of interest to Charles Lyell whose work was significant for Charles Darwin. This fort sank along with a large area around it on 16 January 1819 around 6.45 PM when the region was struck by an earthquake that also caused a tsunami. While this…
When the places where people gather, connect, and commune disappear, the so-called public discourse that society refers to as “politics” vibe-shifts. It turns into a standoff between individuals who are socially and physically isolated and the narratives promoted by mainstream media.
A new mobile phone network that launched this week claims to block LGBTQ+ content from subscribers to its phone plans.
Radiant Mobile is a Christian mobile phone network that will operate on the T-Mobile network, seeking to deliver “faith-focused mobile service,” according to the company’s website.
The company launched on Tuesday with support from the Israeli cybersecurity firm Allot, and…
Guten Abend Lesende, ich will heute Abend nur mal schnell eine Leseempfehlung los werden – wenn ihr gerade schon am Lesen seid (haha): Stellt euch vor, ihr könntet die gesamte Geschichte der Menschheit durch eine einzige Linse betrachten: die der Information. Genau das tut Yuval Noah Harari in seinem neuen Buch „Nexus“ – und das
The ancient trick to memorizing anything fits right inside your own pocket.
I’ve been noticing, over the past month or two, that I’m not interested in much coming through on my feed reader. The discourse is exhausting. I’m tired of reading about genAI. (I’m tired of writing about genAI.) More writers I follow are incorporating genAI into their process*, which I generally suspect to be a mistake […]
The widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) and especially AI chatbots, like Claude, ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and so many more, has reached levels never thought before. Within just a very short amount of time, they have become so extremely normalised, entered our daily vernacular, that it is no big deal to just say “Oh, I’ll […]
This is for new routers; you don’t have to throw away your existing ones:
The Executive Branch determination noted that foreign-produced routers (1) introduce “a supply chain vulnerability that could disrupt the U.S. economy, critical infrastructure, and national defense” and (2) pose “a severe cybersecurity risk that could be leveraged to immediately and severely disrupt U.S. critical…
If there is one area of political knowledge that remains poorly understood, it is geopolitics. This field examines international power relations (domination and resistance, colonization, imperialism, war) as well as the strategies that actors deploy to preserve or strengthen their…
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De temps en temps, il est utile de vérifier comment nous reprenons la main et maîtrisons notre attention face au flux continu d’informations.
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First and foremost we are wine lovers! The Académie du Vin Library was founded by Steven Spurrier and friends, dedicated to publishing the finest wine writing of the past, the present and the future. The story behind the name came from Steven’s days in Paris in the 1970s, when he began running wine appreciation courses ... Read more
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There’s a concept in economics known as Goodhart’s Law, often summarized as: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” The idea, originally about monetary policy, has proven remarkably durable across domains. When you attach high enough stakes to a single metric, people stop trying to accurately reflect reality and […]
Cette mise en garde du pape Léon XIV pourrait être adressée tout autant aux grands médias généralistes qu’à certains titres présents dans la sphère catholique
“All political, historical and cultural information is received in the same – at once anodyne and miraculous – form of the news item. It is entirely actualized — i.e. dramatized in the spectacular mode — and entirely deactualized — i.e. distanced by the communication medium and reduced to signs.” — Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society […]
When the New is Worse Than the Old by Daniel A. Kaufman “For the average person who knows nothing about a subject, a well-curated library is far superior to internet searches and especially AI, which is nothing but an aggregating tool that routinely gets basic things wrong. […] The sheer amount of what is available […]
Not had enough of the news about the Galaxy S26 series yet? Samsung is now back in the news with the Samsung Galaxy S26+ and the Galaxy S26 Ultra. The two models are seen in new images that have appeared online.
Apple’s Lockdown Mode may be more impressive than initially thought. Per 9to5Mac, following a recent raid into a Washington Post reporter’s home, the FBI was apparently unable to retrieve data from the reporter’s iPhone. As reported by 404 Media, the FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson earlier this year, “as part […]
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The US National Reconnaissance Office has declassified information about a fleet of spy satellites operating between 1971 and 2006.
I’m actually impressed to see a declassification only two decades after decommission.