I just got a "Decomputing" talk accepted by a very tech-focused business conference (as a Keynote even) and a labor rights organization who wanted me to propose a talk instantly went for the "The Luddites were right" suggestion. Two things that a few months ago would not have been possible I think.
Things are changing, the dire state of the world sometimes allows new narratives to punch through.
Disentangling the Distributional Effects of Financial Shocks in the Euro Area
Milo\v{s} Ciganovi\'c, Elena Scola Gagliardi, Massimiliano Tancioni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11289
Il y aura un stand openstreetmap au capitole du libre le weekend du 15/16 novembre Š Toulouse. Venez nous faire coucou.
#toulouse
Africa moved as many worlds. It still does.
— Not just rulers, but households, elders, children
— lives lived inside systems of memory, labor, belief, and power that did not require a single name.
So, to talk of Africa as a country is the residue of colonialism — what remains after empire leaves but its grammar stays.
Are you afraid of our new GenAI overlords taking over our jobs soon? According to a new benchmark, The Remote Labor Index by Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), there's no need to be. The best current models are able to solve around ~2% of the tasks of the index: #AIResearch #GenAI
Urban Mirage II 👁️🗨️
城市幻境 II 👁️🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I'm listening to the most recent episode of #YouAreNotSoSmart, David McRaney's podcast @…. It's about the Trolley problem and morality.
They keep talking about a variation of the trolley problem where, instead of pulling the lever t…