Antonin Descampe
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Antonin Descampe
@adescampe.bsky.social
Prof media innovation EJL / ORM / UCLouvain
PhD electrical engineering
Computational methods, automated news, digital skills for journalists
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At a time where the vulnerability of relying on US digital infrastructure and cloud services is *huge*, our @algosoc.org research program pilot to rely on *European* cloud services is more relevant than ever. [edited]

Alternatives are not easy. But necessary.

www.voxweb.nl/nieuws/five-...
Five Dutch universities are experimenting with alternative European cloud - Vox magazine
Scientists from five Dutch universities are experimenting with a cloud system that could provide an alternative to Microsoft365. Radboud University is watching the developments with interest.
www.voxweb.nl
February 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Goddamnit, Google. For shame.
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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This is how a democracy collapses: "A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses."
FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding
Federal workers are being swept into the fight between Donald Trump and federal courts, with four FEMA aides fired Tuesday for being "deep state activists."
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights".
Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased.
ai.google/responsibili...
February 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The Guardian can say it. @hcrichardson.bsky.social can say it. Why can't our incumbent, institutional journalism? It is a #coup.
"The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup."
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...
February 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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So Google joins OpenAI in continuing to expose "Responsible AI" as a useful PR term that every teacher and school admin should understand can be stripped of any remaining ethical commitments when it's profitable to do so, and thus a good reason not to embrace these companies and their tools.
February 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Over the past year, a network of AI-generated local newsletters has quietly spread to 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S.

For @niemanlab.org, I dug into Good Daily's operations and learned how it gained a foothold in "small town America."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/insi...
Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting “small town America”
Good Daily, which operates in 47 states and 355 towns and cities across the U.S., is run by one person.
www.niemanlab.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Fabrice Fries, PDG de l’AFP : « L’écosystème de la désinformation est sorti grand vainqueur du cycle d’élections de 2024, contribuant à faire élire populistes et dirigeants autoritaires »
Fabrice Fries, PDG de l’AFP : « L’écosystème de la désinformation est sorti grand vainqueur du cycle d’élections de 2024, contribuant à faire élire populistes et dirigeants autoritaires »
Le patron de l’Agence France-Presse déplore, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’arrêt du fact-checking sur les réseaux sociaux de Meta : ce processus de vérification de l’information fondé sur des techniques journalistiques « n’a jamais prétendu être la…
www.lemonde.fr
January 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Le second mandat de Donald Trump commence par un investissement de centaines de milliards de dollars pour l’intelligence artificielle
Le second mandat de Donald Trump commence par un investissement de centaines de milliards de dollars pour l’intelligence artificielle
Le nouveau président américain a dévoilé, mardi 21 janvier, le projet Stargate, destiné à bâtir les centres de données géants de la future génération d’IA, porté par Oracle, OpenAI et Softbank. Soit 100 milliards de dollars investis tout de suite, portés à 500 milliards de dollars d’ici 2029.
www.lemonde.fr
January 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Hello world.
October 21, 2023 at 1:28 PM