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Bruno Thomas
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What should be kept from IT in a COP21 world ? Trying to work with @iroco.co on this. Software craftsman at @ICIJorg, music nerd, mutual aid enthusiast, feminist apprentice. 🇫🇷🇬🇧
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A Discord for gay gamers is in disarray after an exec at Anthropic forced an AI chatbot on the Discord.

When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Story by @mjgault.bsky.social
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
December 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Il y a quelques mois, nous avons réalisé en collaboration avec i-We et pour le compte du Groupe Caisse des Dépôts le contenu d’un module d’e-learning portant sur les usages éclairés de l’IA.

blog.iroco.co/ia-responsab...
Le Cycle de vie de l’IA
Il y a quelques mois, nous avons réalisé en collaboration avec i-We et pour le compte du Groupe Caisse des Dépôts le contenu d’un module d’e-learning portant sur les usages éclairés de l’IA. Depuis, l...
blog.iroco.co
December 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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A few weeks ago I've been invited on Cycloid's podcast to talk about environmental impacts of datacenters and how to reduce the footprint of services operated in the Cloud.

#greenit #cloud #datacenters #devops #genai

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDnj...
Cycloid's Green IT on a Cloud podcast: Talking sustainability, seriously!
YouTube video by Cycloid | Internal developer portal and platform
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December 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Interview exclusive de Cyril Dion : "nous sommes entrés dans une période de backlash où de grandes multinationales cherchent à faire voler en éclat les maigres progrès que nous avions pu obtenir en s’appuyant sur les forces conservatrices d’extrême-droite"
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Cyril Dion : "dire que l’extrême droite est un danger pour l’écologie peut être un véritable frein à trouver des financements"
Bon Pote avait demandé « comment avez-vous pris conscience de l’urgence climatique ? ». Le film « Demain » de Cyril Dion était le plus cité.
bonpote.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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The #CoinLaundry, a groundbreaking cross-border investigation led by ICIJ, reveals how crypto companies profited from crime while victims were financially ruined.

Learn more about reporting and findings:
About The Coin Laundry investigation
The investigation reveals how crypto companies profited from crime while victims were financially ruined.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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According to court documents released by Swiss prosecutors, Jersey authorities are investigating Roman Abramovich’s early moves to amass his fortune.

Jersey was allegedly one of the offshore secrecy jurisdictions Abramovich used to shield his wealth.
Chelsea FC faces over six dozen charges for improper conduct under Abramovich’s ownership - ICIJ
The Football Association announced it is investigating payments routed through offshore companies that were uncovered as part of ICIJ’s Cyprus Confidential investigation.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Our reporting on cryptocurrency is just beginning. Stay tuned. Do you have a noteworthy and solidly attributed cryptocurrency address to share? Do you work at a major blockchain analytics firm? Contacts in bio

www.icij.org/investigatio... @icij.org
The Coin Laundry, a global cryptocurrency investigation
How the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.
www.icij.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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ICIJ's #CoinLaundry investigation explored the murky world of crypto-to-cash services, which have surged in major cities and allow people to cash out huge sums of cryptocurrency without touching the mainstream banking system or its safeguards.
From Dubai to Toronto, inside the crypto-to-cash storefronts fueling money laundering’s new frontier
These shadowy operations have made it easier than ever to move dirty money around the world. One man is on a mission to expose them.
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime.

Here are our findings:
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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We combined undercover ops with blockchain analytics to expose a crypto-fueled shadow economy quietly operating all around you: www.icij.org/investigatio...
@icij.org
From Dubai to Toronto, inside the crypto-to-cash storefronts fueling money laundering’s new frontier
These shadowy operations have made it easier than ever to move dirty money around the world. One man is on a mission to expose them.
www.icij.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging member states to confront efforts by authoritarian regimes to coerce, control or silence political opponents and dissidents living in Europe. #ChinaTargets

Read the story:
European Parliament pledges to tackle transnational repression against human rights defenders - ICIJ
A parliamentary report identified China and other authoritarian regimes as harassing and attacking dissidents abroad, echoing findings from ICIJ’s China Targets.chin
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November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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"One of the workshop’s shared diagnoses was that the climate movement must broaden its struggle beyond carbon. This means organising around people’s material realities while confronting the elites and corporations driving destruction."

theecologist.org/2025/nov/12/...
November 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Nous avons reçu une demande de support d’un utilisateur qui s’était abonné à un service en ligne, qui ne parvenait pas à recevoir des mails. Après entretiens avec le service en question, cela nous a amené à activer le chiffrement à l’envoi/réception de message.

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Postfix et STARTTLS
Il y a une semaine nous avons reçu une demande de support d’un utilisateur qui s’était abonné à un service en ligne ne parvenant pas à nous envoyer un mail. Nous nous sommes entretenus avec le service...
blog.iroco.co
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#RussianSecrets, an investigation by ICIJ’s media partners, uncovered secretive trade operations that largely escaped Western authorities’ scrutiny until Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered a probe into shadowy networks serving the Kremlin.
Russia secretly bought Western tech to protect nuclear subs
Russian Secrets, a new cross-border investigation, reveals the shadowy procurement network behind Russia’s surveillance program Harmony.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Even as security cooperation with Israel expanded behind closed doors, Arab leaders denounced its war in Gaza, leaked U.S. files show. The leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia said the Israeli campaign amounted to a genocide.

Read more:
Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals - ICIJ
Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Lord help me, for I have started a substack. It's because I haven't been able to write my damn book. Who knows where this will go? If you like unpredictability, come on over. 🤪
daringindanger.substack.com
Daring in Dangerous Times (DaDa) | Julia Steinberger | Substack
Daring thoughts and science for our dangerous times, by Julia Steinberger, an interdisciplinary academic, whose self-made topic is the science of living well within planetary limits. Click to read Dar...
daringindanger.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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"[Par le vote démocratique] on mesure en réalité l'efficacité et la capacité d'expansion et de persuasion des opinions d'un petit nombre, des minorités actives, des élites, des avant-gardes, etc., on mesure, leur rationalité ou leur historicité ou leur caractère concrètement fonctionnel ...
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Trains de nuit : un amendement pour sauver les Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne.
La commission du développement durable à l’Assemblée nationale a adopté un amendement rétablissant la subvention de 5 millions d’euros pour les deux trains de nuit.
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Trains de nuit : un amendement pour sauver le Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne
Enfin de bonnes nouvelles pour les trains de nuit ! Le 28 octobre, poussés par l’écologiste Marie Pochon, les députés de la commission du développement durable à l’Assemblée nationale ont adopté un am...
reporterre.net
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Faut-il dorénavant une escorte policière en France pour venir parler du climat?

Visiblement, mon chapeau de cowboy dérange. Je vais finir par lui coller une plaque d’acier et un gilet pare-balles assorti au marcel.

Ce qui se passe en France envers les scientifiques du climat est extrêmement grave.
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Ravi de voir qu'on n'est pas les seuls avec @bonpote.com à s'alarmer dans la presse de notre dépendance hautement strategique aux GAFAM.

Maintenant il faut agir.

www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
David Monniaux, directeur de recherche au CNRS : « Que se passerait-il si Trump ordonnait aux Gafam de cesser leurs services cloud à l’égard de nos gouvernements ? »
TRIBUNE. Dans une tribune au « Monde », le chercheur souligne les dangers de la dépendance numérique européenne à l’égard des géants du Web, soumis à la législation américaine.
www.lemonde.fr
October 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Après notre série sur le monitoring et notre mise en production, nous avons eu un problème : collectd envoie les indicateurs de chaque serveur, InfluxDB les enregistre, grafana les montre. Comment fait-on pour que ces mesures ne s'amoncellent pas indéfiniment ?

blog.iroco.co/downsampling/
Downsampling avec Influxdb v1 et Grafana
Blog sur l’écoconception logicielle, le GreenIT et le numérique responsable
blog.iroco.co
October 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬
Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM
After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.
mymodernmet.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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#80sTop30 #NowPlaying #MusicChallenge

11. The The - Giant

What a way to round off an already incredible record. Again, quite a recent discovery , again couldnt imagine this list without it

youtu.be/-Mkc-S0zntI?...
Giant
YouTube video by The The - Topic
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October 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM