JoannaJohanna
@joannabeaufoy.bsky.social
PhD candidate writing about emotions and lighting in 19 century Paris, from the home of hyggelys 🇩🇰🕯️🌚 the University of Copenhagen. Experimenting with custom LLMs.
Former and, I hope, future, service designer.
Former and, I hope, future, service designer.
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Hâte que Raphaël Enthoven nous explique que ce sont pas des posts nazis, mais les messages désordonnés d'une IA qui envoie de l’amour.
July 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hâte que Raphaël Enthoven nous explique que ce sont pas des posts nazis, mais les messages désordonnés d'une IA qui envoie de l’amour.
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Arnault fait de nouvelles acquisitions dans la presse éco. Kretinsky renforce son pouvoir à Libé et lance sa chaîne TNT. Saadé achète Brut. Les milliardaires font leurs emplettes tandis que les macronistes pactisent avec Bolloré. Le tout dans un grand silence politique @fondspresselibre.bsky.social
La concentration des médias se renforce dans l’indifférence générale | Fonds pour une presse libre
Bernard Arnault fait de nouvelles acquisitions dans la presse économique. Daniel Kretinsky renforce son pouvoir à Libération et lance sa chaîne TNT. Rodolphe Saadé achète Brut. Nos oligarques milliard...
fondspresselibre.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Arnault fait de nouvelles acquisitions dans la presse éco. Kretinsky renforce son pouvoir à Libé et lance sa chaîne TNT. Saadé achète Brut. Les milliardaires font leurs emplettes tandis que les macronistes pactisent avec Bolloré. Le tout dans un grand silence politique @fondspresselibre.bsky.social
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Excellent blog post on large language models as technologies for "mapping and editing culture."
@tedunderwood.me does a great job explaining why this perspective is exciting and could be less depressing than the common AGI (or ASI?) view.
@tedunderwood.me does a great job explaining why this perspective is exciting and could be less depressing than the common AGI (or ASI?) view.
This post tries to explain why I find language models exciting. But it doesn't try to persuade skeptics that they should agree. It's aimed more at people already working with AI, and its goal is to sharpen our collective sense of what the upside potential might be. #MLSky 🤖 🧪
A more interesting upside of AI
Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?
tedunderwood.com
July 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Excellent blog post on large language models as technologies for "mapping and editing culture."
@tedunderwood.me does a great job explaining why this perspective is exciting and could be less depressing than the common AGI (or ASI?) view.
@tedunderwood.me does a great job explaining why this perspective is exciting and could be less depressing than the common AGI (or ASI?) view.
A wonderful and hopeful thread
I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 5:20 AM
A wonderful and hopeful thread
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“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)
May 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
May 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"
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One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
May 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
Don’t forget Galerie Cinquantenaire in Etterbeek! Strong Belgium energy
May 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Don’t forget Galerie Cinquantenaire in Etterbeek! Strong Belgium energy
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There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).
May 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).
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I love how on Bluesky, instead of racist celebrities, we get main characters like “excessively sentimental view of hunter-gatherer lifestyles”
May 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I love how on Bluesky, instead of racist celebrities, we get main characters like “excessively sentimental view of hunter-gatherer lifestyles”
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tapping the sign.
Well, except for Futurama.
April 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
tapping the sign.
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Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write.
What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
What we talk about when we talk about AI — Careful Industries
Can AI really do all of the things people want it to do — and what exactly are people actually talking about when they talk about AI? Yutong Liu & The Bigger Picture / https://betterim...
www.careful.industries
April 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Re-upping this blog post, because it took me freakin' ages to write.
What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
What do we talk about when we talk about AI? Is it a field of technology or an extractive social process that makes a few people rich and powerful? And why is it so hard to define? www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...
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Things I learned recently:
* Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted.
* Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.
* Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted.
* Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Things I learned recently:
* Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted.
* Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.
* Edinburgh’s seaweed is collected and dumped in landfill because it is too contaminated with wet wipes to be composted.
* Most packaging labelled ‘compostable’ is not usually compostable.
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Not entirely sure the popular-TV-show-to-public-policy conveyor belt is very healthy for our politics. The show explores themes that politicians should already be well on top of.
news.sky.com/story/adoles...
news.sky.com/story/adoles...
Adolescence writers 'invited to parliament' to discuss show's themes with MPs, Sky News understands
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer gave his backing for the Netflix drama to be shown in schools and parliament, as the government faces calls to do more to tackle the extreme content being served up to ...
news.sky.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Not entirely sure the popular-TV-show-to-public-policy conveyor belt is very healthy for our politics. The show explores themes that politicians should already be well on top of.
news.sky.com/story/adoles...
news.sky.com/story/adoles...
My Bluesky feed (accounts I don’t follow) is a bit like a parody of itself. Anyone else have this?
March 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My Bluesky feed (accounts I don’t follow) is a bit like a parody of itself. Anyone else have this?
Article très bien documenté 👓 que je conseille www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
L’IA, menace réelle ou fantasmée pour les artistes ?
Depuis quelques années, le développement de l’intelligence artificielle ravive la vieille peur d’un remplacement des humains par la machine. Si certains craignent qu’elle se substitue aux créateurs, d...
www.lemonde.fr
March 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Article très bien documenté 👓 que je conseille www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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Fascinating collection of graphs, showing how massive the COVID-19 effect was, but also how short-term it was in most cases. Seems social life was more effected than professional life. Political effects more difficult to determine...
30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Fascinating collection of graphs, showing how massive the COVID-19 effect was, but also how short-term it was in most cases. Seems social life was more effected than professional life. Political effects more difficult to determine...
Waiting to take off, as plane neighbours watch cross country skiing races on their phones 🤍
Thank you #DHNB for accepting mine and @lrskjr.bsky.social ‘s paper, and for the opportunity to visit this part of Europe! Had such a good time at the talks, party, museum and dinner, and learnt loads. 🫶
Thank you #DHNB for accepting mine and @lrskjr.bsky.social ‘s paper, and for the opportunity to visit this part of Europe! Had such a good time at the talks, party, museum and dinner, and learnt loads. 🫶
March 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Waiting to take off, as plane neighbours watch cross country skiing races on their phones 🤍
Thank you #DHNB for accepting mine and @lrskjr.bsky.social ‘s paper, and for the opportunity to visit this part of Europe! Had such a good time at the talks, party, museum and dinner, and learnt loads. 🫶
Thank you #DHNB for accepting mine and @lrskjr.bsky.social ‘s paper, and for the opportunity to visit this part of Europe! Had such a good time at the talks, party, museum and dinner, and learnt loads. 🫶
Food for thought
There is actually a deep irony in the intellectual history of the humanities: we had the correct intuition that a lot of human thought and culture is computable 50-60 years ago and moved on from that at the moment it became a practical reality.
March 6, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Food for thought
The model is the product yes
The model is the product.
New blog post on what the latest research trends mean for the next commercial cycle: specialized models behaving like an integrated systems, model providers moving up to application layer, training or being trained on. vintagedata.org/blog/posts/m...
New blog post on what the latest research trends mean for the next commercial cycle: specialized models behaving like an integrated systems, model providers moving up to application layer, training or being trained on. vintagedata.org/blog/posts/m...
The Model is the Product | Vintage Data
Old data, new models
vintagedata.org
March 6, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The model is the product yes
Discussing @dhnb.bsky.social how asking a question to a chatbot vs. a 'simple' google search generates ~ 10x more emissions and how this could be annotated on AI generated material?
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Discussing @dhnb.bsky.social how asking a question to a chatbot vs. a 'simple' google search generates ~ 10x more emissions and how this could be annotated on AI generated material?
Anyone looking for guidance in how to help students navigate content-generating AI should get the team from the DH institute at Riga Technical University to come and give their presentation 💪 @dhnb.bsky.social Huge applause from all assembled!
March 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Anyone looking for guidance in how to help students navigate content-generating AI should get the team from the DH institute at Riga Technical University to come and give their presentation 💪 @dhnb.bsky.social Huge applause from all assembled!
Thought-provoking take on AI-human collaboration: content is anonymous (/stolen?), like it was in the oral tradition, where content was generated anew at every performance. AI generates a new version with every page refresh.
Talk by Platonova, Smirnova, Seņko, Ivanova at @dhnb.bsky.social
Talk by Platonova, Smirnova, Seņko, Ivanova at @dhnb.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thought-provoking take on AI-human collaboration: content is anonymous (/stolen?), like it was in the oral tradition, where content was generated anew at every performance. AI generates a new version with every page refresh.
Talk by Platonova, Smirnova, Seņko, Ivanova at @dhnb.bsky.social
Talk by Platonova, Smirnova, Seņko, Ivanova at @dhnb.bsky.social
Maciej Eder stating some honest truths in his "Text analysis is easy, unless it is not" keynote address @dhnb.bsky.social: "humanists tend to overestimate numbers, plots and maps. Hard scientists tend to underestimate language variation" — It's a match... 💘
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Maciej Eder stating some honest truths in his "Text analysis is easy, unless it is not" keynote address @dhnb.bsky.social: "humanists tend to overestimate numbers, plots and maps. Hard scientists tend to underestimate language variation" — It's a match... 💘