Nivolet
@nivolet.bsky.social
Little bird went angry. Trying butterfly.
Proudly competing with AI in the emptiness of global social networks. This is not the least of my contradictions.
Situated observer.
Proudly competing with AI in the emptiness of global social networks. This is not the least of my contradictions.
Situated observer.
Pinned
Nivolet
@nivolet.bsky.social
· Aug 8
When I scroll through my US newsfeed, I want to scream, "What are you doing in America? How can you let this happen?"
And then I switch to my French newsfeed.
Then I go out to tidy up the garden.
And then I switch to my French newsfeed.
Then I go out to tidy up the garden.
While we could afford bullshit jobs for a certain period of time, at the expense of economic efficiency, the effect of bullshit education would be far more devastating at all levels.
Bullshit education!
“Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.”
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
“Education at its best sparks curiosity and critical thought. “Bullshit education” does the opposite: it trains people to tolerate meaninglessness, to accept automation of their own thinking, to value credentials over competence.”
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
While we could afford bullshit jobs for a certain period of time, at the expense of economic efficiency, the effect of bullshit education would be far more devastating at all levels.
The words "war game" are long banned and forgotten because use of power is now fully decomplexed. We are witnessing struggles for life in asymetric warfare through the remnants of free democratic communication systems that will soon be blurred into post truth garbage and mind control devices.
"Israel is using these [ceasefires] to establish new realities on the ground, entrenching its occupation of parts of Gaza and ... Lebanon while asserting its military dominance on the regional stage. This projection of control aims to impose Israel's vision for [hegemony over] a 'new Middle East.'"
December 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The words "war game" are long banned and forgotten because use of power is now fully decomplexed. We are witnessing struggles for life in asymetric warfare through the remnants of free democratic communication systems that will soon be blurred into post truth garbage and mind control devices.
"Paradoxical communication strategy: climate denialists appropriates scientific aesthetics to contest the scientific consensus, projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control. In contrast, climate advocates are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery."
Featured article by Anton Törnberg and @pettertornberg.com: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The aesthetics of climate misinformation: computational multimodal framing analysis with BERTopic and CLIP
Climate misinformation today is increasingly conveyed through multimodal content, where images and text interact to shape meaning, emotional resonance, and enhance credibility. Yet, research on cli...
www.tandfonline.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Paradoxical communication strategy: climate denialists appropriates scientific aesthetics to contest the scientific consensus, projecting rationality, authority, and masculine self-control. In contrast, climate advocates are depicted through emotionally charged, feminized, and irrational imagery."
This is certainly not a passing fad or a step towards something better, but rather the systematic destruction of the social fabric and our relationship with the world. The diversion and substitution of our relationship with otherness by technical artefacts is profoundly deadly.
I spoke yesterday to applicants to one of our core degree programs about the potential downstream harms of human-machine relationships that might include:
—withdrawal away from human-human relationships
(1/4)
—withdrawal away from human-human relationships
(1/4)
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
This is certainly not a passing fad or a step towards something better, but rather the systematic destruction of the social fabric and our relationship with the world. The diversion and substitution of our relationship with otherness by technical artefacts is profoundly deadly.
Reposted by Nivolet
💡Non, la tech n'existe pas dans le vide : elle est façonnée en permanence par des rapports de pouvoir, et ses ressources sont ancrées dans des valeurs, des modèles de développement et des projets de société.
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
La tech est politique
La tech est politique permet aux décideurs et entrepreneurs de comprendre et anticiper l’impact du réglementaire européen sur l’espace numérique. En 15 min. Qui dit mieux 😇
tech-est-politique.eu
November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
💡Non, la tech n'existe pas dans le vide : elle est façonnée en permanence par des rapports de pouvoir, et ses ressources sont ancrées dans des valeurs, des modèles de développement et des projets de société.
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
J'analyse ces enjeux dans La tech est politique : tech-est-politique.eu
Reposted by Nivolet
Read this great WSJ story about how top Trump advisors think chucking Ukraine to the wolves is worth being able to do business with Vlad back-to-back with this great Guardian story about the repercussions of that judgement: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Read this great WSJ story about how top Trump advisors think chucking Ukraine to the wolves is worth being able to do business with Vlad back-to-back with this great Guardian story about the repercussions of that judgement: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
His master in the Kremlin showed him the way.
Show this to anyone who says Trump's foreign policy is "isolationist"
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
And read Greg Grandin’s masterpiece of a book, America, América, to see this recur in the twinned histories of the Americas.'The ‘Donroe Doctrine’: Trump’s Bid to Control the Western Hemisphere'
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
His master in the Kremlin showed him the way.
The fact that this so-called technology can be developed, tested and patented with impunity is proof that it will primarily be used as the most abominable means of blackmail and extortion.
"Stardust solutions" is a huge Israeli-US company (with massive investment from techno-fascist silicon valley funds) that seems to be frantically racing to deploy geoengineering for profit
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The fact that this so-called technology can be developed, tested and patented with impunity is proof that it will primarily be used as the most abominable means of blackmail and extortion.
Chaque fois que je vois écrits l'un à côté de l'autre les mots "biodiversité" et "IA", j'ai l'impression que je perds encore un peu plus d'espérance de vie...
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Chaque fois que je vois écrits l'un à côté de l'autre les mots "biodiversité" et "IA", j'ai l'impression que je perds encore un peu plus d'espérance de vie...
AI Slop is driving us backward to dark ages and ignorance, stripping us of our humanity...
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
AI Slop is driving us backward to dark ages and ignorance, stripping us of our humanity...
De la puissance intemporelle des brèves de comptoir...
au café un vieux monsieur blanc dit à sa femme
"il y a un vrai féminisme avec lequel je suis d'accord et un faux féminisme qui m'emmerde"
je crois que cela explique très bien comment le vrai et le faux s'articulent selon les classes dominantes
"il y a un vrai féminisme avec lequel je suis d'accord et un faux féminisme qui m'emmerde"
je crois que cela explique très bien comment le vrai et le faux s'articulent selon les classes dominantes
November 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
De la puissance intemporelle des brèves de comptoir...
Growth serves greed, entropy for accumulation and ruin. Multi-scale expansion cycle.
Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth
There is no economic growth on a dead planet
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
There is no economic growth on a dead planet
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment
Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Growth serves greed, entropy for accumulation and ruin. Multi-scale expansion cycle.
AI TEK : Ancestral Intelligence and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
The Paradox of Proximity book, Preventing Urban Loneliness, is online.
Editor Bloxhub | Cities for better health | PYNT
My text: Urban Proximity Is More Than a Short Walk—It’s Connecting
“We need another kind of AI for our cities: ancestral intelligence"
Happy proximity
bloxhub.org/wp-content/u...
Editor Bloxhub | Cities for better health | PYNT
My text: Urban Proximity Is More Than a Short Walk—It’s Connecting
“We need another kind of AI for our cities: ancestral intelligence"
Happy proximity
bloxhub.org/wp-content/u...
November 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
AI TEK : Ancestral Intelligence and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
History has seen its share of demented emperors, but technology has magnified their destructive reach beyond anything the past could imagine.
October 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
History has seen its share of demented emperors, but technology has magnified their destructive reach beyond anything the past could imagine.
It goes without saying, though it’s better to have it in writing...
A new study by Centre researchers Agnes Pranindita, Ingo Fetzer and Lan Wang-Erlandsson, published in Nature Water, shows croplands in 155 countries rely on other nations forests for up to 40% of the precipitation, crucial for production.
Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/5.7fd7a22f19...
Learn more: www.stockholmresilience.org/5.7fd7a22f19...
October 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It goes without saying, though it’s better to have it in writing...
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Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
Know. Name. Disrupt.
Occult tectonics describes the hidden forces of control actually driving observable chaos.
I wrote about the fault lines between five deviant beliefs shaking the planet: Trumpism, Millerism, Christian Dominionism, Billionaire Nihilism, and Putinism.
www.mind-war.com/p/occult-tec...
I wrote about the fault lines between five deviant beliefs shaking the planet: Trumpism, Millerism, Christian Dominionism, Billionaire Nihilism, and Putinism.
www.mind-war.com/p/occult-tec...
Occult Tectonics: Five Deviant Beliefs Shaking the Planet
The fault lines between Trumpism, Millerism, Christian Dominionism, Billionaire Nihilism, and Putinism
www.mind-war.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Know. Name. Disrupt.
The propensity for violence and cruelty among idle humans should not be underestimated.
What is already happening is quite the opposite. Cut off people's livelihoods and exterminate them.
What is already happening is quite the opposite. Cut off people's livelihoods and exterminate them.
Musk keeps saying this and I really think it’s his most egregious lie:
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
The propensity for violence and cruelty among idle humans should not be underestimated.
What is already happening is quite the opposite. Cut off people's livelihoods and exterminate them.
What is already happening is quite the opposite. Cut off people's livelihoods and exterminate them.
"Il existe énormément de recours légaux, encouragés par les institutions, qui ne produisent pas de rapport de force. Le dernier exemple en date, ce sont les pétitions."
Comment répondre à la violence du capitalisme ? C'est la question centrale de l'essai « Saint Luigi » publié par le sociologue @nicolasframont.bsky.social ( @frustrationmag.bsky.social ). 💭
Entretien 👉 www.socialter.fr/article/nico...
Entretien 👉 www.socialter.fr/article/nico...
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"Il existe énormément de recours légaux, encouragés par les institutions, qui ne produisent pas de rapport de force. Le dernier exemple en date, ce sont les pétitions."
What goes up must come down.
The horror of the situation is that the necessary correction of the financial markets will have catastrophic repercussions on the physical goods markets.
The horror of the situation is that the necessary correction of the financial markets will have catastrophic repercussions on the physical goods markets.
Last month, subprime auto lender and dealer Tricolor went bust. The company, which provided loans to families with poor or no credit, is being seen as a potential canary in the coalmine.
Car loans might amount to a lot of dodgy American debt.
Car loans might be 2008 version 2.
Car loans might amount to a lot of dodgy American debt.
Car loans might be 2008 version 2.
Jamie Dimon warns about 'cockroaches' in the economy
Despite the stock market flying high, the top banker warned there could be trouble lurking beneath the surface.
www.dailymail.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
What goes up must come down.
The horror of the situation is that the necessary correction of the financial markets will have catastrophic repercussions on the physical goods markets.
The horror of the situation is that the necessary correction of the financial markets will have catastrophic repercussions on the physical goods markets.
"Science sans conscience n’est que ruine de l’âme".
La technique n'est jamais neutre. L'ingénierie est politique.
La technique n'est jamais neutre. L'ingénierie est politique.
October 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Science sans conscience n’est que ruine de l’âme".
La technique n'est jamais neutre. L'ingénierie est politique.
La technique n'est jamais neutre. L'ingénierie est politique.
"Every day the bubble persists, the harms of today and tomorrow increase. We need to burst that bubble as soon as possible."
A beautiful, balanced take on the harmfulness of AI, and how even though it's harmful, in the right ways it can be useful - if you can Centaur it. Cory Doctorow, the creator of the word, "Enshittification", demonstrating his peculiar talent for wordsmithery.
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...
Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox
Not what the machine does, but who it does it to.
doctorow.medium.com
October 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"Every day the bubble persists, the harms of today and tomorrow increase. We need to burst that bubble as soon as possible."
"L'État c'est moi".
La prise de pouvoir des préfets sur l’action territoriale de l’État
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
La prise de pouvoir des préfets sur l’action territoriale de l’État
Une réforme discrètement entrée en vigueur à la rentrée 2025 a parachevé une prise de pouvoir du corps préfectoral sur l’ensemble des services déconcentrés dans les territoires, leur imposant ainsi l…
www.mediapart.fr
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"L'État c'est moi".