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You should have a personal website not because you need to grow an audience, and turn your hobbyist writing into a profession.

You should have a personal website not because you’re an expert on some subject, and it would be cruel to deny the world your wisdom.

You should have a personal website not because you think you’re important.

You should have a personal website not because the world is in need of your highlight reel.

You should have a personal website because I think the online world is as real as the offline world. You have a presence in one, and you should have a presence in the other.

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Stock images strongly influence the ways in which non-expert audiences think about and understand the topics they illustrate. This is why it is worrying that research has repeatedly shown that many images of artificial intelligence are misleading and unhelpful.

This guide presents the results of a year-long study into alternative ways of creating images of AI, involving roundtable and workshop conversations with over 100 experts from fields including the tech sector, media, education, research, policy and the arts. Its aim is to advise people who work with images of AI – from journalists to communications officers, from educators to activists – on sourcing and creating the best images for communicating accurately and compellingly.

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Pierre Steiner aborde les questions classiques de la philosophie de l’esprit par un biais inattendu: celui de la technique. Une vision des choses appelée à avoir de profondes répercussions.

par Mark Hunyadi

Pierre Steiner est un philosophe belge établi en France, encore jeune (il est né en 1980), mais dont les travaux sont pourtant connus de longue date. Actuellement professeur à l’Université de technologie de Compiègne, il suit une voie très originale, qui permet de renouveler audacieusement des problèmes très classiques de philosophie de l’esprit, laquelle interroge (depuis Platon!) les rapports de l’esprit humain au monde. Qu’est-ce que penser? Comment l’esprit est-il lié aux objets qu’il perçoit du monde? Ce sont là de vieilles et nobles questions, mais que Pierre Steiner aborde par un biais inattendu: celui d’une philosophie de la technique.

Ainsi, l’un des lieux communs les plus répandus sur la technique (y compris parmi les philosophes) consiste à dire que celle-ci serait un ensemble d’outils ou de dispositifs servant à réaliser telle ou telle fin, fixée par l’être humain. Celui-ci aurait donc des buts, et la technique permettrait de les réaliser. Les buts seraient «dans la tête», et telle ou telle technique serait le moyen de les atteindre. Qu’y a-t-il donc à redire à cette vision de bon sens?

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[Note] – Traduction du terme « Gewehrgriff »

Dans l’article « Militärische Ausbildung » du HLS, écrit en allemand par Hans Senn, Laurent Auberson, traduit « Gewehrgriff » comme « maniement formel de l’arme ». Je n’ai pas trouvé de traduction dans le « TERMDAT – La banque de données terminologiques de l’administration fédérale ». La Tribune de Lausanne du 12 mars 1958 reprend en page 3 le communiqué du DMF sur l’abolition du « maniement d’arme » et parle de « mouvements de drill ».

Source de l’image : Wiktionary contributors, « fountain pen, » Wiktionary (accessed April 19, 2023).

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Les cadres du renseignement doivent repostuler pour garder leur job – Mais pas leur directeur

Le Service de renseignement de la Confédération (SRC) a choisi de modifier son organisation. Mesure spectaculaire: les membres actuels de la direction se doivent de repostuler s’ils désirent conserver leur poste de travail.

Si ma mémoire est bonne, à chaque réorganisation du DDPS, les cadres ont dû repostuler. C’est, toujours sur la base de mes souvenirs, surtout le cas lorsque les structures internes changent (DMF 95, Armée XXI / Groupement défense, …). Ce n’est donc pas si spectaculaire que cela.

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[RAMAGE] – Website for education

IndieWeb for Education is the application of indieweb principles to one’s personal site with a particular emphasis on use cases for education, pedagogy, research, academic samizdat, and collaboration. It is generally synonymous with the aims and goals of the A Domain of One’s Own or DoOO movement.

While the general principles of IndieWeb can apply to anyone’s site, in an attempt to help foster the next generation of potential IndieWeb adopters who may be focused on teaching, education, and research, whether at the K-12, undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, or other levels, we’re compiling some specific hints, tips, pointers, and examples which may be germane to these particular audiences to assist in their motivation and adoption.

I mean, what does an alternative to ed-tech as data-extraction, control, surveillance, privatization, and profiteering look like? What does resistance to the buzzwords and the bullshit look like?

I don’t have an answer. (There isn’t an answer.) But I think we can see a glimmer of possibility in the Indie Web Movement. It’s enough of a glimmer that I’m calling it a trend.

—Audrey Watters in Hack Education

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Tae Kim @firstadopter

If you hired an employee who regularly made up facts, info and stories to make their work answers sound more plausible and entertaining, wouldn’t you instantly fire the person? Yet, this is what tech people are gushing over. I don’t get it. Takes from real AI development/advances

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Many people may highlight, tag, or collect a variety of quotes within a text, but this activity is only a simulacrum of understanding and knowledge acquisition. This pattern can be particularly egregious in digital contexts where cutting and pasting has be come even easier and simpler than using a photocopier.  Writing it down and summarizing important ideas in your own words will actively help you on your way to ownership of the material you’re consuming.

A zettelkasten with no quotes—by definition—shouldn’t carry the name. So let’s lay to rest that dreadful idea that quotes aren’t allowed in a zettelkasten.

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The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you’d expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there’s no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call « tweets »—let’s face it, it’s a bit of a silly name that’s difficult to take seriously).

« Tweets » can’t be covered by a content warning. There’s no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There’s no way to set up your own instance, and you’re basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there’s no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can’t de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn’t Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn’t find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users

A very funny take through a perspective inversion !

Via Seb Sauvage

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Reblog via Emily M. Bender (she/her)

Okay, so are these 8 pages of motivated reasoning formatted like they’ve been submitted to Science or to Nature?

assets.researchsquare.com/file

Look, you can’t count the carbon emissions that people have for (check notes) existing as the « carbon cost » of the work that they do.

I can’t believe this needs to be said, but: LLMs are *optional*. Humans are not.

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[RAMAGE] – How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps (printer companies hate this!)

It was fine until my yellow ink cartridge (allegedly) ran out, and the printer stopped printing in color. I soldiered on with the black cartridge. Until one day I tried to print a return label (in black and white!) and the printer decided it wouldn’t. Not until I replaced the yellow ink cartridge. Fine. I paid 207 goddamn dollars for replacement cartridges, put them in, and discovered that HP region-locks its printers.

If you need a refresher: region-locking is a form of DRM mostly used by media and software publishers so they can sell the same content at different prices in different regions. If you buy a DVD in Europe, you need a DVD player that can play Region 2 discs.

DVDs and Blu-rays are region-locked. (CDs aren’t, which is probably why DVDs are.) Game consoles used to be. Streaming media is region-locked. Software is often region-locked. Kindle books are region-locked unless the publisher requests otherwise. But outside of, like, entertainment devices, it’s rare for hardware to be region-locked. Except, as it turns out, printer cartridges.

The genuine HP ink cartridges, for which I paid as much as I paid for the actual printer, would not work with the printer they were designed to work with because I bought it in a different part of the world. It wasn’t even a cheaper part of the world unless we’re talking healthcare or midcentury furniture.

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11 avril 2023 Christophe Genoud

Le 25 avril 2023 sort aux Editions Vuibert l’ouvrage que j’ai écrit tout au long de l’année 2022. Avant que les lecteurs ne s’en emparent, il est encore temps de revenir sur sa gestation et sur son propos.

Si vous suivez ces “Chroniques managériales”, le propos du livre ne devrait pas vous surprendre. Avec un ton humoristique, caustique et parfois polémique, je dissèque une dizaine d’idées, d’approches, de figures du management contemporain, dont nombre d’entre-elles ont été discutés sur ces pages du blog du Temps.

Leadership, organisations libérées, agilité, résilience, change management, design thinking, bonheur au travail, bienveillance, mindsets, développement personnel. Voilà les dix figures du bullshit managérial qui sont passées à la moulinette d’une critique reposant autant sur une lecture attentive des références pertinentes en sociologie, en science de gestion ou en philosophie que sur une pratique personnelle du management.