Francois Heinderyckx
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Francois Heinderyckx
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• Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
• CIVIS European University Alliance
• Academia Europaea
• ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication

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Political science 29%
Communication & Media Studies 24%
Update. The French 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 (#cnrs) is canceling the #webofscience and encouraging its affiliates to use #OpenAlex. It cancelled #scopus last year.
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

#clarivate #elsevier #france #opensource #wos

About attempts to embed AI in higher ed curriculum: “When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write. It’s very difficult to imagine a robust market for university graduates […]
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“Repeated exposure to posts expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity ‘significantly influences’ users’ feelings of polarisation and boosts sadness and anger” study published in Science finds.
Also: “while there was a slight reduction in overall engagement in terms of time spent […]
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[sarcastic academic question]

@rwg
Along those lines, there's also the indispensable “participant observation.”
Also, throw in as splash of fancy software (“analysis using NVivo” anyone?).

[sarcastic academic question]

@rwg
That particular methodology bingo card usually also includes “mixed methods” and “grounded theory.”

I've never been so uncomfortable clicking on “Reject all cookies.”

#cookies #realcookies #gdpr

RE: https://flipboard.com/@petapixel/petapixel-t8l3kt33z/-/a-JRZu73ZgSpuiDuABSCGCdg%3Aa%3A1814180069-%2F0

We've already reached a point where anything creative that didn't involve AI is seen as exquisitely refined, deliciously archaic. An extravagance.
flipboard.com

Proposal to rethink public subsidies to private news outlets in Denmark. 8 criteria are proposed:
• Clear editorial identity and responsibility (accountable editor-in-chief).
• Independence from undue commercial or political influence.
• Editorial resources: at least 2 FTE.
• Aimed at a Danish […]
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When you see Canva regrouping all of its Affinity creative apps into one, it makes you wonder what's holding back DxO to just regroup all of its photo apps into one. 🙏

#photography

@dangillmor

I propose “grokesque” for word of the year.

Those still using Adobe creative suite are running out of excuses: Affinity launches a new version of the graphic design suite (previously Photo/Designer/Publisher) integrated into one single app. Oh, and it's free, for everyone (if you don't need AI tools integration with Canva) […]
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@driesverlinden
Well it's mostly their unashamed and unscrupulous repeated knee-bending (and active corruption, e.g. contributing to inauguration fund or to the vanity ballroom…) of the new regime in the US. They used to stand apart by promoting inclusivity, protecting privacy, etc. They […]
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I have now reached a point where I'm sufficiently upset with big tech, and especially with Apple (because my expectations were naively so much higher), that I will prepare to convert my older Intel-based iMac to Linux. I found plenty of very well documented support to do this in confidence. I'll […]
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“It is simply too risky to count on just a few platforms to invent our future. Yet that is the bet we are making by sitting back and letting Google, Amazon and Facebook dominate.
Making matters worse, the platform-extraction model is now spreading from tech to other economic sectors.
(…)
An […]
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“No one can deny that the big tech platforms have become essential, the default infrastructure of much economic activity. But being essential should not entail an unfettered power to extract wealth from everyone else. (…) Last year, Amazon charged private sellers, on average, between 50 and 60 […]
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“As we transition from the internet era to the AI era, what we’re consuming is not only ever more low-value, ultra-processed information, but more information that is essentially predigested, delivered in a way that is designed to bypass important human functions, such as assessing, filtering […]
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”We can build AI that isn't centralized under the control of a handful of giant companies. (…). But instead, we end up with the worst, most anti-social approaches because the platforms that have introduced ‘AI’ to the public imagination are run by authoritarian extremists with deeply destructive […]
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@tomjennings @jeppe @pluralistic
I get your point. I make it a goal to prefer local, honest, respectful outlets, but we lack ressources to find them (because we can't trust search engines or AI). I really miss the “directories” and the “rings” of the early days of the internet. They were […]
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@jeppe @pluralistic
Fair point: my personal ethics is to seek all other avenues and to only turn to Amazon if what I need is significantly less expensive or if I just can't find it anywhere else (safely). This includes local brick and mortar shops where too often the answer is "sorry, we don't […]
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Online shopping is such a hot mess. Take Amazon: the price of a product I'm looking for varies by more than *25%* betw. Amazon.nl & Amazon.fr (and every shades of grey in other countries). Same product exactly, same brand and reference. It makes every […]

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Headlines in French news media on Sunday night: “Who are the 18 ministers of the new government?”

Edited headline on Monday morning: “Who were the 18 ministers of the new government before the prime minister resigned this morning?”

(Printed papers didn't have the luxury of the editing.) […]
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”Outlandish and pointless fantasies (…) exist to be recited and shared, acting as instruments of online influence and coordination rather than narratives to make sense of the world. They may identify enemies and reinforce prejudices, but they don’t explain anything or provide a political plan […]
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“the central problem is that we live not so much in a time of lies as one of stupidity” writes William Davies.
“The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric phenomenon.”
“In a fully platform-based world […]
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The approval rating of Trump among US voters has not changed for the past 6 months at about 43%.

#uspolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/upshot/poll-analysis-trump-times-siena.html

@w7voa
Alternative take:
*43%* think he's right or should do even more.
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

For years I've been fiddling with idea of familiarise myself with Linux by setting up a virtual machine on my Mac, just to be ready when the time comes to leave Windows and MacOS behind. The time nigh.

#linux #bigtech