Yves Jeanrenaud
@yjeanrenaud.bsky.social
.oO0 Sociologist, Gender Studies Scholar, IT Enthusiast 0Oo.
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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne.
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
So ProPublica did.
Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/bird...
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I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...
The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens
Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives.
www.wired.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...
the singularity
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
the singularity
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I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mo...
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
I made a mod that replaces cliffracers with Thomas the Tank Engine. I am incapable of learning lessons whenever it involves corporations, because I fundamentally do not view toy company CEOs or media CEOs as people.
#morrowind #thomasthetankengine
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Gen AI is currently doing the tasks we feel “make us human” because the people who are selling it hate us. Art and culture are “those tasks capital hates.”
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Gen AI is currently doing the tasks we feel “make us human” because the people who are selling it hate us. Art and culture are “those tasks capital hates.”
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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promises of automation have consistently produced new and more intense forms of labor exploitation at scale, displaced across time and space. It is critical to understand this because the “wrong direction” of AI implies that there is a correct site of labor displacement and ignores the fact that...
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
promises of automation have consistently produced new and more intense forms of labor exploitation at scale, displaced across time and space. It is critical to understand this because the “wrong direction” of AI implies that there is a correct site of labor displacement and ignores the fact that...
ah, fuck fedex. I wait for a parcel from hk. The address is fine, they even have my phone and email. They have the audacity to send me an invoice for customs and handling in advance, then pretend they tried to drop that parcel last Friday without any notice until Tuesday, when I get a lousy sms
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
ah, fuck fedex. I wait for a parcel from hk. The address is fine, they even have my phone and email. They have the audacity to send me an invoice for customs and handling in advance, then pretend they tried to drop that parcel last Friday without any notice until Tuesday, when I get a lousy sms
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In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM
In other words, traffic deaths are a policy choice
i coded a patch, but made too many commits.
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
i coded a patch, but made too many commits.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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A #CosmicVision mission, #ESALISA will be first gravitational wave detector in space.
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A #CosmicVision mission, #ESALISA will be first gravitational wave detector in space.
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging.
1/ #CM25 🔭
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Nachträgliche Kompensation durch Verbeamtung & Pensionsansprüche ist fest in das System eingepreist, nur: die allermeisten erleben sie nie. Man muss es so deutlich sagen: Wissenschaftliche "Karriere" in D ist für die meisten mit massiven finanziellen Nachteilen verbunden. Irreversibel. #IchBinHanna
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Nachträgliche Kompensation durch Verbeamtung & Pensionsansprüche ist fest in das System eingepreist, nur: die allermeisten erleben sie nie. Man muss es so deutlich sagen: Wissenschaftliche "Karriere" in D ist für die meisten mit massiven finanziellen Nachteilen verbunden. Irreversibel. #IchBinHanna
worker's union and socialist history, the match girls' strike of 1888 is a known aspect and milestone. But I this drives a quite interesting new aspect of oral and family history to it in terms of occupational safety
www.br.de/mediathek/po... (German only)
www.br.de/mediathek/po... (German only)
Der Streik der Streichholzmädchen - Der Kampf um Arbeitsschutz - Radiowissen | BR Podcast
1888: In London streiken die Streichholzmädchen. Dieser Streik wird viel verändern für die Arbeiterklasse in der Hochphase der Industrialisierung. Initiiert von Frauen und Mädchen, die ihr Leben in de...
www.br.de
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
worker's union and socialist history, the match girls' strike of 1888 is a known aspect and milestone. But I this drives a quite interesting new aspect of oral and family history to it in terms of occupational safety
www.br.de/mediathek/po... (German only)
www.br.de/mediathek/po... (German only)
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
Wichteltür, IT Edition
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wichteltür, IT Edition
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This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: "the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone looking into disinformation and scams on Meta's platforms but the scale is kind of incredible: "the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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apparently this is controversial even "utterly fallacious" according to some replies. reality is, relying on big tech/AI to be ethical is like asking them to self-regulate. it can never work. regulation makes clear what they are liable for & is our best chance if it can be coupled by enforcement
it's not lack of "ethics" that's led us to the authoritarian and facist state we are in currently. it's lack of respect for the rule of law and failure of responsible bodies to enforce the law
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
apparently this is controversial even "utterly fallacious" according to some replies. reality is, relying on big tech/AI to be ethical is like asking them to self-regulate. it can never work. regulation makes clear what they are liable for & is our best chance if it can be coupled by enforcement
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"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
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"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"According to the publication, the communications could demonstrate willful infringement, potentially leading to enhanced damages of up to $150,000 per work, a massive increase from just $750."
#WritingCommunity
#WritingCommunity
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"It’s not that people actually think art is pointless. It’s that they are jealous of someone else getting paid to do it. They, too, want to be paid to make art. They find creation joyous, however small their attempts. There is art and there is work, and you only deserve money if you suffer."
Hello! I wrote about how and why Americans punish creators buttondown.email/algoldfuss/a...
Life Is Pain, Highness
I’ve been thinking about art and punishment. That is, how we punish people for making art. There’s the more nuanced form, where we project our own...
buttondown.email
November 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"It’s not that people actually think art is pointless. It’s that they are jealous of someone else getting paid to do it. They, too, want to be paid to make art. They find creation joyous, however small their attempts. There is art and there is work, and you only deserve money if you suffer."
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My paper was turned into a comic according to their email - what????
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
My paper was turned into a comic according to their email - what????
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regulations that are put in place to protect individuals from the wealthiest and most powerful corporations are apparently `out of control’
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
regulations that are put in place to protect individuals from the wealthiest and most powerful corporations are apparently `out of control’
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📊 We are excited to share new data on the Querdenken movement in Germany, collected by @marvinstein.bsky.social
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
📊 We are excited to share new data on the Querdenken movement in Germany, collected by @marvinstein.bsky.social
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
The data provides valuable insights into protest attitudes, party identification and populist or conspiracy beliefs.
👉 now available at the GESIS data archive doi.org/10.4232/1.14...
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Long shot but if anyone would be keen on last minute tickets to see METAL GEAR SOLID played by an orchestra tonight at the Royal Albert Hall at 7pm, let me know?
Partner can’t use his ticket tonight and if we can pass it to someone who can and can recover even some costs we’d like to
Partner can’t use his ticket tonight and if we can pass it to someone who can and can recover even some costs we’d like to
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Long shot but if anyone would be keen on last minute tickets to see METAL GEAR SOLID played by an orchestra tonight at the Royal Albert Hall at 7pm, let me know?
Partner can’t use his ticket tonight and if we can pass it to someone who can and can recover even some costs we’d like to
Partner can’t use his ticket tonight and if we can pass it to someone who can and can recover even some costs we’d like to