I live in Provence, 200 km (125 miles) from the Italian border.

You can find it at any outdoor market. It’s called “cade”, which derives from the Italian “calde” (hot). It was imported by Italian workers hundreds of years ago.

It’s cooked on site over a wood fire and sold fresh from the pizza oven. One particularity is that it’s thinner than socca from Nice, and is served with pepper and/or ground cumin.

Because it’s thin, it cooks evenly and isn’t creamy in the center, rather like a heavy pancake.

I think it’s a more global movement.

When I was recruited at my university in the early 2000s, every teacher had an ftp-accessible space with an http address like myuni.edu/~myname. The more techie ones did html, the fancier ones even added css. Muggles would export html from a Word document.

Then one day, the IT department decided to replace this with a “learning management system”. A wysiwyg platform with dozens of modules for videoconferencing courses, homework submission, online exams, and so forth.

Except that the user (the teacher) no longer has control over his or her personal space.

I understand the statement is about in-game stuff, but I’m guessing a lot of game developers have been using GitHub Copilot and this kind of “AI tools” for months.

Psaum for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers.

After these, I read all her books this year.

Singular Value Decomposition is widely used in machine learning, image processing, natural language processing, recommender algorithms…

Stable Video Diffusion is a good marketing name, but SVD is quite confusing from an academic point of view.

It’s not the best idea to call it SVD, as it already stands for Singular Value Decomposition.

They have 300 facial expressions for that.

Because they don’t need to, as long as we keep believing their nice promises without looking if their old promises have been kept.

Unions don’t work the same way in all european countries.

In France, the union I belong to is organized by local company and public service, with a spawling system of dual cascading federations by geographic sector and economic sector.

And there are several competing national union organizations which overlap. I don’t know exactly how the other ones are organized

I’m pretty sure that if we, as a specie, stopped wasting money to kill each other, we could give food, shelter, healthcare and education to each of us.

And there would still be enough money left to found this kind of scientific projetcs.

The last time the parliament proposed an improvement of the IVF law to allow it in other cases than cishet couples, the government removed from the proposal the IVF for trans men, and the partner-assisted reproduction for lesbian couples.

And all of them fight against what they call the “wokisme”.

They are only doing better than lots of countries, because lots of countries are absolutely awful.

TW : suicide

Don’t be fooled, this has nothing to do with the fight against transphobia in France.

The Minister of Education has been facing a shit storm ever since a newspaper revealed that his administration had prevented a harassed (cis) kid from speaking, and the kid ended up committing suicide.

Faced with the scandal, the Minister asked his administration to take up all complaints of harassment and take action.

It’s to their advantage that the debate is refocused on the symbolic violence of this intervention. The reason for the harassment is the least of their concerns.

Getting Nintendo would be a career moment for me

Who cares about your career? How could it be a justification for anything?

Picross games are the Nintendo version of the pen-and-paper puzzles called nonograms. I’m pretty sure you can find this kind of puzzles on steam or websites.

Fez: a 2D plateformer in which you can change the perspective to create ways to unreachable plateforms

Baba Is You: a puzzle game in which you move blocks with words written on them, combining them to create small phrases which become new rules of the game.

I’m sorry, I should have been more clear

I don’t try to shift the narrative, I use the same method than Simone De Beauvoir in The Second Sex to highlight a discrimination.

Generating the picture of a black person is not racist (the AI could have bias, but that’s an other subject). But generating pictures of persons in different skin tons on a website called apartheid.ai and making people vote “white or black”, that would be racist.

The problem here is not generating picture of women, but how these pictures are used.

If I follow your reasoning, blackface isn’t racist because it doesn’t involve real black people?

This study was funded by a grant from the Fondation for Obviousness.

Not to mention the fact that Nazism thrived on the devastation wrought by Germany’s defeat in 1918.

And It wasn’t the World War II that broke the cycle of wars in the heart of Europe (WWI was consequence of the war in 1870). It was the project to build a peaceful European union.