“This year at Connect, we shared our vision for the metaverse and a future made by all of us.”
Source : Facebook
“This year at Connect, we shared our vision for the metaverse and a future made by all of us.”
Source : Facebook
“Pour essayer d’affiner son esprit critique, Delphi a donc passé de longs moments à scruter le web, et notamment les questions posées sur les pages Reddit r/AmITheAsshole (que l’on traduirait par « suis-je un trou du cul ? ») et r/Confessions, ou les redditeurs se livrent leurs secrets les moins avouables. Ces situations ont ensuite été soumises aux jugements de sous-traitants, employés grâce à l’Amazon Mechanical Turk, l’outil de microtâche à bas prix mis à disposition par Amazon. De ce processus est sorti une sorte de « guide moral » appelé Commonsense Norm Bank. Cette base de données « compile 1,7 million d’exemples de jugements éthiques de personnes, sur un large éventail de situations quotidiennes. »”
“Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) offers a relatively low-cost alternative to traditional expensive survey samples, which likely explains its popularity among survey researchers. An important question about using such samples is whether they are representative of the larger Internet user population. Though prior research has addressed this question about demographic characteristics, little work has examined how AMT workers compare with others regarding their online activities—namely, social media experiences and online active engagement. This article analyzes survey data administered concurrently on an AMT and a national sample of U.S. adults to show that AMT workers are significantly more likely to use numerous social media, from Twitter to Pinterest and Reddit, as well as have significantly more experiences contributing their own online content, from posting videos to participating in various online forums and signing online petitions. The article discusses the implications of these findings for research that uses AMT as a sampling frame when examining questions related to social media use and active online engagement.”

“L’histoire de l’évolution de la vie est l’histoire de la lente altération des espèces, ou du remplacement corporel d’une espèce par une autre, chaque fois qu’il arrive qu’un changement permette un meilleur ajustement dans une niche environnementale particulière. Peut-être que le grand dessein de l’évolution passe par le changement d’une espèce en une autre espèce, par le biais de facteurs aléatoires, jusqu’à ce qu’enfin, après une période prolongée, une espèce deviennent suffisamment intelligente pour diriger sa propre évolution et créer de nouveaux types d’intelligence sur une base non organique. Dans ce cas, le remplacement de l’humanité, ou bien par une hyper-humanité, ou bien par des ordinateurs, serait un phénomène naturel auquel on ne pourrait s’opposer que pour des raisons futiles et inconséquentes. Toutefois, je ne suis pas certain que cela se produira un jour.”
“Broadly speaking, the social sciences are a range of academic disciplines that studies human society and human individuals in the context of society. Long established fields such as sociology, economics, anthropology, psychology, and political science no doubt first come to mind when thinking about the social sciences. But disciplines such as education, law, linguistics, geography, gender studies, communications, archeology, and even business school fields such as management, marketing, and human resources can all potentially be categorized as falling under the broad net of social science. While this diversity of specialized fields can be an obstacle when it comes to generalizing about its nature, this diversity is both a strength and a reflection of the complexities of its domain of study. This is a point that needs to be reiterated. One of the key insights (and values) of the social science of the past half century is its embrace of complexity. That is, methodological and theoretical pluralism is what defin”
Source : Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences | August 2020 | Communications of the ACM

So 90’s !!!
“Le métavers, contraction de « méta » et « univers » (metaverse en anglais), est une sorte de doublure numérique du monde physique, accessible via Internet. Grâce, notamment, à la réalité virtuelle et augmentée, il devrait permettre de démultiplier les interactions humaines, en les libérant des contraintes physiques, par le biais d’Internet. Il pourrait, par exemple, offrir la possibilité de danser dans une boîte de nuit avec des personnes situées à des milliers de kilomètres, mais aussi d’acheter ou de vendre des biens ou des services numériques, dont beaucoup restent encore à inventer.”
Source : Facebook va recruter 10 000 personnes en Europe pour créer le « métavers »

““Facebook puts users in a near-impossible position by telling them they can’t post about dangerous groups and individuals, but then refusing to publicly identify who it considers dangerous,” said Faiza Patel, co-director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s liberty and national security program, who reviewed the material. The list and associated rules appear to be a clear embodiment of American anxieties, political concerns, and foreign policy values since 9/11, experts said, even though the DIO policy is meant to protect all Facebook users and applies to those who reside outside of the United States (the vast majority). Nearly everyone and everything on the list is considered a foe or threat by America or its allies: Over half of it consists of alleged foreign terrorists, free discussion of which is subject to Facebook’s harshest censorship.”
Source : Facebook’s Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous” Groups and People
“Telegram has been unresponsive to Hope Not Hate’s flagging of extremist antisemitic channels and accounts. Hermansson says that the organisation has reached out to the platform with a list of the worst-offending channels advocating for terror. “And they’re still up there. The ones that have disappeared have disappeared of their own accord,” he says. “Not because of Telegram.” That is dangerous, he says, because the impact of these channels can very easily bleed into the offline world. The British fascist group Patriotic Alternative has established a significant presence on Telegram, while the transnational neo-Nazi outfit AtomWaffen Division, which has been linked to at least 11 murders worldwide, has also managed to expand its reach thanks to the platform. “It’s not just kind of a fluffy ideology we are talking about,” says Hermansson. “It’s actual terror propaganda.””
“When it comes to privacy, iOS arguably has a better reputation among consumers than Android, as does Siri vs Alexa, and Safari vs Chrome. But that doesn’t give Apple permission to track our lived experience at all times with its microphones, cameras and sensors. Apple’s groundbreaking devices are pushing the limits of what technology companies can track, and that is not good news for privacy. Thanks to Apple, physical shops can track us through our phones, hackers can potentially access our most sensitive health and biometric details, and now it has developed a technology that can scan content that was supposed to be encrypted. Apple has been playing two games at once – protecting privacy and developing surveillance tools – while only acknowledging the former.”
Source : We need to talk about how Apple is normalising surveillance | WIRED UK

“Les tensions s’accumulent et devraient pousser les entreprises occidentales à vouloir augmenter leurs capacités de production pour réduire les risques d’approvisionnement. » Les tensions s’accumulent d’autant plus que Pékin a été placé dans une situation intenable par Washington. En interdisant à TSMC de vendre ses puces dernier cri au champion chinois du téléphone, Huawei, l’administration américaine a donné un coup d’arrêt à toute la chaîne de l’électronique chinoise, fer de lance de sa conquête mondiale. Privé de ces puces pour ses smartphones, Huawei a été éjecté violemment de cet immense marché. Car les producteurs locaux sont encore très loin en matière de technologie.La Chine importe aujourd’hui pour plus de 370 milliards de dollars de puces par an, davantage que de pétrole !”
Source : L’histoire de l’entreprise taïwanaise TSMC est celle de la mondialisation… et de ses limites
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