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.

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.

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

In a recent interview, Yara El-Ghadban (Palestinian-Canadian novelist, with a PhD in anthropology) made an interesting answer to this recurring question: by asking her “do you condemn Hamas?”, the interviewer was questioning her humanity, and she didn’t have to prove or justify her humanity.

I find this point of view interesting, because it turns the question on its head. Since the answer is obvious, what does it mean to ask this question, and why is it only asked of certain people?

To complete the article, there are two levels of (public) social protection in France.

Unemployment insurance, which pays a percentage of your last salary if you lose your job, for several months.

The RSA, mentioned in the article, which is a survival benefit for people who don’t have/no longer have access to unemployment insurance.

People do their utmost to get back to work before moving from unemployment insurance to the RSA, which is the gateway to extreme poverty.

This measure therefore attacks the weakest of the weak.

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

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.

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.

I’ve seen non binary people using [iel/ellui], but to be honest the object pronoun “ellui” is much less popular than the subject pronoun “iel”.

(I can’t find a reliable source on that)

I live in France, and the term “camarade” is daily used in my union instead of the first name, or when you talk about several members of the union. It has no negative connotation, it’s not used as a reversal of stigma.

It’s also used in several left parties, but not all. It’s quite common between people who primarily fight for the workers rights, but it’s much less common between other progressive/leftist activists (feminists, climate activists, LGBTQIA+ rights activists…).

For me, it makes sense to use it this way, according to the context.

I agree with you about a 3D Mario: it’s absolutely not incompatible with the release of Wonder. Also, it would be a good candidate to showcase the graphics of the new console, without taking much risks.

Mario Kart/Splatoon/Smash bros. They need a multiplayer game. For Mario Kart and Smash Bros, they have the same (fist world) problem: the switch versions have so much content that it’s difficult to hit harder. And it’s not nice of me, but I feel like they wouldn’t mind milking the Splatoon players.

Animal crossing. The license gained so much new fans with AC:NH, it would be suprising if they don’t try to take advantage of this new popularity.

Give us the chance to finally have one island per player on the console, and it’s a day 1 purchase with my SO.

It’s a common misconception that Monopoly is a hymn to capitalism.

Actually, it’s a reimplantation of the Landlord’s Game, which was designed to demonstrate the mechanics of wealth accumulation and its nasty consequences when almost everybody end in poverty.