Guillaume Pasquier

Worse. In Vietnam and Afghanistan there were local armed forces who supported the US effort. There are none in Iran.

Et la connaissance de la réalité chute de l'empire romain n'est pas d'une utilité cruciale au quotidien, certes, mais si on se pose la question ce serait mieux de le faire à un endroit où on peut avoir une réponse crédible.

People who don’t even want to treat other humans as humans are trying to convince us that AI has human consciousness and somehow I’M the crazy one

“Go talk to a librarian”
“No, it’s too slow.”

Who needs to think about topics or actually do research when you can ask an LLM to give you an answer plausible enough that you feel satisfied regardless of the actually truth?

(A lot of very smart people, sadly.)

Wait, countries other than the US and Japan have a national baseball team ? I didn't even know...

First it's ban LGBTQ Pride flags from the library.

Then it's ban LGBTQ displays from the library.

Then it's ban LGBTQ books from the library.

Then it's ban LGBTQ people from the library, which is the ultimate goal.

The slippery slope argument is sometimes a fallacy, but sometimes not.

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"Maximize your reading potential"

This is what happens when experience matters less to society than appearance

This is what happens when we value 'data' over meaning

Thanks to a student's suggestion, I've just added a new page to my Zotero libguide about managing archival documents. Check it out!
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How AI Detection Tools Are Failing Students in 2026 AI detection tools are pushing students to write worse and use more AI. Discover how these flawed algorithms penalize human variation and what educators can do instead.

How AI Detection Tools Are Failing Students in 2026 — Pixels and Pulse
1-Ça ne marche pas
2-Ça brise la confiance mutuelle
3-Les étudiants abaissent le niveau d'expression dans leurs productions

"Toutes les évolutions déontologiques sont nées d'une désobéissance", ça résume bien le problème du légalisme à oeillères. (Oui j'ai du retard dans mes podcasts)

Séance "The Librarians" au @fifdh.bsky.social
La haine ordinaire me rend malade.

Because of the increase in submissions due to AI, the peer review system will collapse. The AI flood is happening at different rates for different fields and subtitles, so you might be spared so far.

Un petit projet sur lequel je travaille et qui va se lancer le 21 avril prochain : Yverdon.express

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Is satire a thing anymore

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Le soupçon étant beaucoup mais alors vraiment beaucoup plus répandu que la fraude, c’est juste un moyen de plus de pourrir la vie des pauvre par pur moralisme

Le fascisme ne mérite que notre intolérance.

Un de ces strips que d'un côté ne ne comprends pas, mais d'un autre j'adore quand même.

On NVIDIA and Analyslop Editor's note: a previous version of this newsletter went out with Matt Hughes' name on it, that's my editor who went over it for spelling errors and loaded it into the CMS. Sorry! Hey all! I’m going...

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The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Some harms make benefits irrelevant. See rocket-based deliveries. "Sure some of the users will die and homes will be destroyed but other people will get their deliveries faster."

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Gen AI is a disaster every time you look at it from a different angle.

Martina Benz - moving our funding from the large publishers to diamond OA support is a 'difficult conversation'. This is key. Few of us work in universities where there is any spare money. I'm working on the basis I'll be told by my VC - 'great idea - tell us how you'll fund it'. #CopimConference

Collection of books seen from above

Matilda has reached 160M deduplicated publications, among which 33M are full-text searchable. Everything is free, sharable and reusable and will remain as such under our #POSI commitments and following our mission matilda.science/mission?l=en

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

La bonne nouvelle, c'est que ça n'a pas été sélectionné par un·e bibliothécaire mais demandé par un·e prof retraité·e.
Oui, vieux mec blanc cishet, comment vous avez deviné?

The Librarians - FIFDH Aux États-Unis, des milliers de livres sont retirés des écoles et bibliothèques publiques. Portée par des groupes conservateurs, cette offensive vise des récits LGBTQIA+ et des ouvrages traitant de qu...

"The Librarians" au programme du FIFDH le samedi 7 mars.
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Aux Etats-Unis, Donald Trump a déclaré dans son état de l'union qu'il était temps d'en finir avec la transidentité. Ses législateurs proposent des lois visant à traiter la transidentité comme de la pornographie.

After decades of debating the “scientific publishing crisis”, the time as come to decide.

This is an English translation of my original German contribution to the Merkur Blog in response to the contributions by Gehring and Tautz. “Scientific publishing” may sound like a minor rung in the ivory […]