Sylvain Miermont @miermont@qoto.org

Lol is this allowed/legit? Email comes from Google domain...

The link only allows to change region, so I can't oppose this whatsoever - only request to change it back to France after they force me to the US Google and suck up more of my data. FWIW I live in France.

#gdpr #privacy @noybeu

Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.

So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.

The best view from any chemistry lab in the world? Clément has spent most of the afternoon setting up LISA, tomorrow we'll run a test core through to test she's working... (Meet LISA here: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/09/30/meeting-lisa/)
#iQ2300 #PRECISEnnf #FieldworkPhoto #Antarctica #WasaStation

Just so its clear: there's a blatant reason the chatbot gets applied to climate investments and not to, say, tech or real estate or finance. You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.

A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them archive.ph/r0u2r

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowi…
Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks

'We have to face climate change' in the prism of a world 'wrecked' by conflicts and injustice - and Solar Radiation Management is not a solution for this

Fabio d'Andrea, Head of Geosciences, ENS, Paris, France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XmFlmX7g70

How do you think Santa is handling cyberthreats? With Dangerzone of course! (Yeah, it took some training.) If you feel like testing his security team, you should know it has a challenge for you: Craft Santa a letter that can bypass Dangerzone's defenses and earn a bounty! 💰🎅 https://dangerzone.rocks/news/2025-12-10-santa-pwn/

this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103111003027?casa_token=X6GDNYV7-JAAAAAA:Q-cnPPInSQN0RDApMttemG-kQBb52GKzA3-qtoe2nmJwmcDRoTU5rEreNfPCvFOzQwoDVpNp9A

the ruins of the age of proprietary social media will resemble Fallout's fictional world: sealed vaults, each with an entire civilization that grew, developed, and eventually died. many buried forever beneath the dust, undiscovered. the rare ones that an adventurer finds their way into offer a unique petri dish of a society, a frozen moment in the flashbulb of collapse.

Research article: so, we studied the long-term effect of covid vaccine on mortality. Despite our best efforts to correct for confounders, some (from fake vaccine certificates to socioeconomic status and incomplete cause-of-death info) were insufficiently captured in our data. That's probably why we observe instead a protective effect against all causes of death. So all in all, we're pretty confident we can claim the vaccines are safe.

Press articles: OMG COVID VACCINE MAKES YOU IMMORTAL!!!!

In a partnership with Mistral AI, CNRS is deploying a locally-hosted LLM chatbot for its employees.

They provide some examples of tasks you can ask the chatbot: summarizing a long text; translating; and writing an outline for an article.

Tasks you'd want to delegate to an assistant because they're beneath you.

And then they decided it would be a great idea to "honor" Emmy Noether, one of the most influential women mathematicians ever, by naming this chatbot Emmy after her.

I cannot fully express how angry that makes me.

Can't be arsed to read something yourself? Ask good old Emmy to summarize it for you, that's right up her alley, she'll do it between proving two major results in algebra or mathematical physics, too bad she's only a website and can't make you a cup of coffee while she's at it.

https://alan-poc.dsi.cnrs.fr/accueil/index.html (in French)

Edited to add: given the URL, looks like it's Turing whose memory they first wanted to "honor" https://mastodon.opportunis.me/@olasd/115656931602686583

@carnage4life My working model is that if AI can be successfully used for a job, that job didn't need to get done at all. Someone who chooses to use AI is making a judgement "it's okay if this job is done wrong"; if it's okay if the job can be done wrong, then logically it follows it could be skipped completely.

If the higher you get in an organization, the more you can successfully use AI without anyone noticing the difference, then what does this say about top-heavy organizations?

I was planning on doing a shark flavored overview talk about the LHC and CMS experiment at c3 this year. Sadly, it was not accepted due to many other cool submissions.

But my trip to CERN was already planned and I had made arrangements with the PR department - So here are some of the images I took of special corespondent Blåhaj explaining things.

Hopefully next year is the charm. When LHC goes into the long shutdown I probably can also get some images of Blåhaj in the CMS experiment.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se@bsky.brid.gy

A billionaire can never be held accountable. Therefore a billionaire must never make a management decision.

Internet age verification kills anonymity and risks your data. It's a terrible idea, and the fact the UK and the most conservative parts of the US were the first to embrace it should tell you that. The EU shouldn't let this bad idea infect you. https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115621195342074414

You shouldn't need a driver's license to speak.

Even if HPV only caused cancer in people with cervixes, it would be essential to vaccinate people without cervixes because they can carry and spread the virus. You don't control infectious diseases by only vaccinating the people who might die, you control them by vaccinating everyone.

But also: HPV CAN GIVE ANYONE CANCER
HPV CAN GIVE *ANYONE* CANCER

We've had to wait a long time to get to this point! With this new pair of Cochrane systematic reviews, the weight of the evidence has tipped very heavily in favor of HPV vaccination.

My new post @PLOS: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/this-evidence-fundamentally-shifts-the-debate-about-the-hpv-vaccine/

#Vaccines