Stéphane Bisinger

It's a nice day to be a software dev, init?

We always talk about climate change mitigation /prevention costs, but rarely about the cost of doing nothing. Turns out, doing nothing is *very* expensive

Das ist die Studie, die #Röstimussweg nicht will, dass du sie siehst 👇 Der Klimawandel könnte die Schweiz 2060 bis zu 24 Mrd. Franken pro Jahr kosten, ohne Klimaschutz. Mit Klimaschutz rund 10 Mrd. Aufgeschaltet: still, ohne Medienmitteilung. www.bafu.admin.ch/de/kosten-er...

Whatever your plans were today, it's emergency patch day now security-hub.ncsc.admin.ch#/posts/13083

The Telegraph obtained information that it was Elon Musk’s idea to reduce the maximum speed of Starlink-controlled (interceptor-) drones in Ukraine, then got cold feet that this might backfire on Starlink in the European market and then finally blamed Trump for this episode.

I believe most people don't understand what this insane AI race is all about. If you control the machine everyone turns to for answers, you control reality. The race is about power and control over people. The winner will be galactic emperor for life and you won't even know it!

"There is nothing out there. There is nowhere to go. You go to the GP and there's nowhere for them to send you to. It's really at the back of the queue as far as research, knowledge, expertise, funding." The Olympic sprinter now bedbound for 22 hours a day with #ME www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

Ölbert is the worst thing that has happened to federal politics. A total disaster for environmental policies - the kind of thing that tends to happen when you make a oil & car lobbyist your head of the Environmental Ministry!

That's my experience too

We may, through AI, finally understand where true value lies. It's the journey itself, not the destination

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Ukraine can't target oil facilities in Russia, but Russia can continue hitting residential areas, civilian power plants and the like. Poor Russia, the war in **Ukraine** is so hard on them 😭

Can I just say because it probably isn't said enough: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @emilymbender.bsky.social were specifically extremely correct in their "stochastic parrots" paper on their environmental risk warnings and narrowly, on the unjust burden of impacts: s10251.pcdn.co/pdf/2021-ben...

These glasses should be made illegal

Plesse come back!

Mistral is the company that provides generative AI models to @ecosiasearch.bsky.social totalenergies.com/newsroom/tot...

This is one of those pieces that are at the same time great journalism, but also a big "wait, you didn't know that??". Of course they store and read what you send them...

When I was a young new developer entering the workforce, an important metric for choosing a company was whether they enforced the use of specific IDEs or other tools, or if they allowed people to use what made them more productive. We ended up in the dystopia version because of course 🤦

What an interesting talk! youtu.be/0-6-f94n_9M?...

«students who do not use AI outperform those who do, on average, by around 20 points – equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers.» Trippelwhammen Tiktok 2018, Covid i 2020, kronet med ChatGPT i 2022 har gjort underverker for kidsa våre. www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Excellent thread, but about this point: the break points to me are how unrealistically the AI persona stays intact. It's always the same, verbose, ultra polite, agreeable persona, and that's extremely tiring and fake. You never reach the "I don't know" limit that every human has.

In der Stadt Zürich ist nur 3 % der Strassenfläche fürs Velofahren reserviert – das ist weniger, als die Autos als Parkfläche auf öffentlichen Strassen zur Verfügung haben (5 %). Was zu ändern ist. www.srf.ch/news/schweiz...

Imagine if we built infrastructure to serve the majority of people (who use public transit), rather than the few (cars require lots of space, but move very few people)!

An argument I often hear is "once an innovation has been discovered, we never went back". But I have a feeling that this is just a bias because we don't remember what we don't do anymore. However I'm trying to think counter-examples. I have only one so far: the Concorde Any others come to mind?

I love @climateadam.bsky.social 'a communication work on YouTube! youtu.be/WlD2UN7gPmg?...

Wer weiterhin für den Verbrennungsmotor ist, die Wärmepumpe ablehnt und fossile Parteien wählt, steht auf der falschen Seite der Geschichte. #Klimakatastrophe #ClimateActionNow 🌍💚 📷 @katjaberlin.bsky.social 👏

Für alle, die angesichts der gegenwärtigen Hitze sagen, dass es schon immer mal einen heissen Sommer gegeben habe.

What the heck??

This one hurts. I've really enjoyed Tim's work in the past But let's just be totally bloody clear here: every single person using a text fabrication engine to replace their work, research and writing skills: THIS MOMENT IS COMING FOR YOU TOO It is truly just a matter of time. It's inevitable ⏱️

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

WARNING! TACO BELL ADVISES NEW TACO SO GOOD IT IS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL, COULD REPLACE ALL OTHER FOOD BEFORE HUMANS CAN CONTAIN IT. URGES CONGRESS TO GIVE THEM MORE MONEY SO THEY CAN DEVELOP ANTI-TACO SAFEGUARDS

NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

Ölbert is and always has been the wrong person for the job!

Mit Fake-Kampas gegen #Klimaschutz: Genfer Studie zeigt auf, "dass die Kampagnen von #Avenergy (Swissoil) seit über 30 Jahren auf denselben Narrativen und #Lügen basieren, die hauptsächlich von US-Thinktanks verbreitet werden." www.tagesanzeiger.ch/avenergy-sui...

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

La canicule exceptionnelle du mois de juin en Suisse a mis en évidence les difficultés à faire face à ces nouveaux extrêmes climatiques, affirme Sonia Seneviratne, climatologue à @ethz.ch . @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social

Trump is out of his mind and is throwing bombs left and right in Turkey. Whenever we decide to put a stop to this madman, is way overdue. P. S.: Rutte should resign. His attempts to appease Trump make him look ridiculous. It's a failed strategy, and it's maybe time to have someone with a backbone