Yes, my last link points to a discussion about this very article and why one needs actually a bit more nuance. The guillotine is indeed both the symbol of revolution but also of the death penalty by an oppressive state. It has a double meaning and one must know both and be careful when handling that symbol.

Live reports (in French) with several pictures: https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/100925/bloquons-tout-la-journee-de-mobilisation-du-10-septembre-en-direct

https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/i2ip80/the_people_deserve_a_guillotine_emoji/

https://www.change.org/p/unicode-guillotine-emoji

This was a recurrent demand!

And also careful about this concept. We use it as a meme, but it also has a history linked with capital punishment here that most people do not want to see back.

Interesting. Is there a specific cause, a specific motto? There are huge protests planned on the 10th here in France and strikes on the 18th.

Strong disagree. There is a lot we can do all about it. Starting with voting and promoting politicians who want to do something about it (yes, voting matters). Then, starting a discussion about the social use of work and labor. If these entry-level jobs can be automated, what quality were they exactly testing new hires for? Let’s make it an interviewing step instead.

Maybe make the entry level job one hierarchical layer higher. Instead of data entry, manage a fleet of data-entry AI agents.

And, also, wonder about the place of labor in our society. If not directly talking about basic income, talk about funding for more education, more training, on of the various modalities that exist: private or public funding, private or public college, in-company training, training through non-profits, etc.

The AI wave comes with huge social implication, and it is collectively that we will decide whether it makes individual situations worse or better.

This is only true for basic pre-training of the base model. The later stage fine tuning (I used to call it RLHF but now I think many different techniques exist) is to make the model understand the basic level of expectation. Despite having 4chan in their training set, you will never see modern LLMs spontaneously generate edgy racist shit, not because it can’t but because it learnt that this is not the output expected.

Similarly with code, base models would produce by default average code, but fine tuning makes it understand that only the highest standard has to be generated. I can guarantee you that the code LLMs produce is much higher quality (on the superficial level) than the average code on github: documentation on all functions, error code and exceptions managed correctly, special cases handled whenever they are identified…

How do they fare against human generated code?

Because the baseline is pretty bad.

I have a Peugeot iON. Bought it second hand, I doubt the constructor even knows my name. No app, no GPS, I plug my charger in our AC outlet when I park. Never had to charge it outside home.

I agree that the more open source, the more freedom, but there is a world between “We will upload your every move to feed MechaHitler” and a full open source car.

Trust is a fascist political structure.

I see what you mean but I have a strong disagreement with that formulation. Trust is a fundamental tool in building a society. But trust must be earned and chosen, not forced on someone.

I keep seeing these titles and it pisses me off.

Mass-tourism is a problem, but this is not what the Louvre strike (dare that word in the title, even if it pisses your owner) was about.

It was a regular strike over working conditions. Yes, mass tourism, but the Louvre has been the most visited museum in the world for a very long time with no problem. The problem is that 200 staff are currently missing and the rest is overworked, in the management’s indifference.

So let’s go with all the swear words: After a worker’s unions meeting about the degrading working conditions, a strike was decided to protest and gain a leverage in negotiation with management.

I’d rather have us normalize sourcing things, preferably with the whole trace.

Honestly, I don’t really care if something has been written by an underpaid intern or by a LLM. I don’t think hallucinations are worse than lies and propaganda and these two things are what I want to see fought.

And I think the issue is wrongly framed. Fast forward 5 years (or 5 months, who knows), everyone will have the equivalent of Claude 4 running locally on their phone, and they will ask for news updates on their specific interests to a model who knows what their interlocutor knows in the tone they configured.

“Fucking Putin at it again, this time hit Kiyv with missiles, 50 sent, half went through.” and it will know to give you background when you dont have it “Well it turns out that there riots broke up in Nowheretown in France over a new highway project, with a local ecologist group that brought about a thousand militants across Europe to oppose police. Cool clashes videos if you want.”

We won’t read “news” through generic one-size-fits-all texts, we will be source-hungry and will have agents digest hundreds of pages of raw info into what we need.

Traceability of information will be what matters the most.

Thanks!

Not much to say, I love your work! Thank you for what you do and for existing!

Ah yes, maybe something: I think the fediverse suffers from a lack of recommendation/search system. We are a bit burned out from the terrible consequences of the for profit recommendations of Youtube and Twitter, but I think a system that would be actually controlled by the user would be a very precious discovery and adoption tool. Is there something like that being worked on somewhere?

can Anarchists build and maintain public infrastructure?

Internet

Wikipedia

Many open source projects

One could argue that international research efforts are generally done in a non-coercivie way

Anarchist ways can maintain public infrastructure, but they need to be built differently with that modus operandi in mind.