RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345065655681591

“The Anthropic scientists [..] said that their A.I. had taken “the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.””

[Mario Rodríguez Mestre, a computational biologist] “disputed that claim. “They are the same systems we have been studying for years,” he said. And they are the same enzymes, he said, that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I.”

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AI companies stealing people’s work and claiming that their AI is making new discoveries. How long before humanity stands up to these companies?

Heydon Pickering has been very busy building out a declarative, web component-based system for making music with HTML, along with a stunning companion site.

https://hyperblam.how/

"Draw me like one of your French girls"

#cats #catsOfMastodon #fedicats #caturday

Renseignement pris :
- le film tout entier a été recréé ainsi (!!!)
- chaque image a été dessinée sur du papier (rien de numérique)
- ça représente plus de 120'000 images
- tout a été numérisé par une seule personne
- le projet est terminé (sinon j'aurais bien aimé participer ;_; )

J'espère qu'ils feront les deux autres films :') mais ça a déjà dû représenter un travail monstrueux pour l'artiste qui a centralisé tous les flipbooks, donc j'en doute un peu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlzO4z7hPg0

Joli projet collectif : les 11 premières minutes du film La Communauté de l'Anneau (de Peter Jackson) recréées plan par plan en animation dessinée à la main, par un collectif d'artistes à travers le monde. (Edit: TOUT le film, voir post suivant)

Grande diversité de styles, parfois très proche du film, parfois naïf ou presque abstrait (et quelques gags visuels aussi ^^). Vraiment joli. (Pas de texte, uniquement de la musique.)

Flipbook of the Rings "Chill Edition"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtX7nVFrUw

À partir d'aujourd'hui j'ai un nouveau propriétaire. Il s'appelle Pixel. J'espère qu'il saura se montrer généreux.
#catsOfMastodon

🔗 Ketan Joshi analysed Google's latest sustainability report, and yes, energy consumption went up (a lot).

Adding up the numbers, Joshi concludes it's not because of manual Gemini use, it's because Google's search engine shows AI results by default https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/

Au cas où vous vous poseriez la question (ce qui fut manifestement mon cas à une époque lointaine), voici à quoi ressemble la structure du Livre Dont Vous Êtes Le Héros "Les Sept Serpents".

(On trouve des choses étonnantes quand on fait du tri dans ses archives. ^^)

#jdr #fantasy #lecture #livreDontVousÊtesLeHéros

If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, financial, environmental, creative, cultural, privacy, quality, legal and geopolitical concerns, then this thing really has legs!!

TIL crows, starlings and similar birds only *look* black to us — they’re actually very colorful in ways human eyes are unable to perceive. 🤯

Remember that next time people can’t see your “colors”.

Some colors just require different eyes.

@mia I mean I do kinda luv the Italian Futurists who were so cool and never ethically weird or wron—hm

haha, yeah, let's move even faster and break even more things. luv to increase productivity

Rushing to the hospital Emergency Room has emerged as perhaps the paramount objective of slamming one’s own dick in a doorway.

Techbros who tell you that accessibility won't be needed anymore, because AI will solve all the problems, with AI image description and agents to shop for you instead of UIs know very little about accessibility. And about what disabled people use the web for: shopping is not the only thing!

Twist your brain, with the Thatcher Effect: the faces are wrong, but they seem right upside down, because our brain loves to make sense of things, even when they don't.
(rotation animations might be motion sickness triggering)

https://optical.toys/thatcher-effect/

An industrial design becomes iconic when form outlives function and enters collective memory.
I present, the Seletti x BIC lamp pen lamp: same silhouette. Different job. I love it.

https://shopdecor.com/products/seletti-x-bic-lamp

A more modern example would be captions in videos: they are a feature designed for deaf and hard of hearing people, but also benefits people with ADHD and auditory processing disorder, people who want to listen to a video without sound for various reasons, etc.

Illustration by Sketchplanations: https://sketchplanations.com/the-curb-cut-effect

When we design for disabilities, we make things better for everyone. This is called the Curb-Cut Effect. The term was coined by disability students and activists in the 70s, who added curb cuts to the Berkeley sidewalks to make access easier for those in wheelchairs. They discovered those also helped people with strollers, using trolleys for deliveries, etc.

For my dataviz and flag enthusiast friends, here's a project that analysis flags around the world, their colors, symbols, layout, changes, and so much more (too bad the contrast is meh though, hard to read white on light gray). By Ferdio

https://flagstories.co/