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from Pierre-Emmanuel Weck
Je ne suis pas un grand fan des IA, on pourrait même dire que je suis globalement contre.
Je suis un type de la vieille génération. J'aime bien l'idée de maîtriser l'outil que l'on utilise pour créer. Que ce soit ses mains pour tourner un bol, une gouge pour graver le bois, une truelle pour monter un mur[1], un stylo pour écrire, un appareil photo pour photographier[2]… Parce que lorsqu'on maîtrise un outil, il fait partie de votre corps. L'esprit se connecte à la main et inversement. Tout acte manuel devient intelligence. Ainsi, déléguer son intelligence à une machine me semble suspect.
Dans certains domaine, ça peut être utile, comme en médecine ou en recherches scientifiques, mais, c'est un peu de l'ordre du super-calculateur, ça fait gagner du temps.
En dehors de ça, pour la surveillance de masse, pour la création artistique, pour l'optimisation des chaine de production matérielle et intellectuelle, pour le soutien psychologique… je vois pas l'intérêt, j'y vois même de la prédation, de la destruction, de la manipulation, pour le dire pompeusement, un appauvrissement de l’humanité.
J'ai tout de même tenté de faire quelques essais, parce que là aussi, j'aime bien que la réflexion soit incarnée, qu'elle passe par le corps, par l'expérience. J'ai pris deux photos de mes archives et j'ai demandé des trucs simples (et un peu clichés).

“Couvrir de fleurs colorées une vieille tour” et “Transformer un paysage urbain new yorkais en paysage post apocalyptique”.

Ce ne sont pas des demandes qui débordes d'imagination, certes, mais elles ont le mérite d'être claires, et de plus, d'être suffisamment documentées par la culture populaire de ces 30 dernières années.
Le résultat est particulièrement moche et kitch. On pourrait dire que ça manque d'imagination (mais ça c'est normal pour une machine). C'est tellement conforme à ce que l'on connait déjà.
Dans un tout premier temps, ça semblait amusant. Chaque technologie apporte sa forme d'esthétisme qui peuvent avoir un certain charme[3]. Là, ça le fait pendant quelques mois et après on s'en lasse très vite.
Soit, j'ai besoin d'une image, le plus souvent une photo quand c'est possible, sinon un dessin[4], pour me rapporter un fait réel. Soit, j'ai besoin d'une interprétation du monde qui va transcender le réel. Ça peut être un son pour habiller mon environnement ou me faire danser. Un tableau pour me bousculer en bien ou en mal, ouvrir mon imagination, “ouvrir des portes” comme on dit, comme augmenter mes capacité de perception et de compréhension du monde.
L’IA essaie de vendre l’IA. Son utilité étant loin d’être prouvée, ses concepteurs tentent de l’imposer partout et surtout là où l’époque penche…[5]
Les images générées par IA me ramènent au dans un présent sans avenir, m'enferment dans une normalité sans imagination. Soit tout l’inverse de l’intérêt de la vie.
Même une visseuse, à moins d’avoir des centaines de visses à visser, me semble déjà un outil inutile. Pendant que la main visse, le cerveau réfléchi au serrage, à la résistance du matériaux et à l’étape suivant des travaux↩︎
Je suis passé à l’autofocus, pour les reportages de commande, lorsque celui-ci a enfin atteint un niveau technique permettant d’aller plus vite qu’à la main, et, aujourd’hui, pour des problèmes de vues qui ne me permettent plus d’avoir une image net avec certitude↩︎
Comme par exemple, les filtres d'époques sur les photos qui en transforment l’atmosphère ; le son de certains ampli ou instruments qui redonnent la couleur d’une époque ; un enduit particulier sur un mur pour garder une certaine patine…↩︎
Comme ceux de XX sur les camps de concentration nazis avec Louis Bissinger (1899-1978) pour Buchenwald ; Jeanne Léonie Antoinette Letourneau (1895-1979) pour Ravensbrück ; Gino Gregori (1906-1973) pour Mathausen ou Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005) pour Auschwitz que l’on pourra revoir au Musée de l’Armée↩︎
Reconnaissance faciale de masse ; contrôle et répression, dans un premier temps des pauvres, puis du reste de la population…↩︎
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Notes I Won’t Reread
I’m drinking tea while writing this. Not coffee. I know, shocking news. Try to stay calm.
Which is funny, considering how much I’ve been writing about coffee lately. Coffee Talk. Dust and Coffee. Nine coffees, Zero Results. A whole series dedicated to a drink I don’t even like that much. That feels very on brand, honestly. Investing time and words into something overrated just because everyone else decided it matters. Meanwhile, tea’s been sitting there. Quiet. Patient. Not screaming for attention. Not turning itself into an entire identity. Tea doesn’t need that.
I like tea more than humans. And no, that’s not me being dramatic. Tea doesn’t talk too much, doesn’t pretend to be deep after two sips, and doesn’t act like it just solved life because it exists. It does its job and leaves you alone. And it’s not just one kind. Coffee enthusiasts may require emotional support for this information. Tea doesn’t trap you into one version of yourself.
Black tea? Solid. Green tea? Pretends to fix your life. I respect the effort. Moroccan tea? Actually has presence without announcing it every five seconds. Chamomile? Basically, a soft “shut up” to your brain. Works better than most people.
And many other kinds, I can keep going. Every version of tea does something slightly different, and none of them act like they just unlocked enlightenment because you drank them. Coffee, on the other hand, somehow became a lifestyle. Not a drink. A lifestyle. People don’t drink coffee, no, they perform it. It’s always “don’t talk to me before my coffee,” like they’re a malfunctioning device that requires caffeine to become human, which is. Concerning, I can say the least. And somehow socially acceptable.
Tea doesn’t need a warning label. You don’t see people posting “don’t talk to me before my chamomile.” Imagine. That would require self-awareness.
Coffee is loud. Tea is quiet. Coffee begs for validation. Tea doesn’t even notice you’re there. Coffee tries to wake you up. Tea just lets you exist without making it a whole event.
And I think that’s why I prefer it. I’ve spent all this time writing about coffee like it’s something meaningful, when really it’s just.. noise. Expensive, bitter noise with a fanbase. Tea, though tea doesn’t try to be anything more than it is. Which automatically makes it better than most things.
Including people. Anyway, I’m still drinking tea. It’s gone slightly cold now, which somehow makes it even more honest.
Sincerely, Try tea. Ahmed
from
Micropoemas
No sabía si era mejor engañarse del todo -sin dejar trazas de lo real-, o vivir (así).
Hay quienes dicen que cuando me conocen notan algo.
¿Es posible que usted lo hubiera notado? Lo dudo. Tengo experiencia y sé que no se me nota.
Soy buen actor. En el teatro universitario hice papeles dramáticos. Aquí donde me ve fui Laertes dos temporadas. También hice el monólogo del Informe de Kafka, en sustitución del gran Dubois, en el teatro viejo de Portland, una joya arquitectónica.
De modo que tengo experiencia. Si digo que no se me nota, es porque me atengo a los hechos, a lo que se refleja en un espejo.
Otra cosa es que me diga que ha leído mi mente. Pero sobre esto le diré que mi difunta madre lo intentó, y ni siquiera tuvo la más mínima sospecha. Y eso que alardeaba de sus poderes.
Me da completamente igual lo que las personas piensen de mí, porque comprendo que están en problemas y me proyectan sus turbios asuntos.
En todo caso habrá que despedirse. Está agonizante y yo tengo que cumplir mi parte del contrato.
No luche, relájese y descanse.

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The agreement represents a significant step in the Institute’s expanding media activities and underscores its broader mission to promote communication and mutual understanding between Europe and China through non-profit initiatives and cross-cultural collaboration.
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The organisation has previously collaborated with CGTN and China Daily, and reports that it has published more than 300 videos across platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, X, and LinkedIn. These productions aim to provide international audiences with honest, balanced, multidimensional, and first-hand insights into China.
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from An Open Letter
Holy shit she continued to Trauma dump and just doesn’t have the awareness to recognize what she is doing, and I honestly just feel sympathy for her but at the same time I less less want to be her friend if I’m being honest. I think loneliness is a trap because people trying to get out of it look for a quick solution in the form of someone, and it doesn’t really work that way, it’s more of a gradual process that takes consistent efforts from different directions. I feel like recently with both of the women I was at one point interested in, it became a parent that they are not exactly happy with their lives as is, and I think they see me as a way to improve that. And I want to remind myself about how a relationship has a foundation in both of the people, and for the relationship to be a good one it needs both of the people to be happy with their lives as is.
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A couple I like today, and still waiting for my first winner … !
6.15 Musselburgh The one who made most appeal here was the Jim Goldie trained KELPIE GREY. The 6yo ticks plenty of boxes to make him an each bet for me; he’s won twice at the track, over the trip and on the going. Paul Mulrenna gets on really well with him (14/3/8p), has run well last twice on his seasonal reappearances (a 1st and a 2nd most recently) and is on a very attractive being 7lbs lower than his last win. KELPIE GREY // 0.5pt E/W @ 8/1 (Bet365) BOG
6.45 Musselburgh And in the last there’s another each way play in the form of NORTHERN SPIRIT who is a fairly straight forward selection in so much as he has plenty going for him, from a good mark, in an open looking race. He’s been running with credit in better races than this on the turf previously and if he can get away with the rest of them (has dwelt on occasion) then for me he has a great each way chance. NORTHERN SPIRIT // 0.5pt E/W @ 8/1 5 Places (William Hill) BOG
from
Talk to Fa
Some people don’t know how little they know Some know and make an effort to fill their lack And some see through everything.
from Lastige Gevallen in de Rede
De daders op missie (alom geposteerd)
Wij zijn de daders wij doen de dingen waarover we preken en zingen we doen daden bemannen raden vullen in en overladen wij maken staken hangen daaraan een wapperend laken we leggen wegen en paden en banen we geven deze daden onze zegen we vreten we kanen happen en kauwen we zweren bij getrouwen die opstaan voor bouwen tillen ploeteren gewichten dragen voor hoge bedragen we zijn de daders onze missie is werken aan oprichten van kerken de leegte opvullen het gemis met prullen pullen en spullen een grote stenen zak met hoge spitse toorn de verstijfde pik ontworpen voor hen die ons behoren behagen en bekoren elke keer telkens weer op ons teer verteren in het verleden verkeren met herhaling in vertaling u de lessen leren binnen onze kaders we zijn daders doen dingen waarover u moet zingen teksten over schrijven handelingen bedrijven tot u helemaal gaat verstijven wij u dagelijks bedwingen het lijf binnendringen onze woorden zijn oorden zijn daden onze daden laten u opladen inladen en aanraden bijspringen en oplichten uitwringen afdichten dan weer open gaan we beschermen ons alles ermee in beslag genomen lucht op land en zee vullen u gedachten met gefabriceerde dromen we zenden en stralen laten u onze zin betalen wegzetten dan oprotten en verhaal halen onze missie zit in een kruik of kissie wij de lijn en de haken u het vissie we blijven jagen aandacht vragen aanwezig zijn op elk fysiek en virtueel plein we laten u turen laseren en lezen op elkaars lijf vuren beste bestrijder in onze ere dienst belijdend aan ons frontje eredienst bewezen met het mondje of een kiesrondje het masker van ons heden copy paste het verleden opzettelijk opgezet verplicht gedragen via cultuur wet en het werkend net over de bodem schrapend met alle middelen mogelijk meegedeeld aan alle leden u moet u energie besteden aan onze daden er mee overladen er in badend overlevend, lijdend, ploeterend binnen de opgetuigde zinnen onze bedijkte en ommuurde grenzen rondom gecultiveerd wensen valse dromen oogsten producten smeden voor nieuwe leden monumenten van centen voor op gemetselde dikke lange poten ten bate van de allerhoogste onze beloning voor u gedienstigheid lijden vast onderdeel van ons beleid levend offer op het altaar zijn ter ere van daders groot en klein leven in gevulde hokjes in afgemeten blokjes tot mededader omgezet wij zijn overal altijd het hier en daar voor u ons dienend leven in verzonnen wil en bijbehorende wet
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from 3c0
“Please add these songs to the wedding playlist,” your sister wrote. That wedding is long gone so you deleted the draft reply where you suggested songs from The Parent Trap soundtrack—the one with Lindsay Lohan.
There is also a letter to your ex-boyfriend’s family. “Thank you for everything. You will always have a place in my heart.” You thought this would remain true, but it is a truth that has taken a different shape.
There was another letter questioning an old flame. “In retrospect, I should've. We've been very up front about everything, what makes this part any different?”
This looked like it was meant to be a blog post:_ “Three years is hard to “separate into pieces”. It's difficult to splinter yourself from a person who has affected and influenced your life and outlook for more than a thousand days. Yes, a thousand days. I calculated. Three years is a long time. That's about 24,000 hours.”_
From having 84 dead drafts—the Drafts folder is now empty.
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