#Debats

[grandboute]

Festival Étonnants voyageurs à Saint-Malo du 27 au 29 mai

Festival international du livre et du film

C'est dans une semaine !

#livre #voyage #book #traveler #books #festival #lecture #travel #rencontres #debats #reading #saint-malo #bretagne #etonnants voyageurs #breizh #bzh

[falseficus]

everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -

enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.

and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends

#debated making the cause of death in the happy country also MALNUTRITION. MALNUTRITION. might have been a better specific image but these #better illustrate my point #the frog speaks #writing

[thatrandomblogsays]

Annabeth: I, a child, had to earn Thalia’s love, that’s how the world works! I have to earn my moms love. Love is transactional, you gotta be worthy of it first silly :)

Percy, listening to this on the train

#STOP TRAUMATIZING THIS CHILD PLEASE #this is what it’s like when you were raised in a loving home and you find out your friend wasn’t #but they don’t know they weren’t #so you’re like um hey that’s fucked up and sometimes a crime? #you tell them parents are supposed to love you as is without earning it and they don’t believe you #you can hear the therapy bill racking up #annabeth chase #Percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo series #pjo tv show #mine #adding on to my tags because some people are debating if that’s how love works #love is meant to be a mutual exchange and something that grows over time between two people as their bond grows #whereas how Annabeth says it #in my opinion at least #she had to do XY and Z to be worthy of thalias love before receiving it #like with her mother #she has to be amazing before Athena is proud of her #vs Athena being proud of her just for being her daughter #that being said I’m not hating on a traumatized child having potentially negative and toxic patterns #more pointing out the comedy of the scene from Percy’s perspective who has a good grasp on healthy vs unhealthy relationships

[the-dragon-girl-27]

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

you are greeted by...... her

#fairy vs walrus #walrus vs fairy #walrus #why is this so well textured its fucking shitpost art #like why cant i pull this off in my normal art it had to be the walrus fairy #meme art #things that would give people outside of tumblr a heart attack #maybe #has the fairy vs walrus debate breached containment yet #also that generic girl i drew ended up looking a lot like how i look irl (yes i look like an npc) #also that door is unreasonably large but i needed you to be able to see the walrus in all her glory #i wanted it to be bigger so you could see her wings #fairy walrus #dragon draws creatures

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[taterdraws]

the audacity of that guy

#the feelings in question are up for debate #hazbin hotel #hazbin #rosie #alastor #alastor the radio demon #radioapple #duckiedeer #rosie and alastor #fanart #art #hazbin art #tater's art

[transmascpetewentz]

this tweet. but for tumblr

#wentz.txt #people will debate me and treat it like a challenge to maximize the amount of words they can use to say ' #nuh uh'

[palipunk]

"well one genocide is better than xyz genocides" Have you ever considered that Palestinians are not your sacrificial lambs. have you ever considered we deserve to live just as much as you do

#im not doing a biden vs trump debate kill them both #palestine

[favroitecrime]

world war 3 jokes on twitter meanwhile none of them live in the region and none of them understand the severity of the situation. these next few hours will really determine whether or not we head into a regional war…

#not debating iran’s right to self defense or whatever idc not what i’m talking about here #cause last i checked there were about hmm #oh ~7 countries between iran and occupied palestine #tag: i speakth #trust i hope i’m just bring dramatic

[grandboute]

Festival international de géographie - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

33e édition du 30 sept au 2 oct.

#FIG #geography #festival #vosges #saint-die #deserts #affiche #festival international #geographie #portugal #debats #conferences #expositions #cinema #gastronomie

[maxgicalgirl]

Being a “Fun Fact !” kind of autistic is all fun and games until you get halfway through sharing an interesting tidbit and realize that it probably wasn’t appropriate to share in polite company and now you have to deal with the consequences :(

#autism #neurodivergent #adhd #fun facts #GOD I’m such an idiot #anyways now a 10 year old is out there looking up swear words online and it’s all my fault :( #I got so excited by the fact that I knew a fun fact #that I didn’t stop to think that maybe not everyone knows that fun fact for a reason :( #it’s like explaining how to successfully bury a body at a book club #or explaining the dangers of Scientology to your sister’s boyfriend the first time you meet him #or debating gay sex positions with your best friend in front of your mom #no matter how much I wish to be a beacon of knowledge in this world #sometimes there are things others just don’t want to know #and consciously that’s valid but the autism ? I does not care

[bsidibe]

Me Mountaga TALL devant Le Grand Jury de Renouveau TV [Album photos]

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#CNID-FYT #debats #Grand #Jury #malien #Me Mountaga Tall #Mountaga TALL #Oumar Barou Sidibe #politiaue #Politique #Renouveau FM/TV #Renouveu TV #televise

[tmmyhug]

personally this is how i'll be tracking 2023

#vees train of thought #tumblr #debating whether i should go add more or leave it as the 'biggest' perceived meme of the month #like january could also get bug race and cecilsweep #big innit hotel hall of fame #vee makes posts

[xekstrin]

RE: talking to conservative parents, I’ve found a good method to de-worming their brains is to not get riled up, just act a little bored and remind them “the news cycle only shows salacious stuff. They want you to be mad and scared because it makes you easier to control. Think about it for a second. Do you REALLY believe everything they have to say?” Or “you can’t believe everything you read or see on the internet. Remember, they earn money every time you click on their video.”

And especially when my dad starts getting huffy about Prices or Artists He Doesn’t Like, I tell him “that’s the beauty of capitalism. they have a product to sell and the freedom of expression if you don’t like it you don’t have to buy it.”

Might not work for everyone but dad’s KRYPTONITE especially is saying “but dad that’s capitalism! You LOVE capitalism!” And he either has to stop complaining or admit capitalism is bad and so far I haven’t lost

#idle raccoon thoughts #Of course this is easier for me because I live on my own now. #the trick is to not get into a debate #just change the subject #to something you both like #everyone started being super annoying about this post so im locking jt

[marieredige]

Algorithmes : ces formules qui polarisent

Ce n’est pas un mythe, les plateformes de médias sociaux utilisent des algorithmes pour personnaliser le contenu affiché à chaque utilisateur. Ceux-ci tiennent compte des préférences, des interactions passées et des habitudes de navigation de chacun. Officiellement, cette personnalisation vise à améliorer l'expérience utilisateur. Dans les faits, elle est la cause de la grande polarisation des idées dont nous sommes témoins partout sur la planète avec comme résultat une augmentation constante, en virtuel, mais aussi dans le réel, de haine et de violences.

Image: Canva

Le double tranchant d’internet

Selon Frank Valencia, membre de l'équipe-projet Inria COMETE au LIX de l’École polytechnique interviewé pour l'article Réseaux sociaux : la modélisation mathématique peut-elle contribuer à réduire la polarisation des opinions ? du journal Le Devoir, « Le rôle des réseaux sociaux est relativement paradoxal. D’un côté, le monde est plus interconnecté, nous avons un meilleur accès à l'information et aux différentes opinions », constate-t-il. « Mais, de l’autre, il ne faut pas oublier le fait qu’ils peuvent façonner les opinions des utilisateurs à une échelle sans précédent, donnant lieu à une large polarisation ».[1]

En effet, les réseaux sociaux, devenus omniprésents dans notre quotidien, donnent accès à une quantité infinie de données sur tous les sujets imaginables et nous permettent d’en partager tout autant. Mais les algorithmes, en proposant aux internautes des perspectives toujours similaires aux leurs, limitent leur exposition à des points de vue divergents et renforcissent ainsi des croyances préexistantes qui mènent à la polarisation des idées.

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Comprendre le fonctionnement des algorithmes : une arme utile

De son côté, l’ingénieur français spécialisé en intelligence artificielle Guillaume Chaslot[2] affirme que « l’obsession des plateformes à garder captifs les internautes a eu pour conséquence de monter les citoyens les uns contre les autres ». Et M. Chaslot sait de quoi il parle, puisque jusqu’en 2013, son travail consistait à créer les algorithmes de YouTube!

L’ingénieur milite aujourd’hui pour la transparence des algorithmes. Il rappelle qu’il est essentiel de connaître les mécanismes qui choisissent ce que nous voyons en ligne et selon lui, « La bonne marche de notre démocratie en dépendrait ».

Les risques de la viralité

Les réseaux sociaux sont le terrain de prédilection de la viralité, puisque le contenu peut se propager rapidement à travers le monde. Cependant, cette viralité est souvent sélective, favorisant les contenus sensationnels ou extrêmes. Les informations polarisantes, qu'elles soient politiques, sociales ou culturelles, ont tendance à générer davantage d'engagements. Une enquête du New York Times a d’ailleurs conclu que l’algorithme de recommandation de YouTube est susceptible de suggérer du contenu toujours plus extrême. Donnée plutôt inquiétante !

Une réflexion s'impose!

Les réseaux sociaux jouent un rôle essentiel dans la formation des opinions et la dynamique des débats. Cependant, la polarisation croissante qui émerge de ces plateformes pose des défis sérieux à la cohésion sociale et à la compréhension mutuelle. Il est impératif d'en prendre conscience et de favoriser des algorithmes qui génèreront des interactions plus diversifiées et constructives pour atténuer les clivages qui menacent la stabilité de nos sociétés.

Sources:

[1] https://www.inria.fr/fr/reseaux-sociaux-biais-cognitifs-modelisation-mathematique

[2] https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/600191/serie-tous-polarises-ces-algorithmes-qui-nous-divisent

#algorithme #debats #polarisation

[googledocsdyke]

many student bail funds have hit their goals and student organizers are asking people to redirect their money to gaza aid efforts and people whose lives are in immediate jeopardy. donate to help a young doctor from al-shifa hospital make it safely to egypt

#my girlfriend is organizing this fundraiser -- abdul is a friend and medical school classmate of her high school friend and debate teammate #we've had direct contact with abdul through whatsapp and the money will be transferred via westernunion #palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza