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Nouveau numéro de notre infolettre

⛓️‍💥 On raconte comment penser le numérique avec et depuis ses fragilités. Mais aussi :
→ De l'impact de la pénurie de mémoire vive liée au développement de l'IA
→ De projets inspirants comme des micro-ordinateurs fabriqués à partir de vieux composants de smartphones
→ D'un instrument de musique à partir d'appareils obsolètes de @clararigo

Et bien d'autres choses !

buttondown.com/LimitesNumeriqu

Newsletter Limites Numériques #21
2026-01-04

@MonniauxD l'article de bon pote cite le papier d'Ana Valdivia "The Supply Chain of Capitalist AI" qui lui même cite un rapport d'Euromines et un autre de Borra et al. sur les métaux critiques :
> A report published by Euromines shows that GPUs are made of large variety of minerals but silicon and copper are the main ones – amongst gold, tantalum, palladium, boron or tungsten (Euromines, 2022).
Ils ne parlent pas de terres rares mais de certains métaux critiques.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

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2) The positive effects of Interoperability are, unfortunately, overstated. It also fosters competition and convergence towards a dominant business/governance model, forget about real plurality (here detailed by @sveawindwehr and myself for Meta's Threads and Mastodon: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf).

I also have strong reservations re alliances with natsec hawks and with "competition to be the dis-enshittification nation" (what happened to internationalism and solidarity?), but for another day.

2/2

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LIMITS strives to be a place for envisioning technologies and futures ‘otherwise’: a place for work that considers how visions and frameworks of pluriversal design, degrowth and post-growth affect computing and asks how computing can grapple with polycrises, metacrisis, collapse, colonialism and de-colonialization, equity, justice, and transition design.

Paper submission deadline: March 24st 2026
computingwithinlimits.org/2026/ #LIMITS2026

2026-01-01

@MonniauxD si beaucoup de personnes s'intéressant aux impacts environnementaux du numérique vont parler de l'extractivisme et des terres rares, d'autres vont plutôt insister sur les processus de production notamment sur les alliages de plus en plus complexes et fins et avec des niveaux de puretés très élevés, par exemple : gauthierroussilhe.com/articles

2026-01-01

@MonniauxD cette vidéo détaille quelques usages des terres rares dans les semi-conducteurs : youtube.com/watch?v=caEsW5h3dhA

Le Monde essaie de rendre des infos accessibles qui le sont pas particulièrement à l'heure actuelle. Il y a notamment une controverse sur les enjeux miniers du le numérique. Le secteur et les chaines de production étant opaques. Par ailleurs à cause de la "twin transition" on mélange souvent extraction liée à l'électrification et à la production de composants liés au numérique.

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"We’re hiring a Research Scientist strongly committed to the principles of free knowledge, open source, privacy, and collaboration to join the Research team. As a Research Scientist, you will conduct applied research on the integrity of Wikipedia knowledge, its communities and their work, and the Wikipedia model. "

Closes: January 15th, full remote with some geographic limitations

Link: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikim

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2025-12-27

In a month we are hosting the #SustainableICT #PhD Winter School at #ULB in #Brussels. We have an amazing speaker line-up for you and there is still time to register and to come along: sictdoctoralschool.com/

The #ICT sector plays a contradictory role in shaping #sustainability and #sustainable futures. #SICT2026 aims to explore these tensions across planetary and societal boundaries - from the environmental cost of digital infrastructure to the erosion of public trust and democratic processes.

Electronics embedded in a some concrete or rock material, text in partially pixelated font: SustainableICT Winter School; 26th - 30th January 2026; Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium; What's it about? In a world where natural and social systems are collapsing under digital divides, over-engineered gadgets, it's time to re-thing tech. Financially supported by Universite franco allemande, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, FRS-FNRS, UC Louvain.
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If you are involved with anti-capitalist digital policy / activism you certainly have heard that some are no longer talking about (digital or informational) capitalism but about "technofeudalism". I have shared in the past why I don't find that helpful at all.

This new paper by @leni (and others) explains why the concept isn't sound analytically either 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11

screenshot of the pdf of the paper
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IL y a près de 9000 datacenters dans le monde, un chiffre qui devrait tripler d'ici 2030.
Près de 600 d'entre eux se trouvent dans des zones aux températures considérées trop élevées .*
restofworld.org/2025/data-cent

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Due to a windstorm-related utility power outage at the NIST, time may soon be destroyed

https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I?pli=1
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powerful and devastating data story by @mushon with B'Tselem, following Nibal al-Hisi, a 25-year-old mother displaced again and again across Gaza over the past two years, while carrying her toddler and recovering from a major injury.

projects.btselem.org/nibal/#en

#displacement #palestine #gaza #scrollytelling #mapping #btselem

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I became a software engineer because writing code is fun. Thinking through hard problems, designing elegant solutions, seeing the things you’ve built working for the first time… these moments are all deeply satisfying, so why in the world would I ever surrender them to AI?

davidcel.is/articles/writing-c

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2025-12-19

¿Alguien sabe dónde dejé mis lentes?
#viernesdememes

Montón de manchas luminosas desenfocadas en forma piramidal.

Texto: La navidad es más bonita con astigmatismo.
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incidentally in light of previous toots, plateau is a workshop that used to colocate with ACM conferences and then as of 2021 has been running them standalone at one of the organizers’ home institutions. attendance is free, which is definitely not a thing you’d have the license to do as an ACM workshop. papers get DOIs through a cmu library service

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l'info a déjà disparu de la page d'accueil du monde, pas sûr qu'on prenne la mesure de l'ampleur du truc …
pour mémoire, le message de hackers, jugé pas très crédible à l'origine, parle des fichiers TAJ (antécédants judiciares), FPR (personnes recherchées), mentionne les impots et la CNAV.
l'intérieur confirme pour le TAJ (plusieurs 10aines de millions de personnes sont dans ce fichier, + du tiers de la population)

lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

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