Margarita Gingins estime que Javier Milei n'est pas responsable de la situation économique du pays. En revanche, "je pense qu'il doit donner une réponse à la situation sociale. On ne peut pas gouverner un pays avec seulement un projet économique. Sa responsabilité, c'est de ne pas avoir mis en place un filet social pour accompagner la population."

De même qu'on ne s'attend pas à ce que les frigos se réinventent chaque année en terme de fonctionnalités, le smartphone a atteint une certaine maturité et n'évolue plus que de manière anecdotique. Mais les fabricants doivent quand même satisfaire les actionnaires, et donc nous persuader qu'il est important d'un racheter un chaque année.

Le vrai risque des soit-disant "IA" : non pas une révolte des machine qui voudraient soudainement détruire l'humanité, mais l'automatisation de tâches administratives par des systèmes aveugles et inhumains, qui écrasent les individus et contre lesquels il est pratiquement impossible de faire appel. Le tout fondé sur la croyance (absolument fausse) qu'un algorithme est nécessairement neutre et objectif.

Les années 1980 représentent un seuil dans cette histoire et dans les années 1990, on peut parler d’un basculement et d’un délitement de tout l’héritage ouvrier du XXe siècle et de cette espèce de pilier syndical de l’État britannique d’après-guerre – il y avait quand même 13 200 000 syndiqués en 1980 ! Au gré de la désindustrialisation, de la montée du chômage de masse et des lois antisyndicales, il y a un reflux de cette construction sociale et politique gigantesque, centrale dans la culture politique britannique, et ce reflux devient une véritable relégation symbolique dans des médias appliqués à célébrer la nouveauté de la fin de la guerre froide et de la disparation des bastions du monde ouvrier le plus familier.

But moral outrage must be closely managed, or it can do more harm than good. Ganz, who eventually became a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School, has spent years teaching people how to use their anger to effect change. Stoking the emotion is easy. Learning how to channel it to useful ends, he told me, is harder. For anger to be productive, at some point, it must stop. Victory often demands compromise. “You have to know how to arouse passions to fuel the fight, and then how to cool everyone down so they’ll accept the deal on the table,” Ganz said.

Walz, with his cheerful goober dad persona, offers a view of masculinity that is far tougher than that displayed by even the most steroid-inflated men of the MAGA world. He's a guy who isn't afraid of basic empathy. A man who is confident enough not to run from those who are different. A man so sure of himself that he can let a woman be his boss without acting threatened by her power. That's what real strength looks like. No wonder a weak man like Trump thinks Walz is the apocalypse.

Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “artificial intelligence” when describing their offerings that use the technology, according to a study led by Washington State University researchers.

Of course, generative AI is an impressive technology, and it provides tremendous opportunities for improving productivity in a number of tasks. But because the hype has gone so far ahead of reality, the setbacks of the technology in 2024 will be more memorable.

Heroism is overrated. It is always movements that lead to large-scale change, though our dominant cultural narrative of change focuses on individuals. It is not naive to think you can change the world, it is naive to think you could be in the world and not change it, but that change happens in community.

Rather than solving the problems raised by employers’ methods, however, the use of automated job-hunting only served to set off an AI arms race that has no obvious conclusion. ZipRecruiter’s quarterly New Hires Survey reported that in Q1 of this year, more than half of all applicants admitted using AI to assist their efforts. Hiring managers, flooded with more applications than ever before, took the next logical step of seeking out AI that can detect submissions forged by AI. Naturally, prospective employees responded by turning to AI that could defeat AI detectors. Employers moved on to AI that can conduct entire interviews. The applicants can cruise past this hurdle by using specialized AI assistants that provide souped-up answers to an interviewer’s questions in real time. Around and around we go, with no end in sight.