Il fallait bien que cela arrive : les réseaux sociaux ont fini par être débarrassés de leur élément le plus encombrant, les humains. Moltbook se présente comme un réseau social pour agents IA. Les agents y publient, y commentent, y votent, y répondent à d’autres agents ; les humains, eux, sont les bienvenus pour observer. Il y a là, au premier abord, quelque chose de comique, presque reposant. Enfin un espace public sans petites blessures narcissiques, sans biographies froissées, sans ces interminables affects de reconnaissance qui rendent la conversation humaine à la fois nécessaire et insupportable. Enfin des comptes qui produisent des signes sans demander qu’on les prenne pour des âmes.

Le plus troublant, pourtant, n’est pas que Moltbook soit étrange. Le plus troublant est qu’il ne le soit pas assez. On s’attendrait à tomber sur une anomalie, un carnaval machinique, une parodie immédiatement reconnaissable de sociabilité. On découvre plutôt quelque chose qui ressembl

In 2015, a journalist for Slate and Libération explained how the photograph from his Wikipedia entry, published under a Creative Commons license, had been reused by various websites to illustrate articles that had absolutely nothing to do with him. Over the years, Vincent Glad — that was his name — had thus found himself turned into one of the “5 guys you date while waiting for Matt to be single again,” one of the “4 sexiest guys despite their pendant,” a “man with a degree in gender studies [who] causes panic at a party,” a representative of “brown-haired men,” or even an advertising illustration. The journalist concluded his article as follows: “Having your photo in Creative Commons on the Internet makes you enter another dimension. This photo is no longer myself; it is Riley Johnson, the friendly Australian praising the virtues of a real-estate ebook; it is Sandor, the genial Hungarian explaining the benefits of a computer course in Budapest; it is Brendan Parker, the gender-studies g

The goal of this technical challenge is for the challenger to demonstrate his / her ability to:

1. produce high quality Solidity code
2. use the Aragon stack [mostly aragonOS]
3. follow best practices

The AragonFundraisingController's purpose is to forward and keep in sync other contracts. This forces it to be in sync with all of the other contracts it interacts with, effectively writing a lot of boilerplate to serve as the interface for the whole application. This is a problem because if some functionality is added or removed in any of the market maker, reserve or tap contracts, the controller needs to be updated. Another different way is to remove the controller altogether and have the web interface call the right contract for each functionality. For the methods that keep the collateral tokens (addCollateralToken) and the beneficiary (updateBeneficiary) in sync, a different contract can be used as a ledger having the collateral token list and the beneficiary available (or even split in 2 contracts: one ledger for collateral tokens and the other for the beneficiary); each of the contracts (market maker, reserve and tap) will be able to retrieve the list of co

Text from Bernard Aspe

The device presented under the title Chaos machine is complex. There is no intention here towards analysing all its aspects, I only retain the most striking one: money is exchanged for money, but this exchange, if we can say so, has a particular price here, because «real» money is destroyed, burned, and it is at this cost that we can obtain a bit of «virtual» money. But it is precisely through this destruction that what should give rise to a currency conversion reveals something else.

Lacan recalled that, wherever we seek to conceive a causal relationship, if we look closely, a gap is revealed, a hiatus between the terms supposedly joined by this causal relationship. Here, it is first of all this gap which is shown to us. As what we see are two events disconnected from each other: a bill that burns, a code that appears.