Ce n’était pas une question de jours, mais d’heures ! Netflix va acquérir Warner Bros. pour 82,7 milliards de dollars, comme l’entreprise l’a annoncé sur son site. Les deux entreprises ont trouvé un accord pour une acquisition sur la base de 27,75 $ par action Warner Bros. Discovery, à hauteur de 23,25 $ en argent et 4,5 $ en actions Netflix. L’acquisition n’aura pas lieu avant la vente de la partie télévision en direct, qui doit se faire au troisième trimestre 2026. Autrement dit, l’opération ne sera pas finalisée avant la fin de l’année prochaine, sous réserve que le nouvel acquéreur obtienne les opérations nécessaires.
Et bin...
J'espère qu'ils n'annuleront pas les séries à la chaine 🙃
Et effectivement, quid des projets déjà en travail sur le temps longs (série HP, DCU, TLOU, etc.) ?
The receivables, inventory, and cash flow anomalies gain explanatory power when examined within the broader capital structure of the AI industry. What emerges is a circular financing scheme of unprecedented scale
Complexe, mais intéressant
In other words, giving creative workers more rights without addressing their market power is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money. There isn't an amount of lunch money you can give that kid that will buy them lunch – you're just enriching the bullies. Do this for long enough and you'll make the bullies so rich they can buy off the school principal. Keep it up even longer and the bullies will hire an ad agency to run a global campaign bemoaning the plight of the hungry schoolkids and demanding that they be given more lunch money.
Bill Gates est un techno-solutionniste, on le savait. J'en avais même parlé dans le premier numéro de cette newsletter.
Mais il faut désormais se rendre à une seconde évidence : il s'est toujours moqué du changement climatique.
What's "process knowledge"? It's all the intangible knowledge that workers acquire as they produce goods, combined with the knowledge that their managers acquire from overseeing that labor. The Germans call it "Fingerspitzengefühl" ("fingertip-feeling"), like the sense of having a ball balanced on your fingertips, and knowing exactly which way it will tip as you tilt your hand this way or that.
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The exaltation of "IP" over process knowledge is part of the ancient practice of bosses denigrating their workers' contribution to the bottom line. It's key to the myth that workers can be replaced by AI: an AI can consume all the "IP" produced by workers, but it doesn't have their process knowledge. It can't, because process knowledge is embodied and enmeshed, it is relational and physical. It doesn't appear in training data.
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Bosses would love it if process knowledge didn't matter, because then workers could finally be tamed by industry. We could just move the "IP" around to the highest bidders with the cheapest workforces. But Wang's book makes a forceful argument that it's easier to build up a powerful, resilient society based on process knowledge than it is to do so with IP. What good is a bunch of really cool recipes if no one can follow them?
Unlike the United States, where the emphasis often lies solely on housing placement, Finland recognizes that people need more than just a roof over their heads to thrive. In Finland, they prioritize placing the individual within the housing unit, ensuring that they have a sense of purpose rather than merely survival.
À la fois inspirant et impressionnant. Qu'attend t-on pour tester ?
Quelqu’un disait même si vous faites jouer Martin Luther King, Gandhi et Mère Theresa au Monopoly, à la fin il se produira la même chose : l’un aura ruiné les autres.
Parce que ce n’est pas un problème de personne, c’est un problème de jeu.
Et aujourd’hui, nous avons besoin de changer de jeu.
En effet, le besoin de lucrativité invite les entreprises à se concentrer sur des activités en face desquelles se trouve une demande solvable. C’est-à-dire, des clients capables de payer un prix suffisant pour permettre à l’entreprise de dégager une marge par rapport à ses coûts, et donc un profit.
Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds an underpaid, underfed workforce, some of whom are forced to sleep on the streets, exploited by a system of labour providers
Once someone gets rich enough, they acquire impunity. They become too big to fail. They become too big to jail. They become too big to care. They buy presidents. They become president
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En termes de positions publiques, Elon Musk alterne provocations, désinformation et pratiques à la limite de la légalité pour promouvoir la candidature républicaine. Lui qui avait par le passé soutenu des candidats démocrates a opéré un virage politique net à la faveur de la pandémie de Covid, puis du rachat de Twitter, qu’il a transformé en X et en bastion de la parole d’extrême-droite.
Le fondateur du site de gauche "Frustration Magazine", Nicolas Framont, a promu son livre contre le monde du travail dans une interview-vidéo de "Welcome To The Jungle", le média préféré des jeunes start-uppers frustrés des entreprises à la papa. Qui n'a laissé la vidéo en ligne que deux jours, avant de la supprimer en arguant d'une évolution de sa ligne éditoriale. Aurait-il touché les limites de ce que peut être un "média de marque" ?
No matter how hard we all wish it were otherwise, the sad fact is that there aren't really individual solutions to systemic problems. For example: your personal diligence in recycling will have no meaningful impact on the climate emergency.
There's very little you can do as a consumer. You're not going to shop your way out of monopoly capitalism.
This conduit is anti-lock-in, it works for nearly the whole internet. It is surveillance-resistant, far more accessible than the web or any mobile app interface. It is my secret super-power.
It's RSS.
Today, just as 200 years ago, bosses—whether a shipping magnate or a CEO of an AI company—won’t hand over the gains from a new technology to their workers willingly3.
Hier matin, j’ai dû payer 50 € d’amende (au passage, le montant est énorme !!!) pour ticket non validé. En bonus, une discussion vraiment déplaisante avec deux contrôleur⋅se⋅s (qui ne faisaient que leur travail), du stress, du temps de perdu entre deux correspondances. Et un sentiment d’injustice immense.
I still think the commercial generative AI boom has probably started to peak, that consumer enthusiasm for generative AI is plateauing, and that we can expect OpenAI and other AI firms to ink as many deals and enterprise contracts as they can in coming months while they’re still considered prime movers and relatively impervious to the careful considerations of sound financial logic.1
One of Friedman's signal achievements was the theory of "shareholder supremacy." In 1970, the New York Times published Friedman's editorial "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits":
In it, Friedman argued that corporate managers had exactly one job: to increase profits for shareholders. All other considerations – improving the community, making workers' lives better, donating to worthy causes or sponsoring a little league team – were out of bounds. Managers who wanted to improve the world should fund their causes out of their paychecks, not the corporate treasury.