---
tags: weeknotes
---

# Weeknote #20

## Disinfo

Dans *Prospect Magazine*, Ethan Zuckerman s'inquiète du fait que les réseaux sociaux deviennent de plus en plus difficiles à étudier.

Il revient notamment sur les décisions de rendre les API de Twitter et Reddit payantes et la fin de CrowdTangle.

> Simply put, the journalists, activists and scholars who study misinformation on social platforms no longer have the tools to do their jobs, or a safe environment to work in

> This constellation of factors—increasing disinformation on some platforms, the closure of tools used to study social media, lawsuits against investigations on disinformation—suggests we may face an uphill battle to understand what happens in the digital public sphere in the near future. That’s very bad news as we head into 2024, a year that features key elections in countries including the UK, Mexico, Pakistan, Taiwan, India and the US.

👉 Lire l'article : https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/63752/when-internet-becomes-unknowable-social-media-tool

## Wes McKinney rejoint Posit

Wes McKinney, le développeur de Pandas et Apache Arrow, annonce rejoindre Posit (ex RStudio)!

Symboliquement, c'est un peu la fin de la gueguerre stérile entre R et Python :)

Comme il l'explique dans son blog post, les parcours de JJ Allaire et McKinney sont assez parallèles et cohérents. Le combat c'était surtout de mettre l'open source au centre des data sciences.

> From that perspective, the R and Python communities had a lot more to gain from collaborating with each other (and thus united against commercial or closed source alternatives) than competing (other than in friendly or constructive ways that would promote innovation and progress)

> Building open source sustainably over a long period of time is difficult, and I’ve found that when I meet with other open source developers we often spend much more time talking about project sustainability, funding strategies, and maintainer burnout as opposed to technology problems we want to solve or other aspirational project goals.

Comme il l'avait déjà dit en 2018 en fondant Ursa Labs avec le soutien de RStudio, Wes McKinney est admiratif du modèle de Posit/RStudio:

> Posit is a rare example of a company that has managed to build a commercially successful business while maintaining a healthy relationship with the open source communities that it supports

Cela a donné une première forme de collaboration.

> In early 2018, I reconnected with J.J. and Hadley to explore partnering with Posit (then still RStudio) to financially support Apache Arrow development, ultimately leading to the creation of Ursa Labs.

Franchement, avoir Hadley Wickham et Wes McKinney dans la même équipe, ça donne envie.

👉 Lire l'annonce sur son blog : https://wesmckinney.com/blog/joining-posit/

## MonadGPT

Pierre-Carl Langlais lance MonadGPT, un chat entraîné sur un corpus du XVIIeme.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7128386978366054402