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Au menu du Talk sur Twitch, à l'occasion du festival Médias en Seine, deux thèmes : la citoyenneté à l'épreuve de la crise des médias et les nouveaux enjeux liés à la montée en puissance de l'intelligence artificielle dans les espaces informationnels.

Céline Dion a rendu hommage à son époux avec un message partagé sur les réseaux sociaux à l’occasion du dixième anniversaire de sa disparition. "Tu nous manques plus que nous ne pouvons le supporter", écrit la chanteuse qui a dû affronter sans lui les épreuves de ces dernières années.

Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie play hockey rivals who fall in love on HBO's "Heated Rivalry".Sabrina Lantos/HBO Max"Heated Rivalry" is a breakout hit on HBO Max about a gay hockey romance with rabid fans.GIFs, video edits, and memes from the show and the stars are taking over social feeds.The huge popularity has led to something new and different in how this online fandom operates.There's something different about the "Heated Rivalry" online fandom from what I typically see — something strange brewing in the feeds, something I haven't seen in a long time, or maybe ever.It's easy for a topic to suddenly take over my Instagram Reels or TikTok feeds — those algorithms seem so sensitive that interacting with just a handful of posts on a topic can instantly send you down a rabbit hole. What made me realize that "Heated Rivalry" fandom was breaking through to some new level was that it managed to take over my X feed. X tends to be far more resistant to change on the "For You" feed, and seems to think I always want to see the most awful people saying the most infuriating things.And yet in the dead week between Christmas and New Year's, something finally broke through — "Heated Rivalry." Videos, edits from the show, memes, jokes, discussion, breathless fanning out.Finally, something dragged my X feed out of the turgid mud. That's when I understood the show had broken containment — normies and people who don't usually act thirsty online were suddenly enlisting in the fan army.'Heated Rivalry' fandom has broken out of normie containment"Heated Rivalry," a show about a secret romance (with a lot of explicit sex scenes) between professional hockey players, showed up with little promotion on HBO in November, and it's been a surprise hit. The romance is between two men, but the fans are, in large part, straight women (although there's also plenty of queer fans); I find this not too complicated to understand: It's sexy, it's romantic, there's yearning, hot guys, high production values, and pacing to make the six episodes easy to rip through. What I'm observing in the countless posts of video edits of the characters exchanging glances and kisses is that people are enjoying this as a safe excuse to be horny on main.The show's breakout stars, Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams, are charismatic and slightly under-media-trained in interviews. The fact that Storrie and Williams were relatively unknown actors before the show has actually helped fuel the fan excitement, my colleague Callie Ahlgrim observed."Heated Rivalry" fandom has grown so big and fast that it is breaking all the previous "rules" that were in place about how fandoms operate, as well as where they're posted and who sees the content— a sort of Cambrian explosion of a new fandom is emerging. The posts are not tucked away on Tumblr or fanfiction site Archive of Our Own, existing purely for the superfans who seek it out like horny Gollums; it's taking over the TikTok and Instagram feeds of normies who post under their real names.Fandoms have always been onlineTo understand better what's going on, I spoke with Yvonne Gonzales, a doctoral candidate in communications with a focus on fanfiction at USC Annenberg. "Something unique is happening where 'Heated Rivalry' has lit a bunch of different fires in a bunch of different places to build the fandom that we're seeing right now, Gonzales told me. "Which feels very networked in a way that is less connected than historically they have been."Fandom has always been a major part of the fabric of the internet. Kaitlyn Tiffany writes in the book "Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It" that "there is no such thing as fan internet, because fan internet is the internet."…

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The Tesla board has proposed a pay package for Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion.ALLISON ROBBERT/Getty Images; Getty Images; Tyler Le/BIElon Musk said retirement savings won't be needed in an abundant future.Business Insider asked seven personal finance and AI experts for their thoughts on Musk's vision.They all agreed: You should be saving for your retirement."Savings? Where we're going, we don't need savings."That twist on Doc Brown's famous line from "Back to the Future" captures Elon Musk's controversial view that future retirees won't need nest eggs."Don't worry about squirreling money away for retirement in 10 or 20 years," the Tesla and SpaceX CEO told the "Moonshots with Peter Diamandis" podcast earlier this month. "It won't matter."The world's richest man predicted that advances in AI, energy, and robotics will generate such an "abundance" of resources for all that individuals' retirement savings will be "irrelevant."Musk's blue-sky vision comes at a time when years of stubborn inflation, elevated interest rates, and weak wage growth have created a nationwide affordability crisis. Household debt hit an all-time high of $18.59 trillion in the third quarter of 2025, up more than 50% from the same point in 2015.Business Insider asked seven personal finance and AI experts for their thoughts on Musk's comments.Their reactions all boiled down to one thing: You really should be saving for retirement.Musk did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.'Dangerous and misleading'"Most Americans should absolutely ignore these comments," said Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, a research fellow at Boston College's Center for Retirement Research (CRR). "Musk's speculation sends a dangerous and misleading message."Sanzenbacher cast doubt on Musk's timeframe, and said the tech billionaire's words were "especially dangerous" as Social Security is likely to be cut in the coming years due to a funding shortfall.Americans should be "saving more, not less," given that prospect, he said. He added that even if Musk's future comes to pass, "people who saved now will hardly be much worse off in this utopian future."Alicia Munnell, a senior advisor at CRR and its former director, also dismissed Musk's recommendation."I would pay no attention to anything Elon Musk says out of his core area of expertise," she said."He has no idea how the American lives, how important Social Security and 401(k)s are to maintaining people's standard of living," Munnell continued. "He needs to stay out of public policy and concentrate on going to Mars!"Olivia Mitchell, the director of Wharton's Boettner Center on Pensions and Retirement Research, said there was "some truth" in Musk's view that AI could boost productivity and reduce costs over time.But she warned his advice was "risky" for US households, especially as their retirement security will "still depend heavily on individual saving beyond Social Security.""Even in a richer economy, gains are likely to be uneven and uncertain, so people must still save, in case the future does not unfold as predicted," Mitchell added.Sharing the wealth will take workKristin Pugh, a private wealth manager at Creative Planning, said AI would allow people to afford their basic needs without working, freeing them to spend more time doing other thingsBut past technological advances have made people more productive without leading them to work less, and created wealth gains that weren't distributed equally, she said."Before we 'cancel' the idea of saving for another time in our lives, let's look at the environment and the logistics that would provide for our basic needs," Pugh said."We need to push leaders like Musk and Altman for the game…