Great to garden against the Default Trajectory at the #CivicAI Conference by @ox.ac.uk Institute for Ethics In AI.✨ Gratitude to fellow changemakers for working to #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together! ▶️ www.linkedin.com/posts/instit... Democracy Needs Civic AI! ▶️ civic.ai/democracy-ne... ▶️ civic.ai

China asked researchers to stop submitting to NeurIPS and has removed it from its list of top-tier (A-ranked) conferences, in response to the exclusion of papers affiliated with Huawei (that is in the list of US-sanctioned institutions).

Just for physics & metaphor studies ⚛️

⚫ L’ancien Premier ministre Lionel Jospin est mort à 88 ans ➡️ bit.ly/3PrVVaf

And new data release: French-Science-Commons, the largest scientific corpus in French in open access including 1.25 million documents/42 million pages re-digitized with VLM (dots ocr). huggingface.co/datasets/Ple...

It would be pretty funny if Taiwan went around making up pet names for every country that gives in to Chinese irredentism.

In 2025 Asian economies absorbed 86% of LNG passing through Hormuz • South Korea, Japan and Taiwan rely on LNG imports to meet nearly all of gas demand • Thailand, Bangladesh rely less on LNG imports to meet gas demand, but gas accounts for ~70% of electricity mix www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Un lieu qui offre une respiration pour imaginer autre chose

Quand la France invente la ségrégation extrême, financée par l'argent public: la part des enfants de 6e scolarisés dans le privé atteint 39% à Paris en 2025, avec des écarts hallucinants entre classes sociales www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

New working paper on @wid.world Bottom line: Had mining prices followed fuel prices over 1970–2025, Sub-Saharan Africa would own the world. Bargaining power and institutions matter.

Combien de "fans de la République populaire de Chine mais vue de loin" connaissent cette statistique?

Sabra : a palestinian magazine in Hebrew

Visitors often notice it immediately: Taiwan runs on scooters. Taiwan has 14.3 million registered motorcycles. This map shows how many there are per 100 residents across the island, with the highest numbers in southern Taiwan.

Just for Sunday dreams metaphor studies

Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.

A diverse set of views from a bunch of smart folks here: Taking the Pulse: Is France’s New Nuclear Doctrine Ambitious Enough? carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

First, Korea-based THAAD and now this: "The Japan-based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines are now headed for the Middle East" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Ukraine ou Iran ? Les Ukrainiens constate avec dépit que les armes de défense aérienne, qui leur sont comptés malgré la menace russe, sont utilisées sans compter au Moyen Orient. La volonté d’un homme, Trump. Ma chronique géopolitique du 7/10 @franceinter www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Du 1er au 10 avril, la Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, l’un des cinémas d’art et d’essai les plus emblématiques de la capitale française, accueillera l’édition 2026 du Festival du film taïwanais à Paris.

Rogue Agents

By restricting minority language education for most subjects, the new law ensures that "Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native languages for subjects in schools and universities. [...]", the Campaign for Uyghurs wrote... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK position on Taiwan's status: undetermined www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(he mentioned the word "Taiwan" during a Taiwan match)

Just for cuneiform metaphor studies 🤓

Open event in Oxford on Wednesday 25 March🤩

This is a superb review of the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty by 3 writers with longstanding expertise and experience. www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

According to a DPP-sponsored public opinion poll, two-third of Taiwanese voters support expediting the review and passage of the Special National Defense Act.

⚡️ Zelensky says 11 countries have asked Ukraine for help with interceptor drones, electronic warfare. "Ukraine is ready to respond positively to requests from those who help us protect the lives of Ukrainians," he said.

Un 8 mars résolument anti fasciste à Paris

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

It may sound counterintuitive, but it's good for Bluesky if Eurosky is strong and doing well -and vice versa. The same applies of course for blacksky.community, northskysocial.com, gander.social... It takes more than one to build a world!

Knuth on Claude: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

The center of gravity in NLP is shifting. 🌍 This year's #EMNLP2026 Special Theme is "New Missions for NLP Research." We welcome empirical, theoretical, or position and survey papers that reframe our collective research goals. Find out more: 2026.emnlp.org/calls/main_c...

Today in Very Serious Research™️ Ever wonder how Paris' reputation as 'city of love' came about? You'll have to thank 1920s Chinese travel writers for successfully rebranding the Seine St Denis as 'Saint Penis,' it seems...

At its inaugural meeting, the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI elected its first Co-Chairs: @yoshuabengio.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @mariaressa.bsky.social 🇵🇭 They’ll guide the Panel’s work, uphold its scientific integrity & report on the Panel’s work twice a year. First report: July 2026

The old "end times" song is back again

Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of the Iran strikes (Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Just for linguistic referent + metaphor studies 😂

Pedro Sanchez répond à Donald Trump et défend son refus d’aider à frapper l’Iran

Quite frankly, I'm not sure what's more embarrassing here: 1. Rubio doesn't know who Chiang Kai-shek is or 2. "Unleash Chiang" was a slogan of US policymakers who wanted to pull back the Seventh Fleet and let Chiang try to invade the PRC during the Korean War. Who exactly is Chiang here? Bibi?

Le consulat de Chine à Strasbourg demande la déprogrammation d’une pièce de théâtre sur Taïwan

macht mal die 2k voll! https://www.eurosky.tech

Broadening nuclear deterrence

The US has planned an escalating series of strikes with off-ramps along the way, according to a senior US official. Each round will be over a one to two-day period with pauses to reset and assess battle damage.-CNN

"Selon les deux sociétés, cette technologie ouvre la voie à des sources d’énergie durables et à très faible consommation destinées à être utilisées pour des capteurs, des systèmes embarqués dans le spatial, la santé et les applications industrielles."

l’aube est de plus en plus lointaine tandis que tu souris te retournes disparais dans cette porte ton épouse suffoque de douleur Le poète chinois Yang Lian a écrit pour le militant prodémocratie Jimmy Lai, condamné à 20 ans de prison à Hongkong.

To anyone who wants to join in here and contribute - it would be highly appreciated!

C'est prouvé: @lesecologistes.fr, @partisocialiste.bsky.social, @generation-s.fr, @placepublique.bsky.social, en restant sur X avec l'espoir d'y "faire entendre une autre voix", vous contribuez à drainer vers X vos concitoyens, lesquels sont soumis à l'implacable effet asymétrique de l'algorithme.

Toujours pas de grands débats ni polémique nationale par contre pour évoquer la "responsabilité morale" du RN et autres partis fascistes suite au superbe déballage rhodanien d’hier. La gauche "responsable" est encore coincée dans sa minute de silence ?

« Certes, il y a eu des saluts nazis et des slogans racistes mais aucune poubelle n’a été brûlée. Tout s’est très bien passé. »