I think it would be politically difficult to ban all these major social media platforms overnight, but X is one that should go now — not just over Grok and deepfakes, but also the way Elon Musk has leveraged it to push far-right politics. disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-...

Holy hell, what an obituary

Greenland is happening. Not a joke, not trolling, not a distraction. He has already made up his mind and nobody who matters in the inner circle will try to talk him out of it. Some of them want it precisely because it will destroy NATO. There are no adults in the room. They really mean to do it.

“Comment on dit youtubeur but in English?”

Les industriels qui ont vécu pendant des années en "collaborant" pour quasiment gratos avec des chercheurs qui n'y panaient rien, pleurent que maintenant les mêmes savent ce qu'est un coût complet et ont des cellules de valo pour négocier.

Quand les #ÉtatsUnis considèrent la France et le Royaume-Uni comme des États ennemis, mais pas la Russie ni la Corée du Nord, c'est temps de comprendre que les USA ne nous veulent pas du bien. #USA

lol

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2 www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

only wrapped I care about is Wikipedia

before rust: cloudflare doesn’t go down after rust: goes down twice in a month. checkmate rust heads

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Thieves have stolen €90,000 worth of fine French snails destined for some of the country’s most prestigious restaurants

while the gen ai killed what was left of Google, it was already a zombie for years before, killed by the same SEO beast it helped unleash on the internet.

I’m howling.

Et en parallèle, des formations sur « accompagner l'usage de l'IA générative dans l'enseignement ».

my hobby is finding bugs in 80 year old ISA documentation

debugging programs

complete academic suicide

NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇

they didn’t go to a Grande École tho

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

graphic design is my passion (im writing debuggers again)

Also if you find your own pet cause or talking point reflected in this unhinged document, go within yourself, my brother. You are a fellow traveler to some of the dumbest enemies the academic enterprise has ever had.

As I said re: France - a scenario where aggro reactionary centrists fight it out with the far right is fine by reactionary centrists, because they will be in charge half the time. Their enemy is even softly left wing people, because a country that has left politics has no need for aggro centrists.

Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage "a lot"

tpuf ANN v3 can search 100 billion vectors with a p99 of 200ms simplicity scales [v3 in beta, unfiltered search, 1024D, k=10, 92% recall]

auto-traits are one of the trickiest features in rust, they provide real ergonomic improvements (eg making Send / Sync usable) but cause so much pain at long distance: refactoring has to account for invisible bounds you can't easily pin down, adding new auto-traits explodes compile times, etc....

Extremely cool memory security stuff in the guts of iPhone 17, a major effort and novel improvement by Apple: security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

“Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty” … or how to lose government contracts all over the world in one easy step. 🖕🏾🖕🏾 www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...

ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldn’t pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdani’s unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified

Le gouvernement Nétanyahou a approuvé la construction de 3 400 logements dans une zone baptisée E1, coupant la Cisjordanie en deux et oblitérant toute possibilité d’y établir un État palestinien viable. Par @clomraffko.bsky.social www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The reason that javascript has semicolons is because newlines are invisible, so the compilers couldn't see the ends of the statements. Then around 2016 computer vision got good enough that we could drop them though.

For Americans, not only is this not recognizing a Palestinian state but it’s effectively conditioned on said hypothetical state being demilitarized and thus incapable of self-defense.

peut on réellement reconnaître un état si c’est conditionné sur un reniement de son auto-défense?

prototyped a little tool here to break down the sizes of large futures. My objective is to help figure out how to reduce compile times in async-heavy projects by telling you which futures are worth erasing. Might work on surfacing call-graph depth next.

“When asked directly whether he could guarantee under oath that French citizen data would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit French authorization, [Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs Anton] Carniaux responded: ‘No, I cannot guarantee it.’”

Nicholas is one of the best engineers I've ever worked with and y'all should be racing to hire him if you can.

« La France et l'Europe ont une occasion en or d'attirer des chercheurs de hauts niveaux. Mais pour réussir pleinement, il va falloir qu'ils augmentent sérieusement le niveau d'investissement dans la recherche » www.lesechos.fr/politique-so...

Le 7 avril dernier, McGill annonce qu’elle mettra fin au contrat qui la lie à son association étudiante. Le message est transféré moins d’une heure plus tard, au député libéral fédéral, Anthony Housefather. « Tel que discuté », écrit un administrateur. Housefather répond : « Très apprécié. »

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

null pointers truly living up to being the Billion Dollar Mistake

lol it was a null pointer

marre des flottants et des infinis dans des algorithmes honnêtes

Does anyone know a way to get 63 bit (or less) pointers in rust? Specifically want it to work for niche optimization.