It is easy for Americans to understand the outcome of Epstein files, in the political space - got the necessary training in finance, not too long ago: "Too big to fail." 🤣

Shouldn't the EPA be renamed EDA (D = Deregulation)?

Watching it from a (safe) distance, I believe this has a strong entertainment value. The M* guy may also be on to something. finance.yahoo.com/news/analysi...

Another announcement in the Idiocracy News: "National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists" www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...

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Hopefully the World Cup fans w/tickets for the games being played in the US are getting all required personal data starting now, if they want to make it in time for the World Cup 🤣🤣🤣 www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

This year's Darwin Award may have to be shared www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... In the spirit of freedom of opinion, so much praised by the VP, himself, in public appearances in Europe, the full sound record is available in EU countries and Canada news replays

Reconversion: 108,435 jobs lost in January => 108,435 possible new ICE agents www.forbes.com/sites/mikest...

One of those amazing open source stories: Todd C. Miller - sudo maintainer for over 30 years! www.millert.dev Donate here: github.com/sponsors/sud...

Face aux «lumières sombres» de l’Américain Peter Thiel, le milieu des affaires européen doit réaffirmer ses «Lumières» Une tribune de Grégory et Sacha Edberg, enseignants à Sciences-Po :

Sous la pression, Capgemini met en vente sa filiale travaillant avec l’ICE aux Etats-Unis

What an amazing few hours of fresh, fresh air, coming from the tennis world!!! No mention of US news for all this time ... Wow!!! Alcaraz (Spain) - Zverev (Germany) Djokovic (Serbia) - Sinner (Italy) all of the above playing in Australia!! THANK YOU! Made my Friday!

I have apparently completely misunderstood the concept of "checks and balances", when it comes to different branches of a government. "Checks" are written for the purpose of having something delivered in return, whereas "balances" are what grows as result of depositing said checks, upon delivery.

June 2021 last record ($1.22 f/1€). Getting there...

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Cameras in the hands of journalists - the most threatening weapons www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

Would $1.5 - $1.8 for €1, by end of year, reflect the real power of the two currencies, vis-à-vis each other?

An interesting analysis. Can hardly wait to see this on polymarket 🤪 entropicthoughts.com/nvidia-stock...

While article is optimistic, from my own experience I don't see a chance for the US to move away from the "freedom units", any time soon. Worth a reading, though www.thefabricator.com/thefabricato...

Imagine how many churches you could build with the money saved on science /s www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This is by far the funniest, sort of combined Le Gorafi, Le Canard Enchaîné and The Onion in one headline, news article today 🤣 www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

Montpellier (Hérault) décroche la première place du classement Arthur Loyd des villes les plus attractives dans la catégorie des grandes métropoles. Elle mise sur les nouvelles technologies, les transports doux et le Cambacérès, nouveau quartier d’affaires, pour imposer sa business destination.

Figure du continent africain et ancien sélectionneur du Sénégal, Claude Le Roy a eu un rôle déterminant dimanche dans la poursuite de la finale de la CAN. →https://l.lefigaro.fr/zrCZ

Wikipedia: "Imperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism)."

Mon nouveau livre "Le rectangle de Lascaux : et Homo sapiens inventa la géométrie" sortira en libraire le 28 janvier. J'y aborde l'origine des mathématiques depuis la préhistoire jusqu'à nos jours ; c'est un peu la suite de mon tout premier livre, "La Bosse des Maths". Quelques explications:

"Guerres commerciales, Venezuela, Ukraine, Groenland: tout est mélangé. Or, la leçon de diplomatie et de politique que donne de Gaulle est précisément inverse. Il dit : indépendamment de tout le reste, je refuse de lier les sujets entre eux. Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon est une question de principe."

Trying to keep up with the "AI du jour", I am still missing theb part where you feed an(y) LLM with all the data you want, up to 1900, and have it produce the theory of relativity or quantum mechanics.

La différence entre les truites américaines et françaises (dans le magnifique dialecte local, "le patois", également appelé occitan auvergnat): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lplm...

This is how a headline looks like in 2026. You absolutely can't make this up. But neither anything else going on. So let it be: www.nysun.com/article/g7-t...

Après avoir distillé ici et là ses grandes prédictions sur l'Antéchrist, voilà que Peter Thiel, magnat de la Silicon Valley, en remet une couche contre ceux qui s'opposent au développement de l'intelligence artificielle

How sick is this? factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

2011: "6 Technologies That Are Destined to Disappear... and 6 Technologies That Will Stick Around" archive.org/details/maxi...

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." --George Orwell

Tesla should have hired the Dacia team for their cybertruck

For those capable to understand what is buried deeper under this comment (I believe belonging to Gustavo Petro???) is that, considering that time == money, when the public transportation is so efficient, clean and better than private cars, then it will attract even the wealthiest among us.

4 janvier 2016 : Le pape François se dit contre le préservatif pendant la masturbation https://www.legorafi.fr/2016/01/04/le-pape-francois-se-dit-contre-le-preservatif-pendant-la-masturbation/

Looking for a lower risk, decent return investment? Look no further: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The depth of sadness about today's world, when a Venezuelan asking what to do, as his country may be under attack, receives a reply from an Ukrainean, with advice on emergency items to have and actions to take ... 😔 (/r/NoStupidQuestions for ref.)

An interesting book I just discovered, which (at least from browsing it, but which I will certainly read) seems to complement Thomas Piketty's excellent "Capital in the 21st Century":

There are terrible crimes committed against human beings, terrible from every stand point, and deserving the most severe punishments possible. The are also cultural crimes, which need their own judgment and punishment - maybe one day these will get their own justice www.ndtv.com/world-news/n...

How long before Putin gets upset again, picks up the phone and shouts the appropriate complaints or threats, ref the lack of respect, for ten whole days, on the part of the US Coast Guard? www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Bravo! 👍

South Park writer Toby Morton bought the domain name trumpkennedycenter.org and first "announcements" showed up

Congrats to George Clooney, for his recently obtained French nationality!

Found the notion of hyperobjects intriguing (in a good sense). While late in discovering the book, from being a reference in a more recent book I'm reading, I think it's worth putting in the shelf of "to finish" books