Besides the natives, nowadays not always considered as such (source: ICE), what location source and which generation are some Americans more Americans than the rest of Americans, to be able to claim the true Americanness: Irish 5th, Polish 2nd, German 3rd, English 4th, Indian 1st, etc.?

Based on the amount of wealth the present administration made possible for Americans, shouldn't that be celebrated every year by actually doubling the cost at the national parks entry, on the birthday of the president? This is what true patriots should do.

How could I possibly explain my american friends that the US has no business hosting a Football World Cup, when between the time I watched it with some of them, in 1994, and now, there is still no comparison between the NFL parking lot barbecues and this:

The Nobel Committee just announced their participation in the 2026 FIFA World Cup recipient team decision, to make up for the loss of their Peace Prize award significance.

Been enjoying the "Down Cemetery Road" series, and the "highly capable" Security Services manager Hamza (played by Adeel Akhtar), reminds me of someone in a similar, unfortunately with larger responsibilities, real life job. Striking ressemblence in look and apparent skills alike.

Now that we saw the Nobel Peace Prize being replaced by the Infantino (of FIFA sh/fame) one, when are we to see the Infantino Prize for Chemistry, Literature, Economic Sciences or Physics?

The never ending "free speech protection", from the land of the [very] free /s www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Be generous: leave more of these for the Americans! 🙃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=--83...

<<Economists were stunned today when an American tourist demanded to know how Europe can offer world class vacations even though its largest company is only a fraction of the size of NVIDIA.

Great speech, and right to the point. Some presidents do not care about what they will leave behind, immediate gain (financial, power, ego) being crucial for them, but the people they represent will be left carrying the shame of their leaders for a long time to come. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vguj...

Trying to send a greeting card by mail, to some friends in the US, I learned that the United States are now "unavailable" ("indisponibles") 🤣🤣🤣

Quelques heures consacrées à autre chose qu'aux livres et à l'actualité => deux nouveaux albums de mes artistes préférés: BRAVO Florent Pagny pour ‘Grandeur Nature’ 👍 BRAVO Vanessa Paradis pour ‘Le Retour des Beaux Jours’ 👍 www.florentpagny.org/nouvel-album... www.humanite.fr/culture-et-s...

US removes memorial for black WW2 soldiers, Dutch place it back, off American reach www.nu.nl/media/637691... <<The most heart felt “thank you for your service” I got in over 12 years of active duty was from French, Belgian, and Dutch citizens in Normandy during the 75th anniversary of D-Day...>>

Amazingly accurate post on X, concerning what a lot of us know, from older relatives and friends, as well as from having directly experienced, by @daractenus.bsky.social Truly excellent! x.com/Daractenus/s...

Cross your fingers. The sooner the AI bubble bursts, the further away we'll be from:

Another book by David Edmonds, with a very promising and challenging topic: effective altruism. And much more. Can't wait to get to it.

If Adam Smith was alive today, his "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" would have contained only one phrase: "Free market is in direct correlation with the side of bed on which TruthSocial and X major posters wake up in the morning"

Graph explorer of Epstein emails - pretty cool project: epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com

«Dacian Fall» : en Roumanie, l’Otan affiche l’union et la force face à la menace russe Grâce à cet exercice de grande ampleur, qui a réuni seize nations durant deux semaines, la France a certifié sa capacité à déployer et diriger des forces de défense multinationales.

Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights

I honestly can't stop laughing: "Conclusion What can developers and researchers learn from these results? More reasoning isn't always better.", when it comes to "AI" vs captcha 🤣 research.roundtable.ai/captcha-benc...

Way overly optimistic about what's going to happen, the book is an interesting read, nonetheless.

Depuis le retour de Trump au pouvoir, les ­cow-boys de l'ICE et les entreprises privées se frottent les mains devant le durcissement de la politique migratoire, qui leur assure de se faire un paquet d'oseille

Could someone, please, explain to me what would be the difference between the two options, preferably in non-AI language: gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo...

🎧 Fermez Netflix, ouvrez Rousseau. Dans ces lectures des "Rêveries du promeneur solitaire", l’écrivain confie ses doutes, ses joies, ses blessures, et fait de la marche un chemin vers la liberté intérieure. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/bOn

🔵 EUROPE'S FAIRPHONE ENTERS U.S. MARKET TAPPING RIGHT-TO-REPAIR DEMAND Full Story → https://m.piqsuite.com/reuters/europes-fairphone-enters-us-market-tapping-right-to-repair-demand-2025-11-05-07-01-47

Milei getting $40 billion bailout from US taxpayers, and possibly buying French submarines. If this is not Art of the Deal, I don't know what is. 🤣 www.infobae.com/politica/202...

There is no end to the circus, and seen from a safe distance, it's actually quite entertaining: arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Tylenol is BAD! Tylenol is NOT bad! www.wsj.com/business/ret...

✍️ Si le trumpisme n’a de cesse que d’encourager la confusion entre religion et politique, c’est à la république de protéger la liberté de croire des citoyens en veillant à ce que la foi ne cherche pas à investir l’Etat pour imposer ses «lois» à la société, pointe le journaliste Patrick Sabatier.

What happens to the US I knew? Is this actually a movie? "Chicago: Helicopters = Raids tomorrow? In Lincoln Park and now Belmont - Kimball, there really wasn’t much or any ICE activity. The neighborhood is buzzed with a low flying Blackhawk. The next day raids start." ...

1) “BEHOLD!” said the Professor. “By cunningly configuring this mere machine—a simple arrangement of copper and sand, animated by tiny flickers of lightning—I have made it play chess!” “So what?” said the Student. “A human can also play chess.”

Barely into the second chapter, and Steven Pinker's new book got "promoted" on my need to finish first shelf.

"I wanted to change the world. I did that. I made it worse." truestoryaward.org/story/230

Interesting data point: "Top 20 Most Blocked Users on Bluesky" vqv.app/blocks/

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

Bravo Chicago, ma ville de cœur, parmi toutes les autres !!! ✌️

John Cusack: “What’s interesting is that he doesn’t understand that all the labor rights around the world came from this place [#Chicago]. So if he thinks this place is going to be a fascist hub – no chance!” youtu.be/o8o_LTjq9-0

Donald Trump dresse son armée en chien de garde

www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025... Didn't know TikTok ran on a mainframe. Or maybe I'm confusing the It crowd guy??

The "beauty" of capital markets being manipulated with absolutely no repercussions. There is not enough popcorn to just wait, watch and enjoy the circus: youtu.be/5fTv9ThJg6U

Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, of "Noise" and "Thinking, Fast and Slow" fame (among others), opts for suicide in Switzerland www.bluewin.ch/en/entertain...

It's funny how financial info comes through, nowadays, e.g.: "Gold Hits $4,000 For The First Time" (Forbes), when - in reality - this should read: "For the first time you cannot buy more than 1/4000th of an ounce of gold with one US dollar" ;-)

With just the audio on you could easily think this is SNL. Unfortunately reality beats fiction nowadays youtu.be/9IZjaggkbag

Stumbled across this book the other day, while reading new data on the AI bubble: "Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages" - excellent, so far!

As direct observer of the last four tours, I can certainly attest to that. Maybe they should try one in the US (w/out the drug usage this time - see Lance A for details)?? road.cc/content/news...

NOT The Onion: Holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Amazing "pre-emptive" strike on the part of Nvidia. And in the current US economic climate this move has zero chance for further scrutiny. www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...