Guillaume Pitel

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

Ah oui, l'écart est impressionnant pour les collisions cyclistes/piétons.

Alors c'est pas pour critiquer l'INSEE, mais 9 à 34.3% c'est large comme fourchette.

2025 a connu le troisième mois de septembre le plus chaud jamais mesuré, selon l’observatoire européen Copernicus Des records de chaleur ont été frôlés le mois dernier, non loin de celui de septembre 2023 et du deuxième septembre le plus chaud en 2024.

2025 a connu le troisième mois de septembre le plus chaud jamais mesuré, selon l’observatoire européen Copernicus

L’ampleur du mal-être des enseignants français confirmé par une enquête internationale L’enquête Talis, menée par l’OCDE sur un échantillon de 280 000 enseignants et publiée mardi, est la plus grande étude consacrée à la profession. Les résultats de l’édition 2024 de ce bilan quinquenna...

Une alerte de plus sur l’état gravissime d’une profession et surtout du plus grand des services publics www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

Mais pourquoi en faire un enjeu politique hein ? Pourquoi en parler ?

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Sans vous, nous n'aurions pas pu.
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Tsé le gros rhume/grippe que tout le monde a en ce moment? Désolé d'être plate, mais c'est la COVID.

Genuinely hate living in the era of “bigot is a 6-7 figure job”

Mouvement social du 18 septembre : les perturbations attendues dans les transports La journée du 18 septembre s’annonce très compliquée dans les transports de la capitale, alors que les organisations syndicales ont appelé à faire la grève et à manifester un peu partout en France. La...

Les perturbations dans les transports en commun liés à la grève de demain sont l'occasion d'essayer de faire votre trajet domicile/travail à vélo, s'il n'est pas trop long.

Les conseils et rappels de sécurité : www.paris.fr/pages/mouvem...

Nearly 900 fewer people injured since 20mph introduction in Wales Figures show a 25% reduction in the number of injuries on Wales' roads in the past 18 months.

Slower speeds save lives: "...there were 2,638 people injured, including deaths, on low-speed roads in the most recent 18 months, compared with 3,520 injuries between April 2022 and September 2023, a reduction of 25%."

‘Give him a chance': ICE detains San Diego man amid effort to vacate decades-old conviction ICE agents detained a San Diego man at his annual check-in on Wednesday, acting on a decades-old deportation order, leaving his wife begging for mercy as he awaits a hearing to try and vacate a convic...

Another family torn apart:
“I tried to explain to the officer that he had an active case going on. He didn’t care. He didn’t care. And one of the ICE agents was laughing, smiling, giggling, thinking that it’s funny, you know?”

www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/g...

Teortaxes （DeepSeek 推特... •10h g deeply disappointing pattern: the fancier the model, the higher its efficiency, the worse the personality. Qwen3-next is maybe smarter than 30B-3AB but even more insufferably slopped. GPT-OSS is a dead robot. It's not just benchmaxxing, something more is going on here I think.

it’s true, the last two Qwens have been beautiful works of art, until you talk to them. gpt-oss same, even GPT-5 to some extent

specifically this is referring to model architecture. cool new optimizers (K2) don’t seem to do it

Le sas vélo est drôlement bien gardé ! Gare à vous les automobilistes !!

Additional info : ibou.io/iboubot.html The bot for the IBOU search engine : IbouBot ;)

If someone in your team could reach out to help us be in the directory, that would be fantastic. Contact bot@ibou.io or tech@babbar.tech if needed. The search engine is not online yet, we are still in the very first POC version, but we have a cool manifesto here : ibou.io/ibou-manifes... TIA !

Yet for some reason, our bot does not appear in your bot directory, despite the fact that we submitted it (several times, because we suspected something was not quite ok). We have probably made a mistake somewhere, but I can't understand.

Hi @radar.cloudflare.com I have a question/request for you. At Babbar (my company) we have launched a new crawler, this time for our new project which is a Web Search Engine. Another User Agent, another IPv4 Block. We have started crawling one month ago, approximately 500 million pages/day.

Traffic near Loudon County schools stirs frustration, raises safety concerns with few immediate fixes For years, school drop off and pickup lines at Eaton Elementary and North Middle School have frustrated drivers, backing up traffic on two highways.

I tracked down source of a TikTok i saw about horrific car pick up lane in a Tennessee school district. And it is true. Parents arriving by noon to wait in line for hours, doordashing food as they wait, etc.

www.wbir.com/article/traf...

En Italie aussi, ils concourent dans les infrastructures cyclables ubuesques 🤪

En région parisienne, les flux importants d'usagers à vélo ne sont plus réservés à la capitale. Ici, en proche banlieue, la coulée verte offre une infrastructure sécurisée et agréable qui favorise ce mode pour les trajets quotidiens.

Always. Every time. Some idiot will pop up with "I guess you hate poor people then!"

But then you check their feed and they are far from poor.

Hungary Bans LGBTQ Pride Events, Approves Facial Recognition to Track Attendees Thousands protested the ban outside Hungary’s parliament, blocking traffic and defying police orders to disperse.

if you think this can't happen here, think again. truthout.org/articles/hun...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.

Comité d'évaluation du carrefour Pompadour La transformation du carrefour Pompadour reste un sujet sensible. Mais est-ce vraiment à cause de l'aménagement cyclable ?

De 150 à 2100 cyclistes par jour : l'aménagement du carrefour Pompadour a nettement amélioré les conditions de déplacement à vélo dans le Val-de-Marne !

➡️ il faut désormais rendre plus sûres les axes le reliant pour que les Val-de-marnais·es prennent massivement leurs vélos !

Paris: Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him Paul Varry's death has triggered a debate in Paris over the dramatic expansion of cycle infrastructure.

Le 15 octobre, Paul a été écrasé, à l’arrêt et sur une piste cyclable, par le conducteur d’un SUV. Il est mort.

Les médias français en ont parlé pendant quelques jours, et puis… plus rien.

Cet article de la BBC est le premier que je lis à ce sujet depuis des mois.

Deep dive into the architecture of the Babbar Crawler: The Crawl Policy At Babbar, we try to crawl the web like a search engine. Of course, we don't have the same computing resources or bandwidth as Google, Bing or other

Deep dive into Babbar's crawl policy central.yourtext.guru/deep-dive-in... : in this article I explain how we maintain a target crawl rate while prioritizing some websites/URLs, all while trying to be gentle with web servers. I explain the metrics and indicators used to boost/unboost pages.

For anyone who’s written a scientific paper, this makes absolutely no sense unless your goal is to censor science.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.