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Researcher-Entrepreneur | Founder @foresight.earth and @lesenergiques.org | #Innovation #Sustainability #IT | Paris, France
The philosopher Harry Frankfurt argued that bullshit was "a greater enemy of the truth than lies are".
But is generative AI-generated botshit even worse than human-generated bullshit? (Yes)
My latest @financialtimes.com here:
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"She [Dorothee Bär] called space travel a central lever for social progress, not just as a symbol, but as a practical driver of innovation."
Europe has a serious issue with the understanding of its own strengths and weaknesses? Mimetic desires are not the way to go.
This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.
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Russia's meat assaults are only growing in size, with less armor, relying on motorcycles and donkeys, Russian casualties are at records.
Despite negligible gains, Putin just throws more into the fire, and the Ukrainian Army keeps killing them.
Réorienter 15% des achats de services logiciels vers des fournisseurs européens d'ici à 2035, pourrait créer 460.000 emplois en Europe et générer un chiffre d'affaires de 75 milliards d'euros.
#EuropeanStrategicAutonomy
#DigitalSovereignty
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Chute de 63% de l’abondance des insectes volants entre 2021 et 2024 (UK).
Je pensais avoir donné l’information la plus importante de la journée, mais en fait non. La contraction de 0,3% du PIB américain est ce qui compte vraiment.
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Projections of global hydrogen production across 100 years. a, Total hydrogen production (high and low carbon) from selected historical scenarios (lines) and recent projections (boxes), set against actual production. Boxes represent the median and interquartile range; whiskers represent minimum and maximum. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of each scenario is given in the legend.
Global hydrogen demand has grown 𝟯𝘅 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 than the experts predicted.
For 50 years, analysts have projected rapid uptake (6-15% pa.). Instead hydrogen has tracked global GDP, growing ~3% pa.
Will hydrogen finally take off - or are we still being too optimistic?
📖: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
“the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned during the exchange on 14 February, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and larynx.”
‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison
I’m out of words.
Spain's power is slowly coming back, but situation still far from normal. Out of the 33 GW scheduled for this evening peak, only 18 GW is available. Nuclear and coal-fired power plants still offline.
28.04.2025 19:24 — 👍 94 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 4
Just your regular reminder of where global CO2 emissions are tracking compared to scenarios that keep warming to below 1.5C in 2100, with "no or low overshoot" (maximum temperature around 1.6C).
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Russia has offered the United States to fight "Eurofascism" together.
The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) published an article about European "fascism." It is about fascism in Britain and France, which Washington and Moscow allegedly opposed together in the international arena.
Ukraine has destroyed the Russian missile base that launched the Palm Sunday terrorist attack in Sumy. It will also find who ordered the attack and who carried it out, and if they survived.
15.04.2025 17:30 — 👍 4770 🔁 973 💬 185 📌 77
“American government, American foreign policy, and American trade policy are slowly being transformed, not to benefit Americans but to benefit the president, his family, and his friends.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:
12.04.2025 11:17 — 👍 5690 🔁 1715 💬 117 📌 154
Rainfall map of the UK
Much of England & Wales had the driest March for over 60 years, with less than 1mm being recorded for the entire month. April is now predicted to have little significant rainfall. It's the main planting season for crops... we need to start talking seriously about #FoodSecurity & reducing #FoodWaste.
07.04.2025 21:46 — 👍 33 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 4
Bar graph titled "Top 20 Countries by Research and Development Spending." The United States leads significantly in spending, followed by China, Japan, and Germany. Other countries include the United Kingdom, South Korea, France, and Australia, among others.
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
11.03.2025 00:18 — 👍 1173 🔁 409 💬 37 📌 49
'Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans'
ICYMI: important study by François Keck and Florian Altermatt et al.
Article in Guardian
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Paper in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
❗️France is providing Ukraine with EUR 2 billion of additional military support - President Macron.
Missiles, APCs, air defense and ammunition will be provided. Money will also be allocated for military production within Ukraine.
Thank you, France! 🇫🇷🇺🇦
Der Bundesrat will, dass die Polizei bundesweit Palantir als Software einsetzt. Das Unternehmen gehört dem rechten Milliardär und Strippenzieher Peter Thiel. Diesem Feind der Demokratie Geld und Daten in den Rachen zu werfen, ist unverantwortlich. Ein Kommentar.
netzpolitik.org/2025/palanti...
BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight.
This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
22.03.2025 14:15 — 👍 49361 🔁 15162 💬 2614 📌 1812
In 2030, over its lifetime an EV will only consume 20 litres of materials for its battery versus over 12,400 litres of fuel for a combustion engine car.
This will represent huge progress toward reducing Europe’s reliance on energy imports.
Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4c0yYSH
Très recommandé : une impitoyable déconstruction, avec humour, du pipotron spatial des oligarques états-uniens... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOFc...
20.03.2025 08:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wow, Mario Draghi offers a more convincing recipe to rearm Europe than @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
“We need to define a chain of command of higher level that can coordinate heterogenous armies and separate itself from national priorities"
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
La menace sur l'habitabilité des USA, incapables ne serait-ce que d'infléchir légèrement le système productif et de consommation, impose de maîtriser toujours plus de ressources. Ces géopolitiques agressives vont devenir la règle, ici comme ailleurs.
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Two African countries, two totally different electricity systems.
Kenya generates nearly 90% of its electricity from non-fossil fuel sources. South Africa is still dependent on coal, using it to generate 82% of its electricity.
Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers
Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers
Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
If attention-grabbing addictive algorithms are the root cause of our collective decline in problem-solving capacity (strong indication), shouldn't we treat the way social media is designed as toxic and finally regulate algorithms?
15.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 27 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
With the US-Canada trade war heating up, Canadians are looking for friends elsewhere.
Perhaps surprisingly, nearly half of Canadians say they would support joining the European Union
open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
