Alexandre Blanchet

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

2. Il faut se rappeler qu'un sondage ne fait pas le printemps et que et que les opinions sur ce genre d'enjeux ne bougent jamais rapidement. Du véritable mouvement serait détectable par un changement lent dans les questions permettant un suivi longitudinal, pas par un saut soudain.

1. L'article n'est pas clair sur laquelle des deux mesures utilisées ils rapportent les pourcentages chez les jeunes, l'intention de vote OUI/NON ou l'addition des très favorables + favorables à leur autre question. La différence de formulation n'est absolument pas triviale.

Favorables à 56 % | « Montée spectaculaire » du souverainisme chez les jeunes Les chiffres rappellent ceux de l’époque du deuxième référendum. Dans une « montée spectaculaire » du souverainisme qui se poursuit chez la jeune génération, 56 % des 18 à 34 ans sont maintenant favor...

Je vois cet article se promener pas mal et les gens qui partent en fou. Ceci étant, j'ai quelque enjeux avec l'interprétation du sondage.

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GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

Do consultants make good CEOs? We run the numbers for McKinsey, BCG and Bain

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The @economist.com is making big claims here, but I see no serious identification strategy. It seems entirely plausible that former consultants are simply better positioned to land jobs in firms that are likely to perform well, regardless of how they actually perform on the job.

BREAKING 🚨: Small Caps

Small Cap Stocks on track for their largest annual outflow in history 📉📉

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers,

Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet.

An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Doing the cover-up in the open.

It seems to me he'll pardon her soon. You don't have that meeting otherwise, and they'll say do it now while people are on vacation. It won't matter but they'll say that.

if trump endorses cuomo it will negatively polarize democrats against him… real galaxy brain stuff here dudes

Pathetic, contemptible failure of elites, everywhere you look.

Just can’t get over how gross it is that there’s a strategy session going on right now about the Epstein story.

HITLER HANDLING OLYMPIC MATTERS BERLIN, Dec 15 -- Adolf Hitler has taken personal charge of the Olympic games to be held in Germany in 1936. --The Daily Sentinel-Tribune, 15 Dec 1933

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According to the ANES household survey, the correlation between partners on the childrearing measuring of authoritarianism is .54. Political interest much lower at .37. PID comes in at .74. So much good info thanks to @electionstudies.bsky.social efforts here

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Context for gerrymandering debate

“How responsive/congruent is state policy with state public opinion” is one of the most studied poli sci questions

Red & blue states both passed more 'extreme' policy in recent decades. Blue state policy shifts were aligned with state opinion. Red states’ weren’t

Yeah, American economic statistics are going to be worthless soon.

Canadian fentanyl is the new Iraqi WMDs.

The fact that we can't find the Canadian fentanyl is proof that Saddam is hiding the Canadian fentanyl from us.

Worth remembering: The Constitution explicitly gives the power to set tariffs to Congress. They could stop this nonsense by the end of the day.

“Confirms USMCA goods are exempt”.

Trump joue au dur, mais une taxe de 35% sur un microscopique pourcentage des biens échangés, ce n’est pas la grosse histoire que ça peut sembler être.

Aussi : il doit apparement encore utiliser son histoire de fentanyl pour donner un verni légal à son affaire…

Un bon moment pour se rappeler que Musk a acheté Twitter pour la modique somme de 44 milliards de dollars.

It’s become one of those regimes

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

À une époque où tout s’uniformisait déjà, Foglia était un esprit et surtout une plume uniques. Je ne sais pas comment nous parviendrons à créer de nouveaux espaces où ce genre de talents pourront se déployer.

Des bonnes plumes. C’est sans doute ce qui manque le plus à notre petit monde.

The authoritarian, anti-science, and often personal attack on US academia cannot possibly be accommodated or appeased. Because the demand is to scrap the pursuit of knowledge and truth, replacing it with ideology and cult of personality distortions. And one goal is to make it easier for them to lie.