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I’m a big boy. I know humanities scholars don’t get credit for correct predictions. But I did call this.

Ce matin, je vous parle d'IA générative et des personnes étrangères

2 prémisses
1. L'IA générative a un énorme avantage : elle comprend toutes les langues, répond ds ttes les langues et passe d'une langue à une autre en 1 seconde
2. Toutes les associations de France voient leur budget s'effondrer

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»

The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info

🚀 Noop Functions vs Optional Chaining: A Performance Deep Dive

I ran benchmarks comparing `noop()` vs `obj?.fn?.()` and the results surprised me.

Spoiler: Noop functions are 5.5x to 8.8x faster.

Here's what you need to know 🧵

Il y a des eurodéputés kidnappés par un pays pratiquant la torture et le parlement bosse pour interdire l'appelation "saucisse végé"

If you think this is US-only, it's not.

If you think the GDPR protects you, it's doesn't.

If you hadn't realised privacy is a national security and corporate espionage issue, it is.

If you think politicians can't tackle this, they can.

If you believe that tech or business need this, they don't.

oh i guess useEffectEvent is progressing to Canary!

clunky name but i’m happy the docs i wrote for it a few years ago ended up needing essentially no changes

Strong advice! And I also found it efficient to focus and loop on the transitions between parts, those can feel less natural and might require some extra love.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

My Apple Watch congratulated me for washing my hands for 20 seconds. Nice. But I’m pretty sure I’m putting masking tape against a wall I’m about to paint.

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Extrait de La Lettre Enquête de Médiapart #151 : "La justice a établi un fait incroyable qui était contesté depuis des années : oui, le candidat Nicolas Sarkozy a voulu se faire financer sa campagne électorale par un dictateur sanguinaire. Pour ce faire, deux ministres, ses lieutenants les plus proches, ont pactisé avec un des pires terroristes du XXe siècle. Des millions d’euros ont bien été versés par la Libye dans l’espoir d’obtenir des contreparties de l’État français."

Faut vraiment se rappeler que l'affaire Sarkozy sur les financements lybiens, c'est ça.

Si Mélenchon avait fait le quart du tiers avec ses fidèles lieutenants Louis Boyard et Sébastien Delogu, toute la droite et assimilés aurait exigé son exil sur une autre planète.

The thesis of this post is that React isn't innovating and other UI libraries are. But the real issue is that React's innovations are overshadowed by it's own success.

www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w...

Entre jihadistes de la médecine et charlatans Christian Lehmann est médecin et écrivain. Pour «Libération», il tient la chronique d’une société touchée par les crises sanitaires et du service public.

«Des propos figurant dans cette tribune excèdent par leur ton la pondération attendue des médecins lorsqu’ils s’expriment sur un sujet, même polémique.» Gageons que Robert Francis Kennedy Jr adorerait pouvoir s’entourer de magistrats de cette trempe… www.liberation.fr/societe/sant...

Capture d'écran du tweet cité, à savoir : https://twitter.com/SebLecornu/status/1967181896292389348

Au Sénat, la droite a demandé une commission d'enquête sur les économies à faire sur les agences de l'État. Citation de la sénatrice LR, autrice du rapport : Tous ceux qui annoncent des milliards d’économies en parlant des agences mentent un peu aux Français.

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation www.theverge.com/politics/777...

So I made my second contribution to Wikipedia as a follow up 😊

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

Very interesting read about “neutrality” at Wikipedia. The reason it works, is not as much because editors care about the truth, but about upholding the process and rules of Wikipedia www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Picture of a checkout form. There are two rows. Headers are "Name, price, qty, cost". First row is "Superbowl tickets, $100.00, x 1 (editable), $100". Second row is "Eras tour tickets, $1000.00, x 1 (editable), $1000.00". Below the table is "Total: $1,100.00".

Let's talk about why batched transitions are usually better.

Here is a cart where changing the quantity updates the total. The item subtotal and cart total update async. Take a second to think of what should happen if you increase the quantity:

L’Humanité du 1 septembre :
150 médias, réunis à l'initiative de Reporter sans frontières, se mobilisent en solidarité avec les journalistes palestiniens de la bande de Gaza

📰 humanite.fr

Här flyttas Kiruna kyrka från gamla till nya centrum Världsunikt projekt • 40 meter bred och väger 600 ton – flyttas i ett stycke

Livestream of the transportation of a 672 ton church from the beginning of last century in Kiruna, northern Sweden. It’s a mining town and they’re moving the city center due to risks of collapses.
www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

Le danger, c’était les wokistes, c’est pour ça qu’ils ont élu l’extrême droite qui fait exactement tout ce dont ils accusaient les wokistes…

And while I can understand most concepts to various levels, if I really wanted to understand it I would really be out of my depth.

It’s fun once in a while to read about much lower level programming related stuff, for instance here how the V8 (Chrome’s JS engine) optimized a quite important operation. v8.dev/blog/json-st...

Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun "Won't someone think of the poor children?" they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal democracies. Art: CMYKat If you're totally ignorant of how things work, the proposal of "verifying you're an adult" before you access adult content sounds, superficially, like a reasonable thing to do.

Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun

"Won't someone think of the poor children?" they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior Restraint that inhibits the freedom of speech in liberal…

Obama tried to throw Fox News out of the WH press pool (for being obvious partisan assholes) and the NYT rallied to their defense.

When Trump did the same thing to the AP (for refusing to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico!) the NYT did nothing at all.

https://x.com/mfa_russia/status/1948327297184153844

https://x.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/status/1948363010432520704

Le ministère russe des affaires étrangères "commémore" le 85ème anniversaire de "la fondation des républiques socialistes soviétiques de Letonnie, Lituanie et Estonie."

Comme le fait remarquer ce média sur Twitter : "Does anyone still seriously believe Putin’s imperial ambitions end at Ukraine?"

Your Lost Suitcase Is Probably in Alabama We found your bag! And everyone else’s lost luggage.

Airline Lost Your Bags? Your Luggage Is Probably in Alabama www.thecut.com/article/wher...