Vincent Baby

Thank god for Google #longread #AI
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Amid this sordid mess, an enjoyable farce
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Pour les scénaristes de fiction, le verrou de l’IA a sauté : « Ça t’emmène à des endroits où ton cerveau ne serait pas allé » En 2023, les menaces de l’intelligence artificielle poussaient Hollywood à la plus longue grève de son histoire. Aujourd’hui, le milieu du cinéma se forme sur des outils vus comme des partenaires et n...

« Il y a trois erreurs à ne pas commettre : ne pas voir le tsunami social et technologique qui vient ; ne pas s’y préparer en devenant expert sur les outils et vigilant sur l’éthique ; dire qu’on est contre ». www.lemonde.fr/culture/arti...

Opinion | For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment

"Blanchflower and Bryson found that for workers under 25, mental health is now so poor that they are generally as unhappy as their unemployed counterparts, which is new in the past several years." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

Framing, New York Times, framing... When you win an absolute majority (50.4%), you are *entitled* to deliver on your mandate, it's got nothing to do with being"emboldened" (like a... radical, right?)

They’re Rescuing Olive Trees, for Much More Than the Oil

Time to adopt an olive tree? 🫒 🌳
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/d...

For a Literary Saint, Margaret Atwood Can Sure Hold a Grudge

"Her first book signing was held in the sock and underwear section of a department store in Edmonton, where she sold two copies." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/b...

The Hunger Games Begin 40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps

"For today’s Republican Party, blocking green energy is more important than keeping 40 million Americans from going hungry." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Anthony Hopkins on Quitting Drinking and Finding God

"We step into circles of energy which are negative and we play a role because it’s easy to say, well, it’s not meant for me. There’s a truth in it, but at the same time you have to say: 'Wake up and live! Act as if it is impossible to fail.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/m...

Reagan exposes imposter from the grave. Imposter lashes out, proving the case.

The euphemisation of AI didn't take long. "The documents contemplate avoiding using terms like 'automation' and 'A.I.' when discussing robotics, and instead use terms like 'advanced technology' or replace the word 'robot' with 'cobot,' which implies collaboration with humans."

Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Externalities... "Amazon’s automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than 160,000 people in the United States it would otherwise need by 2027. That would save about *30 cents* on each item that Amazon picks, packs and delivers to customers." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Inside Luigi Mangione’s Missing Months

A remarkable investigation, though it probably ensures that Tenkawa will draw a different breed of pilgrims from now on
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

How our brightest minds get trapped in the City Money is just one reason why graduates are drawn to finance, management consulting and corporate law

"A colleague at Morgan Stanley put on 12 kilos and stopped menstruating for six months. A leaked Goldman Sachs survey from 2021 found that recruits rated their mental health at 8.8 out of 10 before starting, and 2.8 once inside." on.ft.com/3WfBrlo (gift link)

Stand-out para from Misha Glenny this morning

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

Fascism-as-a-service
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco

He only wanted the National Guard to protect his private 50,000 people private conference #broligarchy
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

War of the Worlds Thoughts on how China weaponised rare earths, why Trump bailed out Argentina, how France's political crisis endangers Europe, can Germany save its car industry and are autocracies winning

"MP Materials, for example, America’s only rare earths processor, in which the Trump administration took a 15 percent stake earlier this year, can only produce in a year roughly as many rare earths magnets as China can produce in a day." open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...

How China Powers Its Electric Cars and High-Speed Trains

"A University of Chicago analysis of satellite data, released in August, found that air pollution in China had plunged 41 percent since 2014. That added almost two years to the country’s average life expectancy." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/b...

What if... she asks Rubio or even Trump to receive the prize on her behalf (alongside the colorless Edmundo González), since she can't travel?

I was looking at the NYT's live feed earlier. Clear none of these journalists have followed her social media posts.

As I was saying. I dedicate this prize ... to President Trump. Very smart - and probably not what the Nobel committee was expecting. She can't travel to receive the prize. Will she ask Trump to receive it on her behalf?

If Trump is smart (I know), he'll cheer this year's prize winner, ease her into office, and he'll be a shoo-in for next year, especially if things work out in Gaza over the medium term.

Maria Corina Machado is incredibly courageous and charismatic. But her Nobel could prove a hindrance in the short term. It won't unseat Maduro, but it will miff Trump in a big way, and this is whom she had been counting on to push regime change. She's been very effusive in her praise of Trump.

Out-of-work benefits total hits 6.5m The DWP’s quietly updated database reveals a calamity: in Birmingham, Liverpool and Blackpool a quarter of working-age adults are signed off.

"In Liverpool, 23% [are on out-of-work benefits]: closer to a quarter than a fifth - and not so far from the 28% that Liverpool saw in the 1930s. We called that a Great Depression. We don’t call it anything now: we have learned to look the other way." open.substack.com/pub/fraserne...

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Trois des quatre premier ministres que Macron a vraiment choisis sont désormais en opposition avec lui. Le quatrième, Castex, a un devoir de réserve venant d'obtenir la SNCF. Et on imagine ce que pensent les trois derniers. Proximity breeds contempt.

Aces Low Robert Jenrick and the political uses of nostalgia

A brilliant takedown of Britain's new right. The idiocy and intellectual dishonesty are staggering.
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'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

"TikTok has fuelled a generational shift in sentiment in the US, with younger news consumers overwhelmingly more sympathetic to Palestine than older ones. (Only 9% of those aged 18 to 34 approve of Israel’s military actions in Gaza)"

Hence, the Ellison takeover...
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Sanae Takaichi set to become Japan's first female prime minister Takaichi is a long-time admirer of Margaret Thatcher, but many female voters do not see her as an advocate for progress.

Signs of the passage of time: when the future 'arch-conservative' Japanese prime minister is a heavy metal fan and a former biker. www.bbc.com/news/article...