Frederic PAPY

So if they're using Aliens to distract us from the Epstein Files, is this technically Alien vs. Predator? 🤔 

A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks. It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design. In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself. The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it. This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials. Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against. Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.

Je quitte l’#Afrique avec un trésor inestimable de foi, d’espérance et de charité : un trésor fait d’histoires, de visages, de témoignages joyeux et douloureux qui enrichissent grandement ma vie et mon ministère de successeur de Pierre. Comme aux premiers siècles de l’Église, l’Afrique est appelée à apporter aujourd’hui une contribution décisive à la sainteté et au caractère missionnaire du peuple chrétien. #VoyageApostolique

I am very grateful to the people of #Cameroon for your welcome and for the moments of joy and faith which we have experienced together. Let us keep the memory of these beautiful moments alive in our hearts. Even in the midst of difficulties, let us continue to make space for Jesus, allowing Him to enlighten and renew us every day by His presence. #ApostolicJourney

Je suis très reconnaissant envers le peuple du #Cameroun pour l’accueil qu’il m’a réservé et pour les moments de joie et de foi que nous avons vécus ensemble. Gardons vivant dans nos cœurs le souvenir de ces beaux moments ; et même dans les difficultés, continuons à faire de la place à Jésus, en nous laissant éclairer et renouveler chaque jour par sa présence.#VoyageApostolique

C'est le moment de changer, de transformer l'histoire du #Cameroun. Aujourd'hui et non demain, maintenant et non dans le futur, l'heure est venue de reconstruire, de recomposer la mosaïque de l'unité en rassemblant les diversités et les richesses du pays et du continent, d'édifier une société où règnent la paix et la réconciliation. #VoyageApostolique

If LLMs were invented around 2000, would they still be generating websites in Perl or would we have reached TypeScript and React much faster? I wonder if LLMs just lock us into whatever stack they are trained on.

@sickdotdev Or aggregate

Migrated my perfectly structured relational data to a NoSQL “document store” and now I have to write a 500 line JavaScript function just to calculate a grand total

Iranian rocket scientists need to win some awards after this war is over. 👏🏻

I worked 20 years for a child sex trafficking rescue group. I want you to know this: 90% of Lost Children Are Found Within 30 Minutes. That statistic should both comfort you and wake you up. Most lost children are found quickly. But the ones who aren’t? They usually made one mistake. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: It’s often the exact thing most parents teach them. We tell our kids: “If you get lost, come find me.” It sounds logical. It sounds empowering. It’s WRONG! The Mistake Most Lost Children Make: When children realize they’re separated, they do three things almost automatically: They panic. They wander. They try to find you. Every step makes them harder to locate. From a search standpoint, movement creates chaos. Parents retrace their steps. Security scans zones. Staff lock down areas. Search works best when movement stops. When a child keeps walking, they move outside the original search radius. Helpers are looking where they were last seen — not where they’ve wandered. Stillness increases probability. Movement expands the problem. The first lesson is not “go find me.” It’s this: Stop. Stay. Yell. Why Stillness Wins: Think like a search team. If a child stays put: Parents can retrace steps. Security can scan systematically. Helpers converge to one fixed location. The search radius remains small. If a child keeps moving: The search area expands. Adults pass each other. Missed connections multiply. Minutes stretch into hours. Stillness keeps the math on your side. Teach Them Who to Approach: The second mistake we make as parents? We say, “Find an adult.” Not any adult. Not the nearest stranger. Children need a filter. Teach them to look for, if at all possible: A mother with children. Caregivers who already have kids with them are statistically among the safest people to approach in public settings. They are visible, stationary, and more likely to engage quickly. It’s a clear, concrete instruction. Children don’t process vague categories like “safe adult.” They process visuals. “Find a mom with kids” is visual. A Phone Only Helps If the Number Is Known: We often assume phones solve everything. They don’t — unless your child can use one. Even young children can memorize a 10-digit phone number with repetition. But you must train it. Practice it like a song. Sing it in the car. Chant it at bedtime. Turn it into rhythm. Repetition becomes recall. In an emergency, recall matters more than theory. The Code Word Rule: One more layer of protection. Choose a private family code word. Something only your household knows. If someone approaches and says: “Your mom sent me.” Your child asks: “What’s the code word?” No word. No go. This simple rule eliminates manipulation attempts instantly. It gives your child agency without requiring them to evaluate character. Real Safety Is Training — Not Luck! We don’t get safer by hoping. We get safer by practicing. Teach: • Phone number • Code word • Stop, stay, yell • Find a mom with kids Multiple skills. Simple instructions. Clear visuals. Five minutes of training can replace hours of panic. This isn’t about fear. It’s about preparation. Because when a child gets separated, the clock starts. And what they do in the first minute determines what the next thirty look like. That’s real protection.

@naval Isn't ai JUST A software? Or did I miss his transmutation to the "holy spirit"

Software was eaten by AI.

deleted his tweet as soon as an actual war popped off

You’re live steaming the fall of the US empire

I'm tempted to mute words like "AI", "agent", "MCP", "OpenClaw", "Claude", "Cursor", "vibe". Maybe I'll see people talking about actually doing their job, and doing it properly. You know, from people who are given technical requirement, and they just sit down and write the code.

“AI is the future!” Nah, AI is YOUR future because you’re a lazy, talentless wannabe. I still have a properly functioning brain so I’m gonna keep using that.

@RuksanaAnsar 100

Only 1% can see the pattern. What is the value of 5+5?

If a developer says: I’ll fix it in 1 hour. Just believe them. No need to send a follow-up in every 3 hours.

I’m in love with this sentence: “The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.”

What’s the purpose of spending time on the internet if idiots use AI to reply and create content?