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Scottish academic Malcolm Caldwell was a staunch defender of the Khmer Rouge, dismissing reports of famine and genocide as "western propaganda". On 22 Dec, 1978, he was granted a rare personal audience with his hero, Cambodian dictator Pol Pot. He was shot in his hotel room a few hours later.

@festinaboy Rho, encore une vision de l'esprit!!! Faites un effort, croyez ce qu'on vous dit...

Record du monde du marathon en 1h59min30sec avec un gars aussi frais que Pogacar à l'arrivée, à l'eau aussi, je confirme, j'ai vérifié, pas de fraude technologique !

«Raté!» Rappeler ce moment extraordinaire. Berlin, 1987, le flegme absolu de Reagan à la détonation d’un ballon qui éclate -malgré le traumatisme de l’attentat de 1981 où il avait été gravement blessé.

Le sort fait à Boualem Sansal par certains à gauche, des médias et à Paris ne peut qu’inspirer du dégoût aux personnes libres et dignes.⁦⁦@CSoutienBS⁩ #boualemsansal

Le 23 avril 2025, Balima Sibdou Adama saint-cyrien, à été tué face à un groupe armé terroriste. Retourné au Burkina Faso après ses trois années en France, il était engagé dans les combats anti-terroristes aux frontières de son pays. Le sous-lieutenant Balima s'est engagé avec bravoure dans les opérations de lutte contre le terrorisme. Ne jamais oublier. 🖤

Avez-vous remarqué que plus personne n'attaque ! Pogacar, Evenepoel, Vingegaard et Seixas accélèrent juste, parfois simplement assis sur la selle, bourrinent, mais " l' ATTAQUE " de derrière en sprintant, en surprenant sur quelques mètres, c'est fini ! Ne parlez plus de tactique

@festinaboy Il ne se retourne jamais non plus, il sait, il sait que les autres le regardent partir, il sait qu'on sait, et on tombe chez Pasolini.

@festinaboy A quoi pense Pogacar quand il appuie sur les pédales? J'en sais rien, mais il s'emmerde, car au fond au lui, il sait pertinemment qu'il va gagner, il sait qu'il est tout seul, il court car il est obligé, mais sinon il n'en a rien à foutre, il fait des km pas même pour gagner.

Tsahal a éliminé le terroriste du Hamas qui a brandi comme un trophée le corps de Shani Louk, kidnappée le 7 octobre, dans les rues de Gaza, des Palestiniens lui crachant dessus. Que Dieu bénisse Tsahal et Israël 🇮🇱

@festinaboy C'est l'exposition d'une attoseconde (10 puissance -18) à une forte source de radioactivité qui provoque la modification l'adn. Pogacar, lui, c'est pas EPO, mais EPR.

Tout s'explique ! On voit bien que Tadej Pogacar 🇸🇮 est un enfant de Tchernobyl ☣️ avec une force thermo nucléaire⚡️ alors que les parents de David Gaudu 🇫🇷 n'ont pas profité du nuage et qu'il n'a hérité génétiquement que du beurre salé 🧈

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture. I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back. His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra. Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach. Here's the story almost nobody tells you. Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds. The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away. The decision quietly changed how the world learns math. For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb. Strang inverted the entire curriculum. He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood. His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct. The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room. For 62 years. The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet. Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos. His final lecture was in May 2023. The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out. His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right. That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management. The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home. 20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge. The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free. The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

Une mère, son enfant, leurs derniers instants arrachés par la barbarie. Au Soudan, l’horreur se répète et le monde détourne les yeux. Encore et toujours. L’indignation ? Proche de zéro. Le silence, lui, est assourdissant.

Indurain reste le seul coureur de plus de 70 kilos avec 80 kilos !!! à gagner le Tour cinq fois en ridiculisant les grimpeurs de 60 kilos à 450 watts en cols dans les années EPO. Le format actuel c'est 65 kilos, à l'eau, hein !

@festinaboy Il était là pour voler, il a tout volé, personne ne se souvient de ses Tour, sa gueule inexpressive me dégoûtait. Une ordure.

Soutien au peuple kabyle abandonné. Encore la preuve que la dictature algérienne est épargnée en France par la classe médiatique dominée par l’extrême gauche.

@festinaboy Un juge italien l'a démontré, avec des images Panini...

Deux salles, deux ambiances. Juillet 1998 affaire Festina sur tout le peloton du Tour pendant que 11 gars sous EPO (?) font du football.

A nurse in Iran helped wounded protesters. The security forces killed her. Then abused her body. Then used her finger to unlock her phone and sent the images of sexual abuse to her husband. Listen to her story and please on’t stop talking about Iran. 💔

@MarieBnard Candy raton : Capucin. Quant à Emmanuel, il disait que l'homme constituait ses objets en leur attribuant des catégories de son entendement. La réciproque est fausse. Mais ça, il y a des jours ou Capucin s'en fout.

@decobolum Joli

Emblématique chef décorateur de Penn, Antonioni, Polanski, surtout des grands Coppola (La conversation, Le parrain), Dean TAVOULARIS américain de Paris avait épousé Aurore Clément. Il n’est pas exclu qu’il ait conseillé Louis Malle sur Lacombe Lucien. Il a tiré la porte à 93 ans.