Emmanuel Bellity

@RevolutApp My app is in French and there is no topic equivalent to "how can we help". They re all specific topics related to other problems I don't have

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@RevolutApp apparently, even though I'm a premium member, there is no apparent way to contact support to ask a question?! I've been going in circles in your help section with useless articles. Is it possible to contact a human?

@spolu Oh come on, you'll get there too 😜

OpenAI getting chat.com is the most boring and lame piece of news I’ve seen since the 2022 AI wake. We are all working towards bringing more artificial intelligence to the world, building better models for some, for others the products and infrastructure to make them useful. The fact that chat.com is an headline is a leading indicator of us not doing good enough a job of focusing on the things that matter or the world getting tired of AI news. AI is overhyped but its potential in everyone’s day to day life is widely underestimated. Let’s build, let’s make and let’s celebrate the true advancements.

Je m’en remets pas tellement c’est beau

Dieu que j’aime mon pays!

ICONIQUE

@ThibaudVezirian C'est insultant pour Madar... 17 buts en 46 matchs au PSG alors que Dembele c'est 1 but en 33 matchs..

Dembele, encore du Neymar et du Madar sur la même action. C’est un cas unique. #PSGSRFC

@lucyaharish @bariweiss Great interview. Keep up the good work !

Thank you @bariweiss for your intelligence, for your kindness, for the opportunity to sit down and have an in depth discussion. Thank you for the honor to say proudly that we share the same profession. Thank you.

This is the most moving interview I've ever done. Thank you @lucyaharish: youtube.com/watch?v=8LIcd7…

@bariweiss @lucyaharish Excellent interview 👏

@PeaceComCenter @TheFP Thanks, that's good news and I'm glad the son's strategy worked out for them. Although I agree with the conclusion in the newsletter. Great journalism btw.

@ebellity @TheFP Sheikh Mushtaha has been released from captivity. More here. peacecomms.substack.com/p/the-peacecom…

On December 30, masked men abducted Mohammed Mushtaha, a respected imam in Gaza. “He knew that refusing to act as a megaphone for Hamas could lead to his death,” his son Ala writes, “and yet he refused.” Read his story, in partnership with @peacecomcenter.thefp.pub/41QaEy2

@RnaudBertrand Well, he lost his dad in his twenties so I don't think "the most hardship he's suffered in his life is probably when his mummy grounded him for not doing his homework"...

France is simply not a serious country anymore. Our new Prime Minister - Gabriel Attal - is 34 years old. Here's his CV: - Went to one of the poshest high schools in Paris (École Alsacienne) - Graduated university (Sciences Po) in Paris in 2012 with a Master of Public Affairs - Worked a menial job (parliamentary liaison) for five years at the Ministry of Health - Became an MP in 2017 of a small posh constituency in greater Paris - Since he is arguably a good public speaker he was made spokesperson of La République En Marche! (Macron's party) in January 2018 - October 2018: appointed Secrétaire d'État (junior minister) to the Minister of National Education and Youth - 2020: he became the government spokesperson - May 2022: he became Minister of Public Action and Accounts - July 2023: appointed Minister of National Education and Youth - January 2024: Prime Minister So here we have a guy who graduated university only 12 years ago, only has 6 years work experience at a job with actual "responsibilities" and half that time he was a spokesperson (i.e. a press secretary). He has never worked (or even studied) outside Paris and has obviously remained in the same small cushy bubble all his - very short - life, stepping directly from the benches of his posh school to those of the French government. The most hardship he's suffered in his life is probably when his mummy grounded him for not doing his homework... Are you telling me this is the profile of a man with the character and life experience necessary to lead a country's government? I mean, COME ON! I know liberal democracy has become such that politicians are supposed to be mere pretty faces just explaining to you that "it's not true that everything is going to shit and we're the best" but even with this standard, this is just a joke. I mean, at least try to make it look real... I'd actually take any random 50-year old French farmer and would be more reassured with them leading the country (no disrespect meant to farmers, obviously).

“For Hamas, being Muslim means supporting Hamas, and people who do not support Hamas aren’t Muslims.” Ala Mohammed Mushtaha’s father refused to deliver a pro-Hamas sermon and now he has been abducted. Read his story, in partnership with @peacecomcenter thefp.pub/41QaEy2

Very happy to see WSJ doing work on this. Tiktok is a real national security problem / is feeding our kids (and the future of our democracy) absolute crap - and is ultimately controlled by foreign entities with a stake in us being weak. It needs to be banned.

@enraje un figolu revisité ?

Bon ben pour 200 balles c’est décevant

@RnaudBertrand it's funny that when someone asks about the Christmas tree you say it's not a religious symbol. It seems you don't know Hanouka very well. It's quite equivalent : a fun celebration / tradition, esp for kids, with little religious importance. Like halloween, it's mostly folklore.

France is constitutionally a secular republic, it is the concept of "Laïcité". It is in fact article 1 of the French constitution: "France is an indivisible, SECULAR, democratic, and social Republic." The concept is that the government should be kept completely separate from religious organizations and religion altogether. It is on that basis that all French kids are told that all religious symbols are banned from public institutions. This is why for instance Muslim girls cannot wear headscarves (hijabs) at school in France and why no religious symbols - such as the cross - can be displayed in any public building. If there is ONE core value every single French is taught epitomizes France, it is the concept of Laïcité. Which is why this decision by Macron, at this moment in time, to invite France's chief Rabbi to the Élysée palace to perform a religious ceremony - which is the lighting of the first Hanukkah candle - with him on its side in his official capacity as the President of France is so extraordinary and potentially inflammatory. My brother is a highschool teacher in Paris. He tells me that it's extraordinarily difficult to make Muslim students understand the concept of Laïcité because they widely see it as discriminatory against Islam. Every year we have a new "scandal" around Laïcité and Islam in French schools, that sparks a weeks-lomg national conversation. This year it was the government's decision to ban the wearing of the abaya, a traditional form of dress worn by many women in parts of the Muslim world, arguing that it was a way to display one's religion and therefore violated the concept of Laïcité. Now that the president doesn't seem to have any qualms breaking the concept of Laïcité in the most demonstrative way imaginable - and during the geopolitical context we all know about - I wish France's teachers the best of luck...

@albertwenger @CNote1111 @phl43 I don't see what's so bankrupt about Q&A in a theater, especially when university presidents have a very political role that should prepare them for it. It's a form of agora or court which are pillars of democracies. And seeing Liz Magill new statement today, it's also efficient.

@CNote1111 @ebellity @phl43 The point here is not to absolve the schools or their presidents from now decades of values decay, rather that cheering on this kind of threatening political theater is also morally bankrupt.

Okay, very unpopular opinion here, but while the university presidents in question handled this very poorly from a public relations perspective there is nothing fundamentally wrong with their answers and Stefanik should be much more ashamed of herself than any of them. First, while I'm sure it has occasionally happened because there are lots of university students in the US and some of them are bound to be lunatics, I haven't seen any evidence that many people on campuses were "calling for the genocide of Jews". When the president of MIT says the same thing at the beginning, Stefanik replies that people have been calling for "intifada", but I think it's totally disingenuous to claim that most of the students who shout slogans calling for a "global intifada" or whatever want to genocide the Jews, however stupid they may be and to be clear I don't have a particularly high opinion of their intelligence or knowledge about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Anyway, while this ubiquitous confusion between very different things annoys me, that's not what I want to talk about here, so let's assume for the sake of the argument that many people on American campuses have literally called for the genocide of Jews. Stefanik asked a precise question, namely whether this was a violation of their university's code of conduct regarding bullying and harassment, not whether they condemned calls for genocide of Jews or even whether they were a violation of their university's rules in general. And while I haven't reviewed the codes of conduct at Harvard, MIT and Penn, not only am I pretty confident that the presidents of the universities in question are correct given those codes, but I also think that it would not really make sense to change the codes of conduct so that calls for genocide per se are treated as bullying or harassment. It seems obviously right that, as they said in their reply to Stefanik, it depends on the context. For instance, if someone writes a blog post defending Hitler and the Holocaust, I obviously agree that it's vile but how on earth does that constitute bullying or harassment? Surely, as the university presidents correctly said in that hearing, bullying or harassment should be targeted at specific individuals. If the person who wrote such a blog post then proceeded to send it to Jewish students, then I agree that it would constitute bullying or harassment, but otherwise it seems clearly not to be the case and to say otherwise is to engage precisely in the kind of concept creeps that many right-wing people I see retweeting this video correctly denounced in previous years. If someone wrote a blog post arguing that French people should be killed as payback for colonization or whatever, I certainly wouldn't think that he thereby harassed or bullied me. I think that this is what the presidents of those universities should have explained, so again I agree they handled this very badly, but to be fair with them Stefanik also made it as hard as possible for them by demanding a "yes or no" answer, even though she surely knew or at least should have known that her question did not admit of a simple "yes or no" answer. It just seems wrong to attack the university presidents for not handling that situation well, because this is public relations and not a moral failing, whereas Stefanik is definitely morally culpable here for setting them up in this way and deliberately turning this hearing into a clown show. It's very clear that, despite what she pretends, she wanted them to embarrass themselves and maximized the probability they would by trying to leave them no choice between giving what they knew was a false answer and replying accurately but in a way that would make them look bad.

A must watch: A Gazan woman surprises Al Jazeera reporter and tells him that Hamas is taking all the humanitarian aid to its terrorists in the tunnels. The reporter tries to convince her otherwise but she continues to attack Hamas. @MOhadIsrael

@CNote1111 @phl43 Please read this @phl43 (and @albertwenger who sadly liked your post). Even if you use the "letter of the law" argument it is wrong. You can watch Talia Khan (MIT) or Talia Dror (UPenn) testimonies if you're unsure about the hostile edu or living environment it creates.

@phl43 I reviewed them last night...