Thomas Jalabert

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇

Pendant des années, toute la France médiatique nous a vendu Charlie Hebdo comme le symbole ultime de la liberté d’expression. “On peut rire de tout.” “Pas de sujet interdit.” “L’humour ne doit jamais être censuré.” Magnifique. Mais apparemment… il existait quand même une petite ligne invisible. Une frontière sacrée. Un sujet qu’il ne fallait surtout pas toucher. Aujourd’hui, @laRadioNova ose faire exactement ce que @Charlie_Hebdo_ prétendait défendre : provoquer, déranger, se moquer des puissants et casser les réflexes de propagande médiatique. Et soudain, panique générale. Caroline Fourest fulmine. Sophia Aram s’indigne. Les gardiens autoproclamés du “camp du bien” réclament des têtes, des excuses, des limites, des sanctions symboliques. En réalité, leur problème n’est pas l’humour. Leur problème, c’est que l’humour change de cible. Quand on caricature certaines religions, certains milieux populaires ou certains Français jugés “ringards”, c’est du courage. Quand l’ironie vise Israël ou ses relais médiatiques, cela devient immédiatement “dangereux”, “nauséabond” ou “irresponsable”. Donc la liberté d’expression était totale… mais sous conditions. Une liberté sous abonnement idéologique. Et c’est précisément pour ça que Radio Nova cartonne aujourd’hui. Parce qu’une partie énorme du public étouffait dans un paysage médiatique devenu hypocrite, moralisateur et ultra-filtré. Nova redonne quelque chose que les Français n’avaient plus entendu depuis longtemps : une parole libre, insolente, imprévisible. Le plus ironique dans l’histoire ? Ceux qui réclament aujourd’hui la censure de Nova sont souvent les mêmes qui défilaient hier derrière des pancartes “Je suis Charlie”. Visiblement, ils voulaient surtout être Charlie… à condition de choisir eux-mêmes les cibles autorisées.

@tuvati @TerribleMaps

I fucking guess bro

@a_bergeaud @TheEconomist Il y a un problème avec la légende ? Il y a 5 couleurs en légende mais 3 sur le graphique

J'ai reproduit la superbe dataviz de @TheEconomist à partir des données de Julia Cagé et Thomas Piketty sur les élections de 2022

@cremieuxrecueil This is assuming you only have 3 dimensions to work on but reality is highly dimensional. You could be exceptional in creativity, communication, adaptability... There's a near certainty that you excel in 3 categories, you just have to find them.

I simulated 100,000 people to show how often people are "thrice-exceptional": Smart, stable, and exceptionally hard-working. I've highlighted these people in red in this chart:

@scottastevenson @JamieRobinsonNZ Diamond 1v1 is far from embarassing really

@JamieRobinsonNZ It’s embarrassing TBH. I never played super seriously, or played that many games, but I’ve played SC my whole life. Diamond 1v1, Master 2v2

Starcraft is an incredible foundation for entrepreneurship. It wired my brain at an early age to think about ROI, APM, macro, micro, the benefit of keeping your minerals at $0. It is no coincidence that many of the great founders of this generation have played this game. Here is my APM (actions per minute) tracker that I use for playing the startup game (had it closed for a couple days -- I still APM on the weekend). One of the things you learn playing SC is that there is a base level of APM needed to be successful. The speed at which you can plan and act on a computer is a lot faster than most people realize. It's not everything. But if you aren't hitting a minimum level you will just get overwhelmed and get crushed.

I don't get how people are planning to sidestep the very basic problem that if you don't have junior hires right now, you won't have experienced people 5 or 10 years later.

Grateful for what, exactly? Let Mr. Hegseth count the ways. 1.Abandoning Ukraine mid-war 2.The Greenland annexation fantasy 3.Tariffs on allies who still answer the phone 4.A defense secretary with no defense experience 5.Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Again. 6.Gutting USAID while calling it efficiency 7.The trade war with Canada 8.Recognizing Crimea as Russian territory 9.Pulling out of the WHO during a health crisis 10.Threatening to leave NATO 11.Cosying up to every autocrat with a decent golf course 12.The collapse of US soft power in under 90 days 13.Alienating the EU faster than Brexit managed 14.Signal-gating classified war plans to a journalist 15.Deploying the military to arrest migrants at the border 16.Defunding public broadcasting 17.Handing Elon Musk the keys to federal spending 18.Ending birthright citizenship by executive order 19.Firing the inspectors general who were watching all of the above 20. And now – a war in Iran nobody asked for, going exactly as well as you’d expect You’re welcome, world. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

BREAKING: French General Michel Yakovleff HUMILIATES Trump for begging Europe to get involved in his Iran War, says that it would be like "buying cheap tickets for the Titanic" after it hit the iceberg. This is beyond brutal... "We have five reasons to say no to him, in fact," said Yakovleff. "So, the first one is that he didn't understand that if he wants to carry out a NATO operation, NATO has to take command. So, there will be an American general, but it's a single operation." “You can’t have an American operation where they’re bombing whatever they can and then below that, the Europeans doing something else,” Yakovleff said. “No, no, no, it has to be one sole operation, under a NATO flag. I don’t think he understood that.” Yakovleff served as a three general in the French Army, was commander of the French Foreign Legion, and served in top positions in NATO. He's a highly respected military expert in France and regularly weighs in on issues of international importance. Trump has been pleading with allied nations to get involved in his Iran fiasco. Iranian missiles and drones have made it impossible for oil tankers to obtain insurance to traverse the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's petroleum normally passes. Oil prices are skyrocketing. So far, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have refused Trump's request. General Yakovleff went on to point out that Trump's strategic goals, beyond forcing open the strait, are vague and undefined. If NATO nations were even going to consider involvement, they would need the United States to explain explicitly in writing what the goals are. "And it's not tweets, and it's not things that change every two minutes. So, already there, it's going to be necessary for Trump himself to know what he wants," said the general. He said that there's also the issue of the lack of "confidence" in Trump. It's well-known that he regularly abandons his allies and he could do so here immediately after other nations got involved. “He would let us down whenever it suited him," said Yakovleff. He ended his tirade by comparing Trump to the captain of the Titanic trying to "sell cheap tickets" for his voyage "after having hit the iceberg." “And the last argument is American: you don’t reinforce failure. I learnt that at the U.S. Army War College. You don’t reinforce failure, you move on, you find something else.” he added. "So, there are a lot of reasons to say no." Please ❤️ and share if you think that the Iran War is a total disaster!

Classic ML feels ignored (with LLMs getting all the attention). Nice to see Kmeans + modern HW. T-SNE and UMAP could use similar overhaul.

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

“Timing is very important. You need to pick hard problems to solve and be ambitious with them. But you've also got to pick the right time when the world and the context that you're in is the right kind of environment for those ideas to flourish.” In his official Nobel Prize interview, Demis Hassabis discussed how his aspirations as a young gaming programmer were ahead of their time. Watch our official interview: bit.ly/41DGkXr

La carte agent de l'équipe bleue dans Code Name :

@Sonic_urticant @threadreaderapp unroll

🔥📣[THREAD] 1/ En exclusivité (même les journalistes attendaient cela mais je le dévoile sur Twitter) : le récit détaillé de mon procès du 1er mars 2024 qu'avait lancé Didier Raoult contre moi (il a perdu). Récit préalablement relu par mes avocats. Et il y a du lourd... RT SVP⏬

@ronawang 3 iphone 13 ± 1 rona

guess my height

Bah quoi, plus personne ne veut devenir précaire et voir son travail être plagié, sans aucune reconnaissance de l'université et en ayant un travail alimentaire pour pallier les manques de contrats, le tout en perdant une vie sociale pour ne pas avoir de poste à la fin ? Ah bon ??

"Pour lui [l'économiste], tout les besoins sont respectables dés lors qu'ils sont ressenti par l'individu" C'est mettre un signe égal entre l'accès à un climat vivable et le besoin d'un milliardaire de brûler des centaines de litres de diesel de l'heure sur son yacht.

Voilà à quoi servent les pistes cyclables à #Nice06. Avec toute la complicité de la @VilledeNice, @MetropoleNCA et @pmdenice (et ses 4000 caméras de vidéolaxisme). #NiceVilleLaxiste #MonÉtéàNice @RichardChemla @anthony_borre @gaelnofri @cestrosi twitter.com/SecVelo/status…

@ylecun Glad that Facebook took this issue seriously and continue to do so. But disinformation is more subtle than hate speech. Raising concerns about it and new ways of spreading (text, picture, video) leads to healthy discussions. But you're right, all medias are responsible for this.

In this interview with Le Monde, Yoshua Bengio expresses his fears of some catastrophe scenarios that could be enabled by progress in AI. One such scenario he is worried about is a flood of disinformation and political propaganda on social networks. He says that we have a "moral imperative" to act to prevent the erosion of democracy due to disinformation. But here is the thing: that scenario has been happening for years and effective countermeasures have been implemented. Social networks (Facebook and Instagram in particular) have implemented countermeasures against attempts to corrupt the democratic process since at least 2017. countermeasures against bots and fake accounts, misrepresentation of identity, spam, hate speech, bullying, child exploitation, terrorist propaganda, violent content, and misinformation that endangers public safety, have been in place for years. And the most paradoxical thing: AI is part of the solution here, not part of the problem! It is because of progress in natural language understanding in multiple languages (due to self-supervised transformers) that, for example, hate speech can be detected and taken down in hundreds of languages. Meta has a large organization called Integrity that is entirely devoted to security and content moderation. They make massive use of AI. They publish a quarterly report on what they do: transparency.fb.com/data/community… For example, the number of fake accounts taken down every quarter oscillates between 400 million and 1.5 billion. The prevalence of hate speech is somewhere between 0.01% and 0.02% of all content. 82% of hate speech is taken down automatically by AI before anyone sees it. Text generation models, such auto-regressive LLMs may help with producing more "fake" content. But the bottleneck of disinformation is *not* in the production (e.g. QAnon is two guys). There are two bottlenecks: passing through the content moderation systems of dissemination media such as social networks and capturing the limited attention the public has. LLMs do not help with any of that. If bad actors attempt to use AI to flood Facebook with misinformation, it will be the bad guys' AI against the good guys' AI. lemonde.fr/international/…