Guillaume E 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
@guillaumee.bsky.social
Pro: democracy, rule of law, European defense, Ukraine, DEI, social democracy
Against : fascists, plutocracy, Russian invaders, dipshit SV techbro rent-seekers
Against : fascists, plutocracy, Russian invaders, dipshit SV techbro rent-seekers
Probably too late, though.
A decision 10 years late, but nevertheless correct by Chancellor Merz. Unfortunate that neither Scholz nor Merkel were willing to take this on. As with defense capabilities and economic vulnerability, Germany is finally digging out from far too many years of geopolitical and geoeconomic complacency
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Probably too late, though.
And it will have to be very broad-based. China is not just subsidies, it’s a full, country-wide system that starts with energy & raw materials and moves up to land, public infrastructure and capital. Eco bonuses on EV in a couple country won’t do it, and the response has to be European.
Civilian industrial policy will need to be part and parcel of policy thinking.
Or Germany has to accept deindustrialisation thanks to its own past policy mistakes and China‘s distortions and $2 trillion trade surplus in manufactured goods (and counting).
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Or Germany has to accept deindustrialisation thanks to its own past policy mistakes and China‘s distortions and $2 trillion trade surplus in manufactured goods (and counting).
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November 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
And it will have to be very broad-based. China is not just subsidies, it’s a full, country-wide system that starts with energy & raw materials and moves up to land, public infrastructure and capital. Eco bonuses on EV in a couple country won’t do it, and the response has to be European.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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Il y a bien des gens qui écoutent des historiennes et des historiens plutôt que Louis Sarkozy sur Napoléon, que voulez-vous que je vous dise, on vit une époque!... 😪
(vous pouvez rejoindre l'association des linguistes atterrées ici ! www.tract-linguistes.org )
(vous pouvez rejoindre l'association des linguistes atterrées ici ! www.tract-linguistes.org )
Tract des linguistes - Le français va très bien, merci
« Nous, linguistes, sommes proprement atterrées par l’ampleur de la diffusion d’idées fausses sur la langue française, par l’absence trop courante, dans les programmes scolaires comme dans l’espace mé...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Il y a bien des gens qui écoutent des historiennes et des historiens plutôt que Louis Sarkozy sur Napoléon, que voulez-vous que je vous dise, on vit une époque!... 😪
(vous pouvez rejoindre l'association des linguistes atterrées ici ! www.tract-linguistes.org )
(vous pouvez rejoindre l'association des linguistes atterrées ici ! www.tract-linguistes.org )
La bêtise sexiste de notre nouvel académicien m’aura au moins permis de découvrir cette excellente chronique.
Rendons à l'académie ce qui est à l'académie: en traitant la linguiste Julie Neveux de "petite instit bornée", Eric Neuhoff s'inscrit dans une longue tradition qui préfère l'insulte sexiste/classiste à l'argumentation. Cf cette chronique sur les perles de l'académie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKgp...
Les perles de l’Académie avec Guillaume Meurice - La Chronique linguiste de Laélia Veron
YouTube video by France Inter
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November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
La bêtise sexiste de notre nouvel académicien m’aura au moins permis de découvrir cette excellente chronique.
Oui c’est marrant, celle là l’extrême droite l’oublie toujours on ne sait pas pourquoi…
Évidemment, dans son exposé, il « oublie » de parler de 1204 et de la 4e croisade durant laquelle des chevaliers occidentaux (dont certains venus du royaume de France) ont pris Constantinople. 4/
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oui c’est marrant, celle là l’extrême droite l’oublie toujours on ne sait pas pourquoi…
Passionnant, sur la renaissance génoise. Sans abuser des comparaisons historiques, cette république dont les oligarques empêchent la constitution en État et qui finit par décliner dans le jeu des puissances européennes n’est pas sans écho dans l’actualité.
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385. La première modernité fut génoise, avec Fabien Levy
Épisode de l’émission · Paroles d'histoire · 09/06/2025 · 51 min
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Passionnant, sur la renaissance génoise. Sans abuser des comparaisons historiques, cette république dont les oligarques empêchent la constitution en État et qui finit par décliner dans le jeu des puissances européennes n’est pas sans écho dans l’actualité.
podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/p...
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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
This article’s focus is machinery, a sector where in theory Germany did everything right (innovation, high end focus, clustering for efficiency etc. ) and it’s still not enough against the Chinese steamroller. We need system-wide industrial policy in Europe before it is too late.
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This article’s focus is machinery, a sector where in theory Germany did everything right (innovation, high end focus, clustering for efficiency etc. ) and it’s still not enough against the Chinese steamroller. We need system-wide industrial policy in Europe before it is too late.
Jamais vu un tel monument, il ne doit pas y en avoir beaucoup de ce genre. Dommage.
En ce 11 novembre, je poste ce monument aux morts de la commune de Gentioux dans la Creuse
Maudite soit la guerre
Maudite soit la guerre
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Jamais vu un tel monument, il ne doit pas y en avoir beaucoup de ce genre. Dommage.
Is there anything left of the Israel we used to admire?
Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
November 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Is there anything left of the Israel we used to admire?
Neat
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Neat
A great article, on the complete degeneracy of the NYT. Would not matter if it were not the bellwether of a more general problem with the media.
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
A great article, on the complete degeneracy of the NYT. Would not matter if it were not the bellwether of a more general problem with the media.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I shudder in anticipation of how good something Miéville spent 15 years to write will likely be.
I hate having to wait a whole year for China Miéville’s new book, but I think it will be worth it.
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Picador unveils China Miéville’s new novel, 20 years in the making
Picador will publish a new novel from award-winning author China Miéville. The Rouse will be Miéville’s first single-authored novel for an adult audience since 2011.
www.thebookseller.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I shudder in anticipation of how good something Miéville spent 15 years to write will likely be.
An extremely depressing but well written piece on AI as the final nail in the coffin of literacy. Prudence is always required in comparisons with China, but the author’s point on the respective futures of the US and China bc of their different approaches to literacy is convincing.
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
An extremely depressing but well written piece on AI as the final nail in the coffin of literacy. Prudence is always required in comparisons with China, but the author’s point on the respective futures of the US and China bc of their different approaches to literacy is convincing.
CAPEX is not expensed, only depreciation, so most of this loss is operational and the corresponding cash burn must be on an epic scale.
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
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That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
CAPEX is not expensed, only depreciation, so most of this loss is operational and the corresponding cash burn must be on an epic scale.
And you still have economists or analysts who think it is no problem that China is engaged at the same time in a systematic assault on the west’s industry and supply chains. We need to block and decouple yesterday. Globalisation only works when the guys you trad with dont want you dead.
“🇨🇳 China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the 🇺🇸 US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN analysis of satellite images, maps and government notices reveals.”
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‘A new arms race’: Satellite images, maps and records reveal huge surge in China’s missile production sites | CNN
China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
And you still have economists or analysts who think it is no problem that China is engaged at the same time in a systematic assault on the west’s industry and supply chains. We need to block and decouple yesterday. Globalisation only works when the guys you trad with dont want you dead.
Il y a des petits détails qui montrent assez clairement ce qu’est vraiment le RN.
Les 4 sénateurs RN ont volontairement quitté la salle lors du débat sur l'élévation de Dreyfus à titre posthume en tant que général de brigade.
Imaginez le scandale si LFI avait fait pareil.
Imaginez le scandale si LFI avait fait pareil.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Il y a des petits détails qui montrent assez clairement ce qu’est vraiment le RN.
Interesting re the possible legacies of the AI bubble. While GPUs depreciate fast, the power generation cap. to run them does not, and this could be the positive legacy everyone is looking for. Still regrettable that we need an AI bubble to build the power gen. that saving the planet will require.
Ben Thompson argues that while AI is obviously in a bubble, it will create long term benefits in the form of investments in chip fabs in the U.S. and power plants.
This is similar to how we got dark fiber and train tracks as infrastructure out of the internet and railway bubbles.
This is similar to how we got dark fiber and train tracks as infrastructure out of the internet and railway bubbles.
The Benefits of Bubbles
We are in an AI Bubble: the big question is if this bubble will be worth it for the physical infrastructure and coordinated innovation that result?
stratechery.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Interesting re the possible legacies of the AI bubble. While GPUs depreciate fast, the power generation cap. to run them does not, and this could be the positive legacy everyone is looking for. Still regrettable that we need an AI bubble to build the power gen. that saving the planet will require.
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Completely agree. Make governing an aspirational profession with proper incentives, and you will attract a better class of politicians.
I think the only way it would be viable would be a carrot/stick approach for both voters and electeds: far higher pay in exchange for far more stringent ethics codes: lifetime post-office lobbying bans, stick trading bans, etc
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Completely agree. Make governing an aspirational profession with proper incentives, and you will attract a better class of politicians.
lovely metaphor
Musk, perhaps the worst pigeon of the flock, also, a madman and a fool. (Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy)
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
lovely metaphor
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
We always knew Trump was surrounded by the worst people in America. What I personally did not realise is how bad the worst people in America are.
Dr Oz: "We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms."
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We always knew Trump was surrounded by the worst people in America. What I personally did not realise is how bad the worst people in America are.
Yes, not a coincidence that the only topic where they would challenge Trump is the one that pisses their corporate overlords.
SCOTUS is going to take away Trump's usurped tariff powers not because they have some newfound respect for the constitutional order but because they want to take away the him Trump keeps shooting himself in the foot with, endangering their shared authoritarian project
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Yes, not a coincidence that the only topic where they would challenge Trump is the one that pisses their corporate overlords.