Jean-Marc Liotier
@liotier.bsky.social
Like an old information technology blog that collided with a European Union politics column, a geographic information systems consultancy and a defense think tank.
French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social
Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.net
French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social
Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.net
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Jean-Marc Liotier: Your Friendly Neighborhood Policy Nerd
Where EU politics meets tech rants and unexpected humor.
blueskyroast.com
You just discovered my Bluesky account and wonder what it is about ? Here is a fun summary:
"Accumulating evidence indicates that microorganisms respond to the ubiquitous plastic pollution by evolving plastic-degrading enzymes" - uh, is that good news or bad news ?
Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases with a functional motif across global oceans
Abstract. Accumulating evidence indicates that microorganisms respond to the ubiquitous plastic pollution by evolving plastic-degrading enzymes. However, t
academic.oup.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Accumulating evidence indicates that microorganisms respond to the ubiquitous plastic pollution by evolving plastic-degrading enzymes" - uh, is that good news or bad news ?
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They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
They mask for the same reason the Klan masks.
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$2,000 would be just enough to pay off the total cost of a 50-year-mortgage at current rates on a $633 house.
I know that's meaningless but, I mean, come on. It all is.
I know that's meaningless but, I mean, come on. It all is.
QUINTANILLA: What's more likely -- a $2,000 tariff rebate check or a 50 year mortgage?
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
$2,000 would be just enough to pay off the total cost of a 50-year-mortgage at current rates on a $633 house.
I know that's meaningless but, I mean, come on. It all is.
I know that's meaningless but, I mean, come on. It all is.
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OK. Here's the thing. You just can't put on a jacket and pretend to be a security patrol in the UK. It's actually illegal. Who the actual F are these "Essex Spartans"? Government has laws and rules and they need to enforce them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
OK. Here's the thing. You just can't put on a jacket and pretend to be a security patrol in the UK. It's actually illegal. Who the actual F are these "Essex Spartans"? Government has laws and rules and they need to enforce them.
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AIS-spoof-station WHISKEY 365 in Finland is offline.
It operated with a noteworthy 100% uptime for over a year. Oct 30 it started publishing anomalous data and caused a mass spoof event Nov 2.
Now offline since a few hours.
Guess: they were raided by FI authorities.
It operated with a noteworthy 100% uptime for over a year. Oct 30 it started publishing anomalous data and caused a mass spoof event Nov 2.
Now offline since a few hours.
Guess: they were raided by FI authorities.
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
AIS-spoof-station WHISKEY 365 in Finland is offline.
It operated with a noteworthy 100% uptime for over a year. Oct 30 it started publishing anomalous data and caused a mass spoof event Nov 2.
Now offline since a few hours.
Guess: they were raided by FI authorities.
It operated with a noteworthy 100% uptime for over a year. Oct 30 it started publishing anomalous data and caused a mass spoof event Nov 2.
Now offline since a few hours.
Guess: they were raided by FI authorities.
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The new family vehicles of Paris. I think that if a Parisian cycling activist came out of ten years of hibernation and went into the street, what would seem most unbelievable to them would be seeing all these bikes with childrens on the back ;)
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The new family vehicles of Paris. I think that if a Parisian cycling activist came out of ten years of hibernation and went into the street, what would seem most unbelievable to them would be seeing all these bikes with childrens on the back ;)
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Sandra, calm down, I can explain everything
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Sandra, calm down, I can explain everything
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The AIS-receiver station responsible for the mass spoof event Nov 2 in Baltic Sea show anomalous data patterns during 8 more days but returned to normalcy Nov 9.
From a baseline of ~30 ships/h, for 8 days it reported 56-113 ships/h.
Speculation: Mass spoof might have been a mistake by attacker.
From a baseline of ~30 ships/h, for 8 days it reported 56-113 ships/h.
Speculation: Mass spoof might have been a mistake by attacker.
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The AIS-receiver station responsible for the mass spoof event Nov 2 in Baltic Sea show anomalous data patterns during 8 more days but returned to normalcy Nov 9.
From a baseline of ~30 ships/h, for 8 days it reported 56-113 ships/h.
Speculation: Mass spoof might have been a mistake by attacker.
From a baseline of ~30 ships/h, for 8 days it reported 56-113 ships/h.
Speculation: Mass spoof might have been a mistake by attacker.
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Hmmm... I just saw this picture in a Craigslist ad for an IBM XT and an HP LaserJet... the original. For some reason, it never occurred to me that the line started before the HP LaserJet Series II. I've never seen an original before. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hmmm... I just saw this picture in a Craigslist ad for an IBM XT and an HP LaserJet... the original. For some reason, it never occurred to me that the line started before the HP LaserJet Series II. I've never seen an original before. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
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I agree with some of the analysis here, but I'm not convinced JNIM wants to join some kind of tacit or explicit governing coalition for Mali: fr.news.yahoo.com/au-mali-jnim... At most I think they want freedom to move and govern in the areas they control.
Au Mali, le JNIM tente d'asphyxier l'économie "pour déclencher un mécontentement populaire" - Yahoo Actualités France
Sur tout le territoire malien, les blocus jihadistes se multiplient depuis le mois de septembre. Une stratégie d'étranglement de l'économie qui se fait sentir jusqu'à la capitale Bamako et fragilise l...
fr.news.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I agree with some of the analysis here, but I'm not convinced JNIM wants to join some kind of tacit or explicit governing coalition for Mali: fr.news.yahoo.com/au-mali-jnim... At most I think they want freedom to move and govern in the areas they control.
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Emissions from power generation, construction materials, transportation and steel all fell in January-September, but two major obstacles to emission reductions in China stand out: the chemical industry and lack of progress on switching to electric steelmaking.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Emissions from power generation, construction materials, transportation and steel all fell in January-September, but two major obstacles to emission reductions in China stand out: the chemical industry and lack of progress on switching to electric steelmaking.
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NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇
🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/
@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 AM
NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)
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The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
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She ain't wrong
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
She ain't wrong
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The ones that are sat unpowered in Santa Clara are *48MW projects*. How, exactly, are we going to get the 200, 500 or 1.4GW ones up and running? I don't think this is a regulatory issue!
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The ones that are sat unpowered in Santa Clara are *48MW projects*. How, exactly, are we going to get the 200, 500 or 1.4GW ones up and running? I don't think this is a regulatory issue!
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Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Amazon just sued one of the largest power companies in Oregon after it failed to power up two data center (one without enough power and one with no power at all) campuses that were meant to be ready *in 2021*. Sure hope this isn't an industry wide problem!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...
We are wired to solve problems so, if we don't have any, we'll create ourself a nice one !
In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We are wired to solve problems so, if we don't have any, we'll create ourself a nice one !
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In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.
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“No, he didn’t say that” I thought to myself
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“No, he didn’t say that” I thought to myself
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ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.
Eat a dick.
Eat a dick.
Okay but ACAB includes David Simon.
Hard, fast rule from a veteran police reporter: Excepting anyone engaged in infiltrating a criminal conspiracy in an undercover capacity, any law officer who hides his identity from the public is a shitheel is doing vile shit and is, in fact, actively destroying the credibility of law enforcement.
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities.
Eat a dick.
Eat a dick.
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There’s ONE area where prices are down: promised “rebate” checks.
$̶5̶0̶0̶0̶ —> $2000
$̶5̶0̶0̶0̶ —> $2000
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
There’s ONE area where prices are down: promised “rebate” checks.
$̶5̶0̶0̶0̶ —> $2000
$̶5̶0̶0̶0̶ —> $2000
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I really do think that most Americans think the GOP and GOP are unmovable objects that cannot be changed by public opinion so trying to change them gets people too depressed but they don't understand how to process that and not take all that unprocessed rage out on Democrats.
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I really do think that most Americans think the GOP and GOP are unmovable objects that cannot be changed by public opinion so trying to change them gets people too depressed but they don't understand how to process that and not take all that unprocessed rage out on Democrats.
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Here is a map view of the record high temperatures in October 2025 across the #Antarctic. Compare this blob of anomalies greater than 5°C with the Arctic from my earlier post. Yikes!
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Here is a map view of the record high temperatures in October 2025 across the #Antarctic. Compare this blob of anomalies greater than 5°C with the Arctic from my earlier post. Yikes!
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.
Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds... using a 1981-2010 reference period.