Henri Tournyol du Clos
@henritournyol.bsky.social
Strawberry fields forever
August 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Strawberry fields forever
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Good piece. Also echoes the terrific book "The AI Mirror" by @shannonvallor.bsky.social
Interesting column by John Naughton at the Observer on AI as cultural technology. Claude agrees with us! Farrell et al (2025) Science, 387(6739), 1153-1156. Or rather the summary of information on intelligence the Claude system provides is reasonably accurate.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Musk and co should ask an AI what defines intelligence. T...
The X owner thinks that artificial general intelligence is ‘smarter than the smartest human’. But it’s not as clever as he thinks it is
observer.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Good piece. Also echoes the terrific book "The AI Mirror" by @shannonvallor.bsky.social
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At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague
April 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague
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During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...
April 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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Trump’s trademark - © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva 👉 chappatte.com/en/images/tr...
April 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Trump’s trademark - © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva 👉 chappatte.com/en/images/tr...
Patrick Chappatte
April 13, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Patrick Chappatte
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Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
March 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.
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Trump so angry at French for wanting the Statue of Liberty back he said that they should take the Eiffel Tower back too.
March 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trump so angry at French for wanting the Statue of Liberty back he said that they should take the Eiffel Tower back too.
Another must-read Stephen Kotkin big picture interview, this time in The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Can Ukraine—and America—Survive Donald Trump?
The historian Stephen Kotkin analyzes what a President who governs in the style of professional wrestling gets wrong—and right—about an unstable world.
www.newyorker.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Another must-read Stephen Kotkin big picture interview, this time in The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
March 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
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Loco-motion: Looking back on the first year of Argentina’s eccentric president
Javier Milei has been taking a chainsaw to the Argentine government and budget for over a year, and now the hottest part of the “hell” he promised may finally be over.
theins.press/en/economics...
Javier Milei has been taking a chainsaw to the Argentine government and budget for over a year, and now the hottest part of the “hell” he promised may finally be over.
theins.press/en/economics...
Loco-motion: Looking back on the first year of Argentina’s eccentric president
Argentine President Javier Milei — nicknamed El Loco (“the Madman”) for his radical right-wing politics — is looking at a possible impeachment over a cryptocurrency scandal now that the memecoin he ad...
theins.press
February 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Loco-motion: Looking back on the first year of Argentina’s eccentric president
Javier Milei has been taking a chainsaw to the Argentine government and budget for over a year, and now the hottest part of the “hell” he promised may finally be over.
theins.press/en/economics...
Javier Milei has been taking a chainsaw to the Argentine government and budget for over a year, and now the hottest part of the “hell” he promised may finally be over.
theins.press/en/economics...
The enshittification of science :
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
theconversation.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The enshittification of science :
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
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"Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
How tariffs work
February 3, 2025 at 4:35 AM
How tariffs work
Today's SMBC
January 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today's SMBC
"Dud lightbulbs on sale in a Moscow street market summed up the Soviet Union in its collapsing years. Working ones were unavailable in shops, so if you needed light at home you stole a bulb from your workplace and replaced it with a dead one"
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www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Crooks and cronies: the heavy price we paid for doing business in Russia
In Zero Sum, Charles Hecker reveals the hubris, greed and gullibility of the Western investors who flocked into Russia to make big bucks
www.thetimes.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
"Dud lightbulbs on sale in a Moscow street market summed up the Soviet Union in its collapsing years. Working ones were unavailable in shops, so if you needed light at home you stole a bulb from your workplace and replaced it with a dead one"
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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Association of polygenic scores for neuropsychiatric traits with self-reported professions based on analysis of 420k individuals from UK Biobank and Million Veteran Program. Look at the 'arts & design' category. Artistic talent comes at a cost--a piece of your mind :)
December 12, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Association of polygenic scores for neuropsychiatric traits with self-reported professions based on analysis of 420k individuals from UK Biobank and Million Veteran Program. Look at the 'arts & design' category. Artistic talent comes at a cost--a piece of your mind :)
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Promising material:
November 30, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Promising material:
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When making a MAGA cabinet, it's very important to strike a careful balance between billionaires, sex criminals, Russian assets, anti-vaxxers, and just plain unpleasant people.
November 30, 2024 at 7:50 PM
When making a MAGA cabinet, it's very important to strike a careful balance between billionaires, sex criminals, Russian assets, anti-vaxxers, and just plain unpleasant people.
www.researchgate.net/publication/... Political philosophy and a lot of "political science" are roughly to politics what theology is to actual physics.
(PDF) Strange Bedfellows: The Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems
PDF | What explains the contents of political belief systems? A widespread view is that they derive from abstract values, like equality, tolerance, and... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
November 27, 2024 at 5:33 AM
www.researchgate.net/publication/... Political philosophy and a lot of "political science" are roughly to politics what theology is to actual physics.
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Predicting risk is hard - so - there will always be more unfounded fears than founded fears.
Studying the history of unfounded fears is critical to increasing chances of focusing on the right risks!
Studying the history of unfounded fears is critical to increasing chances of focusing on the right risks!
November 22, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Predicting risk is hard - so - there will always be more unfounded fears than founded fears.
Studying the history of unfounded fears is critical to increasing chances of focusing on the right risks!
Studying the history of unfounded fears is critical to increasing chances of focusing on the right risks!
Russia’s Economy and Deathonomics conversableeconomist.com/2024/11/19/r...
Russia’s Economy and Deathonomics - Conversable Economist
Back in 1939, Winston Churchill famously said in a radio broadcast: "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma ..." One might say something si...
conversableeconomist.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Russia’s Economy and Deathonomics conversableeconomist.com/2024/11/19/r...