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Clément Chastagnol
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I keep on learning. Bad case of tsundoku.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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nytimes.com
“It’s kind of a shocking number."

The median age of first-time home buyers in the U.S. hit an all-time high of 40 in 2025, according to a report from the National Association of Realtors. nyti.ms/4hKc58V
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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steamtraen.eu
Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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nilswilcke.bsky.social
Sarkozy se nourrit exclusivement de yaourts en prison, par peur que quelqu'un ait pu cracher dans son plat, relate le Point. L'ex-président refuse de cuisiner soi-même: "Il ne sait pas se faire cuire un œuf!, livre un proche. Et puis, par principe, il s'y refuse". Sarko a donc des principes...
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
Page One.

@theguardian.com #ICE
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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uneheuredepeine.bsky.social
À dérouler et à partager. Voilà à qui on donne la parole dans les médias.
lehmanndrc.bsky.social Christian Lehmann @lehmanndrc.bsky.social · 12d
C’est au siècle dernier, de mémoire. 1998 ou 1999. Je travaille depuis dix ans pour Impact-Medecin, ds les pages Culture d’abord ( dont je ferai en soutenant mon redac chef virer Gabriel Matzneff but zis is another story) puis ds le cahier informatique parce que la médecine s’informatise à l’arrache
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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science.org
Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Marvellous Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters about 3,800 years ago!

Which is your favourite? ❤️

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me 🏺

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif: Top left: swirling white vine-like lines and round reddish-orange medallions framed by white circles on a black background. Top right : large white spiral on front of cup with a reddish-orange oval shape with stylised white petals beside it, on a black background. Middle left: diagonal zig-zag stripes in alternating black and white above and below a band around the middle of the cup Bottom left: swirling white lines and reddish-orange and white geometric band on a black background. Bottom right: diagonal white stripes below a row of red dots outlined with white circles on a black background. This type of ornamental Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
October 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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lecheikh.bsky.social
Allez, c’est de saison : voici l’histoire d’un cambriolage. Une espèce de Mystère de la chambre jaune, qui s’est produit il y a deux mille ans. 🧵
October 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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corentinsellin.bsky.social
Politiquement, sans doute l'1 des déclarations les plus marquantes de 2025
Steve #Bannon, chef de file des nationaux-populistes US, affirme que D. #Trump restera président après 2028. Et qu'ils trouveront moyen de contourner le 22e amendement de la Constitution 1/
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Bannon: Donald Trump will have a third term
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October 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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palaisau.bsky.social
« Selon un sondage ELABE/BFMTV sur la condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy, une majorité de Français juge la décision de la justice impartiale, condamne fermement les menaces visant la magistrature et rejette les tentatives de l’ancien Président de transformer son procès en combat politique »
Nicolas Sarkozy condamné : une majorité de Français rejette son discours de victimisation selon un sondage Elabe
Selon un sondage ELABE/BFMTV sur la condamnation de Nicolas Sarkozy à cinq ans de prison ferme das l’affaire du financement libyen continue de diviser la société française. Mais une majorité de França...
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October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman emerald-green glass boat. From Pompeii.

#Archaeology

📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
A British Museum image of a translucent emerald-green glass vessel in the shape of a shallow boat, displayed on a black surface with light brown background. The boat has curved ends, rising slightly upward. The museum lighting emphasises the translucent dark green colour of the glass. It was ground from a mould-pressed blank, with wheel-cut bands on each side and four triangular feet. Height: 7.6 cm, Length: 22.5 cm. Dated AD 25-50.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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tedunderwood.com
Karpathy starts by saying human supervision is needed only because models aren't yet capable enough. But if you look closely at the obstacle ("I want to learn... and become better as a programmer, not just get served mountains of code that I'm told works"), it doesn't go away "when we reach AGI." +
On LLM agents. My critique of the industry is more in overshooting the tooling w.r.t. present capability. I live in what I view as an intermediate world where I want to collaborate with LLMs and where our pros/cons are matched up. The industry lives in a future where fully autonomous entities collaborate in parallel to write all the code and humans are useless. For example, I don't want an Agent that goes off for 20 minutes and comes back with 1,000 lines of code. I certainly don't feel ready to supervise a team of 10 of them. I'd like to go in chunks that I can keep in my head, where an LLM explains the code that it is writing. I'd like it to prove to me that what it did is correct, I want it to pull the API docs and show me that it used things correctly. I want it to make fewer assumptions and ask/collaborate with me when not sure about something. I want to learn along the way and become better as a programmer, not just get served mountains of code that I'm told works. I just think the tools should be more realistic w.r.t. their capability and how they fit into the industry today, and I fear that if this isn't done well we might end up with mountains of slop accumulating across software, and an increase in vulnerabilities, security breaches and etc. x.com/karpathy/statu…
October 20, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Bronze Portrait of Marcus Aurelius. AD 160-170 AD.

Found at a Roman frontier fort at Dunaszekcsó (ancient Lugo) on the banks of the Danube in Hungary.

Currently at the state exhibition, Rheinisches landesmuseum, Trier. On loan from Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs.

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#FindsFriday
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A bronze portrait head of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is depicted with thick curly hair, long curly beard, and full moustache
October 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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hedgielib.bsky.social
This sounds awful

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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cscheid.net
This may just be the best CS paper I’ve read this year. Just read the abstract and first para of the intro! The rest of the intro is really wild too, but very very good:

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
A screenshot of an academic paper. It reads: Abstract A " 'quine" is a deterministic program that prints itself. In this essay, I will show you a "gauguine": a probabilistic program that infers itself. A gauguine is repeatedly asked to guess its own source code. Initially, its chances of guessing correctly are of course minuscule. But as the gauguine observes more and more of its own previous guesses, it detects patterns of behavior and gains information about its inner workings. This information allows it to bootstrap self-knowledge, and ultimately discover its own source code. We will discuss how-and why-we might write a gauguine, and what we stand to learn by constructing one. CCS Concepts: • Computing methodologies → Philo-sophical/theoretical foundations of artificial intelli-gence; Theory of mind. Keywords: reflection, probabilistic programming ACM Reference Format: Kartik Chandra, Amanda Liu, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, and Joshua B. Tenenbaum. 2025. Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward! '25), October 12-18, 2025, Singapore, Singa-pore. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 9 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3759429.3762631 1 A Way of Knowing From time to time, we all have crises of identity-moments of radical and overwhelming uncertainty about our selves. I' don't know whether the doubts that seize us can really be externalized in language, but if I were to try, I would express them as questions, questions like: Who am I? What am I? What kind of person? What kind of mind?
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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uneheuredepeine.bsky.social
- M’sieur, vous avez corrigé les copies ?
- Écoutez, les forces qui ont creusé la division n’ont pas été à la hauteur de ce qu’attendent les Français
- Mais…
- Je demande à chacun de se ressaisir
October 13, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC
October 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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mims.bsky.social
In July Apple CEO Tim Cook presented President Donald Trump with a 24-karat gold and glass statue with the Apple logo at its center. President Trump’s name is engraved at the top, while the bottom bears what appears to be Cook’s signature, along with the inscription “Made in USA” and the year 2025. According to Cook, the glass design was created by a “former U.S. Marine Corps corporal” who now works at Apple.
October 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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kjng.bsky.social
il parait que si le premier ministre est pas là au bout de 15mn, y'a pas France aujourd'hui on peut rentrer chez nous
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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nicolashenin.net
Archives du 26 juillet 2024 : Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement mené par @luciecastets.bsky.social au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle".
Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement de gauche au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle" | TF1 INFO
[VIDÉO] Emmanuel Macron a exclu lundi soir l'idée de nommer un Premier ministre issu du Nouveau Front populaire. Les représentants de l'alliance de gauche dénoncent "un coup de force" et appellent à u...
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October 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM