Jacques Robert Auchene
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Jacques Robert Auchene
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Adopted Frenchman, but haven't actually changed my name.
Jesus follower, because author of life, and frankly, to whom shall we go?
Not here for cyber, but he is >> @jamesatack.com
It’s like something out of half-life 2
“11/25/25👺ICE abducts two Americans; eight hospitalized after chemical munitions & police beatings in St. Paul, MN. This is not public safety-it’s state violence” Hart ‘28 Dem 🇺🇸🙏
November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Maybe we should just have taken the hit in 2008 :
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgr...
fred.stlouisfed.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This > health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

… train-wreck was just a DNS screw-up.

Imagine if something really bad had happened 😱
Service health - Oct 20, 2025 | AWS Health Dashboard | Global
View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.
health.aws.amazon.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Jacques Robert Auchene
French PM Lecornu Resigns
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Reposted by Jacques Robert Auchene
Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry
Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry
Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.
futurism.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
More Death - how original
Pleased to speak with @gregsargent.bsky.social about the legal issues raised by the lethal US strikes in the Caribbean and a draft use of force authorization that would be a blank check for war on "narco-terrorists" globally.
Awful: White House is circulating draft bill to vastly expand Trump's authority to bomb "drug cartels" w/o Congress.

It's a "blank check to use force anywhere in the world against anyone he designates a narco-terrorist," says @bcfinucane.bsky.social.

All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2007...
September 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Here is worship of Mars, God of war.

I also see him worship Venus, Mercury and Jupiter.

I don't see any worship of Jesus Christ.
President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War, the name the agency held until shortly after World War II, the White House said.
Trump Is Renaming the Defense Department the Department of War
The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until shortly after World War II.
nyti.ms
September 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The only answer empire can ever come up with is, more death.
Gorka: "We will find you and we will kill you. If you're a jihadi with American blood on your hand, if you're a cartel member bringing powdered death into America, you have declared war on us and we will turn you into red mist. It is that simple."
September 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Reposted by Jacques Robert Auchene
✈️ Violents orages en Corse : incapable de se poser, un vol entre l'aéroport d'Orly et Bastia rebrousse chemin ⤵️
#orages #corse
actu.fr/ile-de-franc...
Aéroport d'Orly : le vol à destination de Bastia survole la France pendant des heures sans pouvoir se poser
De violents orages se sont abattus sur la Corse, jeudi 28 août 2025, perturbant le trafic aérien. Un vol d’Air France a tournoyé pendant des heures sans pouvoir se poser.
actu.fr
August 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Rejoice! The Lord is King verse 5 is a bit too Platonic. FWIW, here's an alternative verse that I came up with

Rejoice in glorious hope!
The Lord of life shall reign,
to make creation new,
and free from grief and pain:
We soon shall hear th’archangel’s voice,
the trump of God shall sound. Rejoice!
August 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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"We are in this together - newly ordained and long ordained, deacons, priests, bishops and the whole people of God.."

Rev Canon John Wilkinson in yesterday's ordination service sermon

www.europe.anglican.org/news/latest-...
June 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@ville-gennevilliers.fr pas d'annonce ici concernant les orages?
June 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Surprising family screen-review meeting this morning:

me: How did managing screens go this week?

14 yr old: Erm ok but I tried to read Sophie's World and it stayed in my bag and I looked at my phone instead

me: How about having a dumb phone for a week instead of an iphone?

14 yr old: Yes please
June 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Le magistrat a évoqué "une perte de repères quant à la valeur de la vie humaine, à laquelle il ne semble pas attacher d'importance".

La société récolte ce qu'elle a semé

www.franceinfo.fr/faits-divers...
Meurtre d'une surveillante à Nogent : le manque d'empathie, une clé pour comprendre les passages à l'acte violents d'adolescents ?
L'élève de 14 ans mis en examen pour avoir poignardé une femme devant son collège a été décrit comme n'exprimant aucune compassion ni regret. Son profil interroge, alors que le nombre des actes les pl...
www.franceinfo.fr
June 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Ce matin dans le 8ème on a le droit le louer la PSG mais pas Jesus Christ. Accès a l’église interdit @prefpolice.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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This is phenomenal.

Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment.

It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.
May 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Hey, that guy on LinkedIn should grab it and suspend Dubai from it 🙄
BREAKING: A house-size asteroid will pass between Earth and the Moon tomorrow (May 21)

It will pass around 1:30pm ET at just 72k miles from Earth, says NASA, but poses no threat
May 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Journalists in race to load baryon asymmetry experiment with philosophical implications it can't possibly support

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scientists in race to discover why our Universe exists
Researchers in the US and Japan are competing to explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies.
www.bbc.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Each week I get my high-school IB CS students to think about an IT/CS failure. This week is Deepwater Horizon.

Article 1 : web.archive.org/web/20250426...
Article 2 : techrights.org/o/2010/10/12...

Read the NYT piece when you have time to give to it.
Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours (Published 2010)
Interviews, sworn testimony and statements from crew members show that the oil rig should have weathered the well blowout, but it didn’t because every one of its defenses failed.
web.archive.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
And number 2 on my list is :

arstechnica.com/culture/2025...

"They believe that everything can be quantified, like the utilitarian dream, the eugenicist's dream, a person's IQ, and that money is a good measure of how much someone is worth."

Left-hemispheres are running the world
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's already doing the rounds, but @alphaville.ft.com analysis of Sam Altman's kitchen is no. 1 on my recommended reading for this morning :

www.ft.com/content/b180...
Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen
All Drizzle, no sizzle
www.ft.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Playing bass tonight at a school jam in a band with my two sons on piano and drums and wife on vocals.

Dad dreamland

However attempts at convincing daughter to be a lead guitarist are not going well
May 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
studying the sermon on the mount for the next 6 months. some thoughts :

Thought 1 : the sermon on the mount acts as a reference point for how far we need to turn back in repentance.
May 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM