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Pour sortir de l’impasse, Jordan Bardella se débarrasse de l’histoire. Mais il brise dans le même temps tout ce qu’elle apporte à nos concitoyens, à savoir la connaissance d’une identité démocratique commune, le sens d’une appartenance nationale, l’accès à une conscience politique. Tout cela disparaît, et en premier lieu ce que Jean Moulin nous dit…

Depuis 1940, le contraste politique n’a sans doute jamais été aussi saisissant de part et d’autre de la Manche : tandis que l’extrême droite est aux portes du pouvoir à Paris, l’équivalent du Parti socialiste le ravit aux populistes de droite. Est-il encore temps, en France, de tirer les leçons de la lamentable histoire récente de…

Each agent was paid to secretly send coded reports to Cecil, who decrypted them using the individual, bespoke cypher in each of their files, which also contained a record of their payments and all their secret communications. — Read on www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/29/uncovered-428-year-old-secret-dossier-reveals-elizabeth-is-network-of-spies

Humans are not that accurate and they don’t know a lot of things! You can ask an LLM today very specifically about any theory in any field and it will answer you very intelligently. But who can possibly do that? If a human answered like that, you’d know it was a machine. So that’s the…

If another stupid motherfucker asks me to try and implement LLM-based code review to “raise standards” instead of actually teaching people a shred of discipline, I am going to study enough judo to throw them into the goddamn sun — Read on ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

When an emotion takes over in the “Inside Out” movies, a control board in Riley’s mind changes to that feeling’s color; Anxiety’s takeover, however, is more absolute. She creates a stronghold in Riley’s imagination, where she forces mind workers to illustrate negative hypothetical scenarios for Riley’s future. — Read on kottke.org/24/06/anxiety-in-inside-out-2-is-too-real

Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. View the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power. — Read on calculatingempires.net/

We are talking about dynasties that amass wealth and power over generations. They then withdraw from our society as if it were none of their business. — Read on kottke.org/24/06/how-to-give-away-a-fortune

Repeating items over and over, called maintenance rehearsal, is not the most effective strategy for remembering. Instead, actors engage in elaborative rehearsal, focusing their attention on the meaning of the material and associating it with information they already know. Actors study the script, trying to understand their character and seeing how their lines relate to…