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Last Notes npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Régis Le Sommier, dans l'émission de Tocsin : l'éducation des Européens leur a appris que l'Amérique était une alliée bienveillante, ce qui rend difficile de la voir agir autrement. Il évoque l'absence du général de Gaulle aux commémorations du Débarquement, puis cite l'Afghanistan, le Vietnam, le Kosovo, l'Irak et la Libye comme des guerres américaines dont l'Europe aurait reçu les conséquences, notamment migratoires. Il compare aussi ce qui se passe en Afghanistan et en Europe (police, justice, droit d'asile) et estime que les États-Unis n'ont pas de leçons à donner à l'Europe sur l'immigration. Extrait de l'émission, résumé de ma part (sous-titres automatiques, à vérifier avec la vidéo). https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/69828b788e0875a0defe3dbd5dc1a5ee88d388ad127822860cac21183b504400.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-4FzS0HxLE npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird La guerre moderne bouscule les règles, et les bases américaines seraient les premières exposées. Régis Le Sommier, qui a couvert l'Irak, rappelle que l'Iran, sous sanctions depuis 47 ans, mène une guerre du faible au fort, et que l'Ukraine comme l'Iran montrent qu'avec les drones et les missiles, bases et porte-avions deviennent des cibles. Son exemple : en Irak, les barrières de sable contre les véhicules suicides, aujourd'hui simplement survolées par un drone. Extrait de l'émission de Tocsin, résumé de ma part (sous-titres automatiques, à vérifier avec la vidéo). #geopolitique https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/3f9eaa57a39d6b1c2bcff8a08a52d70ca81ccb8e56ee11c0655214d45641d6d9.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-4FzS0HxLE npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence, au juste ? Pour Yann Le Cun, "IA de niveau humain" est une mauvaise expression, parce que l'intelligence humaine n'est pas générale : chacun de nous est très spécialisé. Il distingue l'intelligence d'une collection de compétences ou d'un stock de connaissances (ce que les LLM font très bien) : pour lui, c'est la capacité d'apprendre très vite de nouvelles tâches. Son exemple : un adolescent apprend à conduire en quelques heures, alors que des systèmes entraînés sur des millions d'heures de données ne sont pas encore assez fiables. Extrait de l'interview de Matthieu Stefani (Génération Do It Yourself), résumé de ma part (sous-titres automatiques, à vérifier avec la vidéo). #ia https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/0c1df009f6c3e1196647978758ab7fb58bbf9e52c383a73c7a3d9992f6968469.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3m3RZNgDdw npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Pourquoi Trump change de ton sur la Russie ? Selon Régis Le Sommier, grand reporter, ce n'est pas un caprice : c'est une stratégie lancée au sommet d'Anchorage, en août 2025. Washington voudrait régler la question d'Ormuz et compterait sur Moscou pour cela, d'où une sorte de deal "Ukraine contre Ormuz". Plus largement, il y voit un reset avec la Russie (énergie, Arctique, terres rares) et une façon de l'éloigner de la Chine. C'est sa lecture, pas un fait établi. Extrait de l'émission de Tocsin, résumé de ma part (sous-titres automatiques, à vérifier avec la vidéo). #ukraine https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/92f82586a734a254a77381eb19d188d58ebcdd84fb1e2d4c3dd19eacd5492a2b.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-4FzS0HxLE npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Stefan Molyneux on people who think they can think but can't. A 2-minute excerpt from his talk "Does AI Need YOU?". My paraphrase of his argument: with AI and robots, he says, the unthinking masses are no longer needed by those who do think, and are now just annoying. His point is that the problem isn't failing to think, it's believing you can when you can't, and being offended when it's pointed out. He says even AI knows it isn't thinking, and that the "cognitive elites" no longer need the self-deluded. He ends with his own guess at what comes next: some form of UBI combined with strong pressure not to have children. This is an excerpt, cut from a longer talk. #ai #philosophy https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/11d73e733400dbce3c4ac5b0dd80be2565b7cc3613912b2942726c4704789974.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udhZDGvH3ts npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird The Duran on why Ukraine's reported intel problems might not be about a US cutoff at all. A 4-minute excerpt from their video "Russia Hypersonic Dominance. Zelensky Blames Trump For Defeat". My paraphrase of their argument: they say US intelligence to Ukraine has not actually been cut off, even though stories claim so. Their explanation for the missed air raid warnings is Russia's Zircon hypersonic missiles, which they guess radars and even US satellites struggle to track. They suspect admitting that would embarrass Washington and reveal a military weakness, so the "intel cutoff" story works as a cover, with Zelensky running with it. They also say they don't believe Starlink has been throttled in any way that matters. This is an excerpt, cut from a longer video. #ukraine #russia https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/31bdfedf1477c5e3bed1793f04e32da43a0bdb68c418106d229d6efa44f7fe57.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPjhLnsZXZQ npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Stefan Molyneux on what AI does to the value of thinking. A 4-minute excerpt from his talk "Does AI Need YOU?". My paraphrase of his argument: for most of history, going along with the accepted view was rewarded and thinking for yourself got you into trouble. He says that flips once machines can repeat received ideas better than we can, because original thinking is the one thing they can't do. He then argues that creative, rational thought is what is most human, since animals use tools and some kind of language, and computers can replay speech, but only people produce new concepts. He raises the obvious objection himself, that this is just praising what he happens to be good at. This is an excerpt, cut from a longer talk. Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udhZDGvH3ts #ai #philosophy https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/3e568980c899725dc93cab1d51d596a29e3f339812f97b20b4584b6a1a1017b9.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Après le discours de Julija Mendel devant les eurodéputés (#note19hf…8juc), voici une autre voix qui décrit la même Ukraine : Xavier Moreau, analyste politico-stratégique installé à Moscou, dans La Matinale de Tocsin du 12/10. Il décrit une Kiev sans électricité ni eau potable pendant de longues heures, avec un hiver qui s'annonce pire que le précédent. Il affirme que l'Europe finance l'achat d'armes américaines pour que la victoire russe coûte le plus cher possible, et que des députés ukrainiens, dont une élue qui a déposé un projet de loi de neutralité, parlent désormais ouvertement de concessions. Pour lui, le pays a perdu la moitié de sa population, la vingtaine de millions restante est pour moitié âgée, et les femmes et enfants partis à l'étranger ne reviendront pas. Les parallèles : Mendel, ancienne porte-parole de Zelensky, parlait d'environ 25 millions d'Ukrainiens dont la moitié de retraités, et de gens qui veulent détruire la Russie plus qu'ils ne veulent sauver l'Ukraine. Moreau arrive à un chiffre et à un diagnostic proches, par un tout autre chemin. Propos de Xavier Moreau reformulés, extrait de l'entretien en vidéo ci-dessous. #ukraine #russie https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/19df15920ec7f64d694a63f7c2cadbbf3bb10a1559b04327472e15cafd72cc36.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF_nFl15-Y8&t=6283s npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Thick, cushioned, raised-heel shoes might be quietly switching your glutes off. In this excerpt from The Movement Movement podcast (Ep 240), the two talk about how a big sole changes the way you walk without you noticing: the foot loses the feel of the ground, the toes lift higher than they need to, and the glutes, which should be driving each step, stop doing their share. My paraphrase of auto-captions, so check it against the clip. It's a short excerpt from a longer conversation, so go to the full episode for the context. Full episode: https://youtu.be/3yxO7qMQMk0 #barefoot #glutes #fascia https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/4ea4ed6eca3144ab7bca9426babb8b836d5c439b9ab1570eba94d919be4ca7e6.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird How do you get a coding agent to produce good code? Uncle Bob's answer is to keep the initial prompt as short as possible and let deterministic tools check the result afterwards, which keeps the work in the part of the context window where the model is still sharp. Those tools put the agent in a loop: it must keep changing the code until the checks pass. That costs speed for quality. Too many checks would slow the agents below human pace, but he says he still sees a factor of two to four over a human and hasn't found where it stops paying. This is my paraphrase of the conversation, so check it against the clip. It's a 2:42 excerpt from a longer live interview hosted by Matt Pocock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLPGC-tvgk #programming #ai https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/00453f2423c0ee1336cd276292e557e5b7dfa3c526bd1f46ef8b06ed6fe55821.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Why do software fundamentals still matter when agents write the code? Uncle Bob's answer: software is the most complicated thing humans have tried to do, and the fundamentals are how we organise that complexity so it can be grasped, by people and by models trained on people. He says those who think they don't matter will learn otherwise, and that he has already watched agents hit the wall. Every step up the abstraction ladder drew the same prediction that it would ruin everything, and the same rules kept applying: the ones you throw away you'll pick back up within a year. This is my paraphrase of the conversation, so check it against the clip. It's a 2:29 excerpt from a longer live interview hosted by Matt Pocock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLPGC-tvgk #programming #cleancode https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/c53661823b6c1a460e101f95267acea13ea6754aee479d075a29abb009e5836c.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Uncle Bob on specs in the age of agents: he doesn't keep a list of them, because they're ephemeral and change constantly. The code used to be the final specification because humans wrote it, and that no longer holds when agents write it. So he now treats the finished result as the specification. His own tools were built by his agents for him, and he tells people not to download them, but to point their agents at them and have the agents build one that fits. This is my paraphrase of the conversation, so check it against the clip. It's a 1:24 excerpt from a longer live interview hosted by Matt Pocock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcLPGC-tvgk https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/9f40ca9243c1d3bb75077f6ee0dbddbce43cafb55fd17591035c6a6c81597c93.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Why would more than a quarter of young Britons rather live in a dictatorship? Lord Sumption, formerly of the UK Supreme Court, puts it down to a raw deal: housing blocked by regulation that favours existing owners, heavy student debt, and a tax and benefits system, the triple lock included, that he says tilts towards older voters who turn out more. He argues his own generation is taking more of the pot than it is morally entitled to. This is my paraphrase of the conversation, so check it against the clip. It's a 4:41 excerpt from a longer interview by Invert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38jlg8iyCdc https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/cc14fb6bb2cd66c0124934e67cf93454ef0631528c0abc87555cea088dae412f.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Der Arzt Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt erzählt im BILD-Interview, wie er Gaddafi behandelt hat: ein Anruf aus dem libyschen Gesundheitsministerium, ein Flug tief in die Sahara, Militärfahrzeuge mit Maschinengewehren, dann die Untersuchung im Klinikbus. Danach erklärt er seine Spritzentherapie, ein Serum aus Kälberblut, das die Heilung anregen soll, ohne Kortison und ohne Schmerzmittel. Das ist seine Darstellung. Mein Text ist eine Zusammenfassung, geprüft am Clip. Ausschnitt (4:22) aus dem Interview von Bayern Insider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBnugIrzmbY #nostrde https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/b684bbf9e7da3caa6b1ed4c6d405b85fd02666d9466ecc6fc824406dad4fa14b.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Kent Beck on "features vs futures", and why AI makes it more urgent, not less. Every feature you ship spends some of your futures: the options you still have for what the software could do next. Keep spending and you end up with a codebase where nothing can change without breaking something else. It used to take a hundred people ten years to get there. With AI, he says, one person can do it in a week. His answer is to rest between the notes. When the genie says "done, want the next feature?", that's the moment to pause, refactor, remove duplication, even throw it away and try again. The value of a project is its features plus its futures, and you can add value by adding futures. A ~5 min excerpt from his Prodacity 2026 talk (Rise8). Summary is my paraphrase, so check it against the clip. Full talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8fBgDCf2Y4 #softwareengineering #ai #refactoring https://blossom.band/640ffa6cff949510ea745505c566dd9cbb9091f99bfdd0deacab9cacbdef5b60.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird At the Valdai Club, Rick Sanchez put a pointed question to Vladimir Putin: Russia was ready to deal at Minsk, at Istanbul and at Anchorage and was turned down each time. Now Russia is gaining ground. So why negotiate at all? Putin's answer: it isn't about the piece of land. Around 11% of the Donetsk People's Republic is still held by Ukraine; Kyiv says it can hold it for a year and a half, Europe says two, and Moscow expects it much sooner. If that territory is going to be lost anyway, why keep sacrificing lives for it? What Russia wants, he says, is not a ceasefire but a durable peace: security guarantees for both sides, protection for the Russian language and the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and an end to efforts to separate the two peoples for good. Russia is ready to start negotiations and finish them quickly, on terms acceptable to the Russian people. 5-minute excerpt, via the English interpretation. Full exchange: https://youtu.be/lZKsRMuEcUA #russia #ukraine #putin https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/199509a7c207d1362261fe6c4bf3c56e1b18adc27df9451b141d39d7413e6291.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Middle East historian Fawaz Gerges on what the Iran war has left Trump with, and what it is costing everyone else. His argument: after everything the US and Israel have dropped on Iran, Iran is hurting but still standing, so Trump has no effective military option and the only way out is a diplomatic deal that is still far off. He says the top US general warned that renewed strikes would leave the US in the same place weeks later, while munitions and air defences run down. The cost spreads well beyond the region: a permanent "no war, no peace" that is lose-lose for everyone, around 100 million people in developing countries pushed into food insecurity, economists warning of recession or worse. Trump himself called the risk a "catastrophe". And the longer bill: if a military costing over a trillion dollars a year can't defeat a state under sanctions for 47 years, rivals will draw conclusions about American deterrence. 5-minute excerpt, my paraphrase, check it against the clip. Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27pr4zUjXz0 #iran #geopolitics https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/c8f064f72b7bd2323f81afa87e89bb79ad665e980df08aa966564a37b78d89e0.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Des modèles qui passent l'examen du barreau, écrivent des dissertations et du code. Et pourtant, demande Yann LeCun à Sciences Po, où est ma voiture autonome ? Où est le robot qui débarrasse la table ? Pour lui, les LLM entraînés sur du texte ne sont pas un chemin viable vers une intelligence de niveau humain. Le texte, c'est la partie facile ; le monde physique est bien plus compliqué, et aucun système actuel ne le comprend aussi bien qu'un chat de gouttière. Son calcul : tout le texte public d'internet, environ 10^14 octets, c'est à peu près ce qu'un enfant de 4 ans a reçu par le seul nerf optique en 16 000 heures d'éveil. Une grande partie de la réalité n'est tout simplement pas dans le texte. Extrait de 4 minutes, résumé à vérifier contre la vidéo. Conférence complète : https://www.youtube.com/live/Y4s8NadbZfU #ia #llm https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/09a40f287b5133c1dfbfc7274026aac470cfcd69a6ed490eed86c49bbe3991eb.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Many people want to destroy Russia more than they want to save Ukraine: that was Julija Mendel's message to MEPs at the European Parliament. She was Zelensky's press secretary for two years. Her argument: a third of Ukraine has become hell, nearly 20% occupied and another 10% a burning front, and that daily suffering is weighed against a grand idea, Russia's collapse, whose price is her country. Then the numbers. Echoing JD Vance's essay that the maths in Ukraine doesn't add up, she asks how 25 million Ukrainians, half of them pensioners, are meant to defend 500 million Europeans against 140 million Russians. By her figures the population has fallen from over 52 million to around 25 million, with deaths running three to four times births. Simple maths, she says, showing a country disappearing. The figures are hers. A 3-minute excerpt from a 36-minute speech, German voice-over (my summary, check it against the clip). Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VBSPHFtzG4 #ukraine #peace #europe https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/04d3ccba4d28daaa4917b4c3a80ad2578d4f713c7d75bfa96d018bac5f0c3d32.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird What is the "foot-to-glute connection"? Coach Chong Xie explains it to John Stockton on The Ultimate Assist. His account: the fascia under your foot is full of sensors, and heavily cushioned shoes leave them under-stimulated. His test is simple: stand barefoot on a towel with your heel slightly raised and grip and release with your toes. He says elite athletes feel it travel up to their glutes within seconds, while most people only feel it in the calf, hamstring, shin or the foot itself. His conclusion is that top athletes got there by developing that link from the foot up, not by training glutes, squats and deadlifts in isolation. These are his claims, not settled science. A 3-minute excerpt (my summary, check it against the clip). Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8drzTSg1Ao #fascia #athletics #training https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/c0350c4819182695912503dcfa6ff94e8b7eebdf2404131fac1269657bdbb540.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Why does burnout feel so sudden? Anaesthetist Dr. Tim Hughes explains it with Christine Miserandino's "spoon theory": each day you get a fixed number of spoons, units of energy, and everything you do costs some. His example: a theatre list that used to take five spoons, with a familiar surgeon and team, now takes fifteen or twenty once staff are off sick and you're working with people you've never met. His answer is to cut the cost with slow nasal breathing through the day, and to win spoons back with a short guided breathing session at lunch. He says his wearable now shows less cardiovascular strain on on-call days that look exactly the same. 3-minute excerpt from his conversation with Patrick McKeown (my summary, check it against the clip). Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlzvFkacjac #breathing #burnout #medicine https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/837f085e7fd4eb168984c408d5942e31e32b74c25070db889404521a90d718d9.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Faut-il avoir élevé un enfant pour briguer l'Élysée ? Dans sa chronique sur Tocsin, Thomas Séraphine propose d'en faire une condition pour se présenter à la présidentielle, qu'il s'agisse d'un enfant biologique, adopté ou de celui d'un conjoint. Son argument : un enfant vous rend vulnérable. Quand on a des enfants, la guerre cesse d'être des flèches rouges sur une carte de plateau télé. Il l'illustre avec Kipling, qui fit engager son fils John, tué en 1915, et David Grossman, qui appelait au cessez-le-feu quelques jours avant que son fils Uri ne tombe au Liban. Sa conclusion : ceux qui dirigent devraient savoir ce qu'il en coûte de voir partir ses enfants. Extrait de 2 min 44 d'une chronique de 13 minutes (résumé de ma part, à vérifier dans la vidéo). Chronique complète : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAJNQ6y0Akg #nostrfr https://npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw.blossom.band/a9c75fd746bf19d40ce3975c81a071b923d5866029d1beb65903fcf5fbe6e3d5.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Pierre Conesa, ancien haut fonctionnaire du ministère de la Défense, sur la fabrication de l'ennemi. Son point de départ est cartographique. La Terre est ronde, les cartes sont plates, et une carte nationale française place la France au centre des terres habitées. La représentation géopolitique, chez les décideurs comme dans l'opinion, se construit là -dessus. Vient ensuite le discours. Pour faire l'unité nationale, il faut une cause commune, et cette cause prend souvent la forme d'une menace. Il rappelle au passage que le terrorisme est un mode d'action, pas un ennemi. Ce qui rend l'argument utile, c'est qu'il fonctionne dans les deux sens. Les Russes ont un complexe d'encerclement, chacun voit d'abord ses propres menaces. Mais il y a aussi, dit-il, quelqu'un d'assez imprévisible à Washington : envahir le Venezuela pour enlever un chef d'État, venant de Poutine, on aurait crié au scandale. Sa conclusion est constructive plutôt que résignée. On sait fabriquer un ennemi, on sait aussi défaire la chose : il a fallu trois guerres franco-allemandes pour arriver au traité de l'Élysée. Les Européens ont intérêt à développer une pensée stratégique propre, avec cette difficulté qu'un État balte et l'Espagne ne regardent pas la même carte. Extrait de trois minutes d'une émission de 46 minutes sur Tocsin. Émission complète : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDD_jOA8g8w #nostrfr #geopolitique #russie https://blossom.band/37cc6a6c36c058a23bd15b5a8785657cce592908d3a092a423e36bf24ecc7f6d.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird A new model called Jev can't write. Not "writes badly" — it cannot return a sentence at all. You hand it some text and a list of the answers it's allowed to give, and it picks one. That is the entire product. Nate B Jones's point is what happened next. TypeSafe shipped it, and he says that within 24 hours it was the fastest-adopted model in Vercel's AI gateway history — faster than any LLM from any lab, with more than twice as many paying teams as any previous launch managed in its first day. His conclusion: either a lot of good developers lost their minds simultaneously, or the thing Jev refuses to do is exactly the point. A great deal of what an AI pipeline actually does is classify, route and decide — work that never needed prose, and that you have been paying an LLM to wrap in sentences anyway. One-minute excerpt from a 33-minute video by Nate B Jones. Full version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYugqJ9YytQ #ai #llm #jev https://blossom.band/35d8a4b6f74753fd5f818dacbedac1286fcfc144cbce3a339955482f4151e3c6.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird Until 2014, nobody had run an empirical test on how bank lending actually works. Richard Werner ran it. The claim he was testing — that a bank creates new money when it lends, rather than passing on somebody else's deposit — was treated as a conspiracy theory at the time. Textbooks didn't entertain it, and economists called the people making it cranks. The textbook account is still the financial intermediation theory: banks gather deposits and lend those same deposits out. Werner's argument is that this is simply not what happens. His explanation for how it stayed hidden is the part worth the two minutes: double-entry bookkeeping. Every account balances, so there is never a visible moment where money appears — look at the ledger and the honest question is “show me where the money creation is”. He argues that worked well enough that mainstream economists went on believing banks don't create money right into the 21st century. Excerpt from a much longer conversation with Peter McCormack. Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVlx2en1RRc #banking #economics https://blossom.band/dbe2efa4aa47a573d20bb7ac6f1caf12fd6bf8a02c5252c3de8151ed0f333f71.mp4 npub12sz2fjjlfw4ydpecw5w3cvqf3ac5ca9x86ekw00lcgmq655x4taqh63tcw lyrebird À Sciences Po, on demande à Yann LeCun ce qu'il pense de la pause dans le développement de l'IA. Il ne prend pas de pincettes. Son raisonnement, en bref : ceux qui réclament une pause ne sont pas cohérents. Il remonte à 2019, quand OpenAI jugeait GPT-2 trop dangereux pour être diffusé — avant de le publier six mois plus tard, puis de garder GPT-3 fermé pour des raisons qui tenaient davantage de l'avantage commercial que de la sécurité. Le plus intéressant, c'est là où il arrive : l'argument selon lequel l'IA serait trop dangereuse pour être mise entre toutes les mains, et qu'il faudrait donc la réguler et interdire l'open source — sauf pour ceux qui la développent déjà — relève moins, selon lui, de la sécurité que d'une tentative de capture du marché par la régulation. Extrait de 3 min d'une conversation de 90 minutes à Sciences Po. Une digression sur le financement d'Anthropic a été retirée au montage. Conférence complète : https://www.youtube.com/live/Y4s8NadbZfU https://blossom.band/48e664c641641c9ff1bf689b375ea01287d7f183f18341c1299f6ea75c237169.mp4