Guillaume E 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺
@guillaumee.bsky.social
Pro: democracy, rule of law, European defense, Ukraine, DEI, social democracy
Against : fascists, plutocracy, Russian invaders, dipshit SV techbro rent-seekers
Against : fascists, plutocracy, Russian invaders, dipshit SV techbro rent-seekers
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
Excellent FT piece, the way it exposes the problem with China's concept of trade is a model of clarity and sobriety.
on.ft.com/4pyF3eS
on.ft.com/4pyF3eS
China is making trade impossible
Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make
on.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Excellent FT piece, the way it exposes the problem with China's concept of trade is a model of clarity and sobriety.
on.ft.com/4pyF3eS
on.ft.com/4pyF3eS
This is what the discourse on subsidies does not get. Cheap capital system-wide is China’s killer advantage. A bit like what was long Silicon Valley’s advantage in SW, but applied to entire industrial sectors. So cheap as to be disposable: the rate of waste is crazy, but allows quick tech evolution
there's an old stereotype of china as outcompeting america because of masses of cheap labor. but as michael pettis puts it, contemporary chinese firms don't act as if labor is free. they act as if capital is free
“Yang Jiemin, VP of the state-owned company behind the port, said its highly automated operations require 60% fewer workers than traditional ports. It underscores one advantage Chinese companies have in deploying AI versus the U.S.: no independent labor unions.” www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-r... (🎁🔗)
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 AM
This is what the discourse on subsidies does not get. Cheap capital system-wide is China’s killer advantage. A bit like what was long Silicon Valley’s advantage in SW, but applied to entire industrial sectors. So cheap as to be disposable: the rate of waste is crazy, but allows quick tech evolution
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
The implicit assumption that the US Navy, which has not managed to successfully design a frigate in 30 years, has lessons to give to the Italian or French navies is highly amusing.
A lot of people in Italian and French MIC were at times baffled by demands that in their eyes did not substantially contribute to survivability beyond what the Europeans already had with FREMM
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The implicit assumption that the US Navy, which has not managed to successfully design a frigate in 30 years, has lessons to give to the Italian or French navies is highly amusing.
This, plus the fact that for a good craftsman there is pleasure in the crafting, a lot more than in correcting lesser quality craft. Pleasure taken in the act of creation is too often forgotten in discussions about the merits of IA.
I'm already an above average writer so any supposed advantage to using an LLM goes out the window. I am not an above average artist, but that's why I pay artists when I need art. Remember I have it in my contracts that all work on my books (art, editing, translation, etc) has to be done by humans.
I imagine LLMs are less useful for expert wordsmiths like Mr. Scalzi.
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This, plus the fact that for a good craftsman there is pleasure in the crafting, a lot more than in correcting lesser quality craft. Pleasure taken in the act of creation is too often forgotten in discussions about the merits of IA.
Un bon résumé des derniers délires islamophobes en provenance de la droite sénatoriale. Le coup du foulard pour les bénévoles c’est juste la cerise sur le gâteau, la volonté de discrimination ne se cache même plus.
« Rapport du Sénat contre l’intégrisme islamiste ? »
Non : ce n’est pas un rapport du Sénat.
C’est un document d’un groupe politique, LR, qui n’engage pas l’institution et qui est TOTALEMENT contre-productif et, même, dangereux.
👉THREAD
#Laïcité #Islamisme #Islam #Sénat
Non : ce n’est pas un rapport du Sénat.
C’est un document d’un groupe politique, LR, qui n’engage pas l’institution et qui est TOTALEMENT contre-productif et, même, dangereux.
👉THREAD
#Laïcité #Islamisme #Islam #Sénat
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Un bon résumé des derniers délires islamophobes en provenance de la droite sénatoriale. Le coup du foulard pour les bénévoles c’est juste la cerise sur le gâteau, la volonté de discrimination ne se cache même plus.
Another USN program stopped short after massive overruns, incoherent design decisions, and changes in strategy. While the PLAN churns out DDGs by the dozen, the USN persists in its quest of the ideal how-so-tailored ship, a perfect metaphor of America’s decline. They’ll all be sunk by DF21s anyway
I applaud the Navy for innovatively streamlining their cancellation of boondoggles sooner in their lifecycle. Much improved over the LCS.
BREAKING: Navy Cancels Constellation-class Frigate Program, Considering New Small Surface Combatants — USNI News
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
news.usni.org/2025/11/25/n...
November 25, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Another USN program stopped short after massive overruns, incoherent design decisions, and changes in strategy. While the PLAN churns out DDGs by the dozen, the USN persists in its quest of the ideal how-so-tailored ship, a perfect metaphor of America’s decline. They’ll all be sunk by DF21s anyway
Beautiful. Not sure librarians will save the world, but they can certainly make it a better place.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Beautiful. Not sure librarians will save the world, but they can certainly make it a better place.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
Awesome
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Awesome
3 French cities in the top 10 of most bike-friendly cities, what an incredible progress in a few years. 🚴FTW
Copenhagenize index
copenhagenizeindex.eu
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
3 French cities in the top 10 of most bike-friendly cities, what an incredible progress in a few years. 🚴FTW
Fits with a broad consensus, but I don’t understand why people rate the Last Jedi so high. Its action scenes really make no sense at all.
i would push rogue one down and bring solo and the last jedi up. i’d also place attack of the clones at the bottom.
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Fits with a broad consensus, but I don’t understand why people rate the Last Jedi so high. Its action scenes really make no sense at all.
Not sure what the best way is to achieve this goal, but it is certainly desirable.
Dr Fadhel Kaboub argues that Africa can no longer afford to trade raw minerals for finished products: “Governments must invest in processing infrastructure. Refining, precursor production, and battery assembly should happen near the mines -not overseas”
www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/env...
www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/env...
How Africa plans to keep its green wealth at home
The device you are holding, built from African minerals, represents more than technology. It symbolises a choice: whether Africa rises up the value chain or remains stuck at the bottom.
www.standardmedia.co.ke
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Not sure what the best way is to achieve this goal, but it is certainly desirable.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It won’t, but it should be the ultimate proof that private sector/business skills do not transfer to government and administration.
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It won’t, but it should be the ultimate proof that private sector/business skills do not transfer to government and administration.
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In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Excellent, sur les paniques fabriquées par les suspects habituels sur l’évolution du français face à l’anglais.
L'occasion fait le larron : alors que M. Feltin-Palas est en pleine promo de son dernier livre, le linguiste atterré @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org remet les points sur les aïe — car oui, quand il s'agit d'entretenir la peur panique des anglicismes, l'argumentation pique un peu…
Les anglicismes auront-ils la peau du français ? - Le français va très bien, merci
Erreurs, approximations et manipulation : la recette de la panique autour des anglicismes et de la disparition du français.
www.tract-linguistes.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Excellent, sur les paniques fabriquées par les suspects habituels sur l’évolution du français face à l’anglais.
The way the internet destroyed countless journalist careers but somehow spared people like that is one of the great injustices of the age
Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The way the internet destroyed countless journalist careers but somehow spared people like that is one of the great injustices of the age
Ukrainians are the only ones with a say on this matter. If they decide to fight on, Europe has a duty to assist them in every manner possible.
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Ukrainians are the only ones with a say on this matter. If they decide to fight on, Europe has a duty to assist them in every manner possible.
The cover is great, but this is the Economist and they can’t resist the appeal of being wrong on something. Guys never learn.
1/3
This article argues (as The Economist must) that "using trade protection and industrial policy to shore up strategic manufacturing would only accelerate Europe’s decline".
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
This article argues (as The Economist must) that "using trade protection and industrial policy to shore up strategic manufacturing would only accelerate Europe’s decline".
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny
If it does not, China will exploit the continent’s weaknesses
www.economist.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
The cover is great, but this is the Economist and they can’t resist the appeal of being wrong on something. Guys never learn.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
The right response, but where the hell is the US headed ?
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The right response, but where the hell is the US headed ?
Despite all my reservations about this publication, their covers are in a class of its own.
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Despite all my reservations about this publication, their covers are in a class of its own.