Update: two days in, two bananas eaten. Nice! 🍌🍌

The atmosphere at the CDC offers a disquieting case study of DOGE’s impact on the expertise housed in America’s civil service. Internal emails and interviews portray a workforce seized by fear and confusion econ.st/3R6gx5k

Here’s a clip of Sacha Baron Cohen's ‘The Dictator’ (2012), an eerily spot-on portrayal of Trump’s America.

Yes, I should be doing something else than tweet today. 😟But there are so many important things to say that I cannot resist. Tentative advice to the European Union: Take your time to respond. Let cool heads prevail. If you think that Trump will not back down (likely in

Cognac > réseau UK/US de Jean Monnet + sens de la logistique > logistique de guerre entre alliés > logistique de paix entre voisins > Europe politique Buvons du #Cognac !

Llama 4 is now live on Cerebras! - We broke the perf chart again at 2,611 tokens/s - 19x faster than the leading GPU cloud - Only API in the world with <1s total response time Try now: inference.cerebras.ai

Mōrena to everyone who submitted, marched and will vote against the Treaty Principles Bill today.

fil.abes.fr/2025/04/10/lin… #ai #libraries

Simplifier les écrits administratifs, c’est faciliter l’accès de tous aux droits : une des priorités du Gouvernement. La preuve par l’exemple avec L'Assurance retraite, qui publie sa 1ère brochure en langage FALC (Facile à lire et à comprendre) sur la pension de réversion 👇

📌 La #DITP encourage les travaux de simplification des écrits qui contribuent à rendre les #ServicesPublics + simples et + efficaces. Elle propose ainsi des outils pour accompagner les agents, tels que l’atelier "Être mieux compris des usagers" 👇 modernisation.gouv.fr/campus-de-la-t…

A law of nature, then, will be regarded by him as having a sort of esse in futuro. That is to say they will have a present reality which consists in the fact that events will happen according to the formulation of those laws.

Philip Goff It's quite simple, isn't it? Christ ascended into the sky, till He was no longer out of view, then ascended into Heaven itself, which exists outside of this universe. That way, the witnesses could *see* that He truly ascended into Heaven.

🌹🏴ɑ𝖓𝘵һօ𝖓𝑦 ☦️❤️ Philip Goff The ascension is perfectly understandable if the earth is flat, it doesn’t rotate, and one can breathe oxygen freely throughout the universe.

I think the resurrection experiences of the first Christians consisted of visions in altered states of consciousness, rather than of seeing and touching a body. I had a really stimulated debate on this yesterday with Lydia McGrew on Capturing Christianity. Out soon!

Au Vatican et dans l’Eglise, les femmes n’ont pas le droit de vote. Un collège de mâles élit un leader suprême mâle. Cela devrait suffire à une condamnation unanime de ce rite archaïque, plutôt qu’à la couverture médiatique omniprésente et complaisante que l’on voit.

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20th-century anthropologists called romantic love a Western invention – our new paper, with data from 9 non-WEIRD societies (N = 937), finds high levels of passion, intimacy & commitment everywhere, adding evidence for the universality of love hypothesis. Link to the pdf below!

Belle définition de l'amour romantique

(pour ma part, j'ai quitté Academia parce que je voulais soutenir le projet HAL, mais si cela signifie que mes articles ne sont pas visibles parce que les IA ne peuvent pas lire les pages, je vais devoir changer de politique, à contre-coeur...)

#Direct Jour férié : François Bayrou envisage aussi la suppression de la Jean-Guile.