🇫🇷🏛️ The body of the Armenian-born French Resistance fighter, Missak #Manouchian, is set to enter the #Panthéon mausoleum of Paris later today, on the 21st of February. He will be buried next to French heroes like Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Simone Veil. Here's his story 👇

When air is pumped into sand, it turns sand into a liquid-like substance [📹 Mark Rober] x.com/i/status/17610…

Developed by two 19-year-old students, these gloves translate sign language into sound. [📹 LemelsonMIT]

Doing a big shoe clear out. I now officially have three times as many hiking shoes as high heel shoes. 6 pairs of hiking shoes (including 2 pairs of sandals) 2 pairs of high heels #sensibleShoes #whatSparksJoy

A healthy thing to do is to disconnect emotionally from the things you build, so that you can take feedback well. It may not be easy, but worth the effort.

Hi BBC News (UK) ! A cryptocurrency scam is usurping your name to publish lies news.woodenmagireal.online/click?key=7d70…

3.5 weeks of my life wasted because 2 pharmacists told me to wait my sore throat out instead of testing me immediately to see if it was bacterial. Finally got antibiotics now because "if it's been that long then it's not viral". Uuurgh!!! Buy your own tests, it's worth it.

The one whose face completes the map shall rule France

This is AMAZING. The evidence is mounting 💪 BBC News - Telescope finds promising hints of life on distant planet bbc.com/news/articles/…

Seen on an editorial desk Financial Times 😂

Today we hit the exact midpoint of the year. And from today forward, 2050 will be closer in time than the year 2000.

In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [📹 The Curiosity Show]

Hi Bromleywaste ! I appreciate you scheduling your planned maintenance in the evening but that's exactly the time working people would take out their bins and need to check which bins to take out. Any chance you could run that at say 9am? Don't you get less traffic then?

Spending the last week following French fiscal policy discourse for my column means the algorithm now feeds me all the best French econ memes, and honestly I don’t know if I can go back to Anglo memes after this

This might be the most disturbing AI paper of 2025 ☠️ Scientists just proved that large language models can literally rot their own brains the same way humans get brain rot from scrolling junk content online. They fed models months of viral Twitter data short, high-engagement

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We hired a backend guy recently who didn’t know half the buzzwords. No Saga, no CQRS, shaky on K8s. On paper, easy reject. Then we gave him a real prod-ish bug: sporadic 500s, p95 spikes, only on one endpoint. He did 3 things: 1. Asked for repro + timeline. “When did it

Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position. Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's

That's a BIG study that deserves big action

Yet another invisible women example Caroline Criado Perez Whoever prepared these new ETA checks simply forgot to account for the needs of half of married people... 🤷 Not exactly an edge case! connexionfrance.com/news/travellin…