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Les six mois qui ont coulé la CAQ
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-format/2221593/francois-legault-sondages-caq

"So it’s not enough to equate Trump’s legions to the Gestapo or the Klan. (I’ve done both.) He also is the 21st-century version of Attila or Genghis Khan, heading a horde that is defined by an exterminationist loathing of cities and all that they stand for and promote. Their diversity, their toleration, their culture, their solidarity across racial and other lines—all are threats to the horde’s and its ruler’s autocratic monoculture. On the streets, the horde’s loathing manifests as indifference (at least) to the loss of city dwellers’ lives.
As it is the 21st century, and as we have an 18th-century Constitution, Trump’s impulse for city sacking Š la Attila is constrained by laws and customs, but he’s plainly determined to find ways around as many of those constraints as he possibly can. Correspondingly, a good share of the fear he’s engendered all across America has an ancient pedigree: It’s the fear of the barbarians at the gates."
#USPolitics
https://prospect.org/2026/01/15/attila-genghis-khan-trump/

#periodicrreminder that “The History of Human Civilization” is a roller coaster ride through landscapes of near infinite variety, and that “human nature” is no less varied. Not the fixed “thing” you might think it to be.
From the co-author of the remarkable “The Dawn of Everything.”

Time is ticking for 3 Cowboys to earn a new contract in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/time-is-ticking-for-3-cowboys-to-earn-a-new-contract-in-2026

Mike Kuketz hinterfragt, ob #Signal „Big Tech“ sei – und kommt zum Schluss: Nein, aber aktuell braucht der Messenger Big-Tech-Infrastruktur, etwa AWS & Co. Damit bleibt er in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Datenschutz-Ideal und realer Abhängigkeit stehen. #BigTech

Ist der Messenger Signal »Big Tech« – oder nicht?
Die Frage kommt regelmäßig – und sie kommt fast immer mit einem Unterton: Wer Signal nutzt, ist doch trotzdem bei…

My son is drawing a keyboard on a DIY paper laptop! He’s especially proud of his @!

It was an error to describe the 3 branches of government as "co-equal." They are not. The first three words of the Constitution are "We the people." The people are sovereign. We rule through Congress, and thereby have power to depose a president or a judge. A president is not a ruler, nor is a justice of the Supreme Court, nor a general, nor an admiral. They are servants of the people.

ProphetKV: User-Query-Driven Selective Recomputation for Efficient KV Cache Reuse in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Shihao Wang, Jiahao Chen, Yanqi Pan, Hao Huang, Yichen Hao, Xiangyu Zou, Wen Xia, Wentao Zhang, Haitao Wang, Junhong Li, Chongyang Qiu, Pengfei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02579 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.02579 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.02579
arXiv:2602.02579v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The prefill stage of long-context Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is severely bottlenecked by computational overhead. To mitigate this, recent methods assemble pre-calculated KV caches of retrieved RAG documents (by a user query) and reprocess selected tokens to recover cross-attention between these pre-calculated KV caches. However, we identify a fundamental "crowding-out effect" in current token selection criteria: globally salient but user-query-irrelevant tokens saturate the limited recomputation budget, displacing the tokens truly essential for answering the user query and degrading inference accuracy.
We propose ProphetKV, a user-query-driven KV Cache reuse method for RAG scenarios. ProphetKV dynamically prioritizes tokens based on their semantic relevance to the user query and employs a dual-stage recomputation pipeline to fuse layer-wise attention metrics into a high-utility set. By ensuring the recomputation budget is dedicated to bridging the informational gap between retrieved context and the user query, ProphetKV achieves high-fidelity attention recovery with minimal overhead. Our extensive evaluation results show that ProphetKV retains 96%-101% of full-prefill accuracy with only a 20% recomputation ratio, while achieving accuracy improvements of 8.8%-24.9% on RULER and 18.6%-50.9% on LongBench over the state-of-the-art approaches (e.g., CacheBlend, EPIC, and KVShare).
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How can it be that a president of the United States, Darth Donald #Trump, decides for himself who should be killed? He murders people on boats and now in a faraway country.
He doesn't believe in courts, human rights, or international law. He thinks he's an absolute ruler and is only accountable to himself. What a jerk!
Why isn't the ICC officially launching an investigation? Trump…