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Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds,
has given us the "Hero Developer":
a figure who ships features at midnight,
who “moves fast and breaks things,”
who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.
We celebrate this person constantly.
They're on the front page of TechCrunch et al.
They keynote conferences.
Their G…

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer
Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds, has given us

Dak Prescott sees unlimited potential for Cowboys amid improbable run https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dak-prescott-unlimited-potential-dallas-cowboys-amid-improbable-run

Comment des partenaires de Pierre-Edouard Stérin mettent le milliardaire Š distance : « Il est devenu radioactif »
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025…

Comment des partenaires de Pierre-Edouard Stérin mettent le milliardaire à distance : « Il est devenu radioactif »
Les engagements politiques à l’extrême droite de l’entrepreneur et de son numéro deux, François Durvye, conseiller du Rassemblement national, commencent à ternir l’image du groupe, en proie à des difficultés financières.

Le Nigérian Wole Soyinka, prix Nobel de littérature en 1986, voit son visa américain annulé
« Je tiens Š assurer le consulat… que je suis très satisfait de l’annulation de mon visa », a déclaré le célèbre auteur et dramaturge, âgé de 91 ans, lors d’une conférence de presse.

Le trafic est interrompu entre Dourdan La Forêt et Brétigny dans les 2 sens jusqu'Š 21h40 et perturbé entre Champ de Mars et Brétigny dans les 2 sens.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : panne d'un train dans le secteur de St Chéron.
🤖 27/11 20:53

Les Italiens exagèrent-ils quand ils expriment des doutes Š propos des enquêtes des autorités valaisannes? Clairement, il n’y a rien Š voir.
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/2026/article/videosurvei…

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
#resist #NarcissistInChief

The entire Anglosphere is circling the drain rapidly. RIP. We had a good run.

Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.