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Steven Levitsky: "Nous assistons actuellement Š l'effondrement de notre démocratie. Sous Donald Trump, les États-Unis glissent vers une forme d'autoritarisme. Cela ne sera sans doute pas irréversible. Mais le fait est lŠ : en ce moment même, les États-Unis cessent d'être une démocratie."
#USA

#F35 #killswitch
« Bien sûr, il y a un bouton d'arrêt. Tout ce qui est équipé d'un logiciel ou d'une connectivité internet est doté d'un kill switch. C'est comme ça que ça marche - bienvenue dans la société moderne ».

8 Light writer Taylor Keazirian argues in favor of maintaining a set of "living" documents as part of software development project efforts. Common misconceptions about software documentation are addressed and refuted with insights on what a minimal technical set of documents for a software project should look like.
"Mastering Technical Documentation"

Mastering Technical Documentation | 8th Light
Technical documentation is an essential part of successful software development teams. Learn actionable strategies to create clear, maintainable, and effective docs. Boost efficiency, reduce bottlenecks, and empower your team.

Ordis et tablettes Š l'école:
"Le gouvernement régional de Madrid a dévoilé des plans visant Š limiter l'utilisation des ordinateurs et des tablettes dans les écoles primaires Š un maximum de deux heures par semaine afin de lutter contre « les risques associés Š l'utilisation précoce, intensive et inappropriée des technologies de l'information »."

David Brooks: "What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal"
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It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power."
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Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

Des chimpanzés ont été observés en train de partager des fruits contenant de l'alcool - pas dans des quantités suffisantes pour s'enivrer, mais un peu comme l'effet d'une bière.
#science #éthologie

"Go is a triumph in developer experience and efficiency, a language and a runtime created by very experienced designers built to solve a particular problem in a lightweight manner. Just like PostgreSQL and Git, some technologies survive Darwinian evolutionary cataclysms and rise to the top of their craft. Without any doubt, Go belongs to this select group, and if somewhat naïvely we take the past 15 years as a proof, its future looks definitely bright."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-age-of-concurrency/

Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.
It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here:

Quanta Magazine Staff Writer Yasemin Saplakoglu describes the various ongoing inter-disciplinary efforts to advance our scientific understanding of the Human brain. Computer scientists and computational neuroscientists collaborate as the latter borrow mathematical models from the former, and studies ways to incorporate new biological data to enhance, or supplant existing computational models.
"AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That's OK."

AI Is Nothing Like a Brain, and That’s OK | Quanta Magazine
The brain’s astounding cellular diversity and networked complexity could show how to make AI better.

"The most effective countermeasure is simple: tariffs for oligarchs. Countries should tie market access for foreign multinationals and billionaires to fair taxation. As soon as Trump follows through with tariffs on Canada and Mexico, those countries should retaliate by taxing US oligarchs."
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