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Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
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EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

Friends, when I do things on the croft which I think are interesting, I usually post photos here.
Today, we have slaughtered, gralloched and quartered a bull. There are many photographs. There is a bit of blood, but actually not that much.
Would people be interested in photos, if I put content warnings on them?
@… , am I OK posting pictures of thi…

Black hole photon ring beyond General Relativity: an integrable parametrization
Jibril Ben Achour, Eric Gourgoulhon, Hugo Roussille
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09882

Black hole photon ring beyond General Relativity: an integrable parametrization
In recent years, the shape of the photon ring in black holes images has been argued to provide a sharp test of the Kerr hypothesis for future black hole imaging missions. In this work, we confront this proposal to beyond Kerr geometries and investigate the degeneracy in the estimations of the black hole parameters using the circlipse shape proposed by Gralla and Lupsasca. To that end, we consider a model-independent parametrization of the deviations to the Kerr black hole geometry, dubbed Kerr …