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Les atermoiements du RN pour taxer les ultrariches, Š rebours des promesses de « justice sociale »
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2025/09/18/les-atermoiements-du-rassemblement-national-pou…

Les atermoiements du RN pour taxer les ultrariches, à rebours des promesses de « justice sociale »
Des cadres du Rassemblement national tergiversent sur la mise à contribution des patrimoines les plus aisés et remettent en cause des mesures d’imposition officiellement toujours au programme.

Sources: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based AI21, which is building its own LLMs, for $2B to $3B; the deal would resemble an acquihire (CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkbh00xnzl

Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire AI21 in $2-3 billion deal focused on talent
EXCLUSIVE: The move would mark Nvidia’s fourth major Israeli purchase and signal the limits of Israel’s LLM ambitions.

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

wired: a carefully calibrated generative music system that recombines melodies & textures like a sonic mood ring & won't repeat itself for approximately 387 years.
inspired: another green world, 24/7 forever. @…

In this post, guest author Maxi shares her experience in reusing data and machine learning models.
The short version:
It's frustrating, because people don't share or don't even respond to a clearly "reasonable request". We cannot build on other researchers' work if they don't share anything. Model weights offer the possibility to share information without sharing sensitive data, but even those are not shared.
Check out the long version for mor…

Data sharing (un)culture

Mamdami "is the one who comes off as eminently principled and reasonable, while apoplectic Jewish leaders are having an increasingly difficult time explaining why a genocidal, apartheid nation-state is a “building block” of their Jewish identity."
**Over 1,000 Jewish Clergy Can’t Be Wrong on Mamdani and Anti-Zionism – or Can They?** | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-10-30/over-1000-jewish-clergy-cant-be-wrong-mamdani-and-anti-zionism-or-can-they

In a much-criticized opinion in September, justice #Brett #Kavenaugh supported the Trump administration’s campaign of
💥randomly stopping Hispanics on the street in an effort to root out undocumented immigrants.
At the time he wrote,
“Immigration stops based on reasonable suspicion of illegal presence ha…

For railway enthusiasts and ruin hunters alike,
these so-called "phantom stations" that have ceased service
offer a glimpse into Tokyo’s past.
Hidden from daily view and often closed to the public, they mark moments of transition in the capital’s transit history
— from the early years of railway and subway construction to the rapid postwar rebuild.
More than curiosities, they stand as weathered industrial records of how Tokyo has expanded, reconfigur…

Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell
A sealed 1930s subway platform beneath Shimbashi Station still holds traces of what the capital looked like before the war.

#Jack #Smith, the former justice department special counsel who led the aborted federal prosecution of Donald Trump,
told a congressional committee that he never spoke to #Joe