Thomas

Co-foundateur/CTO @flight_report Product manager Autoviza / NGC-DATA

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@Timgreenhornet J’y décolle en DC-3 à 14h30 !

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@LelloucheNico @Numerama J’ai jamais compris pourquoi San Francisco est tapissé de pub tech alors que c’est littéralement l’endroit où les gens connaissent le plus ces produits ?

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

Test I keep running: same prompt to Claude Code and Codex, Codex writes its plan as .md, then I ask Claude to compare its plan against Codex's.

99% of the time, Claude admits Codex did better.

Either Claude is too honest, or Codex is genuinely better. Thoughts?

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@powl_d Tu nous montres pas grand chose en prod non plus

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@TheCinesthetic It’s Coachella old Sahara tent, not Glastonbury

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@BastiUi La honte Basti, t'es tout le temps en train de chouiner sur "le vol des autres" et tu fais exactement pareil...
https://t.co/foKMsVLS5b

[Ruben Hume @rubenhume]

Apple shipped macOS Tahoe with an icon next to every single menu item. And in doing so, destroyed the entire point of icons.

An icon is a signal, and signals only work through contrast. The moment everything has one, none of them mean anything, you've just added noise that looks like clarity. Apple even reuses the same icon for completely different actions.

The right menu is my take: icons only on the actions you actually reach for daily: New Window, New Tab, Close. Everything else stays clean. Your eye knows exactly where to go.

The left is Tahoe. Every item screaming at the same volume.

Apple's own 1992 design guidelines called out every single one of these mistakes. Thirty years later, they made all of them.

Adding more is not the same as adding value. What's your take?

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@siliconcarnesf Je comprends pas Carlos… t’arrête pas de nous dire que l’IA c’est créateur d’emplois, de croissance, de marché toussa toussa !

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@alex_lenoir Il y a ce côté aussi « ouvert » sur l’innovation militaire qu’on ne retrouve pas chez les gros pays ou c’est plutôt l’inverse et verrouillé par des très grosses entreprises type Thales/Lockheed Martin

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@alex_lenoir Avant la guerre, les ukrainiens été très fort sur les questions IT/DIY mais ils se sont toujours limités à de l’outsourcing ou à l’exportation de leurs ingés, faute de moyen. La guerre est en train de rendre visible tout ce savoir faire et elle va le nourrir encore plus.

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@MaitreMandA @2geek4you1 @Morphomerle Je dis pareil quand un classement ne me plaît pas

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@2geek4you1 @Morphomerle https://t.co/9crfbuP885

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@Nicorvette @PolestarCars Justement je t'ai envoyé un MP à ce sujet ^^

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@Nicorvette @PolestarCars Sur les aides à la conduite ? pourtant j'ai l'impression que la P2 et le XC40 partagent énormément de composant (mais je ne l'ai pas essayé). En revanche je trouve la P2 mieux doté

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@Nicorvette @PolestarCars En effet ! Et c'est probablement l'une des derrières "vrai" Volvo quand on voit les EX30/EX60 bien trop sinisée à mon gout.

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@Nicorvette @PolestarCars (au final si tu veux une P2 pratique tu dois prendre le XC40/C40... mais tu le paye en conso)

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@Nicorvette @PolestarCars C'est claire mais à mon avis c'est mort ! Et je pense que le design de la P2 "tranquille" c'est fini vu les P3/P4/P5.

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

The main thing is that Starlink mandates free Wi-Fi for passengers, but the word 'free' isn't in Ryanair's vocabulary. O'Leary knows full well he can't have Starlink on board because of this, but he's a master marketer... much like Musk :)

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

Many people think Elon is joking when he says he’s thinking about buying Ryanair.

At first, it may look like classic Elon humor. But if you look a little closer, there’s more going on here than just a joke.

This all started with a public back-and-forth on 𝕏.

Ryanair’s CEO, Michael O’Leary, criticized the cost of installing Starlink internet on planes, calling it too expensive and not worth it for a budget airline. Elon fired back, called him an idiot, and when someone suggested Elon should just buy Ryanair and replace him, Elon said, “Good idea.” He even added fire to it with a joke saying he wants to put someone actually named Ryan in charge. So funny tbh...

Many are now asking me, is Elon actually going to buy Ryanair?

Elon has a long history of poking CEOs publicly. Ryanair would most likely cost $50B+ to acquire, which he could afford, but tbh it would be a massive distraction from his other companies like Tesla imo.

But at the same time I can’t help but to ask myself why does he want to buy it? There’s gotta be some reason…

When you research Ryanair, you realize it’s not a small airline. It’s the LARGEST airline in Europe by passenger count, flying over 180 million people a year, across 250+ destinations, with a fleet of roughly 570 Boeing 737s. It runs on extreme efficiency, fast turnarounds, high aircraft usage, solid cost control… Whether you like the brand or not, it’s a MAJOR airline.

And that’s why I don’t think this is a random target.

If Elon ever were to buy Ryanair, the biggest immediate win would be Starlink. Ryanair already charges for WiFi, and the experience is slow and unreliable. On the other hand, Starlink offers fast, low latency internet almost anywhere on Earth. Putting it on Ryanair’s massive fleet would instantly make it the largest Starlink airline deployment in the world.

Michael O’Leary keeps complaining about install costs, and it’s an opportunity for Elon to erase these false claims by installing it across its entire fleet and show real world proof that it beats every other in-flight internet provider, hands down.

Then if you go deeper, the synergies get kinda interesting…

Ryanair’s scale could plug into future SpaceX ideas like ultra fast point-to-point travel. Its airports could adopt Tesla energy storage, electric ground vehicles, or even autonomous systems over time. Its operational data could feed AI models inside xAI to optimize logistics, pricing, and maintenance, and more…

Of course it doesn’t mean this will happen, but it doesn’t hurt to scheme about what’s going on and why Elon is doing this.

Yea, the post may seem like a joke, but it’s very intentional imo.

It exposes old school airline thinking versus a future built on connectivity, efficiency, and scale. Ryanair happens to be one of the few airlines big enough to actually matter in that future.

As for me, I’m fine if he buys Ryanair it’s just I don’t want to see Elon lose his focus bc he already has so much on his plate.

Everyone get your popcorn ready.

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@FNarolles D’ailleurs ça parle de bateaux cargo « 
« civiles » 🙃

[Thomas @ThomasPhilibert]

@FNarolles Dans le même genre, avec le même niveau de réalisme, toujours dans un pays scandinave mais avec une approche différente je vous recommande fortement Conflict : https://t.co/TBOjPzYHX1