Ecologeekette

🌻🇪🇺🇹🇼 Écolo polyglotte eurasienne végétarienne ascendant bouddhiste et descendance zébrée 🦓 On me dit de bifurquer alors je bifurque.

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

À l’origine de la réplique « Les cons ça ose tout, c'est même à cela qu'on les reconnaît » St Thomas d'Aquin : « Omnes stulti, et deliberationes non utentes, omnia tentant » (ts les idiots, et ceux qui ne réfléchissent pas, tentent tt). Audiard, aura lu sa Somme théologique.

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

@SudRadio @JuliadeFunes @alonzoceline @andrebercoff Les mots justes ?

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

Une mise en avant de soi et la danse des egos alors qu’on devrait respecter le deuil. C’est exactement ce que fait la droite (ce qui en reste) avec la disparition de Bernadette Chirac : “et hop, je poste ma petite photo avec elle pour montrer que j’étais proche”.
#Ridicules

[L'Express @LEXPRESS]

CHRONIQUE. Les selfies publiés après la disparition du philosophe le disent : l’individu contemporain ne reconnaît plus grand-chose qui lui soit véritablement supérieur. Quand l’hommage devient l’occasion d’une mise en scène flatteuse de soi... ➡️ https://t.co/IUsyGx3jxO

✍️ @JuliadeFunes

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

@ZoeDubus Même occurrence ?

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

Humilier des jeunes et des femmes par leur besoin d’uriner, un vrai passe-temps de mascu mais désolidarisez-vous #NotAllMen parce que que risque-t-il au plan pénal ? Peu.

Portez notre méfiance, les mecs, ou nettoyez vos rangs.

[Marc Landers @marclanders]

DOJ declares Cannabis is not a Gateway Drug!

Cannabis prohibitionists continue to peddle the myth that cannabis is a gateway drug, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

"The existing statistical research and analysis show mixed results and do not clearly demonstrate scientific support for cannabis use leading to harder illicit drug use.

As a result, FRD - [Federal Research Division] - has determined that no causal link between cannabis use and the use of other illicit drugs can be claimed at this time.”
https://t.co/wGCPM8UYXl

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

@platombe @OlivierCadic 😳

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

Indécent à plusieurs titres mais tout ceci devrait n’avoir aucune valeur marchande.

[Agence France-Presse @afpfr]

👜🦖 Des scientifiques anglais et une marque de mode ont donné vie au premier sac en cuir de T-Rex, de quoi ravir les fans de "Jurassic Park". Le collagène du dinosaure originel, vieux de plus de 67 millions d'années, a servi à la fabrication de cette peau extrêmement couteuse. Le sac sera mis aux enchères jeudi à l'Hôtel Drouot, estimé entre 300.000 et 500.000 euros ⤵️

[Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel]

La normalisation des idées d’extrême droite passe aussi par des partis jugés plus modérés. Une enquête sur les déclarations de politique générale des premiers ministres « centristes » (notamment Édouard Philippe, Jean Castex et Gabriel Attal) le montre. https://t.co/xjH2kZNYPE

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

@edwyplenel @mxgrc__ Oh bah oui là ça vaut la peine : si le think tank (réservoir de pensée littéralement) permet de lui demander à lui aussi de réfléchir et penser (panser?) plutôt que de réprimer et blesser.

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

J’adore.
Evidemment que cela n’a pas de sens pour des scientifiques qui sont experts en observation d’oiseaux, pas en physique ou chimie.
Ce constat n’a de sens que si on comprend qui nous sommes XX et XY

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A new study has found that urban birds across Europe consistently perceive women as more threatening than men, fleeing at greater distances when approached by female observers.

In a large-scale investigation conducted in cities across five European countries (Czechia, France, Germany, Poland, and Spain), researchers measured the flight initiation distance (FID), the distance at which birds take flight when a human approaches, for 37 different bird species.

Even after standardizing variables such as clothing, height, and approach speed, birds allowed male researchers to get approximately one meter (about three feet) closer on average before fleeing compared to female researchers. This pattern held consistently across thousands of observations and all countries studied.

The reasons for this unexpected gender bias remain unclear. Scientists are investigating several possibilities, including subtle differences in human gait influenced by pelvic structure, variations in body odor or pheromones, or ultraviolet-reflective compounds in cosmetics and sunscreens that birds, which can see into the UV spectrum, might detect.

This discovery challenges assumptions in behavioral ecology and highlights that the gender of human observers is not neutral in wildlife studies. It underscores the importance of accounting for observer effects when studying animal behavior in urban environments.

[Morelli, F., Benedetti, Y., Mikula, P., Blumstein, D. T., Díaz, M., Page, A., Tryjanowski, P., Nowak, M. K., Vincze, E., & Lövei, G. L. (2026). Sex matters: European urban birds flee approaching women sooner than approaching men. People and Nature, 8, 316–326. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.70226]

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man.
The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero.
The FBI located the man within a few days.
He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave.

He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father.
He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris.
When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship.
He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion.
He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg.
He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry.
He decided he wanted to fly.

In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed.
Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation.
Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first.
Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it.
Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet.
He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red.
He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket.
The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow.

When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service.
His application was rejected.
The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service.
He was the only one who was not.

For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend.
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word.
When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him.
He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years.
He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp.

He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was.
He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life.
He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center.
He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for.
A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it.
He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday.

He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday.
He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag.
In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously.
It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him.
He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history.
The French had been calling him a hero since 1917.
The Americans got around to it in 1994.

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

@Gendarmerie_056 @Gendarmerie @Prefet56 @Interieur_Gouv @PorteparoleGN @morbihan_fr @Agri_Gouv @TelegVannes @TelegLorient @Actu17 Mmh c’est la priorité de la droite française (on aura compris…) mais dans les pays voisins, l’auto culture est une façon reconnue de ne pas recourir à des canaux de distribution illégaux (souvent mafieux) ou de devoir acheter des produits chers non-contrôlés en boutiques CBD.

[Maitre Eolas🇫🇷 @Maitre_Eolas]

On supprime les cours d'assises pour les criminels mais on les instaure pour les magistrats.

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

Et si on construisait des data centers dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris ? Bah oui, ils ne veulent pas accueillir de logements sociaux ni de foyers pour sans papiers, alors que la loi l’exige.

Autant qu’ils acceptent de faire crever leurs gosses … pardon … le progrès.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The rapid expansion of data centers is triggering a growing public health crisis, according to a new analysis by Harvard researchers.

The explosive growth of artificial intelligence has created massive electricity demand, leading many data centers in states such as Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi to install on-site fossil fuel-powered backup generators. While the tech industry emphasizes grid reliability, public health experts are raising alarms about the local health impacts of these facilities.

A recent study led by Harvard biostatistician Michael Cork found that emissions from just one data center in Loudoun County, Virginia, could generate up to $99 million in annual health damages, including premature deaths, respiratory illnesses, and increased hospitalizations. These large fossil-fuel plants are often built near residential neighborhoods, frequently in socioeconomically vulnerable areas, exposing nearby communities to elevated levels of fine particulate matter and smog.

In addition to air pollution, residents are facing another serious issue: constant low-frequency noise from massive cooling systems, fans, and generators. People living near data centers in the US and Europe report chronic sleep disruption, headaches, anxiety, and other stress-related symptoms.

Medical research has long linked prolonged exposure to environmental noise with higher risks of cardiovascular disease, elevated stress hormones, and impaired cognitive development in children.

As tech companies continue to rapidly scale their infrastructure, critics argue that the significant but often overlooked public health and environmental costs of AI are being sidelined in regulatory and permitting decisions.

[Feldscher, K. (2026). Analyzing air pollution health, economic risks from AI data centers. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]

[David Perrotin @davidperrotin]

240 femmes droguées au diurétique par un cadre du ministère de la culture: «Ce dossier est traité comme une vulgaire histoire de pipi»

Les victimes dénoncent l'attitude des institutions et le fait que le mis en cause travaille tjrs auprès de jeunes femmes.https://t.co/r6gKZWEMi7

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

@collectifPCP En vrai, on en rigole pour éviter d’en pleurer.
#legalisation2026

[AuPalais @palais_au]

Une coalition MODEM LR RN préférant protéger le secret de la confession des prêtres pédophiles plutôt que les enfants victimes, a vidé le projet de sa substance.

Rappelez vous en l’an prochain quand vous voterez.

[NORML France @NORMLfr]

@collectifPCP Chez nous aussi. Demain, tout ira bien.

[Ecologeekette @ebodyguard]

@Eurostar the train I booked from Cologne departed one hour earlier last Sunday without notice and I had to buy 2 regular German train tickets to go home, took me 3 hors more. And now I need to know when I will be reimbursed. Please help.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Interesting