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My tweets reflect my own views.

[VW @warvict]

@Cinema_fr_hub @RGironnay @Boxoffice_FR Il fallait le sortir à un autre moment de l’année. Aucun film de ces dernières semaines ne fait réellement mieux.

[Guillaume @gxlmo]

I am 27, French, and I am tired of living on a continent that treats AI, compute, chips, crypto, datacenters, energy and nuclear power as problems to manage instead of strategic assets to build.

I do not want frontier AI to become another nationality-gated privilege. I want powerful AI models to remain generally available to builders, researchers, engineers and founders. But what happened with Anthropic’s Fable/Mythos models proves that this cannot be taken for granted: once frontier AI becomes a national-security asset, access can be restricted by citizenship or nationality.

The problem is that Europe has failed to build its own equivalent. We are not in the frontier AI race at the level of the U.S. or China. We do not have the same hyperscale cloud stack, the same compute capacity, the same capital depth, the same energy strategy, the same chip ecosystem, or the same frontier-model ecosystem. And because AI progress compounds through compute, talent, chips, energy, data and capital, falling behind is not linear. Once the gap is deep enough, you do not catch up at the same pace.

Europe spent decades regulating, moralizing, delaying and underbuilding the foundations of technological power. Cloud was missed. Crypto was treated primarily as a criminal-risk category before Europe built anything globally dominant in it. Datacenters are slowed by permitting, grid and energy constraints. Nuclear power was politically weakened or delayed across much of the continent just when abundant electricity became essential. AI is now being regulated before Europe has even produced a true top-tier frontier lab/model (no, MistralAI isn't a real competitor, for me, even Kyutai did more innovation/progress in the AI space than MistralAI).

Our leaders now talk about "sovereign AI", "AI factories", "gigafactories", and "strategic autonomy", but this language came far too late. You cannot regulate your way into technological sovereignty. You cannot paperwork your way into compute. You cannot build frontier AI without massive power, massive datacenters, massive capital, elite talent, advanced chips and a political culture that actually wants builders to move fast.

Europe still has talent. France still has engineers, mathematicians, scientists and founders. But the system around them is broken. The incentives are wrong. The mindset is wrong. Every mainstream political camp in France and Europe seems to have the same reflex: regulate first, tax first, restrict first, moralize first, build later.

ASML is the exception that proves the rule. It is one of the only truly strategic European chokepoints in the global compute stack. But one Dutch lithography champion cannot carry an entire continent that failed to build the rest of the stack: frontier AI labs, hyperscale cloud, Nvidia-class accelerators, TSMC-class fabs, massive datacenter capacity, cheap abundant energy and deep capital markets.

I did not vote for 20+ years of anti-growth, anti-compute, anti-nuclear, anti-crypto and anti-industrial policy. I was a kid. But my generation is supposed to live with the consequences: less access, less sovereignty, less capital, less compute, less ambition and a future where the most important technologies are built and can only be used somewhere else.

That is the part I cannot accept.

I do not want to spend my adult life asking permission to use technologies my continent was too slow, too afraid or too complacent to build.

I do not want European builders to become tenants in someone else’s technological empire (as it's already the case).

And I do not want "sovereignty" to mean nothing more than regulating foreign systems after failing to create our own like they're doing right now with cloud computing.

Either Europe becomes a builder civilization again, or the next generation of Europeans will inherit a beautifully regulated dependency that slow or even stop us.

For now, Europe still talks like history will wait...

[VW @warvict]

@tableauexcel @Cinema_fr_hub À Paris, les salles sont pleines.

[VW @warvict]

@Cinema_fr_hub @tableauexcel Moi je crois aux 2M.

Les gens applaudissent en salle.

4,3 Allociné.

Il fait moche.

Le bouche-à-oreille va opérer.

C’est d’ailleurs exactement l’histoire que raconte dans le film.

[VW @warvict]

@Cinema_fr_hub @tableauexcel Qu’est ce qui aurait été un bon score en première semaine ? Qu’attendait Pathé ?

Le film a encore des chances de finir à 2M, non ?

[VW @warvict]

Jamais vu autant de tweets de soutien à l’égard d’un film sur Twitter France.

Comme s’il était la raison d’être même de la commu

[Ronan Bourgeat @RonanBourgeat]

Au final #deGaulle prend la tête du box-office hebdomadaire. A voir sur la durée. Ça peut être un excellent tremplin pour la deuxième partie. #cinema #pathe #populairz #histoire #boxoffice #france #benoitmagimel

[Covie @covie_93]

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list who raped kids.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

HARD RULE: Everything Anthropic says is marketing bullshit.

This is nonsense. They absolutely can’t slow down or they will die. This is a cover story for the models slowing down all by themselves.

They have stolen all the data there is to steal. It’s diminishing returns now.

[Sylvain Catherine @sc_cath]

Not "since collapsed."

Take the case of France for example. In 1981, when young voters (baby boomers at the time) helped secure the election of François Mitterrand, who promised to lower the retirement age from 65 to 60, the number of kids had already fallen below replacement rate. In fact, it remained at these levels until quite recently.

It was perfectly clear and understood by planners at the time that this would cause a massive problem in the mid 2000 when the first cohorts of the baby boomers would reach the age of 60.

Someone like the famous demographer Alfred Sauvy not only predicted 25 years in advance that the situation would quickly deteriorate but also that it would be extremely hard to correct the trajectory because of the electoral weight of these cohorts.

Something that Sauvy predicted but hasn’t happened yet was a revolt of the youth against the baby boomers’ requests. It didn’t happen simply because young voters do not understand the dynamics and budget constraints of PAYG systems and believe that protecting the claims of their parents and grand parents will protect their own. As if there was a secret infinite source of funding.

While young Americans also complain about boomers, they don’t realize that in the US the Greenspan commission in the early 80s greatly protected them by doing the opposite of what Mitterrand did in France. It decided back in the 1980s that baby boomers would retire a bit later and increased their contribution rate such that Social Security could build reserves to fund their pension later.

[Quentin 'Toyec' Laporte🪿🌐🔰🔋 @Toyec_PE]

Si le film finit par trouver son public, le parallèle avec les faits racontés sera excellent (d'où ma propagande sans relâche)

[Maxime Sbaihi @MxSba]

LE graphique le plus important des nouvelles projections démographiques de l'@InseeFr

D'ici 2070:

🔴Baisse de 45% de la population la plus jeune
🟠Baisse de 12% de la population en âge de travailler
🟢Hausse de 27% de la population retraitée

Notre modèle social n'est pas prêt!

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Trust funds realizing they can’t just put people’s savings into the S&P 500 and call it “risk management” anymore

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

Wow…this is a tell people. There is no path to profitability.

They need to socialize losses.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

The picture on the left is from 2012 when the filter was broken.

The picture on the right is AI generated.

That's the issue in this Presidency, everything is based on lies, even the most trivial of things.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Happy 1 year anniversary to this tweet.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

INVOKE THE 25TH AMENDMENT!!!

[Dindon Fiscal @LeDindonFiscal]

J’ai trouvé un chiffre hallucinant : 300 000 personnes faisant partie des 20 % français les plus riches vivent en HLM. 📈

Dont 200 000 à Paris 🤡

Pour une famille dans un T4 de 85 m² à Paris, le loyer moyen est de 2 900 € par mois.

En HLM, le même appartement est loué 1 300 € 🤡

Soit 1 600 € économisés chaque mois, 19 200 € par an et 768 000 € sur 40 ans.

Pour rappel, ce sont les revenus d’entrée qui comptent pour un HLM : si vous devenez millionnaire ensuite, vous y avez toujours droit.

L’injustice, c’est que ceux ayant la « chance » d’obtenir ces HLM aisés peuvent capitaliser la différence avec cet argent placé sur 40 ans.

Ils deviennent millionnaires sur le dos de la solidarité nationale. Vous trouvez ça normal ? 🤡

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s business partners, the Alexander brothers, have been convicted on 19 counts of sex trafficking.

It’s odd how often sex offenders appear in the Trump family’s inner circle.

[Marc Colcer @marccolcer]

The Iran war has to be one of the dumbest decisions the US has made in decades