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I don’t need as many memories. Just 2 or 3 would be perfect.

‘My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.’” anothermag.com/art-photograp…

HamduLula !! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Klaus Mann, which Erika Mann recalls: “Bach almost makes me believe in God.” Thomas Mann: “I thought Nietzsche said that about Beethoven”.

Lawmakers from both parties consistently vote with the preferences of their wealthiest constituents while giving near-zero statistical weight to the bottom two-thirds. [Larry Bartels (Unequal Democracy) and Martin Gilens (Affluence and Influence)]

Mon article pour @AOC_media aujourd’hui: Pour une iconogenèse de gauche - La droite gagne la bataille des images parce que ce qu’elle dénonce se photographie, et la gauche la perd parce que ce qu’elle défend ne se photographie pas. aoc.media/opinion/2026/10/20…

"One is almost tempted to measure the degree of totalitarian infection by the extent to which the concerned governments use their sovereign right of denationalization." — Hannah Arendt

Even when a woman has time, her leisure remains provisional, and it often has to remain useful to the household: cooking, baking, producing something for others. Men's leisure is sovereign: it serves only them, and life moves aside for it. lanonaora.substack.com/p/eng…

The French have a phrase for it: “un engrenage,” a vicious spiral. Indeed.

(Ou Toi). Barbara Kruger

You. Barbara Kruger in Paris

Adorno, to Benjamin in 1940: “Whether or not a human being can have experiences depends, in the final analysis, on the way in which he forgets.”

Even when a woman has time, her leisure remains provisional, and it often has to remain useful to the household: cooking, baking, producing something for others. Men's leisure is sovereign: it serves only them, and life moves aside for it. lanonaora.substack.com/p/eng…

There’s no real meeting in Paris without an endless supply of chouquettes.

I see “small AI” popping up everywhere. I like the idea of AI built around local needs, languages and cultures, using less energy. But I’d like to know who gets to decide what we build and what it’s for. #smallai

Got denied entry at Charles de Gaulle airport because I was not wearing Veja !

“I invented the term artificial intelligence,” the Stanford computer scientist John McCarthy said in 1973, “and I invented it because we had to do something when we were trying to get money for a summer study in 1956.” A more pedestrian, jargon-filled proposal had previously failed to get traction; “artificial intelligence” turned committee heads and got the funding.