Guillaume Laurent
Guillaume Laurent
@glaurent.net
Husband and father, software engineer in the Apple ecosystem (so iOS, macOS apps), photographer. Atheist and pro-science in general.
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An $18bn data center project in sulphuric springs Texas that broke ground in June 2025 is being sued by the construction firm that has been left unpaid. Project is halted due to the developers not getting funding. Our first horseman has arrived msbglobalservices.com/matrix-data-...
There are three Horsemen of the AIpocalypse: First, a data center debt deal collapses - it fails to come together and the project is canceled. Second, a data center in construction falls apart, running out of money before it’s complete. Third, a data center fully built runs out of money and dies.
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While some people (especially on Twitter) are busy arguing that heat dissipation works well in vacuum (forgetting that there are isotherm bottles using vacuum as insulation), this old article explains yet another of the problems with data center in space : arstechnica.com/science/2019...
Pas spécialement fan du clan Tabarot, mais quand on voit la tête de l'opposition 😖...
Iris Biondo, candidate aux municipales sur la liste RN au Cannet, partage de nombreux contenus antisémites, pro-russes, homophobes, complotistes... Son explication ? «J’ai 68 ans et je ne suis pas très douée avec Internet…»
Just came across this fairly recent YouTube / podcast with Brent Spinner and Johnathan Frakes, and my inner Trekkie is so happy : youtube.com/@dropping-na...
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Trump would suffer from frontotemporal dementia, rather than Alzheimer's : substack.com/@frankgeorge... This post makes a pretty good case with the apparent symptoms.
On croirait un article du Gorafi, mais non : www.leparisien.fr/politique/ce...
If you've heard about this Christian organization called "The Family" who has silently worked its way into US government, this podcast by Monte Mader is worh your attention. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/f...
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Finally read the paper and it's worth the buzz. mRNA vaccines saved 20 million lives in a global pandemic and the technology is opening up new avenues for the treatment of deadly cancers. This is really one of the most impactful scientific developments of our time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large study on the deep and silent effects of COVID-19 : www.mdpi.com/2673-8112/5/... It's kinda like climate change, people don't see the effects outright so dismiss it as benign.
@colas.nahaboo.net à propos de l'idéologie libertarienne au sein de la Silicon Valley vs le courant progressiste
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that