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John Pals retweeted
Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.
She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range.
The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.
🚨 ALERTE - Des élèves ONT BLOQUÉ le lycée François Villon, à Beaugency (45), en écoutant MRH, un titre faisant référence à des TERRORISTES ISLAMISTES.
« À la Mohamed Merah, v-esqui' les caméras. Bataclan, je l'ai shooter à l'œil, chasse à l'homme, Salah Abdeslam »
« J’ai pas peur, j’ai pas peur de l’enfer, le pacte est intact, à part Allah qui peut m’arrêter. Bataclan, faisaient les morts, allongez-vous, je vais en shooter à l’œil ».
John Pals retweeted
Mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe. There is no issue more urgent before the continent than to correct this mistake.
John Pals retweeted
The good news is if you get your iPhone Duo in January you're already 25% of the way to your iPhone Duo 2. Ugh.
John Pals retweeted
❗️Zelenskyy:
“Don’t attack us, don’t kill our children, we will stop attack your diesel. And I think it’s a fair, fair deal.”
John Pals retweeted
Je kan toch ook luisteren naar iemand waar je het niet mee eens bent. Het enige statement dat je maakt is dat je het niveau van de kleuterschool niet ontgroeid bent.
Een walk-out bij het NSC-congres het moment dat @MonaKeijzer het woord neemt. Vooraf was er al veel consternatie over Keijzer als gastspreker. Het was voor @DirkGotink reden om uit de partij te stappen. Nu loopt de helft de zaal uit
John Pals retweeted
This quote from Steve Jobs lives rent free in my head...
"People who are genuinely great at something don't compete. They don't care about being compared to others because they're so deep in their own lane that comparison would be a waste of time. They just do their thing."
Fully agree with this, it makes zero sense for member states to want to build their own AI.
Huge day for European AI, with @MistralAI and @bfl_ai
both putting out strong results 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺!
I hope Brussels (and member states) now finally drop their plans for a government frontier lab. It always seemed very naive (how would a gov initiative ever move as fast as Anthropic or OpenAI?) and it would compete with Europe's own companies while it should instead help them succeed.
Much better to spend that energy clearing the way for them, starting with making compute far easier to build here. And on building real state capacity: setting up AISIs and getting society ready for the wild few years ahead.
John Pals retweeted
"Not only am I uninterested in the company’s home device, I can, for the first time, envision a future where I don’t buy Apple by default. Indeed, this already happened..."
Anyone into the age of agents will eventually realize Apple is a bad fit.
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I love OpenAI, but as a European, DevDay 2026 left me disappointed. Great announcements, but no Dots in Europe and silence about it. Cutting subscription usage from 20x to 10x leaves a sour taste, too. Hard to share the hype when you feel left out.
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"Slop" has become a comfort blanket for a cohort of programmers stuck somewhere between anger and bargaining on their way to acceptance. There might be some kicking and screaming, maybe a little crying, but eventually you have to let the blanket go and update your priors.
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I think iPhones are great products. Really I do. But God are they boring.
