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Etche_homo

@etche.bsky.social

Co-director of MoPED (Mechanisms of Paracrine & Endocrine Disorders) lab in Marseille 🇫🇷 on cell signaling & determination of self & beyond during neural crest differentiation. Personal account.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d ago

Every time we insist on this distinction, we hasten the day that the AI bubble pops, thus sparing a few more everyday savers and innocent bystanders from being wiped out in the crash we can all see on the horizon: www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r.... 50/

Monopoly Round-Up: Are Big AI Firms Cooking the Books?

If we're going to dump trillions into AI, it's time to audit the books of the big AI companies to see how the business actually works. That's how New Dealers would have done it.

thebignewsletter.com

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Andrew Thrasher@tituslegaldesign.com · 6d ago

"But in an email he also sent to local leaders Wednesday, which was shared with me, Day further acknowledged that Mount Holly Springs has received some $130,000 for vehicles and equipment."

Etche_homo@etche.bsky.social · 3w ago

"He just became a total jerk to his subordinates, acting as if their every gesture were a provocation. Testosterone [only] drove those males to reaffirm the status that they already held in that group, amplifying the aggressive behaviors they had learned they could get away with."

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Etche_homo@etche.bsky.social · 3w ago

Which country will finally get it? It just takes some initial investment money and strategic planning beyond a given election cycle, to get decades of payoffs.

Stephen Sekula@steve.mastodon.cooleysekula.net.ap.brid.gy · 3w ago

Opinion: Science and innovation could be central to building a strong Canada ALAN BERNSTEIN, EDDIE GOLDENBERG AND DAVID JOHNSTON From today’s @globeandmail Gift link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3c21efbc9cacbbba32550fe0f9b78d3274a69347c3b3e4bab06105b7494d9890/OATLPXPWHVB3RLD5GXZD5MHHSE/

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Cole Donovan@colesci.bsky.social · 4w ago

To pile on with @fieldsmeyer.com and @geomblog.bsky.social, lest we forget that Schmidt also told students to steal TikTok’s IP and let the lawyers figure it out while egging on the Natsec crowd to take on the PRC over tech theft. Ripped the credibility out of U.S. IP enforcement arguments.

The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry

Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.

theatlantic.com

Ami Fields-Meyer@fieldsmeyer.com · 4w ago

🧵A quick note to translate what's really happening in this NYT op-ed: Eric Schmidt has always had contempt for non-tech people, reflective of a deeper orientation in the industry. This is more of that. Short 🧵🧵🧵

Etche_homo@etche.bsky.social · 4w ago

@stephenmarche.bsky.social Appreciation of "As a geopolitical actor, the United States has become a kind of lumbering zombie... Much of the world understands that another round of elections in the midterms or in 2028 won’t solve anything." True here in France, but grifter copycats may yet prevail.