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For the 10th anniversary of my company, my team and I put together a little recap of our journey and some future perspectives. Check it out here : tenyears.source.paris/
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En 1997, ce livre prédisait l'effondrement des États-nations, l'émergence des digital nomads, des cryptomonnaies... 29 ans plus tard, on le publie (enfin) en français. Parce qu'il est temps de libérer les esprits français du collectivisme
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L’annonce la plus excitante de l’année (Terafab)
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Last year, France sent us 22.6 terawatt hours of (mostly nuclear) electricity, about eight percent of our total. It also sent Italy 26.2 terawatt hours, Germany 23.1, and Switzerland 20.1 Ours and Germany's crazy energy policies would cost us a lot more if France wasn't, kindly, running a reliable nuclear grid, producing Europe's cheapest non-hydro electricity. Thank God for France! gemenergyanalytics.substack.…
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Actu Macro 2026-02-25
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Antoine Dupont is obviously ridiculous But he also gets to play the game on easy mode when he can just shrug off back-rowers who have him lined up Any other scrum-half and this scenario ends disastrously rather than in a dangerous counter-attack

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21 Nov 2025
What if our descendants look back at our acceptance of aging the way we look back at medieval medicine? We interviewed them. Dystopian futures are easy to imagine. Optimistic futures take vision and courage to build. VOICES FROM 2099:
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Le Français qui vote ne veut pas du progrès. Il ne veut pas de gains de productivité. Le Français qui vote veut des aides et une retraite indexée sur l'inflation. Le Français qui vote se moque de l'absence de croissance et de l'endettement qui explose. Le Français qui vote est complice de l'État interventionniste, de l'État de surveillance, de l'État totalitaire. Le Français qui vote est un con. Les autres ont compris que mettre un papier dans une fente ne sert à rien. Les autres ont compris qu'on ne peut pas se battre contre le courant et que plus de 70% des français sont dépendant de l'État pour vivre. Ils partent en masse car ils veulent se projeter dans l'avenir et refusent de vivre au jour le jour et de chèque en chèque. Le seul vote qui compte à ce stade, c'est celui qu'on fait avec ses pieds et avec son fric.
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J'ai réalisé un truc, dans l’économie il y a 3 niveaux : 1. Création (entrepreneur, risque, sacrifice) → base de la croissance 2. Financement (investissement) → accélère 3. Production/Exploitation (travail, biens, services) → fait tourner la machine Je peux comprendre qu’on taxe 3 et 2. Mais pourquoi taxer 1 ? Il y aurait-il un génie marxiste pour m’expliquer ?
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J’ai le feeling que vouloir remplacer les navigateurs comme veulent le faire OpenAI avec Atlas ou Anthropic avec Comet, c’est de la merde. Le vrai move, c’est pas de les remplacer, c’est de créer autre chose. Perso, je garde Arc et j’ai mes agents à côté.
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◤  #TRIGUN STARGAZE   キービジュアル解禁      ◢   もう、ひとりじゃない。 2026年1月 テレ東系列にて放送開始 🔸特報映像はこちらから youtu.be/1pr_uEqKJ74 #TRIGUNSTARGAZE #トライガン
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Intervention lunaire de @ericcoquerel, qui est PRÉSIDENT de la COMMISSION DES FINANCES (en charge du contrôle du budget de l’État français). Il démontre une incompréhension totale de l'économie et de la finance des entreprises. Dramatique pour l'avenir de la France.
📊 Les limites de la taxe Zucman ? @ericcoquerel souhaiterait taxer @MistralAI de 2 %, alors que l’entreprise d’IA est valorisée à près de 12 Md€. 💶 240 millions de taxe Un chiffre dérisoire pour son fondateur @arthurmensch ? 🎙️ @hchevrillon
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Est-ce qu'une IA peut vraiment inventer quelque chose ? Cette affirmation de @timsoret n'a pas été bien accueillie par les sept millions de personnes qui l'ont lu. Et vu que c'est mon collègue de podcast, on a fait une vidéo pour préciser son point. youtube.com/watch?v=l4N7jBgy…
21 Jul 2025
Interesting to see the praise for this AI-invented visual style. Everybody wants it, and indie devs are rushing to prototype it & make it real.
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21 Jul 2025
Interesting to see the praise for this AI-invented visual style. Everybody wants it, and indie devs are rushing to prototype it & make it real.
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Just made this lol
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28 Jun 2025
Yes. A few miscellaneous thoughts. (1) First, the new bottleneck on AI is prompting and verifying. Since AI does tasks middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. So business spend migrates towards the edges of prompting and verifying, even as AI speeds up the middle. (2) Second, AI really means amplified intelligence, not agentic intelligence. The smarter you are, the smarter the AI is. Better writers are better prompters. (3) Third, AI doesn’t really take your job, it allows you to do any job. Because it allows you to be a passable UX designer, a decent SFX animator, and so on. But it doesn’t necessarily mean you can do that job *well*, as a specialist is often needed for polish. (4) Fourth, AI doesn’t take your job, it takes the job of the previous AI. For example: Midjourney took Stable Diffusion’s job. GPT-4 took GPT-3’s job. Once you have a slot in your workflow for AI image gen, AI code gen, or the like, you just allocate that spend to the latest model. (5) Fifth, killer AI is already here — and it’s called drones. And every country is pursuing it. So it’s not the image generators and chatbots one needs to worry about. (6) Sixth, decentralized AI is already here and it’s essentially polytheistic AI (many strong models) rather than monotheistic AI (a single all-powerful model). That means balance of power between human/AI fusions rather than a single dominant AI that will turn us all into paperclips/pillars of salt. (7) Seventh, AI is probabilistic while crypto is deterministic. So crypto can constrain AI. For example, AI can break captchas, but it can’t fake onchain balances. And it can solve some equations, but not cryptographic equations. Thus, crypto is roughly what AI can’t do. (8) Eighth, I think AI on the whole right now is having a decentralizing effect, because there is so much more a small team can do with the right tooling, and because so many high quality open source models are coming. All this could change if self-prompting, self-verifying, and self-replicating AI in the physical world really gets going. But there are open research questions between here and there.
28 Jun 2025
The view that imagines AI wiping out jobs or causing some overnight shock to the system doesn’t contemplate that companies are a made up of a series of bottlenecks. When AI accelerates work in one area, you run into a bottleneck somewhere else. As any individual workflow gets more efficient, the ultimate productivity gain is still constrained by some other part of the system. And usually it’s the case that that part of the system will not have inherently seen the same impact of AI efficiency, which means humans are still doing the work. Take almost any process in an enterprise and you can see how this plays out. If AI Agents generate leads for the sales team, the bottleneck will be humans to have conversations with those customers. And if the leads are good, that will mean more sales hiring. If AI Agents generate more code, you will eventually be bottlenecked by the engineers that can review and incorporate that code into production. You can quickly see how this scales to any process in an organization. Economists and others tend to totally miss how work actually happens in a company; it’s not a series of wholly independent tasks, but instead highly interdependent tasks that all link to each other across a system. This is of course the natural rate limiter of AI efficiency gains, but also the reason why humans will still be doing so many jobs in the future.
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How I feel like everytime I open cursor (to properly build smth for the first time of my life) cc @benjamincode
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17 Apr 2025
Lots of you requested this one… here’s how we made “Night by Night” back in 2009 in a Montreal basement. Drop a reply if you want more of these!
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16 Mar 2025
I arrive in San Francisco tonight for one week, to show The Last Night to select partners & investors at GDC. Angels, creators & friends, ping me. Schedule is clear, I’d love to discover the scene & the city, first time here.
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