Read this interview and you may actually feel history shifting. He is someone I’ve long admired, and he still has a few interesting things to say, but I had the terrible realization that this is the most irrelevant man in all of France. He is now a man of the past, history is moving on. I’ll make my case with some select quotes – they do not appear in this order. The first sets the stage, perhaps properly.
“You can sense that we are on the brink of civil war,” Mr. Lévy says. “The worst part is that the country’s two main political forces now have an interest in the riots—Le Pen because she would take power, Mélenchon because he would take control of the streets.
And where does this thought take him? Here.
Finally he says that in the event of a Le Pen-Mélenchon runoff, “I will never force myself to choose between them. I will never cast a vote for either of them.”
”The same, he says, is true of the U.S. “You too have two extremes joining hands: MAGA and the new Democrats who make anti-Zionism—that is, antisemitism—the alpha and omega of their politics. You know very well that this face-off would be fatal to American democracy. Well, exactly the same is true of France.”
And then it gets downright pathetic.
Shouldn’t Emmuanel Macron, the president since 2017, take some blame for leading his country to this pass? Mr. Lévy pushes back. He says the portrayal of Mr. Macron “in diabolical terms by both right and left is, as far as I’m concerned, terribly unfair.” Mr. Lévy has been intensely critical of Mr. Macron for the “unilateral recognition of the state of Palestine, which gifts a political victory to Hamas and rewards the worst terrorism.” But there is “at least one area in which Macron has been impeccable: his support for Ukraine.
It’s a painful thing to do, but I’d encourage you to read the whole thing.
Interesting video
I subscribe to the WSJ and read the Levy interview.
This is the 5th Editorial page article about the French riots in the past 10 days. Levy makes it plain he detests Trump, but that is not what is interesting. He mentioned “people waiving the Palestinian Flag” but he commented like they were Germans or Tibetans.
In every single one of these 5 editorials two words do not appear once: Islam nor Muslim – thousands of words and absolutely nothing about Islam. Nothing about the Muslim invasion and takeover of much of France. There are now 10,000,000 Muslims in France.
The following famous French have spoken about the dangers of Islam: Eric Zemmour, Phillipe de Villiers, Bruno Retailleu, Michel Houellebecq, Alain Finkielkraut, Michel Ofray, Renaud Camus, Robert Redeker, Pascal Bruckner. Hell, even Brigitte Bardot figured it out and was outspoken about Islam before her death.
Levy is either a liar and thus a useless barometer or a total fool. The WSJ has become unreliable vs. when Robert Bartley ran the show. Too many $$$$$ from advertisers like Qatar, The Saudis or the UAE? Who the hell knows.
Two Elections this weekend:
1) Brazil where I think we all hope Bolsinaro beats the corrupt little Communist – Lula – polls are very close like 50 to 49.
2) British Columbia – where the NDP (To the Left of Carney’s Liberals if you can imagine) against the Conservatives. The Left may actually lose. The Chinese Communists have a huge influence in BC. Triads (Chinese) run the drug trade in coordination with the Mexican Cartels. Sam Cooper of BC has been all over this on his website “the Bureau” for years. The middle class is fleeing BC just as they are California.
Early voting is surging ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, with Democrats and unaffiliated voters showing strong participation in several states as Republicans seek to narrow the gap in the final days before Election Day.
..snip.. McDonald suggested that changes in voting behavior might also benefit Democrats if more of their supporters choose to vote in person rather than risk having mail ballots rejected.
More than 500,000 mail ballots were rejected nationwide for various reasons during the 2024 election, according to figures cited by The Hill from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.
“Trump may have inadvertently done a favor to the Democrats by encouraging their voters to vote in person, and we’re seeing that in the in-person early voting,” McDonald told The Hill.
Google AI Overview just informed humble Florida NPA voter me that I am in the “unaffiliated voters” group!?! Well, GOP best hope all those other “unaffiliated voters” ain’t as P.O.’d at Trump as I am, i.e., I voted for “unaffiliated” Senate candidate Neil Gillespie & “unaffiliated” Representative Mike Klein.
NOTE: link gets a “no follow” from NewsMax so may not work…
A concerned NPA. Oh noes.
I’d encourage you to read the whole thing.
I read a bit of Bernard-Henri Lévy back when and found him stunningly clueless. So I haven’t read much and don’t intend to start now.
I’m probably going to regret this, but why are you so P.O.’d at Trump?
FWIW:
“BREAKING: Russian airforce TU-134 used to evacuate high ranking personnel has just left Iran with its transponder off rumoured to be picking up Russian scientists from Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
“We saw similar evacuation flights before US strikes on Iran in February…”— https://instapundit.com/831294/
(And you think YOU have trouble sorting through stuff…)
Just a rumor, though…
I found that interesting as well Barry. Not entirely unrelated:
Iran Is Now Losing Overland Trade Routes to U.S. Pressure
Iraq and Pakistan are cutting off some important land routes in and out of Iran, adding to the economic pressure on the regime after a U.S. naval blockade and tough sanctions on airlines severed most of the country’s shipping and air routes.
I can just hear one mullah to another – “Our list of allies grows thin.”
Links to Glsnn Reynold’s new Substack post entitled “The Coming Insurrection
And what to do about it.”
The final paragraph:
I hope that all of this is just pre-election vaporware and none of it will come to pass. But it’s worth noting that we’re talking about this because a group of 1500 senior government, military, and NGO officials have been talking about overthrowing the government among themselves. That alone is a cataclysmic change in our political environment. Many of them are likely prosecutable for seditious conspiracy — which unlike most other conspiracy crimes does not require an overt act in support of the conspiracy to constitute a crime — and even if, as is most likely, this whole thing is a fizzle, the Department of Justice should prosecute everyone subject to the law. Letting people get away with this kind of plotting just ensures it will happen again.
Though one of the fascinating and worthwhile items, in my view, that was published WRT BHL was an engaging, free-range conversation/interview (translated into English) between him and Michel Houllebecq, though that would have been well over a decade ago.
Visegrad24:
In Montpellier, rioters tried to storm a police cordon with homemade barricades made from stolen shopping carts. The assault failed, and police detained several of them.
When “detained several of them” becomes “several did meaningful prison time” this ends.
sdferr:
Pretty serious and life changing consequences are necessary for the 1500 insurrectionists, which unlike the President of the United States both current and in the future, have not legitimate authority for their actions. None. Hubris deserves catastrophy.
Now many concerned conservatives and NPAs don’t have the attention span to realize the stark difference between the two political philosophies and elected leader and a gaggle of power-mad leftists, acting within the Constitution versus “what ever it takes.”
I got the ominous “too many requests” message earlier today. So glad your blog hasn’t collapsed under whatever the latest cyber threat is.
First world problems, I bought a new Jeep Wrangler. It was expensive. It was being delivered today. I have been waiting all day. Just got a call. They were nearly here when they got in an accident. They will have to get another new vehicle and update all the purchase paperwork. It will be a couple more days. I am bummed.
I have spent all day replacing 5 time expired smoke detectors. Of course the pigtails were not plug compatible so a rewire job and repeated setting up and taking down scaffolding.
To make my day complete, my F-150 is reporting a “tire pressure sensor failure”warning. What next.
500-800 ducks showed up this morning. Pintails, wigeons and mallards. They seemed very tired and very hungry. No hunters today though.
Of course the pigtails were not plug compatible
Just went through that, got new pigtails once we — my brother was visiting — figured out what we needed. We also ended up with some pigtails that were not needed 🙂
So are the concerned conservatives (CC™-R) and NPAs the “useful idiot” enablers of the leftist Democrats, by encouraging non-support of national Republican candidates?
After all, the perfect can’t be the enemy of the good (sarc), or good enough, because even the barely good is better than any Democrat in 2026.
“Baltimore County mom says a man living in a sewer harassed her children”
A mom in Towson, Maryland, is accusing a local man living in a sewer of verbally harassing and chasing her children.
Unique Wiggins told Baltimore’s WJZ-TV that while she didn’t initially believe her kids, she investigated the situation herself after multiple complaints.
“I walk over to the little manhole sewer thing, and I hear somebody singing, and I think, ’This is unbelievable.’ So I’m like, ’Yo, yo, you,’ and he’s like, ’What?’ And I said, ’Leave my [expletive] kids alone.’ And he said, ’No, tell them to leave me alone?’ And I said, ’They can’t possibly be messing with you, and you are in the sewer,’” Ms. Wiggins told the TV station.
[…]
The Baltimore County Police Department said that while it can do only so much since sewers and culverts belong to the public, the man was arrested and released on Oct. 13 and is subject to another peace order that expires Monday, according to WJZ.
On the video, glad to hear the lady had no problems with getting pregnant, but it would have been interesting to learn the sex and genetic chromosomal content of the baby’s blood.
Did it it fact have his uncle’s blood type because his mother did?
Mike Plaiss on October 24, 2026 at 8:54 pm: video of French police geting active with their massing as a group against protecters, and also “happily” swinging their batons at recalictrant but unarmed civilians. Wonder if the protesters think it is a badge of honor to have been receiving such beatings. I still hope the data analysts and law enforcement groups are working behind the scenes to ID and then prosecute the Leftist and/or Muslim funders, etc.
I had read somewhere previously that if you streched out the human DNA molecule to its full 3 billion base pair length, it would be 8″ or 16″, but I just rechecked and my search said it was 2 meters or 79″. WOW.
I think the description said it was coils within coils within coils within coils! I start with an image of a spring from a screen door and try to imagine coiling it three fold more times. I really can’t quite get there in my visual mind. And I understand there are a bunch of histomine or other protein molecules helping to achieve this massive folding sequence.
Sewer life! Well. Takes all kinds, I suppose. Naturally, it does put a rather different spin on the old saw about getting one’s mind out of the gutter.
Chases Eagles, at least you’re hanging in there. Are the ducks doing better today?
I have a cold, but while this has left me shut in, I was able to use some time to explore the history of the word ‘rebarbative.’
R2L, yes, histones and all that structure. It’s quite incredible!
Re: Video
Mother Nature is a mad scientist….
@sdferr: Montpellier riot video
Took place in the largest, most famous square in Montpellier, the Place de la Comédie. You can read a newspaper account here. My Brave browser has an option to translate to English.
______________________________
This Saturday, October 24, 2026, more than 4,000 demonstrators found themselves in the streets of downtown Montpellier despite the prefecture’s ban. Clashes broke out at the end of the demonstration whereas until then, the rally had generally taken place peacefully.
Karmi…a lot better done than 95% of the political ads
The black bloc attire is the same as Antifa, but there is no direct organizational connection that I know of, just shared tactics and worldview.
That is a very strange phenomenon how the hive mind of Antifa violence just randomly breaks out without any conceivable direction. (sarc). Zoot alours?
Nope, nothing to see, move along, move along.
R2L,
Protein folding can be very complex and difficult to decipher. Just ask Messrs. Crick and Watson.
“AlphaFold is an AI system developed by Google DeepMind that predicts a protein’s 3D structure from its amino acid sequence. It regularly achieves accuracy competitive with experiment.
Google DeepMind and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have partnered to create AlphaFold DB to make these predictions freely available to the scientific community.”
This has a very real potential to be one of the most beneficial leaps in human health in all of medical history.
My “First world problems” ain’t as bad as some, but I just had one. Have been an X/Twitter subscriber since Musk’s buyout of Twitter was finalized (2022) – like $84 a year. It just renewed for another year on 17 Oct, 2026. Yesterday I got an email from them that my account was suspended for “Violating our rules against inauthentic behaviors.” !?! Appealed to support and this morning they said the suspension will hold. Basically I can’t post or reply or like, and that is apparently permanent. !?!
Of course the money is gone … they said the rest remains usable (Grok etc I guess) until 2027. I just cancelled the durn thing since no posting…mainly was just sharing articles from various news sources. No answers from them just non working info.
Upcoming elections that will determine whether the world is turning left or right. So far so good in Canada’s British Columbia
“Political Earthquake” Rocks British Columbia: Conservatives Win Election For First Time Since 1928”
@Kate: I do love the French language, or maybe the translation: They “found themselves downtown” in spite of the ban.
I find that interesting too. A few months ago I asked ChatGPT about it. Here’s the abridged version:
______________________________________
huxley: se trouver — it seems people are always finding themselves somewhere in French instead of just being there. Is it when their location changes?
Chat: Not necessarily. Se trouver often just means “to be located / to be”, with no implication that the subject has moved or suddenly “found itself” there.
… huxley: You said, “Thus French speakers are not always imagining people discovering their own whereabouts.”
Pity! I had worked up an idea that the French are always on the verge of existential wonder at where they are. 🙂
Chat: And honestly, the grammar almost supports it:
Je me trouve à Paris.
Not merely “I am in Paris,” but: “I find myself in Paris—astonishingly, contingently, thrown into this particular arrondissement of Being.”
______________________________________
To be clear Chat is just having fun with me in that last response. We have discussed existentialism in the past.
Thanks, huxley. It just struck me as amusing, like the (British) English saying “She fell pregnant,” as if it’s like slipping off a ladder.
Top rap recording artist Nicki Minaj showed off her political chops during a conversation with White House Communications Director Steven Cheung on Sunday .. Trump’s trusted aide wrote: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, I think we may have found the new White House Press Secretary! @NICKIMINAJ.’
NVIDI’s Jensen Huong headlined a conference in Berlin last week, laying out the tech future as he (or they) see it. It is concise and this short video unpacks his gems to show us investment opportunities for the next four or so years.
To outline it,
–we are witnessing the build-out of data centers for AI
–but the AI industry is looking ahead to
–the emergence and ubiquitous dominance of physical AI. Namely, robotics.
Today, there are 5m of robots in factories; 600K were installed last year. Mind you,these are single task robots, not general use. But they still use microchips and still benefit from AI resources
–NVIDIA is building a factory to launch early next year producing pre-installed robot teams or modules on a truck, that can be both hugely more efficient, but dispatched and installed in weeks instead of months has eye-popping win financial potential too!
For example, a three month delay in installation can cost $10 billion. A few or several weeks installation would more than halve that longer delay in production costs. Those following this sector can see that Huong is following SpaceX and Musk’s decade-long quest to build Tesla’s with the minimum of human labor, with max automation.
–IARAN or IRAN. is the project to turn 100K installed ground smartphone microwave networked towers into G6 compatible up and down stream AI access via cell phone s. Put a factory in the boonies? Impossible now. Possible, soon.
–How to cool and wire up data centers tech investments for now.
–and more I haven’t watched in the 16m video. Content praised in comments by retail investors!
Thank you for reading, fellow tech heads! (cue the Russian series “Better Than Us”.)
Well, Flavio Bolsonaro failed to win. Was their fraud? I’m not certain.
What I am certain is that there are videos floating around on instagram of leftists taking their mental compromised older relatives (dementia, alzeihmers) to the polls and instructing them how to vote.
The polls were also extended nationwide by a couple hours, which was incredibly fishy. Nothing will be definitively proven.
Now that they jave maintained power, I expect they will imprison Bolsonaro the son. They have already laid the groundwork to do so.
The only silver lining is that the economy will likely turn much worse in the short-term and force people to open their eyes to the unsustainability of socialist economics.
One can hope.
I have a neighbor who is from Brazil and has family still there. She told me she would have voted for Lula because Bolsonaro is “like Trump” and she doesn’t like Trump. Also that she thinks Lula stole for his own benefit and Bolsonaro, Sr., stole from the country and that was worse. I very much doubt there is any deep thinking going on. Sad.
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The Weekend Interview in today’s WSJ is with Bernard-Henri Lévy.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/france-on-the-brink-of-civil-war-ed743a69?st=mJJob5
Read this interview and you may actually feel history shifting. He is someone I’ve long admired, and he still has a few interesting things to say, but I had the terrible realization that this is the most irrelevant man in all of France. He is now a man of the past, history is moving on. I’ll make my case with some select quotes – they do not appear in this order. The first sets the stage, perhaps properly.
And where does this thought take him? Here.
And then it gets downright pathetic.
It’s a painful thing to do, but I’d encourage you to read the whole thing.
Interesting video
I subscribe to the WSJ and read the Levy interview.
This is the 5th Editorial page article about the French riots in the past 10 days. Levy makes it plain he detests Trump, but that is not what is interesting. He mentioned “people waiving the Palestinian Flag” but he commented like they were Germans or Tibetans.
In every single one of these 5 editorials two words do not appear once: Islam nor Muslim – thousands of words and absolutely nothing about Islam. Nothing about the Muslim invasion and takeover of much of France. There are now 10,000,000 Muslims in France.
The following famous French have spoken about the dangers of Islam: Eric Zemmour, Phillipe de Villiers, Bruno Retailleu, Michel Houellebecq, Alain Finkielkraut, Michel Ofray, Renaud Camus, Robert Redeker, Pascal Bruckner. Hell, even Brigitte Bardot figured it out and was outspoken about Islam before her death.
Levy is either a liar and thus a useless barometer or a total fool. The WSJ has become unreliable vs. when Robert Bartley ran the show. Too many $$$$$ from advertisers like Qatar, The Saudis or the UAE? Who the hell knows.
Two Elections this weekend:
1) Brazil where I think we all hope Bolsinaro beats the corrupt little Communist – Lula – polls are very close like 50 to 49.
2) British Columbia – where the NDP (To the Left of Carney’s Liberals if you can imagine) against the Conservatives. The Left may actually lose. The Chinese Communists have a huge influence in BC. Triads (Chinese) run the drug trade in coordination with the Mexican Cartels. Sam Cooper of BC has been all over this on his website “the Bureau” for years. The middle class is fleeing BC just as they are California.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/david-eby-lorne-doerkson-bc-election-results
BHL—in spite of all that sheer intelligence—is in fact an idiot. (It’s what happens when one is über-analytical…)
Le Pen wants the riots to burn up her country? Really??
And what would be the point of even discussing MAGA with him?
The “great mind” is made up—hot for certainties—except it’s full of fluff.
(The Neo-Jacobin Mélenchon is, of course, another story…and has far more in common with DPOTUS “than are dreamt of in [BHL’s] philosophy”….)
Early Voting Surges as Democrats Outpace GOP in Key States
Google AI Overview just informed humble Florida NPA voter me that I am in the “unaffiliated voters” group!?! Well, GOP best hope all those other “unaffiliated voters” ain’t as P.O.’d at Trump as I am, i.e., I voted for “unaffiliated” Senate candidate Neil Gillespie & “unaffiliated” Representative Mike Klein.
NOTE: link gets a “no follow” from NewsMax so may not work…
A concerned NPA. Oh noes.
I’d encourage you to read the whole thing.
I read a bit of Bernard-Henri Lévy back when and found him stunningly clueless. So I haven’t read much and don’t intend to start now.
I’m probably going to regret this, but why are you so P.O.’d at Trump?
FWIW:
“BREAKING: Russian airforce TU-134 used to evacuate high ranking personnel has just left Iran with its transponder off rumoured to be picking up Russian scientists from Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
“We saw similar evacuation flights before US strikes on Iran in February…”—
https://instapundit.com/831294/
(And you think YOU have trouble sorting through stuff…)
Just a rumor, though…
I found that interesting as well Barry. Not entirely unrelated:
Iran Is Now Losing Overland Trade Routes to U.S. Pressure
I can just hear one mullah to another – “Our list of allies grows thin.”
https://instapundit.com/831300/
Links to Glsnn Reynold’s new Substack post entitled “The Coming Insurrection
And what to do about it.”
The final paragraph:
Though one of the fascinating and worthwhile items, in my view, that was published WRT BHL was an engaging, free-range conversation/interview (translated into English) between him and Michel Houllebecq, though that would have been well over a decade ago.
Visegrad24:
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2114042012454330690
Short video of the skirmish at link.
And from the “Serve and Protect” folks (French version):
“Paris police invited shopkeepers to hire their own security for riots….”—
https://instapundit.com/831324/
Real confidence builder, that…
om= ad hominemRussia and lying about Project 2025 for starters…
This is easy – it is so damn easy.
police detained several of them.
When “detained several of them” becomes “several did meaningful prison time” this ends.
sdferr:
Pretty serious and life changing consequences are necessary for the 1500 insurrectionists, which unlike the President of the United States both current and in the future, have not legitimate authority for their actions. None. Hubris deserves catastrophy.
Now many concerned conservatives and NPAs don’t have the attention span to realize the stark difference between the two political philosophies and elected leader and a gaggle of power-mad leftists, acting within the Constitution versus “what ever it takes.”
I got the ominous “too many requests” message earlier today. So glad your blog hasn’t collapsed under whatever the latest cyber threat is.
First world problems, I bought a new Jeep Wrangler. It was expensive. It was being delivered today. I have been waiting all day. Just got a call. They were nearly here when they got in an accident. They will have to get another new vehicle and update all the purchase paperwork. It will be a couple more days. I am bummed.
I have spent all day replacing 5 time expired smoke detectors. Of course the pigtails were not plug compatible so a rewire job and repeated setting up and taking down scaffolding.
To make my day complete, my F-150 is reporting a “tire pressure sensor failure”warning. What next.
500-800 ducks showed up this morning. Pintails, wigeons and mallards. They seemed very tired and very hungry. No hunters today though.
Of course the pigtails were not plug compatible
Just went through that, got new pigtails once we — my brother was visiting — figured out what we needed. We also ended up with some pigtails that were not needed 🙂
So are the concerned conservatives (CC™-R) and NPAs the “useful idiot” enablers of the leftist Democrats, by encouraging non-support of national Republican candidates?
After all, the perfect can’t be the enemy of the good (sarc), or good enough, because even the barely good is better than any Democrat in 2026.
“Baltimore County mom says a man living in a sewer harassed her children”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/oct/23/baltimore-county-mom-says-man-living-sewer-harassed-children/
Seriously, it’s not as hard as you think. Thinking otherwise is defeatism.
https://x.com/catturd2/status/2114113683542413674
On the video, glad to hear the lady had no problems with getting pregnant, but it would have been interesting to learn the sex and genetic chromosomal content of the baby’s blood.
Did it it fact have his uncle’s blood type because his mother did?
Mike Plaiss on October 24, 2026 at 8:54 pm: video of French police geting active with their massing as a group against protecters, and also “happily” swinging their batons at recalictrant but unarmed civilians. Wonder if the protesters think it is a badge of honor to have been receiving such beatings. I still hope the data analysts and law enforcement groups are working behind the scenes to ID and then prosecute the Leftist and/or Muslim funders, etc.
I had read somewhere previously that if you streched out the human DNA molecule to its full 3 billion base pair length, it would be 8″ or 16″, but I just rechecked and my search said it was 2 meters or 79″. WOW.
I think the description said it was coils within coils within coils within coils! I start with an image of a spring from a screen door and try to imagine coiling it three fold more times. I really can’t quite get there in my visual mind. And I understand there are a bunch of histomine or other protein molecules helping to achieve this massive folding sequence.
Sewer life! Well. Takes all kinds, I suppose. Naturally, it does put a rather different spin on the old saw about getting one’s mind out of the gutter.
Chases Eagles, at least you’re hanging in there. Are the ducks doing better today?
I have a cold, but while this has left me shut in, I was able to use some time to explore the history of the word ‘rebarbative.’
R2L, yes, histones and all that structure. It’s quite incredible!
Re: Video
Mother Nature is a mad scientist….
@sdferr: Montpellier riot video
Took place in the largest, most famous square in Montpellier, the Place de la Comédie. You can read a newspaper account here. My Brave browser has an option to translate to English.
______________________________
This Saturday, October 24, 2026, more than 4,000 demonstrators found themselves in the streets of downtown Montpellier despite the prefecture’s ban. Clashes broke out at the end of the demonstration whereas until then, the rally had generally taken place peacefully.
https://france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/herault/montpellier/direct-manifestations-du-24-octobre-a-montpellier-le-tribunal-administratif-interdit-la-mobilisation-en-centre-ville-3438612.html
______________________________
I was curious to see if the ban on demonstrations in the major areas like Place de la Comédie would be resisted. Now I know.
I just walked through there Friday afternoon, while shopping for scarf gifts for my sister and niece.
The black bloc attire is the same as Antifa, but there is no direct organizational connection that I know of, just shared tactics and worldview.
I do love the French language, or maybe the translation: They “found themselves downtown” in spite of the ban.
Elect conservative military veterans to stop the spread of socialism in America.
30 sec video comparing communist dictators to current Dems…
Karmi…a lot better done than 95% of the political ads
That is a very strange phenomenon how the hive mind of Antifa violence just randomly breaks out without any conceivable direction. (sarc). Zoot alours?
Nope, nothing to see, move along, move along.
R2L,
Protein folding can be very complex and difficult to decipher. Just ask Messrs. Crick and Watson.
That is until Demis Hassabis and his team developed AlphaFold, https://alphafold.com/
This has a very real potential to be one of the most beneficial leaps in human health in all of medical history.
My “First world problems” ain’t as bad as some, but I just had one. Have been an X/Twitter subscriber since Musk’s buyout of Twitter was finalized (2022) – like $84 a year. It just renewed for another year on 17 Oct, 2026. Yesterday I got an email from them that my account was suspended for “Violating our rules against inauthentic behaviors.” !?! Appealed to support and this morning they said the suspension will hold. Basically I can’t post or reply or like, and that is apparently permanent. !?!
Of course the money is gone … they said the rest remains usable (Grok etc I guess) until 2027. I just cancelled the durn thing since no posting…mainly was just sharing articles from various news sources. No answers from them just non working info.
Upcoming elections that will determine whether the world is turning left or right. So far so good in Canada’s British Columbia
“Political Earthquake” Rocks British Columbia: Conservatives Win Election For First Time Since 1928”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/political-earthquake-rocks-british-columbia-conservatives-win-election-first-time-1928
Next up is Brazil today, Sunday, October 2025 where leftist Lula faces off against conservative Bolsonaro.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/world/4778880/brazilians-polls-sunday-next-president/
The Israeli election is next Tuesday, October 27 but do not expect quick results
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/israel-election-could-weeks-months-141529068.html
@Kate: I do love the French language, or maybe the translation: They “found themselves downtown” in spite of the ban.
I find that interesting too. A few months ago I asked ChatGPT about it. Here’s the abridged version:
______________________________________
huxley: se trouver — it seems people are always finding themselves somewhere in French instead of just being there. Is it when their location changes?
Chat: Not necessarily. Se trouver often just means “to be located / to be”, with no implication that the subject has moved or suddenly “found itself” there.
…
huxley: You said, “Thus French speakers are not always imagining people discovering their own whereabouts.”
Pity! I had worked up an idea that the French are always on the verge of existential wonder at where they are. 🙂
Chat: And honestly, the grammar almost supports it:
Je me trouve à Paris.
Not merely “I am in Paris,” but: “I find myself in Paris—astonishingly, contingently, thrown into this particular arrondissement of Being.”
______________________________________
To be clear Chat is just having fun with me in that last response. We have discussed existentialism in the past.
Thanks, huxley. It just struck me as amusing, like the (British) English saying “She fell pregnant,” as if it’s like slipping off a ladder.
Hold yer horses! Nicki Minaj might just save the mids for the GOP: Trump’s director of communications floats Nicki Minaj as new White House Press Secretary after talks on board Air Force One
NVIDI’s Jensen Huong headlined a conference in Berlin last week, laying out the tech future as he (or they) see it. It is concise and this short video unpacks his gems to show us investment opportunities for the next four or so years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDCjUZKpZHA&t=28s
To outline it,
–we are witnessing the build-out of data centers for AI
–but the AI industry is looking ahead to
–the emergence and ubiquitous dominance of physical AI. Namely, robotics.
Today, there are 5m of robots in factories; 600K were installed last year. Mind you,these are single task robots, not general use. But they still use microchips and still benefit from AI resources
–NVIDIA is building a factory to launch early next year producing pre-installed robot teams or modules on a truck, that can be both hugely more efficient, but dispatched and installed in weeks instead of months has eye-popping win financial potential too!
For example, a three month delay in installation can cost $10 billion. A few or several weeks installation would more than halve that longer delay in production costs. Those following this sector can see that Huong is following SpaceX and Musk’s decade-long quest to build Tesla’s with the minimum of human labor, with max automation.
–IARAN or IRAN. is the project to turn 100K installed ground smartphone microwave networked towers into G6 compatible up and down stream AI access via cell phone s. Put a factory in the boonies? Impossible now. Possible, soon.
–How to cool and wire up data centers tech investments for now.
–and more I haven’t watched in the 16m video. Content praised in comments by retail investors!
Thank you for reading, fellow tech heads! (cue the Russian series “Better Than Us”.)
Well, Flavio Bolsonaro failed to win. Was their fraud? I’m not certain.
What I am certain is that there are videos floating around on instagram of leftists taking their mental compromised older relatives (dementia, alzeihmers) to the polls and instructing them how to vote.
The polls were also extended nationwide by a couple hours, which was incredibly fishy. Nothing will be definitively proven.
Now that they jave maintained power, I expect they will imprison Bolsonaro the son. They have already laid the groundwork to do so.
The only silver lining is that the economy will likely turn much worse in the short-term and force people to open their eyes to the unsustainability of socialist economics.
One can hope.
I have a neighbor who is from Brazil and has family still there. She told me she would have voted for Lula because Bolsonaro is “like Trump” and she doesn’t like Trump. Also that she thinks Lula stole for his own benefit and Bolsonaro, Sr., stole from the country and that was worse. I very much doubt there is any deep thinking going on. Sad.