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Sébastien Cevey

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Software engineer at Google DeepMind, amongst other things obviously. Previously Google, the Guardian. Speculatively also @theefer@{bsky,mastodon}.social.

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On leaving the Guardian: dreams of digital journalism inso.cc/2016/03/20/lea…


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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.


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He was the worst President in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom. He was convicted of fraud, found liable of sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a…


I get it, it was a tough one

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Thanks Jeff Lawson for buying the Onion so we could get this great zoom in on electoral coverage. No other news source has gone to this level of detail.

From The Onion

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Poppy vs. Community Notes 🧵 An updated thread. 1. How it all started

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1/Here's something a lot of people I talk to don't understand about Japanese urbanism, and why Japanese cities are so special.

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Huge congratulations to @demishassabis & John Jumper for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their revolutionary work on AlphaFold! deepmind.google/discover/blog/…


A hyper-advanced alien civilization lands Earth and discovers this is one of the two candidates for the most powerful position on the planet, in a very tight election.

Trump: They know Kambabla. That was a nickname I used… but I don't use it anymore because everybody thought I was just mispronouncing her name. I wasn't. Kambabla.



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Busiest train stations in the world: 1. 🇯🇵 Shinjuku - 3.6 millions per day 2. 🇯🇵 Shibuya - 3m 3. 🇯🇵 Ikebukuro - 2.5m 4. 🇯🇵 Umeda - 2.3m 5. 🇯🇵 Yokohama - 2.1m 6-23. 🇯🇵 Japanese stations 24. 🇫🇷 Paris Nord Station - 0.67m


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We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬


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Enormous crowds of anti-racist demonstrators in Walthamstow.

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I miss my youth days when I'd write & send PRs for the story card while it was being sized during sprint planning. Key takeaway: if your take more time to talk about the work than to do the work, you should change your processes.

Planning meeting: X is not in scope for Q3 End of planning meeting: Sent pull request for X



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Our latest version of Gemini 1.5 Pro in AI Studio is #1 on the LMSys leaderboard. 🚀 This is the result of various advances in post-training and we have more lined up. Congrats to the Gemini team.

Exciting News from Chatbot Arena! @GoogleDeepMind's new Gemini 1.5 Pro (Experimental 0801) has been tested in Arena for the past week, gathering over 12K community votes. For the first time, Google Gemini has claimed the #1 spot, surpassing GPT-4o/Claude-3.5 with an impressive…

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switzerland mandates open source software for all public software publicly funded software should be open 👏👏 joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/ope…


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High-Rise is such a prophetic novel that it’s almost unbelievable at times. Ballard doesn’t just predict social media here, he doesn’t just predict Instagram, he predicts Instagram Stories, and he does so with such insane precision that he specifically mentions the FILTERS. 1972!

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I love this.

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Merci la France !

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