One for my fellow hobbyists: When you’ve ordered some of last season Orioles cards (as well as a Topps Series 1 hobby box) 📦 🃏🧡🖤⚾️
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Discovering _Daily Walkoff_⚾️ Starting with the Orioles #186
“Wins By Decade” ⚪️⚪️⚪️🟢 ⚪️⚪️🟡🟢⚫️ 🟡🟢🟡🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀
Today in “America is not a serious country”: In this report about AI, they’re displaying the logos of differerent companies in the space, including France’s/Europe’s Le Chat from Mistral, however instead of the proper logo… they used the logo of a laundry detergent
Back to back frustrating defeats lately 😩 🏀
Tough one today
What a great opener:
The world can no longer trust American tech. If that sounds dramatic, take a step back and consider the facts.
The United States is a nation in the thrall of authoritarianism, owned and operated almost completely by a far-right doomsday cult intent on betraying every alliance, every contract, every promise it has ever made (…) its decision-making is either erratic and illogical or dictated by interests that cannot and will not align with any reasonable principles of freedom, social progress, or ethical governance.
Today’s edition of Connections: Sports Edition took about 10 seconds 💪
I’m getting better at this!
Puzzle #158
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Return to Adidas Arena to watch my @ParisBasketball team — another Euroleague win against Bayern Munich!
Connections: Sports Edition - Puzzle #157
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Perfect on the first time — really took my time to get this one right and not burn throught my tries
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 →
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Written down like this, it seems pretty bizarre, and that’s because it is. It’s also not easy to realize that our relationship with America is over after 80 years. It took time for me as well to accept that.
But it really is over. (…) The US has dismantled the official privacy framework. The deal is dead.
So stop surrendering our society to America. Have the courage to use different software and services. Even if it takes some getting used to.
Another day, another victory!
Puzzle #155.
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You can take the woman out of the US, but you can’t take the US outta the woman:
“The first time I had a blood orange was in a can of San Pellegrino”
😅 fun lunchtime conversation with my wife!
There’s a first time for everything! Won my first NYT Connections: Sports Edition
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Absolutely stoked to read a story on my old neighborhood basketball court in the New York Times (by way of The Athletic)
I used to play about 1.5 to 2 hours there every Sunday mornings back when we used to live in Montmartre/Pigalle!
Unsurprising but insane god-complex coming out of… you guessed it, Silicon Valley:
Zayner wants to create the next generation of pets. “I think, as a human species, it’s kind of our moral prerogative to level up animals”
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
Huge game tonight! Come on City! #RMAMCI @mancity @championsleague
We’re trailing by one goal but this is a return game in Madrid. Great lineup and hoping for a dominant 3-1 display to go through 🤞⚽️💪 🩵🤍
Wednesday, February 19, 2025 →
Absolute insanity from the US, unsurprisingly:
This executive order instructs federal employees of the federal government to ignore Supreme Court rulings and congressional actions if the President or Attorney General tell them to.
Tell me you’re trying to become a dictatorship without telling you’re trying to become a dictstorship.
John Gruber diving deep into the changes from Gulf of Mexico to the other name:
…until Trump’s executive action, there was no controversy, zero, none, nada, anywhere in the world, amongst any group of people, regarding the name of the Gulf of Mexico. (…) This whole thing, needless to say, sucks. It’s profoundly stupid, and the aspects that aren’t stupid are jingoistic.
Beyond the controversy, it’s a great dive into the ramifications of the decision, and a worthy analysis of the grand scheme of things. I swear, this shit is so tiring!
Bref 2: un éclair de génie ⚡️ ❤️🩹
Coffee & Complexity: climate change is here and affecting our coffee prices
Monday, February 17, 2025
The climate crisis has driven up coffee prices, but brewing at home remains a more affordable and enjoyable option compared to coffee shops.Wrapping up our yearly Birthdays-and-Anniversaire week with a long family walk and an unbelievable dinner
🎥 🍿 The Gorge ⭐️⭐️⭐️
A cool concept let down by a final act that went a bit too fast in terms of pacing in contrast with the exposition of the beginning of the movie.
Think Resident Evil x Annihilation x a RomCom
We don’t deserve @reckless.bsky.social
A lovely walk today to reset and reconnect with my wife and daughter. Also, some miscellaneous scenes at home :)
Finishing #Silo season 2 tonight. That article last year on the Verge was right: Apple TV+ definitely is the best place to watch great and unique Sci-fi
Omar Marmoush, what a guy! #MCINEW
Major FOMO on the newly launched Topps Series 1 but we’re trying to save money over the next few months, so… 🤷♂️
Perfect timing — I guess they were waiting for the AI Summit but French startup Mistral behind the French/European AI (Mistral) just updated and upgraded their platform. Much faster and more powerful. Gonna give it a try for work and play 😊
I hate that the Substack notes feed is such a better microblogging feed, but a closed system en that is probablyy never coming to the open web
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 →
Finally took some time to update my /now page :)
