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"Kyoto University professor emeritus Heisuke Hironaka (広中平祐), died on Wednesday. He was 94." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/20/japan/heisuke-hironaka-obituary/

Fields-winning mathematician Heisuke Hironaka dies at 94

Specializing in algebraic geometry, the Kyoto University professor emeritus became in 1970 the second Japanese mathematician to win the Fields Medal.

The Japan Times

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Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵10h ago

@Blanche merci pour ces photos ! ça rejoint plein de choses que je vois aussi, cf https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89094

La géométrie de la ville, les lignes et les pôlygones

J’ai grandi en Europe, en France, dans un monde où l’adresse semblait aller de soi. Une maison était d’abord située sur une rue, puis placée dans la rue par un numéro. En ville, on apprenait très tôt à se repérer avec ce qu’on pourrait appeler la grammaire ordinaire de l’espace urbain : les numéros montent … Continue reading La géométrie de la ville, les lignes et les pôlygones →

Freakonometrics

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵15h ago

"Some places that did not have high-profile ICE operations this year, such as Florida and San Antonio, have still seen high and steadily increasing numbers of arrests. In other areas like Los Angeles and Chicago that were targeted by ICE with aggressive enforcement operations last year, the number of arrests has fallen steeply in recent months" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/ice-arrests-immigration-enforcement.html

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵22h ago

from the internet

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵22h ago

"Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the upcoming FISA reauthorization debate is the best chance to close the so-called "data broker loophole" that federal agencies are using to purchase the kind of bulk data that Congress has already banned them from collecting themselves." https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic 😳

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵22h ago

"Sengthay said that he and other Stanford students had envisioned college as a “playground for free speech and democracy” before the greater responsibilities and pressures of adult life. They’ve since discovered that the rules of the game have changed." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/campus-protests-trump-iran/686518/

Where Are All the Campus Protests?

Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.

The Atlantic

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵23h ago

"The scientific publisher Nature makes a similar catalog on a slightly more granular level, looking at specific fields of science. According to Nature’s most recent rankings, 18 of the top 25 most productive research institutes in the physical sciences, 19 of the top 20 in geosciences, and a full 25 out of 25 in chemistry are Chinese. The kicker is, none of that was true even just a decade ago" https://scholars-stage.org/china-and-the-future-of-science/

China and the Future of Science

THE CHINESE socio-political system differs from our own. From the perspective of the topic of this conference, here is the most salient distinction: the Chinese system has a telos. The Chinese part…

The Scholar's Stage

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦 🇯🇵23h ago

"An epidemic of mental illness and/or addiction plays out in the U.S. in public, with our streets, buses, parking lots, McDonald’s, parks, and Starbucks as ad hoc institutions for the broken, addicted, and tortured." https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/america-and-public-disorder