Grégoire Hoin

@gregone
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Software engineering (Frontend, Ember.js).
Snowboarding & Splitboarding
Cycling.

The Ghost of a Future Pain 🌶️🥵 #hotchillipeppers #ghostpeppers

My overwintered plants are ripening already, so I probably can get a second harvest during the summer.

There is an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism, and economic tensions.

A set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors, such as industry and mining, to education and health.

If these and other measures are taken the incomes of 89% of the world’s population would double by 2100 and global heating would be kept below 2C (3.6F) over the preindustrial average.

This vision provides a positive alternative to the grim projections from far-right techno extractivists, nationalists and billionaires who claim the future will inevitably bring more fossil fuels, climate disruption and inequality.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/world-inequality-lab-equality-academics-planetary-survival

#Earth #ClimateDiary #GreenEnergy #FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Nature #Science #TaxBillionaires #NoPlanetB #Economics #Politics #Health #Equality

‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

The Guardian
AI Economics for Dummies

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

"While national incomes expanded, wages stagnated, work became more precarious and public services were cut. At the top, fortunes ballooned; at the bottom, families turned to food banks. Growth has become decoupled from shared prosperity."

I am one of the 400 signatories of this op-ed arguing that poverty is manufactured. We propose restructuring our economies to un-manufacture it. Kudos to lead authors Olivier De Schutter, Joseph Stiglitz and others.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/10/economists-maths-growth-doomed-strategy-un-agencies-political-leaders

#economics

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

The Guardian

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

The Secret of Monkey Island (DOS VGA)
We're moving Super Mario Bros. to an agentic workflow. Rather than controlling Mario, you'll simply prompt the agent with something like "beat 1-1", and it will take direct control of Mario for you. This frees up more time for more important things like doing your taxes or being stuck in traffic
Are you a regular user of a virtual assistant, like Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant? Have you been using AI chatbots lately? (Please boost for sample size.)
I use a virtual assistant AND AI chatbots.
5.9%
I use a virtual assistant, but avoid AI chatbots.
9.1%
I use AI chatbots, but not a virtual assistant.
11.7%
I use NEITHER virtual assistant nor AI chatbots.
73.3%
Poll ended at .

Here’s an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of yourwill REALLY appreciate.

It’s so good, I had to make a video.

And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") magically makes them eligible for inclusion in the S&P500.

Americans, they are looting your life savings, the ones you earned through labour that they are gleefully replacing. Your descendants will never have the chance you had.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920m-per-month-for-compute/

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute | TechCrunch

In a statement, a Google representative described the deal as a result of unexpected demand for its recently launched AI products.

TechCrunch