A few thoughts on Astral / OpenAI, now that the emotions have sat for a bit.

First, let me start by noting that AI is an attack on open source, inherently, by necessity, and at a structural level. That argument is bigger than Astral, but the short version is that you cannot simultaneously expand the public commons and work towards it's enclosure; moreover, if the public commons do not stand for the public good, then it's not really a commons any more.

Il veut sauver la plus grande bibliothèque de l’écologie en France. Il c'est Roland de Miller, un écrivain qui a constitué le plus grand fonds documentaire sur l’écologie (50 000 ouvrages !), et il cherche un endroit pour installer ces livres, c'est urgent.

Le repouet fait vivre la culture de l'écologie !

https://reporterre.net/Collectionneur-infatigable-il-veut-sauver-la-plus-grande-bibliotheque-de-l-ecologie-en

Dear French-speaking Fedi friends,

I have a favor to ask you:

Could you please complete this survey by @cercle - the test fediverse instance set up by the French Ministry of Culture?

🔗 : https://framaforms.org/mastodonfediverse-la-culture-et-vous-1771542693

It would help them understand what are your wishes and expectations when it comes to fediverse accounts run by cultural institutions.

The survey is totally anonymous and takes a few minutes to fill out.

Thanks!

And please boost 🚀

#FR #Francophone #francais #culture #art

I wrote a short post with my thoughts on #emacs #ESS and why I created ESR, my tree sitter mode for R. After 10 years doing #rstats programming in ESS, I finally managed to move away from it.

Particularly thankful to #treesitter and its Emacs implementation.

https://blog.teoten.com/posts/2026/why_i_created_esr/

Une merveilleuse histoire des chemins de fer américains écrite par #Clivelamming en français !
A wonderful history of American railroads written by Clivelamming (wirtten in #French) #trainconsultant #usa #geographieferroviaire #railroad #usa #etatsunis #train #trainhistory
#eisenbahngeographie

https://trainconsultant.com/2026/02/25/usa-les-193-km-h-habituels-du-reseau-le-plus-rapide-du-monde/

Regretter la mort d'un gamin, ok. Mais politiquement il n'y a là rien d'anodin.

Je pense que c'est assez inédit dans notre histoire que la représentation nationale rende hommage à un néo-nazi.

La Macronie & les grands médias auront vraiment tout fait pour banaliser le fascisme.