Notices by Frédéric Jacobs (fj@mastodon.social), page 2

Keep these monstrosities off our roads 🙅♂️

"US carmakers have accused Brussels of keeping their largest pick-up trucks, including the Ford F-150, the Chevy Silverado and the Ram 1500, off European roads”

https://www.ft.com/content/3eb796fd-bcdb-4a9f-89b7-f7d5e692a3cd

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/renault-twingo-1998-3-door-hatchback-vs-ford-f-350-2016-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

"All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-21/f-35s-have-failed-to-hit-readiness-marks-for-six-years-gao-says

A lot of LLM experimentation is mostly hype, and unlocks very little practical value. And then there's stuff like this.

At a time where chip production is experiencing throughput issues, the Mistral x ASML partnership is delivering with an AI-powered diagnostic tool that identifies lithography EUV scanner issues 120x faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbn-7wqtaew

The ASML and Mistral partnership is going to cover topics like using AI to better control the plasmas used for EUV.
I hope they will publish some details about these efforts 🤞
https://www.tf1.fr/tmc/quotidien-avec-yann-barthes/videos/invite-arthur-mensch-le-francais-qui-fait-trembler-les-geants-americains-de-lia-73247323.html

👏 “ASML and Mistral announced a strategic partnership based on a long-term collaboration agreement to explore the use of AI models across ASML’s product portfolio as well as research, development and operations, to benefit ASML customers with faster time to market and higher performance holistic lithography systems.”

https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2025/ASML-Mistral-AI-enter-strategic-partnership

ASML rumored to be investing €1.3bn into Mistral's €1.7bn Series C.

Really curious about the long game here. Bring computational lithography aspects, currently provided by NVIDIA in-house/in partnership with Mistral?

https://sifted.eu/articles/asml-leads-mistral-series-c

Earthquake!

Was only 2 on the Richter scale in Taipei but at the 14th floor you feel it in your guts

https://www.cwa.gov.tw/V8/E/E/index.html

#Taipei #Taiwan

🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again.

They are claiming that AI-powered mass surveillance is a good thing but mass **domestic** surveillance isn’t

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

The UN General Assembly has adopted the resolution titled "Support for Lasting Peace in Ukraine," initiated by Ukraine.

The US abstained to support Ukraine, in line with Orban.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fj/114024334222739130

Think of the folks at Palantir who built this.
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115896762629929197

“#Meta met 38 times with MEPs from the ECR, the Patriots and the Europe of Sovereign Nations Group.

#Google has also not shied away from meeting far-right MEPs. A few days after the launch of the digital omnibus, the Head of Public Affairs of Google France joined a dinner party in Strasbourg hosted by six French MEPs from the far right Rassemblement National.”

🧵 Fun stories about expensive science/engineering projects ruined by surprising causes

If you have more such stories, please share them!

During the confirmation hearings, Pete Hegseth’s sexual misconduct and little management experience, took all of the attention from Democrats but US exceptionalism seems to be bipartisan with little outrage around the fact that he defended US war crimes, has no problems following orders from Trump if it involves invading Greenland or Panama and openly rejects the Geneva Conventions.
https://sfba.social/@skykiss/113833200070635227

📡🛰️ Given the recent takeover threats, it's smart for Greenland to choose French Eutelsat over US-based SpaceX for low-earth orbit connectivity.

> Eutelsat’s OneWeb satellites operate in a polar orbit, enabling seamless high-latitude coverage and ensuring low latency, high-speed connectivity in Arctic conditions.

https://www.mynewsdesk.com/eutelsat/pressreleases/eutelsat-and-tusass-expand-strategic-partnership-to-bring-resilient-leo-connectivity-to-greenland-3407832

Trump continues his fascist expansionist agenda by renewing military threats against Greenland and therefore also Denmark and the EU.

"One way or another, we will get Greenland”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115830256203421976

If you don't take the Canadian and Greenland annexation threats from the US seriously, you're not paying enough attention.

These happen next if there are no consequences for the Venezuela coup.

When you’re shopping for security defenses without threat modeling first

“ Denmark is investing $8.5 billion in defense capabilities, including a stronger presence in Greenland and 16 new F-35 fighter jets.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-10/denmark-buys-16-new-fighter-jets-invests-billions-in-the-arctic

The New World Order:

US gets the Americas including Venezuelan oil, Canada and Greenland
China gets Taiwan
Russia gets ex-URSS states

Each closes the eyes on the invasions of the others. This is a marriage of convenience against International Law and Sovereignty.

🇪🇺 The big unknown is whether the EU is going to federate or fall divided, becoming vassal states from one of these poles.

Time to stand up 💪

@morph @yawnbox Unite, Federate and Defend its grounds so that it can be a credible alternative and does not critically depend on other “poles”

🇪🇺🦅🇺🇸 The US National Security Strategy says it plain and clear, MAGA is at war with the European Union and its values.

They want to push a nationalist, nativist, anti-climate action ... future on Europe.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf