CURRENTLY WRITING

Canada, China, Mexico and the art of retaliation [The Economist]

The warlord, the oligarch and the unravelling of Russia’s Amazon.com [1843 Magazine]

Leaders Shouldn’t Try to Do It All [Harvard Business Review]

‘People are afraid’: BBC visits DR Congo city under rebel control [BBC News]

RFK Jr. Is Not Up to the Enormous Task Before Him [Bloomberg]

North American companies brace for fallout from Trump tariffs [Reuters]

Trump at odds with US military veterans over snarled Afghan relocations [AL-Jazeera News]

The Mystery of Tulsi Gabbard [The New Yorker]

A better way to buy and read books [The Verge]

One reason it’s harder to escape poverty in America [Vox]

Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk’s DOGE granted ‘full access’ to sensitive Treasury systems [TechCrunch]

OpenAI releases its new o3-mini reasoning model for free [MIT Technology Review]

The West is seeing Kim Jong Un’s army in action. The North Korean soldiers are brutal zealots undeterred in the face of death [Business Insider]

🙌🏾🙌🏻🙌🙌🏿 Thank you so much and congratulations to the awesome Anne Dumontier and the entire American Association of Teachers of French - NorCal AATF-NC for an insightful matinée "Pour Une Langue Française Ouverte au Monde" at the Stanford University's CREDAS in company of the fantastic author and citizen of the world, Alain Mabanckou.

Great company and great conversation, exchanging about the power of making propositions and proposals, reconsidering utopies, dreaming, the importance of reading from A to Z and Z to A, balancing adding and multiplying versus dividing, family, positivity, links and bonds across and without borders, lionesses, "the eyelook that never gets old" and so many other perspectives, shared with humor, finesse and elegance.

Vive la Francophonie!

Looking forward to the next AATF events (find more about their program @: www.aatf-norcal.org).

Thank you also to welcoming our French American Cultural Society (FACS) and Alliance Francaise Silicon Valley teams as partners and friends.

And for the folks interested in one of the next cool Francophonie event in the Bay Area, check our French American Cultural Days (Ze FACD) on 3/15/25 ! All details 👀: https://lnkd.in/gWVVrQ5r. The program is fantastic and open to all! #JournéedePrintemps2025 #TogetherSmarter #Diversity #Inclusion #NoBorders #NoWalls French American Cultural Society (FACS), Alliance Francaise Silicon Valley [LinkedIn]

‘Female narcissism is often misdiagnosed’: how science is finding women can have a dark streak too [The Guardian]

Avacados, Tomatoes and Cars: Tariffs Could Raise Prices for U.S. Consumers [The New York Times]

Every Winner From The 2025 Grammys: The Complete List [Huffington Post]

The Democrats Show Why They Lost [The Atlantic]

Why Republicans' proposed health care cuts could be politically risky [FiveThirtyEight]

Silicon Valley is learning what ‘crypto president’ really means [The Washington Post]

At least 160,000 rally in Berlin against far right [Le Monde]

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump's inauguration. What's going on? [Mashable]

Don’t Procrastinate Important Tasks. But Don’t Precrastinate, Either. [VICE News]

Trump’s Nightmare Plan for Gaza [The Intercept_]

Groundhog Day’s spring predictions no better than chance [National Geographic]

Syria's new government is trying to rebuild. First it must keep the lights on [NPR]

Back-to-back storms to drench Sacramento after exceptionally dry January [CapRadioNews]

Étudiants, se résigner ou lutter [Le Monde diplomatique]

Trump Prepping to Detain Thousands of Migrants at Guantánamo [Foreign Policy]

Putin’s Fight Won’t End With Ukraine [Foreign Affairs]

Japan, the UK, and Italy Discuss Bringing Saudi Arabia Into Their Next-Generation Fighter Jet Project [The Diplomat]

China’s DeepSeek Breakthrough – and What it Means for National Security [The Cipher Brief]

Au régime sec, la DGSI sanctuarise le financement de son logiciel espion "maison" [Intelligence Online FR]

Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe [Quanta Magazine]

À l’occasion de la Journée internationale des femmes et des filles de science, la physicienne Yasmine Amhis et le quatuor à cordes DoniSSi vous invitent à explorer les mystères du temps sous toutes ses facettes. [CERN_FR]

A Month of Bright Planets [NASA]

What’s up, everybody! It’s Monday, February 3rd, 2025. As mentioned on Saturday, it is a brand-new month. Yesterday was the Grammys, its 67th Edition. I’ll do my best to watch on DVR when I can, I currently do not have access to any streaming portals. I did watch the 9th episode of DiggNation Reboot, and that was awesome. It’s a new month, more bandwidth available, so I’ll do a few VLOGs and videogames livestreams.

Until Next Time!