Unquenchable Thirst (2025)
I read that each short conversation with OpenAI's ChatGPT can use up to 500 mL of water. This water is used to cool the servers in the data centres. It’s a striking visualization of how thirsty these systems are. What
Rewriting of History (2025)
I was reading Tom Standage’s column, The World Ahead 2026, in The Economist, November 15th, 2025 edition. The World Ahead is an annual issue that examines the trends to watch in the coming year. In this 2026 edition, Standage writes:"This is
Fotogenia 7 (2025)
Je suis très content de faire partie de ce festival rassembleur ! C'est une première pour The Wonders of the World/Las maravillas del mundo FOTOGENIA FESTIVAL https://www.fotogeniafilmfestival.org/en 7º / 2025 FOTOGENIA IS THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL FILMPOETRY & DIVERGENT NARRATIVES FESTIVAL IN MEXICO, promoting one space
Philosophie sociopathique (2025)
Mes yeux me sont sortis de la tête en écoutant M. Jean-Luc Landry, gestionnaire de portefeuille à la retraite, sur l’émission « L’avis de notre C.A/Zone économique ». On y parlait des investissements probables de l’Arabie saoudite au Canada. Jean-Luc Landry : L’Arabie
Un conte de deux salles d’attente (2025)
Il y a des files d’attente pour entrer au cinéma, au restaurant ou pour l’ouverture d’un magasin la veille des ventes du Vendredi fou. Il y a aussi des salles d’attente chez le dentiste ou à l’atelier de réparation automobile.
News and Music (2025)
I was listening to CBC’s The National the other day and was struck once again by the way some news segments are set to music. These expository reports are presented as longer pieces in a documentary style and draw on
The Devil’s Details (2025)
Angel on My Shoulder is a 1946 film directed by Archie Mayo. The movie starts with the gangster Eddie Kagle (Paul Muni) getting out of jail and being picked up by his partner in crime, Smiley Williams (Hardie Albright), who
Facts / Now and Then (2025)
I found a copy of Hard Times by Dickens at the ReStore. That day, there was a special: all the books were $1 each. So these Hard Times were pretty easy to get! The opening sentence about facts feels quite different
La pie voleuse (2025)
Quelle tristesse. Les chefs d’État du monde entier se sont mis à lécher les bottes de Trump et ne peuvent plus s’arrêter. Ils le couvrent d’or en espérant qu’il les bénisse. Je dis que c’en est assez d’humiliation, et que
Allusions (2025)
Original text in English (if you are reading it in another language, it is an automatic translation). The crisis of democracy, of inequality and race, and the crisis of truth and information gripping the US has no bottom. I know that