Hello, I really want to date you. But can you please go scan your Iris first on Sam Altman's Orb so I can know you're real?

"On April 17, World, a project designed to distinguish humans from bots using biometrics, announced strategic partnerships with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign. The three companies will use World’s digital identification to verify users, aiming to reduce deepfakes, scams, and other fraudulent activity.”

https://restofworld.org/2026/sam-altman-worldcoin-zoom-tinder-partnerships/

💗 Schengen

“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”

https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/borders-are-a-construct-but-this-swing-isnt

Works on any device is really overselling it because it doesn't work on any European device such the /e/OS Fairphone or a Jolla phone due to attestation enforcement.

Given that Age Verification app has the potential to exclude users who cannot prove their age, it’s mind-blowing to me that they would make it harder to use European operating systems.

Alice & Bob, one of the leading quantum computing startups, is hiring an intern in Quantum Cryptanalysis Research in Paris. This internship focused on Grover attacks on password-based security (symmetric algorithms) and not Shor.

https://jobs.lever.co/alice-bob/ecb08334-27e1-49ce-8146-83370a8028d5

"It’s worth sitting with this for a moment, I think; the fact that Alex Jones has expressed more moral concern over a US president’s calls to kill an entire civilization than any major [Silicon Valley] tech executive. […] Currently, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, xAI, Oracle and even Meta have large contracts with the US military.”
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-firms-and-their-us-military-ties

I really like this ad campaign in Paris.

“Another addiction is possible"

Less screens, more reading.

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/

Bombing bridges and power plants that serve primarily civilian purposes, without clear and immediate military necessity, would violate the principles of distinction, proportionality, and military necessity under International Humanitarian Law. Such actions would likely be classified as war crimes.

Yet, most of our leaders are not taking a stand against Trump. Shameful.

[Internship] OVH is looking for an intern to help work on their post-quantum transition
https://careers.ovhcloud.com/job/PARIS-Stage-6-mois-Septembre-Cryptage-Post-Quantum-HFN-75017/1379456433/

Why is any European country still ordering American weapons when Trump behaves in such an unpredictable way and constantly threatens to withhold deliveries?

Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying [European paid] weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/3ee11bdd-80f8-4d7a-b574-3289f29d594c

🤦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