Archive for Arc de Triomphe

NeurIPS 2026 in Paris, and in Sydney, and in Atlanta

Posted in Statistics with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2026 by xi'an

NeurIPS 2026 is calling for workshops. With deadline 06 June. It made me realize that, this year, NeurIPS will be held across three locations: Sydney as the main location, plus Paris and Atlanta as quasi mirrors. In fact, the European venue was selected by ELLIS to build on the success of EurIPS. Notably, Paris will mark the first time NeurIPS has an official European parallel conference where authors can present their accepted papers without registering for Sydney. NeurIPS workshops in Paris will take place on December 12–13. Another significant argument that mirror meetings are coming to a place near(er and nearer) to you!

how to qualify a State where…

Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 8, 2026 by xi'an
  • death penalty by firing squads is being reinstated
  • foreign, extra-judiciary, State killings are praised by the highest levels of the administration
  • counter-powers and political opponents are threatened with legal action
  • local and national bodies are actively and aggressively pursuing voter suppression tactics
  • scientific bodies are silenced to cater to anti-vaxers and anti-abortion organisations
  • avoidable mortality rose from 2009 to 2021, while it declined in most other high-income countries
  • the judiciary and the legislature are silenced
  • a former F.B.I. director is indicted for a Instagram image of seashells
  • the President pushes for a personality cult (e.g., posting his picture on passports, creating an gallery of presidential portraits demeaning his predecessors and extolling himself, and broadcasting images of himself as an healing Christ),
  • threatens to destroy a millenial civilization,
  • and intends to build an triumphal arch that competes with Napoléon’s Arc de Triomphe
  • the Vice President gives theology lessons to the Pope
  • the Defence Department is renamed the Department of War
  • and its secretary is invoking divine sanction for illegal, criminal, military actions, if confusing quotes from the bible with quotes from Pulp Fiction

Strikingly, Mother Jones draws a strong parallel between the grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence and the above…

la lutte capitale [cover]

Posted in Books, Kids, pictures with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2024 by xi'an

“It is clearly the most spectacular transfer operation in our national history: on August 25, 1944, the French Résistance offered its heroïsm and its dead to the entire Paris population and the whole Nation, thus allowing all French people to find solace and absolution in the mythology of a capital that had liberated itself, a military triumph of a unanimously resisting France. The relegation of American soldiers and other foreigners who had fought in the streets of Paris, the collective erasure of the triumphant welcome of Maréchal Pétain on the Champs-Elysées a mere four months earlier, and the hurried sanctification of a mostly unknown de Gaulle would participate in making such a massive mystification possible. There is not doubt that it was necessary in the context of a wounded nation and its traumatized capital city; after all, what national narrative is more compelling than one of a population that sets itself free?” Dov Alfon, Libération, 24 Aug 2024

R like racism, H like hate

Posted in Kids, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 26, 2024 by xi'an

«Les Français d’origine étrangère ou de nationalité étrangère n’ont rien à craindre de la politique que [le RN veut] mettre en œuvre, s’ils travaillent, paient leurs impôts, paient leurs cotisations, respectent la loi, aiment notre pays.” J Bardella, 14 June 2024

«Français d’origine étrangère [enfermés] dans la repentance et la haine de la France, une génération arrivée à l’âge adulte (…) et qui se comporte comme les ressortissants d’un Etat étranger.» J Bardella, December 2022

«la régularisation d’un étranger en situation illégale sera en principe interdite, à l’exception de décisions individuelles (…) à titre exceptionnel et pour un motif supérieur d’intérêt national ou quand l’intéressé a rendu des services éminents à la France ;  la priorité nationale sera autorisée, notamment dans l’accès à l’emploi dans le secteur privé ou dans le secteur public et dans l’accès au logement social ; elle constituera un droit constitutionnellement invocable ;  la présence des étrangers ne doit plus constituer une charge déraisonnable pour les finances publiques et le système de protection sociale. Le regroupement familial des étrangers pourra être interdit ou limité par la loi et les prestations non‑assurancielles de solidarité (…) être réservées aux nationaux ou soumises à des conditions fixées par loi (…)  la conclusion d’engagements internationaux de libre circulation des personnes aux frontières sera subordonnée à la sauvegarde des intérêts nationaux en matière de sécurité intérieure et extérieure, de protection de l’ordre public et de sauvegarde de l’identité française ;  la loi pourra désormais réprimer pénalement toute personne qui aura (…) facilité ou tenté de faciliter l’entrée, la circulation, le séjour ou le travail irréguliers d’un étranger en France ou sa soustraction à une mesure d’éloignement. Aucune exemption de peine ne pourra ainsi être accordée, au nom d’un concept détourné de « fraternité », en cas d’aide aux clandestins.» M Le Pen, 25 January 2024

what’s wrong with this picture [ans.: nothing]

Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , on January 8, 2022 by xi'an