Bonjour bonsoir, les amis. Chopinons quelques notes ensemble.

Meanwhile, on the news,

• Charlie Stross: Dude, you broke the future! on corporations as the closest we have to adversarial AI / paperclip maximizers. HN. Close to previously-blogged Ted Chiang: Silicon Valley is turning into its own worst fear.
• [fr] Monsieur Phi : Tout ce qui n'est point prose, est vers. 👍.
• Maclean's: The Canada most people don’t see, via Nouveau Projet.
• Exponential View #146: Azeem's outlook for 2018.
• [fr/qc] 15 photos anciennes de la Petite-Patrie à Montréal.
• SMBC: Rapunzel.
• Tech:
  • HN commenting the Intel security clusterfuck: The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches, Intel confronts potential ‘PR nightmare’ with reported chip flaw, Intel responds to security research findings, Serious Intel CPU bugs (2016).