There is no justice only power.
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Most people don’t yet grasp what is happening in France. Markets are pricing French sovereign debt as junk, rating agencies will eventually have to follow. This will have two major impacts:
1. Most French banks are already rated at or just below the sovereign, so a move toward junk would likely drag domestically focused lenders with it. Credit to households and firms would slow sharply, hurting the economy and widening the fiscal deficit even further, a vicious cycle.
2. For the ECB, the constraint is legal as well as financial. A fall below investment grade would force sales by ratings-bound investors while making any backstop harder to justify under current rules.
The next euro crisis will begin in France. The first, which began in Greece, will feel like a walk in the park compared with what comes next.
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IBM, 1979. We’re regressing at a rapid pace.
#BREAKING: Pentagon blames flawed intel and AI for strike that killed at least 123 Iranian children.
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Si la France était une démocratie, si ses dirigeants avaient un honneur et son administration une dignité, cet escadron aurait été immédiatement dissous après la publication de ses vidéos.
Il n’en a rien été.
La France doit être nettoyée. xitter.cf/AdresanSoso/status/208…
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Anthropic are literally effectively burning books and want to be the exclusive source of truth in the future.
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
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Merci au Parquet d’avoir laissé traîner l’enquête jusqu’à la mort du principal suspect, qui n’était pas sous protection policière renforcée contre ses complices.
Cela permet de ne pas engorger la justice avec une immense affaire pedocriminelle.
Les magistrats pourront ainsi les juger les affaires majeures comme les constructions sans permis de construire ou les délits d’opinion.
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🇺🇸🇪🇺FLASH INFO - Sous la menace de Washington, l’UE négocie un accord (EBSP) donnant au DHS américain un accès direct aux fichiers biométriques des États membres de l’UE.
Un niveau d’accès jamais accordé à un pays tiers, incluant origines ethniques, opinions politiques, croyances religieuses et données génétiques.
Le mandat a été validé « sans débat » par les ministres, avec un ultimatum américain fixé à fin 2026.
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🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔
They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant
The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you:
They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through
There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want
Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔
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I will never understand why ugly converts better than pretty and I’ve been doing this close to 15 years
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i run six DTC brands rn (a couple doing 8-figures)
we push out 75+ ads per week
i duplicated our creative engine so you can have it for free
pre-built and pre-automated
just like, RT + comment “ENGINE” and i’ll send it over
(must be following)
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Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:
“Until death, all defeat is psychological.”
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for all you know, this could be your last summer.
as homer wrote, you will never be lovelier than you are right now. so tell her she has a pretty smile. get lean or become a unit. find wonder in boarding the airplane. drink more coffee than you need. walk on the beach until your feet hurt. write your girlfriend a note on a tuesday. waste money because its not all about retirement. pull over at the lookout. ask the uber driver about his life. tell the woman in the elevator you like her shoes and mean it. call your mother. ask the waiter his favorite thing on the menu and order that.
theres so much life in the slow moments, and you sprint past it chasing the next thing. but at any time, in any situation, you can find the good. smile. be happy. recognize it for a one of one life experience. what good is walking around a curmudgeon when tomorrow could be curtains.
for heavens sake, flirt with the world.
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Kevin O'Leary made his money in classic boomer fashion. He benefited from cheap housing, cheap education, expanding consumer markets, rising asset prices for decades.
A mediocre operator in 1985 had easier odds than an exceptional operator today. Kevin didn't invent anything, nor did he innovate. He made most of his money from capital allocation, not value creation.
In typical boomer fashion, Kevin's advice unconsciously assumes that markets aren't saturated, education guarantees mobility, housing remains cheap, globalization continues upward etc.
This is a level of tone-deafness we only see from the boomer cohort. Musk and Bezos are not like this. Nor were Carnegie and Ford. Boomers are uniquely out of touch
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Here's where this goes...
Firstly, kiss successful insurance claims goodbye.
Any accident will be blamed on "sub-optimal driver performance", and that time your hands moved briefly from the 10-and-2 or your eyeline wasn't correctly picked up by the mirror sensor will be used to blame your fender-bender on you.
Secondly, there will be a big "people drive dangerously" propaganda push. "ADDW data harvesting has shown up 80% of us might be driving more recklessly than we think", or "most veteran drivers slip in to bad habits, reports show".
Then comes the new legislation to act on this totally fabricated problem. What is it? Oh, it's re-certification. Every driver has to be re-certified after X years on the road.
Or maybe your driver monitoring data will be uploaded to a database and scanned for errors. Those errors put points on your license and if you go over a certain number of points, your ability to drive is taken away pending recertification.
You can appeal, and drive while the appeal takes place. But the appeal fee is greater than the recertification fee, and if you lose, you have to pay legal costs, and you're not allowed to drive for double the usual amount of time.
You'll have to pay a "processing" fee for re-certifying, of course, and if you fail, you'll have to wait X amount of months before you can try again.
Headlines will celebrate both the (fictional) decrease in traffic fatalities and that the smaller number of private vehicles on the road has improved the pollution levels in the inner cities.
An opinion piece from an anonymous "former driver" will appear in the Guardian "I lost my drivers license, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me".
It will talk up how much money they're saving on petrol and road tax, and how much fitter they get walking everywhere and how they know their neighbours so well now.
And all sorts of cosy anecdotes about the charming characters and life-affirming tableaux that public transport exposes you to.
🇪🇺 From July 2026, a new EU regulation will require all new cars to include driver-surveillance systems (ADDW), using interior cameras to track eye movement, head position and attention levels to detect “distraction or drowsiness.”
The systems are designed for in-car safety alerts, with data processed in real time within the vehicle.
Follow: @europa
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C'est sans doute un des plus grands risques de violation de la vie privée des 20 dernières années et d’une menace directe pour la sécurité nationale européenne.
La Commission européenne veut obligee Google à livrer chaque jour, via une API, les données ultra-détaillées de nos recherches :
👉 requêtes complètes, horodatages, localisations approximatives, clics, vues et séquences entières de sessions… sur des centaines de millions d’Européens.
Santé, orientation sexuelle, opinions politiques, problèmes financiers, secrets les plus intimes : ces données sont parmi les plus sensibles qui existent.
Évidemment, elle promet "l'anonymisation" 🙃
Les conséquences pourraient être terribles :
⚠️ Fuites massives de données personnelles
⚠️ Surveillance généralisée sans aucun consentement
⚠️ Cyber-attaques facilitées
⚠️ Risque réel d’accès par des services de renseignement étrangers via des tiers peu sécurisés
Au nom de la "concurrence", on sacrifie nos libertés fondamentales et notre souveraineté numérique.
⏳ Il reste très peu de temps : la consultation publique ferme le 1er mai 2026.
Partagez massivement, taguez vos eurodéputés et dites NON à cette bombe à retardement.
Nos données, nos libertés.
Plus de données partagées, moins de sécurité.
