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ça fait 2 mois que je traîne sur la publication d’un article long format qui pose la question : pourquoi sait-on prévoir mais plus gouverner ? (en rapport avec les incendies de cet été, les manques de moyens chroniques de la Justice, l’absence de moyen pour l’éducation et j’en passe)
J’ai fait plein de recherche, j’ai sourcé mes affirmations, j’ai allongé, raccourcis, comprimé, retiré, j’en suis à plus de 8000 charactères et je ne suis pas content, c’est dur d’écrire en fait.
Et je ne vais même pas aborder le cas de mon livre qui lui est encore à l’état de balbutiement.
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I think those that have some education and did not voted for Trump know it very well…?
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I meant it in the sense “not doing enough” to resist while people from outside are ?
I like her, perhaps that’s another good thing in the US landscape : Journalists saying fuck you to billionaires owned media platforms and building resistance and free thinking outside of the limited, bowed, humiliated media conglomerates that are licking Trump’s booth.
And the media are not alone, there are universities, law firms, corporations, tech moguls, ALL bowing to the King.
So the best thing that can happen is good people saying fuck you and taking a hike to build resistance on the side.
There isn’t just one way to resist. In fact, the best resistance against a corrupt regime is a multitude of forms of resistance.
At least some USians are not totally lost. And that’s good.
I don’t know how USians aren’t more bothered — even humiliated — by watching Canadians resist Trump more coherently than the United States itself.
And I don’t mean that Americans aren’t resisting. They are. People protest, states sue the federal government, judges block illegal decisions, Trump’s approval is collapsing.
But look at Canada.
Canadian consumers are boycotting American products. Businesses are finding new suppliers. Travel to the United States remains dramatically below 2024 levels. The Canadian government now has an explicit strategy to double exports outside the United States. And Canada is moving closer to Europe economically, strategically and militarily — to the point that Mark Carney is reportedly exploring some kind of unprecedented “associate” relationship with the EU.
That’s not just anger anymore.
That’s adaptation.
And I think this is the part Americans haven’t fully reckoned with yet.
The United States hasn’t lost its military power. It hasn’t stopped being one of the largest economies on Earth. It hasn’t magically ceased to matter.
What it is losing is something much harder to rebuild: trust.
The assumption that the United States is a reasonably predictable ally, a stable trading partner and a country whose commitments will survive the next election.
That assumption is dying.
International polling already shows an extraordinary deterioration in America’s reputation. Even indexes that still rank the United States first in global soft power recorded the largest decline of any country in 2026.
And once countries start reorganizing themselves around the possibility that America cannot be trusted, replacing Trump with another president doesn’t simply reset the clock.
Supply chains get rebuilt. Trade goes elsewhere. Defence industries develop alternatives. Alliances deepen. Infrastructure gets constructed. Companies learn how to operate without American suppliers. Governments discover that strategic autonomy is not merely an ideological slogan but insurance against Washington.
That is the extraordinary self-harm of Trumpism.
Trump promised to make America so powerful that everyone would have to bend to it.
Instead, he is teaching everyone how to live without it.
Canada is doing it. Europe is doing it. Other countries will do it in their own ways — sometimes because they want to, sometimes because they have no choice.
And that may ultimately be healthy.
A world less dependent on a single country is potentially more resilient. Europe should have developed greater autonomy decades ago. Canada probably should never have allowed such overwhelming dependence on one trading partner. Countries in Africa and Latin America have every reason to diversify relationships rather than constantly choose between great powers.
The irony is brutal.
No terrorist organization, foreign adversary or grassroots revolutionary movement could realistically have inflicted this kind of strategic damage on the United States.
It required the United States itself.
There is something almost Brexit-like about it: external enemies can hurt you, but self-harm has a completely different scale. You know where your institutions are. You know which alliances matter. You know which foundations are load-bearing.
And then you dismantle them yourself.
The United States will survive Trump. Of course it will.
But the world that existed before Trump may not return.
Because the rest of us are learning a lesson that will survive him:
never again build a world in which so much depends on the political sanity of one country.
It’s over.
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Far too late for this, we’re still paying the price of the US descent into folly, followed by its closest allies getting a blank check to reconfigure their part of the world. The US never did an introspection after Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq or whatever disruption it caused in the name of “security & oil” and so there will be no introspection in relation to Iran or Israel, just the same descent to hell supported by ignorance and idio-klepto-kakistocracy.
Genocidal cogs just doing their technical job is the new normal
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/11/naza-directors-film-israeli-intelligence-rachel-szor-yuval-abraham-?CMP=share_btn_urlPermalinkNAZA – directed by the Israeli film-makers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham and produced by the Guardian – is a chilling documentary about a mass slaughter that was authorised at the highest levels of Israeli government.
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’:
The “just doing my job” of Israeli military cogs against Palestinian people is literally the same excuse used by the Nazis against the Jews.
What a circus this administration/regime !
Il y a quatre ans, presque jour pour jour, ARTE diffusait “Bouddhisme, la loi du silence” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcbpwOzoejw le documentaire d’Élodie Emery et Wandrille Lanos. Un véritable ovni télévisuel, qui a pourtant failli ne jamais êtr...
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De 2010 à 2013, j’ai été assez actif dans plusieurs mouvements citoyens qui ont vu le jour à cette époque, notamment celui des « Indignés ».
Et quand je vois aujourd’hui le traitement médiatique réservé à Mars Attacks — son « front mou », son « manque d’interlocuteur clair », son supposé « noyautage » — ça me rappelle pas mal de souvenirs.
Des souvenirs d’un appareil politique belge totalement incapable d’incarner une démocratie réelle et qui, lorsqu’il se heurte à une mobilisation citoyenne qu’il ne contrôle pas, reproduit toujours les mêmes réflexes. Avec, en soutien, un appareil médiatique largement intoxiqué par l’entre-soi politique.
La réaction consiste alors à attendre que la tempête passe, à décrédibiliser le mouvement, à minimiser ce qu’il représente, à chercher qui se « cache derrière » plutôt qu’à écouter ce qu’il dit.
Et pendant ce temps, on continue à pénaliser l’ensemble de la société avec des mesures profondément désastreuses. Du très classique en Belgique : tailler dans la population, les précaires, les services publics et une classe moyenne déjà sur les genoux, tout en préservant « les marchés » et les 5 ou 10 % les plus riches, qui concentrent une part immense du patrimoine du pays.
Puis le service public sort ce genre d’article :
On y retrouve précisément les insinuations venues du monde politique : qui se cache derrière ? qui manipule qui ? Et le fait que certains profs soient également membres de partis politiques devient soudain suspect.
Mais on est en démocratie, non ?
Depuis quand le fait d’avoir une appartenance politique disqualifie-t-il quelqu’un de participer à un mouvement social ? Et surtout, en quoi cela permet-il de discréditer les revendications d’un mouvement né dans les écoles du pays, qui a justement tout le mérite d’exister par lui-même et pour lui-même, dans l’intérêt des profs comme des élèves ?
Pendant ce temps, le monde politique crache sur les citoyennes et citoyens qu’il est censé représenter, puis s’interroge gravement sur la « radicalisation de la société ».
Comme si cette radicalisation était apparue spontanément.
Comme si la dégradation du débat public, la perte de confiance, le sentiment d’impuissance démocratique et le mépris social n’avaient aucun rapport avec des décennies de fonctionnement politique.
À force de vider la démocratie de sa substance, il ne faut peut-être pas s’étonner que les citoyens finissent par chercher d’autres manières de se faire entendre.
Found a bug on my “webmention sender” plugin for #indiekit
I’m sorry to everyone who receive an old webmention from 2017 :))
Backgog it is so that I fix this once and for all !
coupled with my fork of indiekit’s own webmention plugin I can do things I always wanted my site to be able to do regarding webmentions : moderation !
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it can’t go beyond 7B models, but for translation, small coding projects, fixing broken linux system, that kind of work, it works really nice (I have not tested with newer approach that offload bigger models to disk tho)
Do you own a Frame.work 16 laptop ? here is how to run a local-ai stack in one shot specifically tuned for this context. https://github.com/rmdes/framework16-local-llm
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Always loved that show… So many great memories that over the years I have seen some parts over and over 😊
Getting Started with OpenWebUI Pipelines
https://ikasten.io/2024/06/03/getting-started-with-openwebui-pipelines/PermalinkInteresting stuff I want to read later
Oh... On a plus qu'un seul avion pour le Roi et les Ministres, mais quel pays de dingue tsé!
https://www.sudinfo.be/id1191110/article/2026-09-08/une-situation-incroyable-et-bien-belge-depuis-le-2-mars-il-ny-plus-quun-seulPermalinkLire ça en 2026 et se dire que de fait Jancovici a radicalement totalement raison… On est pas prêt du tout !
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