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La nuit a été rude…
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There is something almost absurd in the way British politics often behaves as though replacing the Prime Minister will somehow solve the country’s deeper problems.
The ritual has become familiar. A Prime Minister arrives with promises of renewal, reform, and leadership. For a brief moment, they are presented as the person capable of steering the nation through its challenges. Yet before long, the machinery surrounding them begins to grind into motion: factions within their own party, parliamentary rivalries, entrenched interests, and an information ecosystem dominated by outrage-driven media and tabloid narratives.
Public opinion, itself shaped by this relentless environment, turns against the Prime Minister. Every mistake is amplified, every compromise portrayed as weakness, every failure personalized. The Prime Minister becomes less a leader than a lightning rod, absorbing the frustrations of an increasingly dissatisfied public.
Eventually, the image of weakness becomes politically intolerable. Colleagues who once championed the leader begin distancing themselves. Internal rebellions emerge. Calls for resignation grow louder. The Prime Minister is discarded, replaced by a new figure who arrives promising a fresh start.
And then the cycle begins again.
What makes this process particularly striking is the assumption that changing the individual at the top can resolve problems that are fundamentally structural: stagnant productivity, regional inequalities, housing shortages, strained public services, demographic pressures, and a political culture increasingly driven by short-term media reactions rather than long-term planning.
The result is a political theatre in which the cast changes regularly, but the script remains largely the same.
As for #Brexit, it remains difficult to think of another modern democratic decision in which a nation voluntarily imposed such profound economic, diplomatic, and administrative costs upon itself while simultaneously convincing itself that doing so would restore control. Whatever one’s views on sovereignty, it stands as one of the most consequential acts of national self-harm in recent European history.
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Je pense qu’il y a quelque chose de profondément humain dans notre besoin d’expliquer les dysfonctionnements par des intentions. Lorsqu’un système échoue, lorsqu’une institution ne répond pas à sa mission, nous cherchons instinctivement un responsabl...
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Existe-t-il dans les institutions humaines des équivalents des tourbillons hydrodynamiques, c’est-à-dire des configurations organisationnelles qui génèrent spontanément des retards extrêmes sans qu’aucun acteur ne les ait explicitement voulus ?
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Upgrading openshift clusters assisted by Claude + Openshift skills is a joy, it really turns the whole operation into a smooth process.
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There is something profoundly absurd about a nation hosting international sporting events while simultaneously making itself hostile to large parts of the international community.
The United States is managing to transform a celebration of global competition, exchange, and human connection into a demonstration of exclusion, suspicion, and discrimination. It is a fitting reflection of the political degeneration, institutional decay, and cultural rot embodied by the current regime.
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Interesting: Turning Arch Linux into a Music Production Powerhouse: Running Ableton Live in a Windows VM
https://mdbin.sivaramp.com/p/zu0xzzpiPermalinkWorth a look if you want to use Ableton on Linux !
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Woke up to my geekom mini IT13 shutdown opening the box revealed that the top right corner is literally burned and dead.
Anything I can do to save this?
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Dingue le niveau d’infantilisation dans les médias français à propos de la canicule en cours, bientôt le gouvernement va vouloir interdire ou réguler le soleil et la quantité d’eau ou d’accès à X ou Y.
En fait c’est une version de Don’t Look Up mais dans un monde parallèle, chaque année c’est la grande surprise alors que ça fait plus de 20 ans que le sujet du désordre climatique dû à l’activité humaine est sur la table.
Sans aucun doute qu’il faut mettre les moyens pour aider les personnes vulnérables, mais en fait la vraie solution se passe à l’échelle locale, parfois ultra locale et c’est pas “le Gouvernement” qui va pouvoir gérer l’adaptation, alors qu’il ne fait pas grand chose en amont pour générer une adaptation systémique à l’inévitable augmentation des dérèglements climatiques.
c’est vraiment la bureaucratie à la française dans toute sa splendeur.
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AI: T1/C0
The true test of a constitution is not how it functions when everyone plays by the rules. It is how it performs when those in power decide to break them.
If a constitution cannot stop democratic backsliding, cannot protect journalists, cannot safeguard minorities, cannot prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a leader willing to exploit every loophole, then it has failed its most important purpose.
A document is not great because it is old. It is not great because generations have mythologized it. It is great only if it can protect freedom when freedom is under attack.
A constitution that survives only on paper while democracy erodes in practice is not the best constitution on Earth. It is a warning.
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Reading… “This is not a company. It’s a megawatt-acquisition vehicle wearing a chatbot.”
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