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Short thoughts, updates, and quick posts. (1633 total)
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L’accord Rossel–IPM pose les fondations d’un affaiblissement durable de la presse locale et régionale en Belgique.
Ce scénario n’a rien de nouveau. Aux États-Unis, la disparition massive des journaux locaux a précédé l’apparition de véritables déserts informationnels, laissant des territoires entiers sans contre-pouvoir journalistique, sans enquête de proximité et sans surveillance réelle des pouvoirs politiques et économiques. Le résultat est connu : la viralité de la désinformation via les réseaux sociaux, davantage de désinformation, moins de participation démocratique et des institutions locales plus facilement capturées.
La France suit une trajectoire comparable : concentration croissante des médias, recul du pluralisme, marginalisation des rédactions indépendantes et uniformisation progressive du débat public. Quelques grands propriétaires décident de plus en plus de ce qui mérite d’être visible, discuté ou ignoré. Cette concentration ne suffit pas, à elle seule, à expliquer la montée de l’extrême droite, mais elle contribue à créer un espace médiatique où ses thèmes, ses obsessions et son vocabulaire finissent par devenir omniprésents.
Pendant ce temps, une caste politique et économique toujours plus étroite conserve l’accès aux plateaux, aux éditoriaux et aux leviers de décision, tandis que le reste de la société devient progressivement invisible.
Couplée à une répression systématique des mouvements sociaux et une criminalisation constante de toute forme de manifestations, désobéissance civiles, c’est la porte ouverte à une dégénérescence démocratique sans retour.
La Belgique, une fois encore, semble choisir de reproduire les mauvaises idées déjà testées ailleurs : sacrifier la diversité éditoriale, l’indépendance des rédactions et l’information de proximité au nom de la sacro-sainte rentabilité.
Mais la presse n’est pas une industrie comme une autre. Son utilité ne se mesure pas uniquement à ses marges, à ses abonnements ou à ses économies d’échelle. Une démocratie saine a besoin de rédactions nombreuses, indépendantes, concurrentes et suffisamment financées pour enquêter, déranger et rendre visibles des réalités que les grands centres de pouvoir préféreraient souvent maintenir dans l’ombre.
Quand toute la presse quotidienne francophone finit par dépendre du même groupe, le problème n’est pas seulement économique.
C’est une menace directe contre le pluralisme démocratique.
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The United States’ 250th birthday celebration looked less like a national commemoration than a cheap, Trump-centric political rally, detached from the everyday reality of millions of Americans.
Independence Day increasingly feels repurposed as a celebration of one man rather than of a republic.
If that trajectory continues, the real test will not be the fireworks but the midterms: whether democratic institutions remain capable of constraining executive power, or whether political retaliation, institutional erosion, and the concentration of power become [the new normal.] (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/opioid-of-the-masses/489911/)
The measure of a democracy is not how loudly it celebrates its founding, but how well it protects the institutions meant to outlive any president.
The 250th edition of independence Day was a tragic display of ignorance, cupidity and political sectarianism orchestrated by the Trump elected regime.
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Tournage avec France 2 affaires sensibles pour chardonsbleus.org
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J’ai reçu un spam pour le renouvellement de Norton anti-virus, d’un coup je me suis senti vieux :P
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I don’t follow the games but I do follow US politics and obviously the Trump regime wouldn’t miss that one.
FIFA loves to pretend football and politics should never mix.
Adorable.
By allowing the U.S. government to treat Iran as a political target during the World Cup, FIFA did not stay neutral. It simply outsourced the dirty work to the host country.
And in doing so, it created a precedent.
Future hosts now know the rule: use visas, borders and entry restrictions as political weapons, and FIFA will look the other way — provided the stadiums are shiny enough and the sponsors are comfortable.
There is no walking that back.
The “world’s game” is now apparently open to everyone, unless the host government behaves like a drunk bouncer.
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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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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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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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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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Test new layout
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petite mise à jours de mon poc #Vyshyvanka https://vyshyvanka.rmendes.net/#m=panel&r=borshchiv&c=4&vy=25&st=sq&seed=vfpou3q&res=fhd&lay=fabric&bg=linen&sc=medium&sh=rushnyk&tr=81&sym=d4&vox=23.65&voy=25.59&voz=6.134
Faut explorer la barre latérale de contrôle, wallpaper et Explore surtout et les autres onglets verticaux, il y a beaucoup d’options pour contrôler le résultat, ya sûrement encore des bugs aussi…si vous en trouvez faite signe !
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Working on making my #indiekit fork cloudron/docker deployment multi-site, the idea is that I want anyone to deploy it and have a fully working setup in one shot, for that I created a plugin registry that act as “source of truth” for which plugin exist or is enabled per site and which version to deploy.
This also allow me to test end to end the deployment of a new site using my fork, literally putting myself in the shoes of anyone doing it.
The result is that I had to refactor quite a few parts to make site-configuration driven by data rather than env files.
This allow me to configure any parts of the theme/site without touching code. well “any” is still a long shot ahead but I got branding, identity, h-card, homepage, blog sidebars fully data driven, if I change an option, its going to rebuild Eleventy and present me the changes in near real time, one rebuild away.
I’m also using this opportunity to migrate my wordpress based chardonsbleus site to indiekit and since chardonsbleus.org is not a blog and more a typical website I’ve had to make quite some modifications to let users decide how they want each page or post to behave, allowing them to choose widgets to display, sections to display for the homepage, without touching code.
its still a work in progress, but I’m getting there !
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The idea that you can “reset your algorithm” by doing X or Y on corporate platforms is absolutely ridiculous.
At most you can influence just a bit the way you are impacted by feeding it dislike or not interested actions but ultimately the corporations that own the algorithm enforce whatever it wants to every users.
You can’t “reset your algorithm” by watching 2 min shorts of nature or music or whatever. It’s an urban myth.
You can’t pray the algorithm to obtain a change, it’s a delusion.
The idea that if you land on a short is in itself a rare privilege encouraging you to like, comment or share the video is just another mechanism to manipulate the user, it has no impact whatsoever besides provoking a waterfall of similar content to keep you hooked.
In the same way, replacing words such as S*x or whatever words to avoid hurting one’s account against the algorithm is ridiculous.
People are self-censoring by pretending that masquerading keywords will avoid the algorithmic reranking of one’s post is another collective delusion. It’s like people adopt censorship thinking they can bypass algorithms or make their content surface better because it has S*x instead of Sex is beyond ridiculous.
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Just for the fun : a local browser only #vyshyvanka generator inspired by Ukrainian traditions.
Now with better mobile support and better UI
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TLDR : A reflection on why simple stories of kindness, compassion, and humanity can evoke such powerful emotions, even in an age of algorithms and viral content.
Sometimes I think it’s ridiculous how my mind reacts to a simple video, or even just a short piece of text telling a story about compassion, goodwill, humanity, or empathy.
Our social media feeds are filled with these stories. Some—maybe many—are probably made up, carefully designed to create engagement and go viral. Others are manufactured from the start as beautiful but fictional narratives. Those aren’t the ones I’m talking about.
I mean the simple posts that are often nothing more than a box of text. You actually have to stop and read them to grasp the story. Some of those are probably fictional too.
It’s also likely that the Algorithm ©®™ has noticed how much I enjoy this type of content and keeps serving me more of it, or stories that follow the same pattern. But that’s not really the point.
What I find interesting is how my brain can experience genuine emotions from such simple stories.
A person helping someone else without expecting anything in return. A father struggling to feed his children being helped by a stranger. A truck driver stopping to help a struggling single mother. The examples could go on indefinitely.
What amazes me is how powerfully humans respond to stories. Whether they come through books, movies, TV series, or a single social media slide, stories have a unique ability to move us. Sometimes just one paragraph is enough. A few lines of text can spark beautiful emotions because something in the story resonates with something within us.
And sometimes those emotions bring tears. Not tears of sadness, but something harder to describe. It’s a strange mixture of gratitude, hope, tenderness, and awe. A story touches a nerve, and a wave of feeling rises from somewhere deep inside. It swells quietly and then crashes onto the shore of the mind, like the sea.
It fascinates me that even when I know some of these stories may be exaggerated or entirely fictional, the emotional response can still be real. The facts matter, of course, but there is also something deeper at work. Perhaps it is the reminder that kindness exists, that people are capable of helping one another, and that goodness still has the power to surprise us. Maybe that is why these stories linger long after I’ve finished reading them.
Perhaps stories is why humanity is still around.
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