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the bluecheck is israeli the bluecheck is counterterrorism



The FBI has a new target: pre-teen terrorists kenklippenstein.com/p/pre-teen-ter…

VANCE: What they have done is engage in this act of economic terrorism against the entire world. As the President showed, two can play at that game.

France is on the eve of voting one of the most shameful laws in its history: it would effectively outlaw criticism of Israel and criminalize any speech seen as even remotely sympathetic to whoever the French government chooses to designate a "terrorist group." In effect this law would turn France's foreign policy into unchallengeable dogma backed by prison time. You could literally be sent for 5 years in prison if you, for instance, call what France says are "terrorists" a "resistance group." Think for instance Nelson Mandela during the apartheid (the ANC was on every Western terrorist list) or, heck, France's own Résistance against Nazi Germany - designated as "terrorists" by the Vichy regime and the Nazi occupation. It's frankly absolutely insane. The new law is called "loi Yadan" after its author Caroline Yadan, a MP who represents French expatriates living in Israel. The U.S. has congressmen paid by AIPAC: France has cut out the middleman entirely, we have MPs whose constituency is literally in Israel. The law has already passed committee and heads to a full parliamentary vote on April 16th - 3 days from now - under a very unusual fast-track procedure. Seven of eleven parliamentary groups have said they'll vote yes and the law is expected to pass. What does the law say? Let me quote from it directly (full text here: assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/textes/…): 1) Article 1 introduces the concept of "implicit" provocation to terrorism and punishes it with five years imprisonment and a fine of €75,000 That's the one I was speaking about. Under this provision, describing anyone France designates as terrorist as a "resistance movement" - the way France describes its own Résistance against Nazi occupation - could effectively become a crime. The key concept is what does "implicit provocation to terrorism" mean? Nobody knows. And that's the point. It means whatever a prosecutor wants it to mean: a perfectly good case could be made that, for instance, quoting international law on the right of occupied peoples to resist with respect to Hamas is, in fact, "implicit provocation to terrorism." France's most famous anti-terrorism judge, Marc Trévidic, says he has never seen anything like it in his entire career (x.com/CharliesIngall…): "Implicit provocation to terrorism: do you realize what that means? Becoming a censor of other people's thoughts, trying to guess what a person really meant." 2) The same article also expands the terrorism apology offense to include "minimizing or trivializing acts of terrorism in an outrageous manner." This is even crazier: until now, "apology of terrorism" meant actually expressing a favorable judgment of "terrorist acts" (which is already insane because, as we all know, one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter). Well, under this new provision, a judge could decide that providing context, explaining root causes, or insufficiently condemning an act amounts to "trivializing" terrorism - and that would now be punishable with 5 years in prison. So, for instance, a history teacher explaining the origins of Hamas or Hezbollah is providing context - but a prosecutor could argue that contextualization is trivialization. The same reasoning could apply to a journalist, a researcher, or anyone on social media who says "yes, it was terrible, but here's why it happened." The "but" becomes a crime, as it is trivialization. 3) Article 4 expands Holocaust denial law Under current French law, denying the Holocaust is already a crime. This provision extends that crime by specifying that contestation of crimes against humanity now includes, "whatever its formulation, a negation, minimization, or outrageous trivialization" of those crimes. Again with "outrageous trivialization"! In this instance the very authors of the text - Caroline Yadan and her colleagues - explain their reasoning explicitly in the law's preamble (assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/textes/…): "Comparing the State of Israel to the Nazi regime would thereby be punishable as an outrageous trivialization of the Shoah." So while the provision is written in general terms, its architects are openly saying what it's for: making it a crime to draw any parallel between Israel's actions and those of the Nazis. 4) Article 2 creates a brand new crime: calling for the destruction of a state. The law adds to an existing 1881 press law a provision punishing anyone who "publicly, in disregard of the right of peoples to self-determination and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, calls for the destruction of a state recognized by the French Republic." Five years imprisonment, €75,000 fine. The qualifiers about self-determination and the UN Charter are meant to sound reassuring. But what does "destruction" mean? In practice, if you advocate for a one-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live as equals, you are de-facto calling for the "destruction" of the state of Israel. Well, that would now be punishable by 5 years in prison 🤷 There you go. Absolutely insane: if this new law passes, and it unfortunately very much looks like it will, France - the country that gave the world the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the country whose national identity is built on the Résistance - will have made it illegal to use the word 'resistance' about anyone the government doesn't like. Jean Moulin would be prosecuted. De Gaulle would be prosecuted. The only people who wouldn't be prosecuted are those who stay silent. Which, of course, is the whole point.



One of the biggest mysteries to me is how Orcas, the ocean’s most efficient predators, have never attacked humans in the wild… almost like they know something we don’t.



dude wtf



Ces ouvriers Indiens travaillent toute la journée avec une caméra fixée sur le front. On leur a dit que c’était pour la sécurité. Pour "analyser les gestes", "optimiser les postes de travail". Le même genre de langue de bois que quand ton boss t’annonce un plan de licenciement en parlant de "réorganisation stratégique des talents". La réalité est bien plus sombre. Chaque image est stockée, découpée, étiquetée, puis revendue à des labos de robotique IA californiens qui ont besoin de ces gestes pour apprendre à leurs machines à coudre un ourlet. Rotation du poignet. Tension du fil. Pression des doigts. Des micro-mouvements que ces mecs exécutent en automatique après quinze ans de métier. Et c’est précisément ce que des ingénieurs payés 400k par an, entre deux parties de babyfoot et une microdose de LSD, n’arrivent pas à recréer depuis un open space climatisé pour entraîner leurs modèles d'IA robotique. Des milliers d’ouvriers. Dix heures par jour. Six jours sur sept. Toi t’appelles ça une usine textile. La Silicon Valley appelle ça un training set. Les mecs sont payés l'équivalent d'un café parisien par jour et derrière chacun de leurs gestes est monétisé, packagé et revendu à des multinationales cotées au Nasdaq. Ils se font farmer tel Didier, le comptable Capegemini qui croit parler à Jade de Mont-de-Marsan sur OnlyFans alors qu’il échange avec Diakité, la main dans le calbute, planqué derrière un Samsung Galaxy J5 reconditionné en train de gérer vingt comptes en simultané tout en regardant le derby AFAD Djékanou vs ASC Bouaké. Ceux qui regardent cette vidéo en se disant "ça ne me concerne pas" finiront sûrement comme ces couturiers: grand remplacés par un robot humanoïde Tesla Optimus, ou un bot Openclaw qui fait des PowerPoint et des diagrammes de Gantt.



Daily reminder :






A library for deaf children in Burundi, built entirely from compressed earth blocks and baked clay tiles. The hammock ceiling is hand-woven sisal rope. The floor is local clay tile. The community built it with them. Utility doesn’t have to be ugly. Local materials prove it every time. 📍 Library of Muyinga, Burundi Design: BC Architects


When you listen to too many DIY post punk cassette tapes from the early eighties it all starts to sound like this






