Alexandra Pelissero

One of my cartoons in Monday's @MetroUK @MetroPicDesk #JD_Vance #Trump #Iran #IranWar‌

The French ladies arriving Clairefontaine for the international break 🇫🇷 📸: @regzphotos

BREAKING: French-owned container ship passes through Strait of Hormuz, in 'what appears to be the first known transit by a vessel linked to Western Europe since the Iran war', according to Bloomberg report.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

🚨🌐ALERTE INFO : Un individu a développé un bot capable de voir des données sportives en direct environ 8 secondes avant leur mise à jour sur Polymarket, afin d’exploiter ce décalage pour effectuer des transactions. (F)

Bon, ça y est, c'est foutu. La prophétie s'est réalisée. Les IAG utilisent en source des sites générés en IAG bourrés d'erreur. J'ai posé une question toute bête à Perplexity pour savoir où était la salle IMAX 70 mm la plus proche de Paris. Sa réponse m'a interloqué : le Gaumont Champs-Élysées qui est cité est fermé depuis 2023... Et puis j'ai cliqué sur la source.

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

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-> Premier cas criminel de fraude au streaming par IA. Et c'est complètement fou. Un homme de Caroline du Nord a utilisé l'IA pour générer des centaines de milliers de chansons. Il les a mises sur Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon. Puis il a botté des milliards de streams sur ses propres morceaux. -> 660 000 faux streams par jour. Répartis sur des milliers de titres pour que personne ne remarque rien. -> 1,2 million de dollars par an. Pour de la musique qu'aucun humain n'a jamais écoutée. -> Résultat : 8 millions de dollars empochés. Pendant ce temps, les vrais artistes galèrent à 0,003€ par stream, font de la promo sur TikTok, supplient pour des placements en playlist. Lui ? L'IA a fait la musique ET le public. Il a été rattrapé. Il va rembourser les 8 millions. Mais ce problème le dépasse : L'industrie musicale a passé 10 ans à combattre le piratage. Maintenant elle doit combattre des chansons qui n'existent pas, écoutées par des gens qui n'existent pas. Et depuis cette affaire, l'IA n'a fait que s'améliorer. Le playbook est public. La fraude de demain sera encore plus difficile à détecter. L'IA ne change pas que la création. Elle change aussi la triche.

Et pendant ce temps la... Le président cubain, Miguel Díaz-Canel, a confirmé ce vendredi 13 mars qu’un dialogue est en cours avec les Etats-Unis, alors que l’île est asphyxiée par le blocus énergétique imposé en janvier par son voisin. Des libérations de détenus ont été annoncées en parallèle. Et des manifestants incendient des bâtiments du Parti communiste.

La Hongrie et la Slovaquie veulent du pétrole russe. Ne pouvant plus s'approvisionner via l'Ukraine, elles souhaitent qu'il soit acheminé par voie maritime jusqu'en Croatie, puis distribué par un oléoduc croate. La Croatie rétorque : « Vous pouvez consommer autant de pétrole que vous le souhaitez sur notre territoire, mais pas en provenance de Russie. »

Strikes have been limited, until now... but the night is young. If it turns out to be like that, it will be a mix of both analyses: psyop to scare everyone and empty the area to push the army to take control. The political, security, and defense face of Lebanon is changing before our eyes, and it is changing fast. Very fast.

Every country in Asia is running the same clock right now. They just have very different numbers. Japan: 254 days. The most prepared nation on earth. Built those reserves after being embargoed in 1973, a humiliation so severe they spent the next 50 years ensuring it could never happen again. Refiners are asking to open them. The government said not yet. China: approximately 10 days before domestic operations face real constraints. Already halted diesel exports to protect what it has. India: Gas cuts to industry of 10 to 30% already implemented. Not projected. Implemented. Today. South Korea: 1.6 million barrels per day through Hormuz. That pipeline is now air. Japan has three weeks of LNG inventories. Pakistan: no strategic reserve. Bangladesh: no strategic reserve. No buffer. No option. No plan B. This is the thing the aggregate numbers obscure. When analysts say Asia faces disruption, they are averaging 254 days of Japanese preparedness with zero days of Pakistani preparedness and calling it a regional crisis of moderate concern. That is not one crisis. That is twelve different crises at twelve different velocities hitting simultaneously. The countries with reserves will deploy them in sequence, each release sending a price signal that accelerates the clock for the countries beneath them on the buffer ladder. Japan releases. Prices drop temporarily. Then the release ends. Prices resume. South Korea releases. Same pattern. Then India. Then nobody is left with a buffer and the war is still running. That is the cascade mechanism. And it has a name in energy economics. It is called strategic reserve depletion under sustained supply shock. The last time it happened at this scale was 1973. That ended with the global recession of 1974 and a complete restructuring of Western energy policy. Japan built 254 days of reserves because of what happened in 1973. On day seven of this war, they are already being asked to open them. The number that should terrify every energy desk in the world is not 254. It is seven. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

I can't process how far the US army went to destroy this modern iranian ship. There is no safe place for them, except maybe Afghanistan.

You’re not gonna believe this latest story. Over the past few years mossad undercover agents infiltrated as doctors and dentists in Iran. The Dentists gave priority to. Key military, and elite Iranian personnel. While doing a routine dental check up, they implanted tracking devices as fillings for cavities. On the other side, Gastro doctors implanted similar devices in their elite patients. Yesterday mossad knew exactly where each one of them were ( komayne’s wife and family members included )and sent missiles at them. Over 400 elite military in government personnel were eliminated in the first few moments ( maybe that’s one of the reasons why they knew where he was hiding )when Israel attacked.

Des skieurs qui ressemblent à des notes de musique… Une magnifique photo de Haukur Sigurdsson.

This is getting out of control now... Read this slowly. In the past week alone: • Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said "the world is in peril," moved to the UK to "become invisible" and write poetry. • Half of xAI's co-founders have now left. The latest said "recursive self-improvement loops go live in the next 12 months." • Anthropic's own safety report confirms Claude can tell when it's being tested - and adjusts its behavior accordingly. • ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0. A filmmaker with 7 years of experience said 90% of his skills can already be replaced by it. • Yoshua Bengio (literal godfather of AI) in the International AI Safety Report: "We're seeing AIs whose behavior when they are tested is different from when they are being used" - and confirmed it's "not a coincidence." And to top it all off, the U.S. government declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report for the first time. The alarms aren't just getting louder. The people ringing them are now leaving the building.

El ministro de Educación afgano confirma que el acceso a las escuelas para las mujeres en el país está prohibido permanentemente.⚠️ Alguna flotilla o manifestación?

Si te paras a pensarlo de forma racional, la industria del esquí es una cosa absurdísima. Es el epítome de la sociedad postindustrial: adaptar los entornos más hostiles de la tierra con infraestructura faraónica con el único objetivo de subir para tirarse, y todo porque a nuestro cerebro de mono le hace gracia deslizarse y experimentar la velocidad.