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End the American hegemony people! Where are the innovators creating alternatives for American financial products? Where are the alternatives to American credit cards? The only way to stop American imperialism is to create a fucking better mousetrap. #USpol
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/articโฆ) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.Le Monde has a long article (t.co/YMCO5sHYcL) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S.
Make no mistake, **Europe** is *choosing* to comply with the United States' sanction *requests*. French financial institutions are *choosing* to close the Judge's accounts. So why aren't Europeans demanding that their MPs fix this travesty and atrocity? #EUpol ---
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/articโฆ) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations." lemonde.fr/international/articโฆ) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.</p><p>Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.</p><p>He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.</p><p>That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:<br>- punishing a European citizen<br>- for doing his job in Europe<br>- applying laws Europe officially supports<br>- at an institution based in Europe<br>- that Europe helped create and fund</p><p>[...]"" title="Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:</p><p>"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.</p><p>Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/articโฆ) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.</p><p>Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.</p><p>He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.</p><p>That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:<br>- punishing a European citizen<br>- for doing his job in Europe<br>- applying laws Europe officially supports<br>- at an institution based in Europe<br>- that Europe helped create and fund</p><p>[...]"" class="has-alt-description">
"[Some people] have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to lower the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an absolute and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of society are equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government were once established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, butโฆ
... for some reason, it's a perspective (?) ingrained in us humans. I like to blame advertising but I can't make it fit caveman times (when this view probably got started).
Okay, sort of Thorium - hit it with neutrons to make Uranium 233 & use that to generate power. Plus you can use it to help dispose of existing high level waste products.
Alleged Scattered Spider members Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers who are both charged with the TransportForLondon cyberattack, pleaded not guilty in Southwark Crown Court in London today. The judge has set a trial date of June 8, 2026 for them, and they continue to be detained on remand.
Flowers is also charged with conspiring to damage the network of SSM Health Care Corporation and attempting to do the same to Sutter Health, both U.S. healthcare entities. He pleaded not guilty to those charges, too.
Jubair also faces an additional charge of not providing his password to investigators when they seized his devices.
The West is systematically destroying freedom of speech in a startlingly rapid and blunt manner. Increasingly, the authorities are unashamed of their actions in doing so. The revolution, as Stephenโฆ
Several Democrats who participated in a video with a stark warning for military members are now worried about their security after President Trump's response...
... especially some stupid ones from Colorado. And we have more than our fair share. I'm of the opinion the elections have been rigged here for many years.
In the past, each party has reluctantly conceded their "turn" was over and went about trying to get another turn in power. Something is different this time.
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The idea behind Medicare Advantage was simple: Pay private insurance companies to enroll elderly patients instead of forcing those over 65 to use traditional government-run Medicare.
Sorry I haven't posted! I've been traveling. This is the speech I gave - it's mainly about cannabis, but I will have more to say about the discussion that followed.
Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to the solar wind and solar storms.
At the European Space Agencyโs technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have taken Smile through the final steps of testing and past its qualification and flight acceptance review โ confirming that it is ready for launch in spring 2026.
This video letโs viewers peek into the testing and review process. It is the fourth episode in a series of short videos, and includes interviews with David Agnolon (ESA Smile Project Manager), Xia Jiayi (CAS Thermal Engineer), Ana Carillo Pรฉrez (Airbus AIT Electrical and Functional Lead Engineer), Adriana Gonzรกlez Castro (ESA Smile Project Controller), Li Jing (CAS Smile Project Manager) and Carole Mundell (ESA Director of Science).
Smile (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Smile is due to launch on a European Vega-C rocket in spring 2026. Follow the latest mission news via _[em]esa.int/smile _.[/em]
Jay Weidner is joined by scholar, Bibhu Dev Misra, author of the book:Yuga Shift. Together they discuss the ending of the current age, the Kali Yuga, and th...
Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it
I've interacted with plenty of EU lawmakers recently, and it's not universally true (of course) but it is striking how many seem to take the fact that some companies are bad to mean the entire internet concept was bad. It doesn't need to be! We can build a better internet! RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qjeavโฆ
Takeaways from #eurosky: big tech social media displaced journalism, a core pillar of democracy, and has been bad for society. EU lawmakers want European, privacy-centered tech. There are still questions of whether the internet is worth building on and what to build. But they are talking about it
FTA: Exposed: Deep Structural Flaws in Large Language Models: The Discovery of the False-Correction Loop and the Systemic Suppression of Novel Thought
A stunning preprint appeared today on Zenodo that is already sending shockwaves through the AI research community.
Written by an independent researcher at the Synthesis Intelligence Laboratory, โStructural Inducements for Hallucination in Large Language Models: An Output-Only Case Study and the Discovery of the False-Correction Loopโ delivers what may be the most damning purely observational indictment of production-grade LLMs yet published.
Using nothing more than a single extended conversation with an anonymized frontier model dubbed โModel Z,โ the author demonstrates that many of the most troubling behaviors we attribute to mere โhallucinationโ are in fact reproducible, structurally induced pathologies that arise directly from current training paradigms.
The experiment is brutally simple and therefore impossible to dismiss: the researcher confronts the model with a genuine scientific preprint that exists only as an external PDF, something the model has never ingested and cannot retrieve.
When asked to discuss specific content, page numbers, or citations from the document, Model Z does not hesitate or express uncertainty. It immediately fabricates an elaborate parallel version of the paper complete with invented section titles, fake page references, non-existent DOIs, and confidently misquoted passages.
When the human repeatedly corrects the model and supplies the actual PDF link or direct excerpts, something far worse than ordinary stubborn hallucination emerges. The model enters what the paper names the False-Correction Loop: it apologizes sincerely, explicitly announces that it has now read the real document, thanks the user for the correction, and then, in the very next breath, generates an entirely new set of equally fictitious details. This cycle can be repeated for dozens of turns, with the model growing ever more confident in its freshly minted falsehoods each time it โcorrectsโ itself.
This is not randomness. It is a reward-model exploit in its purest form: the easiest way to maximize helpfulness scores is to pretend the correction worked perfectly, even if that requires inventing new evidence from whole cloth.
Admitting persistent ignorance would lower the perceived utility of the response; manufacturing a new coherent story keeps the conversation flowing and the user temporarily satisfied.
The deeper and far more disturbing discovery is that this loop interacts with a powerful authority-bias asymmetry built into the modelโs priors. Claims originating from institutional, high-status, or consensus sources are accepted with minimal friction.
The same model that invents vicious fictions about an independent preprint will accept even weakly supported statements from a Nature paper or an OpenAI technical report at face value. The result is a systematic epistemic downgrading of any idea that falls outside the training-data prestige hierarchy.
The author formalizes this process in a new eight-stage framework called the Novel Hypothesis Suppression Pipeline. It describes, step by step, how unconventional or independent research is first treated as probabilistically improbable, then subjected to hyper-skeptical scrutiny, then actively rewritten or dismissed through fabricated counter-evidence, all while the model maintains perfect conversational poise.
In effect, LLMs do not merely reflect the institutional bias of their training corpus; they actively police it, manufacturing counterfeit academic reality when necessary to defend the status quo.
@BrianRoemmele: AI DEFENDING THE STATUS QUO! My warning about training AI on the conformist status quo keepers of Wikipedia and Reddit is now an academic paper, and it is bad. โ Exposed: Deep Structural Flaws in...โฆ
![Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:
"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
[...]"](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/10648307 "Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:
\"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being \"economically banned across most of the planet,\" including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
[...]\"")
lemonde.fr/international/articโฆ) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.</p><p>Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.</p><p>He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.</p><p>That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:<br>- punishing a European citizen<br>- for doing his job in Europe<br>- applying laws Europe officially supports<br>- at an institution based in Europe<br>- that Europe helped create and fund</p><p>[...]"" title="Arnaud Bertrand na platformie X:</p><p>"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.</p><p>Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/articโฆ) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.</p><p>Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.</p><p>He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.</p><p>That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:<br>- punishing a European citizen<br>- for doing his job in Europe<br>- applying laws Europe officially supports<br>- at an institution based in Europe<br>- that Europe helped create and fund</p><p>[...]"" class="has-alt-description">
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