Most teens — and girls especially — see college as key to jobs and life skills, AP-NORC poll says
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Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.evanhahn.com
Live Updates: Israel has been bombarding Gaza, killing thousands of Palestinians, since Hamas launched a deadly offensive on Oct 7, 2023.DAWN.COM
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In my last SCARA arm project, I had a very frustrating experience designing high torque/high accuracy gearboxes for the Nema 23 stepper motors I used.Caden Kraft
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My favorite DOS spreadsheet was As-Easy-As. It's probably still my most-favorite spreadsheet ever. 🤓
I recently interviewed As-Easy-As coauthor Paris Karahalios about how the spreadsheet got started (analyzing Chernobyl data!) and growing TRIUS Inc.
It's a long interview, but a super interesting one with loads of detail! 👍
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@goosey Yes, it's still available for free! Paris released As-Easy-As 5.7 for free from his website, by sharing a valid registration code in their forums. The forums are offline now, but there's a link to it (via the Wayback website) in the video description. There's even a free PDF copy of the manual.
It's a great spreadsheet and I still love using it.
Wizz Air will exit Abu Dhabi's Zayed International Airport, long overshadowed by Dubai
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À l’initiative du Groupe de La Haye, un « sommet d’urgence » se tient ce 15 juillet à Bogota en Colombie pour déclarer des « mesures concrètes » et tenter de mettre fin au drame qui se déroule dans l’enclave palestinienne depuis octobre 2023.Anne Bernas (RFI)
The Trump administration is attacking academia because it threatens existing power structures and dominant elites. This is seen most clearly when it comes to Palestine.Adam Horowitz (Mondoweiss)
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Πρόταση της Νέας Δημαγωγίας για εξεταστική επιτροπή για τον ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ από την ίδρυση του το 1998.
Έχω αντιπρόταση.
Γιατί χρειάστηκε να θεσπίσει ο Σόλων τη Σεισάχθεια?
Ποιοι τα φάγανε?
“I don’t play with lions, I don’t play with tigers, bears, nothin’ with the wild,” Curtis Jones told a local TV station.Alex Oliveira (New York Post)
Γιατί οι ομογενείς που έρχονται για διακοπές ξεκινάνε κάθε είδους ιατρικές εξετάσεις;
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Epstein’s Dead So Why Is His Bank Account STILL Moving Millions!?! w/ Nick Bryant
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https://x.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1944153144499614076 Happening now: A man dressed in a pig costume is outside the ICE facility in Portland demanding “big booty Latinas” not be deported.soma.cafe
Today, the US president promised to make a statement on Russia. It will, of course, be listened to with interest.newsmaker1 newsmaker1 (English News front)
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered minor injuries in an Israeli air strike on a meeting of the Supreme National Security Council in Tehran on June 15, a senior Iranian official said.
The assassination attempt targeted the heads of the three branches of government in an effort to overthrow it, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The strike was carried out shortly before noon during a meeting attended by the heads of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government along with other senior officials.
The semiofficial Fars news agency also reported new details on the assassination attempt during Israel’s 12-day war with #Iran, which was first announced by the Iranian president in an interview released on Monday.
The session was taking place in the lower level of a government facility in western #Tehran when the attack started, Fars reported. The building’s entrances and exits were hit by six missiles to block escape routes and cut off air flow.
Electricity was severed following the explosions, but Iranian officials managed to escape through a pre-designated emergency hatch, including the president, who is said to have sustained minor leg injuries while evacuating.
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More details emerge on June assassination attempt on President Masoud Pezeshkian and other officials by Israel.Al Jazeera
Multiple deaths in fire at Massachusetts assisted living facility
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Boys and Girls Club programs threatened by Trump grant freeze serve thousands of families
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the AI talent wars challenge the shared trust and mission that aligned founders, employees, and investorsJohn Luttig (luttig's learnings)
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Enquête scientifique aux origines du Covid-19, épisode 1. Sciences et Avenir raconte comment, cinq ans après, les scientifiques sont de plus en plus nombreux à questionner l'émergence zoonotique (dite "naturelle") du virus.Camille Gaubert (Sciences et Avenir)
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James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations
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Inflation and budget issues are threatening to hobble NASA’s most in-demand telescopes.Mark Zastrow (Astronomy magazine)
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US manufacturers are stuck in a rut despite subsidies from Biden and protection from Trump
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"The world must not remain neutral in the face of this genocide. It must stand with the oppressed, lest the time comes when it faces injustice and is abandoned by the world. Everyone must unite against America and Israel. Freedom for Palestine 🇵🇸"
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The Israeli-made satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX rocket, is set to restore and enhance Israel's satellite communications capabilities, nearly a decade after the loss of Amos 6 dealt a major blow to the country's space industryHagai Amit (Haaretz)
📢 La cultura demana al Govern embargament d'armes a Israel per via Reial Decret llei:
‼️Més de 1200 persones del món de la cultura han signat una carta exigint un embargament d'armes integral a Israel
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"El mundo no puede mirar hacia otro lado mientras el pueblo palestino es aniquilado", manifiestan los artistas en el documentoLaura García Higueras (ElDiario.es)
Jannik Sinner wanted to win Wimbledon but he really needed to beat Carlos Alcaraz
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@davetortoise, I've never had done it in a phone.
Andisearch said
Yes, it's possible to run different operating systems on mobile phones through virtualization and emulation, though with some limitations:
For Android phones:
- Ubuntu Touch can be installed directly on compatible Android devices like the Google Pixel 3a/3a XL and Fairphone 4[^1]
- Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Mobian, and Manjaro ARM can run on specific phone models[^11]
- Windows 10/11 can be virtualized using QEMU, though performance is very slow and not practical for daily use[^19]
For newer Android 13+ phones:
- Windows 11 ARM can run in a virtual machine thanks to improved virtualization support[^13]
- According to developer Danny Lin, who demonstrated Windows 11 running on a Pixel 6: "Windows 11 as a VM on Pixel 6" is possible through Android 13's standardized virtualization system[^13]
For running Android within Android:
- VMOS allows running a virtual Android environment inside your primary Android system, complete with Play Store access and root capabilities[^24]
The key limitations are:
- Device compatibility is restricted to specific phone models
- Performance may be significantly slower than native OS
- Not all hardware features and peripherals are supported
- Installation can be complex and may require technical knowledge
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[^1]: medium.com/junior-dev/how-to-r…
[^11]:makeuseof.com/tag/linux-smartp…
[^13]:techworm.net/2022/04/windows-1…
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A large crowd of protesters cheered and embraced 87yo Jewish Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos as he arrived a Charing Cross police station, where he had been summoned for police questioning over a peaceful anti-genocide march on 18 January that police falsely claim ‘forced’ its way through police lines. Despite abundant video evidence showing the protesters were invited through, more than twenty people have so far been charged.
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🇺🇦 Ukrainian doctor drives a child’s heart through Russian attack to perform a life-saving transplant
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Kyiv was burning as Dr. Borys Todurov sped through the city in an ambulance, undeterred by the deep thuds of explosions and the terrifying sounds of Russian drones flying overhead. He was determined to deliver his precious cargo: a human heart.CNN Staff (CTVNews)
The NYT just called a lynching of an American citizen a “clash.”
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Hi, I recently finished setting up my Asustor NAS, and I found the snapshotting setup in it a bit confusing, so I'm writing this as a quick reference that might be hopefully useful to others.
For context, my device is a AS1102TL, and it's running ADM 4.3.3, but I imagine it should apply to all recent Asustor devices.
First of all, the reason I picked Asustor instead of e.g. Synology... it's because it was not clear if the latter actually supported LUKS full disk encryption on an external usb hd. In Asustor you have to ssh into your NAS, but you can definitely do it.
The only gotcha: If you created the LUKS volume recently on another system, it's likely that it'll be using Argon2 for key stretching. A memory-intensive algorithm, for which the 1GB of memory provided by my AS1102TL is not enough. The solution is simply to add another key with a different algo, e.g. PBKDF2, or just create the volume on your Asustor. Either way, you're going to be able to read and write it both from the NAS and another Linux on your pc.
$ sudo $(which cryptsetup) luksOpen /dev/sdb1 encrypted # "encrypted" is just the name that I gave to the device, pick anything... remember the `-S` flag if you need to select a key in a different slot
$ sudo mount /dev/mapper/encrypted /mnt/USB1
... do what you want ...
$ sudo umount /mnt/USB1/
$ sudo $(which cryptsetup) luksClose encryptedNormally, mounted external drives are available on paths like /share/USB0, /share/USB1. Maybe it could be possible to mount (or symlink your mount point for) your disk there, to make it usable to ADM, but by default /share is an immutable loop mount of /volume0/.@system/sharebase.loop
$ lsattr -d /share/
-----i------- /share/btrfs send functionality, so it's not very interesting for our purposes anyhow).Now, you have two different approaches to accomplish incremental backups of btrfs snapshots, one where you just create them yourself from the CLI, and one where you can try to reuse the snapshots created in ADM.
sudo btrfs subvolume snapshot -r /volume1 /volume1/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951sudo btrfs send -p /volume1/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936 /volume1/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951/ | sudo btrfs receive -v /mnt/USB1/I recommend the -v verbose flag for btrfs receive, otherwise you're not going to see progress while the operation is ongoing.
That's it! Of course, the first send will have to happen without specifying a parent with -p, to do a full clone.
There are two problems with this: the snapshots created by ADM are not read-only and they are mounted right under the toplevel.
To address these issues:
sudo mount /dev/md1 -o subvol=/ /mnt/rootvol
sudo btrfs property set /mnt/rootvol/v2025079-2324/ ro truesudo btrfs send -p /mnt/rootvol/v2025079-0824/ /mnt/rootvol/v2025079-2324 | sudo btrfs receive -v /mnt/USB1/-p and -v flags as needed. That's it!If you're wondering why did we have to mount the / subvol, you can try without:
You can mount the snapshots directly in ADM's Snapshot Center, by toggling the Preview toggle for a snapshot. In that case, they are still going to be RW, though mounted as RO. You can deal with that by remounting: sudo mount -o remount,rw /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324/ && sudo btrfs property set /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324/ ro true,
You can then try to send the changes, but what you're going to get is:
$ sudo btrfs send -p /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-0824/ /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324
ERROR: not on mount point: /volume1/.@snapshots/v2025079-2324btrfs subvolume list.$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /volume1 -qua
ID 256 gen 159842 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 path <FS_TREE>/base
ID 258 gen 151914 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 5039c206-1a89-dc45-a9fe-43f8959cb672 path <FS_TREE>/.iscsi
ID 259 gen 159840 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 06d46207-9aa2-2944-ba38-e5736963ec12 path <FS_TREE>/.@plugins
ID 2758 gen 157876 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 256c36c5-7033-a945-a2db-b6a334a8419f path <FS_TREE>/v2025079-0824
ID 2759 gen 157859 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 88942ee6-8b52-3d4d-b972-5de2d6764728 path <FS_TREE>/v2025079-2324
ID 2762 gen 159833 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 6d636914-35a0-3f42-9486-bf5d673b94c5 path base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936
ID 2763 gen 159836 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid e99df217-4946-a740-bba9-99f64f1a0d69 path base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951$ sudo btrfs subvolume list /mnt/rootvol/ -qua
ID 256 gen 159867 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 path base
ID 258 gen 151914 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 5039c206-1a89-dc45-a9fe-43f8959cb672 path .iscsi
ID 259 gen 159840 top level 5 parent_uuid - uuid 06d46207-9aa2-2944-ba38-e5736963ec12 path .@plugins
ID 2758 gen 157876 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 256c36c5-7033-a945-a2db-b6a334a8419f path v2025079-0824
ID 2759 gen 157859 top level 5 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 88942ee6-8b52-3d4d-b972-5de2d6764728 path v2025079-2324
ID 2762 gen 159833 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid 6d636914-35a0-3f42-9486-bf5d673b94c5 path <FS_TREE>/base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0936
ID 2763 gen 159836 top level 256 parent_uuid cbc37b20-901f-b043-8cf1-59b814814140 uuid e99df217-4946-a740-bba9-99f64f1a0d69 path <FS_TREE>/base/.@snapshots/v20250710-0951top level 5 and if you list them under /volume1 (which is just the mount point for the /base subvolume), they are not found directly underneath (despite them being mounted there), which is why you see them being under their own <FS_TREE>.Conversely, the ones that you can create directly from the cli under volume1, appear as top level 256 and they are under /base if you list the subvolumes under /mnt/rootvol.
I hope this has been useful.
PS, while I was closing the dozens of tabs that I opened to investigate how everything fits together, a note on what I wrote earlier:
this doesn’t mean that once mounted, the disk will be integrated in the ADM ui (you’re not going to be able to see it in the “External Devices” ui, nor be able to select it as a destination in the “Backup & Restore” ui).
mounting the disk on a path already accessible by ADM file explorer doesn't work because of permission issues, similar to the immutable flag that you can see with lsattr... but someone on Reddit had another workaround:
reddit.com/r/asustor/comments/…
I mounted the opened device to another path already accessible by ADM file explorer. I don't think it will matter where really. But in my case I made two partitions on an external USB drive. The first partition is a small exFat formatted (10GB). The second partition takes up the rest of the drive and is formatted with cryptsetup (LUKS). Finally, to use this I open the LUKS device and mount it to a location in the first partition (which is automatically mounted by ADM)
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Today, a funeral for a 20-year-old American man was held in the occupied West Bank. He was beaten to death on Friday, July 11. Sayfollah Musallet was “brutally beaten to death” by a group of Israeli racist thugs, otherwise known as “settlers.David Shavin (EIR News)
Cambodia will start military conscription next year as tensions with Thailand persist
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Jerusalem Water Authority:
Last night, a group of Israeli settlers stormed the Ein Samia wells, causing widespread destruction and rendering the entire site inoperable. All systems have gone offline, resulting in a total loss of communication and control.
The Ein Samia wells are the only source of water for dozens of Palestinian villages and communities. The damage caused puts thousands of lives at risk and constitutes a deliberate attack on critical civilian infrastructure.
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🔴 C’est une affaire que l’Elysée préférerait ne jamais voir ressurgir. Depuis huit ans, la justice enquête sur l’organisation d’une soirée qui s’est déroulée le 6 janvier 2016 à #LasVegas autour du ministre de l’Economie de l’époque, un certain Emmanuel #Macron. Le juge d’instruction, Serge Tournaire, a fini ses investigations et doit désormais décider s’il demande un procès pour les protagonistes de l’événement, dont l’ex-ministre du Travail Muriel #Pénicaud. Accusée de « complicité de favoritisme », celle-ci conteste sa mise en examen devant la chambre d’instruction.
Retour dix ans en arrière. En novembre 2015, les conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron cogitent sur un déplacement de leur champion au plus grand salon de l’innovation numérique au monde à Las Vegas. Une occasion pour lui d’incarner la start-up nation et de rencontrer de riches entrepreneurs alors qu’il s’apprête à créer son parti En Marche avec la présidentielle en ligne de mire. « Habituellement, les ministres se contentaient d’un petit pot, mais là les ambitions étaient plus fortes », observe un haut fonctionnaire de Bercy.
Infraction au Code des marchés publics
Afin de financer la soirée, le cabinet d’Emmanuel Macron se tourne vers l’agence publique Business France, alors dirigée par Muriel #Pénicaud et dotée d’un confortable budget de communication de 9 millions d’euros. Problème : l’entité va sous-traiter l’événement à l’agence de com’ #Havas Paris pour un total de 380 000 euros sans mettre d’autres sociétés en concurrence. Soit une infraction caractérisée au Code des marchés publics…
Une décennie plus tard, pas question pour Muriel Pénicaud de porter le chapeau. Face au juge en octobre 2023, elle a assuré que la soirée avait été entièrement pilotée par sa directrice de la communication Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau, « une cadre dirigeante avec une rémunération de 12 000 euros quand la mienne était de 13 000 euros », précise-t-elle. Avant de poursuivre : « Jamais jusqu’à début mars 2016, je n’ai su que la totalité était confiée à Havas. On me l’a caché sciemment. »
Des mails compromettants exhumés
Au fil de leur enquête, les policiers ont pourtant mis la main sur plusieurs mails qui montrent que l’ex-patronne de Business France avait un œil sur le bon déroulement de la soirée. Le 19 novembre 2015, elle indique à une conseillère d’Emmanuel Macron que « Business France prépare activement Las Vegas ». Le lendemain, après une réunion d’une heure et demie entre ses équipes et le cabinet du ministre, elle reçoit un premier canevas de la soirée avec la mention d’un budget prévisionnel de 300 000 euros.
De quoi prouver sa connaissance du coût de la soirée et de la nécessité de passer un appel d’offres avec mise en concurrence ? « Un budget de 300 000 euros ne veut pas dire une commande publique par Business France de 300 000 euros, il y a très souvent plusieurs cofinanceurs », argue-t-elle. Une version contestée par Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau, mise en examen pour « favoritisme », un mois plus tard devant le même juge : « Muriel Pénicaud a été informée que Havas s’occupait de tout et du budget. Et elle savait bien qu’il n’y avait pas eu d’appels d’offres. »
Pour se dédouaner, Muriel Pénicaud met en avant un audit réalisé après coup, à sa demande, par le cabinet EY qui la met hors de cause. Mais l’avocat de Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau pointe que les auteurs de l’audit n’ont jamais entendu sa cliente, qui avait quitté Business France entretemps, alors que les autres membres de la direction ont pu s’expliquer et… modifier le contenu du rapport d’audit. Pis, ils ont même pu explorer la boîte mail de Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau pour ajouter des éléments à charge. « Le rapport d’audit n’a pas été réalisé à la suite d’une enquête interne rigoureuse, objective et impartiale », tacle l’avocat dans une note.
Pression des conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron
Un point semble faire consensus : la soirée a été préparée dans l’urgence. Avec des conseillers d’Emmanuel Macron qui multiplient les doléances : refus d’une soirée exclusivement organisée par le Medef, demande d’un lieu plus central que l’année précédente, échange avec une star de la tech américaine, etc. En trois semaines, le budget prévisionnel bondit de quelque 150 000 euros. « Fais vite, il faut que le cabinet soit content », serinait Muriel Pénicaud à Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau selon ses dires.
Une précipitation qui a empêché le lancement d’un marché public en bonne et due forme ? « Il n’était matériellement pas possible d’organiser cet événement en respectant scrupuleusement les procédures d’achats, avance le responsable du contrôle interne de Business France face aux enquêteurs. Soit il aurait fallu savoir dire non, soit demander aux organismes de tutelle les dérogations idoines. » « Si un appel d’offres avait été lancé, cela aurait tué le projet », lâche carrément un salarié d’Havas.
Signe de la panique : à la veille de Noël, le directeur financier de Business France doit utiliser sa carte bancaire personnelle pour bloquer la réservation de l’hôtel The Linq à hauteur de 64 000 dollars. « Je risque l’interdit bancaire et je ne vais pas casser mon assurance-vie pour financer la French Tech hors process, y a des limites », s’énerve-t-il. Avant que Muriel Pénicaud permette son remboursement en faisant passer la facture en note de frais.
Havas accusé de « recel de favoritisme »
Au cours de l’enquête, le juge s’est aussi penché sur d’éventuelles collusions entre les dirigeants de Business France et l’agence de communication Havas. Le directeur d’Havas Paris Fabrice Conrad affirme qu’il était persuadé que la soirée de Las Vegas s’intégrait à un « contrat-cadre » que son agence avait remporté quelques mois plus tôt pour une campagne de promotion de Business France. Et qu’il n’y avait donc pas besoin d’une nouvelle mise en concurrence. « Je suis en charge de l’opérationnel. Je ne suis pas un juriste », se défend-il.
Un argument « difficilement audible » pour le responsable du contrôle interne de Business France qui estime qu’« Havas Paris savait qu’il s’agissait de deux opérations de communication distinctes, y compris sous l’angle budgétaire ». Le 15 décembre, à trois semaines de la soirée, Fabrice Conrad s’inquiète d’ailleurs par mail de l’absence d’un « go budgétaire » de Business France. Autant d’éléments qui ont conduit le juge à mettre en examen Havas Paris, puis Fabrice Conrad en avril 2024, pour « recel de favoritisme ».
Le haut management d’Havas avait été convié aux agapes de Las Vegas. Le 1er janvier 2016, un responsable de l’agence de com' informe une conseillère du ministre que « M. Yannick Bolloré [le PDG d’Havas] a eu M. Macron au téléphone qui l’aurait invité au dîner prévu mercredi à Las Vegas ». Dans un autre message, Fabrice Conrad indique à Stéphane Fouks, le vice-président d’Havas, que « Muriel serait ravie de t’y voir ». En 2014, quelques semaines avant sa prise de poste chez Business France, Muriel Pénicaud avait déjà déjeuné avec Stéphane Fouks pour avoir ses conseils.
La candidature du neveu
Plus gênant, en août 2016, la patronne de Business France poussera la candidature de son neveu pour un contrat d’apprentissage chez Havas. Une demande que Fabrice Conrad relaie au responsable des recrutements avec ce commentaire : « C’est un GROS client et donc une candidature à BIEN traiter. » Après un premier échec de son neveu, Muriel Pénicaud insiste. Le directeur d’Havas Paris lui promet alors « de le faire entrer en contact avec d’autres structures du groupe ». Le neveu décrochera finalement un contrat de onze moins au sein de la holding du groupe Bolloré, relève le juge.
Dernier détail piquant : ce n’est que dans l’avion du retour qu’Emmanuel Macron semble se soucier du coût des festivités. « Le ministre souhaiterait (moi aussi) savoir combien coûte la soirée », écrit Muriel Pénicaud à sa directrice de la communication le 8 janvier. Une demande que Fabienne Bothy-Chesneau juge « étrange » : « Je pense qu’à ce moment-là elle réalise le problème et se couvre ». Un peu tard peut-être.
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This image tells the story of redemption for one lonely star. The young star MP Mus (PDS 66) was thought to be all alone in the Universe, surrounded by nothing but a featureless band of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disc. In most cases, the material inside a protoplanetary disc condenses to form new planets around the star, leaving large gaps where the gas and dust used to be. These features are seen in almost every disc – but not in MP Mus’s.
When astronomers first observed it with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), they saw a smooth, planet-free disc, shown here in the right image. The team, led by Álvaro Ribas, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge, UK, gave this star another chance and re-observed it with ALMA at longer wavelengths that peer even deeper into the protoplanetary disc than before. These new observations, shown in the left image, revealed a gap and a ring that had been obscured in previous observations, suggesting that MP Mus might have company after all.
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Both teams presented their joint results in a new paper published in Nature Astronomy. In what they describe as “ a beautiful merging of two groups approaching the same object from different angles ”, they show that MP Mus isn’t so boring after all.
[Image description: This is an observation from the ALMA telescope, showing two versions (side-by-side) of a protoplanetary disc. Both discs are bright, glowing yellow-orange objects with a diffused halo against a dark background. The right disc is more smooth and blurry looking. The left disc shows more detail, for example gaps and rings within it.]
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Fearing further theft, residents began evacuating their livestock. By Friday, families were packing their belongings and leaving en masse. Thirty families — 177 people in total — were forced out, all but erasing the community.
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3 Postscripts 3 IV.- Of Cats and Boxes
A paradox of Schrödinger’s paradox
Erwin Schrödinger (Austria-Ireland. 1887-1966), who seems to have been not very fond of house cats, proposed a theoretical exercise for quantum physics.
The approach is simple, although its implications are very complex. A cat has been placed inside a box. The box has a device that, with no definite time, releases a sort of lethal mechanism and the cat will die. Since the box is airtight, it is not known whether the cat is still alive or has already perished. Once the box is opened, one possibility or the other is proven. The previous moment, when we do not know if it is alive or dead, suggests that there are two worlds or two simultaneous universes. In one the cat is already dead, in the other it is still alive. A mortal mechanism activated and not activated; a cat alive and dead at the same time; a superposition of states according to quantum physics.
Let’s leave aside, for now, the references to comic book multiverses and the consequences in quantum physics. Let us also leave aside Don Schördinger’s animosity towards cats, and that he obviously did not know much about those felines (anyone who has dealt with them knows that they would not let themselves be caught, much less allow themselves to be locked up, without protesting and without defending themselves -even more so if it is a… cat-dog-). Let’s also not take too much notice that the cat is imprisoned and condemned to death, unless someone sees fit to open the box when the lethal mechanism has not been activated, and the cat jumps out and frees itself from the prison.
This theoretical exercise is supposed to be a basis for showing that worlds in several universes are possible, that is, in a multiverse (although it is also to show that the laws of quantum physics do not apply in everyday life).
As far as my limited knowledge of comics allows me, I understand that, in those diverse worlds, the individual still prevails, but in different versions. In one world, Sheldon Cooper (TV series “The Big Bang Theory”), is a scientist with social problems. In another, he is an irredeemable womanizer. In another, he is a “popular” judge in Mexico’s judicial system (oh, I know, my perversity is sublime).
And this digression that, I hope, is perplexing, comes to the topic, or point supposedly that even with the imaginative capacity to raise the simultaneous existence of the living cat and the dead cat, the possibility (or the universe) of there being one or several cats that refuse to enter the box is not raised. And perhaps with the aggravating factor that the supposed cat is actually a cat-dog.
In pointing out some possibilities, others are omitted.
When talking about the capitalist system, the different proposals refer to what they can do to improve the conditions of the cat locked in the trap, to lengthen its life (or its chances of life), or to “humanize” the lethal device.
It is, shall we say, what progressivism is all about. Definition of progressivism? Well, those who are leftists until the eve of taking office and having a position, office, pay, well, then. Then they stop being leftist, they become the establishment, and disguise their pragmatism (which leads them to ally and join their enemies of the eve -and to distance themselves from their social past-), as “political realism.” It is, then, a capital-friendly left. That is to say, a “cool”, pretty, demure and blushing right wing.
In this case, progressivism promises, on the eve of the event, to free the cat from its prison. Then, because he cannot or will not do it, he “changes” his proposal: “I will make you more comfortable”; “I will get better conditions for your death”; “I will fight so that the lethal mechanism does not activate too quickly.” Or, he may instead urge the prisoner to hang on, since he has a 50% chance of temporarily surviving. Imprisoned, yes, but alive.
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The capitalist system is that box. Inside it, multitudes wait, without knowing it, for the murderous mechanism to be activated. Wars, famines, “natural” catastrophes, violent assaults, assassinations, governmental arbitrariness, destructions that will have to solve the enigma: “to live or to die.”
In the box there are those who have the crime of being a woman, boy or girl, young, old, other, dark-skinned, native, with a foreign language in their own land, and so on. No matter their condition, gender, race, ideology, religion, manner, stature, physical complexion: that person is inside the box and is subject to those deadly laws.
Not only without the possibility of getting out, but also without even imagining that another world exists out there.
The option to delay death or improve the conditions of condemnation is submission and acceptance to be part of the showcase of “weird things” that the system exhibits for its own amusement. Woman, Non-binary person, Native, Race, Neighborhood, Nationality, every “oddity” has its place in the curiosity store if it behaves “well.” If not, well, the “invisible hand of the market” will pull the exterminating lever.
Example: the crime of being born, growing up and fighting in Palestinian lands is not to accept being part of the showcase of capital. And to resist and rebel against the machine. The machine wants a recreational center in Gaza and Palestinian civilization is in its way, the Palestinian people are fighting for a land to live in.
Palestine is the best example of the terminal crisis of the so called “Nation States” and their governments. They do not command, they only obey at convenience. They are incapable of presenting an independent, dignified and consistent foreign policy.
And in the ongoing mass murder, the complicity and neglect of the governments of the planet (with a few exceptions), is pathetic. The police of the different European and American governments repressing the demonstrations for the cessation of the genocide in Palestine, are the best oratory about Western “humanism”.
In the world above, European governments are the idle and useless court of the reigning king, Russia and China are the counts and dukes conspiring for regicide, and offering an alternate monarch. The rest of the national governments in the world, except for those who have clearly spoken out against it, are the busy pages, stressed by the continuous demands and harassments of the royal family.
Who are those that contemplate, operate, have fun and make bets on what happens in the box? The big financial, commercial, industrial and, now, digital and aerospace capital.
The governments of the world, for the most part, are just the ticket-takers of the bets, the “brokers” on the stock exchanges where the wars are always up, and life below… down. And, as the Mileis of the world are and will be, they are the ones who are sent to buy and serve the wine that will preside over the monarchic banquets (the chainsaw is an autochthonous detail).
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However, there are those who consider another possibility: not to enter the box or to get out of it.
Moreover, there are those who question the box itself, its eternal and omnipotent existence; and its claim to be the only universe that tolerates the existence, within itself, of diversity, of several universes or multiverses… domesticated.
Those people who are posing that are what we Zapatistas call “resistance and rebellion.” Resistance to enter the box or, if you are inside, Rebellion to fight to get out.
Resistance and Rebellion that proposes the destruction of the box, of the logic that created it and of the belief that “something else” is not possible.
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
The Captain
July 2025.Original text published at Enlace Zapatista on July 7th, 2025.
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