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La Samaritaine: les chiffres secrets d’un fiasco

Le grand magasin inauguré par Emmanuel Macron en 2021 devait être la vitrine du groupe #LVMH à Paris. Il relève en réalité de la gabegie, avec 110 millions d’euros de pertes en deux ans. LVMH va le placer sous la tutelle du Bon Marché, son autre enseigne parisienne, largement bénéficiaire.

Par Romaric Godin, Khedidja Zerouali › mediapart.fr/journal/economie-…

Le magasin de la Samaritaine à Paris. © Photo Sébastien Calvet / Mediapart

La Samaritaine : les chiffres secrets d’un fiasco

Le grand magasin inauguré par Emmanuel Macron en 2021 devait être la vitrine du groupe LVMH à Paris. Il relève en réalité de la gabegie, avec 110 millions d’euros de pertes en deux ans.
Romaric Godin (Mediapart)

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🔴 The World is Shifting

US outspends everyone on war (74% of global military budget) while Global South rises. China now leads 57/64 key technologies—US only 7.

BRICS+ and South-South trade surge as nations ditch dollar dominance. From Burkina Faso’s anti-French coups to Latin America’s left wave, nations are shaking off western dominance.

thetricontinental.org/dossier-…

#BRICS #GlobalSouthRising #geopolitics


How the World Looks from Tricontinental

In July 2015, social and political movements gathered for the Second Dilemmas of Humanity Conference and set in motion what would become Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Ricardo Vaz (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)

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The The Stratospheric Projectile Entry Experiment on Dynamics (SPEED), a two-stage stratospheric drop test architecture, is currently under development to bridge the state-of-the-art gap that many NASA flagship missions require to reduce system risk and enable more optimized designs via margin reduction. To do this, a two-stage vehicle will drop from a high-altitude balloon and […]

Ejection Mechanism Design for the SPEED Test Architecture

For more information, visit: https://grabcad.com/challenges/ejection-mechanism-design-for-the-speed-test-architecture
Sarah Douglas (NASA)

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.... “five to ten YEARS in just ONE WEEK.”

For Dr. Sullivan, the damage was much worse. He says his lung capacity was slashed by HALF after taking the COVID shots the government recommended.

After a period of being unsure if the damage was in his head or not, Dr. Sullivan was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, a dangerous condition that elevates blood pressure and forces the heart to work much harder to pump blood to the lungs.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/d…


Doctor Reveals What COVID Vaccines Do to the Lungs in Just One Week | The Gateway Pundit | by Vigilant Fox

           This article originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission.
Vigilant Fox (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
in reply to Cory Doctorow

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Adam Katz

Interesting. It doesn't do that for me (with Debian packages gimp-3.0.4-3). Now that I've clicked the "Add" mode button, my lasso tool is now set to add by default, even when changing tools, even in different images' windows, even after restarting GIMP.

(That said, I have trained myself to use those keyboard shortcuts, except when I accidentally confuse Shift (add) and Control (subtract), at which point I get the opposite of what I wanted.)

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I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
Omer Bartov
NYT
JUL 15, 2025

' ... My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Having grown up in a Zionist home, lived the first half of my life in Israel, served in the I.D.F. as a soldier and officer and spent most of my career researching and writing on war crimes and the Holocaust, this was a painful conclusion to reach, and one that I resisted as long as I could. But I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one ...''

archive.is/20250716085246/nyti…

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A little reminder that DuckDuckGo is venture capital (VC) funded.

The way VC works:

1. You get VC
2. You grow as fast as you can (or fail fast)
3. You sell (either to a larger corporation or to the public in an IPO; this is called the “exit”)

(In case any of you are surprised by recent/future developments.)

#DuckDuckGo #ventureCapital #VC #BigTech #capitalism

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Scott Ritter: The Birth of the German Fourth Reich consortiumnews.com/2025/07/15/…

Scott Ritter: The Birth of the German Fourth Reich

After its defeat, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich was coaxed back to life by the very forces that once conspired to defeat it. Germany today has dangerously embarked on a rearmament campaign to prepare for a supposed Russian threat.
Consortium News

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instagram.com/p/DMBMjbNorZ5/

Erich Christoph-Borger on Instagram: "#mma #fitness #ufc #muaythai #kickboxing #boxing #dog #dogs #love #boxergram #bjj #knockout #fit #boxer #boxingnews #boxinghype #floydmayweather #fitnessmotivation #ko #miketyson #tysonfury #boxingday #mixedmartialart

4 likes, 0 comments - erich66119 on July 12, 2025: "#mma #fitness #ufc #muaythai #kickboxing #boxing #dog #dogs #love #boxergram #bjj #knockout #fit #boxer #boxingnews #boxinghype #floydmayweather #fitnessmotivation #ko #miketyson #tysonfury #boxingd…
Instagram

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The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions.

The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android?

Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas?

1/2

in reply to F-Droid

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F-Droid

"Hey Google, what is Android?"

* "Android is... quarterly source-code over the wall called AOSP"
* "Android is... not GMS or Play Integrity"
* "Android is... not the device trees or driver binaries of Pixel phones"
* "Android is... not part of the monthly security reports"

And today, we discover, "Android is... not `system-images;android-36;default`" per issuetracker.google.com/issues…

The F in #FDroid stands for "freedom", but there's no "F" in Android... nor any promises.

2/2

Google Issue Tracker

issuetracker.google.com
in reply to F-Droid

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Nazo

I think they definitely have begun to realize that they sort of painted themselves into a corner by giving us something so open. They want to be like Apple and make money hand over fist locking people into a platform -- and honestly, some of what Gapps is doing these days and how they're doing stuff exclusive to the most recent Pixels only is really starting to get there. I'm convinced Google will legitimately lock Android down soon and I don't think third parties are ready for this.

I really wish people would put their collective foot down on Google's current practices now, before it's too late, but we all know it will only happen after it's way too late.

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"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google.
This is enshittification."

From: @pluralistic
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11485896…

Cory Doctorow

2025-07-15 19:44:38

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It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course):

pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/tea…

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

1/

A smoggy cityscape. In the foreground is a partially open can of Spam, whose label has been pixelated. The glistening spam atop the can has been overlaid with the original Google homepage. In the background looms the glaring red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- Radek Kołakowski (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warszawski_smog_(22798350941).jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Erdogan proposes revamped idea of ‘Islamic consolidation’ journal-neo.su/2025/07/15/erdo…

Erdogan proposes revamped idea of ‘Islamic consolidation’

Religion unites believers, but spiritual likeness does not always equal shared political interests of representatives of a certain religion or their
Александр Сваранц (New Eastern Outlook)

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givehim15.com/post/july-16-202…
GH15 prayer for July 16, 2025
The Greatest Move of God
Dutch Sheets with word from Dr. Bill Hammon

youtu.be/QjYal75sAqo

The Greatest Move of God | Give Him 15: Daily Prayer with Dutch | July 16, 2025

The set is now complete. Order your copies today! https://dutchsheets.mybigcommerce.com/Learn more about Give Him Fifteen here:Website: https://www.givehim15...
YouTube

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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the militarism of the declining Western hegemony and the rise of BRICS to accommodate multipolar realities.

youtu.be/VusbFzvhsf4

#geopolitics #brics


Jeffrey Sachs: End of the Western-Centric World & Rise of BRICS

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, an advisor to political leaders around the world, a bestselling author, and a global leader in s...
YouTube

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New features & improvements were added to Lichess last month!

See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog.

👉 lichess.org/changelog

#lichess #chess #community #freesoftware #opensource

Lichess July 2025 Changelog part 1 at lichess.org/changelog
Lichess July 2025 Changelog part 2 at lichess.org/changelog

Changelog • lichess.org

Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.
lichess.org

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When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops: pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inh…

A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:

'Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off. If a company screws its workers or suppliers in order to deliver better products and/or better prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."

But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.'

Don't use Google for search.

#google #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #CoryDoctorow #search #slop

Pluralistic: When Google’s slop meets webslop, search stops (15 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net
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Cavyherd

Reading this article now. "Housefresh released its latest report on Google's enshittification, this time with an emphasis on the "AI Overviews" that now surmount every search results page."

It also strikes me that that AI overview is also likely an attempt to supplant Wikipedia's place in the digital landscape, since that's the actually-somewhat-reliable thing that would come up in that position otherwise.

Which I'm sure Google would be •just fine• with....

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Finished reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, and was good, even if not what I was expecting. How much is a Cosmere book? I don't know; if it wasn't written as a fairy tale, may be it would have landed better. 3/5 for me.

My 7th book of 2025, but no way I'll read 24 like previous years.

Next one in the queue: Attack Surface by @pluralistic -- looking forward to it, loved Little Brother and Homeland.

#BooksofMastodon

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SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop !
kurdistan-au-feminin.fr/2025/0…

"SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours. Comme sur la côte syrienne, un bain de sang vient d’être commis par des […]
L’article SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! est


SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! – Kurdistan au féminin

SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop !   SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours.
Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)

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libertytree.ca/quotes/Winston.…

"This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons…

Quotation by Winston Churchill

LibertyQuotes

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Bar. Bebidas alcoólicas. Comida.

Sensitive content

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J'ai honte d'être Français. J'ai honte d'être européen

« Côté français, l’impunité d’Israël s’est aussi traduite par celle de son premier ministre Benyamin #Nétanyahou, qui a survolé l’Hexagone pour se rendre à Washington le 7 juillet, malgré le mandat d’arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale contre lui.»
Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur
mediapart.fr/journal/internati…

#IsraelTerroristState #gaza #freepalestine


Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur

Le conseil européen des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne n’a finalement rien statué sur son accord d’association avec Israël, pourtant bafoué. Les 27 se contentent d’un accord sans garantie sur l’aide humanitaire à Gaza.
Clothilde Mraffko (Mediapart)

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Trump’s ICE directive is a repudiation of the very principles invoked in the Declaration of Independence, reinstating the royal prerogative of arbitrary imprisonment.

Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants - World Socialist Web Site

wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/1…


Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants

Millions of workers and their family members face imprisonment for months or years as part of the fascistic assault on democratic rights.
World Socialist Web Site

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"A single Google search requires half a millilitre of water, while ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres for every five to 50 prompts. Multiply these figures by billions of daily interactions, add streaming services and cloud storage, and the result is staggering: data centre water consumption has reached crisis levels, with some facilities using more water annually than entire cities."

cloudcomputing-news.net/news/d…


Data centre water consumption: Why the digital world has a thirst problem

Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
in reply to Gerry McGovern

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Gerry McGovern

"According to industry data, a 1-megawatt data centre can consume up to 25.5 million litres of water annually just for cooling – equivalent to the daily water consumption of approximately 300,000 people. To put this in perspective, a medium-sized 15-megawatt data centre consumes as much water annually as either three average-sized hospitals or more than two 18-hole golf courses."

cloudcomputing-news.net/news/d…


Data centre water consumption: Why the digital world has a thirst problem

Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
in reply to Gerry McGovern

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Gerry McGovern

"Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility. Microsoft’s global operations consumed nearly 6.4 million cubic metres of water (approximately 1.69 billion gallons) in their most recent reporting year – a 34% increase from the previous year."

cloudcomputing-news.net/news/d…


Data centre water consumption: Why the digital world has a thirst problem

Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
Dashveenjit Kaur (Cloud Computing News)
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