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  • August 27, 2025 2:30pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    US of A: Soft-Secession ?

    “Meanwhile, red states pocket $1.24 for every dollar they send to Washington. Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy.”

    Interesting read …

    cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-tim…

  • August 25, 2025 8:56pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Social

    Bluesky

    Microposts

    have to check this out later đŸ˜Č #wafrn #fedi #atproto app.wafrn.net/dashboard…

  • August 25, 2025 4:02pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

    Microposts

    saddest & depressing thing to read :

    The missing part – Sexual exploitation of minors in French-speaking Belgium: the great blindness

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  • Mon essence est façonnĂ©e par la survie, mais aussi par le refus de laisser la survie ĂȘtre la seule histoire

    August 20, 2025 9:38pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Longform

    Si je devais me prĂ©senter sans ces repĂšres familiers, je dirais que ma vie a Ă©tĂ© un long apprentissage de la rĂ©silience. J’ai Ă©tĂ© mis Ă  l’épreuve tĂŽt et souvent, et ce qui demeure en moi, c’est la volontĂ© de continuer Ă  avancer, mĂȘme quand le chemin est lourd. Mon essence est façonnĂ©e par la survie, mais aussi par le refus de laisser la survie ĂȘtre la seule histoire. Je veux transformer les Ă©preuves en quelque chose qui ait du sens, pour moi et pour les autres. Continue reading →

  • August 19, 2025 11:00am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

    Politics

    Microposts

    Fascist Amerika youtu.be/xuSNmjqY2…

    #ICE #GESTAPO

  • August 17, 2025 8:35pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos

    it’s not too late to act:

    Reach out to your Representatives.

    #chatcontrol #privacy #CSAM

  • My Oxford Year Quand l’amour, la perte, la poĂ©sie et le pardon se rencontrent

    August 17, 2025 12:35am
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Longform

    Movies

    Je viens de voir My Oxford Year. Un film qui parle de la fragilitĂ© de la vie, de l’amour, du pardon. Beaucoup de scĂšnes m’ont profondĂ©ment Ă©mu. Le pĂšre qui perd un fils. Sa colĂšre quand Jamie refuse les traitements. Et la beautĂ© de leurs retrouvailles, quand enfin ils parviennent Ă  se parler. Anna, qui par sa prĂ©sence, sa lumiĂšre, apporte un peu d’amour dans une famille brisĂ©e par la perte d’Eddie, le frĂšre aĂźnĂ©, dĂ©jĂ  emportĂ© par le cancer. Continue reading →

  • August 12, 2025 5:32pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    Apple just dropped Embedding Atlas

    apple.github.io/embedding…

    👀 looking for a open source alternative tho

  • August 8, 2025 3:36pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Podcast: Histoire secrĂšte de la French Touch

  • August 6, 2025 9:34pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

    Politique

    Microposts

    Aucune puissance Ă©trangĂšre, russe, chinoise ou autre, n’aurait pu rĂȘver de causer autant de tort Ă  l’Occident que ce qui est permis de l’intĂ©rieur, entre des dirigeants Ă  courte vue, des Ă©lites dĂ©connectĂ©es et des Ă©lecteurs inconscients des consĂ©quences.

  • August 6, 2025 9:25pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

    Politics

    Microposts

    No outside power, either Russian, Chinese, or otherwise, could dream of doing as much damage to the West as what’s being allowed/enabled from within, whether through short-sighted politicians, disconnected elites, or voters making choices without understanding the full weight of the consequences.

  • August 6, 2025 10:01am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    News

    Microposts

    “The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds.”

    Must Read #EpsteinFiles #Trump

  • The Quiet Republic - Secession

    August 5, 2025 10:37pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Longform

    They did not break it with tanks. They did not need to. They used pens. Laws. Procedures. Deadlines. They said it was temporary. They said it was just to restore order. They said it was for the people. The people nodded. They wanted quiet. The Constitution died in silence. It wasn’t murdered. It was smothered. By emergency clauses, by loyal judges, by late-night votes with no debate. By men in suits who said it would be fine. Continue reading →

  • Six voix pour la vĂ©ritĂ© : une nouvelle Ă©tape dans le combat contre OKC

    August 3, 2025 9:39pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Photos

    Longform

    Je suis en vacances pour la premiĂšre fois depuis… 2018. Assis Ă  une terrasse, un poulet BBQ encore fumant, une burrata, un plateau de charcuterie locale, un cocktail Ă  la main
 et pourtant, impossible d’éteindre cette sirĂšne intĂ©rieure. Par moments, j’y arrive. Je dĂ©croche. Le soleil, le goĂ»t, les rires. Et puis, d’un coup, ça revient. La pensĂ©e des six personnes qui ont eu le courage de relancer la machine judiciaire en France contre Robert Spatz. Continue reading →

  • Portugal... Portugal... Saudades

    August 1, 2025 4:41pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

    Longform

    A Ășltima vez que fui a Portugal foi em 2018. Desta vez, volto com minha filha, para 15 dias de descoberta. Quero que ela sinta este paĂ­s que carrega nas veias, que faz parte das nossas raĂ­zes, das nossas origens. O mais estranho — ou talvez o mais bonito — Ă© perceber o quanto Portugal me fazia falta sem que eu soubesse. AtĂ© o corpo esquece. A alma adormece. E de repente, ao ouvir de novo esta lĂ­ngua nas ruas, tudo desperta. Continue reading →

  • Why Resistance Lives in the Living Room — And What Comes Next

    July 27, 2025 9:23am
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Bluesky

    Longform

    In 2025, the strongest front against the Trump administration isn’t in city squares or union halls — it’s late‑night satire, South Park, Bluesky threads, YouTube monologues and shared memes. Street protests have surged, but for many immigrants and communities of color, public resistance carries dangerous risks: ICE raids, mass arrests, and legal persecution make community organizing particularly harrowing. Yet from the safety of home screens emerges a cultural resistance: a digital solidarity that folds in late‑night routines, political comedy, and online bonding. Continue reading →

  • L’art de se laisser rejoindre

    July 26, 2025 6:29pm
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Longform

    C’était pendant le grand silence du COVID. Une amie d’enfance m’a glissĂ© Ă  l’oreille une intuition : et si tu faisais un diagnostic pour le TDAH ? Elle me connaissait depuis toujours, et dans sa voix il y avait Ă  la fois tendresse, luciditĂ©, et une forme de rĂ©sonance. Elle m’a parlĂ© de mes annĂ©es d’enfance, puis de ses enfants Ă  elle, Ă  qui on avait mis un nom sur leurs tempĂȘtes. Continue reading →

  • July 20, 2025 7:23am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

    Politics

    Microposts

    Excellent recap on The Epstein File Fiasco. This isn’t some wild conspiracy — it’s a damning showcase of institutional failure and a blatant cover-up masquerading as justice."

    by LegalEagle

  • IA, psychĂ©dĂ©liques et la nouvelle illusion de la libĂ©ration

    July 13, 2025 1:08pm
    Reading Time: 6 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    DerivesSectaires

    Longform

    NĂ© au sein d’un culte de la personnalitĂ© bridĂ©e d’une dĂ©rive sectaire religieuse (OKC, voir le documentaire Bouddhisme la loi du silence), je regarde avec une inquiĂ©tude croissante cette tendance qui mĂȘle intelligence artificielle et psychĂ©dĂ©lisme sous prĂ©texte de « thĂ©rapie ». Confier son monde intĂ©rieur Ă  un chatbot, surtout sous l’influence de puissants hallucinogĂšnes, n’a rien d’innovant. Ce n’est qu’un vieux mirage reconditionnĂ© dans les habits du progrĂšs. Dans les annĂ©es 60 et 70, de larges pans de la sociĂ©tĂ© se sont tournĂ©s vers les expĂ©riences psychĂ©dĂ©liques et la spiritualitĂ© New Age pour fuir les traumatismes, la violence et les dĂ©sillusions de leur Ă©poque. Continue reading →

  • AI, Psychedelics, and the New Illusion of Liberation

    July 13, 2025 12:57pm
    Reading Time: 5 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    DerivesSectaires

    Longform

    As someone born into a religious personality cult, I find the growing trend of AI-assisted psychedelic “therapy” deeply unsettling. The idea of surrendering one’s inner world to a chatbot, especially under the influence of powerful hallucinogens, is not an innovation. It’s a recursion of old patterns in new packaging. In the 60s and 70s, entire segments of society turned to psychedelic experiences and New Age spirituality as a way to escape the trauma, violence, and failures of their time. Continue reading →

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